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🛡️ Cloudflare introduces Bot Preference Sync to align zone-level AI bot settings with a site's robots.txt, available to all customers from Free to Enterprise. The feature prepends generated directives to any existing robots.txt so owners' Search, Agent, and Training preferences match edge-enforced rules and managed blocks. Bot Preference Sync is on by default for new customers and can be disabled by those who need custom, fine-grained policies.

🔔 Starting today, Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion is available in AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West), enabling secure ingestion into Amazon OpenSearch Service managed clusters and serverless collections. OpenSearch Ingestion is a fully managed data ingestion tier that offers a no-code experience to filter, transform, redact, and route data. It automatically provisions and scales resources to handle variable workloads and is now generally available across 19 AWS regions.

🛠️ Customers can now deploy eligible AWS Marketplace AMIs directly on Amazon Lightsail. Lightsail offers simple, predictable pricing with instance bundles that include compute, storage, and data transfer at a fixed monthly rate. When subscribing to supported products — such as Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft SQL Server Express, Ubuntu, cPanel & WHM, and Plesk — users may choose Amazon Lightsail in addition to Amazon EC2. The "Launch on Lightsail" option opens the Lightsail console with the AMI and region pre-configured for fast deployment.

🆕 Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R8i instances are now available in the Israel (Tel Aviv) region. These instances use custom Intel Xeon 6 processors exclusive to AWS, offering the highest performance and fastest memory bandwidth among comparable Intel cloud processors. R8i provides up to 15% better price-performance, 2.5x memory bandwidth versus prior Intel-based generations, and up to 20% higher performance than R7i for general workloads.

🔔 Amazon Quick has made Microsoft 365 extensions for Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Outlook generally available. These extensions let Quick operate directly inside users' M365 environments to handle complex local tasks, including document redlining, financial model building, presentation creation, and inbox management. Each extension is tailored: Excel for data analysis and cleaning, PowerPoint for template-driven decks, Word for formatted drafting and track changes, and Outlook for prioritizing, organizing, and drafting emails. The extensions are available in multiple AWS regions globally.

🛡️ Today AWS announces the general availability of Role Manager, a capability in AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) that automatically creates or reuses IAM roles required by supported AWS service consoles. Role Manager can be enabled or disabled at any time and exposes the AWS-managed templates it deploys. At launch it supports six service consoles, including AWS Lambda and Amazon EventBridge, and is available in all Regions except AWS GovCloud (US) and China Regions.

🔔 Amazon SageMaker JumpStart now includes Black Forest Labs' FLUX.2-small-decoder and Google's gemma-4-12B-it, expanding foundation model options for AWS customers. FLUX.2-small-decoder offers faster image decoding with lower VRAM use, while gemma-4-12B-it provides unified multimodal understanding across text, image, and audio. Customers can deploy these models via the SageMaker console or the SageMaker Python SDK for scalable AI solutions.

🔍 Redis's langcache-embed-v3-small, JetBrains' Mellum2-12B-A2.5B-Thinking, and LightOn's LightOnOCR-2-1B are now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart. These models support semantic caching, code-focused reasoning, and end-to-end document OCR respectively, enabling scalable deployment on AWS. Customers can deploy them via the SageMaker JumpStart catalog or the SageMaker Python SDK with minimal effort.

🔷 Amazon EC2 High Memory U7in-24TB (u7in-24tb.224xlarge) instances are now available in the AWS South America (São Paulo) region. These U7i instances are part of the AWS 7th generation and are powered by custom 4th-generation Intel Xeon Scalable (Sapphire Rapids) processors. They provide 24 TiB DDR5 memory, 896 vCPUs, up to 200 Gbps networking and 100 Gbps EBS bandwidth, and support ENA Express. U7i instances target mission-critical in-memory databases such as SAP HANA, Oracle, and SQL Server.

🆕 Amazon SageMaker JumpStart now offers three foundation models: Z.ai’s GLM-5.2 FP8, NVIDIA’s Nemotron-Nano-12B-v2, and Z.ai’s GLM-OCR. These models cover long-horizon agentic engineering, efficient hybrid reasoning, and advanced document understanding, enabling customers to deploy high-performance AI on AWS with minimal setup. Each model is optimized for specific enterprise workflows and can be deployed via the SageMaker console or SDK.

📱 Google Cloud announced the public preview of Developer Device Platform (DDP), a fully managed service offering on-demand access to real physical devices and high-concurrency virtual emulators. DDP provides interactive debugging via Device Streaming and parallel CI/CD testing via Device Run, enabling faster iteration, smarter sharding, and auto-retries. The platform supports integration with coding agents and will integrate with Android Studio and CLI, charging users on a pay-per-minute public preview model.

🆕 Amazon EC2 R8i and R8i-flex instances are now available in Europe (Milan), powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors exclusive to AWS. These instances provide up to 15% better price-performance and 2.5x memory bandwidth versus prior Intel-based instances, plus up to 20% higher performance than R7i. R8i-flex offers common memory-optimized sizes for cost-efficient workloads, while R8i includes 13 sizes, two bare metal options, and a 96xlarge for the largest applications, with SAP certification and 142,100 aSAPS.

🛰️ Cloudflare launches Radar Researcher in beta, an AI-powered assistant that lets users query Radar’s open Internet datasets in plain language and receive interactive charts. The tool combines screenshots, raw API data, and view parameters to generate precise explanations and visualizations. Built on Cloudflare Workers, Agents SDK, and Workers AI, Researcher runs models with fallbacks, exposes tool traces, and uses Code Mode to query the Radar API dynamically.

🚀 Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced general availability of runtime instances for Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, enabling agents to run on customer-managed EC2 instances without manual infrastructure management. The feature complements existing microVM-based runtimes and supports diverse EC2 families including GPU-accelerated, memory-optimized, and compute-optimized types. Runtime instances allow long-running agent sessions up to 14 days and integrate with the AWS Console, CLI, SDKs, and APIs to create capacity providers and attach agents. Availability spans multiple regions and billing includes EC2 costs plus management fees, with documentation and pricing details provided by AWS.

🧭 This summer Google Cloud offers a free, hands-on training path powered by Gemini Enterprise Agent Ready (GEAR) to help developers and IT leaders move autonomous agents to production. The program includes sequential courses and skill badges covering agent fundamentals, multi-agent orchestration, ADK engineering, memory and state management, human-centered design, and operationalization on Google Cloud. Participants can earn credentials, access labs and prototypes, and join an All Things Agentic Hackathon with prizes to demonstrate real-world skills.

🔍 AI Insights in AWS Marketplace explains product pricing directly on listings, showing what pricing units map to, how costs scale with usage, and how multiple pricing dimensions combine. It cites sources drawn from the seller's Marketplace listing and public website so buyers can verify explanations. The feature is live in most listings across commercial AWS Regions and sellers can request edits via the Contact Us link.

🆕 Amazon Web Services announces general availability of native vector search for Amazon DynamoDB. The feature enables indexing and approximate nearest neighbor searches over embeddings with single-digit millisecond latency and 99%+ recall at any scale, including trillions of vectors. You can store embeddings alongside other attributes, choose a model to generate vectors (including Amazon Bedrock models), create vector indexes, and apply attribute filters. DynamoDB vector search preserves serverless benefits—no infrastructure management, zero downtime, and pay-as-you-go—supporting use cases such as agent memory retrieval, semantic search, recommendations, and personalized advertising.

🟦 Amazon S3 Vectors is now available in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany) Region. Amazon S3 Vectors is purpose-built vector storage for AI agents, inference, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), and semantic search at billion-vector scale. It offers the elasticity, durability, and availability of Amazon S3 with dedicated APIs to store, access, and query vectors without provisioning infrastructure.

📰 Black Hat 2026 features many AI-driven product announcements as vendors move from simple copilots to embedding AI into operational security workflows. Companies are combining automation with governance, exposure management, and recovery to support practical autonomous security in enterprises. Common themes include attack path analysis, integration of external threat intelligence into workflows, and purpose-built AI agents to speed investigations without requiring infrastructure replacement.

🛡️ Black Hat 2026 showcased a wave of AI-integrated security products that go beyond copilots to embed automation into operational workflows. Vendors emphasized attack path analysis, threat intelligence integration, and purpose-built AI agents to accelerate investigations while preserving existing infrastructure. Announcements included vulnerability remediation agents, AI observability, recovery validation, identity exposure intelligence, sovereign AI SOC agents, and expanded autonomous security platforms.