All news with #product launch tag

🚀 AWS has launched general availability for metal-48xl and metal-96xl sizes across several M8 and R8 EC2 instance families powered by custom sixth-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and the latest AWS Nitro cards. These new sizes offer up to 43% better compute performance per vCPU over prior generations and deliver up to 600 Gbps network bandwidth or up to 300 Gbps EBS bandwidth depending on the variant. Selected sizes support Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) for lower latency in tightly coupled clusters and the metal sizes are initially available in the AWS US East (N. Virginia) region.

🔔 Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL 19 Beta 1 is available in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment, enabling evaluation of the pre-release with managed database benefits. PostgreSQL 19 introduces native graph query support via SQL/PGQ, concurrent table repacking, and improved logical replication features. Preview instances are retained for up to 60 days and snapshots are limited to the preview environment.

🔍 Amazon OpenSearch Serverless now supports Agentic Search, enabling natural-language queries over users' data. The system interprets intent, plans searches, generates DSL queries, and returns results with transparent reasoning. A built-in QueryPlanningTool powered by LLMs translates requests and orchestrates retrieval; behavior can be customized via APIs or OpenSearch Dashboards. Agentic Search is available in all AWS Commercial Regions where OpenSearch Serverless operates.

🔔 Amazon OpenSearch Service now offers its modernized operational analytics UI in AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West), enabling unified access to managed domains and serverless collections from a single endpoint. The release introduces Workspaces for team collaboration and a revamped Discover experience with multi-source data selection, PPL and SQL support, DQL and Lucene compatibility, updated visuals, and query autocomplete. The UI updates are available regardless of the underlying managed cluster or collection version.

🛡️ Amazon Bedrock now offers OpenAI GPT‑5.4 in AWS GovCloud (US‑West), enabling government and regulated industry customers to use OpenAI's most capable frontier model with the security and compliance of GovCloud. GPT‑5.4 delivers native computer-use capabilities and advanced reasoning across coding, documents, and multi-step agentic tasks, running on Bedrock's high-performance inference engine. Data remains in-partition and is not used to train models.

🏆 Konvu, an AI-native vulnerability triage platform, won the inaugural Infosecurity Europe Cyber Startup competition live on stage at Infosecurity Europe 2026. The startup beat four rivals and receives an exhibition stand at Infosecurity Europe 2027, PR support from Origin Communications and a branding workshop from Dusted. CEO Lucas Masson highlighted Konvu's agent-driven checks and evidence-backed exploitability decisions that integrate into existing workflows.

🐧 Microsoft unveiled Coreutils for Windows at Build 2026, delivering many familiar Linux command-line utilities as native Windows applications. Based on the open-source uutils project (a Rust rewrite of GNU coreutils), the release aims to let developers use the same commands across Linux, macOS, Windows, and WSL without changing workflows. The package is available on GitHub and via WinGet as a single coreutils.exe binary that exposes individual command names through NTFS hardlinks. Microsoft notes some command conflicts, POSIX limitations, and behavioral differences on Windows.

🧭 Microsoft announces the general availability of Microsoft Discovery, a platform for building and governing agentic AI workflows tailored to scientific and engineering R&D. The release includes a preview of the Microsoft Discovery app, a local desktop experience for researchers and small teams to explore hypotheses, literature, and iterative experimentation. The platform emphasizes evidence preservation, traceability, governance, and integration with existing tools and institutional data to support repeatable, transparent scientific workflows.

🚀 Microsoft announced early access preview of Azure Cobalt 200 Arm-based VMs at Build 2026, delivering up to 50% generational performance improvements over Cobalt 100 for agentic AI and cloud-native Linux workloads. The Cobalt 200 SoC, built on Arm Neoverse V3 and TSMC 3nm, features chiplets, custom accelerators, and enhanced memory and security capabilities. New VM families (including high-memory and dense local storage) expand deployment choices and are available in selected preview regions.

🔎 Foundry IQ streamlines bringing enterprise and external knowledge into agent workflows by unifying content, improving ingestion, and offering a serverless model for retrieval. The service provides a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, integrates Microsoft Web IQ for low-latency external context, and includes GA security and compliance features. Serverless Developer tier is in public preview with CU-based billing estimates and scale-to-zero capacity.

🚀 Starting today, Amazon EC2 M8azn instances are available in Europe (Ireland). These general-purpose, high-frequency instances use fifth-generation AMD EPYC processors and deliver up to 5 GHz in the cloud, with up to 2x compute performance over M5zn and up to 24% higher performance than M8a. They provide higher memory bandwidth, larger L3 cache, and improved networking and EBS throughput, and come in nine sizes including bare metal options.

🚀 Claude Opus 4.8 is now accessible in Microsoft Foundry, providing developers and enterprises with Anthropic’s most capable Opus model for coding, agentic tasks, and professional work. The update focuses on long-running workflows, deeper reasoning across documents and codebases, and more reliable tool use for multi-step automation. Teams can now evaluate and deploy the model within Foundry’s unified platform for building and operating AI applications.

🖼️ Google Cloud announced Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image) and Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image) are generally available via the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, offering enterprise-grade image generation and editing. Nano Banana 2 now supports video files as input in preview, enabling deep video understanding to generate context-aware images. 1K and 2K outputs are GA while 4K remains in preview. The models are integrated by partners like Adobe, WPP, Shopify, URBN, and Magnopus to scale creative workflows and production pipelines.

🤖 AWS now offers Claude Opus 4.8, Anthropic's most capable generally available model, bringing advances in agentic coding, professional knowledge work, and autonomous long-running tasks for developers and enterprises. The model sustains longer sessions, reasons more deeply, and maintains consistency for production workflows. Customers can access Opus 4.8 via Amazon Bedrock or the Claude Platform on AWS, with AWS-managed features and unified billing.

🚀 The next generation of Amazon OpenSearch Serverless is now generally available, offering a fully managed search and vector engine optimized for agentic workflows. It auto-scales up to 20x faster and provisions resources in seconds, supports scale-to-zero and pay-per-usage pricing, and can reduce costs by up to 60% versus provisioning clusters for peak loads. New features include a shared storage layer that decouples compute and storage, two resource-based endpoints for simplified network connectivity, and native integrations with AI development platforms and OpenSearch Agent Skills.

🤖 Amazon Connect Customer Assistant is integrated into the UI builder, allowing contact center managers to create and modify views using natural language. Managers can describe desired screens, like “Create a feedback form with rating and comment fields,” and the assistant generates UI components for review before publishing. This capability can reduce time and required expertise by up to 70% when building Views for Step-by-Step Guides and Workspace pages.

🎥 AWS Elemental Inference introduces Smart subtitles, an AI-driven capability that produces real-time TTML-formatted captions for live streams with low latency. The feature supports English (US, GB, AU), French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish and integrates natively with AWS Elemental MediaLive. Users can create custom dictionaries via the Elemental Inference API or console to improve accuracy for domain-specific terms. Smart subtitles co-exist with other Elemental Inference features and benefit from non-linear pricing when multiple features are applied to the same content.

🎮 Amazon GameLift Streams has introduced Generation 6e (G6e) stream classes, delivering enhanced GPU performance for streaming graphically demanding games and applications. The G6e classes use EC2 G6e instances with NVIDIA L40S Tensor Core GPUs and 3rd gen AMD EPYC processors, offering 2x GPU memory and up to 2.9x faster GPU memory bandwidth versus standard Gen6 classes. Two variants — gen6e_pro and gen6e_pro_win2022 — provide a full dedicated NVIDIA L40S GPU with 48 GB memory, suited for AAA-quality streaming at high resolutions. G6e stream classes are available in select AWS Regions including US East, US West, Europe, and Asia Pacific.

🚀 Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) is now available in the Asia Pacific (Malaysia) and Asia Pacific (Thailand) Regions, enabling customers to build Cassandra-compatible applications with lower latency and keep data within the Region to meet residency requirements. The managed, serverless service offers virtually unlimited throughput and storage while customers pay only for used resources. These Regions provide the same features as other AWS Regions, including point-in-time recovery, Multi-Region replication, CDC streams, and IPv6 support, reducing operational overhead of running Cassandra clusters.

🟦 Amazon EC2 C7i-flex, M7i-flex, and M7i instances powered by custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable (Sapphire Rapids) processors are now available in the Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) region. These custom AWS-only processors deliver up to 15% better performance versus comparable x86 Intel processors used by other clouds. C7i-flex and M7i-flex provide up to 19% improved price-performance for common general-purpose workloads, while M7i offers up to 15% price-performance gains and larger sizes including bare metal with Intel accelerators.