All news with #product launch tag

🚀 Amazon Aurora DSQL is now available for single-Region clusters in the Europe (Spain) Region. Aurora DSQL is a serverless, distributed SQL database offering active-active high availability and multi-Region strong consistency, designed for virtually unlimited scalability and zero infrastructure management. The service is now available in multiple AWS Regions and can be tried via the AWS Free Tier.

🚀 Amazon Bedrock now offers OpenAI's GPT-5.6 family—Sol, Terra, and Luna—via the Responses API on the bedrock-mantle endpoint. Sol targets flagship reasoning and advanced agentic coding, Terra balances performance and cost, and Luna prioritizes fast, affordable inference. Models support prompt caching with explicit breakpoints and regional availability in US East and US West regions.

🔔 Amazon EC2 R8in, R8ib, R8idn, and R8idb instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland). Powered by custom sixth‑generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors exclusive to AWS and the latest sixth‑generation AWS Nitro cards, these instances provide up to 43% better compute per vCPU versus R6i predecessors. They offer leading network and EBS bandwidth, support EFA on large sizes, and are offered via Savings Plans, On‑Demand, and Spot.

🚀 Microsoft announces general availability of GPT-5.6 in Microsoft Foundry, integrating frontier models, production agent runtime, and enterprise controls into a single platform. The release includes Sol, Terra, and Luna model tiers with published pricing, Global and APAC Data Zone deployment options, and developer tooling for GitHub Copilot and VS Code. Foundry emphasizes observability, cost controls, and governance to accelerate production agent adoption.

🚀 Microsoft announces general availability updates to Microsoft Foundry, combining frontier models, a production agent runtime, enterprise identity and security controls, and Microsoft 365 distribution into one platform. The release includes GPT-5.6 models across global regions and the new Asia-Pacific Data Zone for regional data processing. Developers can build in GitHub Copilot or VS Code and deploy agents using Foundry toolkits and SDKs.

🧩 AWS Builder Center now offers free, time-limited sandbox environments that builders can request directly from eligible workshops. These sandboxes remove the need for a personal AWS account, credit card, or worry about unexpected charges, allowing safe deployment of resources and experimentation in a pre-provisioned AWS account. Each sandbox grants 8 hours of access from activation, auto-cleans afterward, and most are ready within 15 minutes. Builders may request one sandbox per week (resets Sunday), and availability will expand to more workshops over time.

🛡️ Google for Startups has selected 33 cybersecurity startups for the Gemini Startup Forum: Cybersecurity, pairing each company with experts from Google DeepMind, Google Cloud, and Wiz. The cohort addresses six focus areas including autonomous agent protection, post-quantum cryptography, and data-in-use protection. Startups span agent security, cloud posture, DLP, cryptography, and AI-native SOC tooling. The forum offers APIs, tools, training, and technical resources to accelerate AI-native security innovations.

🚀 Amazon Redshift RG instances, powered by AWS Graviton processors, are now available in AWS GovCloud (US-West) and (US-East). RG instances deliver up to 2.4x better performance than prior RA3 instances and offer ~30% lower price per vCPU while running Redshift’s vectorized data lake query engine for Apache Iceberg and Parquet. Available sizes are rg.xlarge and rg.4xlarge, and RA3 clusters can upgrade via Snapshot & Restore, Elastic Resize, or Classic Resize. Flexible pricing includes On-Demand and 1-/3-year Reserved Instances with multiple payment options.

🚀 Amazon S3 Express One Zone is now available in the AWS Europe (Frankfurt) Region. The storage class provides high-performance, single-Availability Zone storage designed for consistent single-digit millisecond access for frequently accessed and latency-sensitive workloads. S3 Express One Zone offers up to 10x faster access and request costs up to 80% lower than S3 Standard, supporting use cases like machine learning training, interactive analytics, and key-value caching in AI search engines.

🧭 Today Cloudflare launched Workers Cache, a tiered cache that sits in front of your Worker and is enabled via a simple Wrangler config and standard Cache-Control headers. Cacheable requests hit Cloudflare first so fresh responses are returned without running the Worker; on a miss the Worker runs and stores the response for subsequent requests. The cache supports stale-while-revalidate, Vary, tag- and prefix-based purges, and per-entrypoint control, and is available to all Workers on any plan.

🚀 Amazon EC2 X8i instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Malaysia) and Asia Pacific (Tokyo). These instances use custom Intel Xeon 6 processors exclusive to AWS and are SAP-certified, offering up to 43% higher performance, 1.5x more memory (up to 6TB) and 3.3x more memory bandwidth versus prior X2i instances. They target memory-intensive workloads such as SAP HANA, large databases, analytics, and EDA, and come in 14 sizes including bare metal options. Purchase options include Savings Plans, On-Demand, and Spot.

🧭 In June 2026 Google highlighted a broad set of AI advances spanning local models like Gemma 4 12B, Gemini 3.5 Flash integrations, new Android 17 and Pixel Drop features, and multimodal APIs for developers. The update covers consumer devices, developer tools, education and climate applications, as well as efforts to counter AI-enabled scams and support public services.

🚀 Amazon Bedrock AgentCore is now available in four additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Bangkok), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Europe (Milan), and Europe (Spain). AgentCore is a platform to build, connect, and optimize agents, enabling engineers to ship agents quickly with any framework and model while enforcing security at the infrastructure layer. The launch brings runtime, identity and access control, policy management, session persistence, tool connectivity, and observability to these regions, reducing latency for local end users.

🧭 AWS announces general availability of experimentation tools in AWS AppConfig, enabling built-in A/B testing and multivariate experiments without separate infrastructure. The tools leverage 25+ years of Amazon experimentation practices and provide AI-driven guidance, exposure control, and locked treatment allocations to support robust, data-driven releases. Experiments can be configured via console, CLI, API, or AWS CDK and analyzed with CloudWatch or existing analytics tools before promoting winners through standard safe rollouts.

🔒 Cloudflare announced the Monetization Gateway, a control plane to charge for any asset protected by Cloudflare — web pages, APIs, datasets, or MCP tools — and to enforce payments at the edge. At launch payments will settle in stablecoins over the open x402 protocol, enabling micropayments and sub-second settlement. The Gateway moves metering and payment verification off your origin while preserving your pricing and rules.

📊 Cloudflare introduces the Attribution Business Insights dashboard to help publishers and business leaders distinguish valuable human referrals from extractive AI crawler traffic. The dashboard provides site-wide and per-operator crawl-to-referral ratios, top bot breakdowns, and updated crawler classifications like Training, Search, and Agent. Available to Cloudflare Bot Management customers, it centralizes visibility so decision-makers can evaluate impact before acting via existing security rules.

🧭 Anthropic has released Claude Sonnet 5, a more agentic Sonnet-class model designed to bring many of the planning and tool-usage capabilities previously reserved for Opus 4.8 to a lower-cost tier. The company says Sonnet 5 improves coding, research, automation, and multi-step task handling, and can check its own outputs more reliably. Introductory API pricing runs through August 31, 2026, with lower rates than Opus 4.8, and the model is available to Free, Pro, and Max subscribers.

🧭 Conversational Analytics in BigQuery is now generally available, enabling business and technical users to query data, run multi-step analyses, and produce visual reports using natural language directly where data resides. Built on Google’s Gemini models and BigQuery’s governed foundation, it offers inspectable answers, context citations, proactive disambiguation, and long-term memory. The feature integrates with Lakehouse sources, supports enterprise security and governance controls, and provides agentic workflows for scheduled monitoring and automated reports.

🛠️ Announcing Capability Insights, an open-source, self-hosted dashboard that deploys regional AWS capabilities data into your Amazon VPC. The solution auto-refreshes every 24 hours with data across Regions, including services, features, API operations, and CloudFormation resource types. Its Workload Analysis scans CloudTrail and CloudFormation to narrow 200+ services to the ones your account actually uses, aiding multi-Region planning while keeping all data within your VPC for compliance and data residency needs.

🔌 AWS introduces AWS Interconnect - last mile, a fully managed connectivity service that eases connections from branch offices, data centers, and remote sites to AWS. Now in a gated preview with AT&T in the US, the offering lets customers select region, bandwidth, Direct Connect Gateway ID and partner subscriber ID to initiate provisioning. AWS issues an activation key to complete AT&T provisioning while automating BGP, VLAN, and ASN setup, providing pre-provisioned capacity, high availability, and SLA-backed zero-downtime maintenance.