All news with #product launch tag

🔍 Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights now offers on‑demand automated analysis in AWS GovCloud (US‑East) and AWS GovCloud (US‑West), extending ML-driven database diagnostics to government regions. The feature analyzes metrics and queries, detects anomalies against normal baselines, and provides targeted remediation steps to cut mean‑time‑to‑diagnosis from hours to minutes. To use it, enable Advanced mode for Aurora and Amazon RDS via the RDS console, AWS APIs, SDKs, or CloudFormation.

🛡️ Cloudflare’s AI Security for Apps is now generally available, providing discovery, detection, and mitigation tailored for AI-powered web endpoints. The release introduces custom topics detection and enhanced prompt extraction to spot business-specific sensitive content across varied JSON payloads. Cloudflare is making AI endpoint discovery free for all plans and couples detections with the WAF rule engine so teams can block, log, or return custom responses at the edge. Integrations with IBM Cloud and Wiz extend procurement and unified posture visibility for customers.

🤖 Amazon Connect introduces a preview AI assistant that enables contact center managers to ask operational questions in natural language and receive answers in seconds. The assistant supports queries across 150+ Connect metrics with historical context, eliminating hours of manual data gathering. It can also diagnose issues—such as queues at risk of missing service levels—and recommend targeted recovery actions. Preview access is limited; customers must request access through their AWS account team.

🚀 Amazon has launched EC2 C8i and C8i-flex instances in Africa (Cape Town) and Asia Pacific (Hyderabad). Powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors exclusive to AWS, they deliver up to 15% better price-performance and 2.5x memory bandwidth versus prior Intel-based instances, and up to 20% higher performance than C7i models. C8i-flex addresses common compute workloads (large–16xlarge), while C8i targets memory-intensive needs with 13 sizes including bare metal and a new 96xlarge.

🌐 AWS has made Amazon Route 53 Global Resolver generally available, delivering an internet-reachable anycast DNS resolver that provides secure, reliable DNS resolution for authorized clients worldwide. The service is available across 30 AWS Regions and supports both IPv4 and IPv6 DNS query traffic. It offers DNS query filtering to block malicious, NSFW, and advanced DNS threats like DNS tunneling and DGAs, includes centralized query logging, and now adds protection against Dictionary DGA threats. New customers can explore a 30-day free trial.

🔔 Amazon Cognito is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) and Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Regions, offering the full set of features and tiers to implement secure sign-in and access control. The launch enables authentication for human users, AI agents, and microservices with regional endpoints to reduce latency and improve resilience. Customers can review AWS documentation for region listings, developer guidance, product details, and pricing.

🚀 Starting today, Amazon Web Services has made EC2 G7e instances, powered by NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs, available in Asia Pacific (Seoul) and Europe (Spain). These instances deliver up to 2.3x inference performance versus G6e and support up to eight GPUs (96 GB each), 192 vCPUs, and 1,600 Gbps of networking for demanding LLM, multimodal, and spatial computing workloads. G7e also supports NVIDIA GPUDirect P2P and GPUDirect RDMA with EFA for accelerated multi-GPU and multi-node performance and can be purchased as On-Demand, Spot, or via Savings Plans. Provisioning is available through the AWS Management Console, CLI, and SDKs.

🔍 Cloudflare today announced the beta of its Web and API Vulnerability Scanner, initially focused on detecting Broken Object Level Authorization (BOLA) in APIs. The scanner integrates with API Shield, leveraging passive schema learning and API discovery to construct stateful, credentialed tests without extensive setup. It builds automatic scan plans from OpenAPI specs, augments missing or ambiguous schema data using Workers AI, and can create owner and attacker request chains to detect logic flaws. Credential handling uses HashiCorp Vault Transit to encrypt secrets and Temporal for orchestration.

🛡️ Microsoft today unveiled Agent 365 and Microsoft 365 E7: The Frontier Suite, generally available May 1, 2026, to help organizations observe, secure, and govern agentic AI at scale. Agent 365 provides a unified control plane with an agent registry, behavior and performance observability, and integrated risk signals across Microsoft Defender, Entra, and Purview. The offering extends identity and access controls with Agent ID, conditional access, and identity governance, while Purview features such as Inline DLP for Copilot Studio prompts, information protection, and data lifecycle management help prevent sensitive data exposure. Pricing starts at $15 per user per month for Agent 365 and $99 per user per month for Microsoft 365 E7.

🔒 Falcon for XIoT now extends asset protection to medical devices and clinical systems, adding native visibility for protocols such as DICOM and HL7. The cloud-native Falcon sensor, available in beta, monitors device behavior and protocol communications to detect anomalies and block malicious actions before they affect patient care. It integrates device telemetry, AI-driven analytics, and CrowdStrike Exposure Management so security teams can discover legacy or unsupported assets, prioritize high-risk devices, and respond within existing SOC workflows. Integration with Falcon Next‑Gen SIEM and Falcon Fusion SOAR streamlines investigation and triage across IT and XIoT assets.

🔒OpenAI on Friday began rolling out Codex Security, an AI-powered security agent that finds, validates, and proposes fixes for vulnerabilities. The feature is available in a research preview to ChatGPT Pro, Enterprise, Business, and Edu customers via the Codex web and will be free for the next month. During its beta, the agent scanned more than 1.2 million commits, identifying 792 critical and 10,561 high-severity findings across multiple open-source projects. OpenAI says the offering combines frontier-model reasoning with automated validation to reduce false positives and deliver actionable fixes.

🤖 Join the Gemini Live Agent Challenge to build immersive, multimodal AI agents that perceive and respond using speech, vision, and structured data. Get hands-on access to the Gemini Live API, the Agent Development Kit (ADK), Quickstarts, tutorials, and webinars to prototype real-time translators, creative storytellers, or visual UI navigators. Compete for a share of $80,000 in prizes, Google Cloud credits, and opportunities to present at Google Cloud Next ’26. Submissions must use a Gemini model and at least one Google Cloud service; the deadline is March 16, 2026.

🔐 EC‑Council launched its Enterprise AI Credential Suite, introducing four role-aligned certifications—Artificial Intelligence Essentials (AIE), Certified AI Program Manager (CAIPM), Certified Offensive AI Security Professional (COASP), and Certified Responsible AI Governance & Ethics (CRAGE)—alongside an updated Certified CISO v4. The suite is structured around the proprietary Adopt, Defend, Govern (ADG) framework to build practical capability across AI adoption, security, and governance. EC‑Council positions the expansion as a response to growing AI risk exposure and a pronounced workforce reskilling gap.

🚀 February highlights include new models, tools, and global partnerships. Google introduced Gemini 3.1 Pro and an upgraded Deep Think variant for scientific and engineering problems, alongside visual models such as Nano Banana 2 and creative tools like Lyria 3 and Flow improvements. The company emphasized impact at the AI Impact Summit and announced investments, national partnerships in India, and updates to content-identification tools like SynthID, with access pathways for developers, enterprises, and consumers.

🚀 AWS has made EC2 I8ge instances available in the Europe (Ireland) region to support large storage I/O–intensive workloads. Powered by 5th generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (3.2 GHz all-core turbo) and 3rd generation AWS Nitro SSDs, I8ge offers up to 40% better compute and up to 65% improved real-time storage performance versus prior I3en instances. These instances deliver up to 120 TB local NVMe, reduced I/O latency and variability, a 16 KB torn write prevention feature for database workloads, eleven sizes including two metal options, and up to 180 Gbps network with 60 Gbps EBS bandwidth; customers can launch via the AWS Console, CLI, or SDKs.

⚡ AWS announces the new Lambda durable functions Kiro power, bringing durable function development capabilities directly into the Kiro agentic AI environment for local developers. The power provides AI-assisted guidance to build resilient, long-running, multi-step applications faster, covering replay model practices, step-and-wait operations, concurrency patterns, and error-handling strategies. It supports deployment workflows with AWS CloudFormation, AWS CDK, and AWS SAM and is available today with one-click installation from the Kiro IDE and Kiro powers page, plus example code and documentation on GitHub and in the AWS developer guide.

🔁 Automatic Return Routing (ARR) is a new Cloudflare One feature, released in Closed Beta, that resolves private IP address overlap by tracking flows and returning traffic to the exact tunnel that originated the conversation. Instead of depending on routing-table lookups, ARR uses stateful flow memory to record the originating tunnel and enforce symmetric returns. This approach minimizes the need for VRF or NAT, reducing operational overhead for mergers, extranets, and uniform branch deployments while integrating with Unified Routing and the Apollo userspace hub.

🚀 Google Cloud and Nokia announced an integration at MWC Barcelona that connects Nokia Network as Code (NaC) with Google Cloud’s agentic AI stack to enable AI agents to observe, program, and optimize mobile networks autonomously. The collaboration leverages Gemini models and standardized protocols such as A2A and MCP to translate natural-language intent into network actions. An Agent Development Kit (ADK) allows enterprises to build custom multi-agent workflows that bridge business logic and network intelligence, delivering a zero-code, intent-driven developer experience.

🔒 SafeLine is presented as a self-hosted web application firewall that inspects every HTTP request and emphasizes behavioral and semantic analysis rather than simple signature matching. It combines a Semantic Analysis Engine, anti-bot challenges, rate limiting and identity controls to reduce fake sign-ups, credential stuffing, scraping and abusive automation. Deployable as a reverse proxy, it gives SaaS teams control over logs, latency and compliance while providing a dashboard for tuning and visibility.

🔒 AWS Security Hub Extended is now generally available, offering a single-vendor plan that combines AWS detection services with curated partner security solutions on a pay-as-you-go or flat-rate basis. The plan consolidates procurement and billing—AWS serves as seller of record and Enterprise Support customers receive unified Level 1 support. It centralizes findings in a standard format for cross-tool visibility, reduces manual integration work, and lets organizations add or remove categories such as endpoint, identity, email, network, data, browser, cloud, AI, and security operations without long-term commitments.