All news with #product launch tag

🚀 AWS has made Amazon EC2 R8i and R8i-flex instances available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Hyderabad) and Europe (Paris). These instances use AWS-exclusive custom Intel Xeon 6 processors and deliver up to 15% better price-performance and 2.5x more memory bandwidth versus prior Intel-based generations. Compared with R7i, they offer roughly 20% higher performance with larger gains for specific workloads (up to 30% for PostgreSQL, 60% for NGINX, 40% for AI recommendation models). R8i-flex provides common memory-optimized sizes (large to 16xlarge) while R8i offers 13 sizes including two bare-metal SKUs and a new 96xlarge; the family is SAP-certified.

🗺️ Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is now available in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) region, allowing teams to run document workloads closer to users. The fully managed JSON database provides automatic storage scaling up to 128TiB and supports millions of requests per second with fast scaling to 15 low‑latency read replicas and no application downtime. It integrates with AWS DMS, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Lambda and AWS Backup, and clusters can be created via the AWS Management Console, CLI, or SDK to streamline migration and operations.

🩺 OpenAI announced ChatGPT Health, a sandboxed space that lets users discuss health topics and optionally connect medical records and popular wellness apps (Apple Health, Function, MyFitnessPal, Weight Watchers, AllTrails, Instacart, Peloton) for tailored responses, lab-test insights, nutrition advice, meal ideas and suggested workouts. The feature is rolling out to Free, Go, Plus and Pro users outside the EEA, Switzerland and the U.K., and OpenAI says it is designed to support medical care, not replace diagnosis or treatment. Health operates in a silo with purpose-built encryption and isolation; conversations are not used to train OpenAI's foundation models, and connected apps require explicit permission and additional security review.

🔒 OpenAI has introduced ChatGPT Health, a private space for health conversations, and says by default it will not use your health information to train its foundation models. An in-dashboard alert observed during early-access testing states health data is subject to a Health Privacy Notice and recommends enabling multi-factor authentication. OpenAI cautions that ChatGPT is not a substitute for professional medical advice and notes the feature is rolling out to most users but is not yet available in the EEA, Switzerland, or the UK.

🚀 AWS today announced that Amazon EC2 I7ie instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Canada West (Calgary), and Europe (Paris). Designed for large storage I/O–intensive workloads, these high-density, storage-optimized instances use 5th Gen Intel Xeon processors and 3rd gen AWS Nitro SSDs to deliver higher compute performance, lower storage I/O latency, and increased local NVMe capacity up to 120TB. They come in nine sizes with up to 100 Gbps networking and significant EBS bandwidth, targeting low-latency, high-throughput applications.

⚡ CrowdStrike’s Malware Analysis Agent, launched as part of the Threat AI initiative at Fal.Con 2025, automates file triage to produce near-real-time, confidence-scored intelligence for analysts. The agent runs parallel static analysis and dynamic sandbox detonations, correlates findings with CrowdStrike’s threat repository and more than 5,000 YARA rules, and synthesizes behavioral summaries, classification, and remediation guidance. Integrated with Falcon Fusion SOAR and APIs, it can trigger automated hunts, deploy protections, export IOCs, and isolate hosts to accelerate response and reduce analyst backlog.

🔒 Palo Alto Networks announced that Prisma AIRS, accelerated on the NVIDIA BlueField DPU, is now part of the NVIDIA Enterprise AI Factory validated design. The integration embeds zero trust runtime security into AI infrastructure by running Prisma AIRS Network Intercept on BlueField and extending enforcement to cloud environments. It leverages NVIDIA DOCA and DOCA Argus telemetry to feed Cortex XSIAM and Cortex XSOAR for AI-driven detection and response, and recommends hyperscale firewall clusters for defense-in-depth and improved TCO.

🔒 Check Point and NVIDIA announced an integrated security capability to protect AI "factories" across the entire AI lifecycle, from data ingestion and model training to deployment and inference. The effort targets growing risks such as prompt manipulation and attacks on GenAI infrastructure, which Gartner and other industry surveys identify as rising threats. The collaboration focuses on unified visibility, real-time detection, runtime protection, and centralized policy enforcement to reduce operational risk and help organizations meet compliance and governance requirements.

⚡ Adapt Browser is a lightweight, task-focused browser designed to reduce CPU and memory overhead, simplify the interface, and centralize web workflows for improved productivity. By minimizing background services and avoiding feature bloat, it delivers faster page loads and more responsive tab and window management. Built as a non‑Chromium browser and AppEsteem-certified, Adapt emphasizes resource control and transparency without complex setup, producing a clearer workspace and fewer distractions during extended work sessions.

🛡️ AWS announced that AWS WAF is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region. AWS WAF is a web application firewall that helps protect web applications from common exploits and bots by letting you block, allow, or return custom responses based on conditions such as source IP, query strings, and other request attributes. This regional expansion supports lower latency and regional data handling for New Zealand customers.

🚀 MiniMax-M2 is now available on SageMaker JumpStart, enabling immediate deployment of this efficient open-source MoE model in minutes. The model combines 230 billion total parameters with 10 billion active parameters to deliver a compact, fast, and cost-effective option optimized for coding and agentic tasks while preserving strong general intelligence. Customers can deploy via SageMaker Studio or the SageMaker Python SDK and follow AWS best practices for production use.

🤖 AWS End User Messaging now offers a Generative AI Registration Reviewer (preview) to help customers validate phone number registrations before submitting to mobile carriers. The reviewer checks message samples, opt-in descriptions, declared use-cases, and help/stop texts, providing feedback and suggested corrections to improve completeness and accuracy. Available in all Regions where AWS End User Messaging is offered, the preview aims to reduce carrier rejections and speed the registration process.

🔐 AWS Wickr now provides a suite of admin APIs that enable administrators to programmatically manage secure communication networks at scale. The APIs support user lifecycle management, network configuration, and security group administration to automate onboarding, offboarding, retention, federation, and policy enforcement. Organizations can integrate Wickr administration with identity systems and automation pipelines and access the APIs in all supported AWS regions, including AWS GovCloud (US-West), via SDKs, the AWS CLI, or direct REST calls.

🐳 Docker has open-sourced and made freely available over 1,000 Docker Hardened Images (DHI) under the Apache 2.0 license to provide a secure, minimal foundation for containerized applications. The images are rootless, stripped of unnecessary components, SBOM-verifiable, and shipped with SLSA Build Level 3 provenance and proof of authenticity. Docker will continue to publish fixes for DHI components while reserving a 7-day critical CVE patching SLA for the commercial DHI Enterprise tier. The full DHI catalog and subscription options are available from Docker's product offerings.

🐧 Amazon WorkSpaces Applications now supports Ubuntu Pro 24.04 LTS on Elastic fleet, enabling Independent Software Vendors and central IT to stream Ubuntu desktop applications from an AWS-managed, serverless pool. Elastic fleet removes the need for capacity planning, scaling policies, or image creation. Administrators can enable the feature via the WorkSpaces Applications console and choose supported AWS Regions; pricing is pay-as-you-go.

🚀 Amazon Web Services has launched the compute-optimized EC2 C8a instances in the Europe (Spain) region. Powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors running up to 4.5 GHz, C8a offers up to 30% higher performance and up to 19% better price-performance versus C7a, plus 33% greater memory bandwidth. Available in 12 sizes (including two bare-metal options), they target high-performance, latency-sensitive workloads and support Savings Plans, On-Demand, and Spot purchasing.

🔐 Infinity Global Services (IGS) has launched its first dedicated AI security training courses, the initial release in a growing AI services portfolio. The programs offer expert-led instruction and hands-on labs to help security teams, developers, and leaders defend against AI-driven threats and implement AI securely across operations and product development. IGS also plans upcoming offerings in AI red teaming, governance, and implementation consulting to extend defensive and advisory capabilities.

🚀 Cluster Director is now generally available on Google Cloud, offering a managed, topology‑aware control plane for Slurm clusters to streamline AI and HPC operations. It automates Day 0 planning, Day 1 deployment, and Day 2 monitoring with health checks, Managed Lustre attachment, topology‑aware placement, and one‑click node remediation. There is no additional fee for Cluster Director — customers pay only for underlying Google Cloud resources. Google also announced a Preview of Slurm on GKE to combine Slurm's batch scheduling with Kubernetes' autoscaling and self‑healing.

🚀 AWS announced the general availability of the new Amazon EC2 M8gn and M8gb instances powered by AWS Graviton4. M8gn targets network‑intensive workloads and provides up to 600 Gbps of networking bandwidth with 6th‑generation Nitro Cards, while M8gb focuses on high block‑storage throughput with up to 150 Gbps of EBS bandwidth. Both families offer up to 768 GiB of memory, large instance sizes, and EFA support on selected sizes; initial availability is in US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon).

🚀 AWS Databases including Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, Amazon Aurora DSQL, and Amazon DynamoDB are now generally available on the Vercel Marketplace, allowing developers to create and connect to managed databases directly from Vercel in seconds. You can provision a new AWS account from Vercel that includes access to these databases and $100 USD in credits usable for up to six months, and manage billing and usage via the AWS settings portal in the Vercel dashboard. Serverless options support scale-to-zero economics and are available in multiple Regions including US East, US West, Europe, and Asia Pacific.