All news with #product update tag

🔧 AWS End User Messaging now provides clearer, actionable guidance to help registrants submit complete and compliant messaging registrations. The update includes example mock-ups for US 10DLC, short code, toll-free and RCS submissions, API responses that reveal conditional field requirements, and an RCS walkthrough for recording compliant agent videos. These changes are available in all Regions that support End User Messaging registrations.

🎥 AWS End User Messaging now includes a guided wizard that automates the entire video capture process for RCS agent registration. The wizard sequences and sends the required messages to a test device, reducing errors and preventing mismatched or incomplete recordings. It appears on all RCS registration forms that require video submissions and aims to speed approval by ensuring compliant recordings.

🔎 Web Search on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore is now available in four additional AWS Regions: US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and AWS GovCloud (US-West). This fully managed tool provides AI agents with current web grounding to improve research, summarization, and question-answering. The expansion reduces latency by allowing retrieval closer to applications and end users. Government customers can now use Web Search in AWS GovCloud (US-West) to address compliance and data residency needs.

🔐 Amazon SageMaker Studio now allows new users to sign up using Google, GitHub, or Apple credentials and land directly in a pre-configured Studio environment without a traditional AWS account setup. Users receive AWS Free Tier credits in most cases with no credit card required, can invite collaborators who sign in with their own credentials, and access shared models, notebooks, and endpoints without configuring IAM users. The feature is available in all AWS Commercial Regions where SageMaker Studio is supported.

🕒 Amazon DynamoDB Streams now supports timestamp-based stream processing using the AT_TIMESTAMP shard iterator type, allowing you to start reading records from a specified point in time rather than only from the oldest retained record or new records. This capability integrates with the Amazon Kinesis Client Library via the DynamoDB Streams Kinesis adapter. It helps prevent reprocessing large retained streams, enables targeted data replay for debugging and auditing, and aids resuming consumption after interruptions or restores. The feature is available across commercial, GovCloud (US), and China Regions with no extra charge beyond standard GetRecords API requests.

🔔 AWS Lambda now automatically detects and stops recursive loops between Lambda Event Functions and Amazon EventBridge Custom event buses, reducing the risk of runaway invocations and unexpected charges. Enabled by default across commercial AWS Regions, the feature halts detected loops and sends an AWS Health Dashboard notification with troubleshooting guidance. If you intentionally rely on recursion, you can disable detection for a specific function using the PutFunctionRecursionConfig API.

🔒 AWS License Manager now supports in-place upgrades of EC2 Ubuntu LTS instances to Ubuntu Pro from the AWS Marketplace, enabling security and compliance improvements without rebuilding AMIs or migrating workloads. Ubuntu Pro subscriptions deliver up to 10 years of security patching (extendable to 15 years with the Legacy add-on), coverage for thousands of additional packages, and Kernel Livepatch to apply critical fixes without reboots. Customers can upgrade during the conversion workflow if they already have an Ubuntu Pro subscription through the Marketplace or subscribe from the AWS License Manager console. The feature is available in all commercial regions where AWS License Manager operates.

🔑 Amazon SageMaker Studio now allows new users to sign up using Google, GitHub, or Apple credentials and land in a fully configured Studio environment without creating a traditional AWS account or providing a credit card. The change removes console navigation and IAM setup for first-time users, enabling immediate model fine-tuning, evaluation, and deployment. Teams can invite collaborators by email, who sign in with their own social credentials to access shared Studio resources without configuring IAM users or permissions.

🧬 AWS HealthOmics now supports a resource fallback directive for Nextflow tasks, allowing users to specify an ordered list of preferred accelerator types and an optional CPU fallback. This feature automatically cycles through alternatives when a preferred accelerator is unavailable, with configurable timeouts per accelerator profile to control wait behavior. The capability is available in multiple AWS HealthOmics Regions and aims to reduce resubmissions and keep bioinformatics workflows running smoothly.

🔧 Hyperdrive now supports MySQL and the feature is generally available after a beta period focused on reliability and real-world usage. Hyperdrive is Cloudflare’s distributed connection pooler for Workers that holds warm SQL connections, shares them across requests, and can cache query results in the CDN. The team fixed encoding and protocol-translation bugs — including charset negotiation and capability mismatches — and adjusted caching to store a canonical result format. These fixes raised connection success rates to 99.99% and MySQL support is ready for customers to create Hyperdrives via dashboard or wrangler.

🔒 AWS Security Hub now adds resource criticality to exposure prioritization so central security teams can focus on exposures affecting their most business-critical assets. You can define criticality with automation rules (for example, mark compute resources as Very High), and the rules apply to existing and newly discovered resources. Security Hub also infers criticality from resource tags and names, records the source of the determination, and displays criticality on the Resources page and Impact assessment tab. This capability is included with Security Hub Essentials at no extra cost and is enabled for all customers.

🔔 Starting today, AWS Lambda durable functions raises per-execution durable operations from 3,000 to 30,000 and checkpoint payload size from 256 KB to 1 MB. These higher limits let workflows perform more iterative loops, longer polling, and more complex rollback paths within a single execution. Checkpoint sizes now match asynchronous Lambda and integration payloads, allowing full events to be persisted in one operation.

🔧 AWS introduced custom metadata for its Agent Registry to improve governance and discovery of agents, MCP servers, skills, gateways, and custom resources. Publishers can define a schema per registry and add type-specific fields (text, URL, Boolean, or choice lists) such as team ownership, data classification, or model family. The registry validates required fields and values on create/update and supports filtering by custom metadata via the AWS Console, CLI, SDKs, or MCP endpoint. This feature is available across all Regions where the Agent Registry is offered.

🖥️ Amazon DCV 2026.0 introduces support for RHEL 10, Rocky Linux 10, CentOS 10, and Ubuntu 26.04 with Wayland-based hosts and sessions. The release also delivers a new macOS client (including gamepad support), updated Windows and Linux clients, and performance improvements such as H.264 frame slice support and multithreaded decoding. Windows hosts gain URL and printer preferences redirection, and Amazon EC2 adds support for newer macOS server versions.

🔎 AWS Deadline Cloud now shows users the specific queues, fleets, and jobs they can access directly in the Deadline Cloud monitor. The feature surfaces parent IDs and the user's access level, including group-inherited permissions, so users no longer need an administrator to retrieve farm IDs. Resource discovery is available in all Regions where Deadline Cloud is offered and supports shared monitor URLs across different permission levels.

🚀 This post explains how Cloudflare scaled the D1 control plane — a managed, serverless SQLite-based database — to support millions of databases while avoiding centralized bottlenecks. It outlines key components such as the Edge API Worker, D1 Eyeball Worker, Durable Objects, Hyperdrive to Postgres, and Workers KV caching, and describes the create/delete flows, heartbeats, retries, and placement strategies. The write-up highlights operational tenets and real-world growth metrics demonstrating significant adoption and traffic increases.

🔒 GitHub now expires newly created npm trusted publishing configurations after 48 hours if they don't complete an initial successful publish. The change validates and permanently binds the configuration only after that first publish and requires a new 48-hour window when repository or project identity changes. GitHub also blocks trusted tokens from issue_comment events and retains the existing pull_request_target restriction to reduce risks from reclaimed repository slugs.

🛠️ Google’s Agent Development Kit (ADK) now provides native implementations for Python, Go, TypeScript, Java, and Kotlin, removing the need to constrain agents to a Python-only stack. Each ADK version is built for its runtime and type system while sharing open protocols like Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Agent2Agent (A2A) for cross-language interoperability. The ADK includes tooling for scaffolding projects, Cloud Run/GKE deployment, evaluation pipelines, and language-specific features such as Go’s workflow runtime, TypeScript + Zod schemas, and Kotlin’s build-time schema generation.

🔎 Amazon Route 53 Domains now supports premium domain names, allowing customers to search for, register, transfer, renew, and restore registry premium names directly through Route 53. Previously, premium names required third-party registrars, causing fragmented portfolios. Premium domains now appear in search and availability results with upfront pricing, enabling consolidation and unified management alongside standard domains.

📣 AWS DataSync Enhanced mode now supports Amazon FSx for OpenZFS as source or destination, adds NFS 4.2 support for on‑premises and FSx for OpenZFS file systems, and introduces an ObjectMetadata option to control user metadata copying. Previously, FSx for OpenZFS transfers were limited to Basic mode. Existing tasks remain unaffected and the features are available in all Regions where Enhanced mode is supported.