All news with #product update tag

⚙️ AWS has expanded availability of Graviton4-based R8g instances for Amazon Aurora (MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible) and Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB across multiple regions, and added M8g support in additional regions. These instances offer up to 40% better performance and up to 29% improved price/performance versus Graviton3 equivalents, with new 24xlarge and 48xlarge sizes providing up to 192 vCPUs, DDR5 memory at an 8:1 memory-to-vCPU ratio, and enhanced networking and EBS bandwidth. R8g and M8g instances can be launched via the RDS console or AWS CLI; engine version, pricing, and regional details are available in the Aurora/RDS documentation and pricing pages.

🚀 Amazon RDS now supports R8gd instances in 12 additional regions and M8gd instances in 6 more regions, offering Optimized Reads for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, RDS for PostgreSQL, RDS for MySQL, and RDS for MariaDB. These R8gd and M8gd instances provide up to 165% better throughput and up to 120% improved price-performance over R6g for Aurora PostgreSQL by using local NVMe SSDs for ephemeral data and extended caching. Customers can enable Optimized Reads via the AWS Console, CLI, or SDK by creating or modifying databases to use these instance types. Regional availability lists and engine version compatibility are provided in the Aurora and RDS documentation.

🔧 Amazon RDS now permits up to four storage modifications per database instance within a rolling 24-hour window. These changes let you increase size, change volume type, and adjust performance without incurring downtime, and a new modification can begin once the previous optimization completes. The feature is automatically enabled across Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, MariaDB, MySQL, Db2, Oracle, and SQL Server in all commercial AWS Regions and AWS GovCloud (US).

🧭 AlloyDB introduces native AI Functions to solve tokenization issues for logographical languages like Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. By calling Gemini models from SQL via ai.generate(), developers can perform in-database segmentation, stop-word removal, and embedding generation without ETL pipelines or external services. The approach uses stored-procedure batching, generated columns for search vectors and embeddings, and RUM plus ScaNN indexes to enable fast hybrid lexical and semantic search.

🛡️ AWS Glue now offers the SAP OData connector and zero-ETL integrations in AWS GovCloud (US-West) and AWS GovCloud (US-East). These integrations support Amazon DynamoDB, Salesforce, and SAP OData as sources and let regulated customers replicate data into Amazon Redshift, Amazon S3, or other destinations without custom pipelines. The fully managed zero-ETL option reduces operational overhead and engineering effort by providing a no-code interface to set up continuous data replication and maintain up-to-date replicas for analytics.

🛠️ Amazon OpenSearch Service integrates with the Agent Toolkit for AWS, enabling AI coding agents like Claude Code, Kiro, and Cursor to build, manage, and query OpenSearch Service domains and OpenSearch Serverless collections. The integration uses the AWS MCP server to execute API calls and the curated amazon-opensearch-service skill to translate natural-language requests into capabilities. It supports migration, operations, search, log analytics, and trace analytics across managed domains and serverless collections with no infrastructure changes and no additional charge.

🛠️ Microsoft is blocking the June Windows 11 update on some Dell systems after the KB5095093 preview update introduced an incompatibility with the Intel Innovation Platform Framework Processor Participant driver. Affected devices may show a yellow exclamation in Device Manager and experience unexpected shutdowns, poor performance, overheating, and battery drain. Microsoft is working with Dell and will pause KB5101650 distribution until a fix is released in the coming days.

🛈 Amazon RDS for Db2 is now available in Asia Pacific (Thailand), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Asia Pacific (Taipei), Mexico (Central), and Canada West (Calgary). The service simplifies setup, operation, and scaling of Db2 databases with automated configuration and optional Multi-AZ synchronous replication for high availability. Licensing options include hourly pay-as-you-go from the AWS Marketplace, Bring Your Own License (BYOL), and the Db2 Community Edition for development and test use. Documentation and pricing pages provide further details.

🛠️ AWS Lambda now supports referencing code directly from your own Amazon S3 buckets using self-managed code storage, removing the prior requirement for Lambda to copy deployment packages into Lambda-managed storage. This change eliminates the previous 75GB default storage constraint (now raised to 300GB) and can reduce function activation time by avoiding the copy step. No additional Lambda charges apply; you pay standard S3 storage and any applicable data transfer fees.

🔔 Amazon Redshift is generally available with two new RG instance sizes: rg.large and rg.12xlarge. These Graviton-powered instances promise up to 2.4x faster query performance than prior RA3 instances while reducing price per vCPU by about 30%, and they are available on the current P202 track. Migration from existing RA3 clusters is supported via Snapshot and Restore, Elastic Resize, or Classic Resize, and the instances are offered with On-Demand and 1- or 3-year Reserved options with No Upfront payment.

🔄 Amazon WorkSpaces Personal now offers automated rollback and support for migrating stopped WorkSpaces from PCoIP to the Amazon DCV streaming protocol. The update extends the console-based migration workflow and checkpoint snapshot support, enabling administrators to run large-scale migrations without manually starting stopped instances. These features are available in all AWS commercial and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions where WorkSpaces Personal is supported.

🔍 Microsoft is testing a faster, cleaner Windows Search experience for Insiders that emphasizes relevant local results over ads and promotional content. The update, announced by Windows search leads, is rolling out via the Experimental channel and Controlled Feature Rollout, with feature flags and a reboot check for access. Changes include clearer result sources, a setting to hide Store and web suggestions, improved two-character file search, better cloud-file visibility, and increased typo tolerance. Reliability fixes and additional improvements are coming soon.

🗂️ AWS Storage Gateway now supports copying file shares across gateways directly from the console. The feature reads the source share configuration and creates a new, compatible file share on the destination gateway, preserving settings where possible. A guided workflow highlights any configurations that need attention before creation, simplifying migrations such as upgrades to AL2023. This capability is available in commercial AWS Regions and can be started from the Storage Gateway console's file shares view.

📝 You can now write custom data directly into CloudFront access logs using a new helper method available from within CloudFront Functions. These lightweight JavaScript functions run at the edge for tasks like URL rewrites, header manipulation, and request routing. Use cf.logCustomData() from viewer request or response functions to embed values such as A/B test variants, authentication outcomes, or routing decisions into the access log record. The feature works with both real-time and standard (v2) logging, and there is no additional charge for using cf.logCustomData().

🛠️ Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus is now available in the Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region. The service is fully managed and Prometheus-compatible, enabling scalable monitoring and alerting on operational metrics. Customers can send up to 1 billion active metric series to a single workspace and create multiple workspaces per account. Availability in New Zealand expands regional coverage for customers using Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus.

🆕 Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) now supports 46 additional MongoDB aggregation operators and cursor methods in minor version 8.0.1. This expansion covers accumulators, trigonometry, bitwise aggregation, arithmetic, data size and type checks, timestamp functions, and new stages and cursor methods. The new operators are available in all regions where Amazon DocumentDB is offered and aim to simplify MongoDB workload migration without application code changes.

🔒 Amazon Web Services has added OpenAI’s privacy-filter to Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, offering a bidirectional token-classification model for PII detection and masking. The model is designed for fast, context-aware, tunable, high-throughput data sanitization workflows that can run on-premises. It detects PII spans like account numbers, addresses, emails, names, phones, URLs, dates, and secrets, labeling inputs in a single forward pass. Customers can deploy the model via the SageMaker Studio Models section or the SageMaker Python SDK.

🎙️ AWS added Voxtral-Mini-4B-Realtime-2602 to Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, a multilingual, low-latency speech-transcription model from Mistral AI. The model offers natively streaming architecture for real-time transcription across 13 languages and configurable delay/accuracy trade-offs. Customers can deploy it via the SageMaker Studio Models section or the SageMaker Python SDK for rapid integration into speech applications.

🔍 AWS added Qwen3-VL-Embedding-2B and Qwen3-Reranker-4B to Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, enabling modular search and retrieval pipelines. The embedding model creates multimodal vectors from text, images, screenshots, and video across 30+ languages, while the reranker scores query–document pairs across 100+ languages. Customers can deploy these models via SageMaker Studio or the SageMaker Python SDK with a few clicks.

📰 Amazon Web Services has added gemma-4-E2B-it, a multimodal instruction-tuned foundation model from Google DeepMind, to Amazon SageMaker JumpStart. The model supports text, image, audio inputs and text outputs with a built-in stepwise reasoning mode and broad capabilities including image and video understanding, OCR, function calling, and multilingual code assistance. Customers can deploy it from the SageMaker Studio Models section or via the SageMaker Python SDK for rapid integration into AWS AI workflows.