All news with #product update tag

⚙️ Amazon is introducing User Preferences in Amazon Quick Suite, enabling end users to control how Quick looks and behaves. Users can set the Chat panel to open expanded or collapsed and Quick will remember their last state. They can choose a default chat agent and a default knowledge scope for My Assistant, provide a preferred name and area of focus, and view or manage memories to make responses more relevant.

⚡ Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio introduces data preview v2.0 for Visual ETL, delivering near-instant preview results (about one second) while building and iterating on ETL jobs. The new mode runs an in-browser query engine that fetches and caches source data locally, removing dependence on server-side Spark sessions and avoiding additional compute costs. It supports CSV, Parquet, and JSON from Amazon S3, as well as Amazon Redshift, S3 Tables, AWS Glue Data Catalog, and many third-party sources including Snowflake and common relational databases. A toggle lets users switch back to the original Spark-based preview when needed.

🛡️Microsoft will update Teams to clearly label external third-party bots that appear in meeting lobbies, and organizers will be required to explicitly admit them. The change is slated for May 2026 and will reach Windows, macOS, Android, and iOS for worldwide standard multi-tenant and GCC clouds. By distinguishing bots from human attendees, the feature aims to prevent malicious or unwanted automated participants from being inadvertently accepted into meetings and complements recent Teams security enhancements such as call-reporting, fraud-protection warnings, and Defender-based admin controls.

🔒 This contributed piece from Bitdefender explains how a unified security platform can help mid-market organizations meet enterprise-level expectations without enterprise budgets. The article promotes Bitdefender GravityZone and an upcoming webinar that shows how consolidating tools can simplify operations, reduce costs, and strengthen security posture. It targets IT directors, CISOs, and lean security teams seeking practical steps to demonstrate reduced risk and free up resources.

🔒 Cloudflare argues that SASE and Zero Trust migrations no longer need to be multi-year projects. Partners such as TachTech and Adapture report compressing deployments from 18 months to as little as four to six weeks by using the Cloudflare One platform. Key accelerators include identity-first on-ramps, a consolidated policy engine for SWG and ZTNA, and cloud-native connectors like cloudflared. The platform's extensibility also supports custom environments and provides AI-focused controls for safer LLM adoption.

🔎 The Forrester Total Economic Impact study modeled a composite $10B enterprise using Microsoft Foundry and estimated a 327% ROI over three years, with developer productivity identified as the largest contributor at $15.7M. Foundry reduced undifferentiated engineering work and improved technical team productivity up to 35%, with some teams seeing payback in as few as six months. Its unified platform, reusable knowledge bases, built-in evaluations, and agent controls also enabled organizations to decommission legacy tools and avoid infrastructure costs.

🧩 Amazon Redshift now supports nine new array functions for the SUPER data type — ARRAY_CONTAINS, ARRAY_DISTINCT, ARRAY_EXCEPT, ARRAY_INTERSECTION, ARRAY_POSITION, ARRAY_POSITIONS, ARRAY_SORT, ARRAY_UNION, and ARRAYS_OVERLAP. These functions enable searching, comparing, sorting, and transforming arrays directly in SQL, reducing the need for custom PartiQL logic. They simplify nested-data analytics and are available in all AWS Regions, including GovCloud.

📦 Amazon Redshift now supports reusable templates for the COPY command, allowing teams to store and reuse commonly used COPY parameters across ingestion workflows. Templates standardize formatting and load options, reducing manual configuration and the risk of errors. Changes made to a template apply to future COPY operations, simplifying maintenance and updates. The feature is available in all AWS Regions, including AWS GovCloud (US).

🗂️ Microsoft will add granular file- and folder-level restore to Microsoft 365 Backup, allowing administrators to browse, search and recover individual files from SharePoint and OneDrive restore points rather than restoring entire sites or drives. The capability is limited to tenants with the backup service enabled and requires the SharePoint Backup Administrator role; end users will not see restore operations. Public preview began in early March 2026 and Microsoft expects general availability between late April and early May 2026. Customers are advised to review coverage, train backup administrators, and update recovery runbooks to incorporate file- and folder-level restores.

🚀Amazon EC2 R8g instances are now available in AWS Middle East (UAE), AWS Mexico (Central), and AWS Europe (Zurich). Powered by AWS Graviton4 processors, these R8g instances deliver up to 30% better performance compared to Graviton3-based R7g instances and are optimized for memory‑intensive workloads like databases, in‑memory caches, and real‑time analytics. R8g offers 12 sizes (including two bare metal options), scales up to 48xlarge and 1.5 TB of memory, and provides enhanced networking (up to 50 Gbps) and up to 40 Gbps EBS bandwidth. AWS also recommends migration support via the Graviton Fast Start program and Porting Advisor to help move workloads to Graviton4.

🔁 Amazon Redshift Serverless now automatically preserves datashare permissions when restoring a snapshot to the same producer namespace. This removes the prior need for administrators to manually re-grant permissions and recreate consumer databases after a restore. The change reduces administrative overhead and streamlines disaster recovery and testing workflows. EventBridge notifications report permission drops, revoked consumer access, or public-access changes during restore operations.

🛡️Multi-party approval (MPA) administrators can now run manual test approvals to verify that configured approval teams are reachable, active, and correctly selected. Administrators initiate baseline test sessions through the AWS Organizations console to detect inactive members, confirm notification delivery, and validate approval counts and thresholds. AWS recommends periodic checks (every 90 days) to maintain governance and operational readiness before relying on approvals for sensitive operations. This capability is available in all AWS commercial regions.

🔆 AWS has added light mode support to Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio for IAM-based domains, allowing users to choose between dark and light visual themes. The addition improves readability in bright environments and offers a familiar look for customers who prefer lighter interfaces. In Studio, select Profile > customize appearance to switch modes. The setting persists across browsers and devices and complements the existing dark mode to give users full control over their development environment's appearance.

🚀 AWS has expanded Database Savings Plans to include Amazon OpenSearch Service and Amazon Neptune Analytics, enabling up to 35% savings in exchange for a one-year usage commitment with no upfront payment. The discount automatically applies to eligible serverless and provisioned instances regardless of engine, instance family, size, deployment option, or Region (China excluded). Coverage is available immediately in all Regions except China, and customers can purchase or analyze Savings Plans via the Billing console or AWS CLI using console recommendations or the Savings Plans Purchase Analyzer for customized estimates.

🟡 This guide introduces Nano Banana image models—built on the Gemini 3 family—and explains how they combine deep reasoning and live web search to produce precise visuals. It summarizes technical specifications (context windows, resolutions, aspect ratios, supported inputs/outputs), practical prompting best practices, five prompting frameworks, and integration patterns with Veo and Lyria. The guide also highlights multilingual text rendering, provenance safeguards, and workflow tips for creative and production use.

🔍 AWS Elastic Beanstalk now offers AI-powered environment analysis that collects recent events, instance health, and logs and sends them to Amazon Bedrock for automated diagnosis. Developers and operations teams can request an analysis from the Elastic Beanstalk console or use the AWS CLI with RequestEnvironmentInfo and RetrieveEnvironmentInfo. The feature returns step-by-step, environment-specific troubleshooting recommendations to help reduce mean time to resolution and is available in Regions where both services exist.

🏆 Fortinet has been named a Gartner Peer Insights™ Customers’ Choice for SD‑WAN for the seventh consecutive year, reflecting sustained customer confidence. In the February 2026 Voice of the Customer report, Fortinet Secure SD‑WAN earned a 4.8/5 overall rating and a 96% willingness to recommend based on 202 verified reviews through December 31, 2025. Customers highlight integrated networking and security via FortiOS, ASIC-accelerated performance, and centralized orchestration with FortiManager as key differentiators in deployment, support, and operational simplicity.

🔒 The Fortinet NSE 8 Cybersecurity Expert credential represents the pinnacle of technical achievement within Fortinet’s certification program, validating deep design, configuration, and troubleshooting skills for complex enterprise environments. Candidates must demonstrate theoretical, conceptual, and practical mastery, plus extensive real-world experience and continuous learning. The article highlights Swedish partner Avoki, which now counts four NSE 8s among its senior engineers, and notes the company’s 2026 integration into iteam. Readers are invited to sign up for an ebook launching March 17 to learn more about paths to NSE 8.

🔁 Amazon OpenSearch Service introduces a new Capacity Optimized deployment option for blue/green updates, allowing domain updates to complete even when full instance capacity is not available. The option attempts a full-capacity swap first and automatically falls back to batched, incremental updates if necessary, reducing the number of extra instances required during the process. This approach can take longer than a full swap but avoids waiting for capacity; customers can choose the strategy in the console or API. AWS recommends Capacity Optimized for clusters with 30 or more nodes.

🩺 AWS announced the AWS HealthLake data transformation agent (preview), an AI-powered feature that converts CCDA clinical documents into FHIR R4-compliant resources. Developers can run synchronous conversions, preview and validate transformed FHIR Bundles in seconds, and use a scalable bulk import workflow that matches patients and logs ingestion details. The console offers AI-assisted natural language template customization plus manual editing before publishing for production.