All news with #product update tag

🚀 Cloudflare rebuilt the Cloudflare One Client’s proxy mode to use QUIC streams and HTTP/3 CONNECT, removing the prior L4→L3 translation via smoltcp and deprecating WireGuard for proxy mode. The change keeps traffic at Layer 4, enabling native congestion and flow control, transport tunability, and substantially better throughput and latency in internal tests. Administrators should upgrade to minimum client version 2025.8.779.0 and enable MASQUE local proxy mode to benefit from these gains.

🚀 Amazon OpenSearch Service has expanded the OpenSearch Optimized instance family with OR2 and OM2 in AWS GovCloud (US-East, US-West). In internal benchmarks, OR2 delivers up to 26% higher indexing throughput versus OR1 (and up to 70% versus R7g), while OM2 delivers up to 15% higher throughput versus OR1 (and up to 66% versus M7g). Both instance types pair compute and local caching with S3-based managed storage, offer pay-as-you-go and reserved pricing, and come in a range of sizes to support indexing-heavy workloads.

⏱️ AWS Batch now supports a configurable scale-down delay for managed compute environments, letting operators keep instances running after jobs complete to reduce relaunch latency. The new minScaleDownDelayMinutes parameter accepts values from 20 minutes up to 1 week and is applied per instance based on when it last finished a job. You can set the delay when creating or updating a compute environment via the API or Management Console; the feature is available in all AWS Regions where AWS Batch is supported.

🚀 Azure now supports instant access for incremental snapshots of Premium SSD v2 (Pv2) and Ultra Disk, enabling immediate restores and near-full performance from creation. Restored disks hydrate rapidly and deliver single-digit millisecond reads and sub-millisecond writes without waiting for background copy. This reduces recovery time for rollbacks, maintenance, and rapid scale-out of stateful applications. Enable the feature via the existing snapshot API by adding the InstantAccessDurationMins parameter.

🔐 Chrome has launched an initiative to protect HTTPS from future quantum threats by redesigning certificate mechanics with Merkle Tree Certificates (MTCs). Rather than enlarging X.509 certificates, MTCs use compact Merkle proofs and a single signed tree head to authenticate sites, reducing TLS handshake data and embedding transparency into issuance. Chrome is testing MTCs with Cloudflare and plans a phased rollout through 2027.

🔔 AWS Config now supports 30 additional AWS resource types across key services including Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and Amazon Cognito. If you have recording enabled for all resource types, AWS Config will automatically begin tracking these new additions. The newly supported types are also available for use in Config rules and Config aggregators. This update expands visibility for discovery, assessment, audit, and remediation across Regions where each resource is available.

🔍 AWS has enhanced Amazon OpenSearch Service Cluster Insights with two new detections: Cluster Overload and Suboptimal Sharding Strategy. The updates surface shard imbalances and elevated resource utilization (CPU, memory, disk I/O, throughput, and disk utilization), identify affected resources, and provide clear mitigation and scale-up recommendations. These insights are available at no additional cost for OpenSearch 2.17+ in Regions where the OpenSearch UI is offered.

🚀 Oracle Database@AWS is now available in the EU‑West‑1 (Dublin) AWS Region, initially deployed in a single Availability Zone. The service provides access to OCI managed Oracle Exadata systems hosted within AWS data centers and supports like‑for‑like migrations of on‑premises Exadata and Oracle RAC workloads. Integrations include AWS Key Management Service for encryption and AWS CloudWatch for monitoring, helping address regional data residency requirements.

🌐 AWS IAM Identity Center now supports IPv6 through dual‑stack endpoints in the AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, completing global availability wherever IAM Identity Center is offered. Clients and browsers will resolve either IPv4 or IPv6 addresses based on network and client protocol. Administrators can find the dual-stack portal URL in the IAM Identity Center console under Settings and share it with their workforce; GovCloud deployments should consult region-specific documentation.

🚀 Amazon Bedrock now offers an OpenAI-compatible Projects API within the Mantle inference engine, enabling customers to create isolated projects for separate applications, environments, or teams. Each project supports distinct IAM-based access controls and tagging to improve security boundaries and cost visibility. The feature is available for OpenAI-compatible APIs, the Responses API, and Chat Completions through Mantle. There is no additional charge beyond model inference consumption.

🔧 Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports API-driven Slurm configuration, enabling you to define Slurm topology, instance group to partition mappings, and FSx filesystem mounts directly in the cluster CreateCluster and UpdateCluster APIs or via the AWS Console. The update lets you specify node roles such as Controller, Login, and Compute per instance group and mount FSx for Lustre or FSx for OpenZFS filesystems. A new SlurmConfigStrategy (Managed, Overwrite, Merge) detects partition-node drift and controls whether updates are paused, overwritten, or merged to preserve manual customizations.

🔔 Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) Managed Instances now integrate with Amazon EC2 Capacity Reservations, letting you apply reserved capacity to managed EC2 compute while ECS handles infrastructure. Configure capacity providers with capacityOptionType=reserved and choose reservation preferences — reservations-only, reservations-first, or reservations-excluded — to balance predictability and cost. Available in all regions and configurable via Console, CLI, CloudFormation, or SDKs.

🔁 AWS Marketplace now supports Concurrent Agreements for SaaS and Professional Services products, enabling multiple active purchases of the same product within a single AWS account. The change removes the prior one-agreement-per-product limitation and lets different business units procure independently with separate terms and pricing. Buyers gain flexibility for mid-term expansions and repeat purchases, while sellers can close multi-unit deals immediately and avoid operational workarounds.

🔁 AWS announced general availability of dynamic dialing mode switching for Amazon Connect Outbound Campaigns, allowing administrators to change between preview and non-preview dialing modes while a campaign is running. Previously, campaigns were locked to their initial dialing mode and required stopping and restarting to change strategy. The new capability lets contact centers adapt dialing behavior in real time to improve agent productivity and campaign efficiency without interruptions. It is available at no additional cost in all supported AWS Regions.

🔒 Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights now provides lock contention diagnostics for Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL instances when operating in Advanced mode. The feature visualizes blocking and waiting sessions to highlight the dominant sessions, queries, or objects causing contention and preserves historical locking data for up to 15 months. You can enable diagnostics on PostgreSQL clusters via the RDS console, AWS APIs, or the AWS SDK. CloudWatch Database Insights is available in all public AWS Regions and uses vCPU-based pricing.

📡 Fortinet announced Alliance Partnerships with Parsec Technologies and Westermo to deliver ruggedized, rapidly deployable secure connectivity for mobile and fixed cyber-physical systems. The Parsec Emergency Connectivity Kit (ECK) packages preconfigured Fortinet devices with rugged enclosures and high-gain antennas for quick field deployment, available as Bloodhound (mobility) and Pitbull (resilience) models. Westermo integration brings WeOS switches and cellular routers into the Fortinet Security Fabric via IPsec, while FortiAuthenticator and FortiPAM extend identity and privileged access controls for industrial sites.

🔧 Microsoft released the KB5077241 optional cumulative preview for Windows 11, delivering 29 fixes and features including improved BitLocker reliability and a built-in network speed test. The update introduces native Sysmon functionality (disabled by default) and will automatically enable Quick Machine Recovery on some Professional devices that are not domain‑joined or enterprise managed. It also shortens resume-from-sleep times, refines taskbar and File Explorer behavior, and adds RSAT support on Arm64.

⚙️ AWS Deadline Cloud now supports grouping short tasks into executable chunks to improve run-time efficiency and reduce cost. Users can specify a fixed chunk size or set a target run time, and Deadline Cloud will dynamically adjust grouping as the job progresses to meet that target. The feature addresses workloads with many short-duration tasks or environments that have long startup times. It is available in all Regions where AWS Deadline Cloud is supported.

🔁 AWS AppConfig now integrates with New Relic Workflow Automation to enable automated, intelligent rollbacks during feature flag and dynamic configuration deployments. The extension continuously monitors application health against configured alert conditions and, when errors or elevated latency are detected during gradual deployments, triggers an immediate rollback to the prior configuration. This closed-loop automation eliminates manual intervention and reduces remediation from minutes to seconds, minimizing customer impact.

🔍 AWS announced a new AWS WAF AI activity dashboard that centralizes visibility into AI-driven bot and agent traffic reaching applications. The update expands AWS WAF Bot Control detection to track more than 650 unique bots and agents and provides trend visualizations, most-active bot listings, path analysis, and request volumes by category and verification status. Administrators can act directly using Bot Control rules to allow verified crawlers while rate-limiting or blocking unverified agents. The dashboard is available in all AWS Regions and is included on flat-rate plans or provided at no extra cost for other WAF customers.