All news with #product update tag

🚀 AWS has increased Amazon EBS performance for EC2 C8gn, M8gn, and R8gn instances in 48xlarge and metal-48xl sizes. With enhancements to the AWS Nitro System, EBS bandwidth doubles from 60 Gbps to 120 Gbps and IOPS doubles from 240,000 to 480,000. New launches receive the upgrade at no extra cost; running instances can enable it by stopping and starting. The change is available in all regions where these instance types are generally available.

🚀 Amazon Redshift now accelerates top-k queries (those using ORDER BY with LIMIT) by skipping irrelevant data blocks and keeping only the K best candidate rows in memory. The engine reorders and selectively reads blocks based on the ORDER BY column's min/max values so that when data is fully or partially sorted it reads only the minimal blocks needed rather than scanning entire tables. This optimization is available at no extra cost in patch release P199 and applies automatically to eligible queries without any rewrites or configuration changes.

🔎 Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights saved queries now accept parameters, enabling reusable query templates with placeholders for values such as log level, service name, or time interval. You can define up to 20 parameters with optional defaults and invoke parameterized queries by prefixing the saved query name with $ and supplying arguments. This reduces duplicate queries and simplifies complex analysis. Saved queries with parameters are available in all commercial AWS regions and can be created or executed via the Console, AWS CLI, AWS CDK, and AWS SDKs.

🔁 Amazon FSx now supports copying file system backups into and out of opt-in Regions for Amazon FSx for Windows File Server, Amazon FSx for Lustre, and Amazon FSx for OpenZFS. This extends cross-Region, cross-account backup and recovery capabilities beyond Regions enabled by default, enabling broader resilience, disaster recovery, and compliance architectures. Backup copies can be managed via the Amazon FSx console, API, CLI, and across accounts in the same AWS Organization using AWS Backup.

🌐 AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (AWS DRS) now supports IPv6 for both data replication and control plane connections, enabling replication in IPv6-only or dual-stack environments. Customers can set the internet protocol to IPv6 in replication configuration to use dual-stack endpoints for agent-to-service communication and data transfer, removing the requirement for IPv4 addresses. Existing replication configurations remain on IPv4 by default, and the capability is available in Regions where AWS DRS and Amazon EC2 support IPv6.

📧 AWS Billing and Cost Management Dashboards now support scheduled email delivery for dashboard reports. You can configure daily, weekly, or monthly deliveries that send secure links to password-protected PDF reports optimized for offline viewing, and manage recipients through AWS User Notifications. The feature is available at no additional cost in all commercial AWS Regions (excluding AWS China Regions) and is accessible via AWS SDKs and the CLI.

🛠 Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB now lets customers define weekly maintenance windows for both InfluxDB 2 instances and InfluxDB 3 clusters across all supported editions. You can specify day-and-time in an IANA timezone such as America/New_York, Europe/London, or Asia/Tokyo, and the service will automatically handle Daylight Saving Time transitions. Configure or modify the window when creating or updating resources via the console, AWS CLI, or AWS SDKs. If no window is specified, Timestream will continue to schedule maintenance automatically.

🔍 Amazon Bedrock now supports cost allocation by IAM principal in AWS Cost and Usage Report 2.0 (CUR 2.0) and Cost Explorer. Customers can tag IAM users and roles with attributes like team, project, or cost center, activate those tags as cost allocation tags, and either include caller identity in a CUR 2.0 export or filter by tags in Cost Explorer. This capability is available in all AWS commercial Regions where Amazon Bedrock is offered.

🔧 Amazon OpenSearch Service now delivers a unified observability workspace that combines metrics, logs, traces, and AI agent tracing with native integration for Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus. You can query Prometheus metrics directly with PromQL alongside logs and traces in the OpenSearch UI using live queries that avoid data duplication and reduce costs compared with premium platforms. New RED-based application monitoring workflows and OpenTelemetry GenAI semantic conventions enable correlating slow traces, overlaying Prometheus metrics on service dashboards, and tracing LLM agent execution within a single tool.

🔁 Amazon S3 Lifecycle now prevents expiration and transition actions on objects that failed replication, helping operators avoid unintended deletions or storage-class transitions when replication is misconfigured or lacks permissions. Objects that fail replication will be skipped by lifecycle rules until replication is corrected. After you fix replication configuration or permissions and run S3 Batch Replication to catch up, lifecycle will automatically process those objects according to your configured rules.

🔁 Amazon RDS Blue/Green Deployments now supports Amazon RDS Proxy, eliminating DNS propagation delays to enable faster application recovery during switchovers. RDS Proxy actively monitors database instances during single-Region switchovers and redirects connections to the Green environment so applications begin using the new production database immediately without driver or configuration changes. This integration supports Amazon Aurora (MySQL and PostgreSQL), Amazon RDS for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MariaDB in commercial Regions where RDS Proxy is available, and deployments can be initiated via the RDS Console or CLI.

🗜️ Amazon OpenSearch Serverless now supports Zstandard (zstd) codecs for index storage, giving customers a choice between the default LZ4 and the new zstd or zstd_no_dict modes. Zstandard can reduce index size by up to 32% compared with LZ4 and lets you tune compression levels to balance storage savings against indexing throughput and query latency. Lower compression levels (for example, level 1) deliver meaningful space savings with minimal performance impact, while higher levels (for example, level 6) maximize compression at the cost of slower indexing. The feature is available today in all Regions where OpenSearch Serverless is supported and can be configured in index settings at creation time.

🔒 AWS Private Certificate Authority now supports customer managed permissions in AWS Resource Access Manager (AWS RAM), enabling administrators to grant only the specific API operations each consuming account needs. You can choose from granular read operations (for example, DescribeCertificateAuthority, GetCertificate, GetCertificateAuthorityCertificate) and write operations (for example, IssueCertificate, RevokeCertificate). Cross-account issuers are no longer limited to a single certificate template. The feature is available in all Regions where Private CA and RAM are offered.

🔧 Microsoft has deployed a server-side fix after a Bing update disrupted Windows 11 23H2 Start Menu search on a small number of devices. The issue, first noted around April 6 and reportedly seen by some users for months, produced blank but clickable search results. Microsoft rolled back the problematic server-side Bing update and says reports of failures are decreasing; the company advises ensuring the device is online and that Web Search has not been disabled by Group Policy.

🔒 Cloudflare is accelerating its post-quantum roadmap and now targets 2029 to achieve full post-quantum security, explicitly including post-quantum authentication. The company already enabled post-quantum encryption for the majority of human traffic to mitigate harvest-now/decrypt-later risks, but new algorithmic and hardware advances (notably Google’s reported speedups and Oratomic’s neutral-atom estimates) make authentication the urgent priority. Cloudflare will enable PQ defaults for customers at no extra cost.

🚀 AWS Lambda response streaming is now available in all commercial AWS Regions, enabling the InvokeWithResponseStream API to progressively stream response payloads as they are produced. This reduces time-to-first-byte (TTFB) for latency-sensitive workloads such as LLM-based, web, and mobile applications by allowing partial responses up to a default 200 MB. Response streaming is supported via AWS SDKs, Amazon API Gateway REST APIs, Node.js managed runtimes, and custom runtimes; note that additional network transfer charges apply for the bytes streamed out over the initial 6 MB.

⚡ Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports M8i and R8i 8th‑generation instances powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors available only on AWS. These instance types deliver up to 15% better price‑performance and up to 2.5× more memory bandwidth versus prior Intel‑based generations, targeting memory‑intensive and latency‑sensitive Oracle workloads. Support is offered in a Bring Your Own License (BYOL) model for Oracle Database Enterprise Edition and Standard Edition 2, and you can modify existing RDS instances or create new ones through the RDS Management Console, AWS SDKs, or CLI.

🔐 Check Point Services offers PS Private Training (Custom ILT), a tailored instructor‑led program that turns complex security environments into operational control. The service replaces generic courses with environment‑specific labs, hands‑on exercises, and field‑proven best practices delivered by active Professional Services consultants. It focuses on closing hands‑on skill gaps, speeding issue resolution, and lowering operational risk even in well‑equipped organizations.

🔬 Amazon Braket now offers access to Rigetti's Cepheus-1-108Q, the first 100+ qubit superconducting QPU available on the service. The device uses a modular 3×4 array of twelve 9‑qubit chiplets with tunable and intermodule couplers and introduces CZ gates with an adiabatic implementation to reduce phase and leakage errors. Customers can run deeper circuits for chemical simulation, combinatorial optimization, and machine learning via the Braket SDK or frameworks such as Qiskit, CUDA‑Q, and Pennylane, and researchers can use pulse‑level control. Cepheus-1-108Q is available in the US West (N. California) Region.

🌐 AWS announced IPv6 support for AWS Transfer Family SFTP connectors, AS2 connectors, and Transfer Family web apps. The change enables connectors to reach IPv6-native remote servers and trading partners while letting end users access web apps from IPv6 networks and devices. Dual-stack support lets customers communicate with both IPv4 and IPv6 systems during migration. The feature is available in most regions where Transfer Family is offered.