All news with #product update tag

📣 Partners can now configure category-based notifications and multi-channel delivery for AWS Marketplace through AWS User Notifications. Previously, notifications went only to the AWS account root email or custom aliases, without category routing. Partners can now assign contacts and delivery channels for four categories: Product listings, Offers and agreements, Payments and disbursements, and Account management. Notifications can be delivered by email, the AWS Console Mobile App, or chat via Amazon Q Developer in Slack and Microsoft Teams.

🔎 Amazon Bedrock's AgentCore Web Search now supports per-request domain filtering and published-date filtering, letting agents control which sites and time windows they search. Runtime domain filtering enables include/exclude lists for trusted or blocked sources without admin reconfiguration, while published-date filtering constrains results to specific inclusive date ranges. Admins gain gateway-level allowlists and an increased domain cap of up to 100 domains per list, and the Web Search Tool is expanding availability to eu-west-1 and ap-northeast-1.

🔔 Amazon EC2 now allows creation of Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) using local snapshots from instances running on AWS Outposts. Customers may store snapshots on the Outpost or in the parent AWS Region, helping meet data residency needs. EC2 auto-selects the target Outpost based on the instance location, eliminating the need to specify an Outpost ARN. This feature integrates with existing backup and lifecycle workflows and is available where Outposts supports local snapshot storage.

🔒 Amazon DynamoDB Streams now supports attribute-based access control (ABAC), allowing tag-based conditions in IAM policies to control stream access. You can attach up to 50 tags per stream and use them to permit or deny actions, enabling environment and team segregation without proliferating IAM policies. Stream tags are independent from table tags, available in all commercial AWS Regions and AWS GovCloud (US), and there is no additional cost to use this feature.

🔒 AWS Security Agent (part of AWS Continuum) now offers two capabilities for its on-demand AI-driven penetration testing service: a configurable maximum task-hours limit and selective revalidation of findings. Teams can set preset or custom hour caps so tests stop gracefully when the limit is reached while preserving discovered findings and keeping billing tied to actual task-hours used. Individual findings from completed runs can be re-tested against the live application to confirm an Active or Resolved status, with full revalidation history linked to the original finding.

🟦 AWS has added a fourth Availability Zone (eu-west-2d) to the Europe (London) Region, expanding capacity for AI, ML, and general-purpose compute. The new zone provides next-generation accelerated instances such as Trn3 and P6, enabling local model training and inference. Customers can distribute workloads across four zones for improved fault tolerance, accessible via the Console, APIs, and existing workflows at standard regional pricing.

🚀 AWS Lambda MicroVMs are now available in five additional Regions: Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Europe (Frankfurt), and Europe (Stockholm), bringing availability to 10 Regions in total. Lambda MicroVMs deliver VM-level isolation, near-instant launch and resume speeds, and state preservation so developers can run isolated, stateful workloads without managing virtualization. Developers create a MicroVM image from a Dockerfile and launch per-user or per-job MicroVMs with dedicated HTTPS URLs supporting HTTP/2, gRPC, and WebSockets via the Lambda console, CloudFormation, CDK, or Agent Toolkit for AWS.

🔒 AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) has increased the default quota for managed policies attached to a role from 10 to 20. This change reduces the need to request Service Quotas when adopting best practices such as separating permissions into purpose-specific policies or when onboarding AWS Partner products that attach additional managed policies. If more than 20 managed policies are needed, customers can request a quota increase up to 25 via Service Quotas. The update is applied automatically across all commercial AWS Regions, AWS GovCloud (US), and China Regions with no customer action required.

📊 Administrators can now monitor Amazon WorkSpaces Applications directly in the service console with real-time session-level metrics, instance resource data, and network performance metrics. This native experience removes the need for third-party tools or custom CloudWatch dashboards and requires no configuration. Fleet-level capacity views, customizable session tables, correlated graphs for frame rate, input latency, bandwidth, and CPU/memory/GPU usage are provided, with metrics also exported to Amazon CloudWatch for flexibility.

🆕 Amazon RDS now supports PostgreSQL 19 Beta 3 in the Database Preview Environment, enabling evaluation of the pre-release on RDS. The Beta 3 release introduces features for query performance and autovacuum management, including pg_stat_autovacuum_scores, parallel autovacuum workers, pg_plan_advice, and eager aggregation, plus bug fixes and stability improvements. Preview instances are retained up to 60 days and snapshots remain limited to the Preview Environment.

🖱️ Microsoft is rolling out Windows 11 preview builds to Insiders that test a faster File Explorer and a streamlined, customizable context menu. The update reduces top-level clutter, improves performance and reliability, and adds a "Customize menu" shortcut to Settings for tailoring right-click options. The team says refinements also address customer feedback such as uninterrupted file renames and immediate case-only filename updates.

🔧 AWS now supports nested virtualization for Amazon WorkSpaces Personal and Core Managed Bundles, enabling developers to run hypervisor-dependent tools directly on Windows and Linux WorkSpaces. Supported OSes include Windows Server 2019/2022/2025, Windows 11, Ubuntu 22.04/24.04, RHEL 8/9, and Rocky 8/9 with DCV. Administrators can toggle nested virtualization per workspace via console, API, or CLI; it’s available in most AWS Regions with some exceptions.

🤖 Amazon Bedrock now supports OpenAI GPT‑5.6 models (Sol, Terra, Luna) on the bedrock-runtime endpoint and adds cross‑Region inference. The feature includes Global and Geo routing (now with US Geo support) to increase throughput and reduce inference costs. OpenAI Responses, Converse, and Chat Completions APIs are supported and integrate with Bedrock logging, CloudWatch metrics, and AWS cost reporting.

🚀 Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) has increased the maximum number of replication rules per registry from 10 to 25. This change addresses limitations for complex multi-region and multi-account architectures, allowing more granular replication strategies for scenarios such as distributing images for low-latency pulls and separating production and staging targets. The increase is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon ECR is supported.

🔁 Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now allows terminating up to 100 instances with a single TerminateInstanceInAutoScalingGroup API call, reducing API request volume when scaling down. Batch termination is intended for rapid scale-down scenarios like AI/ML training, container orchestrators, or event-driven fleets and validates all instances atomically before proceeding. Existing Auto Scaling behaviors such as lifecycle hooks and load balancer connection draining remain enforced for each instance. The capability is available in all AWS Regions at no additional cost.

🔧 Amazon MSK Provisioned clusters now support configuring custom domain names at the cluster level for both ZooKeeper and KRaft metadata modes. This removes the need to set domains per broker and ensures persistent endpoints across scaling, migrations, and failovers. The setting persists through cluster operations and is available for new and existing clusters in all Regions where MSK Provisioned is offered, at no extra cost.

🚀 Amazon EC2 R8i and R8i‑flex instances are now available in the Canada West (Calgary) region. These instances use custom Intel Xeon 6 processors exclusive to AWS, offering up to 15% better price-performance and 2.5x memory bandwidth versus prior Intel-based instances. R8i provides large sizes including 96xlarge and SAP certification; R8i‑flex offers common memory‑optimized sizes from large to 16xlarge. Purchase options include Savings Plans, On‑Demand, and Spot.

🔍 The Amazon Connect Customer dashboards now include reporting on routing steps and agent proficiencies, enabling supervisors to monitor and optimize contact-to-agent matching. Managers can filter agents by assigned proficiencies, group metrics by routing steps, and track metrics such as the number of contacts queued in a routing step. These analytics are available in all AWS commercial and AWS GovCloud (US-West) regions where Amazon Connect Customer is offered.

🔍 AWS Network Firewall now reports rule hit counts for stateful rules, giving administrators visibility into how often each stateful rule in a firewall policy matches traffic. This capability helps accelerate incident response, uncover shadow or redundant rules, and validate policy changes by confirming new rules match intended traffic. Hit counts are enabled by default for custom and managed rule groups, refresh at intervals as low as five minutes, and are available at no additional charge in supported Regions except UAE and Bahrain.

🚀 Amazon Quick announces general availability of Microsoft 365 extensions for Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Outlook, enabling AI-driven tasks directly within users' M365 environments. The Excel extension assists with advanced analysis, pivot tables, charts, and data cleaning. PowerPoint and Word extensions generate and format presentation decks and documents using organization templates and track changes. The Outlook extension helps prioritize emails, organize inboxes, schedule meetings, and draft replies using Quick data and full inbox context.