All news with #product update tag

🛠️ Microsoft is testing the new Cloud Rebuild recovery option in Windows 11 Insider Experimental Preview Build 26300.8772, enabling a full OS reinstall from the cloud when devices become inoperable. The feature downloads the target Windows image and device drivers from Windows Update, restoring functionality without USB media or a custom image. Insiders can initiate the process from WinRE under Troubleshoot > Recovery and must confirm a data-loss warning before the rebuild proceeds.

🔧 Amazon SageMaker Studio now offers direct, one‑click integration with Hugging Face so users can open a fully configured Studio environment with a selected model preloaded. Previously, users had to navigate console menus, configure IAM and serverless settings, and request GPU quotas; the new flow automates environment creation and permission configuration. New customers receive a Studio environment on sign‑up; verified customers gain default GPU access and visible quota information within Studio.

🆕 Amazon Elastic VMware Service (EVS) now supports VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0 and 9.1, enabling customers to run VCF directly within their Amazon VPC on EC2 bare-metal instances. You retain full control over installation, operations, and management of the VMware virtualization stack and can continue using existing tools, processes, and skills. AWS also launched the Solutions for EVS GitHub repository with examples, templates, and infrastructure-as-code artifacts to accelerate deployments. The release is available in all regions where Amazon EVS is offered.

🔔 AWS announced Service Events for Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals, which automatically captures exception and latency event snapshots, function-level performance data, and deployment events from instrumented services without additional code changes. Customers can view whether a deployment introduced new exceptions via CloudWatch > Application Signals > [Service] > Errors in the console. Service Events works with ADOT SDKs or the CloudWatch Observability EKS add-on and supports Java, Python, and JavaScript. Data is stored as logs and function-call metrics as OpenTelemetry metrics; standard CloudWatch pricing applies.

🔐 AWS Secrets Manager now supports managed external secrets for Paddle API Keys and GitLab Access Tokens. This feature enables automatic rotation of third-party credentials directly from AWS Secrets Manager, using Paddle's native rotation API and GitLab's atomic rotation mechanism. Customers can rotate Paddle API keys with a configurable grace period and rotate GitLab Personal, Group, and Project Access Tokens. These integrations join existing partners and are available in all Regions where managed external secrets is supported.

🔧 Flipper Devices will continue maintaining the official Flipper Zero firmware with a smaller internal team while shifting feature development toward community contributors. The firm is prioritizing new hardware like the Flipper One and Busy Bar, and will handle incoming requests via GitHub Discussions with weekly evaluations and community voting. Community pull requests will be accepted under stricter review and mandatory integration and regression testing. The team will retain oversight, with particular scrutiny of AI-generated low-level code and UI or documentation changes.

🔧 AWS CodeBuild now supports Amazon Linux 2023 for on-demand build hosts via a new host kernel selection setting. This managed CI service lets you choose between Amazon Linux 2 (kernel 4) and Amazon Linux 2023 (kernel 6) for new or non-production projects to validate builds while keeping production unchanged. Host kernel selection is broadly available across Regions except GovCloud (US) and China, which only offer Amazon Linux 2023.

📰 Anthropic says access to Claude Fable 5 is being moved off standard subscriptions after July 7 and shifted to usage-based billing due to unpredictable high demand. The model remains available globally via the Claude API and consumption-based Enterprise plans, while subscription access is being rolled out conservatively. Anthropic expects to restore Fable 5 to subscriptions once sufficient capacity is available, clarifying the change is not intended to be permanent.

🤖 Anthropic's Claude Fable has been restored for all users, including Max subscribers, but comes with strict usage caps and degraded behavior. Users report frequent fallbacks to Opus 4.8 and tighter guardrails that block or reduce performance on security‑adjacent and systems‑level prompts. The model will shift to a pay‑to‑play usage credits system after July 7, further limiting access.

🛠️ Microsoft has resolved an issue that caused the Copilot Chat and Copilot buttons to vanish in Classic Outlook for Windows users with the Copilot Chat (Basic) license. Affected users might have seen the button missing from the top-right ribbon, the left app bar, or More Apps, and some Copilot commands appeared unavailable or unresponsive. The Outlook Team implemented a service change on June 29, 2026, and recommends restarting Outlook or updating to the latest build; workarounds include reverting to the prior Current Channel build or using new Outlook/OWA. The company is also investigating Outlook crashes tied to Kaspersky's Mail Checker module and advises contacting Kaspersky support if impacted.

🚀 Amazon Bedrock AgentCore has increased default runtime quota limits to enable larger-scale agent workloads. The update raises active concurrent sessions to 5,000 in US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon), and 2,500 in other supported Regions. All Regions now support 200 agent interactions per second and 25 new sessions per second, improving out-of-the-box throughput for agent deployments. Customers should review the AgentCore Quotas documentation and Developer Guide for details.

📣 Partners can now associate existing AWS Marketplace listings directly to co-sell opportunities in AWS Partner Central. This removes the need to maintain separate co-sell-specific solutions, allowing up to 10 Marketplace Solutions and 10 Marketplace Products per opportunity, including listings from subsidiary-linked accounts. The capability is available in the AWS Console and via the AWS Partner Central Selling API, and an associated listing is required to progress an opportunity to Committed or Launched.

🚀 Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) Express Mode now supports custom task definitions, enabling teams to reuse existing ECS configurations and CI/CD workflows while benefiting from Express Mode’s simplified deployment. This update brings advanced task-level options—like observability and security sidecars, custom health checks, ulimits, Linux runtime settings, and FireLens log routing—into Express Mode services. Available in all AWS Regions, you can add a custom task definition via the AWS Console, CLI, SDKs, or infrastructure-as-code tools to manage deployments either through task definition updates or Express Mode.

🔧 Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) now supports Kubernetes minor version rollback, letting you revert to the prior minor version within 7 days if an upgrade causes issues. You can start a rollback via the Amazon EKS console, AWS CLI, or AWS SDKs, and EKS evaluates cluster rollback readiness with automated checks for API compatibility, version skew, add-on compatibility, and cluster health. For clusters using EKS Auto Mode, worker nodes are automatically managed during rollback to respect configured disruption controls, and the feature is available at no additional cost in all AWS Regions where EKS is offered.

🔍 Cloudflare outlines initiatives to make AI-driven search more efficient and to compensate creators fairly. The company will launch a research program using network signals to surface fresher, higher-quality content and reduce unnecessary crawling. It is also evolving Pay Per Crawl toward Pay Per Use, experimenting with partners like Ceramic.ai and You.com to enable pay-per-query and other payment models.

🛠️ Microsoft has restored GIF functionality in the Windows Emoji Panel after Tenor retired its API on June 30, causing GIF options to show as 'GIF service is not available' for some users. The company switched the provider to GIPHY in the preview KB5095093 cumulative update for Windows 11 24H2/25H2/26H1 released on June 23. Users can install the optional update via Settings > Windows Update or the Microsoft Update Catalog. Microsoft is still working on fixes for Windows 11 23H2 and Windows Server 2025.

🔒 Amazon RDS for Db2 now lets customers join DB instances directly to self-managed Microsoft Active Directory domains, whether on-premises, in AWS, or in another cloud. Using Kerberos for authentication, this enables single sign-on and allows customers to authenticate and authorize database users without deploying AWS Managed Microsoft AD or creating a domain trust. Domain join is available when creating or modifying instances using a delegated AD service account stored in AWS Secrets Manager and encrypted with AWS KMS, and the feature is generally available in all Regions where RDS for Db2 is offered, including GovCloud.

📰 Anthropic confirmed the US Department of Commerce lifted export controls on its top models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, and said it will begin restoring access to Fable 5 on Wednesday. The company noted Mythos 5 will remain available only to select partners, while broader rollout details — including availability outside the United States — remain unclear. Recent site references to KYC have raised concerns that access may initially be limited to US users.

🔧 AWS Parallel Computing Service (PCS) now supports managed in-place Slurm major version upgrades for existing clusters, allowing moves up to three versions ahead without disrupting running jobs. Administrators update the cluster configuration via the Console, CLI, or UpdateCluster API and PCS upgrades the controller, accounting database, and REST API while preserving accounting data. Running jobs continue uninterrupted, queued jobs resume after completion, and compute nodes can be updated separately at administrators’ convenience. The feature is available in all Regions where PCS is offered and documentation is in the PCS User Guide.

⚙️ Amazon ElastiCache now supports T4g node types in Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Asia Pacific (Osaka), AWS GovCloud (US-East), and AWS GovCloud (US-West). T4g nodes use AWS Graviton2 processors and deliver a baseline CPU performance with burst capability, suited for workloads with intermittent spikes. Users can create or modify clusters via the AWS Management Console, CLI, or API and should consult the ElastiCache pricing and user guide for details.