All news with #product update tag

🔍 AWS Elemental MediaConvert introduces the free Probe API, a fast metadata analysis tool that reads file headers to return codec, pixel format, color space, and container information without processing full video content. The Probe API is optimized for efficiency and designed to speed validation and decision-making in media workflows. It supports automation scenarios, including integration with Step Functions, so encoding decisions can be made based on source file characteristics. The feature is available in any region where MediaConvert operates.

🔍 Amazon S3 server access logs now include the AWS source region for each request, indicating the Region where a request originated. This information appears automatically at the end of every log entry (for example, a request to a us-east-1 bucket from us-west-2 will show "us-west-2") and requires no configuration or additional cost. The update helps teams identify cross-region traffic to optimize performance and cost and will roll out to all Regions in the coming weeks.

🔍 AWS has enhanced Trusted Advisor's unused NAT Gateway detection by leveraging AWS Compute Optimizer data and additional CloudWatch metrics over a 32-day lookback. The check now verifies route table associations to avoid flagging critical backup gateways, reducing false positives. Each recommendation includes estimated monthly cost savings and is accessible in the Trusted Advisor console or via APIs. Organizations must opt in to Cost Optimization Hub and Compute Optimizer to use the enhanced recommendations.

📺 AWS has made Elemental Media Services available in the Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region, enabling local ingestion, transport, transcoding, packaging, and delivery. The expansion includes MediaConnect, MediaLive, MediaPackage, MediaConvert, and MediaTailor. Broadcasters and streaming platforms can now process live and VOD workflows closer to Malaysian audiences to reduce latency and improve video quality while supporting server-side ad insertion and multi-device delivery.

💰 Amazon Web Services now offers 3-year Serverless Reservations for Amazon Redshift Serverless, a discounted commitment option that can save up to 45% and improve cost predictability. Reservations commit a specified number of Redshift Processing Units (RPUs) for a three-year term with a no-upfront payment option, are billed hourly and metered per second, and can be shared across accounts at the payer level. Any usage beyond the committed RPU level is charged at standard on-demand rates.

🔎 AWS added source document references to Automated Reasoning policies in Amazon Bedrock, enabling users to trace generated formal rules and variables back to the original documents used to create policies. This improves transparency and makes it easier to review, validate, and refine policy encodings derived from uploaded materials. Test generation for Automated Reasoning checks is now available in multiple US and Europe Regions and can be accessed via the Bedrock console and the Bedrock Python SDK. AWS says the checks use formal verification and can reach up to 99% accuracy in identifying correct LLM responses, helping detect hallucinations and ambiguity.

🔐 Cloudflare One is the first SASE platform to deliver standards-compliant post-quantum encryption across Secure Web Gateway, Zero Trust, and WAN services. It implements hybrid ML-KEM across TLS, MASQUE and IPsec on- and off-ramps and upgraded the Cloudflare One Appliance (v2026.2.0 GA). Cloudflare IPsec support for hybrid ML-KEM is in closed beta—contact pq-wan@cloudflare.com for access.

🔔 AWS IAM Identity Center is now available in the Asia Pacific (New Zealand) AWS Region, expanding the service to 38 AWS Regions globally. The service is the recommended approach for managing workforce access, offering centralized single sign-on and account management by connecting your existing identity source once. IAM Identity Center powers personalized experiences in services such as Amazon Q and enables user-aware access controls and auditing in services like Amazon Redshift. It is offered at no additional cost in supported regions.

🔐 Amazon Web Services announced new Aurora DSQL Connectors for Go (pgx), Python (asyncpg), and Node.js (WebSocket for Postgres.js). The connectors serve as transparent authentication layers that automatically generate IAM tokens per connection, removing the need for manual token handling while preserving full compatibility with standard PostgreSQL driver features. The Node.js connector adds WebSocket support for environments where TCP is unavailable. All connectors accept custom IAM credential providers to match customer credential workflows.

🔒 In 2025 Google reports expanded AI-driven, multi-layered defenses across Google Play and Android, preventing 1.75 million policy-violating apps and banning over 80,000 developer accounts. The company integrated generative AI into review workflows, boosted Play Protect scanning to 350 billion app checks daily, and blocked 266 million risky sideload installation attempts. Developer tools, verification, and pre-review checks aim to reduce friction while raising security and privacy standards.

📢 Amazon MQ now supports ActiveMQ 5.19, bringing a set of fixes and improvements over prior ActiveMQ releases. Amazon MQ will automatically manage patch-level upgrades for your brokers and apply compatible security patches during your scheduled maintenance window. If you are using older versions such as 5.18, AWS recommends upgrading via the AWS Management Console. This version is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon MQ is offered.

🛡️ Google says it blocked more than 1.75 million apps from being published on Google Play in 2025 and denied over 255,000 apps access to sensitive user data. The company also banned over 80,000 developer accounts and strengthened detection by integrating generative AI into its review process to identify evolving malicious patterns. Play Protect scanned an estimated 350 billion app instances daily and flagged over 27 million malicious sideloaded apps, while the Play Integrity API processed more than 20 billion checks per day.

🔒 In 2025 Google deployed advanced AI-powered defenses across Google Play to stop apps that cause real-world harm, preventing over 1.75 million policy-violating apps from being published and banning more than 80,000 malicious developer accounts. We expanded Google Play Protect to scan over 350 billion Android apps daily and rolled out real-time protections including in-call scam defenses. Together these measures strengthened the Play store and the broader Android ecosystem by prioritizing automated detection, rapid enforcement, and on-device user safety.

🔒 Google Cloud argues Europe does not need to choose between digital sovereignty and economic growth. The company promotes a partnership-led model that combines advanced AI capabilities (including Gemma and Gemini-class technology) with flexible infrastructure and multicloud choice. Emphasis is placed on interoperability, local control, and security certifications such as SecNumCloud, along with options like Google Cloud Air-Gapped and Dedicated deployments. The aim is to enable growth while preserving control and resilience.

📱 Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) in the Asia Pacific (New Zealand) and Asia Pacific (Taipei) Regions can now send SMS to subscribers across more than 200 countries and territories. Customers in these Regions can send messages via AWS End User Messaging, bringing SMS support to 32 AWS Regions. Amazon SNS is a fully managed pub/sub service that delivers to endpoints such as AWS Lambda, Amazon SQS, and Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose, and SMS adds an additional mobile delivery channel. This expansion helps developers extend global notification workflows and manage messaging at scale.

🚀 Amazon Web Services has expanded availability of M8i-flex instances to Asia Pacific (Malaysia, Seoul, Singapore, Tokyo), Europe (Frankfurt) and Canada (Central). These instances use AWS-exclusive custom Intel Xeon 6 processors and deliver up to 15% better price-performance and 2.5x the memory bandwidth versus previous Intel-based generations. AWS reports up to 20% higher overall performance compared with M7i-flex, with workload-specific gains—up to 60% for NGINX, 30% for PostgreSQL, and up to 40% for AI recommendation models. To launch instances, sign in to the AWS Management Console.

🔔 Amazon Connect Cases now integrates with AWS Service Quotas, enabling administrators to view applied limits, monitor utilization, and request quota increases directly from the Service Quotas console. Eligible quota requests can be automatically approved, reducing manual approval bottlenecks. Available in multiple AWS Regions, this update helps teams scale case workloads and avoid unexpected service constraints.

⚙️ Provisioned Throughput on Vertex AI standardizes reserved capacity across first-party, third-party, and open-source models, adding multimodal and operational enhancements to support production-scale AI agents. The update introduces Anthropic integration (private preview), PT for popular open models such as Llama 4, Qwen3, and GLM-4.7, and native support for high-bandwidth modalities including Gemini 3, Nano Banana, and Gemini Live API. Operational improvements — one-week PT terms, scheduled change orders, and explicit caching for long contexts — enable predictable latency, flexible commitments, and lower input costs for peak events and high-concurrency workloads.

🔷 Google Spanner has been ranked #1 by Gartner in the Critical Capabilities report for the Lightweight Transactions use case for the second consecutive year and #2 for OLTP. The post highlights Spanner’s distributed transaction support (5.0/5.0), high transactional consistency (4.9/5.0), and AI/ML integration (4.6/5.0). It also summarizes 2025 product advances—Spanner Graph GA, integrated hybrid search, a columnar engine, and Cassandra-compatible APIs—and cites customer deployments at Palo Alto Networks, Mercado Libre, and Unico.

📅 Amazon Connect now surfaces agent time-off requests directly in draft schedules, so schedulers can see why an agent wasn't assigned on specific days or shifts. This makes it easier to identify coverage gaps before publishing schedules to agents. The addition reduces the need to inspect published schedules or troubleshoot configuration to explain absences. The feature is available in all Regions where agent scheduling is supported.