All news with #product update tag

📝 Amazon Connect Cases now supports larger, expandable multi-line text fields on case templates, enabling agents to capture detailed free-form notes and structured data directly within cases. The fields expand vertically to accommodate multiple paragraphs, simplifying documentation of root cause analysis, transaction details, investigation findings, and customer-facing updates. This enhancement is available in multiple AWS regions.

🌐 Amazon MSK now supports dual-stack IPv4 and IPv6 connectivity for existing MSK Provisioned and MSK Serverless clusters. Customers can enable dual-stack via the Amazon MSK Console, AWS CLI, SDKs, or CloudFormation by changing the cluster Network Type; MSK provisions IPv6-enabled interfaces while preserving IPv4 to avoid service disruption. For Provisioned clusters, use the GetBootstrapBrokers API to retrieve new IPv6 bootstrap broker strings. Dual-stack is available in all Regions where MSK is offered and incurs no additional cost.

🔐 Apple has released an iOS and iPadOS 26.4 developer beta that introduces end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for RCS conversations between compatible Apple devices, with a wider rollout planned for iOS, iPadOS, macOS and watchOS in a future update. The feature is currently in beta and limited to Apple devices and supported carriers. The update also expands Memory Integrity Enforcement (MIE), allowing applications to opt in to full protections beyond Soft Mode. Additionally, iOS 26.4 is expected to enable Stolen Device Protection by default and the SDK is available via Xcode 26.4.

🔒 Apple has introduced end-to-end encryption for RCS messaging in the iOS and iPadOS 26.4 developer beta, enabling encrypted conversations between Apple devices during testing. The feature remains in beta and is not available for all devices or carriers, and it currently does not extend to non-Apple platforms such as Android. The release also introduces an opt-in for full Memory Integrity Enforcement and signals forthcoming Stolen Device Protection defaults.

📈 AWS HealthImaging now provides additional Amazon CloudWatch metrics to monitor storage at both the account and individual data store levels. Customers can track storage volume, the number of image sets, and counts of DICOM studies, series, and instances to understand growth trends. These granular metrics support management of single-tenant and multi-tenant workloads at petabyte scale and are available in select AWS Regions.

🔔 Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) now offers Long-Term Support on DocumentDB 5.0, delivering security and stability patches without feature changes. To adopt LTS, create a new cluster using engine version 5.0.0 or patch an existing 5.0.0 cluster during your maintenance window. Verify your Engine Patch Version with db.runCommand({getEngineVersion: 1}) and ensure it is 3.0.17983 or later. LTS is available in all AWS regions where DocumentDB is offered.

🚀 AWS Glue 5.1 is now available in eighteen additional AWS Regions, bringing the service to thirty-three Regions worldwide. The release upgrades core engines to Apache Spark 3.5.6, Python 3.11, and Scala 2.12.18, and refreshes support for open table formats including Apache Hudi, Apache Iceberg, and Delta Lake. It introduces Iceberg format v3.0 features, deletion vectors, multi-argument transforms, and row lineage tracking, and extends AWS Lake Formation fine-grained access control to write operations as well as full-table access control for Hudi and Delta tables. Customers can begin using the update via APIs, CLI, SDKs, Glue Studio, or SageMaker Unified Studio and should consult the documentation for migration and configuration guidance.

🔒 Amazon Aurora now automatically applies server-side encryption by default to all new database clusters created without custom encryption settings, using AWS-owned keys. This fully managed encryption is transparent to users and incurs no cost or performance impact. Existing clusters are unaffected; you can still select customer-managed or AWS-managed KMS keys during creation. Available in all AWS Regions including GovCloud.

🖥️ Amazon Web Services now allows customers to run nested virtual machines inside virtual Amazon EC2 instances, enabling KVM and Hyper‑V stacks on non‑bare‑metal hosts. This expands prior capability that was limited to bare metal instances and supports use cases such as mobile emulators, in‑vehicle hardware simulation, and Windows Subsystem for Linux on Windows workstations. The feature is available on C8i, M8i, and R8i in all commercial regions; see the EC2 nested virtualization documentation for enabling hardware virtualization extensions.

🔔 Amazon Web Services expanded availability of its EC2 High Memory U7i instances to additional regions, adding U7i-6tb.112xlarge in South America (São Paulo) and Europe (Milan), U7i-12tb.224xlarge in AWS GovCloud (US‑East), and U7in-16tb.224xlarge in Europe (London). These 7th-generation instances are powered by custom 4th-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Sapphire Rapids) and offer DDR5 memory up to 16 TiB with ENA Express support. Network and EBS performance scales to support up to 100 Gbps for most sizes and up to 200 Gbps on the 16 TiB variant, targeting mission-critical in-memory databases like SAP HANA, Oracle, and SQL Server.

🔧 Microsoft has deployed a service-side fix for a Family Safety bug that prevented Google Chrome and some other browsers from launching or caused them to crash on Windows 10/11 devices. The problem, first reported in late June 2025, was traced to the service's web-filtering and block-list behavior that misidentified updated browser versions. The rollout began in early February 2026 and should reach affected devices in the coming weeks; users should connect to the Internet to receive the update. Those who cannot go online can enable Activity reporting in Family Safety to receive approval requests and allowlist newer browser versions.

🔢 Amazon Aurora DSQL now supports identity columns and sequence objects, enabling auto-incrementing, integer-based IDs to be generated directly in the database. This simplifies migrations from PostgreSQL and reduces the need for application-layer ID generation. The capability is available in all Regions where Aurora DSQL is provided and supports compact, human-readable identifiers such as order numbers and account IDs.

⚙️ AWS now supports the latest x86 Amazon EC2 instance families — C8i, M8i, and R8i — on second-generation AWS Outposts racks. These instances use custom Intel Xeon 6 processors exclusive to AWS and offer about 20% better performance, 2.5× more memory bandwidth, and 20% more compute capacity versus the prior C7i, M7i, and R7i models within the same rack footprint. They are aimed at on-premises workloads such as larger databases, memory-intensive applications, real-time analytics, high-performance video encoding, and CPU-based edge ML inference.

🔐 Amazon announced that Amazon S3 Access Grants are now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region. Access Grants map corporate identities in directories such as Microsoft Entra ID or AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) to S3 datasets, enabling scalable, identity-based data access. The feature automates S3 permission assignment for end users and simplifies data governance for enterprises operating in Taipei. Refer to the AWS Region Table and product documentation for regional availability and deployment guidance.

🔐 AWS has added Amazon DynamoDB to the set of services supported by Resource Control Policies (RCPs), enabling organizations to centrally constrain the maximum permissions available to resources. Administrators can now use RCPs to block identities outside their AWS Organization from accessing DynamoDB, helping enforce a data perimeter and baseline security standards. RCPs are available in all AWS commercial Regions and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.

🚀Amazon increased default quotas for Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.5 in Amazon Bedrock running in AWS GovCloud (US-West and US-East), raising throughput to 5,000,000 tokens per minute and 1,000 requests per minute. The 25× increase aligns GovCloud limits with commercial regions and lets regulated customers scale high-volume AI workloads more effectively. Consult the AWS GovCloud console and Bedrock documentation to get started.

🌐 AI troubleshooting in the AWS Support Center is now available in seven additional languages beyond English: Japanese, Korean, Mandarin (Simplified), Mandarin (Traditional), Spanish, Portuguese, and French. The capability provides immediate, contextual recommendations while customers create support cases, helping to diagnose and remediate issues faster. It is integrated into the support experience and available to all customers regardless of support plan; users can enable it via console language settings and the "Try it now" banner.

💡 Google Cloud updated its spend-based Committed Use Discounts (CUDs), moving from a credit-based model to a direct discounted price model that makes net costs and savings visible at a glance. The rollout began in July 2025 and is now generally available, expanding SKU coverage to include Cloud Run and H3/M-series VMs and correcting reporting gaps for mixed Flex CUD environments. The unified CUD Analysis provides hourly granularity (up to 30 days), CSV exports, and a metadata export for programmatic joins with Billing BigQuery Export datasets. Enhanced recommendation and scenario modeling let FinOps teams size commitments, tune coverage thresholds, and validate pre/post migration savings.

📣 Amazon Web Services announced support for partition and sort order definitions in the Amazon S3 Tables CreateTable API, allowing these properties to be set programmatically at table creation. Developers can specify partition transforms and sort order fields directly in CreateTable calls, and the same options are supported in the AWS CLI and AWS SDKs. To use the feature, upgrade to the latest AWS CLI and SDK versions. This support is available in all AWS Regions where S3 Tables are offered.

⚙️ AWS Lake Formation now supports enhanced cross-account sharing, enabling centralized permission management for catalogs, databases, tables, and columns across multi-account analytics environments. The update removes prior per-resource association limits by using a single AWS Resource Access Manager resource share with wildcard patterns; administrators should upgrade to cross-account version 5 to adopt the new behavior. Existing shares and Lake Formation APIs remain compatible.