All news with #product update tag

🔧 Amazon announced a preview of optimization features for Bedrock AgentCore, adding automated recommendations plus batch evaluations and controlled A/B tests. These capabilities complete the observe–evaluate–improve loop by converting evaluation outputs and production traces into suggested system prompts and refined tool descriptions tailored to specific workloads. Batch evaluations validate recommendations against predefined test cases, while A/B tests measure impact on held-out or live traffic with statistical significance before changes are promoted and only after user approval.

🔧 AWS announced Neuron Agentic Development, an open-source set of agents and skills that bring agentic coding capabilities to development on AWS Trainium and AWS Inferentia. The initial release focuses on Neuron Kernel Interface (NKI) kernel development, enabling an agentic IDE to author, debug, profile, and analyze custom kernels. Developers can request kernels from natural-language descriptions, get automated fixes for compilation errors, and receive performance reports identifying bottleneck lines of code.

🚀 AWS Lambda now supports creating serverless applications with Ruby 4.0. Developers can use Ruby 4.0 as both a managed runtime and a container base image, and AWS will automatically apply updates to the managed runtime and base image as they become available. The runtime adds advanced logging controls including JSON structured logs, configurable logging levels, and the ability to target specific Amazon CloudWatch log groups. Ruby 4.0 is available in all AWS Regions, including China and AWS GovCloud (US).

🧩 Amazon Quick has introduced preview Microsoft 365 extensions for Excel, PowerPoint, and Word that let the service perform tasks directly inside users’ Microsoft 365 environments. The Excel extension supports complex spreadsheet analysis including pivot tables, charts, and data import/cleaning. PowerPoint enables template-driven deck creation and refinement from Quick data, while Word gains formatted document generation, sweeping edits with track changes, and reviewer participation in comments. The extensions are available in multiple AWS regions for early access.

🔒 Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports index-level encryption using AWS Key Management Service (KMS) customer managed keys. This allows you to assign different customer managed keys to individual indexes on the same domain, enabling more granular, tenant-specific encryption policies and isolating encrypted data across indexes. The capability builds on existing domain-level encryption and is available at no additional cost for domains running OpenSearch 3.3 or later in select AWS Regions.

🚀 Amazon RDS for MySQL now supports the community MySQL 9.6 Innovation Release in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment. You can deploy MySQL 9.6 as fully managed Single‑AZ or Multi‑AZ instances on the latest-generation instance classes to evaluate new features, bug fixes, and security patches. Preview instances are retained for a maximum of 60 days and snapshots created there can only be used within the Preview Environment. Pricing for preview instances aligns with production RDS in the US East (Ohio) Region.

🚀 Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is now available in the Canada West (Calgary) region. This fully managed, native JSON database delivers automatic storage scaling up to 128TiB, support for up to 15 low‑latency read replicas, and native integrations with AWS services such as AWS DMS, Amazon CloudWatch, AWS CloudTrail, AWS Lambda, and AWS Backup. You can create clusters via the AWS Management Console, CLI, or SDK to support mission‑critical document workloads at scale.

🚀 Amazon CloudFront now supports invalidation by cache tag, letting teams remove groups of related cached objects at edge locations with a single request. Developers add a configurable response header with comma-separated tag values and can assign multiple tags per object for precise control. This reduces reliance on URL lists or broad wildcards and helps preserve cache hit ratios while ensuring fresh content quickly.

🤖 AWS has added Google DeepMind's instruction‑tuned Gemma 4 E4B, Gemma 4 26B‑A4B, and Gemma 4 31B to SageMaker JumpStart, making multimodal foundation models directly accessible to AWS customers. The models offer configurable step‑by‑step reasoning, interleaved text and image inputs, video and image understanding, native function calling, and multilingual support across 140+ languages. Gemma 4 E4B also supports audio input for ASR and speech‑to‑translated‑text workflows. Customers can deploy these models via SageMaker Studio or the SageMaker Python SDK for rapid experimentation and production.

🆕 Amazon SageMaker JumpStart now includes paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2, Microsoft Table Transformer Detection, and Bielik-11B-v3.0-Instruct. The MiniLM model maps sentences to 384-dimensional dense vectors across 50+ languages for cross-lingual semantic search, multilingual clustering, and sentence similarity scoring. The Microsoft Table Transformer is a DETR-based detector trained on PubTables-1M to locate tables in PDFs and scanned images for document digitization. Bielik-11B offers an 11B-parameter multilingual generative model focused on Polish and 32 European languages for dialogue, STEM reasoning, and enterprise NLP.

🔧 Amazon CloudWatch now provides a visual configuration editor for the CloudWatch agent directly in the Amazon EC2 console, eliminating the need to hand-edit JSON. You can graphically build agent configurations, select metrics, log sources, and deployment targets, then deploy with a single click. From the EC2 console you can install the agent on one or more instances, create tag-based policies for automated fleet-wide management, and view agent status and health from each instance detail page. The feature is available in all AWS Commercial Regions at no additional cost; standard CloudWatch pricing applies for collected telemetry.

🤖 UKG built People Fabric to unify its legacy HCM and WFM systems into a single, real-time data and intelligence platform powered by AlloyDB for PostgreSQL and Google's Agentic Data Cloud. The platform establishes a canonical data model, ingests change streams via a custom CDC pipeline and Dataflow, and serves operational queries from AlloyDB while routing analytics workloads to BigQuery and tenancy metadata to Cloud SQL. The outcome is millisecond read-after-write behavior, native vector support for AI agents, and faster developer velocity across 126 application teams and thousands of database instances.

🚀 Amazon Bedrock now includes OpenAI GPT OSS (120B and 20B) and NVIDIA Nemotron models (Nano 9B v2, Nano 12B v2, Nano 30B, Super 120B), enabling developers to access open-weight foundation models through a single API. The integration is powered by Mantle, a distributed inference engine that provides serverless, high-performance inference, unified capacity pools, automated quota management, and OpenAI API compatibility. These models are available on AWS GovCloud (US) for compliant, enterprise-grade deployments.

📊 Amazon QuickSight now supports custom sort for filter controls, letting authors control how dropdown and list values are ordered instead of relying on alphabetical sorting. Custom sort applies to dropdown and list controls in single- and multi-select modes and supports ascending, descending, or fully custom orders for manually entered values. For dataset-backed controls authors can sort by the bound column or by another field using aggregations like Sum, Average, Count, Min, and Max, enabling business-driven ordering such as priority levels or revenue-ranked categories.

🐍 Amazon EMR 7.13 is now generally available and ships with Python 3.11 as the default runtime for Apache Spark. The release also includes patch upgrades for Apache HBase (2.6.3), Apache Hadoop (3.4.2), Apache Phoenix (5.3.0) and the AWS SDK (v2.41.11). EMR 7.13 is available in all AWS regions; administrators should validate application compatibility and dependency packaging before rolling out clusters.

🔐 Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports configuring a JSON Web Key Set (JWKS) URL for JWT authentication. With a JWKS URL configured, OpenSearch domains automatically fetch and validate public keys from an identity provider’s JWKS endpoint, removing the need to manually manage static keys when providers rotate signing keys. The feature includes built-in security validation checks and clearer error messaging, requires OpenSearch version 3.3 or later, and can be configured via the console, AWS CLI, or the CreateDomain and UpdateDomainConfig APIs.

🚀 Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime now supports Node.js as a managed language runtime for direct code deployment, joining existing Python support. Developers can package Node.js apps or compiled TypeScript projects and their dependencies into a .zip, upload to Amazon S3, and create an agent runtime without building container images. Node.js agents gain session isolation, built-in SigV4 and OAuth 2.0 authentication, bidirectional streaming, managed session storage, and observability via Amazon CloudWatch and the AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry Node.js auto-instrumentation.

🚀 AWS Glue 5.1 is now generally available across commercial and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, bringing updated runtimes, open-table-format support, and enhanced security controls. This release upgrades core engines to Apache Spark 3.5.6, Python 3.11, and Scala 2.12.18, and refreshes support for Apache Hudi 1.0.2, Apache Iceberg 1.10.0, and Delta Lake 3.3.2. It also adds Apache Iceberg format v3.0 features and extends AWS Lake Formation fine-grained access control to include write DML and DDL for Spark DataFrames and Spark SQL, plus full-table access control for Hudi and Delta tables.

🎮 Amazon GameLift Streams now supports Proton 10, an updated Proton compatibility layer for running Windows games on Linux-based stream classes. Proton 10 expands support to newer titles including modern DirectX 12 games and updates graphics translation layers (VKD3D/DXVK) for improved rendering and performance. The release also addresses Media Foundation video playback issues such as black screens and color bars and is available at no additional cost.

🏆 Microsoft has been named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide API Management 2026 Vendor Assessment, reflecting its emphasis on scaling APIs and AI together. Built on a decade-old foundation, Azure API Management governs over 38,000 customers, nearly 3 million APIs, and 3 trillion monthly requests while extending to AI gateway capabilities used by 2,000+ enterprises. The platform provides a single, Azure-native control plane to enforce policy, observability, and cost controls for both APIs and AI workloads.