All news with #product update tag

📝 Amazon Quick now supports integrated document and visual creation directly within chat conversations, enabling users to produce polished Word, PDF, PowerPoint, and Excel files without leaving the interface. The capability also generates images, infographics, charts, and other visuals that can be embedded or exported as standalone files. Visual creation is currently in preview in US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon), while document creation is available across supported Regions. Users can sign up for free without an AWS account or credit card.

🔒 Microsoft announced that Azure Local now supports deployments of up to thousands of servers within a single sovereign environment. The platform extends the Azure operating model to customer-owned datacenters, edge sites and industrial facilities with local policy enforcement, role-based access control, auditing and compliance capabilities even when disconnected. Validated compute and storage partners, plus Intel® Xeon® 6 and GPU support, let organizations run large-scale, latency-sensitive AI and regulated workloads entirely within their sovereign boundary while retaining lifecycle management through Azure.

🛠️ Microsoft is rolling out a revamped Windows Insider Program to simplify channel structure and improve transparency around feature availability. The company is merging Dev and Canary into a new Experimental channel for high-risk or potentially non-shipping work, while maintaining an updated Beta channel where features in release notes will be broadly available without gradual rollouts. Experimental items may be gated behind Feature flags that users can toggle in Settings, and Microsoft is migrating Insiders in phases while shipping several preview builds and an updated Windows Update experience to give users more control over updates and reboots.

🐧 AWS now offers new Amazon WorkSpaces Personal bundles featuring Rocky Linux 9, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9, and Ubuntu 24.04, enabling customers to launch managed WorkSpaces with the latest enterprise-grade Linux distributions. These bundles provide access to modern package ecosystems, improved security postures, and extended long-term support lifecycles, and they offer a migration path ahead of Amazon Linux 2 end of life in June 2026. The new options are available in all AWS Regions where WorkSpaces is offered; select a bundle when creating a Linux WorkSpace and review pricing on the Amazon WorkSpaces pricing page.

🚀 AWS Lambda now offers Provisioned Mode for event source mappings that consume Apache Kafka in the Asia Pacific (Taipei) and both AWS GovCloud (US‑East) and GovCloud (US‑West) Regions. Provisioned Mode lets you provision and auto-scale a configured minimum and maximum number of event pollers so polling capacity is ready to handle sudden traffic spikes and reduce processing delays. It supports Amazon MSK and self‑managed Kafka and can be enabled via the ESM API, Console, CLI, SDKs, or CloudFormation. Usage of event pollers is billed by Event Poller Units (EPUs).

🔒 Amazon announced VPC egress support for AgentCore Gateway targets and AgentCore Identity, available in managed and self‑managed configurations. The capability lets Gateways invoke private resources inside a customer VPC (for example, EKS-hosted MCP servers) and allows Identity to validate tokens from and fetch tokens for private IdPs. The release also adds private DNS resolution for managed egress resources and is available in fourteen AWS Regions.

🔧 Microsoft is rolling out Windows Update improvements to give users more control over update timing and reduce disruptive restarts. Insiders will see options to skip updates during OOBE, select specific pause dates via a calendar for up to 35 days, and separate standard power actions from update-triggering commands. Driver, .NET, and firmware updates will be consolidated with monthly quality updates to minimize reboots, while users can still opt to install specific updates earlier.

🔐 AWS Secrets Manager now prefers hybrid post-quantum TLS (ML‑KEM) for supported clients to reduce harvest-now, decrypt-later risk. Customers using the listed clients and SDK versions can get ML‑KEM key exchange without code changes; secrets at rest remain encrypted with AWS KMS and symmetric algorithms are considered quantum-resistant. Verify client negotiation via CloudTrail tlsDetails.keyExchange == X25519MLKEM768 and check SDK/OpenSSL requirements (for example, OpenSSL 3.5+ for Python). CRYSTALS‑Kyber support is being phased out in 2026, so upgrades are recommended to avoid fallback to traditional TLS.

🔒 Amazon Connect now records agent activity status changes made through analytics dashboards in CloudTrail, capturing the supervisor identity, timestamp, and the specific status transition. This enhancement provides contact centers with clearer audit trails and operational visibility for actions such as switching an agent from "Available" to "Break." The capability is available in all AWS commercial and AWS GovCloud (US-West) regions where Amazon Connect is offered; ensure CloudTrail logging is enabled to see the events automatically.

🔐 Microsoft will roll out Entra passkey support for phishing‑resistant passwordless authentication on Windows devices starting in late April, with general availability expected by mid‑June 2026. The capability enables device‑bound FIDO2 passkeys stored in the Windows Hello container and used via face, fingerprint, or PIN on corporate, personal, and shared devices, including unmanaged Windows machines. Administrators can control rollout and access through Conditional Access and Authentication Methods policies.

📊 Amazon Connect now exposes eight new metrics to evaluate AI agent outcomes, including goal success rate, faithfulness score, and tool selection accuracy. These metrics give contact center teams visibility into whether AI-driven interactions resolve customer requests and where contextual hallucinations occur. Metrics are accessible from the AI Agent Performance dashboard, the GetMetricDataV2 API, or a zero-ETL data lake for custom reporting. This capability is available in all Regions that support Amazon Connect AI Agents.

🏦 AWS Marketplace sellers can now delete bank accounts directly from the Payment Settings page in the AWS Marketplace Management Portal (AMMP). This self-service capability supports removal of ACH- and SWIFT-type accounts without contacting customer service, and shows Last Updated timestamps for each entry. The change helps enterprises and ISVs clean up unused or failed accounts, reduce payment routing risk, and simplify multi-currency banking management.

⚙️ AWS Deadline Cloud now supports configurable pre- and post-submission scripts, enabling studios to run custom pipeline logic as part of every job submission. Pre-submission hooks can validate job configurations, discover and attach additional inputs such as textures or caches, modify submission parameters, or enforce studio policies before uploads; post-submission hooks can send notifications, update tracking systems, or log submission details. Scripts are defined in simple YAML or JSON files placed per-job or in a shared directory via an environment variable, receive job metadata automatically, and support configurable timeouts.

🛠️ Microsoft now allows IT administrators to uninstall the AI-powered Microsoft Copilot app from managed enterprise devices using the new RemoveMicrosoftCopilotApp policy setting, broadly available after the April 2026 Patch Tuesday. The setting is provided as a Policy CSP and Group Policy for endpoints managed via Microsoft Intune or SCCM, and applies only to Windows 11 25H2 devices where both Microsoft 365 Copilot and Microsoft Copilot are installed, the user did not install the Copilot app, and it has not been launched in the last 28 days. If enabled, the app will be uninstalled in a non-disruptive way; users can still re-install it if they choose.

🔗 AWS announced native integration between AWS Client VPN and AWS Transit Gateway, enabling centralized remote access across multiple VPCs and on-premises networks without an intermediate VPC. Client source IPs are preserved end-to-end, allowing authorization rules and forensic tracing to map traffic back to specific users. Transit Gateway flow logs capture connection-level details tied to those preserved client IPs, improving troubleshooting and auditability. The integration is available in all Regions where Client VPN is offered and incurs no additional charges beyond standard service pricing.

🚀 AWS Parallel Computing Service (AWS PCS) now supports Slurm 25.11, including an expedited re-queue feature that can automatically reschedule jobs affected by node issues at highest priority. You can enable a Prometheus-compatible OpenMetrics endpoint for real-time visibility into jobs, nodes, and scheduling using existing monitoring tools. AWS PCS can forward slurmdbd and slurmrestd logs to Amazon CloudWatch Logs, Amazon S3, or Amazon Data Firehose. Scheduler audit logs are now delivered as a dedicated log type to provide independent control over ingestion, retention, and storage costs.

🔧 Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now automatically selects and continuously maintains the optimal network topology for Slurm GPU clusters based on the instance types in the cluster. By choosing tree or block topology models that match instance interconnect characteristics, HyperPod reduces GPU-to-GPU latency, improves NCCL collective efficiency, and raises distributed training throughput. The topology adapts automatically during scale-up, scale-down, and node replacement events, so administrators no longer need to manually edit topology files or reconfigure Slurm. Topology-aware scheduling is enabled by default across supported AWS Regions.

⚙️ AWS Compute Optimizer now supports the newest EC2 and RDS instance types, expanding recommendations to include Compute, General Purpose, Memory-optimized, Memory-intensive, and Storage-optimized families. The update covers EC2 families such as C8*, M8*, R8*, x8i, and i7i, and RDS classes including M7i, M8g, R8g, X1, and Z1d across MySQL, PostgreSQL, Amazon Aurora MySQL, and Aurora PostgreSQL. This capability is available in all standard AWS Regions where Compute Optimizer operates, excluding AWS GovCloud (US) and the two China regions.

🚀 Second-generation AWS Outposts racks are now supported in the AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul, Sydney) and Europe (Paris) Regions. Outposts racks bring AWS infrastructure, services, APIs, and tools into on‑premises data centers or colocation spaces to provide a consistent hybrid experience. Customers can order racks attached to these Regions to optimize latency, meet data residency requirements, run low-latency workloads locally, and manage applications from their home Region.

🔍 AWS has extended Elastic Beanstalk's AI-powered environment analysis to Windows Server platforms, enabling developers and operators to diagnose and resolve Windows-based environment issues more quickly. The feature collects recent events, instance health metrics, and logs from Windows instances and sends that telemetry to Amazon Bedrock for analysis. You can request an AI analysis from the Elastic Beanstalk console using the AI Analysis button or programmatically via the AWS CLI with the RequestEnvironmentInfo and RetrieveEnvironmentInfo operations. Results include step-by-step troubleshooting recommendations tailored to the environment's current state and are available in Regions where both services are offered.