All news with #product update tag

🚀 Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) now natively supports linear and canary deployment strategies for services using Network Load Balancers (NLB). Teams can shift traffic incrementally or start with a small percentage to validate updates for TCP/UDP, low-latency, long-lived connections, and static-IP workloads. Integrations with Amazon CloudWatch alarms allow automated pause or rollback on detected issues. Configuration is available via the AWS Console, CLI, or IaC for new and existing services across commercial and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.

🔍 Amazon SageMaker now provides Data Lineage for Apache Spark jobs run on Amazon EMR and AWS Glue within IDC-based SageMaker Unified Studio domains. The feature captures schema and column-level transformations from EMR-EC2, EMR-Serverless, EMR-EKS, and Glue, and makes lineage explorable as a visual graph or queryable via APIs. Teams can compare transformation history across Spark jobs to investigate regressions, trace root causes, and assess impact. Spark lineage is available in all existing SageMaker Unified Studio regions.

🔍 AWS is rolling out the Related resources tab for security groups in the Amazon EC2 and VPC consoles, now generally available. The tab consolidates all resources that depend on a specific security group — such as EC2 instances, ENIs, RDS, and ElastiCache — into a single view, reducing the need to check services individually. This streamlines impact assessment before modifying or deleting security groups and is available in all AWS commercial regions at no additional cost.

🔐 Amazon EKS now directly integrates EKS add-ons with EKS Pod Identity in AWS GovCloud (US-East and US-West), simplifying lifecycle and IAM permission management for add-ons that need access to AWS services. You can manage Pod Identities via the EKS console, CLI, API, eksctl, and IaC tools like AWS CloudFormation. This GA expansion increases the set of Pod Identity–compatible add-ons available during cluster creation.

🛡️ Microsoft has begun rolling out native Sysmon functionality to some Windows 11 systems enrolled in the Windows Insider program. The built-in feature is disabled by default and requires uninstalling any Sysmon copies from the Sysinternals site before enabling the native implementation. Administrators can enable it via Settings or by running Dism, then complete installation with sysmon -i. Captured events are written to the Windows Event Log and support custom configuration files to filter telemetry.

🤖 Amazon Redshift now extends its autonomics capabilities to multi-cluster environments, enabling automatic optimization across distributed warehouses. Features such as Automatic Table Optimization, Automatic Table Sorting, Auto Vacuum, and Auto Analyze now consider query patterns from all consumer clusters when adjusting table layouts and maintenance. A denylist lets operators exclude specific endpoints or AWS accounts from influencing optimizations. These enhancements are available at no extra cost in all Regions that support Amazon Redshift.

🔒 The Eclipse Foundation will require pre-publish security checks for extensions submitted to the Open VSX Registry, moving from reactive takedowns to proactive vetting. The staged rollout uses February 2026 to monitor uploads without blocking to tune detections and reduce false positives, with enforcement beginning in March 2026. The checks aim to flag name or namespace impersonation, accidentally published credentials, and known malicious patterns, quarantining suspicious uploads for manual review.

🔍 AWS Batch now returns a statusSummary for Array Jobs in the ListJobs API response, providing a single-call view of child job counts across states such as SUBMITTED, PENDING, RUNNABLE, STARTING, RUNNING, SUCCEEDED, and FAILED. The response also includes a statusSummaryLastUpdatedAt timestamp to indicate freshness. This eliminates extra DescribeJobs calls and streamlines monitoring of large-scale parallel workloads.

🌍 AWS Marketplace now provides a localized purchasing experience for EMEA customers procuring Professional Services through the AWS EMEA Marketplace Operator. Buyers can use local payment methods such as SEPA direct debit and will receive invoices issued by AWS EMEA, removing cross-entity remittance hurdles. The capability simplifies procurement, supports billing consolidation, and is available now for eligible EMEA purchases.

🔁 Amazon now enables replication of DynamoDB global tables across multiple AWS accounts and Regions, allowing automatic, multi-Region, multi-account table synchronization. This supports stronger fault tolerance and higher availability during account-level disruptions while enabling workload isolation and distinct security and governance controls. The feature is available in all AWS Regions and follows existing global tables pricing.

🔗 Amazon has introduced an enhanced console experience for Amazon RDS that consolidates connection details and tools into a single, context-aware view. The interface generates ready-made code snippets for Java, Python, Node.js and command-line utilities like psql, and automatically adapts snippets to the database's authentication settings (for example, using token-based connections when IAM authentication is enabled). It also embeds CloudShell for direct in-console access and is available for Aurora and RDS engines across all commercial AWS Regions.

🔁 Amazon Connect introduces an integrated appeals workflow that lets agents contest performance evaluations directly within the Connect UI. Agents can submit reasoning and cite specific examples when they disagree with scores, such as contested active listening ratings. Designated managers receive automated email notifications, can review appeals, and track resolution status across all regions where Amazon Connect is offered.

🧮 Aurora DSQL now supports creating indexes on the NUMERIC data type, allowing NUMERIC columns to be used in primary keys and secondary indexes. This change targets workloads that require high-precision values such as currency amounts, scientific measurements, and statistical datasets. The feature is available in all Regions where Aurora DSQL is offered and is intended to improve query performance for operations that sort, filter, or join on precise numeric values. Customers should test index impact on storage and write performance with representative workloads.

ℹ️ AWS announced general availability of displaying the account name in the AWS Management Console navigation bar across all public Regions. The new account name display lets authorized users visually identify and distinguish accounts at a glance rather than relying solely on numeric account IDs. The capability is available at no additional cost; administrators must enable it by applying the appropriate managed policy before users will see the name in the console.

🔒 Microsoft’s SDL is expanding to secure AI-powered systems by treating AI risks as dynamic, cross-disciplinary challenges rather than a static checklist. The update highlights AI-specific threats—prompt injection, data poisoning, memory and cache leakage, and malicious tool interactions—and stresses the need for telemetry-driven detection and faster feedback loops. Microsoft emphasizes developer-friendly policy, automation, and collaborative threat modeling to integrate security into everyday engineering practice.

🗺️ Authors can now resolve ambiguous locations directly on map visuals in Amazon Quick Suite using Quick Sight. When place names occur in multiple regions—examples include cities like Springfield or Abbeville—authors may disambiguate by adding supporting geospatial fields to create location hierarchies, searching the product’s geographic database, or entering precise latitude/longitude coordinates. The feature presents clear status indicators (Unmatched, Matched, Unused) and resolution actions accessible from map visuals. It is available in all regions that support Quick Sight, and documentation plus a blog post provide guidance on maps and geospatial charts.

🔁 AWS announced multi-Region replication for IAM Identity Center, enabling automatic copying of identities, entitlements, and configuration from a primary Region to customer-selected additional Regions. The feature preserves access during primary-Region disruptions and allows application deployment in Regions that support data residency or proximity requirements. Available in 17 enabled-by-default commercial Regions for organization instances connected to external IdPs, it requires a multi-Region customer-managed KMS key and incurs standard KMS charges; IAM Identity Center is provided at no extra cost.

🚀 Cloudflare has launched R2 Local Uploads in open beta to speed global writes by first writing object data to storage near the client and then asynchronously replicating it to the bucket's home region. Uploads remain strongly consistent and immediately accessible after the initial write, and private-beta tests show up to a 75% reduction in Time to Last Byte for cross-region uploads. Enable Local Uploads via the Cloudflare Dashboard or with Wrangler; there is no additional charge beyond standard Class A operation costs.

🔒 Mozilla has added a single, one-click control in Firefox desktop to disable all generative AI features or manage them individually. Rolling out with Firefox 148 on Feb 24, 2026, the Controls let users toggle translations, PDF alt text, AI tab grouping, link previews, and an AI sidebar chatbot. The Block AI enhancements toggle prevents pop-ups and prompts. Mozilla says the change gives users clear, simple choice over AI.

🛡️ Mozilla will let Firefox users disable AI features globally or manage them individually using a new "Block AI enhancements" toggle arriving in Firefox 148 on February 24. The setting blocks existing and future generative AI tools, suppresses related pop-ups or reminders, and preserves preferences across browser updates. Users can also enable five AI capabilities separately — translations, PDF image alt text, AI tab grouping, link previews, and chatbot sidebars — and the control will first appear in Nightly builds.