All news with #product update tag

🚀 Amazon Lightsail now offers Node.js, LAMP, and Ruby on Rails blueprints that enforce IMDSv2 by default and support IPv6-only instances. With a few clicks you can create a preconfigured VPS sized by bundle that includes the operating system, storage, and a monthly data transfer allowance. These blueprints are available in all AWS Regions where Lightsail is offered, simplifying quick web app deployments.

🚀 Amazon Bedrock now offers a 1-hour time-to-live (TTL) option for prompt caching on select Anthropic Claude models. This extends cached prompt prefix persistence beyond the previous 5-minute default, improving cost efficiency and responsiveness for long-running agentic workflows and multi-turn conversations. The 1-hour TTL is generally available for Claude Sonnet 4.5, Claude Haiku 4.5, and Claude Opus 4.5 in commercial AWS Regions and AWS GovCloud (US) where those models are available. The 1-hour cache is billed at a different rate than the standard 5-minute cache.

🛡️ AWS IAM Identity Center now supports native IPv6 via new dual-stack endpoints that accept both IPv4 and IPv6 clients, enabling direct IPv6 access without network address translation. Administrators should update external IdP configurations (ACS and SCIM URLs), adjust firewalls and gateways, and share the dual-stack app URL with users. You can monitor adoption through CloudTrail by inspecting clientProvidedHostHeader to distinguish IPv4-only and dual-stack usage.

✨ BigQuery now integrates Gemini and Vertex AI models directly into SQL, enabling in-place generative AI and embedding workflows. New functions—AI.GENERATE(), AI.GENERATE_TABLE(), AI.EMBED(), and AI.SIMILARITY()—support text and multimodal inputs and return structured outputs via an output_schema for immediate querying. End User Credentials simplify authentication, and Gemini 3.0 Pro/Flash support is available for advanced generative tasks.

🔁 AWS now offers a monthly flat-rate billing option for Amazon WorkSpaces Core managed instances in addition to existing hourly pay-as-you-go pricing. Monthly billing is optimized for predictable, always-on VDI desktops while hourly remains better for variable usage, and customers can mix both models within a single deployment. VDI partners such as Citrix, Workspot, Dizzion, and Leostream can use the WorkSpaces API to enable the monthly option when instances are created; hourly utility charges are also being consolidated on WorkSpaces bills without changing effective on-demand rates.

🛠️OpenAI is testing an update to ChatGPT’s Temporary Chat that lets temporary sessions retain personalization—such as memory cues, chat history signals, and preferred style or tone—while keeping the conversation isolated from your account. The mode remains temporary, can be turned off, and OpenAI may retain a copy for up to 30 days for safety. Start it by opening a new chat and selecting the “Temporary” pill in the top-right corner.

🔔 1Password has added an in-product pop-up that warns users when a visited URL looks like a potential phishing or typosquatted site, aiming to prevent manual credential entry. The feature is enabled by default for individual and family plan users; admins can activate it for employees via Authentication Policies. 1Password says the alerts are intended to make users pause and inspect URLs more closely, addressing cases where autofill protections alone are insufficient.

⚠️ 1Password has added a browser pop-up that warns users when a visited URL appears to be a phishing or typosquatted site, aiming to prevent manual credential entry on deceptive pages. The feature will be enabled automatically for individual and family plans, while enterprise admins can turn it on via Authentication Policies in the admin console. 1Password cites rising AI-assisted phishing and internal survey data on click-through and credential reuse as motivating factors.

🌐 Amazon Route 53 Domains now supports registration and management of ten new top-level domains, including .ai, .shop, .bot and others. Customers can register these TLDs via the Route 53 console, AWS CLI, or SDKs and use integrated DNS management and automatic renewal to administer domains alongside existing hosted zones. The expansion gives businesses and individuals more industry- and region-specific naming options directly within AWS. See the Route 53 product and pricing pages for additional details and costs.

🚀 Cloud Composer now supports Apache Airflow 3.1 in preview, marking the first time a hyperscaler offers this release. Built on Airflow 3's decoupled architecture and DAG versioning, the Composer update brings Human-in-the-Loop approvals, Deadline Alerts, and native internationalization across 17 languages. Additional developer-focused enhancements include a React plugin system and an inference execution streaming API. The preview is available now.

⚠️ Microsoft confirmed a coding error in Outlook for iOS (version 5.2602.0) that can cause the app to crash or freeze on iPad devices. Affected users can work around the issue by launching Outlook in Airplane Mode and then re-enabling Wi‑Fi or cellular. Microsoft has developed a fix, though the updated app may take up to 24 hours to appear in the App Store while Apple processes the release.

🚀 Managers can now build dynamic, adaptive guided experiences with Amazon Connect Step-by-Step Guides. Conditional interface logic lets supervisors show or hide fields, change default values, and adjust which inputs are required based on prior responses to create scenario-specific workflows. Guides can also auto-refresh data from Connect resources such as flow modules at configurable intervals so agents work with current information. The feature is available across multiple AWS regions.

🚀 Azure Storage outlines strategic investments for 2026 focused on accelerating AI and agentic workloads. The post highlights expanded scale for model training and inference, including Blob scaled accounts, Azure Managed Lustre (AMLFS) with Preview support for 25 PiB and high throughput, and deeper integrations with frameworks like Foundry, Ray, and LangChain. It also emphasizes block storage advances such as Elastic SAN, the Kubernetes-native ACStor operator and open sourcing, plus performance and availability improvements for mission‑critical SAP and trading platforms. The roadmap stresses energy and supply-aware efficiency, curated AI dataset experiences, and partner co‑engineering to lower TCO and accelerate customer adoption.

🔧 Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Browser now supports Chrome-compatible extensions uploaded to Amazon S3 for automatic installation into secure browser sessions. This capability builds on AgentCore secure browser features to enable complex automation workflows that standard browser automation cannot address alone. Typical uses include custom authentication flows, automated testing, and improved navigation or performance through ad blocking. The feature is available in nine AWS Regions where AgentCore is supported.

🔒 AWS has expanded Resource Control Policies (RCPs) to include support for Amazon Cognito and Amazon CloudWatch Logs. RCPs let organizations centrally set the maximum permissions available to resources, enabling consistent baseline controls and a stronger data perimeter. Administrators can now create policies to prevent identities outside their organization from accessing Cognito resources or log groups. This update is available in all AWS commercial Regions and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.

🔔 Microsoft is introducing Brand Impersonation Protection for Teams Calling, rolling out to the targeted release ring in mid‑February and enabled by default. The feature inspects incoming VoIP calls from first‑time external contacts for signs of brand impersonation and displays high‑risk call warnings before suspicious calls are answered. Users can accept, block, or end flagged calls, and alerts may persist during a conversation if suspicious signals continue. IT teams are advised to update support materials and brief helpdesks ahead of the rollout.

🧰 Microsoft is rolling out AI enhancements to Notepad and Paint for Windows 11 Insiders in the Canary and Dev channels. Notepad now streams AI-generated previews for Write, Rewrite, and Summarize and adds expanded Markdown formatting and a welcome screen to surface new features. Paint introduces an AI-powered Coloring Book for Copilot+ PCs and a fill tolerance slider for finer control. Both features require Microsoft account sign-in and can be disabled or uninstalled.

🔔 Amazon MQ now enables RabbitMQ 4 brokers to connect directly with JMS applications via the RabbitMQ JMS Topic Exchange plugin and RabbitMQ JMS client. The plugin is enabled by default on all RabbitMQ 4 brokers and supports JMS 1.1, JMS 2.0, and JMS 3.1, allowing JMS apps to run without rewrites. The JMS client can also bridge JMS messages to AMQP exchanges and consume from AMQP queues to support interoperability or migration. To use it, select RabbitMQ 4.2 on an M7g instance when creating a broker via Console, CLI, or SDKs; the plugin is available in all regions where RabbitMQ 4 is offered.

🔍 Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now surfaces detailed error messages and points directly to the CloudWatch log group and log stream that captured lifecycle script output. You can view these messages through the DescribeCluster API or via the SageMaker console, which includes a 'View lifecycle script logs' button to open the exact CloudWatch stream. CloudWatch entries now contain execution markers (begin, download start/complete, success/failure) to help pinpoint where provisioning failed. This enhancement is available in all Regions where HyperPod is supported and reduces time to diagnose lifecycle script issues.

🔧 AWS Clean Rooms now supports SQL join and partition hints to let analysts optimize join strategies and data distribution. Hints are applied using comment-style syntax in pre-approved analysis templates and ad hoc SQL queries. You can force a broadcast join for small lookup tables or add partition hints for better parallelism. These options improve query performance and can lower costs.