All news with #product update tag

🔒 GitHub introduced a three-day cooldown in Dependabot that delays version-update pull requests for at least 72 hours after a release by default, while security updates continue to be issued immediately. The cooldown is configurable via dependabot.yml, letting teams set a different interval to suit their workflows. GitHub framed the change as a mitigation against short-lived poisoned package releases that spread quickly before removal, and recommended it be used alongside other defenses such as lockfiles and scoped tokens.

🔒 Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports restoring Transparent Data Encryption (TDE)-enabled databases to Multi-AZ instances and instances with a same-region read replica using native backup and restore. Previously, TDE restore was limited to Single-AZ, requiring disabling TDE or migrating to Single-AZ before restore. Back up your TDE certificate to Amazon S3, restore it to the RDS instance with the TDE option enabled, then restore the database backup from S3. This capability is available in all Regions where RDS for SQL Server is supported.

🎧 Agents using Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) or Windows 365 Cloud PC can now take Amazon Connect calls directly from their virtual desktop with audio optimization enabled. IT administrators perform a one-time setup to redirect media from the virtual desktop to the agent's local device, improving call audio quality. Agents access calls via the Amazon Connect Customer agent workspace or custom interfaces built with the Amazon Connect Customer open-source JavaScript libraries. This capability complements existing support for Amazon WorkSpaces, Citrix, and Omnissa cloud desktops and is available in all AWS Regions offering Amazon Connect Customer except AWS GovCloud (US-West).

🛠️ Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) now supports Apache Airflow 2.11.2, a maintenance release with security improvements, bug fixes, and dependency upgrades. The update enhances webserver stability, task execution, and task lifecycle handling, and improves secrets masking and UI behavior. You can create new 2.11.2 environments or upgrade existing ones in all available MWAA regions via the AWS Management Console.

🔍 AWS HealthLake now offers automatic resource matching to identify and link duplicate FHIR records across seven resource types, enabling more accurate longitudinal patient records and population health datasets. The feature recognizes high-confidence identifiers (SSN, MRN, NPI), filters placeholders to reduce false matches, and connects matches via FHIR Linkage resources without modifying original records. Available in gated preview across multiple AWS Regions; interested customers can request allowlist access.

🛠️ Amazon Redshift now offers an All Upfront payment option for 3‑year Serverless Reservations, delivering up to 50% savings versus on‑demand rates. This joins existing 1‑year No Upfront, 1‑year All Upfront, and 3‑year No Upfront options to provide more flexibility for cost optimization. Reservations are managed at the AWS payer account level and can be shared across accounts to reduce compute costs for Amazon Redshift Serverless workloads.

⚙️ AWS Clean Rooms now supports larger worker types of 32 vCPUs with 244 GB of memory for SQL analyses, up from the previous 16 vCPUs and 120 GB. The increase enables more compute- and memory-intensive workloads, improving performance for complex queries on large datasets and helping customers optimize costs. Use cases include running complex feature engineering across billions of records to accelerate model training and collaboration between advertisers and publishers.

🛠️ Cloudflare announced Cache Response Rules, a new rule type that runs after an origin response arrives but before Cloudflare caches it. These rules let you rewrite Cache-Control, manage cache-tags, and strip headers like Set-Cookie, ETag, and Last-Modified without changing the origin. The feature complements existing Cache Rules by giving the response phase final control over whether and how Cloudflare caches content.

🆕 Amazon RDS for MySQL now supports community MySQL 9.7 in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment, enabling testing of the latest Long-Term Support release. The preview serves as a sandbox to evaluate new features, bug fixes, and security patches before general availability. Instances in the preview are retained up to 60 days and snapshots are limited to preview restores; pricing matches production RDS in the US East (Ohio) Region.

🔔 Amazon has expanded EC2 High Memory U7i instances to additional regions, adding U7in-16TB in São Paulo and U7in-24TB in Ireland. These 7th-generation instances use custom Intel Sapphire Rapids processors and provide large DDR5 memory footprints of 16 TiB and 24 TiB respectively. Both instance sizes offer 896 vCPUs, up to 100 Gbps Amazon EBS bandwidth, 200 Gbps networking, and ENA Express, targeting in-memory databases and high-throughput transaction workloads.

🔁 Network Load Balancer (NLB) now supports listener rules to route connections to different target groups based on source IP address type. A single dual-stack NLB can now preserve original client IPs by sending IPv6 traffic to IPv6 targets and IPv4 traffic to IPv4 targets without protocol translation. Rules work on TCP, UDP, TCP_UDP, and TLS listeners and integrate with existing NLB features such as connection draining and cross-zone load balancing. Listener rules are available in all AWS commercial and GovCloud (US) Regions at no additional charge; standard NLB pricing applies.

⚙️ AWS Entity Resolution now supports advanced real-time matching workflows via the existing GenerateMatchId API. Customers can enable enableRealTimeMatching to apply complex rulesets—such as Exact and ExactManyToMany with AND/OR logic—for millisecond-scale matching. This removes the previous need for separate batch processing or extra infrastructure and is available in all Regions where the service is offered.

🔒 AWS Lambda durable functions now support encrypting durable execution data with an AWS KMS customer managed key. Durable functions let you run long-lived workflows with automatic state management; execution state is encrypted at rest by default with an AWS‑owned key. With this update you can select and manage your own KMS key for execution data, enabling separate control of rotation and access for execution history and state. The feature is available in all Regions where durable functions exist; standard AWS KMS charges apply.

🔒 AWS Organizations now supports up to 2,000 resource control policies (RCPs) per organization, doubling the prior 1,000 limit. RCPs let administrators centrally manage maximum permissions and restrict which external principals can access resources across member accounts. The increase is available at no extra cost in all supported Regions and requires no action from existing organizations. This helps large multi-account environments implement more granular, organization-wide access controls without changing individual resource policies.

🚀 Amazon EKS now supports Amazon EC2 placement groups and Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) configuration for node pools in EKS Auto Mode and the open-source Karpenter. These options let you choose EFA-only or standard ENI configurations on EFA-capable instances and control instance distribution with cluster, spread, or partition placement strategies. The features improve performance and availability for distributed training, inference, and production services and are available in all Regions where EKS operates.

🛡️ LG Electronics USA will suspend smart TV apps that convert televisions into always-on residential proxy nodes, following research showing over 42% of webOS apps contain such proxy SDKs. The company is working with developers to remove the option and will suspend noncompliant apps, while tightening its app evaluation process. Spur’s research also found similar proxy components in Samsung’s Tizen apps, and proxy providers such as Bright Data were commonly identified. LG emphasized ongoing platform reviews to protect users.

🚀 Starting today, Amazon EC2 M6in and M6idn instances are available in AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) and South America (Sao Paulo). These sixth-generation, network-optimized instances use 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors and the AWS Nitro System to deliver up to 200 Gbps network bandwidth—roughly 2x the bandwidth of comparable fifth-generation instances. They support up to 128 vCPUs, 512 GiB memory, up to 100 Gbps EBS bandwidth, 400K IOPS, EFA on select sizes, and up to 7.6 TB of instance storage on M6idn variants.

🚀 Amazon EC2 R6in and R6idn instances are now available in AWS Europe (Paris) and Canada (Central). These sixth-generation, network-optimized instances use 3rd Gen Intel Xeon processors and the AWS Nitro System to deliver up to 200 Gbps network bandwidth, 2x improved bandwidth and packet-processing versus prior generation. They support up to 128 vCPUs, 1024 GiB memory, up to 100 Gbps EBS bandwidth, and offer EFA on select sizes. R6idn adds up to 7.6 TB of high-speed instance storage.

🚀 Starting today, Amazon EC2 C6in instances are available in AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei). These sixth-generation network-optimized instances, powered by 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors and the AWS Nitro System, deliver up to 200 Gbps network bandwidth and up to 100 Gbps Amazon EBS bandwidth with 400K IOPS. C6in instances support up to 128 vCPUs across 10 sizes (including bare metal) and offer EFA on 32xlarge and metal sizes for high-performance networking.

🔎 Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports Amazon OpenSearch as a data source, allowing you to query and analyze search and log analytics data alongside other assets. You can combine OpenSearch data with sources like Amazon Redshift, Amazon S3, and relational databases within a single governed environment. The integration enables correlating operational search data with analytical datasets for cross-source insights and streamlined workflows.