All news with #product update tag

🚀 AWS ParallelCluster 3.15 is now generally available, adding support for P6-B300 instances and upgrading Slurm to 25.11 with expedited job requeue. The release improves EFA network configuration defaults and introduces network interface customization, plus more reliable cluster updates and better performance for tightly coupled workloads at scale. It also enables non-disruptive cluster tag updates. ParallelCluster remains open-source for provisioning HPC and AI/ML clusters on AWS.

🚀 Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports continuous provisioning for clusters using the Slurm orchestrator, allowing training jobs to start immediately on available instances while remaining capacity is provisioned in the background. Priority-based provisioning brings up the Slurm controller first, then login and worker nodes in parallel, with asynchronous retries for failed launches. The feature reduces time-to-training, improves utilization, and removes the need for manual scaling interventions.

📦 Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime now offers managed session storage in public preview. When configured, each session receives a persistent directory at your specified mount path so agents can read and write files as usual while the runtime transparently replicates data to durable storage. On stop, data is flushed during graceful shutdown and, when you resume with the same session ID, a new microVM mounts the same storage so source files, installed packages, build artifacts, and git history are preserved. The feature supports standard Linux filesystem operations, provides up to 1 GB per session, retains data for 14 days of idle time, and confines storage communication to a single session for isolation.

🔄 AWS reports it is actively testing an LTS upgrade in production. The brief notice, posted Mar 24, 2026 and attributed to aws@amazon.com, confirms ongoing activity but does not disclose targeted components or version details. Customers should validate compatibility in staging, confirm third-party support, and prepare rollback and monitoring procedures. Monitor official channels for formal release notes and status updates.

🚀 Amazon has expanded Timestream for InfluxDB to the Mexico (Central), Japan (Osaka), and Brazil (Sao Paulo) regions, enabling locally hosted, fully managed InfluxDB databases for real-time time-series applications. The service supports Multi-AZ high availability, read replicas, enhanced durability, and multi-node scaling from single-node setups up to 15-node Enterprise clusters. You can create and manage databases via the console, AWS CLI, or AWS SDKs, giving developers and DevOps teams flexible deployment and scaling options.

🛡️ Firefox 149 introduces a free built-in VPN that provides signed-in users with up to 50 GB of browser-only monthly traffic via a secure proxy. The feature can be toggled globally or enabled on up to five specific sites to save data, while certain sites and services are excluded to avoid sign-in and reconnection issues. Mozilla says it will collect only limited technical and interaction data to monitor performance, and routing servers are U.S.-based. Rollout begins in the US, UK, Germany and France; the update also adds Split View and fixes 46 security vulnerabilities.

🔧 Microsoft has resolved a known issue that caused Classic Outlook to stop syncing Gmail and Yahoo accounts and to show 0x800CCC0F and 0x80070057 error codes. Affected accounts reportedly stopped syncing on February 26, 2026; Microsoft says the fix was applied in the Microsoft 365 service, but some users may still see issues until their OAuth token expires. As a temporary workaround, Microsoft recommends deleting the affected email address entries under the Identities key at Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Common\Identity\Identities to force a sign-in prompt.

⚡ CrowdStrike is extending the Falcon Flex consumption model to its expert-led services, allowing customers to draw down a standalone services entitlement across incident response, proactive security, advisory, platform services, and training. The approach reduces procurement friction and supports pre-arranged incident response readiness independent of Falcon subscriptions or standard retainers. For qualifying new customers, the Zero Dollar Flex Fund provides 200 hours (160 incident response, 40 proactive) over 12 months to simplify first-time engagement.

🔧 Microsoft released an out-of-band update, KB5085516, to fix a sign-in failure that prevented Microsoft account authentication in multiple apps after the March cumulative update KB5079473. Affected apps included Microsoft Edge, Teams, OneDrive, Microsoft 365 Copilot and Office apps, which reported the device was not connected to the Internet. The optional fix is available for Windows 11 25H2 and 24H2 via Windows Update or the Microsoft Update Catalog, and Microsoft recommends installing the latest updates.

🛡️ CrowdStrike is extending Falcon Next‑Gen SIEM to ingest and operationalize telemetry from third‑party EDRs, beginning with Microsoft Defender, without requiring a Falcon sensor. The release embeds real‑time data pipelines via Falcon Onum to filter, enrich, and route telemetry, and expands federated search to include Falcon LogScale, ExtraHop, and cloud archives. It also introduces Third‑Party Indicator Management to operationalize external threat intelligence and a Query Translation Agent to convert legacy searches into CQL. Together these capabilities aim to reduce ingestion costs, accelerate investigations, simplify SIEM migrations, and let teams modernize SOC operations without replacing endpoint agents.

🔒 CrowdStrike announced a suite of innovations that expand AI detection and response across endpoints, SaaS, and cloud environments. New capabilities include runtime monitoring for desktop AI applications and Copilot Studio agents, unified discovery and classification of AI agents across SaaS, and data-flow visibility for cloud-hosted AI workloads. Several features are in pre-beta or early beta with staged GA rollouts planned over upcoming quarters.

🔒 Google is introducing Advanced Flow, a new Android mechanism that lets power users sideload APKs from unverified developers while adding multi-step protections. The one-time process requires enabling Developer Mode, confirming you are not being coached by a threat actor, restarting and reauthenticating, then waiting one day to validate the changes. After completion users may enable installations for a week or indefinitely, and Android will display a warning that the app is from an unverified developer. The flow is intended to add friction and disrupt urgency-driven scam tactics.

🔐 AWS DataSync now integrates with AWS Secrets Manager for credential management across all DataSync location types, including HDFS and Amazon FSx variants. Customers can centralize secrets in their account and optionally encrypt them with a customer-managed AWS KMS key to meet governance requirements. DataSync supports providing a secret ARN you manage or having DataSync automatically create and manage secrets. This capability is available in the majority of AWS regions where DataSync is offered.

🛡️ AWS Firewall Manager is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region. The service centralizes policy management so cloud security administrators and site reliability engineers can protect applications while reducing the operational overhead of manually configuring and maintaining rules. With AWS Firewall Manager, customers can enforce defense-in-depth policies across AWS security services and create and manage AWS WAF security policies at scale. See the product documentation and region table for detailed availability and setup guidance.

📈 The AWS MCP Server (Preview) now publishes operational metrics to Amazon CloudWatch and adds semantic similarity search for Agent SOP discovery. Metric publishing under the AWS-MCP namespace tracks invocation counts, success rates, client and server errors, and throttling for tools such as call_aws and retrieve_agent_sop, enabling alarms and visibility into agent-driven activity. The documentation search (search_documentation) now returns relevant Agent SOPs alongside AWS docs, helping AI assistants find the correct workflows.

🔁 AWS now allows customers to use EC2 Fleet to consume interruptible Capacity Reservations by specifying reservation IDs across Launch Templates in a single Fleet call. When On‑Demand Capacity Reservations are idle, owners can make them temporarily available to accounts within an AWS Organization as interruptible reservations. The capability is available in all AWS commercial regions and aims to improve utilization and lower costs.

⚙️ Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server now enables customers to view and schedule operating system updates for RDS provided engine versions (RPEV), where each RPEV is a SQL Server version pre-installed on an Amazon Machine Image. Customers can check pending updates via the describe-pending-maintenance-actions API or subscribe to event RDS-EVENT-0230 for alerts. They can apply updates immediately or use apply-pending-maintenance-action to schedule installation during the next maintenance window. These capabilities are available in all AWS Regions that offer RDS Custom for SQL Server.

📢 Amazon Bedrock now supports GLM 5 and Minimax M2.5, expanding its frontier model selection across select AWS Regions. GLM 5 targets complex systems engineering and long‑horizon agentic tasks, offering improved multi‑step reasoning, math (including AIME‑style capabilities), advanced coding, and long context support for sophisticated agents. Minimax M2.5 is agent‑native and optimized for efficient task decomposition, high inference throughput, and token‑efficient decisioning to deliver fast, cost‑sensitive task completion. Both models are available in Bedrock for enterprise and agentic workflows.

🔒 Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) pull through cache now supports Chainguard as an upstream registry, enabling customers to cache private Chainguard images within ECR. This feature synchronizes frequently with Chainguard's registry so images stay up to date without extra tooling. Cached images can be managed with ECR capabilities like image scanning and lifecycle policies, and the pull through cache is available in all AWS Regions where ECR supports it. By centralizing Chainguard images in ECR, customers gain improved availability, manageability, and security posture.

🚀 Amazon Bedrock now supports NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super, an open hybrid Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model designed for complex multi-agent and agentic workloads. The model delivers fast, cost-efficient inference for long, multi-step tasks while preserving context, and is released with open weights, datasets, and recipes for customization. Bedrock exposes Nemotron 3 Super via a single, fully managed, serverless API with built-in security controls and compatibility with OpenAI API specifications, and the model is available in select AWS Regions.