All news with #product update tag

🔧 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.

🔒 Amazon EMR Serverless now supports encrypting local disks with AWS KMS customer managed keys (CMKs), enabling customers to adopt CMKs instead of default AWS-owned keys for greater encryption control. You can use CMKs from the same account or from another account and apply them at the application level or per job run and interactive session. This capability is supported on new and existing EMR Serverless applications across all supported EMR release versions and is available in all Regions, including AWS GovCloud (US) and China.

🔒 Amazon Bedrock is expanding its Reserved service tier to provide predictable, guaranteed tokens-per-minute capacity and prioritized compute for mission-critical workloads. The Reserved tier lets customers allocate separate input and output tokens-per-minute capacities to match asymmetric workload needs and control costs, while automatically overflowing to the pay-as-you-go Standard tier when reserved capacity is exceeded. This offering is available today for Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.5 in AWS GovCloud (US-West) with 1- and 3-month reservation options billed monthly.

🚀 Amazon Web Services has expanded availability of Amazon EC2 C8gn instances powered by AWS Graviton4 to additional regions including Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Africa (Cape Town), Europe (Ireland, London) and Canada West (Calgary). C8gn delivers up to 30% better compute performance versus C7gn and incorporates 6th-generation AWS Nitro Cards with up to 600 Gbps network bandwidth. Instances scale to 48xlarge with up to 384 GiB memory and 60 Gbps EBS bandwidth, and selected large sizes support Elastic Fabric Adapter for lower latency. These instances are aimed at network-intensive workloads such as network virtual appliances, data analytics, and CPU-based AI/ML inference.

🔍 AWS now includes the policy Amazon Resource Name (ARN) from AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) and AWS Organizations in Access Denied error messages for same-account and same-organization scenarios. This change surfaces the exact policy causing the denial—covering Service Control Policies (SCPs), Resource Control Policies (RCPs), identity-based policies, session policies, and permission boundaries—so you can identify and remediate explicit denies more quickly. The update will be rolled out across services and regions; consult IAM documentation for details.

🚀 Google Cloud has refreshed the Rapid Migration and Modernization Program (RaMP) to incentivize cloud migrations with service credits tied to incremental usage and funded partner and professional services. The program offers enhanced rewards for advanced workloads—SAP, Oracle, VMware, NetApp and data analytics—to help offset higher technical costs. RaMP is positioned to reduce technical debt, accelerate AI readiness by making data accessible to Vertex AI and Gemini, and provide a funded path for assessment and implementation.

🔧Instance Scheduler on AWS now provides enhanced scheduling orchestration that tracks AWS tagging events, informational resource tags for self-service troubleshooting, an optional EC2 insufficient-capacity retry flow using alternate instance types, and automatic creation of a dedicated EventBridge EventBus. These changes re-architect orchestration and fan-out mechanisms to improve scaling performance and address cost-scaling concerns. The update reduces operational overhead and increases workload reliability by empowering distributed engineers to troubleshoot independently and by improving start success in capacity-constrained zones.

🔧 Microsoft provided a temporary workaround for users whose Outlook desktop client freezes after installing this month's Windows security updates. The bug affects POP accounts and configurations that store PST files on cloud-backed storage such as OneDrive or Dropbox, and has been reported on Windows 11 25H2 and 24H2, Windows 10, and multiple Windows Server releases. Microsoft recommends accessing mail via webmail, moving PST files out of OneDrive, or uninstalling the KB5074109/KB5073724 updates via Settings > Windows Update > Update history > Uninstall updates, while warning that removing security updates increases exposure to threats.

🌐 AWS has expanded availability of second-generation Outposts racks to 20 additional countries, enabling customers to deploy AWS infrastructure and services on-premises for low-latency access, data residency, and local processing. These racks support the latest x86 Amazon EC2 instance families (C7i, M7i, R7i) with up to 40% better performance versus first-generation racks, and they introduce simplified network scaling plus a new class of accelerated networking instances optimized for ultra-low latency and high throughput.

🔍 ChatGPT Atlas is testing a new

🛡️ OpenAI has introduced an age-prediction model in ChatGPT that analyzes conversation topics and usage patterns to infer whether a user is a teen or an adult and apply safety-related content restrictions. The system can err and may sometimes flag adults as teens; users 18+ who are mistakenly restricted can complete an age verification flow through the partner Persona, which may require a live selfie and a government-issued ID. Persona reportedly deletes verification material within seven days, and confirmed adults will have the extra safety settings removed after verification.

📦 Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) now supports cross-repository layer sharing via a capability called blob mounting. By enabling this registry-level setting through the ECR console or AWS CLI, teams can reuse identical image layers across repositories to accelerate image pushes and reduce duplicate storage. Blob mounting is available in all AWS commercial and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions and is applied automatically during image push operations.

🔁 Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports cross-Region subscriptions and IAM role-based subscriptions, enabling teams to subscribe to AWS Glue and Amazon Redshift tables and views published in different AWS Regions. Cross-Region support helps break down data silos and removes the need for manual replication. IAM role-based subscriptions let users request access without creating a SageMaker project, simplifying governance. These APIs are available via the SageMaker console, Amazon DataZone API, SDK, and AWS CLI.

🔌 AWS IoT Device Management now offers the managed integrations feature in the Middle East (UAE), enabling local organizations to onboard and manage diverse IoT devices via a single interface. The capability includes device SDKs and protocol support for ZigBee, Z-Wave, Matter, and Wi‑Fi, along with partner cloud-to-cloud connectors and 80+ device data model templates. These tools help developers accelerate integrations for home security, energy management, and elderly care monitoring, regardless of whether devices connect directly, through hubs, or via third-party clouds.

🚀 Firestore Enterprise introduces an advanced query engine with more than a hundred new pipeline operations available in preview. The update lets developers chain stages for aggregations, grouping, filtering and array unnesting, reducing reliance on mandatory indexes for many queries. It also adds precise index controls, query explain and query insights for deeper observability, and a clearer pricing model aimed at lowering read and storage costs.

🖱️ Microsoft released PowerToys 0.97, introducing CursorWrap, a new mouse utility that 'teleports' the pointer to the opposite edge of active monitors to ease navigation across multi-monitor setups. The update also brings major improvements to the Command Palette quick launcher, adding built-in extensions to control other PowerToys, Peek file previews, a Personalization page, and a Remote Desktop extension. PowerToys is available via the Microsoft Store and GitHub.

🔧 Amazon QuickSight has enhanced its SPICE in-memory engine to support datasets up to 2 TB, doubling the prior 1 TB limit, while optimizing ingestion and refresh to reduce time to insight. String length limits have been increased from 2K to 64K Unicode characters and timestamp support extended from year 1400 back to 0001. These capabilities are available in Enterprise Editions across supported regions.

🔁 Amazon RDS Blue/Green Deployments now provide faster switchover for single-Region configurations, typically reducing writer-node downtime to five seconds or lower. Applications using the AWS Advanced JDBC Driver typically see cutovers of two seconds or lower because DNS propagation delays are avoided. The enhancement supports Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS engines — including PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB — in all AWS Regions, and you can apply changes such as major engine upgrades, maintenance updates, and instance scaling via the Amazon RDS Console or CLI in a few clicks.

🚀 AWS has expanded support for Graviton4-based R8g, plus R7g and R7i, across additional regions for Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS. The launch adds R8g availability in Hong Kong, Osaka, Jakarta, Seoul, Singapore and Canada (Central), with R7i in Hyderabad and R7g in Cape Town. Graviton4 instances deliver up to 40% higher performance and up to 29% better price/performance versus Graviton3, and introduce 24xlarge/48xlarge sizes (up to 192 vCPUs) with DDR5, high networking, and enhanced EBS bandwidth. Instances can be launched via the RDS console or AWS CLI; consult engine-version documentation and RDS pricing for details.

📊 Amazon QuickSight now lets dashboard readers customize tables and pivot tables directly within dashboards, including adding or removing fields, changing aggregations, and modifying formatting without requiring updates from dashboard authors. These in-dashboard edits enable users to tailor views for specific analyses—for example, sales managers can add revenue breakdowns by category while finance teams switch aggregations from sum to average. The features are available in Enterprise Edition across all supported QuickSight regions; see the AWS blog for usage guidance.