All news with #product update tag

🔒 Amazon S3 Access Grants are now generally available in the AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region. The capability maps identities from directories such as Microsoft Entra ID and AWS IAM principals directly to S3 datasets, enabling identity-driven, automated access provisioning for users. This reduces the need for manual policy changes and simplifies large-scale permission management. Local availability also helps improve latency and supports regional compliance and governance requirements for organizations operating in New Zealand.

🤝 Palo Alto Networks has reimagined the NextWave Partner Program to align partners, customers and platform-driven security in the AI era. The update expands support for MSSPs, increases authorized services capacity with ASC and APS, and supports Distributor Managed Partner growth. It introduces a Partner Development Fund (PDF) to reinvest rebates into partner-led demand generation, training and solution development. New incentives, proficiency-based discounts and streamlined quoting and enablement tools emphasize platform adoption, operational readiness and profitable services within a framework of Access, Commitment and Profitability.

🚀 Google Cloud has made Valkey 9.0 generally available on Memorystore, delivering substantial throughput and latency improvements for high-performance caches and message queues. The release builds on IO-threading work and introduces pipeline memory prefetching, zero-copy responses, and SIMD-optimized commands to improve real-world performance at scale. New developer features include per-field hash expirations, GEOSEARCH BYPOLYGON, and DELIFEQ for safer distributed locks without Lua. Customers reported meaningful gains during preview, and existing instances can be upgraded in-place with no downtime.

🔎 Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports custom metadata search filters, enabling teams to narrow catalog results using organization-specific attributes like business region, data classification, or study name. Filters accept string fields with a contains operator and numeric fields (Integer, Long) with equals, greater than, and less than operators. Users can also filter by asset name, description, and date range, combine multiple filters, and retain selections across browser sessions; the feature is available in all AWS Regions where Unified Studio is supported.

🚀 Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports OpenSearch 3.5, introducing agentic AI enhancements, improved search relevance tooling, and expanded observability capabilities. The update adds persistent agentic conversation memory to capture multi-turn context and tool reasoning, plus context management that automatically truncates and summarizes inputs to reduce LLM token costs. A redesigned no-code agent interface with MCP integration and expanded search relevance workbench—including LLM-powered evaluation and scheduled experiments—helps teams tune and validate agent-driven search experiences without code.

🗣️ Amazon Connect now supports agentic speech-to-speech voice experiences in the Europe (London) AWS Region and introduces three new voices: Pedro (es-US), Amy (en-GB) and Brian (en-GB). These agentic AI agents can understand, reason and take action across voice and messaging channels, adapting responses to match customer tone and sentiment while preserving natural conversational pacing. The expansion increases regional availability and voice variety to help organizations deliver more personalized, automated customer interactions.

🎥 AWS Elemental MediaConnect now supports NDI® as a live video source, enabling broadcasters and production teams to ingest NDI streams and convert them to transport stream outputs such as SRT for downstream distribution. This capability lets teams bridge NDI-based production environments with standards-based cloud distribution workflows without custom transcoding or protocol conversion infrastructure. NDI support is available in most regions where MediaConnect is deployed; consult AWS documentation and pricing for details.

🔒 AWS Security Agent now lets users generate and download customizable penetration testing reports in PDF format. Reports include an executive summary, test scope and methodology, task details, and comprehensive findings with vulnerability data and risk assessments. Users can filter outputs by risk and confidence levels, finding and task status, and risk types to tailor reports for executives, engineers, or auditors. The capability is intended to accelerate on-demand pentesting from weeks to hours and simplify cross-team review and sharing.

🌐 Amazon Web Services announced that Amazon Connect voice AI agents now support 13 additional languages, bringing the total supported locales to 40. New additions include Arabic (Saudi Arabia), Czech, Danish, Dutch (Belgium), English variants for Ireland, New Zealand and Wales, German (Switzerland), Icelandic, Romanian, Spanish (Mexico), Turkish, and Welsh. The update extends agentic self-service capabilities to more regions, enabling AI agents to understand, reason, and take action across voice and digital channels to automate routine and complex customer service tasks. See the Amazon Connect Administrator Guide for configuration details and the Amazon Connect website for broader product information.

🔊 Amazon Connect now offers generative text-to-speech voices in three additional AWS Regions: Europe (London), Asia Pacific (Seoul), and Asia Pacific (Sydney). The service adds nine new voices across US English, UK English, European French, German, and Italian, including Tiffany, Amy, Brian, Ambre, Florian, Tina, Lennart, Beatrice, and Lorenzo. These voices support Amazon Connect’s agentic self-service capabilities, enabling more natural, sentiment-aware voice interactions across voice and messaging channels. Organizations can deploy these voices to deliver human-like conversational experiences to a broader set of customers and locales.

🔍 Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now provides an aggregated view of data lineage that consolidates all jobs contributing to a dataset. The aggregated view displays multi-level transformations and dependencies to help you identify upstream sources and downstream consumers across the full lineage graph. It is the default for IdC-based domains, with an option to revert to the previous event-timestamp-ordered view, and the new QueryGraph API exposes node graphs with metadata and augmented business context.

🔍 Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now offers an aggregated lineage view that shows all jobs contributing to a dataset across multiple levels of the lineage graph. The aggregated view is the default for IdC-based domains, while the previous event-timestamp snapshot can be restored via a "display in event timestamp order" toggle. A new QueryGraph API returns lineage node graphs with metadata and augmented business context; the capability is available in all SageMaker Unified Studio regions, with documentation and API references provided.

🔁 Amazon SageMaker Training Plans can now be extended to cover AI training runs that take longer than originally scheduled. Extensions are available in 1-day increments up to 14 days, or 7-day increments up to 182 days, and can be purchased through the SageMaker console or via API. Once an extension is purchased the reserved GPU capacity (clusters up to 64 instances) continues to run without interruption, and SageMaker automatically provisions infrastructure so workloads keep running without reconfiguration. The feature helps teams maintain cost-efficient training schedules and reduce operational disruptions.

🛠️ AWS has integrated Blu Insights into AWS Transform, enabling customers to launch mainframe refactoring projects directly from the AWS Transform console. The release unifies the three modernization patterns—refactor, replatform, and reimagine—and replaces the lines-of-code pricing model with free code transformation. A prior mandatory three-level certification to access the Transformation Center has been removed to reduce friction; self-paced training remains available. The refactor capability is available in 18 AWS Regions, with access via the AWS Mainframe Modernization console where Transform is not yet offered.

🚀 You can now create provisioned Amazon MSK clusters with Express brokers in Africa (Cape Town) and Asia Pacific (Taipei). Express brokers deliver up to 3× more throughput per broker, scale up to 20× faster, and reduce recovery time by 90% compared to standard Apache Kafka brokers. They are pre-configured with Kafka best practices, support all Kafka APIs, and preserve low-latency behavior so existing client applications require no changes. To get started, create a new cluster with Express brokers via the Amazon MSK console or the AWS CLI and consult the Amazon MSK Developer Guide for details.

⚙️ Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime now supports InvokeAgentRuntimeCommand, an API that runs shell commands directly inside a running AgentCore Runtime session. The API streams stdout/stderr in real time over HTTP/2 and returns an exit code, removing the need for custom in-container command orchestration. Commands execute in the same container, filesystem, and environment as the agent session and can run concurrently with agent invocations. This capability is available in 14 AWS Regions.

🔔 Microsoft has halted the planned automatic installation of the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on Windows devices outside the EEA. The rollout, announced earlier and scheduled for December, is temporarily disabled; existing installs are unchanged and administrators can still deploy the app manually. Microsoft offered no reason in its Microsoft 365 message center update and asked admins to await further information. EEA customers remain excluded from the change.

⚠️ Microsoft warns that enabling the Microsoft Teams Meeting Add-in can render the classic Outlook desktop client unusable for affected users, according to an admin center notice (EX1254044). The company says the problem is tied to a previous Outlook build and is working with customers to ensure the latest version is deployed. As a temporary fix, impacted users should update Outlook or run an Online Repair for click-to-run installs, which reinstalls Office apps.

📢 Amazon RDS for SQL Server Developer Edition now supports Additional Storage Volumes, Resource Governor, and SQL Server 2019 (CU32 GDR - 15.0.4455.2). Additional Storage Volumes raise capacity up to 256 TiB—4× more storage—while Resource Governor enables definition of resource pools and workload groups to control CPU and memory for more realistic performance testing. The Developer Edition includes Enterprise functionality and is free for development and test systems (not production). For region availability and pricing, consult AWS documentation and Amazon RDS for SQL Server pricing.

📈 Amazon CloudWatch now supports organization-wide automatic enablement of EC2 detailed monitoring. With CloudWatch Ingestion enablement rules, administrators can automatically enable EC2 detailed monitoring at 1-minute intervals for existing and newly launched instances across an entire AWS Organization, specific accounts, or tag-based resource scopes. The capability ensures consistent telemetry collection to help Auto Scaling and operational alarms react more quickly, is available in all AWS commercial regions, and will be billed according to CloudWatch pricing.