All news with #product update tag

📌 Managers can now configure Amazon Connect Customer to extract data from conversations—like booking IDs, claim numbers, and summaries—and automatically populate step-by-step guide fields for agents. Agents review and submit prefilled guides instead of typing each entry, reducing after contact work time and improving data accuracy. The feature is available in multiple AWS Regions, with contact summaries also in Africa (Cape Town).

🧾 Amazon Bedrock AgentCore now charges for short-term memory (STM) based on consumption rather than a flat per-event fee. STM is billed across three dimensions: ingestion ($1.00/GB), retrieval ($0.20/GB), and storage ($0.10/GB-month), with per-event billing subject to a 12 KB minimum and 64 KB maximum billable size. Storage costs reflect actual event size and can be managed via TTL settings; long-term memory pricing remains unchanged. The model is available in all Regions where AgentCore Memory is offered.

🔐 AWS Secrets Manager now supports managed external secrets for Databricks and Twilio, enabling automatic rotation of credentials used by data pipelines and messaging applications. You can configure rotation from the AWS Management Console or API without writing custom rotation Lambda functions. Databricks support covers personal access tokens and service principal OAuth client secrets, preserving token scopes on rotation. Twilio support covers API keys and Auth Tokens, and both integrations are available in all Regions where managed external secrets is supported.

📁 AWS Security Hub now supports exporting findings directly to Amazon S3 in either CSV or JSON (OCSF) formats. This feature lets security teams export from any findings page — including Threats, Exposure, Vulnerabilities, Posture Management, Sensitive Data, and All Findings — without building custom extraction pipelines. Exports can be started on demand and delivered to an S3 bucket in your account. The JSON option aligns with the Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework (OCSF).

🔥 Amazon EC2 R8gd instances are now available in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany). These instances feature up to 11.4 TB of local NVMe SSD, are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors for up to 30% better performance versus Graviton3, and are built on the AWS Nitro System. They include up to 50 Gbps network bandwidth, up to 40 Gbps EBS bandwidth, configurable bandwidth weighting, and EFA support on the largest sizes.

🚀 Amazon EC2 R8g instances are now available in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany), powered by AWS Graviton4 processors. These instances deliver up to 30% better performance than Graviton3-based instances and are optimized for memory-intensive workloads such as databases, in-memory caches, and real-time analytics. Built on the AWS Nitro System, R8g instances offer enhanced performance and security with larger sizes, higher vCPU and memory configurations, and increased networking and EBS bandwidth.

🛠️ Amazon Bedrock now supports the reasoning.summary parameter for OpenAI models via the Responses API, enabling requesters to receive a human-readable summary of a model’s reasoning alongside its answer. This helps developers understand the model’s approach to complex tasks like coding, analysis, and multi-step problem solving. The summary appears in the summary array of the reasoning output item and is available for all OpenAI models on Bedrock across AWS Regions that support OpenAI GPT models.

🔒 AWS Lambda now supports OAuth authentication for self-managed Apache Kafka event source mappings (ESM), including both customer-run clusters and managed services like Confluent Cloud, Aiven, and Redpanda. This enables Lambda Kafka consumers to authenticate through enterprise identity providers such as Amazon Cognito or Okta, aligning Kafka ESM authentication with organizational identity and access policies. The feature is available in all commercial AWS Regions where self-managed Kafka ESM is provided and can be configured via the Console, API, CLI, CloudFormation, or SAM.

📁 Amazon Quick now supports uploading PowerPoint and Word brand templates so organizations can generate presentations and documents that adhere to approved visual identities. Brand managers can import templates or connect file stores like SharePoint; Quick extracts colors, fonts, logos, layouts and rules for review and publication. The tool enforces template rules when creating assets, explains rule violations, and recommends on‑brand alternatives while admins control publishing permissions.

🛠️ Cloudflare welcomes the Deno team to collaborate on making the workerd runtime easier to self-host and production-ready. The partnership will merge ideas and code from Deno's celld project to address current gaps, notably scalable Durable Objects support for self-hosted deployments. Cloudflare emphasizes that Workers were built to be different because they are better, and that open source workerd already provides an escape hatch for customers.

🚀 Amazon EC2 C8gd and M8gd instances with up to 11.4 TB of local NVMe SSD storage are now available in additional regions. C8gd expands to Europe (Stockholm), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), and Asia Pacific (Seoul), while M8gd expands to Europe (Stockholm), US West (N. California), and Asia Pacific (Singapore). Powered by AWS Graviton4 processors, these instances deliver up to 30% better performance than Graviton3-based instances and offer enhanced I/O and networking capabilities.

🛠️ Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports custom Tooling blueprints, enabling administrators to define project foundations using their own AWS CloudFormation templates. Administrators can tailor environments to organization-specific requirements, including IAM role names and custom permissions boundaries. Templates are validated at registration and after deployment, support a wide range of CloudFormation resources, and work across accounts and Regions.

🚀 Amazon Bedrock now offers Ultrafast mode for OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Sol, delivering accelerated inference for latency-sensitive workloads. The Bedrock inference engine provides the performance, security, and reliability suited for production applications. Use Ultrafast for real-time coding assistants, interactive agents, and customer-facing experiences that demand rapid, high-quality responses. Established AWS controls support workload security, access governance, and auditability.

🛠️ Amazon RDS for Oracle now offers a self-service minor version upgrade precheck via the rdsadmin.rdsadmin_precheck_tasks.precheck_minor_upgrade procedure, letting you detect and fix upgrade blockers before the maintenance window. RDS now also emits a new event, RDS-EVENT-0596, when a DB instance begins accepting connections during patching, enabling earlier application reconnection and reduced downtime. These features are available in all AWS commercial and GovCloud (US) Regions where RDS for Oracle is offered.

🔒 AWS Network Firewall now supports wildcard matching in container attribute-based inspection filters for Amazon EKS and Amazon ECS, allowing administrators to define patterns that match multiple container workloads in a single rule. This eliminates the need to create individual container associations for each variant and simplifies management in dynamic container environments. Wildcard patterns such as app=payments-* automatically cover variants like payments-api, payments-worker, and payments-cron. The feature is available in all Regions where container attribute-based inspection is supported.

🗺️ Cloudflare redesigned Radar to make global Internet trends more approachable while preserving technical depth. The updated landing centers a live-feeling map for traffic and outages, replaces dense widgets with a tabbed flow, and aligns Radar’s look with Cloudflare’s broader design system. The redesign aims to help journalists, policymakers, and everyday users explore real-time insights across security, performance, and traffic.

🗺️ Cloudflare has redesigned Radar to make global Internet trends more approachable while preserving technical depth. The updated landing page replaces a dense bento layout with a map-led experience and tabbed data flow, highlighting outages and traffic as entry points. The design aligns Radar with Cloudflare’s broader brand and component system to increase trust, readability, and cross-audience usability.

🔒 Microsoft will add support for third-party deepfake detection and impersonation protection in Teams meetings, with both features slated for general availability in November after a global rollout. The integration will surface detection signals from certified providers and enable in-meeting experiences and controls to respond to synthetic audio and video. Teams will also warn users about potential impersonation attempts by surfacing risk indicators to help users make informed decisions. These updates follow recent Teams security moves such as QR code blurring, stricter guest and bot controls, and admin locking of external users.

🛠️ Amazon GameLift Servers now supports CPU burstability for container fleets, allowing developers to pack containers based on typical CPU needs while permitting short runtime CPU bursts during peak demand. This opt-in feature is configured per container group, supports high-density deployments without sacrificing peak performance, and is included at no additional cost. It is available in all AWS Regions that support container fleets, excluding China Regions.

🔔 AWS announces feature-level availability notifications and enhanced filters in AWS Builder Center for AWS Capabilities by Region. Builders can subscribe to service- or feature-level notifications and receive in-app alerts and a weekly email digest for selected Regions, including an 'All regions' option that covers future Region launches. New filters let users view API operations and CloudFormation resources by availability status and compare Regions by shared or differing availability across more than 19,000 API operations and 5,000 resource types.