All news with #product update tag

🚀 AWS announces general availability of Neuron 2.30.0, delivering NKI 0.4.0 with Trainium3-specific hardware capabilities, 22 new NKI Library kernels, and expanded Neuron Agentic Development skills to aid model porting and validation. The release targets ML developers optimizing training and inference or porting models to AWS Trainium and Inferentia, and it is available in Regions supporting Trn1/Trn2/Trn3 and Inf1/Inf2 instances.

🚀 Amazon RDS Multi-AZ instances now use ENA Express to accelerate cross-AZ replication traffic. ENA Express leverages AWS's Scalable Reliable Datagram (SRD) protocol to deliver up to 25 Gbps single-flow bandwidth, improve congestion control and multi-pathing, and reduce latency variability for synchronous replication. This enhancement increases write throughput and lowers write latencies for write-intensive workloads and is available at no extra charge for several RDS engines across numerous regions. To enable on existing instances, perform a start-stop or scale compute action and consult the user guide for supported instance types.

🛈 Amazon VPC IP Address Manager (IPAM) now supports tags on IPAM pool allocations, letting customers organize, govern, and control access to individual IP address allocations using existing tagging workflows. Tags can be applied at creation or added to existing allocations and referenced in AWS Identity and Access Management and Service Control Policies for centralized governance. Administrators can enforce environment-based allocation controls and teams can search and filter allocations by tag across accounts. The feature is available in all AWS Regions where IPAM is supported at no additional cost.

🧭 Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio IAM domains now include an interactive interface for creating and managing feature groups in SageMaker Feature Store, removing the need to write code for common feature management tasks. This launch makes feature management accessible to data scientists, ML engineers, and business analysts from a single collaborative environment. Users can discover and search existing features, create and modify feature groups, view definitions and schemas, and monitor data ingestion status without API calls. Features created elsewhere appear immediately in SageMaker Unified Studio when sharing the same IAM role, enabling seamless workflows across the ML lifecycle.

🔐 AWS Security Agent now generates verification scripts for penetration test findings to help teams reproduce and validate discovered vulnerabilities. The tool creates ready-to-run scripts for each confirmed finding that include setup instructions, documented environment variables, and redacted sensitive values. Teams download the script, configure variables, and execute it against targets to streamline triage and speed remediation. Verification scripts are available in all Regions where AWS Security Agent is supported.

🔄 Amazon WorkSpaces now supports WorkSpace Migration for all Linux operating systems offered by the service, enabling seamless migration between Linux OS versions and distributions. The feature automatically transfers user data from a Linux WorkSpace’s home directory to the new WorkSpace, removing the need for manual data copying. Supported in AWS commercial and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions where WorkSpaces Personal is available, the capability helps streamline OS upgrades and migrations without disrupting end users.

🔒 AWS Clean Rooms now supports mutable, fine-grained payment configurations that let collaboration members flexibly assign payment responsibilities. Customers can designate which partners are authorized to pay for specific cost types—such as SQL queries, PySpark jobs, ML training and inference, and synthetic data generation—after a collaboration is created. Authorized payers can be added or removed via change requests that require member approval; SQL and PySpark analyses may have multiple payers and one can be chosen at submission.

🔍 Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights query language gains 13 new commands and functions to enhance log querying, transformation, and analysis. New features include string and numeric functions like round, startswith, endswith, case, regex_replace, and haversine, encoding/decoding functions such as urlencode, urldecode, base64encode, base64decode, and parse/analysis commands like parse logfmt, expand, and relevantfields. These additions enable prefix filtering, inline Base64 decoding, logfmt parsing, JSON array expansion, geographic distance calculation, and automatic surfacing of relevant fields across high-cardinality groups.

🚀 Amazon EMR now supports Apache Spark 4.0.2 across all deployment models, adding ANSI SQL and VARIANT data type support to simplify data pipelines. The release enables fine-grained access control (FGAC) for read and write operations on Lake Formation registered tables and adopts Apache Iceberg v3 for stronger transaction guarantees and lineage tracking. Enhanced streaming capabilities improve stateful processing and monitoring for real-time applications.

🔧 Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now automatically creates Glue connections across subnets to enable job retries when a primary subnet becomes unavailable. Administrators define a domain VPC with multiple private subnets and the system provisions connectors for new projects so retries can run on alternate subnets without manual intervention. This reduces unplanned data-pipeline downtime and helps meet SLAs across AWS Regions where SageMaker Unified Studio is available.

🧩 Amazon SageMaker Inference now supports OpenAI-compatible APIs, enabling existing tools and frameworks like the OpenAI SDK, LangChain, and Strands Agents to connect directly to SageMaker endpoints. Switching requires only changing an endpoint URL, with no custom integration code or SDK wrappers. You can continue using your current authentication approach while choosing GPU instances, keeping data in your VPC, running open source or fine-tuned models, and leveraging auto-scaling policies. This capability is available today across multiple AWS regions with AWS credentials and automatic token refresh for production use.

🛠️ At Google I/O 2026, Google announced expanded integration between AI Studio and Google Cloud, allowing new users to deploy up to two full-stack apps on the Starter Tier without a billing account. Developers can now choose between Firestore (non-relational) and Cloud SQL (relational) with Firebase Auth for unified authentication. The AI agent can infer or provision the appropriate database, provision resources, generate schema and code, and deploy apps directly to Cloud Run for rapid prototyping.

🔒 Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition now supports community MySQL 8.4, aligning Aurora version numbers with community releases and managing underlying patches for customers. The release enforces stronger security defaults—TLS 1.2/1.3 only and caching_sha2_password for new accounts—and offers customizable password validation via DB cluster parameter groups. Automated upgrade prechecks reduce upgrade risk, and multiple upgrade and migration paths are supported, including Blue/Green Deployments and AWS DMS.

🎯 AWS Deadline Cloud now lets users browse job attachment files directly within the Deadline Cloud monitor. The fully managed render management service handles uploads and downloads via Amazon S3, and the new capability shows files organized as inputs and outputs. Users can view attached assets in the browser or desktop monitor and download individual files without retrieving all job outputs.

🚀 Google AI Edge Portal now enables developers to benchmark and debug on-device LLMs across a physical lab of over 120 representative Android devices. It profiles initialization time, prefill and decode speeds, and peak memory usage across CPU, GPU, and NPU backends to surface real user-impacting metrics. The integrated Model Explorer visualizes model graphs, tensor shapes, and traces to speed root-cause analysis and collaboration.

🔧 AWS announced that AWS Transform now includes a modernization engine and broad file-format support to streamline network migrations. The engine analyzes and optimizes constructs across naming, sizing, security, and structure while surfacing conflicts with existing VPCs in target accounts, replacing days of manual review with instant guidance. Customers can upload network configuration files in any format for translation into AWS-compatible networks, review and edit mapped VPCs or subnets, and retain control before provisioning.

🚀 Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (Amazon MWAA) now supports Apache Airflow 3.2, the latest major release of the open-source orchestration framework. The update brings data-aware scheduling, asset partitioning, and expanded Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) features to simplify pipeline control and approvals. Other enhancements include Grid View virtualization, full XCom UI management, and async callable support in PythonOperator. Environments can be launched or upgraded in all supported MWAA regions via the AWS Console.

🔐 Microsoft has reached general availability for Entra-Only identities for Azure Files SMB, enabling native Microsoft Entra ID authentication for SMB file shares using cloud-only identities. This eliminates the need for on-premises Active Directory, Entra Connect, or managed domain controllers, simplifying architecture and reducing operational overhead. Entra acts as the Kerberos Key Distribution Center (KDC), issuing Kerberos tickets while preserving SMB protocol compatibility, and supports VDI scenarios with FSLogix, Managed Identities, macOS clients, and NTFS ACL editing. The capability is supported across HDD and SSD shares, available at no extra cost, and is being extended to sovereign cloud regions.

📍 Microsoft confirmed that some macOS systems are showing non-dismissible location-permission prompts from Microsoft Teams. The company says a recent macOS security update is not retaining users' location-permission selections, causing the dialog to reappear. Microsoft is working with Apple and exploring a Teams-side mitigation while advising a manual macOS settings workaround. Affected users should toggle location access for Microsoft Teams and Microsoft Teams ModuleHost in System Settings.

🌐 Amazon Managed Grafana now supports dual-stack connectivity, allowing workspaces to communicate over both IPv4 and IPv6. Dual-stack mode requires workspaces to run Grafana 10.4 or later and is available in all regions where the service is generally available. This capability reduces the need to manage overlapping VPC address spaces and eases migrations to IPv6 while retaining IPv4 compatibility. Enable dual-stack through the console, API, or CLI and consult the Amazon Managed Grafana User Guide for configuration details.