All news with #product update tag

🔔 Amazon Redshift is generally available with two new RG instance sizes: rg.large and rg.12xlarge. These Graviton-powered instances promise up to 2.4x faster query performance than prior RA3 instances while reducing price per vCPU by about 30%, and they are available on the current P202 track. Migration from existing RA3 clusters is supported via Snapshot and Restore, Elastic Resize, or Classic Resize, and the instances are offered with On-Demand and 1- or 3-year Reserved options with No Upfront payment.

🔄 Amazon WorkSpaces Personal now offers automated rollback and support for migrating stopped WorkSpaces from PCoIP to the Amazon DCV streaming protocol. The update extends the console-based migration workflow and checkpoint snapshot support, enabling administrators to run large-scale migrations without manually starting stopped instances. These features are available in all AWS commercial and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions where WorkSpaces Personal is supported.

🔍 Microsoft is testing a faster, cleaner Windows Search experience for Insiders that emphasizes relevant local results over ads and promotional content. The update, announced by Windows search leads, is rolling out via the Experimental channel and Controlled Feature Rollout, with feature flags and a reboot check for access. Changes include clearer result sources, a setting to hide Store and web suggestions, improved two-character file search, better cloud-file visibility, and increased typo tolerance. Reliability fixes and additional improvements are coming soon.

🗂️ AWS Storage Gateway now supports copying file shares across gateways directly from the console. The feature reads the source share configuration and creates a new, compatible file share on the destination gateway, preserving settings where possible. A guided workflow highlights any configurations that need attention before creation, simplifying migrations such as upgrades to AL2023. This capability is available in commercial AWS Regions and can be started from the Storage Gateway console's file shares view.

📝 You can now write custom data directly into CloudFront access logs using a new helper method available from within CloudFront Functions. These lightweight JavaScript functions run at the edge for tasks like URL rewrites, header manipulation, and request routing. Use cf.logCustomData() from viewer request or response functions to embed values such as A/B test variants, authentication outcomes, or routing decisions into the access log record. The feature works with both real-time and standard (v2) logging, and there is no additional charge for using cf.logCustomData().

🛠️ Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus is now available in the Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region. The service is fully managed and Prometheus-compatible, enabling scalable monitoring and alerting on operational metrics. Customers can send up to 1 billion active metric series to a single workspace and create multiple workspaces per account. Availability in New Zealand expands regional coverage for customers using Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus.

🆕 Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) now supports 46 additional MongoDB aggregation operators and cursor methods in minor version 8.0.1. This expansion covers accumulators, trigonometry, bitwise aggregation, arithmetic, data size and type checks, timestamp functions, and new stages and cursor methods. The new operators are available in all regions where Amazon DocumentDB is offered and aim to simplify MongoDB workload migration without application code changes.

🔒 Amazon Web Services has added OpenAI’s privacy-filter to Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, offering a bidirectional token-classification model for PII detection and masking. The model is designed for fast, context-aware, tunable, high-throughput data sanitization workflows that can run on-premises. It detects PII spans like account numbers, addresses, emails, names, phones, URLs, dates, and secrets, labeling inputs in a single forward pass. Customers can deploy the model via the SageMaker Studio Models section or the SageMaker Python SDK.

🎙️ AWS added Voxtral-Mini-4B-Realtime-2602 to Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, a multilingual, low-latency speech-transcription model from Mistral AI. The model offers natively streaming architecture for real-time transcription across 13 languages and configurable delay/accuracy trade-offs. Customers can deploy it via the SageMaker Studio Models section or the SageMaker Python SDK for rapid integration into speech applications.

🔍 AWS added Qwen3-VL-Embedding-2B and Qwen3-Reranker-4B to Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, enabling modular search and retrieval pipelines. The embedding model creates multimodal vectors from text, images, screenshots, and video across 30+ languages, while the reranker scores query–document pairs across 100+ languages. Customers can deploy these models via SageMaker Studio or the SageMaker Python SDK with a few clicks.

📰 Amazon Web Services has added gemma-4-E2B-it, a multimodal instruction-tuned foundation model from Google DeepMind, to Amazon SageMaker JumpStart. The model supports text, image, audio inputs and text outputs with a built-in stepwise reasoning mode and broad capabilities including image and video understanding, OCR, function calling, and multilingual code assistance. Customers can deploy it from the SageMaker Studio Models section or via the SageMaker Python SDK for rapid integration into AWS AI workflows.

📰 OpenAI temporarily removed the five-hour usage restriction for Plus, Pro, and Business plans after a surge in demand for GPT-5.6 Sol over 48 hours. The company also reset current usage for all users and said it is rolling out efficiency improvements to reduce consumption by the model. This change affects how Codex and ChatGPT count local messages and cloud tasks against shared limits, giving users more uninterrupted access while preserving remaining weekly or plan-based caps.

📰 Anthropic has extended complimentary access to Claude Fable 5 for paid subscribers through July 19, 2026, allowing Pro, Max, Team, and eligible Enterprise seats to use the model without extra cost up to 50% of weekly subscription limits. The promotion also extends a 50% increase to Claude Code weekly usage limits. Fable 5 draws from the same weekly usage pool as other Claude models, uses credits faster, and the extension does not apply to Free users, standard Enterprise seats, usage-based Enterprise plans, or API access.

📍Amazon Location Service announced enhancements to its Places APIs, giving developers finer control over address formatting, multilingual place names, travel-optimized POI search, and drive-through data. Changes affect Geocode, ReverseGeocode, GetPlace, Suggest, Autocomplete, SearchNearby, and SearchText APIs. New parameters include AddressNamesMode, AddressNamesVariant, AddressTranslations, and TravelMode, plus a DriveThrough attribute and Parsing.AdditionalInfo in Geocode responses.

🛡️ AWS DMS Schema Conversion now supports Offline Source for Microsoft SQL Server, letting users extract metadata locally and upload it for conversion without direct database connectivity. This prevents firewall or VPN changes and simplifies security approvals while producing the same conversion results as connected workflows. Offline Source is suited for environments with strict access controls and is available for all DMS Schema Conversion targets at no extra conversion charge.

🚀 Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) now supports R8g.24xlarge and R8g.48xlarge instances powered by AWS Graviton4 processors with DDR5 memory. These instance sizes—R8g.24xlarge (96 vCPUs, 768 GiB) and R8g.48xlarge (192 vCPUs, 1,536 GiB)—deliver higher throughput and larger in-memory working sets for demanding workloads. Available for DocumentDB 5.0+ on Standard and IO-Optimized storage; customers can modify clusters via the Console, CLI, or SDK.

🧭 AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) Schema Conversion now integrates AI agent automation via the AWS MCP Server. Agents like Kiro, Claude Code, and Cursor can connect and run migration workflows from IDEs using natural language, performing tasks such as creating projects, browsing source metadata, converting schemas, and exporting results. The dms-schema-conversion skill provides predefined procedures and operational sequencing to guide agents and reduce trial-and-error, and agents can assist with converting stored procedures, functions, and triggers. This capability is available for all existing DMS Schema Conversion engine pairs at no additional charge; regional availability is listed on the Supported AWS Regions page.

🔔 AWS Partner Central now lets partners share qualifications across connected partner and seller accounts, enabling consolidation of partnership standing beyond revenue attribution. Partners can share Associate qualifications including specializations, certifications, and select program enrollments across subsidiary and primary accounts, with subsidiary display names updated to show affiliation and tier recalculated using combined scorecard metrics. Partner Revenue Measurement (PRM) continues to attribute combined revenue, while qualification sharing yields a unified public profile and consolidated scorecard. This capability is available today in all commercial AWS Regions and can be self-serviced through AWS Partner Central under Account Connections.

🚀 Amazon EC2 C8id, M8id, and R8id instances are now available in additional regions, including Asia Pacific (Mumbai) and multiple Europe Regions (London, Stockholm). Powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, they deliver up to 43% higher performance and 3.3x more memory bandwidth versus the prior generation. These instances offer up to 384 vCPUs, 3 TiB memory, and 22.8 TB NVMe SSD storage, and support Instance Bandwidth Configuration for flexible network and EBS allocation. Customers can purchase them via Savings Plans, On-Demand, and Spot offerings.

🚀 Amazon EC2 M8gd and R8gd instances are now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East) and (US-West). These Graviton4-powered instances provide up to 11.4 TB of local NVMe SSD storage, up to 50 Gbps network and 40 Gbps EBS bandwidth, and up to 30% better performance versus Graviton3. Customers can adjust network and EBS bandwidth by 25% using instance bandwidth weighting and use EFA on the largest sizes.