All news with #product update tag

🔔 Amazon Connect Customer now offers points-based scoring to evaluate human and AI agent performance, giving managers greater flexibility to assign importance to individual criteria. With this model, scores are the sum of points earned rather than percentages that must total 100. Managers can combine criteria, exclude items from scoring, or award bonus points to reflect business priorities. The feature is available in all regions where Amazon Connect Customer is offered.

📡 AWS IoT Core now includes an InfluxDB rule action that sends time-series data from connected IoT devices directly to InfluxDB-compatible databases. The integration converts device telemetry to InfluxDB line protocol and supports writing to Amazon Timestream or self-hosted InfluxDB. It offers both device-side and server-side batching to optimize cost and throughput. The feature is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB is supported.

🛠️ Amazon Connect Customer now lets agents change or assign a customer profile on a case after it has been opened. This update helps correct mislinked cases and allows profiles to be added later when customer identity is unknown at creation, such as shared numbers or pending verification. Amazon Connect Cases is available in multiple AWS regions including US, Canada, Europe, Asia Pacific, and Africa, with documentation and getting started resources provided by AWS.

🔔 Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now supports minor releases 18.6, 17.11, 16.15, 15.19, and 14.24. We recommend upgrading to these versions to address prior CVEs and to benefit from community bug fixes and improvements. You can apply upgrades during scheduled maintenance with automatic minor version upgrades, and orchestrate phased rollouts using AWS Organizations Upgrade Rollout Policy. Use Blue/Green deployments to minimize downtime for upgrades.

🔔 AWS Lambda has opened public preview for managed runtimes starting with Node.js 26 and Python 3.15. This preview lets customers, partners, and language communities test upcoming runtimes and provide feedback before general availability. Preview runtimes may change and are not covered by the Lambda SLA or AWS support plans, so they should not be used for production. The preview uses the same runtime identifiers as GA, enabling automatic graduation when released.

🛡️ Amazon GameLift Servers now includes Enhanced DDoS Protection, automatically active when you run game servers with no configuration required. The feature provides gaming-optimized traffic shaping to mitigate common network and transport layer attacks such as UDP reflection and SYN floods. It complements AWS Shield Standard and integrates with the Player Gateway relay option for higher-risk games.

🔔 Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition now supports PostgreSQL 18.4, 17.10, 16.14, 15.18, and 14.23 bringing community bug fixes and Aurora-specific improvements. Automatic minor version upgrades can be applied during scheduled maintenance windows and can be orchestrated across accounts using the AWS Organizations Upgrade Rollout Policy. Enable automatic upgrades to address known CVEs and simplify large-scale operations. Aurora continues to offer high performance, global resilience, serverless scale-to-zero compute, and improved I/O price-performance.

🛠️ Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now integrates Ray with built-in observability, resilient distributed training, accelerated inference, and managed development environments. Data scientists can create and manage Ray clusters from SageMaker Studio, attach JupyterLab or a local IDE for interactive iteration, and use Grafana and Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus for one-click observability. HyperPod provides node auto-recovery, hung job detection, tiered checkpointing, and task governance to improve GPU utilization and reliability, plus a tiered KV cache and JumpStart model deployment for faster Ray Serve inference.

🔐 Amazon MSK Replicator now supports OAuth 2.0 (SASL/OAUTHBEARER) authentication for replicating data from external Apache Kafka clusters—including on-premises, self-managed on AWS, or other clouds—to Amazon MSK Provisioned clusters. This enables replication from clusters using OAuth/OIDC for migration, disaster recovery, and hybrid or multi-cloud data distribution. MSK Replicator continues to automate replication without custom tooling and preserves topic names while preventing replication loops and synchronizing consumer offsets.

🚀 AWS Neuron 2.32.0 delivers NKI 0.6.0 with on-device top-K, variable-length all-gather, and new loop constructs for data-dependent iteration. The release includes 13 new NKI Library kernels for Mixture of Experts (MoE) training and sparse attention, plus PyTorch references for 22 additional kernels. Runtime collectives now support variable-size all-gather, reduce-scatter, and all-to-all on Trn2 and Trn3, and the vLLM Neuron plugin moves to vLLM 0.24.0 across Neuron AMIs and containers.

🔔 Amazon Bedrock announces reduced pricing for OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol, reflecting OpenAI's API price cuts. Sol now costs $4 per million input tokens and $20 per million output tokens, representing a 20% reduction on input and a 33.3% reduction on output pricing. The promotional rates apply at least through November 21, 2026, making high-volume, agentic coding and research workflows more cost-effective.

🤖 Managers can now query Amazon Connect Customer in plain language to get answers, evidence, and recommended fixes in seconds. The feature searches over 150 metrics across self-service, agent, and queue performance to identify what matters and explain why. Users can start with broad questions and drill down—receiving prioritized actions with confidence scores and projected impact. Available in all Regions that support Amazon Connect Customer AI Agents.

🎮 Microsoft says the August 2026 Windows update (KB5121003) has triggered game crashes, freezes, and EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION errors on systems running Windows 11 24H2 and 25H2. The company is investigating and attributes the problem to drivers or components installed by peripherals with RGB lighting that include files named like inpoutx64. Affected titles include ARC Raiders, MARVEL Tōkon: Fighting Souls, and The Finals. Developers such as Embark Studios offered a temporary workaround involving removal of the inpoutx64 driver while Microsoft continues its investigation.

📣 Microsoft is rolling out a Classic Outlook theme for Outlook on the web and New Outlook for Windows as part of a targeted release starting mid-August and completing by late September. The theme will become generally available worldwide between late September and late October. When enabled, it adjusts visual styling, layout, typography, icons, and selected interactions while respecting administrator settings and not migrating users automatically.

🔔 Amazon Redshift now supports concurrency scaling for refreshes of Amazon Kinesis Data Streams-connected streaming materialized views starting with patch P203. Redshift Streaming Ingestion enables low-latency ingestion from KDS into streaming materialized views, letting each refresh process hundreds of megabytes per second. With concurrency scaling enabled, streaming workloads automatically scale, freeing the main cluster or Serverless workgroup to run higher-priority jobs. This capability is available immediately in all AWS regions where Redshift is offered.

🚀 Amazon EC2 C8gd, M8gd, and R8gd instances with up to 11.4 TB of local NVMe SSD are now available in more regions. Powered by AWS Graviton4, they deliver up to 30% better performance than Graviton3 and improved I/O and query speeds for demanding workloads. Instances offer up to 50 Gbps network, EBS bandwidth controls, Elastic Fabric Adapter on larger sizes, and 12 sizes per family to suit diverse compute, balanced, and memory-intensive use cases.

🧭 Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Memory now accepts non-conversational JSON payloads on the CreateEvent API, enabling extraction of long-term memories from structured data. Developers can submit JSON events up to 100 KB—such as behavioral events, activity logs, and system events—without converting them into synthetic conversations. The pipeline applies all four extraction strategies: semantic, user preference, summarization, and episodic, and the feature is available now in all supported regions.

🔒 Starting today, CloudFront can use Origin Access Control (OAC) to restrict access to Amazon S3 Multi-Region Access Points (MRAP), allowing only designated CloudFront distributions to reach MRAP origins. This native integration removes the need for customers to compute and forward SigV4a Authorization headers via custom Lambda@Edge functions. CloudFront now signs requests to S3 MRAP origins, improving cache-miss fill performance from the nearest replicated region and enforcing OAC-secured access. The feature is available globally except in the CloudFront China region and can be enabled via Console, SDK, CLI, or CloudFormation with no additional fees.

🔐 Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) now supports managed certificate authority (CA) rotation with automated safeguards. Amazon EKS will manage the rotation lifecycle and update AWS-managed components to trust the successor CA, while customers must replace worker nodes and update external clients to trust the new CA. Features include advance expiration notifications, automatic successor CA appending and activation, and rollback capability. The feature is available at no additional cost in all commercial AWS Regions and can be managed via CLI, APIs, CloudFormation, and the AWS console.

🔐 Partners can now authorize AWS Partner Central agents from third-party tools like Amazon Quick and Kiro using AWS Sign-In and OAuth, eliminating the need for separate SigV4 proxies or console sign-ins. This change lets partners use their existing AWS identities, IAM permissions, and governance controls to grant agent access without extra authentication software. Administrators retain control via IAM policies, token introspection and revocation, dynamic client registration, and CloudTrail auditing. OAuth support is available through the Partner Central agents MCP Server in US East (N. Virginia).