All news with #product update tag

🔒 This article describes a pre-built Tines workflow that automates Just-In-Time (JIT) access to applications by orchestrating Okta, Jira, and Slack (or Teams) for request intake, approval, provisioning, and revocation. Users submit a self-service request via a customizable Tines Page; approvers receive interactive notifications and can approve instantly. On approval the workflow adds the user to the correct Okta group, logs actions in Jira for auditability, and enforces a timed revocation. The outcome is faster access for users, enforced least privilege, and a clear, auditable trail without manual click-ops.

🔁 AWS Lambda now supports cross-account access for DynamoDB Streams event-source mappings, enabling streams in one account to trigger Lambda functions in another. By attaching a resource-based policy to a DynamoDB stream, owners can grant functions in other accounts permission to consume change events without replicating data. The capability is generally available across AWS Commercial and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions and can be configured via the Console, CLI, SDKs, CloudFormation, or APIs. This reduces operational overhead and simplifies multi-account event-driven architectures.

📦 Amazon EBS now permits up to four Elastic Volumes modifications per volume within a rolling 24-hour window. Elastic Volumes lets you increase size, change volume type, and adjust performance without detaching volumes or restarting instances, and you may start a new modification immediately after the previous one completes so long as fewer than four modifications were initiated in the prior 24 hours. This capability is automatically enabled in all commercial AWS Regions, AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, and China Regions.

🔧 Amazon Redshift Serverless introduces queue-based query resource management. You can create dedicated query queues with customized monitoring rules and metrics-based predicates to control workload behavior, including automated responses such as aborting long-running or resource-heavy queries. Queues are assignable to user roles and query groups and operate independently, replacing prior workgroup-wide QMR. The feature is available in all regions that support Redshift Serverless and can be managed via the AWS Console and Redshift APIs.

📊 AWS Data Exports now surfaces granular Amazon Bedrock operation types in billing outputs, replacing generic "Usage" labels with explicit actions such as InvokeModelInference and InvokeModelStreamingInference. These operation values appear in Legacy CUR and CUR 2.0 via the line_item_operation column, in FOCUS exports via x_Operation, and as Operation dimension values in the Cost Explorer API. The visibility applies across all Bedrock foundation models and is intended to help FinOps and cost optimization teams perform more precise usage tracking and billing analysis.

📊 AWS Data Exports now surfaces granular operation types for Amazon Bedrock in cost reports, replacing generic "Usage" labels with explicit operations such as InvokeModelInference and InvokeModelStreamingInference. These operation values appear in the line_item_operation column for Legacy CUR and CUR 2.0, the x_Operation column in FOCUS exports, and as Operation dimension values in the AWS Cost Explorer API. The change applies to all foundation models on Bedrock and is intended to help FinOps and cost optimization teams analyze and optimize model-driven spend.

🔍 OpenAI is internally testing a feature codenamed Agora, with references appearing in its web, Android, and iOS apps. The clues point to a potential cross-platform capability — possibly a unified client, a social or group interaction layer (reflecting the Greek meaning of 'agora'), or a communications feature that may leverage agora.ai's audio/video SDK. Observers also link the work to OpenAI's hardware experiments, and a recent update improved ChatGPT's dictation accuracy for logged-in users.

🤖 Google is testing integration of Gemini into Chrome for Android, with Chromium source references indicating an agentic feature codenamed Glic. A Google engineer noted the browser binary increases because of the added support code, suggesting significant new functionality. The integration may provide contextual, agent-like actions such as page summaries and follow-up queries, similar to mobile copilots. No release timetable has been announced.

🔐 Google is rolling out a new Personal Intelligence capability in Gemini that can access information from Gmail, Google Photos, Search, YouTube and other Google products to generate more personalized responses. The feature is opt-in, off by default, and users can choose which apps to connect, disconnect them, or turn the feature off at any time. Google illustrates uses such as pulling tire specifications from photos and emails or extracting a license plate from an image to confirm vehicle details. The functionality is launching as a U.S. beta for eligible subscribers, and Google warns that the model can still produce inaccuracies or over-personalization, inviting users to provide feedback.

🌐 Amazon VPC Route Server is now available in 16 additional AWS Regions, bringing total availability to 30 regions. The service simplifies dynamic routing between virtual appliances by letting those appliances advertise routes via BGP and automatically update VPC route tables for subnets and internet gateways. This expansion broadens regional deployment choices for customers using third-party virtual network appliances and streamlines multi-region and hybrid routing architectures.

🟦Amazon has expanded VPC Route Server to 16 additional AWS Regions, bringing total availability to 30 regions worldwide. The service lets virtual appliances advertise routes using BGP and dynamically update VPC route tables associated with subnets and internet gateways. This expansion broadens deployment choices and helps customers apply consistent dynamic routing across more geographies. It simplifies management of virtual appliances and supports scalable, resilient network architectures.

🔒 AWS Transform custom now supports AWS PrivateLink and is available in the Europe (Frankfurt) Region in addition to US East (N. Virginia). The service automates repetitive code transformation tasks—language version upgrades, API migrations, and framework updates—using natural language, documentation, and code samples or AWS-managed transformations for Java, Python, and Node.js. With PrivateLink, customers can invoke Transform custom from an Amazon VPC without routing traffic over the public internet, helping address security and compliance requirements while enabling consistent, repeatable changes across large codebases.

📶 AWS IoT Device Management now offers Wi‑Fi Simple Setup (WSS) through its managed integrations feature. Developers can add QR code scanning so end users provision Wi‑Fi devices with a barcode scan, reducing manual configuration and support needs. WSS lets users store credentials in managed integrations; a new device scans a QR code, joins a hidden network broadcast by the IoT hub, and receives credentials securely for near zero‑touch onboarding. The feature is available in Canada (Central) and Europe (Ireland).

🔎 Comments to SQL in BigQuery introduces an AI-driven way to write queries by placing natural-language expressions inside SQL comments. The system analyzes surrounding SQL context and translates plain English prompts into executable BigQuery SQL across SELECT, FROM, WHERE, GROUP BY and other clauses. It supports iterative refinement and aims to help both non-SQL users and experienced analysts move faster.

⚠️ Microsoft confirmed a recent Windows 365 update is preventing some customers from signing in to their Cloud PC sessions. The disruption began Tuesday at 19:00 UTC after automated monitoring detected a spike in failed connection attempts, and engineers traced the problem to the update. Microsoft says the change was intended to improve security and is now analyzing it to determine mitigation and a permanent fix. As temporary workarounds, affected users can connect via the Windows App Web Client or use the Remote Desktop client to reach Azure Virtual Desktop.

🔔 Amazon Neptune now supports Graviton3-based R7g and Graviton4-based R8g instances in new regions: Asia Pacific (Hong Kong, Osaka, Singapore), Canada (Central) and US West (N. California). R7g introduces the first DDR5-equipped AWS database instances with up to 30 Gbps enhanced networking and up to 20 Gbps to Amazon EBS, while R8g offers larger sizes (up to 48xlarge) and an 8:1 memory-to-vCPU ratio. Graviton4 delivers up to 40% faster database performance versus Graviton3, and both families are priced about 16% lower than R6g. Customers can launch or upgrade via the AWS Management Console or CLI for Neptune engine versions 1.4.5 and above.

⚙️AWS has made the enhanced AWS Security Hub generally available, adding automation features to centralize and accelerate handling of security findings across accounts and Regions. The update integrates Security Hub CSPM into detection engines and provides real-time risk analytics, automated correlation, and enriched context to prioritize critical issues. Automation rules and integrations with EventBridge, Lambda, and ITSM tools like ServiceNow enable remediation, routing, and evidence collection to reduce manual triage and support compliance.

🚀 Amazon EC2 X8aedz instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai) and Asia Pacific (Seoul). These instances are powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors (code named Turin) and deliver the highest maximum CPU frequency in the cloud — 5 GHz. Built on sixth-generation AWS Nitro Cards, X8aedz targets EDA workloads and relational databases that need high single-thread performance and large memory capacity, pairing 5 GHz CPUs with local NVMe for faster memory-intensive processing.

🗣️ Amazon Web Services announced an update to Amazon Lex that adds a neural automatic speech recognition (ASR) model for English locales. The model, trained on data from multiple English-speaking regions, better recognizes conversational speech, non-native speakers, and regional accents, reducing repeated prompts and improving self-service success. Administrators can enable the capability by selecting the "Neural" option in a bot's locale speech recognition settings. The feature is available across all AWS commercial regions that support Amazon Connect and Lex.

🔒 AWS added two services — AWS Security Incident Response and AWS Transform — and the Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region to its PCI DSS certification scope. The updated PCI DSS package includes an Attestation of Compliance (AOC) and an AWS Responsibility Summary, both validated by Coalfire. Customers can retrieve the package in AWS Artifact, and AWS also published the PCI report package in NIST OSCAL JSON to enable machine-readable, automated compliance workflows.