All news with #product update tag

🧩 Amazon Redshift now supports nine new array functions for the SUPER data type — ARRAY_CONTAINS, ARRAY_DISTINCT, ARRAY_EXCEPT, ARRAY_INTERSECTION, ARRAY_POSITION, ARRAY_POSITIONS, ARRAY_SORT, ARRAY_UNION, and ARRAYS_OVERLAP. These functions enable searching, comparing, sorting, and transforming arrays directly in SQL, reducing the need for custom PartiQL logic. They simplify nested-data analytics and are available in all AWS Regions, including GovCloud.

🗂️ Microsoft will add granular file- and folder-level restore to Microsoft 365 Backup, allowing administrators to browse, search and recover individual files from SharePoint and OneDrive restore points rather than restoring entire sites or drives. The capability is limited to tenants with the backup service enabled and requires the SharePoint Backup Administrator role; end users will not see restore operations. Public preview began in early March 2026 and Microsoft expects general availability between late April and early May 2026. Customers are advised to review coverage, train backup administrators, and update recovery runbooks to incorporate file- and folder-level restores.

🚀Amazon EC2 R8g instances are now available in AWS Middle East (UAE), AWS Mexico (Central), and AWS Europe (Zurich). Powered by AWS Graviton4 processors, these R8g instances deliver up to 30% better performance compared to Graviton3-based R7g instances and are optimized for memory‑intensive workloads like databases, in‑memory caches, and real‑time analytics. R8g offers 12 sizes (including two bare metal options), scales up to 48xlarge and 1.5 TB of memory, and provides enhanced networking (up to 50 Gbps) and up to 40 Gbps EBS bandwidth. AWS also recommends migration support via the Graviton Fast Start program and Porting Advisor to help move workloads to Graviton4.

🔁 Amazon Redshift Serverless now automatically preserves datashare permissions when restoring a snapshot to the same producer namespace. This removes the prior need for administrators to manually re-grant permissions and recreate consumer databases after a restore. The change reduces administrative overhead and streamlines disaster recovery and testing workflows. EventBridge notifications report permission drops, revoked consumer access, or public-access changes during restore operations.

🛡️Multi-party approval (MPA) administrators can now run manual test approvals to verify that configured approval teams are reachable, active, and correctly selected. Administrators initiate baseline test sessions through the AWS Organizations console to detect inactive members, confirm notification delivery, and validate approval counts and thresholds. AWS recommends periodic checks (every 90 days) to maintain governance and operational readiness before relying on approvals for sensitive operations. This capability is available in all AWS commercial regions.

🔆 AWS has added light mode support to Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio for IAM-based domains, allowing users to choose between dark and light visual themes. The addition improves readability in bright environments and offers a familiar look for customers who prefer lighter interfaces. In Studio, select Profile > customize appearance to switch modes. The setting persists across browsers and devices and complements the existing dark mode to give users full control over their development environment's appearance.

🚀 AWS has expanded Database Savings Plans to include Amazon OpenSearch Service and Amazon Neptune Analytics, enabling up to 35% savings in exchange for a one-year usage commitment with no upfront payment. The discount automatically applies to eligible serverless and provisioned instances regardless of engine, instance family, size, deployment option, or Region (China excluded). Coverage is available immediately in all Regions except China, and customers can purchase or analyze Savings Plans via the Billing console or AWS CLI using console recommendations or the Savings Plans Purchase Analyzer for customized estimates.

🟡 This guide introduces Nano Banana image models—built on the Gemini 3 family—and explains how they combine deep reasoning and live web search to produce precise visuals. It summarizes technical specifications (context windows, resolutions, aspect ratios, supported inputs/outputs), practical prompting best practices, five prompting frameworks, and integration patterns with Veo and Lyria. The guide also highlights multilingual text rendering, provenance safeguards, and workflow tips for creative and production use.

🔍 AWS Elastic Beanstalk now offers AI-powered environment analysis that collects recent events, instance health, and logs and sends them to Amazon Bedrock for automated diagnosis. Developers and operations teams can request an analysis from the Elastic Beanstalk console or use the AWS CLI with RequestEnvironmentInfo and RetrieveEnvironmentInfo. The feature returns step-by-step, environment-specific troubleshooting recommendations to help reduce mean time to resolution and is available in Regions where both services exist.

🏆 Fortinet has been named a Gartner Peer Insights™ Customers’ Choice for SD‑WAN for the seventh consecutive year, reflecting sustained customer confidence. In the February 2026 Voice of the Customer report, Fortinet Secure SD‑WAN earned a 4.8/5 overall rating and a 96% willingness to recommend based on 202 verified reviews through December 31, 2025. Customers highlight integrated networking and security via FortiOS, ASIC-accelerated performance, and centralized orchestration with FortiManager as key differentiators in deployment, support, and operational simplicity.

🔒 The Fortinet NSE 8 Cybersecurity Expert credential represents the pinnacle of technical achievement within Fortinet’s certification program, validating deep design, configuration, and troubleshooting skills for complex enterprise environments. Candidates must demonstrate theoretical, conceptual, and practical mastery, plus extensive real-world experience and continuous learning. The article highlights Swedish partner Avoki, which now counts four NSE 8s among its senior engineers, and notes the company’s 2026 integration into iteam. Readers are invited to sign up for an ebook launching March 17 to learn more about paths to NSE 8.

🔁 Amazon OpenSearch Service introduces a new Capacity Optimized deployment option for blue/green updates, allowing domain updates to complete even when full instance capacity is not available. The option attempts a full-capacity swap first and automatically falls back to batched, incremental updates if necessary, reducing the number of extra instances required during the process. This approach can take longer than a full swap but avoids waiting for capacity; customers can choose the strategy in the console or API. AWS recommends Capacity Optimized for clusters with 30 or more nodes.

🩺 AWS announced the AWS HealthLake data transformation agent (preview), an AI-powered feature that converts CCDA clinical documents into FHIR R4-compliant resources. Developers can run synchronous conversions, preview and validate transformed FHIR Bundles in seconds, and use a scalable bulk import workflow that matches patients and logs ingestion details. The console offers AI-assisted natural language template customization plus manual editing before publishing for production.

🚀 Cloudflare rebuilt the Cloudflare One Client’s proxy mode to use QUIC streams and HTTP/3 CONNECT, removing the prior L4→L3 translation via smoltcp and deprecating WireGuard for proxy mode. The change keeps traffic at Layer 4, enabling native congestion and flow control, transport tunability, and substantially better throughput and latency in internal tests. Administrators should upgrade to minimum client version 2025.8.779.0 and enable MASQUE local proxy mode to benefit from these gains.

🚀 Amazon OpenSearch Service has expanded the OpenSearch Optimized instance family with OR2 and OM2 in AWS GovCloud (US-East, US-West). In internal benchmarks, OR2 delivers up to 26% higher indexing throughput versus OR1 (and up to 70% versus R7g), while OM2 delivers up to 15% higher throughput versus OR1 (and up to 66% versus M7g). Both instance types pair compute and local caching with S3-based managed storage, offer pay-as-you-go and reserved pricing, and come in a range of sizes to support indexing-heavy workloads.

⏱️ AWS Batch now supports a configurable scale-down delay for managed compute environments, letting operators keep instances running after jobs complete to reduce relaunch latency. The new minScaleDownDelayMinutes parameter accepts values from 20 minutes up to 1 week and is applied per instance based on when it last finished a job. You can set the delay when creating or updating a compute environment via the API or Management Console; the feature is available in all AWS Regions where AWS Batch is supported.

🚀 Azure now supports instant access for incremental snapshots of Premium SSD v2 (Pv2) and Ultra Disk, enabling immediate restores and near-full performance from creation. Restored disks hydrate rapidly and deliver single-digit millisecond reads and sub-millisecond writes without waiting for background copy. This reduces recovery time for rollbacks, maintenance, and rapid scale-out of stateful applications. Enable the feature via the existing snapshot API by adding the InstantAccessDurationMins parameter.

🔐 Chrome has launched an initiative to protect HTTPS from future quantum threats by redesigning certificate mechanics with Merkle Tree Certificates (MTCs). Rather than enlarging X.509 certificates, MTCs use compact Merkle proofs and a single signed tree head to authenticate sites, reducing TLS handshake data and embedding transparency into issuance. Chrome is testing MTCs with Cloudflare and plans a phased rollout through 2027.

🔔 AWS Config now supports 30 additional AWS resource types across key services including Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and Amazon Cognito. If you have recording enabled for all resource types, AWS Config will automatically begin tracking these new additions. The newly supported types are also available for use in Config rules and Config aggregators. This update expands visibility for discovery, assessment, audit, and remediation across Regions where each resource is available.

🔍 AWS has enhanced Amazon OpenSearch Service Cluster Insights with two new detections: Cluster Overload and Suboptimal Sharding Strategy. The updates surface shard imbalances and elevated resource utilization (CPU, memory, disk I/O, throughput, and disk utilization), identify affected resources, and provide clear mitigation and scale-up recommendations. These insights are available at no additional cost for OpenSearch 2.17+ in Regions where the OpenSearch UI is offered.