All news with #product update tag

🔧 Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (Amazon MWAA) Serverless now supports shared VPC subnets, removing a prior validation error when creating Serverless workflows with subnets shared via AWS Resource Access Manager (AWS RAM). This change aligns MWAA Serverless subnet ownership validation with MWAA Provisioned environments, enabling centrally managed network architectures to launch workflows in member accounts without workarounds. The update also benefits customers using Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio Workflows with shared VPC networking and is available in all Regions where MWAA Serverless is supported.

🛠️ Microsoft has extended hotpatching for Windows Server 2022 Datacenter: Azure Edition through October 2027, one year beyond the mainstream end date of October 2026. This extension is effective immediately and applies only to systems enrolled in Hotpatch updates, preserving the existing monthly hotpatch cadence. Hotpatching applies security fixes to in-memory code of running processes to avoid restarts, though updates from the regular channel still require reboots. The change helps maintain uptime and reduce servicing disruptions while non-hotpatch updates, such as non-security and .NET patches, still need restarts.

🔐 WhatsApp has begun global reservations for usernames to let users connect without sharing phone numbers. The optional feature allows creation and reservation of a unique username now, ahead of a wider rollout later this year. Users can also set a username key for extra protection, requiring both the exact username and key to message someone initially. Content creators and businesses may claim matching Instagram or Facebook names, and once enabled others cannot view a user's phone number.

🔍 Microsoft highlights tighter integration for PostgreSQL on Azure by embedding performance tools directly into Visual Studio Code. The PostgreSQL extension centralizes query authoring, server metrics, Azure‑specific telemetry, and Azure Advisor recommendations to shorten detection-to-resolution time. Enhanced query plan visualization and AI‑assisted analysis help teams troubleshoot and tune queries faster, while schema‑aware authoring and Entra ID integration support secure, consistent workflows at enterprise scale.

🖥️ Anthropic appears to be testing mobile support for Claude Cowork, enabling users to start and monitor long-running Claude tasks from their phones. Cowork, a desktop-focused agentic mode that performs extended knowledge-work tasks, can access files, generate documents and continue working in the background. Screenshots shared on X indicate the mobile experience will act as a remote control while the heavy processing remains on the user’s PC. Anthropic has not officially announced full mobile rollout yet.

🛠️ Cloudflare Workflows now supports saga rollbacks, letting developers declare per-step compensation logic directly in step.do() calls. This feature simplifies undoing partial work when later steps fail by running rollback handlers in reverse step-start order and preserving idempotency via idempotency keys. Rollback handlers are durable, configurable with retries and timeouts, emit lifecycle events, and execute only when the Workflow fails terminally.

🔐 Cloudflare announced self-managed OAuth, allowing any customer to create and manage OAuth clients for delegated access to the Cloudflare API. The company upgraded its underlying OAuth engine (Hydra) through staged 1.X and 2.X migrations, implemented blue‑green cutovers, and used queues to preserve revocations during the transition. Post‑upgrade improvements reduced latency and resource usage and enabled broader, safer integration patterns for developers.

🛈 Microsoft released optional preview update KB5095093 for Windows 11 24H2 and 25H2, installing build 26100.8737 and introducing new features and bug fixes. The update offers a new Point-in-Time restore capability that captures VSS-based restore points for up to 72 hours and simplifies rollback of the OS, apps, and files. It also fixes a Recycle Bin filename confirmation bug and brings improvements across Secure Boot, Netlogon, File Explorer, Bluetooth, Widgets, accessibility, and networking.

🚀 Amazon ElastiCache now supports Valkey 9.1 for node-based clusters, delivering higher throughput, improved memory efficiency, and stronger access control for multi-tenant workloads. The release includes a redesigned I/O threading model that boosts throughput up to 17%, reduces memory for small strings by up to 20%, and introduces database-level ACLs to scope user permissions. New commands such as HGETDEL, MSETEX, and CLUSTERSCAN simplify common application patterns, and additional main-thread and I/O-thread metrics improve operational visibility.

🚀 Migration Assistant for Amazon OpenSearch Service now includes an AI-assisted experience that simplifies moving self-managed Apache Solr, Elasticsearch, or OpenSearch deployments to OpenSearch Serverless or Managed Clusters. The assistant integrates with AI tools like Kiro and Claude Code to plan migrations, deploy infrastructure, and execute both historical and live traffic migration. It also adds live traffic capture and replay support for Solr and is available in all commercial AWS Regions and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions where OpenSearch Service is offered.

📰 Microsoft confirmed Windows 11 version 26H2 as the next feature update and has begun testing with Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel. The company says devices running Windows 11 24H2 and 25H2 can upgrade via a small 174 KB enablement package, while systems on 23H2 or older will need the full 6.5 GB update. Microsoft also published a whitepaper explaining the shared servicing model for these releases.

🚀 AWS Batch introduces two new allocation strategies—Best Fit Progressive Ordered (BFPO) and Spot Capacity Optimized Prioritized (SCOP)—allowing customers to specify ordered instance type preferences for on‑demand and Spot compute environments. Use BEST_FIT_PROGRESSIVE_ORDERED for on‑demand and SPOT_CAPACITY_OPTIMIZED_PRIORITIZED for Spot environments, supplying an ordered list of instance types or families. These options are configurable via the AWS Batch API (CreateComputeEnvironment or UpdateComputeEnvironment) or the AWS Management Console and are available in all Regions where AWS Batch is offered.

🔔 AWS IAM Identity Center now supports separate quotas for AWS accounts and applications. By default, administrators can configure up to 7,000 AWS accounts and 7,000 applications independently, so use of one does not reduce capacity for the other. Existing customers with higher limits retain those limits automatically. Quota increases remain available via the AWS Service Quotas console.

🔒 Amazon MSK Replicator now supports mutual TLS (mTLS) authentication for replicating data from external Apache Kafka clusters — including on‑premises, self‑managed on AWS, or other cloud providers — to Amazon MSK Express brokers. This enables migrations, disaster recovery, and hybrid or multi‑cloud data distribution using mTLS‑configured external clusters. MSK Replicator automates replication while preserving topic names and avoiding infinite loops, and also synchronizes consumer group offsets bidirectionally to allow independent movement of producers and consumers.

🛠️ AWS Outposts introduces self-service lifecycle management allowing customers to configure, quote, order, manage subscriptions, renew, and decommission Outposts via the AWS Management Console, CLI, and API. A new configuration and quoting tool provides real-time cost estimates across payment options and term lengths, surfaces account and regional constraints, and converts quotes to orders for new deployments or capacity additions. Subscription details and term information are exposed programmatically, and guided workflows support renewal or decommissioning with resource cleanup. These capabilities are available in all commercial AWS Regions that support AWS Outposts.

🔥 Amazon MSK Provisioned clusters with Express brokers now support Intelligent Rebalancing on all existing clusters at no extra cost. This feature, previously limited to newly created clusters, automates optimal partition balancing when scaling Express-based clusters up or down. Intelligent Rebalancing improves capacity utilization and performs rebalances up to 180× faster than Standard brokers while maintaining availability for producers and consumers.

🚀 Amazon ECS service auto scaling now detects and responds to load changes faster by supporting high-resolution (20-second) metrics and metric publishing optimizations. AWS benchmarking shows time to trigger scale-out improved from 363s to 86s and total time to scale and provision tasks improved from 386s to 109s. Configure 20-second CPU or memory metrics via the AWS Console, CLI, CloudFormation, or SDKs; feature is available in all commercial and GovCloud (US) Regions and across Fargate, managed instances, and EC2. High-resolution metrics incur standard CloudWatch charges.

🔍 AWS Compute Optimizer now factors in additional CloudWatch signals—VolumeIOPSExceededCheck and VolumeThroughputExceededCheck—when producing Amazon EBS volume rightsizing recommendations. These metrics indicate when workloads consistently attempted to exceed provisioned IOPS or throughput in a minute. The feature aims to help balance cost and performance for bursty workloads and is available in all Compute Optimizer regions except AWS GovCloud (US) and China.

🔐 Amazon EKS now supports customer-routed control plane egress, allowing outbound Kubernetes API server traffic to traverse your Amazon VPC. This includes admission webhook callbacks, OpenID Connect (OIDC) provider lookups, and aggregate API server requests. By routing through your VPC you can manage routing, security groups, and egress paths to meet data perimeter and compliance needs. Enable the feature by setting controlPlaneEgressMode to CUSTOMER_ROUTED and enforce it org-wide with the eks:controlPlaneEgressMode IAM condition key.

🚀 Developers using Ray Serve for LLM inference on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) now get significantly better performance thanks to a joint effort with Anyscale. Three architectural changes — HAProxy integration for internal routing, a direct token streaming path, and a v2 Ray executor backend for vLLM — reduce overhead and latency. Benchmarks on A4 VMs with NVIDIA HGX B200 hardware show up to 5x higher throughput and 8x lower latency, while preserving Ray's developer-friendly features.