All news with #product update tag

🔔 AWS IAM Identity Center is now available in the Asia Pacific (New Zealand) AWS Region, expanding the service to 38 AWS Regions globally. The service is the recommended approach for managing workforce access, offering centralized single sign-on and account management by connecting your existing identity source once. IAM Identity Center powers personalized experiences in services such as Amazon Q and enables user-aware access controls and auditing in services like Amazon Redshift. It is offered at no additional cost in supported regions.

🔐 Amazon Web Services announced new Aurora DSQL Connectors for Go (pgx), Python (asyncpg), and Node.js (WebSocket for Postgres.js). The connectors serve as transparent authentication layers that automatically generate IAM tokens per connection, removing the need for manual token handling while preserving full compatibility with standard PostgreSQL driver features. The Node.js connector adds WebSocket support for environments where TCP is unavailable. All connectors accept custom IAM credential providers to match customer credential workflows.

🔒 In 2025 Google reports expanded AI-driven, multi-layered defenses across Google Play and Android, preventing 1.75 million policy-violating apps and banning over 80,000 developer accounts. The company integrated generative AI into review workflows, boosted Play Protect scanning to 350 billion app checks daily, and blocked 266 million risky sideload installation attempts. Developer tools, verification, and pre-review checks aim to reduce friction while raising security and privacy standards.

🛡️ Google says it blocked more than 1.75 million apps from being published on Google Play in 2025 and denied over 255,000 apps access to sensitive user data. The company also banned over 80,000 developer accounts and strengthened detection by integrating generative AI into its review process to identify evolving malicious patterns. Play Protect scanned an estimated 350 billion app instances daily and flagged over 27 million malicious sideloaded apps, while the Play Integrity API processed more than 20 billion checks per day.

🔒 In 2025 Google deployed advanced AI-powered defenses across Google Play to stop apps that cause real-world harm, preventing over 1.75 million policy-violating apps from being published and banning more than 80,000 malicious developer accounts. We expanded Google Play Protect to scan over 350 billion Android apps daily and rolled out real-time protections including in-call scam defenses. Together these measures strengthened the Play store and the broader Android ecosystem by prioritizing automated detection, rapid enforcement, and on-device user safety.

📢 Amazon MQ now supports ActiveMQ 5.19, bringing a set of fixes and improvements over prior ActiveMQ releases. Amazon MQ will automatically manage patch-level upgrades for your brokers and apply compatible security patches during your scheduled maintenance window. If you are using older versions such as 5.18, AWS recommends upgrading via the AWS Management Console. This version is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon MQ is offered.

🔒 Google Cloud argues Europe does not need to choose between digital sovereignty and economic growth. The company promotes a partnership-led model that combines advanced AI capabilities (including Gemma and Gemini-class technology) with flexible infrastructure and multicloud choice. Emphasis is placed on interoperability, local control, and security certifications such as SecNumCloud, along with options like Google Cloud Air-Gapped and Dedicated deployments. The aim is to enable growth while preserving control and resilience.

📱 Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) in the Asia Pacific (New Zealand) and Asia Pacific (Taipei) Regions can now send SMS to subscribers across more than 200 countries and territories. Customers in these Regions can send messages via AWS End User Messaging, bringing SMS support to 32 AWS Regions. Amazon SNS is a fully managed pub/sub service that delivers to endpoints such as AWS Lambda, Amazon SQS, and Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose, and SMS adds an additional mobile delivery channel. This expansion helps developers extend global notification workflows and manage messaging at scale.

🚀 Amazon Web Services has expanded availability of M8i-flex instances to Asia Pacific (Malaysia, Seoul, Singapore, Tokyo), Europe (Frankfurt) and Canada (Central). These instances use AWS-exclusive custom Intel Xeon 6 processors and deliver up to 15% better price-performance and 2.5x the memory bandwidth versus previous Intel-based generations. AWS reports up to 20% higher overall performance compared with M7i-flex, with workload-specific gains—up to 60% for NGINX, 30% for PostgreSQL, and up to 40% for AI recommendation models. To launch instances, sign in to the AWS Management Console.

🔔 Amazon Connect Cases now integrates with AWS Service Quotas, enabling administrators to view applied limits, monitor utilization, and request quota increases directly from the Service Quotas console. Eligible quota requests can be automatically approved, reducing manual approval bottlenecks. Available in multiple AWS Regions, this update helps teams scale case workloads and avoid unexpected service constraints.

🔷 Google Spanner has been ranked #1 by Gartner in the Critical Capabilities report for the Lightweight Transactions use case for the second consecutive year and #2 for OLTP. The post highlights Spanner’s distributed transaction support (5.0/5.0), high transactional consistency (4.9/5.0), and AI/ML integration (4.6/5.0). It also summarizes 2025 product advances—Spanner Graph GA, integrated hybrid search, a columnar engine, and Cassandra-compatible APIs—and cites customer deployments at Palo Alto Networks, Mercado Libre, and Unico.

⚙️ Provisioned Throughput on Vertex AI standardizes reserved capacity across first-party, third-party, and open-source models, adding multimodal and operational enhancements to support production-scale AI agents. The update introduces Anthropic integration (private preview), PT for popular open models such as Llama 4, Qwen3, and GLM-4.7, and native support for high-bandwidth modalities including Gemini 3, Nano Banana, and Gemini Live API. Operational improvements — one-week PT terms, scheduled change orders, and explicit caching for long contexts — enable predictable latency, flexible commitments, and lower input costs for peak events and high-concurrency workloads.

📅 Amazon Connect now surfaces agent time-off requests directly in draft schedules, so schedulers can see why an agent wasn't assigned on specific days or shifts. This makes it easier to identify coverage gaps before publishing schedules to agents. The addition reduces the need to inspect published schedules or troubleshoot configuration to explain absences. The feature is available in all Regions where agent scheduling is supported.

📝 Amazon Connect Cases now supports larger, expandable multi-line text fields on case templates, enabling agents to capture detailed free-form notes and structured data directly within cases. The fields expand vertically to accommodate multiple paragraphs, simplifying documentation of root cause analysis, transaction details, investigation findings, and customer-facing updates. This enhancement is available in multiple AWS regions.

🌐 Amazon MSK now supports dual-stack IPv4 and IPv6 connectivity for existing MSK Provisioned and MSK Serverless clusters. Customers can enable dual-stack via the Amazon MSK Console, AWS CLI, SDKs, or CloudFormation by changing the cluster Network Type; MSK provisions IPv6-enabled interfaces while preserving IPv4 to avoid service disruption. For Provisioned clusters, use the GetBootstrapBrokers API to retrieve new IPv6 bootstrap broker strings. Dual-stack is available in all Regions where MSK is offered and incurs no additional cost.

🔐 Apple has released an iOS and iPadOS 26.4 developer beta that introduces end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for RCS conversations between compatible Apple devices, with a wider rollout planned for iOS, iPadOS, macOS and watchOS in a future update. The feature is currently in beta and limited to Apple devices and supported carriers. The update also expands Memory Integrity Enforcement (MIE), allowing applications to opt in to full protections beyond Soft Mode. Additionally, iOS 26.4 is expected to enable Stolen Device Protection by default and the SDK is available via Xcode 26.4.

🔒 Apple has introduced end-to-end encryption for RCS messaging in the iOS and iPadOS 26.4 developer beta, enabling encrypted conversations between Apple devices during testing. The feature remains in beta and is not available for all devices or carriers, and it currently does not extend to non-Apple platforms such as Android. The release also introduces an opt-in for full Memory Integrity Enforcement and signals forthcoming Stolen Device Protection defaults.

📈 AWS HealthImaging now provides additional Amazon CloudWatch metrics to monitor storage at both the account and individual data store levels. Customers can track storage volume, the number of image sets, and counts of DICOM studies, series, and instances to understand growth trends. These granular metrics support management of single-tenant and multi-tenant workloads at petabyte scale and are available in select AWS Regions.

🔔 Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) now offers Long-Term Support on DocumentDB 5.0, delivering security and stability patches without feature changes. To adopt LTS, create a new cluster using engine version 5.0.0 or patch an existing 5.0.0 cluster during your maintenance window. Verify your Engine Patch Version with db.runCommand({getEngineVersion: 1}) and ensure it is 3.0.17983 or later. LTS is available in all AWS regions where DocumentDB is offered.

🚀 AWS Glue 5.1 is now available in eighteen additional AWS Regions, bringing the service to thirty-three Regions worldwide. The release upgrades core engines to Apache Spark 3.5.6, Python 3.11, and Scala 2.12.18, and refreshes support for open table formats including Apache Hudi, Apache Iceberg, and Delta Lake. It introduces Iceberg format v3.0 features, deletion vectors, multi-argument transforms, and row lineage tracking, and extends AWS Lake Formation fine-grained access control to write operations as well as full-table access control for Hudi and Delta tables. Customers can begin using the update via APIs, CLI, SDKs, Glue Studio, or SageMaker Unified Studio and should consult the documentation for migration and configuration guidance.