All news with #product update tag

🔒 Amazon Aurora now automatically applies server-side encryption by default to all new database clusters created without custom encryption settings, using AWS-owned keys. This fully managed encryption is transparent to users and incurs no cost or performance impact. Existing clusters are unaffected; you can still select customer-managed or AWS-managed KMS keys during creation. Available in all AWS Regions including GovCloud.

🖥️ Amazon Web Services now allows customers to run nested virtual machines inside virtual Amazon EC2 instances, enabling KVM and Hyper‑V stacks on non‑bare‑metal hosts. This expands prior capability that was limited to bare metal instances and supports use cases such as mobile emulators, in‑vehicle hardware simulation, and Windows Subsystem for Linux on Windows workstations. The feature is available on C8i, M8i, and R8i in all commercial regions; see the EC2 nested virtualization documentation for enabling hardware virtualization extensions.

🔔 Amazon Web Services expanded availability of its EC2 High Memory U7i instances to additional regions, adding U7i-6tb.112xlarge in South America (São Paulo) and Europe (Milan), U7i-12tb.224xlarge in AWS GovCloud (US‑East), and U7in-16tb.224xlarge in Europe (London). These 7th-generation instances are powered by custom 4th-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Sapphire Rapids) and offer DDR5 memory up to 16 TiB with ENA Express support. Network and EBS performance scales to support up to 100 Gbps for most sizes and up to 200 Gbps on the 16 TiB variant, targeting mission-critical in-memory databases like SAP HANA, Oracle, and SQL Server.

🔧 Microsoft has deployed a service-side fix for a Family Safety bug that prevented Google Chrome and some other browsers from launching or caused them to crash on Windows 10/11 devices. The problem, first reported in late June 2025, was traced to the service's web-filtering and block-list behavior that misidentified updated browser versions. The rollout began in early February 2026 and should reach affected devices in the coming weeks; users should connect to the Internet to receive the update. Those who cannot go online can enable Activity reporting in Family Safety to receive approval requests and allowlist newer browser versions.

🔢 Amazon Aurora DSQL now supports identity columns and sequence objects, enabling auto-incrementing, integer-based IDs to be generated directly in the database. This simplifies migrations from PostgreSQL and reduces the need for application-layer ID generation. The capability is available in all Regions where Aurora DSQL is provided and supports compact, human-readable identifiers such as order numbers and account IDs.

⚙️ AWS now supports the latest x86 Amazon EC2 instance families — C8i, M8i, and R8i — on second-generation AWS Outposts racks. These instances use custom Intel Xeon 6 processors exclusive to AWS and offer about 20% better performance, 2.5× more memory bandwidth, and 20% more compute capacity versus the prior C7i, M7i, and R7i models within the same rack footprint. They are aimed at on-premises workloads such as larger databases, memory-intensive applications, real-time analytics, high-performance video encoding, and CPU-based edge ML inference.

🔐 Amazon announced that Amazon S3 Access Grants are now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region. Access Grants map corporate identities in directories such as Microsoft Entra ID or AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) to S3 datasets, enabling scalable, identity-based data access. The feature automates S3 permission assignment for end users and simplifies data governance for enterprises operating in Taipei. Refer to the AWS Region Table and product documentation for regional availability and deployment guidance.

🔐 AWS has added Amazon DynamoDB to the set of services supported by Resource Control Policies (RCPs), enabling organizations to centrally constrain the maximum permissions available to resources. Administrators can now use RCPs to block identities outside their AWS Organization from accessing DynamoDB, helping enforce a data perimeter and baseline security standards. RCPs are available in all AWS commercial Regions and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.

🚀Amazon increased default quotas for Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.5 in Amazon Bedrock running in AWS GovCloud (US-West and US-East), raising throughput to 5,000,000 tokens per minute and 1,000 requests per minute. The 25× increase aligns GovCloud limits with commercial regions and lets regulated customers scale high-volume AI workloads more effectively. Consult the AWS GovCloud console and Bedrock documentation to get started.

🌐 AI troubleshooting in the AWS Support Center is now available in seven additional languages beyond English: Japanese, Korean, Mandarin (Simplified), Mandarin (Traditional), Spanish, Portuguese, and French. The capability provides immediate, contextual recommendations while customers create support cases, helping to diagnose and remediate issues faster. It is integrated into the support experience and available to all customers regardless of support plan; users can enable it via console language settings and the "Try it now" banner.

💡 Google Cloud updated its spend-based Committed Use Discounts (CUDs), moving from a credit-based model to a direct discounted price model that makes net costs and savings visible at a glance. The rollout began in July 2025 and is now generally available, expanding SKU coverage to include Cloud Run and H3/M-series VMs and correcting reporting gaps for mixed Flex CUD environments. The unified CUD Analysis provides hourly granularity (up to 30 days), CSV exports, and a metadata export for programmatic joins with Billing BigQuery Export datasets. Enhanced recommendation and scenario modeling let FinOps teams size commitments, tune coverage thresholds, and validate pre/post migration savings.

📣 Amazon Web Services announced support for partition and sort order definitions in the Amazon S3 Tables CreateTable API, allowing these properties to be set programmatically at table creation. Developers can specify partition transforms and sort order fields directly in CreateTable calls, and the same options are supported in the AWS CLI and AWS SDKs. To use the feature, upgrade to the latest AWS CLI and SDK versions. This support is available in all AWS Regions where S3 Tables are offered.

⚙️ AWS Lake Formation now supports enhanced cross-account sharing, enabling centralized permission management for catalogs, databases, tables, and columns across multi-account analytics environments. The update removes prior per-resource association limits by using a single AWS Resource Access Manager resource share with wildcard patterns; administrators should upgrade to cross-account version 5 to adopt the new behavior. Existing shares and Lake Formation APIs remain compatible.

🔧 Amazon MSK now exposes three public topic management APIs — CreateTopic, UpdateTopic, and DeleteTopic — enabling programmatic topic lifecycle operations without running Kafka admin clients. You can use AWS CLI, AWS SDKs, and CloudFormation or the integrated MSK console to create and update topics with guided defaults and view partition-level details and metrics. These features are available at no extra cost for provisioned clusters running Kafka 3.6 and above; ensure appropriate IAM permissions before use.

🔁 Amazon RDS for MariaDB now supports community minor versions 10.6.25, 10.11.16, 11.4.10, and 11.8.6. We recommend upgrading to the latest minor releases to remediate known security vulnerabilities and gain bug fixes, performance improvements, and new features contributed by the MariaDB community. You can enable automatic minor version upgrades to apply updates during scheduled maintenance windows or use Amazon RDS Managed Blue/Green deployments for safer, lower-risk updates.

🎧 Amazon Connect launches Audio Enhancement to improve voice clarity and reliability by suppressing agent-side background noises and isolating agent voices in busy contact centers. The feature includes two modes: Voice Isolation (removes background speech and noise) and Noise Suppression (targets non-speech noise). Administrators can enable modes via the User Management page, and agents with permissions can adjust settings in the Contact Control Panel. This capability is available in all commercial AWS Regions where Amazon Connect is offered.

🔒 Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Browser now accepts customer-provided proxy configurations, allowing organizations to route browser sessions through corporate or regional proxy infrastructure for geo-targeting, compliance, and stable egress addresses. The feature supports both HTTP and HTTPS protocols and integrates with AWS Secrets Manager for secure credential management. It is available in all 14 regions where AgentCore Browser is offered.

🔁 AWS now supports managed minor version upgrades for Aurora Global Database, enabling you to upgrade an entire global topology with minimal downtime. Administrators can initiate upgrades from the AWS Management Console, SDK, or CLI and have all regional clusters automatically moved to the chosen minor version. This eliminates manual per-cluster upgrades and reduces operational overhead for global cluster management. The capability currently supports Aurora PostgreSQL-compatible engines and is available in all commercial AWS Regions and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.

⚡ Amazon Athena now offers 1-minute Capacity Reservations and lowers the minimum reserved capacity to 4 Data Processing Units (DPUs). The feature provides dedicated serverless compute for workloads requiring query prioritization and concurrency controls, with no long-term commitments. You pay only for the capacity you reserve and there are no data-scanned charges; reservations attach to existing workgroups without SQL or application changes. AWS cites up to 95% cost savings for short-duration query workloads and enables more frequent, fine-grained capacity adjustments to match workload patterns.

🧭 Amazon Bedrock now supports six open-weights models — DeepSeek V3.2, MiniMax M2.1, GLM 4.7, GLM 4.7 Flash, Kimi K2.5, and Qwen3 Coder Next. These models span frontier reasoning, agentic intelligence, and autonomous coding while offering lower-cost inference options for enterprise workloads. They run on Project Mantle, a distributed inference engine that delivers serverless, high-performance model serving with OpenAI API compatibility, automated capacity management, quality-of-service controls, and higher default quotas for production deployment.