All news with #product update tag

🌿 AWS now publishes customer carbon footprint data within 21 days of usage, reducing the previous reporting lag of up to three months. Estimates are published between the 15th and 21st of the month following usage and are available via the Customer Carbon Footprint Tool (CCFT) in the AWS Billing and Cost Management console. The CCFT dashboard retains 38 months of historical data to support trend analysis and faster emissions and cost-reduction decisions.

🔗 AWS Security Incident Response now integrates with Slack, enabling bidirectional case creation and automatic data replication so teams can create and update cases from either the Security Incident Response console or Slack. Each case is mapped to a dedicated Slack channel with comments and attachments syncing instantly, and responders are added automatically to accelerate engagement. The open-source solution on GitHub leverages EventBridge and a modular architecture and includes guidance for using AI assistants such as Amazon Q Developer or Kiro to extend integration targets beyond Slack.

📁 AWS Artifact now provides self-service access to previous versions of compliance reports, eliminating the need to contact AWS Support or account representatives. Customers with the IAM permission artifact:ListReportVersions—included in the managed policy AWSArtifactReportsReadOnlyAccess—can view prior SOC, ISO, and C5 report versions directly in the console by selecting available versions. Availability of historical coverage varies by compliance program, and the feature is generally available in US East (N. Virginia) and AWS GovCloud (US-West).

🚀 CHNA 2.0 combines Wayne State’s PHOENIX data warehouse with Syntasa Sentiment Analytics and Google Vertex AI to automate Community Health Needs Assessments. The solution ingests EHR, social and environmental data alongside real‑time search and social signals to surface community concerns and priorities. By decomposing reporting tasks and embedding human oversight, CHNA 2.0 delivers comprehensive, updateable CHNA reports in weeks rather than months.

🚀 Amazon Web Services has expanded availability of EC2 M8i instances to Asia Pacific (Seoul, Tokyo, Sydney, Singapore) and Canada (Central). Powered by AWS-exclusive Intel Xeon 6 processors, M8i offers up to 15% better price-performance and 2.5x memory bandwidth versus prior Intel-based instances, and up to 20% higher performance than M7i. These SAP-certified general purpose instances include 13 sizes, two bare-metal options, and a new 96xlarge for the largest workloads.

🔁 The Amazon Quick Suite browser extension now supports Amazon Quick Flows, enabling users to run workflows directly in their web browser without manually extracting page data. You can invoke flows you created or that were shared with you and pass web page content as input while staying on the site. This supports routine tasks like contract analysis and dashboard report generation. The capability is available in select regions with no extra extension fees beyond standard Quick Flows usage.

🧠 Amazon Quick Suite now adds memory to its chat agents, enabling personalized responses based on prior conversations and stated preferences. The feature stores inferred user preferences—such as response format, acronyms, dashboards, and integrations—and lets users view and remove any remembered items. Users may also choose Private Mode, in which chats are not used to infer memories. Memory is currently available in US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon).

📊 You can now enable CloudWatch metrics for Route 53 Resolver endpoints to monitor per-endpoint DNS performance and the health of target name servers. The metrics include query response latency plus counts of SERVFAIL, NXDOMAIN, REFUSED and FORMERR responses, and timeouts for outbound target servers. These details make it easier to troubleshoot hybrid DNS resolution issues and build alerts and dashboards; standard CloudWatch and Resolver endpoint charges apply.

🔔 AWS Clean Rooms now publishes events to Amazon EventBridge to signal new member invitations and table readiness. Invited collaborators receive immediate EventBridge notifications when added to a collaboration, and members are alerted when AWS Entity Resolution resources (ID mapping tables and namespaces) are associated. This enables automated, near-real-time workflows, reduces manual polling, and shortens time-to-action from hours to minutes. Organizations can more quickly start analyses and increase transparency between collaborators.

🔧 Kali Linux 2025.4 delivers three new tools and multiple desktop improvements in its final 2025 update. The release adds bpf-linker, evil-winrm-py, and hexstrike-ai, while upgrading GNOME to 49 (Wayland-only), KDE Plasma to 6.5, and enhancing Xfce theming. NetHunter device support and utilities were expanded, and the Kali Live image now ships via BitTorrent only. Administrators and pentesters should review the changelog and apply the provided upgrade commands.

🚀 Amazon announces that EMR Managed Scaling is now available to EMR on EC2 customers in Asia Pacific (Malaysia, New Zealand, Taipei, Thailand), Canada West (Calgary), Mexico (Central), and US Gameday Northeast (Illinois). The feature automatically resizes EC2 instances to optimize performance and cost; you set minimum and maximum compute limits and EMR adjusts capacity using workload-driven algorithms. It supports Apache Spark, Apache Hive and YARN-based workloads on EMR on EC2 versions 6.14 and above and can use EC2 Spot Instances for additional savings.

🚀 Amazon Aurora DSQL now provisions clusters in seconds, cutting setup time from minutes to near-instant. Developers can immediately use the integrated query editor in the AWS Console to prototype or build without configuring external clients or connecting through the Aurora DSQL Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. The change supports both prototyping and production workloads while preserving Aurora DSQL’s scalability, active-active high availability, zero infrastructure management, and pay-for-what-you-use pricing. The enhancement is available in all Regions where Aurora DSQL is offered and is accessible via the AWS Free Tier.

🔒 Amazon WorkSpaces Secure Browser now includes Web Content Filtering, allowing administrators to define granular access policies, block specific URLs or entire domain categories using 25+ predefined categories, and integrate with Session Logger for enhanced monitoring and compliance. While existing Chrome policies remain supported, this category-based approach delivers richer control, improved logging, and centralized policy management. The feature is available at no additional cost in 10 AWS Regions and supports pay-as-you-go pricing, with console enablement and automatic migration of URL blocklists and allowlists.

🖥️ AWS has added built-in screen sharing to the AWS Support Center Console, enabling customers to request a virtual meeting from an active chat or call and join via a meeting bridge link. During the session, users can share their screen while retaining seamless access to case details. The feature keeps troubleshooting workflows consolidated within the console and aims to streamline diagnostics and communication between customers and support engineers.

⚛ Amazon Braket now supports Qiskit 2.0, enabling quantum developers to use the latest Qiskit release with Braket hardware and simulators. The release provides native implementations of Qiskit's Sampler and Estimator primitives that leverage Braket program sets for optimized batching, reducing execution time and costs versus generic wrappers. Service-side handling of parameter sweeps and observable measurements removes manual implementation burdens, while bidirectional circuit conversion permits client-side transpilation with Qiskit's compilation framework. Qiskit 2.0 support is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon Braket is offered.

🔍 AWS Partner Central now includes AI-powered deal sizing within APN Customer Engagements (ACE) Opportunities, giving partners estimated monthly recurring revenue (MMR) and recommended AWS services when creating or updating opportunities. Partners can import AWS Pricing Calculator URLs to auto-populate service selections and spend estimates, with enhanced insights such as pricing optimization, cost-savings analysis, MAP eligibility, and modernization pathways. The feature is available worldwide via the console and the AWS Partner Central API for Selling.

🔖 Amazon Web Services now supports resource tagging for automated backups and cluster automated backups in Amazon RDS and Aurora. You can tag automated backups independently from the parent DB instance or DB cluster using the AWS Management Console, API, or SDK. Use these tags with IAM policies to implement attribute-based access control and to organize, manage, and track backup costs. This capability is available in all AWS Regions, including AWS GovCloud (US).

🛡️ Google is introducing a new defense layer in Chrome called User Alignment Critic to protect upcoming agentic browsing features powered by Gemini. The isolated secondary LLM operates as a high‑trust system component that vets each action the primary agent proposes, using deterministic rules, origin restrictions and a prompt‑injection classifier to block risky or irrelevant behaviors. Chrome will pause for user confirmation on sensitive sites, run continuous red‑teaming and push fixes via auto‑update, and is offering bounties to encourage external testing.

📣 Amazon Connect Outbound Campaigns now supports WhatsApp, enabling proactive, automated messaging for appointment reminders, payment notifications, order updates, and product recommendations. Administrators can configure WhatsApp campaigns in the existing Amazon Connect interface—define target audiences, personalize message templates, schedule delivery, and apply compliance guardrails alongside SMS, voice, and email. Messages can leverage real-time customer data and include delivery and engagement tracking as well as frequency controls to maintain compliance. This capability is available in all AWS Regions that support Outbound Campaigns.

🔁 Amazon SageMaker Notebook instances now support self-service migration via the PlatformIdentifier parameter in the UpdateNotebookInstance API. You can update unsupported platform identifiers (notebook-al1-v1, notebook-al2-v1, notebook-al2-v2) to supported versions (notebook-al2-v3, notebook-al2023-v1) while preserving data and configurations. The capability is available through AWS CLI (v2.31.27+) and SDKs in all Regions where Notebook instances are supported. This simplifies keeping instances current and reduces manual migration effort.