All news with #product update tag

🤖 AWS Step Functions now integrates with the Amazon Bedrock AgentCore managed harness (preview) to add AI agent reasoning steps to workflows. The integration lets you declare agents via configuration, run agents in parallel or sequence, add human approvals, and view execution history with agent inputs, outputs, token usage, and CloudWatch links. You can reuse or create harnesses from Workflow Studio, apply per-invocation overrides, and persist agent context with session IDs. The harness preview and integration are available in select regions and standard Step Functions and Bedrock pricing applies.

🔔 Amazon Application Recovery Controller (ARC) Region switch introduces three new execution blocks: Amazon Aurora serverless scaling, Amazon Aurora provisioned scaling, and Amazon Neptune global database failover. These blocks automate database scaling and failover for multi-Region workloads, eliminating manual steps that add recovery time. They support cross-account orchestration so a single plan can coordinate operations across multiple accounts and Regions.

🔧 Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now offers a localized user interface in twelve languages, including Simplified and Traditional Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Italian, Indonesian, Turkish, and American English. Language selection is automatic via the browser or manually set through the profile Language selector, and the choice applies across the entire studio. This localization is available in all AWS Regions where SageMaker Unified Studio is offered and supports both AWS IAM Identity Center-based and IAM-based domains.

🔔 Amazon Connect Customer now delivers real-time dashboard alerts when specified keywords, phrases, or sentiment patterns arise during live calls and chats. Supervisors can listen to live conversations, view real-time transcripts and sentiment analysis, and coach agents via chat to address issues such as cancellation requests before customers churn. The feature is available in all AWS commercial and AWS GovCloud (US-West) regions offering conversational analytics.

🧭 OpenAI has updated the GPT-5.5 Instant model to improve answer accuracy, pacing, and conversational style while reducing long, bullet-heavy responses to sound more natural. The company will retire legacy models: o3 on August 26 with a 90-day sunset and GPT-4.5 on June 27 with a 30-day sunset. Additionally, OpenAI is integrating a job search tool into ChatGPT to surface live listings and help tailor resumes, and it has enhanced resume editing and export capabilities. These changes are rolling out globally to paid users.

🔔 AWS now supports Kubernetes version 1.36 in Amazon EKS and Amazon EKS Distro. You can create new clusters or upgrade existing ones using the EKS console, eksctl, or infrastructure-as-code tools across all AWS Regions, including GovCloud. Key features in 1.36 include GA User Namespaces, Mutating Admission Policies for CEL, In-Place Pod-Level Vertical Scaling, and Resource Health Status reporting. EKS Distro images are available in ECR Public Gallery and GitHub, with documentation covering upgrade guidance and lifecycle policies.

🔧 AWS Deadline Cloud now supports persistent storage for Service-Managed Fleets (SMF), enabling data retention across worker lifecycle events. Previously, SMF workers used ephemeral storage and required reinstalling software and assets after recycling. Now Deadline Cloud attaches persistent Amazon EBS volumes to SMF workers to preserve Conda environments, Perforce workspaces, shader caches, and asset collections, reducing startup time. You can configure volume counts per worker and set TTLs to balance retention and cost; availability and pricing match existing SMF EBS offerings.

🧭 Microsoft highlights how AI-driven agentic workflows demand a shared data context. Microsoft Fabric is presented as a unified data and AI platform that enables developers and agents to build production-ready apps by providing consistent organizational context. New announcements include the open-source Rayfin SDK/CLI for rapid backend deployment and Azure HorizonDB (PostgreSQL-compatible) in public preview, optimized for AI workloads.

🔬 AWS HealthOmics now supports Nextflow version 26.04, enabling customers to use new Nextflow features like record types, the strict syntax parser, workflow output summaries, and agent logging mode. The service is HIPAA-eligible and provides fully managed bioinformatics workflows for healthcare and life sciences. Nextflow v26.04 is available across all AWS HealthOmics regions, improving pipeline reliability, readability, and integration with downstream tools.

🔬 AWS HealthOmics now lets customers specify the Nextflow engine version at run time via the StartRun API, enabling explicit version pinning for controlled migration. Supported versions include 22.04, 23.10, 24.10, 25.10, and 26.04 via a new engine-settings parameter. This run-time override takes precedence over manifest.nextflowVersion, allowing testing across engine versions without changing workflow source. The feature is available in all AWS HealthOmics regions and supports HIPAA-eligible, production-regulated workflows.

📣 Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) introduced enhanced deliverability features that report inbox placement percentages and public email blocklist status. These insights use representative industry samples to show how many messages are routed to spam folders and provide visibility by sending domain and campaign. SES also offers pre-send content testing to estimate inbox placement at major mailbox providers and passive monitoring of blocklist activity. The new capabilities are available in all AWS commercial regions where SES is offered.

📣 AWS End User Messaging now supports RCS for Business messaging in 20 additional countries, bringing coverage to 22 countries including the United States and Canada. Businesses can use the existing SendTextMessage API with no code changes, and messages are delivered from a recognized business identity. Devices that do not support RCS automatically fall back to SMS, and RCS for Business is available in all Regions where AWS End User Messaging operates.

📅 Amazon Connect Customer now supports scheduling tasks up to 90 days in advance, enabling organizations to plan, route, and track long-running follow-up work. Examples include scheduling adjuster visits, parts availability checks, and repair completion follow-ups, with tasks routed to the appropriate team and carrying relevant claim context. Tasks can be scheduled via the StartTaskContact API, contact flows, or the agent workspace. This capability is available in all commercial and AWS GovCloud (US) regions where Amazon Connect Customer is offered.

🟦 Amazon Redshift Serverless now supports a lower base capacity of 4 Redshift Processing Units (RPUs) in seven regions, including Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Seoul, Canada (Central), Europe (London), South America (Sao Paulo), and AWS GovCloud (US-East and US-West). Each RPU equals 16 GB of memory and billing is per-second in RPU-hours; the new entry-level starts at about $1.50 per hour. Previously the minimum was 8 RPUs. The configuration supports up to 32 TB of managed storage, up to 100 columns per table, and a maximum of 64 GB memory, and capacity reservations are available for 1- and 3-year terms for predictable workloads.

🟢 Oracle Database@AWS is now generally available in eight additional AWS Regions — Zurich, Milan, Spain, Paris, Osaka, Singapore, Melbourne, and Sao Paulo — enabling customers to access OCI-managed Oracle Exadata systems from within AWS data centers. This expansion brings the service to twenty regions total, supporting migrations of on-premises Oracle Exadata and Oracle RAC workloads and meeting in-region data residency requirements. Customers can request a private offer from Oracle via the AWS Marketplace and configure databases through the AWS Management Console.

🟦 Amazon S3 Tables are now available in the Asia Pacific (Taipei) and Asia Pacific (New Zealand) AWS Regions. S3 Tables provide an object store with built-in Apache Iceberg support, enabling scalable tabular data storage and making data queryable by AWS and third-party engines. They perform continual table maintenance to optimize queries and reduce storage costs, and integrate with the Intelligent-Tiering storage class for automated cost management without operational overhead.

🛈 Amazon Connect Customer now offers generative AI-powered post-contact summaries in eight new language families — Portuguese, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean — and extends support for non-US English locales such as British and Australian English. These summaries provide concise, structured overviews of voice, chat, and email interactions to help agents and managers review contacts without reading full transcripts. The new languages are available in all AWS Regions where post-contact summaries are supported, enabling global teams to generate summaries in the conversation language and maintain locally appropriate spelling and terminology.

📈 Partners can now submit opportunities in AWS Partner Central using Total Contract Value (TCV), which the system converts to a forecasted monthly recurring revenue (MRR). When creating or updating opportunities, partners select an MRR estimation method — Forecast MRR from TCV, Forecast MRR, AWS Pricing Calculator, or Manual entry — and review the computed MRR before submission. The TCV-to-MRR conversion supports USD and EUR, accepts contract duration in months, and is available worldwide via the console and the AWS Partner Central API for Selling in US East (N. Virginia).

🚀 Amazon EC2 P4de instances are now generally available on SageMaker notebook instances in Asia Pacific (Tokyo). These instances feature 8 NVIDIA A100 GPUs with 80GB HBM2e each, delivering 640GB total GPU memory and up to 60% better ML training performance versus P4d. Customers can expect reduced model training times, improved handling of high-resolution datasets, and about 20% lower training cost. See developer guides for setup details on SageMaker Studio and notebook instances.

🚀 Amazon announces general availability of EC2 P5.48xl instances in Asia Pacific (Tokyo) for use with SageMaker notebook instances. These instances use NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs to accelerate deep learning and HPC workloads, promising up to 4x faster time to solution and up to 40% lower training costs versus previous GPU generations. Customers can leverage P5 instances to train and deploy complex LLMs and diffusion models for generative AI tasks. Developer guides provide setup instructions for JupyterLab and CodeEditor on SageMaker Studio and notebook instances.