All news with #product update tag

🛠️ At Google I/O 2026, Google announced expanded integration between AI Studio and Google Cloud, allowing new users to deploy up to two full-stack apps on the Starter Tier without a billing account. Developers can now choose between Firestore (non-relational) and Cloud SQL (relational) with Firebase Auth for unified authentication. The AI agent can infer or provision the appropriate database, provision resources, generate schema and code, and deploy apps directly to Cloud Run for rapid prototyping.

🔒 Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition now supports community MySQL 8.4, aligning Aurora version numbers with community releases and managing underlying patches for customers. The release enforces stronger security defaults—TLS 1.2/1.3 only and caching_sha2_password for new accounts—and offers customizable password validation via DB cluster parameter groups. Automated upgrade prechecks reduce upgrade risk, and multiple upgrade and migration paths are supported, including Blue/Green Deployments and AWS DMS.

🎯 AWS Deadline Cloud now lets users browse job attachment files directly within the Deadline Cloud monitor. The fully managed render management service handles uploads and downloads via Amazon S3, and the new capability shows files organized as inputs and outputs. Users can view attached assets in the browser or desktop monitor and download individual files without retrieving all job outputs.

🚀 Google AI Edge Portal now enables developers to benchmark and debug on-device LLMs across a physical lab of over 120 representative Android devices. It profiles initialization time, prefill and decode speeds, and peak memory usage across CPU, GPU, and NPU backends to surface real user-impacting metrics. The integrated Model Explorer visualizes model graphs, tensor shapes, and traces to speed root-cause analysis and collaboration.

🔧 AWS announced that AWS Transform now includes a modernization engine and broad file-format support to streamline network migrations. The engine analyzes and optimizes constructs across naming, sizing, security, and structure while surfacing conflicts with existing VPCs in target accounts, replacing days of manual review with instant guidance. Customers can upload network configuration files in any format for translation into AWS-compatible networks, review and edit mapped VPCs or subnets, and retain control before provisioning.

🚀 Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (Amazon MWAA) now supports Apache Airflow 3.2, the latest major release of the open-source orchestration framework. The update brings data-aware scheduling, asset partitioning, and expanded Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) features to simplify pipeline control and approvals. Other enhancements include Grid View virtualization, full XCom UI management, and async callable support in PythonOperator. Environments can be launched or upgraded in all supported MWAA regions via the AWS Console.

🔐 Microsoft has reached general availability for Entra-Only identities for Azure Files SMB, enabling native Microsoft Entra ID authentication for SMB file shares using cloud-only identities. This eliminates the need for on-premises Active Directory, Entra Connect, or managed domain controllers, simplifying architecture and reducing operational overhead. Entra acts as the Kerberos Key Distribution Center (KDC), issuing Kerberos tickets while preserving SMB protocol compatibility, and supports VDI scenarios with FSLogix, Managed Identities, macOS clients, and NTFS ACL editing. The capability is supported across HDD and SSD shares, available at no extra cost, and is being extended to sovereign cloud regions.

📍 Microsoft confirmed that some macOS systems are showing non-dismissible location-permission prompts from Microsoft Teams. The company says a recent macOS security update is not retaining users' location-permission selections, causing the dialog to reappear. Microsoft is working with Apple and exploring a Teams-side mitigation while advising a manual macOS settings workaround. Affected users should toggle location access for Microsoft Teams and Microsoft Teams ModuleHost in System Settings.

🌐 Amazon Managed Grafana now supports dual-stack connectivity, allowing workspaces to communicate over both IPv4 and IPv6. Dual-stack mode requires workspaces to run Grafana 10.4 or later and is available in all regions where the service is generally available. This capability reduces the need to manage overlapping VPC address spaces and eases migrations to IPv6 while retaining IPv4 compatibility. Enable dual-stack through the console, API, or CLI and consult the Amazon Managed Grafana User Guide for configuration details.

🗺️ The AWS Management Console now displays AWS Local Zones in the Region selector, showing Local Zones alongside standard Regions in the console's top navigation. Selecting the Local Zones tab lists all opted-in Local Zones and clicking one brings users to the parent Region's Console page to view and manage resources. This streamlines navigation for customers operating across multiple Local Zones parented to different AWS Regions. The capability is available across all AWS Local Zones in public AWS Regions; to get started, open the Region selector in the Management Console.

🔔 AWS Glue zero-ETL integrations are now available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) region. With this expansion, customers can replicate data from sources such as Amazon DynamoDB, Oracle Database@AWS, self-managed databases (Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL) and supported SaaS apps directly into analytics targets without building ETL pipelines. It automates schema mapping, change data capture, and incremental replication to reduce latency and accelerate analytics and ML workflows.

🌐 Amazon Lightsail CDN distributions now support IPv6-only instances as origins. This enables customers to host websites and applications on cost-effective IPv6-only instances while delivering content through the Lightsail CDN with low latency and high transfer speeds worldwide. Previously, only IPv4 and dual-stack origins were supported. Lightsail CDN also accepts instances, containers, buckets, and load balancers as origins.

🛠️ Microsoft has returned resizable taskbar and Start menu controls to Windows 11 with Insider Preview Build 26300.8493 in the Experimental channel. Users can choose smaller taskbar buttons and move the taskbar to the bottom, top, left, or right via Settings > Personalization > Taskbar > Taskbar behaviors. The update also adds Start menu toggles to hide Recommended content, resize the menu, hide profile details, and improve file relevance. No restart is required.

🔍 Amazon CloudWatch Logs now returns up to 100,000 query results when using the Logs Insights query language; customers can set the desired limit via the LIMIT command. The GetQueryResults API supports pagination, returning up to 10,000 results per call with a continuation token. This increase is available in all commercial AWS regions and supported via the console, AWS CLI, AWS CDK, and AWS SDKs.

🛠️ Agents can now edit and delete related items directly within the Amazon Connect Cases agent workspace, enabling updates to comments, unlinking misassociated contacts, and removing cases opened in error. The release also lets agents create, modify, and delete custom related items such as orders, returns, and invoices to enrich case context. The capability reduces dependency on administrators and accelerates case resolution across multiple AWS regions.

🔄 Amazon Managed Grafana now supports an in-place upgrade from Grafana 10.4 to 12.4 via the AWS Console, AWS SDK, or AWS CLI. Version 12.4 introduces native Scenes-powered dashboards and queryless Drilldown apps for point-and-click exploration of Prometheus metrics, Loki logs, Tempo traces, and Pyroscope profiles. The Amazon CloudWatch plugin gains PPL/SQL support, cross-account Metrics Insights, and log anomaly detection, while the rebuilt table visualization improves performance and interactivity. The in-place upgrade is supported in all AWS regions where Amazon Managed Grafana is generally available.

🔐 Amazon CloudFront now supports Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) for viewer mutual TLS (mTLS), allowing real-time validation of client certificate revocation during connection establishment. Previously, revocation was handled via CloudFront Functions and KeyValueStore with static lists. CloudFront now queries the OCSP responder embedded in certificates and caches responses up to 30 minutes. The OCSP result is exposed to connection functions for custom logic.

🚀 Amazon SageMaker AI now supports serverless customization for the Qwen3.6 27B parameter model using supervised fine-tuning (SFT) and reinforcement fine-tuning (RFT). This extends SageMaker's existing fine-tuning support for Qwen3.5 and other open-weight models. Serverless customization removes infrastructure management—SageMaker handles provisioning and orchestration—so teams pay only for what they use. The feature is available in US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and EU (Ireland).

🛠️ AWS has made its AWS Transform agents available through an agent plugin, a Kiro Power in the Kiro marketplace, and the AWS Transform MCP server. Developers can now invoke transformation capabilities from their IDE, the web console, or programmatically, maintaining consistent job state across surfaces. IAM role authentication is supported, enabling use of existing AWS credentials for environments, workspaces, and jobs.

🚦 Amazon Application Recovery Controller (ARC) Region Switch adds a Lambda event source mapping execution block to automate coordinated failover of event-driven streams across Regions. The block enables or disables Lambda event source mappings for Kinesis, DynamoDB Streams, MSK, and SQS to prevent duplicate processing. Customers can chain a disable block before an enable block, or run plans in ungraceful mode for impaired Regions. Native cross-account support lets a single plan span multiple AWS accounts.