All news with #product update tag

🔔 1Password has added an in-product pop-up that warns users when a visited URL looks like a potential phishing or typosquatted site, aiming to prevent manual credential entry. The feature is enabled by default for individual and family plan users; admins can activate it for employees via Authentication Policies. 1Password says the alerts are intended to make users pause and inspect URLs more closely, addressing cases where autofill protections alone are insufficient.

🌐 Amazon Route 53 Domains now supports registration and management of ten new top-level domains, including .ai, .shop, .bot and others. Customers can register these TLDs via the Route 53 console, AWS CLI, or SDKs and use integrated DNS management and automatic renewal to administer domains alongside existing hosted zones. The expansion gives businesses and individuals more industry- and region-specific naming options directly within AWS. See the Route 53 product and pricing pages for additional details and costs.

🚀 Cloud Composer now supports Apache Airflow 3.1 in preview, marking the first time a hyperscaler offers this release. Built on Airflow 3's decoupled architecture and DAG versioning, the Composer update brings Human-in-the-Loop approvals, Deadline Alerts, and native internationalization across 17 languages. Additional developer-focused enhancements include a React plugin system and an inference execution streaming API. The preview is available now.

⚠️ Microsoft confirmed a coding error in Outlook for iOS (version 5.2602.0) that can cause the app to crash or freeze on iPad devices. Affected users can work around the issue by launching Outlook in Airplane Mode and then re-enabling Wi‑Fi or cellular. Microsoft has developed a fix, though the updated app may take up to 24 hours to appear in the App Store while Apple processes the release.

🚀 Managers can now build dynamic, adaptive guided experiences with Amazon Connect Step-by-Step Guides. Conditional interface logic lets supervisors show or hide fields, change default values, and adjust which inputs are required based on prior responses to create scenario-specific workflows. Guides can also auto-refresh data from Connect resources such as flow modules at configurable intervals so agents work with current information. The feature is available across multiple AWS regions.

🚀 Azure Storage outlines strategic investments for 2026 focused on accelerating AI and agentic workloads. The post highlights expanded scale for model training and inference, including Blob scaled accounts, Azure Managed Lustre (AMLFS) with Preview support for 25 PiB and high throughput, and deeper integrations with frameworks like Foundry, Ray, and LangChain. It also emphasizes block storage advances such as Elastic SAN, the Kubernetes-native ACStor operator and open sourcing, plus performance and availability improvements for mission‑critical SAP and trading platforms. The roadmap stresses energy and supply-aware efficiency, curated AI dataset experiences, and partner co‑engineering to lower TCO and accelerate customer adoption.

🔧 Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Browser now supports Chrome-compatible extensions uploaded to Amazon S3 for automatic installation into secure browser sessions. This capability builds on AgentCore secure browser features to enable complex automation workflows that standard browser automation cannot address alone. Typical uses include custom authentication flows, automated testing, and improved navigation or performance through ad blocking. The feature is available in nine AWS Regions where AgentCore is supported.

🔒 AWS has expanded Resource Control Policies (RCPs) to include support for Amazon Cognito and Amazon CloudWatch Logs. RCPs let organizations centrally set the maximum permissions available to resources, enabling consistent baseline controls and a stronger data perimeter. Administrators can now create policies to prevent identities outside their organization from accessing Cognito resources or log groups. This update is available in all AWS commercial Regions and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.

🔔 Microsoft is introducing Brand Impersonation Protection for Teams Calling, rolling out to the targeted release ring in mid‑February and enabled by default. The feature inspects incoming VoIP calls from first‑time external contacts for signs of brand impersonation and displays high‑risk call warnings before suspicious calls are answered. Users can accept, block, or end flagged calls, and alerts may persist during a conversation if suspicious signals continue. IT teams are advised to update support materials and brief helpdesks ahead of the rollout.

🧰 Microsoft is rolling out AI enhancements to Notepad and Paint for Windows 11 Insiders in the Canary and Dev channels. Notepad now streams AI-generated previews for Write, Rewrite, and Summarize and adds expanded Markdown formatting and a welcome screen to surface new features. Paint introduces an AI-powered Coloring Book for Copilot+ PCs and a fill tolerance slider for finer control. Both features require Microsoft account sign-in and can be disabled or uninstalled.

🔔 Amazon MQ now enables RabbitMQ 4 brokers to connect directly with JMS applications via the RabbitMQ JMS Topic Exchange plugin and RabbitMQ JMS client. The plugin is enabled by default on all RabbitMQ 4 brokers and supports JMS 1.1, JMS 2.0, and JMS 3.1, allowing JMS apps to run without rewrites. The JMS client can also bridge JMS messages to AMQP exchanges and consume from AMQP queues to support interoperability or migration. To use it, select RabbitMQ 4.2 on an M7g instance when creating a broker via Console, CLI, or SDKs; the plugin is available in all regions where RabbitMQ 4 is offered.

🔍 Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now surfaces detailed error messages and points directly to the CloudWatch log group and log stream that captured lifecycle script output. You can view these messages through the DescribeCluster API or via the SageMaker console, which includes a 'View lifecycle script logs' button to open the exact CloudWatch stream. CloudWatch entries now contain execution markers (begin, download start/complete, success/failure) to help pinpoint where provisioning failed. This enhancement is available in all Regions where HyperPod is supported and reduces time to diagnose lifecycle script issues.

🔎 Amazon Connect now provides automated random sampling of agent contacts to simplify fair quality evaluations. Managers can specify how many contacts to review per agent and define a timeframe (for example, 3 contacts per agent from the last week). New filters let evaluators require audio, screen recordings, or transcripts and exclude previously evaluated interactions. The capability is available in all regions where Amazon Connect is offered.

🔧 AWS Clean Rooms now supports SQL join and partition hints to let analysts optimize join strategies and data distribution. Hints are applied using comment-style syntax in pre-approved analysis templates and ad hoc SQL queries. You can force a broadcast join for small lookup tables or add partition hints for better parallelism. These options improve query performance and can lower costs.

🔒 Amazon EMR Serverless now supports encrypting local disks with AWS KMS customer managed keys (CMKs), enabling customers to adopt CMKs instead of default AWS-owned keys for greater encryption control. You can use CMKs from the same account or from another account and apply them at the application level or per job run and interactive session. This capability is supported on new and existing EMR Serverless applications across all supported EMR release versions and is available in all Regions, including AWS GovCloud (US) and China.

🔒 Amazon Bedrock is expanding its Reserved service tier to provide predictable, guaranteed tokens-per-minute capacity and prioritized compute for mission-critical workloads. The Reserved tier lets customers allocate separate input and output tokens-per-minute capacities to match asymmetric workload needs and control costs, while automatically overflowing to the pay-as-you-go Standard tier when reserved capacity is exceeded. This offering is available today for Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.5 in AWS GovCloud (US-West) with 1- and 3-month reservation options billed monthly.

🚀 Amazon Web Services has expanded availability of Amazon EC2 C8gn instances powered by AWS Graviton4 to additional regions including Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Africa (Cape Town), Europe (Ireland, London) and Canada West (Calgary). C8gn delivers up to 30% better compute performance versus C7gn and incorporates 6th-generation AWS Nitro Cards with up to 600 Gbps network bandwidth. Instances scale to 48xlarge with up to 384 GiB memory and 60 Gbps EBS bandwidth, and selected large sizes support Elastic Fabric Adapter for lower latency. These instances are aimed at network-intensive workloads such as network virtual appliances, data analytics, and CPU-based AI/ML inference.

🔍 AWS now includes the policy Amazon Resource Name (ARN) from AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) and AWS Organizations in Access Denied error messages for same-account and same-organization scenarios. This change surfaces the exact policy causing the denial—covering Service Control Policies (SCPs), Resource Control Policies (RCPs), identity-based policies, session policies, and permission boundaries—so you can identify and remediate explicit denies more quickly. The update will be rolled out across services and regions; consult IAM documentation for details.

🚀 Google Cloud has refreshed the Rapid Migration and Modernization Program (RaMP) to incentivize cloud migrations with service credits tied to incremental usage and funded partner and professional services. The program offers enhanced rewards for advanced workloads—SAP, Oracle, VMware, NetApp and data analytics—to help offset higher technical costs. RaMP is positioned to reduce technical debt, accelerate AI readiness by making data accessible to Vertex AI and Gemini, and provide a funded path for assessment and implementation.

🔧Instance Scheduler on AWS now provides enhanced scheduling orchestration that tracks AWS tagging events, informational resource tags for self-service troubleshooting, an optional EC2 insufficient-capacity retry flow using alternate instance types, and automatic creation of a dedicated EventBridge EventBus. These changes re-architect orchestration and fan-out mechanisms to improve scaling performance and address cost-scaling concerns. The update reduces operational overhead and increases workload reliability by empowering distributed engineers to troubleshoot independently and by improving start success in capacity-constrained zones.