All news with #product update tag

📢 The new AWS Health version catalog centralizes lifecycle information for software versions across AWS services, enabling customers to shift from reactive to proactive upgrade and end-of-support management. Available in the AWS Health Dashboard, customers on Business Support Plus, Enterprise Support, or Unified Operations can also access the data via the AWS Health API to integrate version timelines into operational workflows. The catalog initially covers Amazon RDS, Amazon EKS, and AWS Lambda, is available across all AWS Commercial Regions, and will expand to include additional services over time.

🚀 Amazon EKS and EKS Distro now support Kubernetes version 1.37. This release lets you create new clusters or upgrade existing ones via the EKS console, eksctl, or infrastructure-as-code tools. Kubernetes 1.37 promotes the Metrics API to GA, graduates Dynamic Resource Allocation device taints and tolerations to GA, and enables HPA scale-to-zero by default. EKS 1.37 is available in all Regions where EKS operates, with EKS Distro images published to ECR Public Gallery and GitHub.

📣 Cloudflare announced that many features previously restricted to Enterprise customers are now available to Free, Pro, and Business users. The company is making advanced capabilities like Logpush, Transformers, Custom Dashboards, and expanded RBAC broadly accessible with pay-as-you-go or free tiers where possible. They also introduced self-serve multi-account creation, Organizations for unified management, resource tagging, and improved Terraform support.

🛰️ Cloudflare Traces enters open beta, extending automatic distributed tracing beyond Workers to cover the entire request path. The feature records supported security rules, transformations, caching, routing, Worker execution, and origin interactions as OpenTelemetry spans, which can be exported via OTLP to compatible backends. Tracing is enabled per domain with baseline sampling and flexible Trace Rules to capture targeted, full-trace investigations without instrumenting code.

📊 Cloudflare announced eight major updates to unify logs, traces, analytics, alerts, dashboards, and export capabilities into a single observability platform with simpler pricing. The release combines Workers Observability and Log Explorer into a new Logs home, introduces Cloudflare Traces in open beta, and provides a unified SQL API and native Workers binding for querying telemetry. Alerts, Custom Dashboards, Logpush availability on self-serve plans, and usage-based export/transformer pricing complete the rollout.

🔒 Cloudflare introduces email-based access controls for Quick Tunnels so developers and agents can publish local services securely. Add the --allowed-mail flag to cloudflared to restrict access to specific email addresses or domains; visitors verify ownership with a one-time PIN via Cloudflare Access. The design keeps authorization rules on the developer's machine while using a stateless authentication broker to validate emails, ensuring guest lists never leave the host.

🚀 The AWS MCP Server, part of the Agent Toolkit for AWS, is now available in six additional Regions: Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Europe (Ireland), Europe (London), and US West (Oregon). The managed Model Context Protocol server provides a single interface for AI coding agents to discover and call AWS services without per-service integrations. Running the server closer to developers reduces latency and helps meet regional data residency requirements. It can access services across all commercial AWS Regions while operating in the listed Regions.

🚀 GKE introduces CPU startup boost in preview, integrated into the Vertical Pod Autoscaler (VPA), to temporarily elevate CPU allocation during container initialization and then in-place scale it back to steady-state levels without restarting containers. The feature leverages Kubernetes In-place Pod Resize (IPPR) and operates across admission, startup, and unboosting phases. It targets CPU-intensive startup workloads—such as Java JVMs, Node.js, and Python/AI microservices—so teams can avoid overprovisioning while reducing cold starts and costs. Available on GKE 1.36.0-gke.4447000+ for Standard and Autopilot clusters.

📈 Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey now exports OpenTelemetry metrics to Amazon CloudWatch for node-based clusters, with each metric carrying attributes usable in PromQL expressions. Two monitoring modes are available: Standard monitoring (60s) which now includes a core OpenTelemetry set, and Detailed monitoring (15s) which exposes the full metric set for finer diagnostics. Detailed monitoring supports detection of short-lived events and feeds ElastiCache Insights dashboards; CloudWatch OpenTelemetry pricing applies.

🛠️ Amazon Q Developer in the AWS Management Console now provides enhanced visualizations that reason across hundreds of AWS APIs to deliver comprehensive answers about an account. The update adds health dashboards with status indicators, interactive time-series charts with trend and anomaly detection, troubleshooting diagnostics, and detailed resource views. Responses are faster and more actionable, replacing multi-step text replies with immediate visual summaries. The features are available in all Regions where Amazon Q Developer is supported.

🔧 AWS Glue Data Catalog now supports table optimization, statistics, and crawlers for Apache Iceberg Version 3 (V3) tables. With table optimization you can compact V3 tables using binpack, sort, or z-order strategies and remove expired snapshots and orphan files. Glue can generate NDV statistics for V3 types and Glue crawlers can discover V3 tables in Amazon S3 and register them in the Glue Data Catalog.

🛠️ The AWS Command Line Interface now includes two new Agent Toolkit commands to simplify skill maintenance. Customers can run aws agent-toolkit check-skill-updates to compare installed skills with registry versions and aws agent-toolkit update-skill --all to update all outdated skills at once. These options reduce manual per-skill checks and streamline keeping agent skills current across domains like storage, networking, and analytics. Ensure you have AWS CLI v2.37.0+ and note availability of the AWS MCP Server in US East (N. Virginia) and Europe (Frankfurt).

🔎 Amazon S3 Vectors now supports metadata pre-filtering to evaluate filters before similarity search, returning up to 5x more matching vectors when filters are selective. It also introduces a $startsWith prefix-match operator for filtering on paths and URLs. New indexes in vector buckets enable pre-filtering by default; existing indexes can be updated with the UpdateIndexMode API. The feature is available at no extra cost across commercial and China AWS Regions and will be deployed in the coming days.

🔔 Amazon Managed Grafana now supports creating new workspaces with Grafana version 13.2, bringing features from Grafana 13.0–13.2 such as Git Sync, dynamic dashboards, and PromQL support in the Amazon CloudWatch plugin. Git Sync enables treating dashboards as code by linking a workspace to a Git repository for version control. Dynamic dashboards allow responsive layouts driven by data and variables. The CloudWatch data source plugin now accepts PromQL queries for metrics ingested via OTLP. Grafana 13.2 is available in all AWS regions where the service is generally available.

📘 AWS Parallel Computing Service (AWS PCS) now emits scaling logs that record state transitions for individual compute nodes, such as launches, registrations, scale-downs, and failures. These logs help troubleshoot scaling issues by showing why groups didn’t reach target sizes, which launches failed for capacity reasons, and when nodes started or stopped. Delivery is opt-in and can be configured to Amazon CloudWatch Logs, Amazon S3, or Amazon Data Firehose.

⚡ Amazon Aurora Serverless now scales in larger increments, adding up to 16 ACUs within a second and scaling up to 256 ACUs as workloads demand. This launch speeds scaling to meet capacity needs and automatically scales to zero when idle, reducing costs. The enhancement is enabled by default on platform versions 3 and 4, with upgrade paths for versions 1 and 2. Check your cluster's platform version in the AWS Console or via the RDS API.

🔔 Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB now supports M8a instances powered by 5th‑generation AMD EPYC processors. Each vCPU maps to a physical core for consistent per‑core performance, with up to 75 Gbps network and 60 Gbps EBS bandwidth for high I/O workloads. Built on the AWS Nitro System with sixth‑generation Nitro Cards, M8a instances are available across multiple US, Europe, and Asia Pacific regions. Provision via the RDS Console or AWS CLI and consult RDS documentation for supported engine versions and pricing.

🖥️ Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS now support R8a database instances powered by 5th generation AMD EPYC processors, offering each vCPU as a physical core for consistent per‑core performance. R8a instances deliver up to 75 Gbps network bandwidth and 60 Gbps Amazon EBS bandwidth and are built on the AWS Nitro System with sixth‑generation Nitro Cards. Supported engines include Aurora PostgreSQL/MySQL, RDS for PostgreSQL, MySQL and MariaDB. R8a instances are available in multiple US, Canada, Asia Pacific and European regions and can be launched via the RDS console or AWS CLI.

🆕 Amazon RDS for MySQL 26.7 is now available in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment, enabling evaluation of the MySQL 26.7 pre-release on Amazon RDS. The release follows the new YY.M calendar versioning and includes bug fixes, security patches, and features like the Change Stream Applier to improve replication apply throughput. Preview instances are retained up to 60 days, snapshots are limited to the Preview Environment, and pricing follows the US East (Ohio) Region.

🟢 Amazon Quick now enables applications to consume live data directly from Quick datasets, keeping KPIs, charts, tables, and insights continuously up to date. These apps support interactive business workflows—handling requests, approvals, and triggering next steps—while respecting each user’s existing Amazon Quick row- and column-level permissions. Builders create apps by naming a dataset and describing requirements in plain language to the chat agent, simplifying integration of current pipeline numbers into portals and workflows. The feature is available in all supported regions of Amazon Quick apps.