All news with #product update tag

🛠️ Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports custom asset types for IAM-based domains, allowing administrators to catalog diverse asset formats such as medical images, PowerBI dashboards, or PDF reports. Administrators define a type with name, description, and optional metadata forms; assets created from those types can include glossary terms and README documentation. Published assets are discoverable and subscribable through the same governed workflow used for other catalog items and are available in all Regions where Unified Studio is offered.

🚀 Amazon SageMaker Feature Store now supports high-throughput ingestion and record discovery with new APIs and offline-store naming options. Data scientists can use BatchWriteRecord to write multiple records across feature groups in one request, and ListRecords to page through record identifiers without prior knowledge. Offline-store configuration now allows creating Glue and Iceberg tables with custom names, simplifying cataloging and management.

📰 Microsoft will remove the OWA Light experience from on-premises Exchange Server in an upcoming update. The Exchange Team says retiring OWA Light reduces legacy surface area, simplifies engineering, and lets them focus on the full Outlook on the web experience. Administrators can proactively disable OWA Light via PowerShell using Set-OwaMailboxPolicy and Set-OwaVirtualDirectory commands. The change is expected in August 2026 after OWA Light was deprecated in August 2024.

🚀 Amazon EC2 M8gd and R8gd instances are now available in additional AWS Regions, including Europe (Paris, Stockholm, Milan) and Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Osaka, Melbourne, Singapore, Taipei). These instances use AWS Graviton4 processors, offer up to 11.4 TB of local NVMe SSD storage, and deliver up to 30% better performance versus Graviton3. They support up to 50 Gbps network and 40 Gbps Amazon EBS bandwidth, with configurable bandwidth weighting and select sizes offering Elastic Fabric Adapter support.

🚀 Amazon Redshift now supports Graviton-based RG instances on the trailing track (P201) as of July 7, 2026. Customers can choose rg.4xlarge and rg.xlarge instance types for production workloads prioritizing stability, using the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, or AWS SDKs. RG instances deliver up to 2.4x faster query performance than RA3 at 30% lower price per vCPU. Provision a new cluster or resize an existing cluster to migrate to RG on the trailing track.

📢 Amazon Connect Customer now supports forecasting, capacity planning, and scheduling for Tasks and Emails, enabling unified workforce optimization across Voice, Chat, Tasks, and Email workloads. The service accounts for each channel's unique characteristics—such as concurrent handling, varying work durations, and specific service levels—so forecasts and schedules reflect real operations. Organizations can generate unified forecasts and create schedules that allocate agents efficiently across channels, ensuring consistent service levels.

🚀 AWS released Neuron 2.31.0, introducing NKI 0.5.0 with MX FP8 scale dtype, tensor indirection for indexed access patterns, and zero-cost NkiTensor view APIs. The release also brings the Neuron UltraServer Operator for Amazon EKS in public beta to automate UltraServer discovery and workload claims for Trainium UltraServer workloads. The Neuron Compiler now uses a redesigned codegen backend enabled by default on Trn2 and Trn3 for improved performance, while Runtime and Explorer add usability and debugging improvements.

🔔 Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) Managed Instances now charges lower management fees for GPU and accelerated instance types. Effective July 1, 2026, G-series fees are reduced by 35% and P-series and AWS Trainium fees by 60%, applied automatically with no customer action required. ECS Managed Instances continues to provision, configure, and operate optimal EC2 instances while offering GPU-specific metrics in Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights and automatic GPU health monitoring.

🚀 Amazon EMR Serverless now supports larger worker configurations of up to 32 vCPUs and 244 GB of memory, enabling more compute- and memory-intensive workloads. Previously, the largest worker offered was 16 vCPUs with up to 120 GB of memory. Larger workers improve runtime performance and cost profiles by reducing inefficient shuffle transfers, lowering out-of-memory risks for skewed jobs, and allowing more data to be cached in memory. These workers are available in all AWS Regions where EMR Serverless is offered.

🔔 Amazon EKS Auto Mode now reduces management fees for GPU and accelerated instance types, effective July 1, 2026. G-series Auto Mode fees drop 35%, while P-series and AWS Trainium fees drop 60%, applied automatically to existing clusters. EKS Auto Mode includes accelerator-focused features like parallel image pulling and accelerator-aware node repair to speed startup and improve reliability for ML and rendering workloads. The pricing change applies in all Regions where EKS Auto Mode is available and mirrors identical reductions for ECS Managed Instances.

🛠️ AWS Systems Manager now connects to Azure Virtual Machines without manual agent installs or per-node advanced tier fees. Create a Cloud Connector to deploy the SSM Agent at scale so Azure VMs appear alongside EC2 in a unified console. Manage them with Session Manager, Automation, Run Command, State Manager, Patch Manager, and Inventory from a single workflow. Advanced Instances Tier is removed; pay-as-you-go for non-EC2 session and command usage begins Sept 30, 2026.

🛠️ Microsoft is testing the new Cloud Rebuild recovery option in Windows 11 Insider Experimental Preview Build 26300.8772, enabling a full OS reinstall from the cloud when devices become inoperable. The feature downloads the target Windows image and device drivers from Windows Update, restoring functionality without USB media or a custom image. Insiders can initiate the process from WinRE under Troubleshoot > Recovery and must confirm a data-loss warning before the rebuild proceeds.

🔧 Amazon SageMaker Studio now offers direct, one‑click integration with Hugging Face so users can open a fully configured Studio environment with a selected model preloaded. Previously, users had to navigate console menus, configure IAM and serverless settings, and request GPU quotas; the new flow automates environment creation and permission configuration. New customers receive a Studio environment on sign‑up; verified customers gain default GPU access and visible quota information within Studio.

🆕 Amazon Elastic VMware Service (EVS) now supports VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0 and 9.1, enabling customers to run VCF directly within their Amazon VPC on EC2 bare-metal instances. You retain full control over installation, operations, and management of the VMware virtualization stack and can continue using existing tools, processes, and skills. AWS also launched the Solutions for EVS GitHub repository with examples, templates, and infrastructure-as-code artifacts to accelerate deployments. The release is available in all regions where Amazon EVS is offered.

🔔 AWS announced Service Events for Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals, which automatically captures exception and latency event snapshots, function-level performance data, and deployment events from instrumented services without additional code changes. Customers can view whether a deployment introduced new exceptions via CloudWatch > Application Signals > [Service] > Errors in the console. Service Events works with ADOT SDKs or the CloudWatch Observability EKS add-on and supports Java, Python, and JavaScript. Data is stored as logs and function-call metrics as OpenTelemetry metrics; standard CloudWatch pricing applies.

🔐 AWS Secrets Manager now supports managed external secrets for Paddle API Keys and GitLab Access Tokens. This feature enables automatic rotation of third-party credentials directly from AWS Secrets Manager, using Paddle's native rotation API and GitLab's atomic rotation mechanism. Customers can rotate Paddle API keys with a configurable grace period and rotate GitLab Personal, Group, and Project Access Tokens. These integrations join existing partners and are available in all Regions where managed external secrets is supported.

🔧 Flipper Devices will continue maintaining the official Flipper Zero firmware with a smaller internal team while shifting feature development toward community contributors. The firm is prioritizing new hardware like the Flipper One and Busy Bar, and will handle incoming requests via GitHub Discussions with weekly evaluations and community voting. Community pull requests will be accepted under stricter review and mandatory integration and regression testing. The team will retain oversight, with particular scrutiny of AI-generated low-level code and UI or documentation changes.

🔧 AWS CodeBuild now supports Amazon Linux 2023 for on-demand build hosts via a new host kernel selection setting. This managed CI service lets you choose between Amazon Linux 2 (kernel 4) and Amazon Linux 2023 (kernel 6) for new or non-production projects to validate builds while keeping production unchanged. Host kernel selection is broadly available across Regions except GovCloud (US) and China, which only offer Amazon Linux 2023.

📰 Anthropic says access to Claude Fable 5 is being moved off standard subscriptions after July 7 and shifted to usage-based billing due to unpredictable high demand. The model remains available globally via the Claude API and consumption-based Enterprise plans, while subscription access is being rolled out conservatively. Anthropic expects to restore Fable 5 to subscriptions once sufficient capacity is available, clarifying the change is not intended to be permanent.

🤖 Anthropic's Claude Fable has been restored for all users, including Max subscribers, but comes with strict usage caps and degraded behavior. Users report frequent fallbacks to Opus 4.8 and tighter guardrails that block or reduce performance on security‑adjacent and systems‑level prompts. The model will shift to a pay‑to‑play usage credits system after July 7, further limiting access.