All news with #product update tag

🗺️ 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.

🔁 Amazon Aurora DSQL now supports change data capture (CDC) in preview, enabling real-time streaming of database changes directly to Amazon Kinesis Data Streams. The fully managed capability captures insert, update, and delete operations as discrete change events and removes the need to build and maintain custom streaming pipelines. It is designed for zero impact on database throughput and latency, requires no infrastructure setup, and integrates with AWS Lambda and Data Firehose for downstream delivery. CDC streaming in preview is available in all Regions where Aurora DSQL is offered and is billed using Distributed Processing Units (DPUs); standard Amazon Kinesis pricing applies separately.

🔁 Fn::GetStackOutput enables CloudFormation templates and CDK applications to reference stack outputs across AWS accounts and Regions directly. By specifying a target stack name, output key, an IAM role ARN for cross-account access, and optionally a Region, CloudFormation assumes the role and resolves the output during template processing. In CDK, cross-account and cross-Region references use this function automatically, removing the need for custom resources and SSM parameters. Configure appropriate IAM permissions and add the function to templates to get started; the feature is available in all Regions where CloudFormation is supported.

🛠️ The AWS Transform agentic AI assistant is integrated into the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio, giving .NET developers an in‑IDE, conversational workflow to assess, plan, and execute application modernization. It provides visibility, checkpointing, interactive diffs, automatic build-fix attempts, detailed worklogs, and downloadable HTML reports while preserving context between the web console and Visual Studio. Agents are also accessible via Kiro and other AI coding environments and are available in multiple AWS Regions.

🔗AWS announced that RTB Fabric now supports custom domains for real-time bidding transactions received through external links. This enables AdTech companies to preserve existing public endpoints (for example, bid.company.com/path) by using their own DNS and CNAME records without forcing partners to reconfigure endpoints. Customers can create routing rules to map URL patterns to specific RTB Fabric links so demand- and supply-side platforms can route partner traffic seamlessly. The capability is available in all AWS Regions that support RTB Fabric and maintains low latency while reducing standard cloud networking costs.

🧭 Amazon SageMaker Data Agent is now available in SageMaker Unified Studio domains configured with IAM Identity Center. The agent enables data analysts and engineers to describe analysis goals in plain English and receive working Python or SQL code for connected sources such as Amazon Athena, Amazon Redshift, Amazon S3, and AWS Glue Data Catalog. It preserves conversational context across notebook cells, selected tables, and query history, proposes step-by-step plans, and includes a Fix with AI feature to help debug execution errors. The capability is available in all commercial AWS Regions where Unified Studio is supported.

🗄️Amazon announced that Amazon FSx for OpenZFS now supports creating Multi-AZ file systems from participant accounts in shared VPCs, enabling organizations to decentralize storage administration while keeping network control centralized. Previously, participant accounts could only create Single-AZ file systems in shared VPCs and needed to own the VPC for Multi-AZ deployments. This change allows participant accounts to create any FSx for OpenZFS file system in a shared VPC across all Regions where the service is available, improving high availability and operational flexibility.

🔧Microsoft outlines its sustained investment in PostgreSQL through upstream contributions, managed services, developer tools, and community programs. The post highlights 345 commits to the latest PostgreSQL release, active Microsoft committers working upstream, and service offerings such as Azure Database for PostgreSQL and Azure HorizonDB. It also emphasizes AI integrations like vector search and model invocation alongside IDE tooling and community engagement.

🚀 Cloudflare rebuilt Browser Run on its new Containers platform to boost concurrency, throughput, and reliability. Developers can now start 60 browsers per minute via the Workers binding and run up to 120 concurrently — four times the previous limit — while Quick Action response times have dropped by over 50%. The team migrated state from Workers KV to D1, introduced regional pre-warmed pools, and adopted batched Queue writes to avoid race conditions and scale to very large fleets. These changes let Cloudflare ship fixes and features faster and reduce global latency for automated browser tasks.

⚠️ Microsoft confirmed that a recent service update introduced a configuration change preventing some customers from downloading and installing Office on Windows 365 Cloud PCs. The issue, tracked as WP1309017 and first acknowledged on May 12, is being investigated and a fix is in development. Microsoft said validation and deployment of the fix will take time and expects a further update on Friday. Affected users can manually download Office from the Microsoft 365 page while remediation proceeds.