All news with #product update tag

🤖 Amazon Redshift now extends its autonomics capabilities to multi-cluster environments, enabling automatic optimization across distributed warehouses. Features such as Automatic Table Optimization, Automatic Table Sorting, Auto Vacuum, and Auto Analyze now consider query patterns from all consumer clusters when adjusting table layouts and maintenance. A denylist lets operators exclude specific endpoints or AWS accounts from influencing optimizations. These enhancements are available at no extra cost in all Regions that support Amazon Redshift.

🔒 The Eclipse Foundation will require pre-publish security checks for extensions submitted to the Open VSX Registry, moving from reactive takedowns to proactive vetting. The staged rollout uses February 2026 to monitor uploads without blocking to tune detections and reduce false positives, with enforcement beginning in March 2026. The checks aim to flag name or namespace impersonation, accidentally published credentials, and known malicious patterns, quarantining suspicious uploads for manual review.

🔍 AWS Batch now returns a statusSummary for Array Jobs in the ListJobs API response, providing a single-call view of child job counts across states such as SUBMITTED, PENDING, RUNNABLE, STARTING, RUNNING, SUCCEEDED, and FAILED. The response also includes a statusSummaryLastUpdatedAt timestamp to indicate freshness. This eliminates extra DescribeJobs calls and streamlines monitoring of large-scale parallel workloads.

🔁 Amazon now enables replication of DynamoDB global tables across multiple AWS accounts and Regions, allowing automatic, multi-Region, multi-account table synchronization. This supports stronger fault tolerance and higher availability during account-level disruptions while enabling workload isolation and distinct security and governance controls. The feature is available in all AWS Regions and follows existing global tables pricing.

🌍 AWS Marketplace now provides a localized purchasing experience for EMEA customers procuring Professional Services through the AWS EMEA Marketplace Operator. Buyers can use local payment methods such as SEPA direct debit and will receive invoices issued by AWS EMEA, removing cross-entity remittance hurdles. The capability simplifies procurement, supports billing consolidation, and is available now for eligible EMEA purchases.

🔗 Amazon has introduced an enhanced console experience for Amazon RDS that consolidates connection details and tools into a single, context-aware view. The interface generates ready-made code snippets for Java, Python, Node.js and command-line utilities like psql, and automatically adapts snippets to the database's authentication settings (for example, using token-based connections when IAM authentication is enabled). It also embeds CloudShell for direct in-console access and is available for Aurora and RDS engines across all commercial AWS Regions.

🔁 Amazon Connect introduces an integrated appeals workflow that lets agents contest performance evaluations directly within the Connect UI. Agents can submit reasoning and cite specific examples when they disagree with scores, such as contested active listening ratings. Designated managers receive automated email notifications, can review appeals, and track resolution status across all regions where Amazon Connect is offered.

🧮 Aurora DSQL now supports creating indexes on the NUMERIC data type, allowing NUMERIC columns to be used in primary keys and secondary indexes. This change targets workloads that require high-precision values such as currency amounts, scientific measurements, and statistical datasets. The feature is available in all Regions where Aurora DSQL is offered and is intended to improve query performance for operations that sort, filter, or join on precise numeric values. Customers should test index impact on storage and write performance with representative workloads.

ℹ️ AWS announced general availability of displaying the account name in the AWS Management Console navigation bar across all public Regions. The new account name display lets authorized users visually identify and distinguish accounts at a glance rather than relying solely on numeric account IDs. The capability is available at no additional cost; administrators must enable it by applying the appropriate managed policy before users will see the name in the console.

🔒 Microsoft’s SDL is expanding to secure AI-powered systems by treating AI risks as dynamic, cross-disciplinary challenges rather than a static checklist. The update highlights AI-specific threats—prompt injection, data poisoning, memory and cache leakage, and malicious tool interactions—and stresses the need for telemetry-driven detection and faster feedback loops. Microsoft emphasizes developer-friendly policy, automation, and collaborative threat modeling to integrate security into everyday engineering practice.

🗺️ Authors can now resolve ambiguous locations directly on map visuals in Amazon Quick Suite using Quick Sight. When place names occur in multiple regions—examples include cities like Springfield or Abbeville—authors may disambiguate by adding supporting geospatial fields to create location hierarchies, searching the product’s geographic database, or entering precise latitude/longitude coordinates. The feature presents clear status indicators (Unmatched, Matched, Unused) and resolution actions accessible from map visuals. It is available in all regions that support Quick Sight, and documentation plus a blog post provide guidance on maps and geospatial charts.

🔁 AWS announced multi-Region replication for IAM Identity Center, enabling automatic copying of identities, entitlements, and configuration from a primary Region to customer-selected additional Regions. The feature preserves access during primary-Region disruptions and allows application deployment in Regions that support data residency or proximity requirements. Available in 17 enabled-by-default commercial Regions for organization instances connected to external IdPs, it requires a multi-Region customer-managed KMS key and incurs standard KMS charges; IAM Identity Center is provided at no extra cost.

🚀 Cloudflare has launched R2 Local Uploads in open beta to speed global writes by first writing object data to storage near the client and then asynchronously replicating it to the bucket's home region. Uploads remain strongly consistent and immediately accessible after the initial write, and private-beta tests show up to a 75% reduction in Time to Last Byte for cross-region uploads. Enable Local Uploads via the Cloudflare Dashboard or with Wrangler; there is no additional charge beyond standard Class A operation costs.

🔒 Mozilla has added a single, one-click control in Firefox desktop to disable all generative AI features or manage them individually. Rolling out with Firefox 148 on Feb 24, 2026, the Controls let users toggle translations, PDF alt text, AI tab grouping, link previews, and an AI sidebar chatbot. The Block AI enhancements toggle prevents pop-ups and prompts. Mozilla says the change gives users clear, simple choice over AI.

🛡️ Mozilla will let Firefox users disable AI features globally or manage them individually using a new "Block AI enhancements" toggle arriving in Firefox 148 on February 24. The setting blocks existing and future generative AI tools, suppresses related pop-ups or reminders, and preserves preferences across browser updates. Users can also enable five AI capabilities separately — translations, PDF image alt text, AI tab grouping, link previews, and chatbot sidebars — and the control will first appear in Nightly builds.

🔐 Amazon CloudFront now supports mutual TLS (mTLS) for origins, allowing origin servers to cryptographically verify that incoming requests originate from authorized CloudFront distributions. This certificate-based approach replaces custom solutions like shared-secret headers and IP allow-lists, reducing operational overhead and improving security for public and externally hosted origins. Customers may use client certificates issued by AWS Private Certificate Authority or third-party private CAs imported through AWS Certificate Manager, and can configure origin mTLS via the Console, CLI, SDK, CDK, or CloudFormation. Origin mTLS works with AWS-supported mutual TLS origins such as Application Load Balancer and API Gateway, as well as on-premises and custom origins, and is available at no additional charge.

🔔 OpenAI said it will retire the popular GPT-4o model on February 13, 2026, along with several other models, including GPT-5 Instant, GPT-5 Thinking, GPT-4.1, and o4-mini. The company said the move follows the rise of GPT-5.2, which it now regards as meeting expectations for capability and safety. OpenAI introduced a Personality feature to help users replicate aspects of GPT-4o’s warmer, conversational style, and said API behavior is unchanged at this time.

🚀 Amazon EventBridge now supports event payloads up to 1 MB, up from the prior 256 KB limit. This enables developers to send richer JSON, telemetry, and large-language-model prompts in a single event without chunking, compression, or external storage. The feature is available in most commercial AWS Regions, with a small set of regional exceptions. Review regional availability and update event-driven architectures to simplify data flows.

🔧 Amazon Bedrock now supports server-side tools in the Responses API using OpenAI API–compatible service endpoints. With Bedrock invoking tools directly rather than relying on client orchestration, AI applications can perform real-time, multi-step actions—searching the web, executing code, and updating databases—within the governance, compliance, and security boundaries of your AWS accounts. Developers may supply custom Lambda functions or use AWS-provided tools such as notes and tasks. Server-side tool use is available today for OpenAI's GPT OSS 20B and GPT OSS 120B in multiple AWS regions, with broader model and region support coming soon.

🔐 Amazon Cognito introduces inbound federation Lambda triggers that let you transform and customize federated user attributes during authentication. You can modify responses from external SAML and OIDC providers — adding, overriding, or suppressing attributes — before they are stored in your user pool to avoid issues such as Cognito's 2,048-character limit per attribute. The trigger is available via hosted UI (classic) and managed login in all AWS Regions and is configurable through the Console, CLI, SDKs, CDK, or CloudFormation.