All news with #product update tag

🚀 Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) now supports pre-warming of tables so customers can proactively prepare new and existing tables for anticipated traffic peaks. The capability works for both provisioned and on-demand capacity modes, including multi-Region replicated tables, and is applied during create or update operations. Pre-warming runs non-disruptively and asynchronously, incurs a one-time charge based on the difference from baseline capacity, and is available in all AWS Commercial and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions where Keyspaces is offered.

📞 Microsoft will add a Report a Call feature in Teams that lets users flag suspicious or unwanted one-to-one calls as potential scams or phishing. The option appears in call history on Windows, Mac and the web and is enabled by default; administrators can disable it in the Teams Admin Center under Calling settings. Limited metadata — timestamps, duration, caller ID and participant Teams IDs — is shared with the organization and Microsoft, and reports are viewable in the Microsoft Defender portal or Teams Admin Center. Targeted Release begins mid-March, with worldwide general availability planned by late April.

🚀 Amazon GameLift Servers now supports automatic scaling to and from zero instances, enabling game developers to eliminate charges for idle compute during inactive periods. This removes the need to keep instances running solely to preserve Fleet autoscaling, reducing infrastructure costs for titles with variable or unpredictable traffic. The capability is available in all supported regions and scales up automatically when game sessions are requested, simplifying operations and improving cost-efficiency.

🚀 Amazon EKS and EKS Distro now support Kubernetes 1.35, enabling creation of new clusters and upgrades of existing clusters via the EKS console, eksctl, or infrastructure-as-code tools. Kubernetes 1.35 introduces In-Place Pod Resource Updates to adjust CPU and memory without restarting pods, PreferSameNode traffic distribution to favor local endpoints, Node Topology Labels via the Downward API for region/zone awareness, and Image Volumes for delivering data artifacts such as AI models. EKS 1.35 is available in all AWS Regions where EKS is offered, including AWS GovCloud (US), and EKS Distro builds are published to the ECR Public Gallery and GitHub. Refer to the EKS documentation for available versions, upgrade guidance, lifecycle policies, and use EKS Cluster Insights to surface issues that could affect upgrades.

⚡ Amazon Web Services has made R7gd EC2 instances available in the Europe (Paris) Region, offering up to 3.8 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block storage. Powered by AWS Graviton3 processors with DDR5 memory and built on the AWS Nitro System, these instances target memory-intensive workloads such as open-source databases, in-memory caches, and real-time analytics. They provide high-speed, low-latency local storage suitable for scratch space, temporary files, and caches, and can be launched via the AWS Management Console.

🚀 Google Cloud announced concurrency for GKE node pool auto-creation, significantly reducing provisioning latency and improving autoscaling responsiveness. Internal benchmarks report up to an 85% improvement in provisioning speed, especially for heterogeneous, multi-tenant, and AI workloads that require multiple distinct node types. The improvement is available in version 1.34.1-gke.1829001 and requires only upgrading GKE; no additional configuration is necessary.

🚀 In 2025, Spanner became a first-class database for AI and multi-model workloads, integrating vectors, graphs, and text search to provide richer context for generative applications. Google expanded AI integrations including ML.PREDICT, Vertex RAG Engine support, an Agent Development Kit, and ANN search with ScaNN to speed semantic retrieval. The release also bridged operational and analytical silos with a columnar engine and tighter BigQuery/Iceberg integrations, simplified Cassandra and MySQL migrations, boosted price-performance, and strengthened enterprise safeguards such as drop protection and default backup schedules.

🔧 AWS now lets you edit job names and descriptions in AWS Deadline Cloud after submission, making it easier to organize and identify render and compute jobs. Previously immutable metadata can now be corrected or augmented post-submission to reflect shot numbers, sequence IDs, or internal tracking. Edits are available via the AWS SDK, the Deadline client, and Deadline Monitor, enabling both manual updates and scripted automation for pipeline workflows.

🚀 Dataflow now broadens ML infrastructure with new accelerator and provisioning options to support batch and streaming workloads. It adds support for H100 and H100 Mega GPUs and TPU V5E, V5P, and V6E, plus reservation capabilities and a flex-start provisioning model via the Dynamic Workload Scheduler. ML-aware streaming autoscaling and right fitting heterogeneous worker pools aim to improve throughput and reduce cost for inference and streaming ML jobs.

🖨️ AWS announced advanced printer redirection for Amazon WorkSpaces Personal, enabling Windows users to access full device-specific printing features—double-sided printing, paper tray selection, finishing (stapling, hole-punching) and color management—directly from their virtual desktops. The feature supports configurable driver validation modes (exact, partial, or name-only) so administrators can balance compatibility and capability, and it automatically falls back to basic printing when matching drivers are not found. Available in all Regions offering WorkSpaces Personal, it requires WorkSpaces Agent 2.2.0.2116+ and Windows client 5.31+, with matching printer drivers installed on both the WorkSpace and client device.

🔧 AWS Marketplace now supports a self-service listing flow for sellers publishing Amazon Machine Image (AMI) products that include FPGA images. Sellers can create and manage up to 15 Amazon FPGA images via a new UI or programmatically through the AWS Marketplace Catalog API, with inline validation and step-by-step guidance. The change removes the prior Product Load Form dependency and speeds time-to-market for FPGA-based accelerators on supported Amazon F2 instance types.

🚀 Amazon Web Services has made R6id memory-optimized database instances generally available for Amazon RDS running PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB in the Tel Aviv region. R6gd instances are now supported for the same engines in Asia Pacific (Osaka) and EU regions (Spain, Zurich). Graviton2-based instances can deliver up to 40% better performance than R5 equivalents, while R6gd adds local NVMe block storage and R6id offers 58% more TB per vCPU and approximately 15% improved price-performance versus R5d. Instances can be launched via the RDS console or AWS CLI; consult the RDS/Aurora documentation for engine-version support and the pricing page for regional costs.

🔒 The Android Security Team announced a set of theft protection updates designed to make devices harder targets for criminals. Available on devices running Android 16+ and recovery tools on Android 10+, the changes add a dedicated toggle for Failed Authentication Lock, expand Identity Check coverage to all apps using the Biometric Prompt, and increase lockout times while preventing identical repeated guesses from counting toward retries. Remote Lock gains an optional security challenge, and new devices activated in Brazil will ship with Theft Detection Lock and Remote Lock enabled by default.

🔒 Meta announced a new Strict Account Settings mode on WhatsApp to protect high-risk users such as journalists and public figures by locking accounts to their most restrictive options. The mode, available under Settings > Privacy > Advanced, blocks attachments and media from unknown senders, silences unknown callers, and restricts additional features to reduce attack surface. Meta said the controls will roll out gradually over the coming weeks. The company also highlighted a global rollout of a Rust-based media library, wamedia, and other memory-safety hardening efforts to guard against spyware and memory corruption.

🔒 Amazon Connect Cases now supports tag-based access control, enabling administrators to attach tags to case templates and restrict which users can view or manage cases based on security profiles. For example, teams can tag fraud cases and limit view/edit rights to users assigned to a fraud security profile. This capability strengthens enforcement of internal controls and data access policies, simplifies segmentation of sensitive workflows, and reduces the risk of unauthorized access across supported AWS regions.

🚀 Amazon Lightsail now offers Node.js, LAMP, and Ruby on Rails blueprints that enforce IMDSv2 by default and support IPv6-only instances. With a few clicks you can create a preconfigured VPS sized by bundle that includes the operating system, storage, and a monthly data transfer allowance. These blueprints are available in all AWS Regions where Lightsail is offered, simplifying quick web app deployments.

🚀 Amazon Bedrock now offers a 1-hour time-to-live (TTL) option for prompt caching on select Anthropic Claude models. This extends cached prompt prefix persistence beyond the previous 5-minute default, improving cost efficiency and responsiveness for long-running agentic workflows and multi-turn conversations. The 1-hour TTL is generally available for Claude Sonnet 4.5, Claude Haiku 4.5, and Claude Opus 4.5 in commercial AWS Regions and AWS GovCloud (US) where those models are available. The 1-hour cache is billed at a different rate than the standard 5-minute cache.

🛡️ AWS IAM Identity Center now supports native IPv6 via new dual-stack endpoints that accept both IPv4 and IPv6 clients, enabling direct IPv6 access without network address translation. Administrators should update external IdP configurations (ACS and SCIM URLs), adjust firewalls and gateways, and share the dual-stack app URL with users. You can monitor adoption through CloudTrail by inspecting clientProvidedHostHeader to distinguish IPv4-only and dual-stack usage.

✨ BigQuery now integrates Gemini and Vertex AI models directly into SQL, enabling in-place generative AI and embedding workflows. New functions—AI.GENERATE(), AI.GENERATE_TABLE(), AI.EMBED(), and AI.SIMILARITY()—support text and multimodal inputs and return structured outputs via an output_schema for immediate querying. End User Credentials simplify authentication, and Gemini 3.0 Pro/Flash support is available for advanced generative tasks.

🔁 AWS now offers a monthly flat-rate billing option for Amazon WorkSpaces Core managed instances in addition to existing hourly pay-as-you-go pricing. Monthly billing is optimized for predictable, always-on VDI desktops while hourly remains better for variable usage, and customers can mix both models within a single deployment. VDI partners such as Citrix, Workspot, Dizzion, and Leostream can use the WorkSpaces API to enable the monthly option when instances are created; hourly utility charges are also being consolidated on WorkSpaces bills without changing effective on-demand rates.