All news with #product update tag

📊 Cloudflare announces support for aggregations in R2 SQL, enabling GROUP BY, SUM, COUNT, HAVING and ORDER BY over data stored in R2 Data Catalog. The release introduces two distributed strategies — scatter-gather for pre-aggregates and shuffling with deterministic hash partitioning for global grouping and sorting. Developers can now run large-scale analytical queries and top-K reports on Parquet data without moving it or managing separate OLAP infrastructure.

📣 AWS Lambda now offers durable functions in 14 additional Regions, enabling developers to build reliable multi-step applications and AI workflows closer to users and data. Durable functions add primitives such as "steps" and "waits" to checkpoint progress, recover from failures, and pause execution without incurring compute charges for on-demand functions. Activation is available for new Python (3.13, 3.14) and Node.js (22, 24) functions via the API, Console, SDK, or Infrastructure as Code tools like CloudFormation, SAM, and CDK.

🚀 Amazon Neptune is now available in the AWS Europe (Zurich) Region on engine versions 1.4.5.0 and later. You can create Neptune clusters using a broad set of instance types, including R5, R5d, R6g, R6i, X2iedn, T4g, and T3. Neptune is a fully managed graph database that supports Apache TinkerPop Gremlin, openCypher, and SPARQL, and provides enterprise features such as high availability, automated backups, and network isolation. Clusters can be provisioned via the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, or CloudFormation.

🚀 Amazon Web Services has expanded EC2 R8i and R8i-flex instances to Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and South America (Sao Paulo). These memory-optimized instances run on custom Intel Xeon 6 processors exclusive to AWS, delivering up to 15% better price-performance and 2.5x more memory bandwidth versus prior Intel-based instances. R8i offers 13 sizes including two bare-metal options and a new 96xlarge for the largest workloads, while R8i-flex provides common sizes (large to 16xlarge) for cost-efficient memory-heavy applications. Instances are available via Savings Plans, On-Demand, and Spot.

🕒 Amazon ECS now lets you define weekly event windows to control when AWS Fargate retires tasks for platform updates. Enable the account setting fargateEventWindows, create EC2 event windows with time ranges, and associate them to ECS tasks using managed tags like aws:ecs:clusterArn, aws:ecs:serviceArn, or aws:ecs:fargateTask. This allows precise timing (for example, weekend-only retirements) to avoid disruption during peak business hours and is available in all commercial AWS Regions.

🔒 AWS Clean Rooms now supports change requests for existing collaborations, enabling participants to propose updates such as adding new members, adjusting member abilities, and modifying auto-approval behavior. All members must approve change requests before updates take effect, and every request is recorded in the collaboration change history for member review. This preserves existing privacy controls while reducing onboarding time and speeding time-to-insight—for example, a publisher can add an advertiser’s marketing agency to receive analysis results directly.

🔐 Today, AWS Control Tower adds 176 additional AWS Security Hub controls to the Control Catalog, enabling you to search, discover, enable, and manage them directly from the Control Tower console. You can also call the ListControls, GetControl, and EnableControl APIs to automate governance across multi-account environments. New AWS Config rules are searchable in all Regions where Control Tower is available, including AWS GovCloud (US); check each rule's supported regions before deployment.

🧪 AWS Direct Connect now integrates with AWS Fault Injection Service (FIS) to run controlled resilience tests that deliberately disrupt Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) sessions on Virtual Interfaces. You can simulate BGP session failures to validate that traffic fails over to redundant Virtual Interfaces and that applications remain operational. This capability helps teams proactively verify failover behavior, observability, and recovery procedures and is available in all AWS Commercial Regions where AWS FIS is offered.

🚀 Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition now supports PostgreSQL 18.1 in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment, enabling evaluation of the new engine on Aurora without self-installation or manual provisioning. PostgreSQL 18.1, released September 9, 2025, adds skip scan for multicolumn B-tree indexes, improved WHERE handling for OR/IN, parallel GIN index builds, and join enhancements. Observability gains include buffer usage counts, index lookup details, and a per-connection I/O utilization metric. Preview clusters are retained up to 60 days and are priced the same as production Aurora instances in the US East (Ohio) Region.

📄 AWS Billing Conductor now supports service-specific custom line items scoped to a single AWS service or a selected set of services. Customers can control whether these line items appear itemized or consolidated in pro forma billing artifacts such as the Bills Page, Cost Explorer, and Cost and Usage Records. The enhancement enables more precise charge-back and re-billing workflows, including applying discounts to Saving Plans fees or allocating shared support charges. This capability is available now across AWS commercial Regions, excluding China.

🚀 Amazon EC2 C8g instances are now available in AWS Europe (Zurich). Powered by Graviton4 processors, C8g delivers up to 30% better performance versus Graviton3 and offers up to 3x more vCPUs and memory than prior C7g sizes. Built on the AWS Nitro System, these instances provide enhanced performance, security, and networking (up to 50 Gbps) for compute‑intensive workloads. Twelve sizes, including two bare‑metal options, support HPC, gaming, video encoding, CPU inference, and analytics.

⚡Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling introduces the new LaunchInstances API, a synchronous operation that provides immediate feedback on capacity availability when provisioning instances inside an Auto Scaling group. Customers can specify placement overrides for any Availability Zone or subnet to control where capacity is launched. The call returns real-time insight so operators can implement alternative strategies if capacity is constrained, and it also supports optional asynchronous retries to help reach desired capacity. The feature is available in all AWS Regions and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions at no additional cost beyond standard EC2 and EBS usage.

🚀 AWS has expanded availability of Graviton4-based Amazon EC2 C8g, M8g, and R8g instances to AWS GovCloud (US-West and US-East). These instances run on AWS Graviton4 processors and the AWS Nitro System, delivering up to 30% better performance versus Graviton3 and larger instance sizes with up to 3x vCPUs and memory. Enhanced networking and EBS bandwidth support high-throughput workloads.

🚀 CHNA 2.0 combines Wayne State’s PHOENIX data warehouse with Syntasa Sentiment Analytics and Google Vertex AI to automate Community Health Needs Assessments. The solution ingests EHR, social and environmental data alongside real‑time search and social signals to surface community concerns and priorities. By decomposing reporting tasks and embedding human oversight, CHNA 2.0 delivers comprehensive, updateable CHNA reports in weeks rather than months.

📁 AWS Artifact now provides self-service access to previous versions of compliance reports, eliminating the need to contact AWS Support or account representatives. Customers with the IAM permission artifact:ListReportVersions—included in the managed policy AWSArtifactReportsReadOnlyAccess—can view prior SOC, ISO, and C5 report versions directly in the console by selecting available versions. Availability of historical coverage varies by compliance program, and the feature is generally available in US East (N. Virginia) and AWS GovCloud (US-West).

🔗 AWS Security Incident Response now integrates with Slack, enabling bidirectional case creation and automatic data replication so teams can create and update cases from either the Security Incident Response console or Slack. Each case is mapped to a dedicated Slack channel with comments and attachments syncing instantly, and responders are added automatically to accelerate engagement. The open-source solution on GitHub leverages EventBridge and a modular architecture and includes guidance for using AI assistants such as Amazon Q Developer or Kiro to extend integration targets beyond Slack.

🌿 AWS now publishes customer carbon footprint data within 21 days of usage, reducing the previous reporting lag of up to three months. Estimates are published between the 15th and 21st of the month following usage and are available via the Customer Carbon Footprint Tool (CCFT) in the AWS Billing and Cost Management console. The CCFT dashboard retains 38 months of historical data to support trend analysis and faster emissions and cost-reduction decisions.

🚀 Amazon Web Services has expanded availability of EC2 M8i instances to Asia Pacific (Seoul, Tokyo, Sydney, Singapore) and Canada (Central). Powered by AWS-exclusive Intel Xeon 6 processors, M8i offers up to 15% better price-performance and 2.5x memory bandwidth versus prior Intel-based instances, and up to 20% higher performance than M7i. These SAP-certified general purpose instances include 13 sizes, two bare-metal options, and a new 96xlarge for the largest workloads.

🧠 Amazon Quick Suite now adds memory to its chat agents, enabling personalized responses based on prior conversations and stated preferences. The feature stores inferred user preferences—such as response format, acronyms, dashboards, and integrations—and lets users view and remove any remembered items. Users may also choose Private Mode, in which chats are not used to infer memories. Memory is currently available in US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon).

🔁 The Amazon Quick Suite browser extension now supports Amazon Quick Flows, enabling users to run workflows directly in their web browser without manually extracting page data. You can invoke flows you created or that were shared with you and pass web page content as input while staying on the site. This supports routine tasks like contract analysis and dashboard report generation. The capability is available in select regions with no extra extension fees beyond standard Quick Flows usage.