All news with #product update tag

🔔 AWS Clean Rooms now publishes events to Amazon EventBridge to signal new member invitations and table readiness. Invited collaborators receive immediate EventBridge notifications when added to a collaboration, and members are alerted when AWS Entity Resolution resources (ID mapping tables and namespaces) are associated. This enables automated, near-real-time workflows, reduces manual polling, and shortens time-to-action from hours to minutes. Organizations can more quickly start analyses and increase transparency between collaborators.

📊 You can now enable CloudWatch metrics for Route 53 Resolver endpoints to monitor per-endpoint DNS performance and the health of target name servers. The metrics include query response latency plus counts of SERVFAIL, NXDOMAIN, REFUSED and FORMERR responses, and timeouts for outbound target servers. These details make it easier to troubleshoot hybrid DNS resolution issues and build alerts and dashboards; standard CloudWatch and Resolver endpoint charges apply.

🔧 Kali Linux 2025.4 delivers three new tools and multiple desktop improvements in its final 2025 update. The release adds bpf-linker, evil-winrm-py, and hexstrike-ai, while upgrading GNOME to 49 (Wayland-only), KDE Plasma to 6.5, and enhancing Xfce theming. NetHunter device support and utilities were expanded, and the Kali Live image now ships via BitTorrent only. Administrators and pentesters should review the changelog and apply the provided upgrade commands.

🚀 Amazon announces that EMR Managed Scaling is now available to EMR on EC2 customers in Asia Pacific (Malaysia, New Zealand, Taipei, Thailand), Canada West (Calgary), Mexico (Central), and US Gameday Northeast (Illinois). The feature automatically resizes EC2 instances to optimize performance and cost; you set minimum and maximum compute limits and EMR adjusts capacity using workload-driven algorithms. It supports Apache Spark, Apache Hive and YARN-based workloads on EMR on EC2 versions 6.14 and above and can use EC2 Spot Instances for additional savings.

🚀 Amazon Aurora DSQL now provisions clusters in seconds, cutting setup time from minutes to near-instant. Developers can immediately use the integrated query editor in the AWS Console to prototype or build without configuring external clients or connecting through the Aurora DSQL Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. The change supports both prototyping and production workloads while preserving Aurora DSQL’s scalability, active-active high availability, zero infrastructure management, and pay-for-what-you-use pricing. The enhancement is available in all Regions where Aurora DSQL is offered and is accessible via the AWS Free Tier.

🔒 Amazon WorkSpaces Secure Browser now includes Web Content Filtering, allowing administrators to define granular access policies, block specific URLs or entire domain categories using 25+ predefined categories, and integrate with Session Logger for enhanced monitoring and compliance. While existing Chrome policies remain supported, this category-based approach delivers richer control, improved logging, and centralized policy management. The feature is available at no additional cost in 10 AWS Regions and supports pay-as-you-go pricing, with console enablement and automatic migration of URL blocklists and allowlists.

⚛ Amazon Braket now supports Qiskit 2.0, enabling quantum developers to use the latest Qiskit release with Braket hardware and simulators. The release provides native implementations of Qiskit's Sampler and Estimator primitives that leverage Braket program sets for optimized batching, reducing execution time and costs versus generic wrappers. Service-side handling of parameter sweeps and observable measurements removes manual implementation burdens, while bidirectional circuit conversion permits client-side transpilation with Qiskit's compilation framework. Qiskit 2.0 support is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon Braket is offered.

🖥️ AWS has added built-in screen sharing to the AWS Support Center Console, enabling customers to request a virtual meeting from an active chat or call and join via a meeting bridge link. During the session, users can share their screen while retaining seamless access to case details. The feature keeps troubleshooting workflows consolidated within the console and aims to streamline diagnostics and communication between customers and support engineers.

🔍 AWS Partner Central now includes AI-powered deal sizing within APN Customer Engagements (ACE) Opportunities, giving partners estimated monthly recurring revenue (MMR) and recommended AWS services when creating or updating opportunities. Partners can import AWS Pricing Calculator URLs to auto-populate service selections and spend estimates, with enhanced insights such as pricing optimization, cost-savings analysis, MAP eligibility, and modernization pathways. The feature is available worldwide via the console and the AWS Partner Central API for Selling.

🔖 Amazon Web Services now supports resource tagging for automated backups and cluster automated backups in Amazon RDS and Aurora. You can tag automated backups independently from the parent DB instance or DB cluster using the AWS Management Console, API, or SDK. Use these tags with IAM policies to implement attribute-based access control and to organize, manage, and track backup costs. This capability is available in all AWS Regions, including AWS GovCloud (US).

🛡️ Google is introducing a new defense layer in Chrome called User Alignment Critic to protect upcoming agentic browsing features powered by Gemini. The isolated secondary LLM operates as a high‑trust system component that vets each action the primary agent proposes, using deterministic rules, origin restrictions and a prompt‑injection classifier to block risky or irrelevant behaviors. Chrome will pause for user confirmation on sensitive sites, run continuous red‑teaming and push fixes via auto‑update, and is offering bounties to encourage external testing.

📣 Amazon Connect Outbound Campaigns now supports WhatsApp, enabling proactive, automated messaging for appointment reminders, payment notifications, order updates, and product recommendations. Administrators can configure WhatsApp campaigns in the existing Amazon Connect interface—define target audiences, personalize message templates, schedule delivery, and apply compliance guardrails alongside SMS, voice, and email. Messages can leverage real-time customer data and include delivery and engagement tracking as well as frequency controls to maintain compliance. This capability is available in all AWS Regions that support Outbound Campaigns.

🔁 Amazon SageMaker Notebook instances now support self-service migration via the PlatformIdentifier parameter in the UpdateNotebookInstance API. You can update unsupported platform identifiers (notebook-al1-v1, notebook-al2-v1, notebook-al2-v2) to supported versions (notebook-al2-v3, notebook-al2023-v1) while preserving data and configurations. The capability is available through AWS CLI (v2.31.27+) and SDKs in all Regions where Notebook instances are supported. This simplifies keeping instances current and reduces manual migration effort.

🚀 AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports Node.js 24 on Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023), enabling developers to deploy applications that benefit from the latest V8 engine updates, npm 11, and platform-level security and performance improvements. You can create environments via the Elastic Beanstalk Console, CLI, or API. The platform is available in all commercial AWS Regions, including AWS GovCloud (US).

📣 Amazon Bedrock now offers TwelveLabs Pegasus 1.2 via Global cross-Region inference, expanding availability by 23 new Regions in addition to the seven where it was already supported. You can also access the model in all EU Regions using Geographic cross-Region inference to meet data-residency requirements. Pegasus 1.2 is a video-first model for long-form video-to-text generation and temporal understanding, enabling lower latency and simplified architecture for video-intelligence applications.

🔍 Amazon OpenSearch Service now provides automatic semantic enrichment for managed domains, extending an earlier capability from OpenSearch Serverless to managed clusters and enabling semantic search with minimal configuration. The feature performs semantic processing automatically so customers do not need to manage ML models. It supports English-only and multilingual variants across 15 languages (including Arabic, French, Hindi, Japanese, and Korean) and is billed based on ingestion usage as OpenSearch Compute Unit (OCU) - Semantic Search. The capability requires OpenSearch 2.19 or later and is currently available for non‑VPC domains in selected AWS Regions; see the OpenSearch Service documentation for setup and configuration details.

🐍 AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports Python 3.14 on Amazon Linux 2023, allowing developers to build and deploy applications that take advantage of the latest interpreter features, improved error messages, and updated security and API behavior. The platform update also enhances the interactive interpreter experience and aligns runtime behavior with modern Python improvements. Environments can be provisioned via the Elastic Beanstalk Console, CLI, or API, and are available in all commercial AWS Regions including AWS GovCloud (US).

🔍 Amazon Q now analyzes email sending in Amazon SES, enabling customers to ask natural-language questions about SES resource configuration, usage patterns, and deliverability issues. Q evaluates usage data and resource settings to surface optimization opportunities and troubleshooting steps, reducing the need for deep email-sending expertise. Support is available in all Regions where SES and Q are offered.

🔔 AWS now enables centralized collection of CloudTrail events in Amazon CloudWatch, allowing organizations to consolidate telemetry alongside VPC Flow Logs and EKS Control Plane Logs. The integration leverages service-linked channels (SLCs) to receive events without requiring trails and adds safety checks plus termination protection. Customers will incur CloudTrail event delivery charges and CloudWatch Logs ingestion fees based on custom logs pricing; consult the CloudWatch documentation for supported regions and enablement steps.

📢 AWS has announced that AWS Managed Microsoft AD and AD Connector are now available in the Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region. AWS Managed Microsoft AD is built on actual Microsoft Active Directory and helps reduce the operational burden of running AD infrastructure in AWS while enabling domain join for EC2, containers, and Kubernetes. AD Connector acts as a proxy to let AWS services use existing on-premises AD identities and group policies without provisioning AD in the cloud.