All news with #product update tag

🤖 WPP leveraged Google Cloud G4 VM instances powered by the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell and the NVIDIA Isaac Sim image to cut humanoid robot training from hours or days to under an hour, achieving more than 10x speedups. Their pipeline combines OptiTrack motion capture, OpenUSD digital twins, and MuJoCo-based validation to retarget complex human motion to constrained robot kinematics. Training ran at scale using GPU P2P topology and the AI Hypercomputer, condensing learned policies into ONNX for real-time deployment while preserving safety and robustness.

🚀 Cloudflare details optimizations to run extra-large open-source LLMs on Workers AI, notably making Kimi K2.5 three times faster and adding more models. The post explains hardware tuning, prefill–decode disaggregation, token-aware load balancing, and prompt-caching via an x-session-affinity header to improve throughput and tail latency. It also covers KV-cache sharing with Mooncake, speculative decoding with NVIDIA EAGLE-3, and Cloudflare’s Rust-based inference engine Infire for multi-GPU, low-memory, fast cold-start inference.

🔐 AWS introduced multi-session sign-in for Amazon Quick, allowing users to access up to five Quick accounts concurrently in the same browser. The update includes the account name in all URLs so agents, spaces, flows, reports, dashboards, and other assets open in the intended account. Users add accounts via the top-right menu or a pre-populated account input on global URLs, and can sign out per tab or from all sessions.

📊 Amazon QuickSight now supports sheet tooltips, enabling authors to surface rich, contextual detail when viewers hover over data points without disrupting their analysis flow. Authors can create dedicated tooltip sheets with visuals, text boxes, and images that inherit source visual filters and apply an additional filter for the hovered data point. The feature supports tables and pivot tables, allows assigning one tooltip sheet to multiple visuals, and is available on interactive sheets across all QuickSight regions.

🛠️ Microsoft has fixed a known issue that caused systems running Windows Server 2019 and 2022 to unexpectedly upgrade to Windows Server 2025. The problem was first acknowledged in September 2024 after widespread reports from administrators, and Microsoft says it has re-enabled the in-place upgrade offer via the Settings app. Microsoft previously cited third-party update management configuration, while some vendors said the root cause was a procedural error on Microsoft's side.

🚚 AWS now lets customers deliver AWS Data Exports — including Cost and Usage Report 2.0 (CUR 2.0), FOCUS, Cost Optimization Recommendations, and Carbon Emissions reports — directly into an authorized Amazon S3 bucket in another AWS account. This removes the need to replicate billing data across accounts and eliminates duplicate storage costs by allowing exports to target a destination bucket when created. The destination account owner controls which source accounts may deliver data via S3 bucket policies. The capability is available in all commercial AWS Regions except AWS GovCloud (US) and China Regions.

🚀 AWS has increased Amazon EBS performance for EC2 C8gn, M8gn, and R8gn instances in 48xlarge and metal-48xl sizes. With enhancements to the AWS Nitro System, EBS bandwidth doubles from 60 Gbps to 120 Gbps and IOPS doubles from 240,000 to 480,000. New launches receive the upgrade at no extra cost; running instances can enable it by stopping and starting. The change is available in all regions where these instance types are generally available.

🚀 Amazon Redshift now accelerates top-k queries (those using ORDER BY with LIMIT) by skipping irrelevant data blocks and keeping only the K best candidate rows in memory. The engine reorders and selectively reads blocks based on the ORDER BY column's min/max values so that when data is fully or partially sorted it reads only the minimal blocks needed rather than scanning entire tables. This optimization is available at no extra cost in patch release P199 and applies automatically to eligible queries without any rewrites or configuration changes.

🔎 Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights saved queries now accept parameters, enabling reusable query templates with placeholders for values such as log level, service name, or time interval. You can define up to 20 parameters with optional defaults and invoke parameterized queries by prefixing the saved query name with $ and supplying arguments. This reduces duplicate queries and simplifies complex analysis. Saved queries with parameters are available in all commercial AWS regions and can be created or executed via the Console, AWS CLI, AWS CDK, and AWS SDKs.

🔁 Amazon FSx now supports copying file system backups into and out of opt-in Regions for Amazon FSx for Windows File Server, Amazon FSx for Lustre, and Amazon FSx for OpenZFS. This extends cross-Region, cross-account backup and recovery capabilities beyond Regions enabled by default, enabling broader resilience, disaster recovery, and compliance architectures. Backup copies can be managed via the Amazon FSx console, API, CLI, and across accounts in the same AWS Organization using AWS Backup.

🌐 AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (AWS DRS) now supports IPv6 for both data replication and control plane connections, enabling replication in IPv6-only or dual-stack environments. Customers can set the internet protocol to IPv6 in replication configuration to use dual-stack endpoints for agent-to-service communication and data transfer, removing the requirement for IPv4 addresses. Existing replication configurations remain on IPv4 by default, and the capability is available in Regions where AWS DRS and Amazon EC2 support IPv6.

📧 AWS Billing and Cost Management Dashboards now support scheduled email delivery for dashboard reports. You can configure daily, weekly, or monthly deliveries that send secure links to password-protected PDF reports optimized for offline viewing, and manage recipients through AWS User Notifications. The feature is available at no additional cost in all commercial AWS Regions (excluding AWS China Regions) and is accessible via AWS SDKs and the CLI.

🛠 Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB now lets customers define weekly maintenance windows for both InfluxDB 2 instances and InfluxDB 3 clusters across all supported editions. You can specify day-and-time in an IANA timezone such as America/New_York, Europe/London, or Asia/Tokyo, and the service will automatically handle Daylight Saving Time transitions. Configure or modify the window when creating or updating resources via the console, AWS CLI, or AWS SDKs. If no window is specified, Timestream will continue to schedule maintenance automatically.

🔍 Amazon Bedrock now supports cost allocation by IAM principal in AWS Cost and Usage Report 2.0 (CUR 2.0) and Cost Explorer. Customers can tag IAM users and roles with attributes like team, project, or cost center, activate those tags as cost allocation tags, and either include caller identity in a CUR 2.0 export or filter by tags in Cost Explorer. This capability is available in all AWS commercial Regions where Amazon Bedrock is offered.

🔧 Amazon OpenSearch Service now delivers a unified observability workspace that combines metrics, logs, traces, and AI agent tracing with native integration for Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus. You can query Prometheus metrics directly with PromQL alongside logs and traces in the OpenSearch UI using live queries that avoid data duplication and reduce costs compared with premium platforms. New RED-based application monitoring workflows and OpenTelemetry GenAI semantic conventions enable correlating slow traces, overlaying Prometheus metrics on service dashboards, and tracing LLM agent execution within a single tool.

🔁 Amazon S3 Lifecycle now prevents expiration and transition actions on objects that failed replication, helping operators avoid unintended deletions or storage-class transitions when replication is misconfigured or lacks permissions. Objects that fail replication will be skipped by lifecycle rules until replication is corrected. After you fix replication configuration or permissions and run S3 Batch Replication to catch up, lifecycle will automatically process those objects according to your configured rules.

🔁 Amazon RDS Blue/Green Deployments now supports Amazon RDS Proxy, eliminating DNS propagation delays to enable faster application recovery during switchovers. RDS Proxy actively monitors database instances during single-Region switchovers and redirects connections to the Green environment so applications begin using the new production database immediately without driver or configuration changes. This integration supports Amazon Aurora (MySQL and PostgreSQL), Amazon RDS for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MariaDB in commercial Regions where RDS Proxy is available, and deployments can be initiated via the RDS Console or CLI.

🗜️ Amazon OpenSearch Serverless now supports Zstandard (zstd) codecs for index storage, giving customers a choice between the default LZ4 and the new zstd or zstd_no_dict modes. Zstandard can reduce index size by up to 32% compared with LZ4 and lets you tune compression levels to balance storage savings against indexing throughput and query latency. Lower compression levels (for example, level 1) deliver meaningful space savings with minimal performance impact, while higher levels (for example, level 6) maximize compression at the cost of slower indexing. The feature is available today in all Regions where OpenSearch Serverless is supported and can be configured in index settings at creation time.

🔒 AWS Private Certificate Authority now supports customer managed permissions in AWS Resource Access Manager (AWS RAM), enabling administrators to grant only the specific API operations each consuming account needs. You can choose from granular read operations (for example, DescribeCertificateAuthority, GetCertificate, GetCertificateAuthorityCertificate) and write operations (for example, IssueCertificate, RevokeCertificate). Cross-account issuers are no longer limited to a single certificate template. The feature is available in all Regions where Private CA and RAM are offered.

🔧 Microsoft has deployed a server-side fix after a Bing update disrupted Windows 11 23H2 Start Menu search on a small number of devices. The issue, first noted around April 6 and reportedly seen by some users for months, produced blank but clickable search results. Microsoft rolled back the problematic server-side Bing update and says reports of failures are decreasing; the company advises ensuring the device is online and that Web Search has not been disabled by Group Policy.