All news with #product update tag

🗂️ AWS Glue Schema Registry is now available in Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Europe (Spain), and Europe (Zurich). The serverless, free registry centralizes Avro, JSON, and Protobuf schemas to validate streaming data and control schema evolution. Through Apache-licensed serializers and deserializers it integrates with C# and Java applications for Apache Kafka/Amazon MSK, Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, Apache Flink/Kinesis Data Analytics, and AWS Lambda. The expansion aims to reduce cross-team coordination, improve streaming data quality, and lower downstream application failures.

📊 Amazon SageMaker Data Agent now embeds interactive charting, SQL analytics across Snowflake sources, and materialized view management directly inside SageMaker Unified Studio notebooks. You can ask natural-language prompts like "plot monthly revenue trends by region for 2025" to generate interactive charts that support hover, editing, and refinement without writing code. When analyses span AWS and Snowflake, the agent lets you join Snowflake tables via external connections with AWS Glue Data Catalog data in a single prompt. The agent can also recommend and create materialized views, including refresh schedules, to optimize query performance.

🔒 Amazon Bedrock Guardrails now supports centralized, organization-wide enforcement through cross-account safeguards, enabling security teams to apply configurable safety controls from a single management account. AWS reports these safeguards can block up to 88% of harmful multimodal content and help filter hallucinated model outputs, removing the need to configure guardrails per account. The capability is available in all supported commercial and GovCloud regions and can be managed via the AWS Console or APIs.

🔍 Partner Revenue Measurement now integrates with AWS Marketplace Metering for AMI and ML products, enabling automatic attribution of service consumption. This captures Amazon EC2 and Amazon SageMaker usage across partner-managed and customer-managed accounts without additional partner implementation, complementing Resource Tagging and User Agent string methods. The capability is generally available in all commercial regions and helps partners understand revenue impact and consumption patterns.

📈 Partner Revenue Measurement now supports embedding a User Agent string to attribute AWS service consumption to specific AWS Marketplace products. Partners can format the string as APN_1.1/pc_<AWS Marketplace product-code>$ and apply it in application code, via environment variables, or in the shared AWS configuration to capture API-driven usage across common SDKs. This complements Resource Tagging and Marketplace Metering and is generally available in all commercial regions.

🔒 The AWS Secrets Manager console now lets you enter a custom customer-managed AWS KMS key ARN when creating secrets. Previously, the console only presented keys from the current account in a dropdown. By accepting direct KMS key ARNs, the console now supports keys in other accounts and aligns with existing API capabilities. This change simplifies cross-account encryption workflows and offers more flexible key management across accounts.

📈 Amazon QuickSight now supports sparklines, letting authors embed compact line or area trend charts directly inside table cells. Authors add sparklines by configuring a metric with a date dimension; QuickSight automatically renders a miniature trend for each row. Customization includes visual type, line color, interpolation (linear, smooth, or stepped), and shared or independent Y-axis scaling. The feature is available in all QuickSight regions.

🔧 Microsoft is investigating intermittent Exchange Online mailbox access problems that have affected users of the Outlook mobile apps and the new Outlook for Mac client for several weeks. The issue was initially tracked as EX1256020 and marked resolved on April 1, but was re‑added under EX1268771 after tenants reported ongoing impact. Microsoft says it is restarting the Notification Broker service on affected infrastructure while continuing root‑cause analysis and deploying additional mitigations to prevent recurrence.

🔁 Microsoft has begun force-upgrading unmanaged devices running Windows 11 24H2 Home and Pro editions to Windows 11 25H2. The company says its machine-learning-based intelligent rollout now targets all Home and Pro 24H2 systems not managed by IT, and those devices will stop receiving fixes, time zone updates, technical support, and monthly security updates once 24H2 reaches end of support on October 13, 2026. Users can manually check for the 25H2 update in Settings > Windows Update, pause updates temporarily, or follow Microsoft's support guidance if issues occur.

🔍 Amazon CloudWatch Query Studio is now in public preview, bringing native PromQL querying and integrated visualization to the CloudWatch console. The interface unifies PromQL and CloudWatch Metric Insights so teams can query AWS-vended and OpenTelemetry metrics side by side without switching tools. Query Studio offers a visual form builder with autocomplete and a code editor with syntax highlighting, and it lets users add charts or create alarms directly from query results.

🌐 Amazon ElastiCache Serverless now supports IPv6 and dual-stack connectivity, expanding beyond previous IPv4-only access. When creating a Serverless cache, you can choose IPv4, IPv6, or dual stack so a cache can accept connections over both protocols simultaneously. IPv6 support also enables deployment into IPv6-only subnets. The capability is available in all AWS Regions, including AWS GovCloud (US) and China Regions, at no additional charge.

🔔 Amazon CloudWatch now offers Container Insights with OpenTelemetry metrics for Amazon EKS in public preview. The feature collects OTLP metrics from open source and AWS collectors, enriches each metric with up to 150 labels, and supplies curated dashboards and PromQL query support in CloudWatch Query Studio. Deployment is available via the CloudWatch Observability EKS add‑on, console, CloudFormation, CDK, or Terraform, and preview metrics are free.

⚙️ AWS Deadline Cloud now offers configurable job scheduling modes that let administrators control how workers are distributed across queued jobs. You can choose from three modes when creating or updating a queue: priority FIFO (the existing default), priority balanced, and weighted balanced. The balanced options help artists get immediate feedback by distributing capacity across concurrent jobs rather than allocating all workers to the earliest, highest-priority job. This change is available in all Regions that support Deadline Cloud.

⚡Amazon Lightsail now offers compute-optimized instance bundles with up to 72 vCPUs across seven sizes and supports both IPv6-only and dual-stack networking. These bundles are compatible with all Lightsail blueprints, including popular OS and application stacks such as WordPress, cPanel & WHM, Plesk, Drupal, Magento, MEAN, LAMP, Node.js, Ruby on Rails, Amazon Linux, Ubuntu, CentOS, Debian, AlmaLinux, and Windows. The instances provide consistent, dedicated CPU performance for CPU-intensive workloads—examples include batch processing, distributed analytics, high-performance web serving, scientific modeling, dedicated gaming servers, ad serving engines, video encoding, and CPU-bound ML inference—and are available in 15 AWS Regions.

🔁 Amazon CloudWatch now supports automatic enablement of Amazon CloudFront Standard access logs, AWS Security Hub CSPM finding logs, and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore memory and gateway logs and traces to CloudWatch Logs. Enablement rules can be applied organization-wide, to specific accounts, or scoped by resource tags to ensure consistent telemetry collection for both existing and newly created resources. A central security or operations team can create a single rule to centralize log flow across their organization. Log ingestion is billed according to CloudWatch Pricing.

🔍 Honeylove consolidated disparate analytics into BigQuery and integrated outputs with Gemini to automate reporting, contribution analysis, and SKU-level forecasting. They use BigQuery ML (ARIMA) for demand planning with forecasts consistently within 5% of manual calculations, and Gemini embeddings plus vector search to semantically analyze customer tickets. These automations have saved the team hundreds of hours annually and about 30 seconds per ticket, accelerating product iteration and operational efficiency.

🔒 AWS expanded AWS Direct Connect to provide 100 Gbps dedicated connections at the Datacom Orbit DH6 colocation near Auckland, New Zealand. Customers can now establish private, direct access to all public AWS Regions (excluding China), AWS GovCloud Regions, and AWS Local Zones from this location. This site is the second in New Zealand to offer 100 Gbps with MACsec encryption, improving throughput and secure hybrid connectivity.

🗺 Amazon Location Service introduced enhanced map styling capabilities that give developers greater control over terrain visualization, traffic display, and immersive 3D presentation. The release adds three contour density levels—Low, Medium, and High (High doubles contour lines for more detailed elevation)—and a traffic congestion-only mode that filters out free-flowing traffic to surface incidents. It also delivers 3D Terrain and 3D Globe View with Atmosphere for realistic elevation and atmospheric effects, and extends full traffic visualization, Transit and Truck travel modes, and light/dark color schemes across Monochrome, Hybrid, and Satellite styles. The service is available in multiple AWS Regions.

🚀 GKE Inference Gateway enables teams to run both real-time and asynchronous AI inference on a single shared pool of accelerators (GPUs/TPUs). It applies latency-aware scheduling using runtime signals such as KV cache utilization to prioritize deterministic, low-latency requests while treating queued batch work as 'filler' via an Async Processor Agent integrated with Cloud Pub/Sub. The open-source stack reduces idle capacity, consolidates software stacks, and preserves strict priority and retry controls for reliable delivery.

✉️ Google is rolling out a U.S. option that lets users change the username portion of their @gmail.com address or add a new alias. The update is available from Google Account settings and requires selecting a unique new username; changes propagate across services such as Gmail, Photos, and Drive. If the toggle is missing, the feature isn’t yet available for that account or region. Google says the old username will remain linked to the account and will not be reissued.