All news with #product update tag

🔒 Amazon FSx now integrates with AWS Secrets Manager to store and manage Active Directory domain service account credentials for FSx for Windows File Server and FSx for NetApp ONTAP Storage Virtual Machines (SVMs). This removes the need to supply plain-text service account usernames and passwords in the console, APIs, CLI, or CloudFormation, and enables credential rotation and improved credential hygiene. The capability is available in all AWS Regions where FSx is offered.

🧰 The Microsoft Store web now enables Windows 11 users to create a Ninite-style multi-app installer that downloads and installs multiple apps from a single executable. Users can select apps on the Store website and click Install selected, which generates a background installer to run the installs. The capability currently works only in the Store web, is limited to a curated set of 64 apps, and restricts packages to 16 apps per download to avoid overwhelming Store servers.

🚀 Buildertrend describes migrating from Memorystore for Redis to Google Cloud’s managed Memorystore for Valkey to gain native cross‑regional replication, improved networking via Private Service Connect, and performance advantages. The team exported cache data to Google Cloud Storage and seeded Valkey instances to minimize downtime, eliminated a proxy layer, and now uses Valkey for caching, session state, job queues, pub/sub idempotency, and authentication tokens.

🇮🇳 Buyers and sellers in India can now transact locally on AWS Marketplace using INR, with invoices issued in Indian Rupees and tax compliance facilitated by AWS India. India-based sellers can register to sell paid offerings, create private offers in USD or INR, and work with India-based Channel Partners. AWS India will automate WHT and GST-TCS collection and remittance to authorities, simplifying buyer compliance.

🔔 Amazon GameLift Streams now integrates with AWS Health to deliver automated lifecycle notifications for stream groups. AWS Health will send reminders on day 45 and day 150 about upcoming restrictions at day 180, and a final reminder on day 335 before automatic expiration on day 365. Stream groups older than 180 days cannot add new applications. The feature is available in all Regions at no extra cost, and the ExpiresAt field in the GetStreamGroup API or the Stream group details page in the console shows status.

🌐 Amazon Web Services announced that CloudFront now assigns both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses for Anycast Static IP configurations. Previously limited to IPv4, the change enables dual‑stack deployments so customers can meet IPv6 compliance and reach IPv6‑only end users. IPv6 addresses are available from all edge locations except the AWS China (Beijing) and AWS China (Ningxia) regions operated by partner carriers. Customers should review the CloudFront Developer Guide and pricing for details.

🔧 AWS Glue Schema Registry now provides C# support in its client library, extending beyond the existing Java SDK to offer first-class integration for .NET streaming applications. C# services using Apache Kafka, Amazon MSK, Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, or Apache Flink can register, validate, and enforce schemas to keep producers and consumers aligned. The serverless registry enforces centralized schema validation at no additional charge. C# support is available in all regions where Glue Schema Registry is offered and the SDK is distributed via NuGet.

🛠️ AWS Launch Wizard now provides a guided workflow to size, configure, and deploy Windows Server EC2 instances with Microsoft SQL Server Developer Edition installed from your own media. The capability simplifies provisioning cost-effective, full-featured SQL Server instances on Amazon EC2 and is aimed at developers building non-production and test database environments. It supports customers migrating non-production databases from SQL Server Enterprise and Standard Editions to reduce licensing costs while preserving feature parity, and is available in all supported commercial AWS Regions and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.

🔐 AWS has expanded its Service Reference Information to map SDK operations to the specific IAM action(s) required to call them. This enables teams to answer questions such as “Which permission is needed for this API operation?” and to retrieve authoritative answers programmatically. You can integrate the data into policy management and automation pipelines to reduce manual effort and keep policies aligned with service updates. The capability is provided at no additional cost.

🧪 Cloudflare has added local, isolated testing APIs for Workflows, enabling developers to introspect and mock workflow instances using the new cloudflare:test module. Available with @cloudflare/vitest-pool-workers v0.9.0+, the APIs (introspectWorkflowInstance and introspectWorkflow) let tests run offline inside the Workers runtime, mock step results and events, and preserve isolated storage for reliable, deterministic tests. This improves debug visibility, reduces flaky tests, and lets teams assert on intermediate steps without hitting external systems.

🔍 Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics now supports running the same canary scripts across Chrome and Firefox in AWS GovCloud (US‑East, US‑West). You can use Playwright‑based or Puppeteer‑based canaries to collect browser-specific performance metrics, success rates, and visual monitoring results while retaining aggregate health views. This helps teams detect and remediate browser compatibility issues faster.

🔔 AWS has simplified pricing for Amazon Cognito machine-to-machine (M2M) authentication by removing the M2M app client price dimension. Customers will now be charged only for successful M2M token requests per month instead of both registered app clients and token requests. The change is effective immediately across all supported Cognito regions and is automatic, requiring no customer action. This reduces the cost to build and scale M2M integrations.

🚀 Google Cloud and Anyscale have enhanced the Ray experience on Cloud TPUs with GKE to reduce setup complexity and improve performance. The new ray.util.tpu library and a SlicePlacementGroup with a label_selector API automatically reserve co-located TPU slices and preserve SPMD topology to avoid resource fragmentation. Ray Train and Ray Serve gain expanded TPU support including alpha JAX training, while TPU metrics and libtpu logs appear in the Ray Dashboard for faster troubleshooting and migration between GPUs and TPUs.

🚀 Google Cloud and Anyscale describe tighter integration between Ray and Kubernetes to improve distributed AI scheduling and autoscaling on GKE. The release introduces a Ray Label Selector API (Ray v2.49) to align task, actor and placement-group placement with Kubernetes labels and GKE custom compute classes, enabling targeted placement and fallback strategies for GPUs and markets. It also adds Dynamic Resource Allocation for A4X/GB200 racks, writable cgroups for Ray resource isolation on GKE v1.34+, TPU/JAX training support via a JAXTrainer in Ray v2.49, and in-place pod resizing (Kubernetes v1.33) for vertical autoscaling and higher efficiency.

🔔 AWS Config now supports 52 additional AWS resource types across services including Amazon EC2, Amazon Bedrock, and Amazon SageMaker. With recording for all resource types enabled, AWS Config will automatically begin tracking these additions and they are available to Config rules and aggregators. You can monitor the new types in all Regions where supported, expanding discovery, assessment, audit, and remediation coverage.

📈 The Amazon CloudWatch agent can now collect detailed performance metrics for NVMe local volumes attached to EC2 instances, including queue depths, I/O sizes, and device utilization. These metrics mirror the detailed statistics available for EBS volumes, enabling a consistent monitoring experience across storage types. You can create CloudWatch dashboards, set alarms, and analyze trends for NVMe-based instance store volumes, and the capability is available for all local NVMe volumes on Nitro-based EC2 instances in AWS Commercial and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.

📈 You can now monitor Mountpoint operations in observability tools such as Amazon CloudWatch, Prometheus, and Grafana. Mountpoint emits near real-time metrics (request count, request latency, and error types) over the OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP), so you can use the CloudWatch agent or an OpenTelemetry collector to publish metrics and build dashboards. Configure Mountpoint at mount time to stream per-EC2-instance metrics for proactive monitoring and faster troubleshooting.

🚀 Amazon Kinesis Data Streams introduces On‑demand Advantage, letting customers warm on‑demand streams to absorb instant throughput spikes up to 10 GB or 10 million events per second without over‑provisioning. The mode removes the fixed per‑stream charge and offers a simpler usage pricing model with data ingest at $0.032/GB and retrieval at $0.016/GB in US East (N. Virginia). Extended retention costs fall by 77%, and Enhanced fan‑out retrievals are priced the same as shared throughput, making high fan‑out scenarios more economical. On‑demand Advantage requires a minimum billed aggregate of 25 MB/s for both ingest and retrieval at the discounted rates and is available in all AWS regions, including GovCloud (US) and China.

📰 OpenAI is weighing memory-based advertising on ChatGPT as it looks to diversify revenue beyond subscriptions and enterprise deals. The company, valued near $500 billion, has about 800 million users but only ~5% pay, and paid customers generate the bulk of recent revenue. Internally the move is debated — focus groups suggest some users already assume sponsored answers — and the company is expanding cheaper Go plans and purchasable credits.

📣Google says its ad business will remain central as it integrates advertising into AI-powered search experiences. Google currently offers AI Overviews and a more capable AI Mode, and has begun limited experiments placing ads within those results. Executives say ads won't disappear but may appear differently and become more personalized based on user data. Tests and further plans are expected to continue into next year.