All news with #product update tag

🔍 The Amazon Connect Customer dashboards now include reporting on routing steps and agent proficiencies, enabling supervisors to monitor and optimize contact-to-agent matching. Managers can filter agents by assigned proficiencies, group metrics by routing steps, and track metrics such as the number of contacts queued in a routing step. These analytics are available in all AWS commercial and AWS GovCloud (US-West) regions where Amazon Connect Customer is offered.

🔍 AWS Network Firewall now reports rule hit counts for stateful rules, giving administrators visibility into how often each stateful rule in a firewall policy matches traffic. This capability helps accelerate incident response, uncover shadow or redundant rules, and validate policy changes by confirming new rules match intended traffic. Hit counts are enabled by default for custom and managed rule groups, refresh at intervals as low as five minutes, and are available at no additional charge in supported Regions except UAE and Bahrain.

🚀 Amazon Quick announces general availability of Microsoft 365 extensions for Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Outlook, enabling AI-driven tasks directly within users' M365 environments. The Excel extension assists with advanced analysis, pivot tables, charts, and data cleaning. PowerPoint and Word extensions generate and format presentation decks and documents using organization templates and track changes. The Outlook extension helps prioritize emails, organize inboxes, schedule meetings, and draft replies using Quick data and full inbox context.

🔒 Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports automatic semantic enrichment for VPC-enabled domains, allowing customers with private network configurations to use AI-powered semantic search without exposing domains to the public internet. The feature converts keyword searches into context-aware retrieval, handling all semantic processing automatically and removing the need to manage ML models. It requires OpenSearch version 2.19 or later and is available across 11 Regions globally.

🗺️ Amazon Location Service now supports server-side per-category and density-based POI filtering via the GetStyleDescriptor API. Developers can pass poi-categories and poi-density parameters to return style descriptors that render only selected categories at the requested density. This removes prior client-side workarounds and ensures consistent maps across web, mobile, and server renderers.

🖥️ AWS CloudShell now offers a built-in visual file editor that launches from your shell with a single 'edit' command, requiring no setup. The browser-based editor supports syntax highlighting, find-and-replace, multi-line selection, copy-paste, and undo-redo, enabling seamless in-console edits for scripts, CloudFormation templates, and Lambda code. This feature is available in all Regions where CloudShell is offered.

🛠️ Administrators can now set per-user limits on index storage and agent hours in Amazon Quick to control subscription costs. Limit profiles let admins cap consumption at user, role, or account levels with a priority hierarchy to ensure appropriate capacity. When a user reaches their limit, new consumption is blocked while existing content is preserved. This capability is available for Professional and Enterprise plans in supported AWS Regions.

🔒 Amazon Quick now integrates with Microsoft Purview to enforce data loss prevention (DLP) policies across Quick environments. Administrators can apply existing Purview sensitivity labels to control file handling in Quick features such as chat, spaces, and knowledge bases. Enforcement actions—block, warn, or allow—are configurable per label to provide granular control over sensitive file sharing. The integration is available in all AWS Regions that support Amazon Quick agentic capabilities.

🔒 Amazon Quick introduces approval policies that give administrators governance over how assets are shared within an organization. Administrators can require designated approvers to review and approve share requests before access is granted, ensuring sharing of sensitive assets is deliberate, compliant, and auditable. Policies can be scoped to asset types like knowledge bases, spaces, and custom chat agents, and events are recorded in AWS CloudTrail for auditability.

🛡️ Amazon Quick custom permissions now support a deny-by-default governance setting that blocks new AI capabilities until administrators explicitly allow them. Administrators can restrict an AI capability category within a custom permissions profile and assign that profile to users, roles, or an account, causing Quick to deny any newly released capabilities in that category for those subjects. The restriction also affects existing capabilities in the category and can be configured in Manage account or via the AWS CLI. This feature is available in all Regions where Amazon Quick is offered.

📣 Amazon Quick now lets report authors replace the default "No data to display" text with a tailored message when a visual returns no data. Authors can configure a custom title, subtitle, and hyperlink, and toggle title/subtitle independently. All text fields support parameters so messages can reflect current filters; hyperlinks accept http://, https://, and mailto: schemas. The feature is available now in all AWS Regions offering Amazon Quick.

🔔 Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports Oracle Application Express (APEX) 26.1, a low-code platform for building secure, scalable enterprise applications. This managed database service simplifies setup, operation, and scaling of Oracle Database deployments in the cloud. APEX 26.1 is available in all AWS regions where RDS for Oracle is offered; consult the RDS documentation for details on enabling or modifying APEX options.

🔐 Cloudflare now lets you apply Access directly to a Worker or to all Workers in an account so applications are protected by your company login by default. When enabled, Access enforces authentication before any request reaches Worker code, regardless of domain, route, or preview URL. Policies can be set per hostname, per Worker, or account-wide, with the most specific policy taking priority. Developers can also access authenticated user details through ctx.access.getIdentity() for personalization and logging.

📣 Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) now supports mobile app deep linking via a new ses:custom-path HTML attribute. When added to an <a> tag, SES preserves the path segment in its tracking URL so iOS Universal Links and Android App Links can route users to the app while keeping engagement tracking enabled. The capability is available in all AWS Regions that offer SES and requires a custom redirect domain with an AASA or Digital Asset Links verification file hosted on that domain. Follow the SES Developer Guide sections on custom domains and email metrics for configuration details.

🔔 Amazon Redshift now supports rg.large and rg.12xlarge RG instances in AWS GovCloud (US-West) and GovCloud (US-East). These RG instances run data warehouse and data lake workloads up to 2.4x faster than previous RA3 instances and offer about 30% lower price per vCPU. New sizes require patch version P202 or later and existing clusters can be resized or upgraded via Elastic Resize, Classic Resize, or Snapshot & Restore. Multiple pricing options are available including On-Demand and 1- and 3-year Reserved Instances.

🔍 AWS now includes Local Zones in Spot placement score, enabling customers to identify where Spot capacity requests are most likely to succeed. The feature evaluates target capacity and compute requirements and returns scores for Regions or Availability Zones. Previously, Local Zone capacity was excluded from zonal and regional scores; inclusion is now optional and expands Spot capacity visibility. Spot placement score is available via the EC2 Spot Console, AWS CLI, and SDK.

🧭 BigQuery Graph introduces measures to unify governed metrics with relationship mapping, enabling agents to reason across complex, multi-hop dependencies without ETL. By mapping tables to an in-place property graph and defining MEASURE in the Property Graph DDL, BigQuery resolves graph paths before computing aggregations using GRAPH_EXPAND and AGG. The release includes a visual graph modeler in BigQuery Studio and native Looker integration to keep business metrics at the data layer.

🛡️ Certificate Transparency Monitoring, launched in public beta in 2019, now filters out certificates Cloudflare issues on customers' behalf before sending alerts. This change addresses noisy notifications caused by routine Universal SSL renewals and other Cloudflare-managed certificates. The service is generally available and will only notify customers about certificates issued outside Cloudflare's automated systems. Settings remain available in the Cloudflare dashboard.

🔒 AWS Clean Rooms now supports minimum aggregation thresholds for the Custom analysis rule type, preventing queries from returning results about individuals or small groups. Data providers can enforce a minimum identity count (for example, user IDs) per output row and set higher thresholds for specific columns. The update removes the need for pre-approved templates and manual code reviews, allowing ad-hoc custom SQL while specifying which columns may be filtered or joined to protect privacy.

🔒 IAM Role Manager automates the creation and attachment of IAM roles as you build resources in supported AWS service consoles. When enabled, AWS provisions roles from managed templates or reuses suitable ones, letting you start services quickly while maintaining full visibility and control. Roles are ordinary IAM roles you can review, edit, or delete, and IAM Access Analyzer can later recommend least-privilege policies.