All news with #product update tag

🔔 Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports M8i and R8i instances with Oracle Database Standard Edition 2 (SE2) License Included. These instances use AWS-exclusive custom Intel Xeon 6 processors and deliver up to 15% better price-performance and 2.5× more memory bandwidth versus prior Intel-based generations. SE2 LI provides subscription, pay-per-use pricing that bundles Oracle license, support, compute, and the managed DB service. Customers can create LI instances via the AWS Management Console or AWS CLI and select the LI option.

🔧Cloudflare engineers describe a CUBIC congestion control bug in their open-source QUIC implementation, quiche, where the congestion window (cwnd) becomes permanently pinned at its minimum after an early congestion collapse. Test harnesses that injected 30% loss during the first two seconds revealed per-RTT oscillations and frequent timeouts despite loss stopping. The root cause was an idle-period epoch adjustment ported from the Linux kernel that could advance the recovery epoch into the future; a concise near-one-line change in quiche breaks the death spiral and restores recovery.

📊 Database Center now offers an AI-native manageability interface powered by Gemini, delivering fleet-wide visibility across Google Cloud managed databases. It introduces Gemini-backed recommendation validation (coming soon) to simulate performance impacts before applying changes like new indexes or machine upgrades. Additional enhancements include inventory, end-to-end lineage, and automated health checks to reduce MTTR and operational overhead.

🧬 AWS HealthOmics now supports caching completed task outputs when runs are cancelled, automatically storing those outputs in the customer’s S3 bucket. When caching is enabled, customers can restart runs from the point of cancellation and avoid recomputing tasks that already finished. This capability helps researchers, bioinformaticians, and workflow developers debug and iterate more efficiently. Caching is available for Nextflow, WDL, and CWL runs across all HealthOmics regions.

🛡️AWS WAF now supports dynamic label interpolation, letting you forward WAF classification signals to your origin and embed contextual data in responses using a single rule. Using the ${namespace:} syntax in custom request headers, response headers, and response bodies, you can pass entire label namespaces (including AWS Managed Rules, marketplace groups, or custom labels) without separate rules. Interpolation adds synthetic labels like client IP, WAF request ID, and JA3/JA4 fingerprints, adapts headers automatically, and is available in all AWS Regions at no extra cost and with no new API fields or configuration steps.

🧭 Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio introduces a getting-started section with short tutorials that guide users through core workflows—running a first SQL query, analyzing notebook data, building a Visual ETL pipeline, and training an ML model—each using pre-loaded sample data and completable in under 10 minutes. The development environment now auto-matches your OS light/dark mode on first sign-in. A new in-product “What’s New” area surfaces release notes and recent feature announcements to help users discover capabilities as they launch.

🚀 AlloyDB now offers general availability of PostgreSQL 18 and introduces Extended Support for older major versions, giving customers flexibility to upgrade on their own schedule. Extended Support enrolls eligible clusters automatically for three years and provides critical security patches, proactive bug fixes, SLA coverage, and the ability to provision new clusters on supported legacy releases. AlloyDB also supports in-place major version upgrades, incorporates PG18 performance features, and leverages a separated compute/storage architecture to improve price-performance and scalability.

🌐 Amazon Route 53 Domains now supports registration and management of 34 new top-level domains, including .app, .dev, .health, and .realty. The addition broadens industry- and purpose-focused naming options for businesses, developers, and creative professionals. Users can register domains via the Route 53 console, AWS CLI, or SDKs with integrated DNS management and automatic renewal. Developers can also manage registrations programmatically using the AWS Agent Toolkit.

🔒 AWS Client VPN now provides a Linux desktop client compatible with Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, expanding support beyond 22.04 and 24.04. The AWS-supplied client is free and available in all regions where the service is generally available. As a managed VPN service, AWS Client VPN securely connects remote employees to AWS and on-premises networks. Desktop support also includes MacOS (Sonoma 14.0, Sequoia 15.0, Tahoe 26.0) and Windows 11, with ARM64 builds available.

🌐 Amazon Web Services now lets customers add or remove AWS Regions for Route 53 Global Resolver, enabling flexible control over where anycast DNS queries are resolved. This update lets organizations expand Global Resolver coverage or adjust regional deployments to meet compliance and latency objectives without recreating configurations. The feature supports anycast resolution for public domains and private Route 53 hosted zones, includes DNS query filtering and centralized logging, and is available at no additional cost in supported Regions.

🔒 Amazon Quick now supports cross-account access to Amazon Athena data sources, enabling queries against Athena datasets that reside in different AWS accounts from your Quick deployment. Administrators create an Athena data source by specifying a RunAsRole in the Quick account and a ConsumerAccountRoleArn in the target account; Quick chains roles to assume the RunAsRole and then the consumer role to execute queries, with Athena query costs billed to the account where the data lives. The feature supports multiple roles per consumer account for fine-grained team segregation and is available in all supported Amazon Quick Sight regions.

🚀 Google Cloud has reworked GKE node provisioning to deliver up to 4× faster node startup for qualifying nodes, reducing cold-start latency out of the box. This architectural upgrade combines intelligent compute buffers, fast-starting virtual machines, and a redesigned control plane so clusters scale more quickly without any customer configuration. The improvement is live for GKE Autopilot on select NVIDIA and general-purpose instance types, lowering the need to over-provision and speeding AI inference.

🔧 AWS Elemental MediaTailor now supports monetization functions, a capability that lets customers customize how ad decision server (ADS) requests are built and how session data is managed during ad-personalized playback. Monetization functions enable inline data transformations and calls to external APIs at defined lifecycle hooks, removing the need for middleware between the player and the ADS. They are fail-open by design so playback continues if a function errors or times out, and the feature is generally available in all regions where MediaTailor operates; billing is a flat per-lifecycle-hook invocation rate.

🔒 The AWS Advanced JDBC Wrapper now includes a KMS Encryption plugin that provides column-level client-side encryption for Java applications. Operating at the JDBC driver, the plugin encrypts values before they reach the database and decrypts on read, keeping plaintext visible only to the application while allowing HMAC-based integrity checks. It integrates with Aurora and RDS (PostgreSQL and MySQL-compatible), Spring, Hibernate, and common connection pools without code changes, and is available as open-source under the Apache 2.0 license.

🔧Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports AMI-based node lifecycle configuration for Slurm clusters, provisioning nodes with the software and configurations needed for production-ready AI/ML training environments. The AMI includes required components such as Docker, Enroot, and Pyxis, plus Slurm accounting, SSH key generation, log rotation, and user home setup. To enable it, omit the LifeCycleConfig block when creating clusters or select "None" under Lifecycle scripts in the console; you can still supply an extension script for additional customization or continue using full custom lifecycle scripts if you need complete control. This feature is available in all AWS Regions where SageMaker HyperPod is offered.

📣 Amazon Connect Outbound Campaigns now detects customer time zones using all phone numbers and addresses on a profile, not just the primary contact fields. When a profile's contacts span multiple time zones, the system delivers only during hours that overlap across every detected zone and will skip profiles when no common window exists. This reduces off-hours contacts and is available at no extra cost where the service is offered.

🟢 AWS now supports UPI Scan and Pay for India customers to sign up for AWS and make one-time invoice payments. The Console displays a QR code that customers scan with popular UPI apps (Google Pay, PhonePe, Paytm, Amazon Pay), removing the need to manually enter a UPI ID. Customers can also enable UPI AutoPay for recurring monthly charges up to INR 15,000. The feature improves convenience, reduces input errors, and aligns billing with common local payment habits.

🔍 AWS has enabled AWS Resource Explorer in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) and (US-West) Regions. The managed search capability lets authorized users locate resources via the Resource Explorer console, AWS CLI, SDKs, or the unified console search bar, and jump directly to a resource’s service console and Region to take action. Administrators can enable the feature from the Resource Explorer console and consult AWS documentation for setup and usage.

🚀Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports M8a and R8a instances powered by 5th Generation AMD EPYC processors. These instances deliver up to 70% higher throughput versus comparable x86 sizes for commonly used instance configurations, with each vCPU mapped to a physical core to provide consistent per-core performance. For high I/O workloads they offer up to 75 Gbps network and 60 Gbps Amazon EBS bandwidth and are built on the AWS Nitro System with sixth-generation Nitro Cards. RDS for SQL Server also supports the optimize CPU feature to reduce vCPU-based Microsoft SQL Server licensing charges; M8a and R8a are available in all commercial AWS Regions and can be purchased On-Demand or via Database Savings Plans.

📨 Amazon SES Mail Manager is now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East and US-West), expanding Mail Manager coverage to 30 AWS regions. The managed gateway centralizes inbound and outbound email routing, filtering, and archiving to simplify infrastructure and reduce reliance on multiple third‑party tools. This AWS-native solution aims to improve visibility and operational control while lowering cost and complexity for regulated and government customers.