All news with #product update tag

📢Google Cloud’s Data Cloud updates through mid‑2025 introduce new self‑service Looker features, expanded Model Context Protocol (MCP) support, and tighter AI-to-data integrations. Highlights include AlloyDB AI time‑series forecasting via AI.FORECAST, GA of Conversational Analytics powered by Gemini, and the MCP Toolbox and ADK to securely connect agents to BigQuery, Spanner, Cloud SQL, and Looker. Dataplex Universal Catalog now previews curated data products for governed, deployable datasets and AI use.

📥 AWS today introduces a simplified workflow to import historical CloudTrail Lake event data directly into Amazon CloudWatch. You specify the CloudTrail Lake event data store (EDS) and a date range to initiate imports; the capability is supported via the AWS console, CLI, and SDK. The change lets teams consolidate operational, security, and compliance telemetry in one place. There’s no separate import charge, but standard CloudWatch custom logs pricing applies.

🤖 OpenAI is rolling out a mobile update that lets ChatGPT Plus subscribers select the Thinking time toggle, often called the model's 'juice', to enable longer, higher‑compute responses on mobile. Until now, Android devices routed Thinking requests through Standard Thinking, which uses less compute and cannot sustain long reasoning. On desktop, users could already switch between Standard Thinking and Extended Thinking, with Extended using more compute for complex queries. The rollout is gradual, the toggle is limited to ChatGPT Plus (the Go tier does not include it), and OpenAI also introduced new desktop formatting blocks and mini editor toolbars for richer task-specific outputs.

📊 Amazon Connect dashboards now support filtering metrics by custom business dimensions such as business divisions, product lines, and customer segments. Using predefined attributes, administrators can create business dimensions to tailor dashboard views and compare key metrics across segments. This enables focused analysis of handle times, service levels, and other KPIs to identify training or staffing needs. Dashboards are available in all AWS commercial and GovCloud regions where Amazon Connect is offered.

🚀 Microsoft is rolling out GPT-5.2 to Copilot on web, Windows, and mobile as a free upgrade that will coexist with the existing GPT-5.1 model. The new option appears as a 'Smart Plus' mode and uses a 'Thinking' variant designed for more complex, multi-step tasks. OpenAI positions GPT-5.2 as its strongest model family yet, improving productivity for spreadsheets, presentations, coding, document understanding, image work, and tool use.

🔐 Amazon OpenSearch UI now supports AWS KMS customer managed keys (CMKs) and increases metadata size limits. You can create new OpenSearch UI applications with metadata encrypted using your own CMKs, helping meet regulatory and compliance requirements. The larger metadata limit enables richer, more complex queries, extensive visualizations, and large-scale dashboards. Both features are available in all regions that OpenSearch UI supports.

⚙️ Falcon for IT provides turnkey automations—prebuilt content packs that let operators query endpoints, run remediation, and enforce baseline configurations without custom scripts. Packs execute through the existing Falcon sensor and cover application resilience, file indexing, Linux device control, and operational tasks with CrowdStrike and partner-contributed content. Built-in dashboards surface pack activity and remediation outcomes to accelerate response and reduce operational overhead.

📣 Amazon Connect now automates agent performance evaluations in Portuguese, French, Italian, German, and Spanish using generative AI. Managers can define custom evaluation criteria in natural language and receive AI-generated assessments with justifications in their preferred language. The feature also supports cross-language evaluation, producing English assessments from non-English conversations, and is available in eight AWS regions.

📝 OpenAI has introduced 'formatting blocks' in ChatGPT, adjusting how the interface presents generated content to match the specific task users are performing. The update adds a compact editor toolbar that appears when text is highlighted in newer rich-text areas, such as email composition or writing drafts. Drafts are now shown as formatted documents users can edit inline, similar to Word or Gmail, rather than as plain chat messages. The feature is rolling out gradually and OpenAI plans to add support for additional formats over time.

✉️ Google is rolling out a new option that lets users change their @gmail.com address or add a new @gmail.com alias from Account Settings. The capability appears to be in a limited rollout and was spotted via a support document currently visible in Hindi, suggesting regional testing. When applied, the original address will continue to receive mail and the account may effectively retain multiple active @gmail.com addresses. Google has not provided a public timeline for wider availability.

🛠️ OpenAI is testing a new ChatGPT feature called Skills, modeled on Anthropic's Claude Skills. Reports say the capability — codenamed 'hazelnuts' — will appear as slash commands and include a dedicated Skills editor plus an option to convert a custom GPT into a skill. Claude's Skills are folder-based instructions that can be composable, portable, efficient, and can include executable code; OpenAI's implementation appears to follow a similar design. Timing is unclear, but a January 2026 rollout is currently suggested.

🔔 Amazon CloudWatch now supports organization-wide automatic telemetry configuration for six critical AWS services: AWS CloudTrail Management Events, AWS CloudTrail Data Events, Amazon Route 53 Resource Query Logs, Amazon EKS Control Plane logs, Network Load Balancer access logs, and AWS WAF WebACL logs. Administrators can create enablement rules that automatically apply logging for both existing and new resources using AWS Config service-linked recorders. This simplifies enforcement of consistent monitoring and audit practices at scale while adhering to CloudWatch and AWS Config billing models.

🚀 Amazon RDS for MySQL now supports the community MySQL 9.5 Innovation Release in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment, enabling customers to evaluate the latest innovation release on managed RDS instances. You can deploy Single‑AZ or Multi‑AZ instances on current‑generation instance classes; preview instances are retained for up to 60 days and snapshots are limited to the Preview Environment. Preview instances are priced the same as production RDS in the US East (Ohio) Region.

📌 AWS announced enhanced sorting for AWS Secrets Manager, enabling console and ListSecrets API users to sort secrets by name, last changed date, last accessed date, and creation date. The update expands the previous single-dimension creation-date sort to multiple dimensions, improving secret discovery, management, and operational workflows. The new sorting capabilities are available now in the Secrets Manager console and via the ListSecrets API across all AWS commercial and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.

🔒Microsoft will automatically enable key messaging safety features in Teams for tenants still using default settings beginning January 12, 2026. The update enables weaponizable file type protection, malicious URL detection, and a false-positive reporting option; dangerous file types will be blocked and suspicious links labeled. Administrators who previously customized messaging safety will see no change; others should review and save settings in the Teams admin center before the deadline and update helpdesk documentation.

🔁 AWS Transform now automates network conversion for hybrid data center migrations, removing the need for manual VLAN and IP range mapping across VMware and non‑VMware environments. The service analyzes exported inventories and maps network elements to AWS constructs like VPCs, subnets, route tables, and security groups. It also ingests application mapping outputs such as modelizeIT to generate Infrastructure as Code and provision networking in target Regions.

🎨 Amazon WorkSpaces Secure Browser now supports branding customization so administrators can deliver a consistent, branded sign-in and session experience. Admins can upload a favicon, logo, and wallpaper, select color themes, and customize welcome text, browser tab titles, and other copy in all 11 supported languages. The feature lets you change the "Contact Us" link and require acknowledgement of a Terms of Service page; customization meets WCAG AA accessibility and contrast guidelines. It is available at no extra cost in 10 AWS Regions and uses the existing pay-as-you-go pricing model.

🔁 Amazon Redshift now supports running CREATE MV and REFRESH MV from multiple Redshift data warehouses and lets you create materialized views on shared MVs. The update also enables concurrency scaling for the CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW DDL, so MV creation can scale when your primary cluster or workgroup is resource-constrained. These capabilities are available immediately in all AWS regions. See the Materialized Views and Data Sharing sections of the documentation for details.

🎬 AWS Deadline Cloud now supports direct job submission from the Deadline Cloud Monitor desktop application, removing the previous requirement to use the CLI for job bundles. This change simplifies workflows for legacy applications, specialized renderers, and custom tools that lack built-in Deadline Cloud plugins or submission scripts. Download Deadline Cloud Monitor version 1.1.7 in the AWS Console to enable the feature and manage jobs end-to-end.

🔍 Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) Service Connect now supports Envoy access logs, providing request-level telemetry for end-to-end tracing, debugging, and compliance monitoring. You enable access logging by updating the ServiceConnectConfiguration; query strings are redacted by default to protect sensitive data. Envoy access logs are written to STDOUT alongside application logs and flow through the existing ECS log pipeline without requiring additional infrastructure. The capability supports HTTP, HTTP/2, gRPC, and TCP and is available in AWS GovCloud regions where Service Connect is supported.