All news with #product update tag

🔍 Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) Service Connect now supports Envoy access logs, delivering per-request telemetry for deeper observability and compliance. Access logs are emitted to STDOUT and flow through existing ECS log pipelines, with query strings redacted by default to protect sensitive data. You can enable logging by updating the ServiceConnectConfiguration via the Console, API, SDK, CLI, or CloudFormation. This capability supports HTTP, HTTP/2, gRPC and TCP on Fargate and EC2 in AWS GovCloud (US-West and US-East).

🔁 Amazon Kinesis Video Streams (Amazon KVS) now supports IPv6 addressing for WebRTC through dual‑stack endpoint support, enabling devices to connect over both IPv4 and IPv6. The change preserves existing IPv4 implementations while providing native IPv6 connectivity and removing the need for address translation equipment. This capability is available in all commercial AWS Regions where Amazon KVS is offered, except Asia Pacific (Singapore) and China (Beijing, operated by Sinnet). Refer to the Amazon KVS Developer Guide for implementation details.

🔁 AWS announced that customers can now share Oracle Database@AWS AWS Marketplace entitlements across accounts within an AWS Organization. Organizations can accept a single Marketplace offer in one account and allocate that entitlement to additional accounts via AWS License Manager or APIs. Recipient accounts can activate shared entitlements and begin consuming services immediately. The feature is available in all Regions where Oracle Database@AWS is offered.

🚀 Amazon GameLift Streams introduced Gen6 stream classes and enhanced autoscaling with a warm buffer to improve performance and reduce costs. Seven Gen6 classes, built on EC2 G6 instances with NVIDIA L4 Tensor Core GPUs, offer up to 2x performance versus Gen4 and include pro/ultra for AAA and medium/small for casual titles; gen6n_small is $0.16/hour in us‑east‑2. Enhanced autoscaling adds minimum, maximum, and target‑idle capacity controls so developers can dynamically scale provisioned capacity to optimize utilization and player start time, with Gen6 available in five regions and autoscaling offered across all supported Regions.

📈 Amazon GameLift Streams now exposes real-time session performance stats for individual stream sessions, delivering detailed CPU, memory, GPU, and VRAM metrics via the Web SDK and a console overlay. Developers can inspect active sessions, export session data for post-analysis, and use these insights to choose optimal GPUs and tune application performance. The update also improves session status reasons and API error messaging to make root cause analysis and troubleshooting more actionable. These features are available at no additional cost in all Regions offering GameLift Streams.

🆕 Research and Engineering Studio (RES) on AWS version 2025.12 is now available, introducing tag propagation for CloudFormation resources, enhanced Windows domain configuration options, and a default session scheduling capability. Administrators can disable automatic Windows domain joining to implement custom domain-join logic where required. The release also includes security improvements to help meet NIST 800-223 guidance and fixes a bug that caused some sessions to log out after two minutes when using a custom DNS domain.

🚀 AWS Neuron SDK 2.27.0 adds support for Trainium3 UltraServer and expands open-source components to simplify deployment and optimization. The release introduces the Neuron Explorer tools suite, an enhanced Neuron Kernel Interface (NKI) with an open-source NKI Compiler built on MLIR (private beta), and an NKI Library of optimized kernels. It also provides native PyTorch support via TorchNeuron (private beta) and a Kubernetes-native Neuron DRA (private beta). The SDK is available in all AWS Regions that support Inferentia and Trainium, bringing improved performance and monitoring for ML workloads.

🔒 AWS Wickr now provides a suite of admin APIs that let administrators programmatically manage secure communication networks at scale. The APIs automate critical workflows — including user lifecycle management, network creation and deletion, retention and federation policy pushes, and security group placement based on directory attributes — and integrate with identity systems, policy frameworks, and automation pipelines. They are available today in all supported AWS regions, including AWS GovCloud (US-West), via AWS SDKs, the AWS CLI, or direct REST calls.

📅 Google Cloud’s 2025 roundup highlights a year of fast-moving AI and infrastructure innovation, from major model releases to accelerator and networking expansions. The blog chronicles product launches like Gemini 3, Veo 3, Ironwood TPUs, and Vertex AI enhancements alongside security work, research, and high-profile customer stories. It traces month-by-month developments, acquisitions and partnerships, and guidance for enterprises adopting agentic AI and cloud-scale systems.

🔍 Looker is expanding self-service analytics with three Public Preview capabilities: self-service Explores, tabbed dashboards, and internal dashboard theming. Users can upload CSVs and spreadsheets, join local files with governed models, and visually create measures and dimensions while administrators control upload permissions and certify content. Tabbed dashboards organize complex narratives with cross-tab filters and shareable tab URLs, and internal themes let teams apply consistent styling across dashboards.

🔒 AWS Private CA now supports OCSP in China (Beijing, Ningxia) and AWS GovCloud (US-East, US-West) Regions. The managed OCSP responder enables real-time, per-certificate revocation checks that typically use only a few hundred bytes per query instead of downloading large Certificate Revocation Lists (CRLs), reducing bandwidth and latency. Enable OCSP through the console, AWS CLI, or API; the responder is highly available and fully managed, removing the need to operate OCSP servers, and pricing details are available in the service documentation.

🚀 AWS announced SOCI (Seekable Open Container Initiative) indexing support for Amazon SageMaker Studio, reducing custom container startup times by 30–50% through lazy loading. Users can create SOCI indexes with Finch CLI, nerdctl, or Docker plus the SOCI CLI, push indexed images to Amazon ECR, and reference the image index URI when creating SageMaker Image resources. SOCI indexing is available in all Regions where SageMaker Studio is offered.

🔁 Amazon Application Recovery Controller (ARC) Region switch now introduces three new capabilities: general availability in AWS GovCloud (US‑East and US‑West), automatic plan execution reports saved to an Amazon S3 bucket, and support for Amazon DocumentDB global cluster execution blocks. Execution reports include a detailed timeline, resources in scope, alarm states, and RTO calculations to simplify compliance and audit evidence. The DocumentDB execution blocks enable automated multi‑Region failover and switchover operations within Region switch plans. Build and run plans from the ARC console, API, or CLI to begin using these features.

🤖 The Criminal IP threat intelligence and attack-surface monitoring platform is now integrated into Cortex XSOAR, injecting AI-driven exposure context, behavioral signals, and automated scanning into SOAR playbooks. Analysts can launch Quick Lookups, Lite Scans, and Full Scans from within XSOAR and receive structured reports and continuous Micro ASM findings without leaving the console. The integration links internal telemetry with open-internet intelligence to improve incident classification, accelerate response, and reduce analyst fatigue.

🔔 Amazon RDS now provides enhanced observability for snapshot exports to Amazon S3, delivering per-task insights on export progress, failures, and performance. The update adds four new event types, including current export progress and table-level notifications for long-running tables, and reports exported and pending table counts and data sizes. You can subscribe to events via AWS SNS and view export status in the AWS Console, CLI, or SDK. This capability is available for RDS PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB in Commercial Regions.

🖥️ Amazon WorkSpaces Applications now supports Microsoft Windows Server 2025, enabling customers to launch streaming instances powered by the newest server OS. The update delivers improved security, performance, and modern platform capabilities, and allows administrators to provide a Windows 11-style desktop experience to end users. Images are available as AWS public images or can be customized with Image Builder, and support is generally available in all Regions where the service is offered.

🔁 Amazon EC2 now accepts Availability Zone ID (AZ ID) as a parameter in its APIs, enabling creation and management of instances, volumes, subnets and other resources using consistent, static zone identifiers. AZ IDs map to the same physical location across all AWS accounts, removing the need to reconcile per-account AZ names. This capability covers launch templates, fleets, reserved instances, volumes, capacity reservations, VPC endpoints, network interfaces, fast snapshot restore, instance connect and more, and is available in all regions including China and AWS GovCloud (US).

🚀 Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition now supports PostgreSQL community releases 17.7, 16.11, 15.15, 14.20, and 13.23. The update combines upstream community bug fixes and product improvements with Aurora-specific optimizations, including faster Blue/Green deployment switchovers and enhancements to Query Plan Management (QPM). These engine versions are available in all commercial AWS Regions and AWS GovCloud (US), and can be deployed or used to upgrade existing clusters via the Amazon RDS console.

🔔 Amazon ECS Managed Instances now supports Amazon EC2 Spot Instances, enabling customers to run fault-tolerant container workloads on spare capacity at discounts up to 90% versus On‑Demand. The fully managed compute option continues to provision, configure, and operate EC2 instances in your account while AWS handles scaling and placement optimization. You set task requirements and choose capacityOptionType as spot or on-demand in the Managed Instances capacity provider. Spot support is available in all Regions where Managed Instances is offered; management fees apply in addition to Spot instance costs.

🌐 Amazon MSK Connect now supports dual-stack connectivity (IPv4 and IPv6) for new connectors on MSK Connect, allowing customers to create connectors that use both protocols. Connectors can be created with dual-stack via the Amazon MSK Console, AWS CLI, SDKs, or CloudFormation by setting the Network Type parameter. New connectors default to IPv4-only unless explicitly configured for dual-stack, and existing connectors remain IPv4 and must be deleted and recreated to change. The feature is available in all Regions where MSK Connect is offered and incurs no additional charge.