All news with #product update tag

🔒 AWS has made Nitro Enclaves available in every AWS Region, expanding regional support to include new locations across Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, and North America. Nitro Enclaves enables customers to create isolated compute environments inside EC2 instances to protect and process sensitive data and reduce attack surface. There is no additional charge beyond the EC2 and associated service usage.

🍪 Google has announced it is discontinuing 11 Privacy Sandbox technologies — effectively ending most of the company’s cookie‑replacement efforts after evaluating low adoption and ecosystem feedback. The decision follows regulatory scrutiny from the UK’s Competition and Market Authority and several U.S. antitrust actions, and came after prior concessions from Google. The company says it will continue to work on privacy improvements for Chrome, Android and the web but will move away from the Privacy Sandbox branding.

🌱 Fortinet has published the industry’s first Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) for the FortiGate-40F Next-Generation Firewall, verified under the new PCR 2024:06. The EPD is based on an independent Life Cycle Assessment and discloses lifecycle impacts—carbon, energy, water, materials, and waste—providing procurement teams with standardized, third-party-validated data. Fortinet views this as an initial step and plans to extend EPD coverage across additional models to support compliance, decarbonization, and sustainable procurement.

🔔 Amazon Connect can now automatically initiate follow-up evaluations when specific conditions are detected during initial Contact Lens reviews. For example, if the first evaluation surfaces customer interest in a product, Connect can trigger a targeted follow-up focused on the agent's sales performance. Managers gain consistent standards across cohorts and capture deeper insights into sales opportunities, escalations, and other critical interaction moments. The capability is available in all regions where Amazon Connect is offered.

🔍 At Fal.Con 2025, CrowdStrike introduced a dynamic, persona-aware user experience for Falcon Cloud Security and Falcon Exposure Management, now available in public preview. Built on CrowdStrike Enterprise Graph and Charlotte AI, the console unifies hybrid and multi-cloud asset and risk visibility into customizable workspaces. It offers AI-assisted dashboard creation and executive-ready reporting to accelerate investigations and remediation without switching tools.

🔍 Amazon ECS now emits AWS CloudTrail data events for ECS Agent API activities, giving teams detailed visibility into container instance operations. Customers can opt in to the new data event resource type AWS::ECS::ContainerInstance to capture actions such as ecs:Poll, ecs:StartTelemetrySession, and ecs:PutSystemLogEvents. The capability is available for ECS on EC2 across all AWS Regions and for ECS Managed Instances in select regions. Standard CloudTrail data event charges apply.

🚀 Google Cloud's newly GA G4 VMs combine NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPUs with a custom, software-defined PCIe fabric to enable high-performance peer-to-peer (P2P) GPU communication. The platform accelerates collective operations like All-Gather and All-Reduce without code changes, delivering up to 2.2x faster collectives. For tensor-parallel inference, customers can see up to 168% higher throughput and up to 41% lower inter-token latency. G4 integrates with GKE Inference Gateway for horizontal scaling and production deployments.

🏆 Google Cloud announced it was named a Leader in the 2025 IDC MarketScape for Worldwide GenAI Life-Cycle Foundation Model Software, spotlighting the Gemini model family and the Vertex AI platform. The post highlights Gemini 2.5’s expanded “thinking” capabilities and new cost controls such as thinking budgets and thought summaries for improved auditability. It also underscores native multimodality, creative variants like Nano Banana, developer tooling including the Gemini CLI, and enterprise features for customization, grounding, security, and governance.

🔐 Dataproc 2.3 on Google Compute Engine provides a streamlined image that includes only the essential core components for Spark and Hadoop, reducing the attack surface and simplifying compliance. The image is FedRAMP High compliant and leverages both automated CVE remediation and manual engineering intervention for complex fixes. Optional tools like Flink, Hudi, Ranger, and Zeppelin are available on-demand during cluster creation, or can be pre-baked into custom images to speed provisioning while preserving the security benefits of the lightweight base.

🚀 This Microsoft case study showcases how three organizations—Thomson Reuters, Hexure, and CallRevu—jumpstarted modernization by migrating on-premises SQL workloads to Azure SQL Managed Instance and complementary Azure services. The migrations reduced operational overhead, improved resiliency, and enabled faster deployments. Customers reported dramatic performance improvements, shorter migration windows, and a scalable foundation for AI-driven features and insights.

🔧 Google Cloud’s Q3 AI Hypercomputer update highlights inference improvements and expanded tooling to accelerate model serving and diagnostics. The release integrates vLLM with Cloud TPUs via the new tpu-inference plugin, unifying JAX and PyTorch runtimes and boosting TPU inference for models such as Gemma, Llama, and Qwen. Additional launches include improved XProf profiling and Cloud Diagnostics XProf, an AI inference recipe for NVIDIA Dynamo, NVIDIA NeMo RL recipes, and GA of the GKE Inference Gateway and Quickstart to help optimize latency and cost.

🤖 OpenAI says GPT-6 will not ship in 2025 but continues to iterate on its existing models. The company currently defaults to GPT-5 Auto, which dynamically routes queries between more deliberative reasoning models and the faster GPT-5-instant variant. OpenAI has issued multiple updates to GPT-5 since launch. After viral analyst claims that GPT-6 would arrive by year-end, a pseudonymous OpenAI employee and company representatives denied those reports, leaving room for interim updates such as a potential GPT-5.5.

🚀 AWS Parallel Computing Service (PCS) now supports Slurm v25.05, enabling PCS clusters to run the latest Slurm capabilities. The release introduces enhanced multi-cluster sackd configuration so login nodes can manage multiple clusters without requiring sackd reconfiguration or restarts, allowing administrators to preconfigure user access across clusters. It also implements improved requeue behavior that automatically retries failed instance launches during capacity shortages, increasing scheduling resilience and overall cluster reliability.

✅ Microsoft removed two safeguard holds blocking Windows 11 24H2 installs. The April hold affecting systems using SenseShield's sprotect.sys driver—which could trigger BSODs—was lifted after a security.sys driver update; the feature update will be offered within 48 hours. The September 2024 hold for wallpaper customization apps that caused display and virtual-desktop issues was removed on October 15, 2025; affected devices may see a warning and must confirm before upgrading. Microsoft advises updating or uninstalling problematic apps or contacting their developers for support.

🔧 BigQuery Studio unveils a simplified, organized console interface designed to help data analysts, engineers, and scientists work more efficiently. The update introduces an expanded Explorer view for easier resource discovery, a context-aware Reference panel that surfaces table schemas and lets you insert query snippets, and a decluttered layout including a dedicated Job history tab. These changes reduce context switching and tab proliferation so users can focus on analysis.

🚀 Google has made Axion-powered C4A and Intel-based N4 virtual machines generally available for Cloud SQL Enterprise Plus and Enterprise editions, promising substantial gains in throughput and price-performance. Hyperdisk Balanced storage is supported on both families to boost I/O, increase throughput, and allow independent configuration of capacity, throughput, and IOPS. Customer tests report lower costs, reduced latency, and large throughput gains. These machines are available in select regions; check Cloud SQL pricing and region documentation for details.

🔧 Microsoft has fixed a known issue that broke HTTP/2 connections to localhost (127.0.0.1) and caused IIS sites to fail after recent Windows security updates. Affected systems included Windows 11 and Windows Server 2025, producing errors like “ERR_CONNECTION_RESET” and “ERR_HTTP2_PROTOCOL_ERROR”. Microsoft recommends checking Windows Update and restarting; it also enabled a Known Issue Rollback (KIR) for most home and non-managed devices, while enterprise admins can deploy a KIR group policy until a permanent update ships.

🔍 Cloudflare introduces Monitor Groups for Load Balancing to assess application health across multiple dependent services rather than relying on a single probe. You can bundle up to five monitors, mark some as must_be_healthy (critical) or as monitoring_only (observational), and apply a quorum rule so transient failures don’t trigger global failover. Health checks run from dozens to hundreds of global data centers, creating a geographically distributed consensus. Available via API for Enterprise customers now, Dashboard access for all users is coming soon.

🧾 AWS Marketplace now supports purchase order (PO) line numbers for Marketplace transactions, allowing customers to associate charges with a specific PO line during procurement and for future charges post-procurement in the AWS Marketplace console. Invoices show the related purchase order and PO line number in the Billing and Cost Management console, helping teams accurately match invoices to POs. This capability is available today in all supported AWS Regions.

🚀 Amazon Timestream now offers managed support for InfluxDB 3, enabling developers and DevOps teams to run InfluxDB 3 databases as a managed service. InfluxDB 3 introduces a new architecture built on Apache Arrow for in-memory processing, Apache DataFusion for query execution, and columnar Parquet storage with persistence to Amazon S3 to improve query performance and scale for high-cardinality workloads. The service is available in two editions—Core (open source, near real-time) and Enterprise (multi-node, HA, compaction for long-term storage)—with Enterprise supporting initial multi-node clusters up to three nodes. Available in all Regions where Timestream for InfluxDB is offered; see the console, documentation, and pricing to get started.