All news with #product update tag

🛠️ AWS Elastic Beanstalk now includes a Deployments tab in the environment dashboard, offering a consolidated view of deployment history and real-time, step-by-step deployment logs. Previously, customers had to wait until a deployment completed and then aggregate events from multiple sources; the new tab surfaces status, events, and detailed logs while deployments are still in progress. The feature covers application deployments, configuration updates, and environment launches, and is supported across all Linux-based platform branches and available in AWS Commercial and GovCloud (US) Regions.

🔒 AWS Private CA Connector for SCEP now supports AWS PrivateLink, enabling clients within an Amazon VPC to request certificates without traversing the public internet. The managed AWS Private CA Connector for SCEP uses SCEP to automate certificate enrollment and renewal for mobile, network, and IoT devices. PrivateLink removes the need for internet gateways, NAT devices, or VPNs while keeping traffic on the AWS network.

🔒 Google Cloud’s Sensitive Data Protection (SDP) now applies advanced AI context classifiers and image object detectors to identify and redact sensitive content across text and images. It detects medical and financial contexts, faces, passports, credit cards, and other PII, and can generate redacted versions so organizations keep valuable training data while protecting privacy. SDP supports both Vertex AI tuning and live agent interactions and integrates with Model Armor, Security Command Center, and contact center solutions.

⚡ Amazon EC2 M8i and M8i-flex instances are now available in Europe (Ireland) and Europe (London). Powered by AWS-exclusive custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, they deliver up to 15% better price-performance and 2.5x the memory bandwidth versus previous Intel-based instances. AWS reports up to 20% higher general compute performance versus M7i, with specific workload gains—up to 30% for PostgreSQL, 60% for NGINX web applications, and 40% for deep learning recommendation models. M8i-flex targets common general-purpose sizes while M8i offers larger and SAP-certified configurations including a new 96xlarge.

🔔 Amazon announced that AgentCore Memory for Bedrock now supports streaming notifications for long-term memory, delivering push events to Amazon Kinesis whenever memory records are created or modified. Developers can subscribe to these streams to trigger downstream workflows, refresh application state, and build audit trails without polling. This reduces developer overhead and simplifies integration of personalized, memory-driven experiences. The feature is available in 15 AWS Regions.

⚡ AWS Glue zero-ETL now supports configurable change data capture (CDC) refresh intervals and on-demand ingestion for Amazon DynamoDB sources. You can set refresh windows from 15 minutes up to 6 days, letting teams balance data freshness and cost, and trigger immediate ingestion for urgent updates. These enhancements align DynamoDB zero-ETL integrations with SaaS sources such as Salesforce, SAP, and ServiceNow. The capabilities are available today in all regions where zero-ETL is supported.

🖥️ AWS now offers Windows Server 2025 bundles for Amazon WorkSpaces, available for both Personal and Core WorkSpaces. These managed bundles let customers launch Windows Server 2025 instances to run modern applications, including eligible Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise that require newer Windows. The option introduces enhanced security and firmware protections such as TPM 2.0, UEFI Secure Boot, and Secured-core server, and is available in all Regions where WorkSpaces is offered.

🛡️ At the Growing Up in the Digital Age Summit in Dublin, Google presented product safeguards and policy principles designed to support teen digital wellbeing, emphasizing defaults like SafeSearch and private YouTube uploads as baseline protections. The company announced improvements to Family Link, a unique option to set Shorts time to zero for supervised teens, and additional Gemini Apps guardrails for users under 18. It also unveiled a $20 million global initiative to create multilingual, open-source wellbeing resources and urged a risk-based approach to age assurance rather than blanket bans.

📞 Amazon Connect now offers integrated agent coaching workflows that let contact center managers create, assign, and track coaching plans directly from evaluation scorecards within the Connect UI. Managers can attach specific customer interactions and suggested language to illustrate strengths and improvement areas, while agents acknowledge feedback and add notes to confirm understanding. All coaching history is available on a single page, reducing delays and creating accountability across the contact center.

✉️ Amazon Connect now lets agents select the "From" email address when replying to inbound messages or composing outbound emails. Administrators can configure multiple sender addresses per queue, and agents can search and pick the appropriate address based on the queue they are working in. This capability helps contact centers preserve correct brand identity across interactions and supports multi-brand or multi-line-of-business deployments from a single instance.

🚀Fortinet has refreshed the Engage Partner Program to align partner rewards with platform-led customer outcomes across Secure Networking, Unified SASE, and AI-driven security operations. The update moves recognition beyond point-of-sale to lifecycle contributions such as architecture design, deployment, and managed services, and introduces clearer global tiers and specialization paths. Partners gain profitability incentives, expanded training (updated NSE content), and a new Partner Portal to streamline deal registration and operational workflows.

📊 Amazon Connect now exports case data directly into the analytics data lake, enabling unified analysis of case records alongside other contact-center metrics. With case data accessible in the data lake, teams can use Amazon Athena and Amazon QuickSight to build custom reports and explore trends such as case volume by type, handling by agent shift, and contact sentiment without maintaining complex ETL pipelines. The capability is available in multiple AWS regions including US, Europe, Asia Pacific, Canada, and Africa.

🤖 Cloudflare now returns RFC 9457-compliant Markdown and JSON error payloads to AI agents, replacing bulky HTML error pages with compact, machine-readable instructions. Agents requesting text/markdown or application/json receive a consistent schema with YAML frontmatter and explicit fields such as retryable, retry_after, and owner_action_required. This network-wide change is automatic for all 1xxx-class edge errors, reduces payload and token usage by ~98%, and preserves the traditional HTML experience for browsers.

🤖 Amazon Connect has enhanced its AI-powered predictive insights to support up to 40 million product catalog items (an 8× increase), integrate recommendations into message templates for trigger-based campaigns, and improve model accuracy by up to 14%. These updates, built on the five recommendation algorithms from re:Invent 2025, reduce training and deployment time so businesses can deliver automated, personalized outreach faster. Public preview is available across multiple AWS regions and Amazon Connect Customer Profiles remains pay-as-you-go.

📧 Amazon Connect now supports conversational analytics for email contacts, enabling automatic categorization, PII redaction, and generated contact summaries to streamline supervision and compliance. Administrators enable the capability by adding a Set recording, analytics and processing behavior block to contact flows and can specify which PII types to redact and whether redactions show specific or generic markers. Teams may store original and redacted versions in separate locations, enable contact summaries, and use analytics to create rules that trigger actions such as assigning categories, creating tasks, or updating cases. The capability is available across multiple AWS regions.

🔧 Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports in-place increases of cluster storage volumes above 3 TiB, removing the previous hard limit that forced blue/green deployments for large expansions. Domains already above 3 TiB still require a blue/green deployment the first time they increase, but subsequent increases will not. Decreases or rapid successive increases continue to require blue/green; use the dry-run option to verify whether your change requires one.

🔐 Microsoft is introducing passkey support in Microsoft Entra for Windows, enabling phishing-resistant, passwordless sign-ins via Windows Hello. The opt-in feature enters public preview worldwide from mid‑March through late April 2026, with government clouds (GCC, GCC High, DoD) following mid‑April through mid‑May. Passkeys are device-bound, stored in the Windows Hello container, and never transmitted over the network, preventing credential theft and MFA bypass. IT administrators must enable the Passkeys (FIDO2) authentication method, create a passkey profile including the required Windows Hello AAGUIDs, and assign the profile to appropriate groups to enroll devices.

🔔 Starting with the May 2026 Windows security update, Microsoft will enable hotpatch security updates by default for all eligible devices managed via Microsoft Intune and the Microsoft Graph API. The updates will be delivered through Windows Autopatch and are intended to halve the time to reach 90% patch compliance by applying fixes without requiring immediate restarts. Organizations can opt out at the tenant level through Intune controls that go live April 1, 2026, and administrators should use the Hotpatch quality updates report to confirm device readiness.

📈 Amazon Web Services has increased Amazon CloudWatch Logs query capacity: accounts can now run up to 100 concurrent Logs Insights queries (up from 30) and execute up to 10 StartQuery and GetQueryResults API calls per second per account per region using Logs Insights QL. Customers should see reduced throttling, faster result retrieval, and improved dashboard responsiveness. The update is available across a broad set of AWS regions, enabling larger teams and automated systems to run more parallel queries.

⚙️ Amazon is introducing User Preferences in Amazon Quick Suite, enabling end users to control how Quick looks and behaves. Users can set the Chat panel to open expanded or collapsed and Quick will remember their last state. They can choose a default chat agent and a default knowledge scope for My Assistant, provide a preferred name and area of focus, and view or manage memories to make responses more relevant.