All news with #product update tag

🚀 AWS Network Load Balancer now supports weighted target groups, letting you distribute traffic across multiple target groups with configurable weights from 0 to 999. This enables progressive deployment strategies such as Blue-Green and Canary deployments, application migration, and A/B testing while supporting instance, IP address, and ALB targets. The capability is available across AWS commercial and GovCloud regions at no additional charge; standard NLB Capacity Unit (LCU) pricing applies.

💡 Amazon Q Developer now includes enhanced cost management features that let users analyze costs across broader Cloud Financial Management domains with advanced analytics. Users can ask open-ended questions about historical and forecasted costs, optimization recommendations, commitment utilization, anomalies, budgets, free tier usage, and product attributes. Q explores data, forms hypotheses, performs calculations, and shows the API calls and console links used for transparency.

🚀 Amazon Bedrock now supports importing custom weights for gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, allowing customers to bring tuned OpenAI GPT OSS models into a fully managed, serverless environment. This capability eliminates the need to manage infrastructure or model serving while enabling deployment of text-to-text models for reasoning, agentic, and developer tasks. gpt-oss-120b is optimized for production and high-reasoning use cases; gpt-oss-20b targets lower-latency or specialized scenarios. The feature is generally available in US‑East (N. Virginia).

📈 AWS Cost Explorer now extends forecasting to 18 months and uses upgraded machine learning that can analyze up to 36 months of historical data (previously 6 months) to surface seasonal patterns and long-term growth trends. Two of these improvements are generally available, while AI-powered, explainable forecasts are offered in public preview in the console. The 18-month horizon is also exposed via the GetCostForecast API, enabling finance and engineering teams to improve annual budgeting, surface optimization opportunities, and present forecasts with greater stakeholder confidence.

🔐 AWS now permits developers to use their existing AWS Management Console sign-in credentials for programmatic access via the AWS CLI, AWS Tools for PowerShell, and AWS SDKs after a brief browser-based authentication flow. The aws login command in AWS CLI v2.32.0 and later obtains automatically rotated, short-lived credentials to reduce reliance on long-term access keys. This capability is available in all commercial AWS regions and aims to streamline local development setup while improving security posture.

🔐 Amazon S3 now supports post-quantum TLS key exchange on regional S3, S3 Tables, and S3 Express One Zone endpoints using the NIST-standardized Module Lattice-Based Key Encapsulation Mechanism (ML-KEM). PQ-TLS key exchange is available at no additional cost across all AWS regions and will be negotiated automatically when clients are configured for ML-KEM. Combined with server-side AES-256 encryption by default, S3 offers quantum-resistant protection for data both in transit and at rest.

🔒 AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) introduces the global condition key aws:SourceVpcArn, which returns the ARN of the VPC where a VPC endpoint is attached. Administrators can apply this key in IAM policies to enforce region-based controls for resources accessed via AWS PrivateLink, restricting access to VPC endpoints in specified regions. The new condition key helps meet data residency and compliance requirements and is available in all commercial AWS Regions.

📈 AWS Cost Anomaly Detection now supports managed monitors that can track all linked accounts, cost allocation tags, or cost categories with a single configuration. Previously limited to AWS service scopes, the new capability automatically separates monitoring for each tag or account value and adapts as organizational tags or accounts change. The feature is available today in all commercial AWS Regions at no additional charge.

⚡ Amazon API Gateway now progressively streams response payloads to clients as data becomes available, removing the need to buffer complete responses before transmission. The capability works with streaming-capable backends including Lambda functions, HTTP proxy integrations, and private integrations. Benefits include improved time-to-first-byte, integration timeouts extended to 15 minutes, and support for payloads larger than 10 MB. Generative AI and media-serving applications will particularly benefit, and the feature is available across all AWS Regions including GovCloud.

🔒 Amazon announced GuardDuty Malware Protection for AWS Backup, extending malware detection to backups of Amazon EC2 instances, Amazon EBS volumes, and Amazon S3 objects. The capability automatically scans new backups, supports on-demand scans of existing backups, and can identify the last known clean backup to reduce recovery impact. It offers incremental scanning to analyze only changed data between backups, lowering costs versus full rescans, and can be enabled even if GuardDuty foundational data sources are not active. The feature is available in supported Regions and accessible via the AWS Backup console, API, or CLI.

🛠️ AWS Marketplace now supports Agent-to-Agent (A2A) servers and streamlined deployment for third-party AI agents built for Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime. The update pre-populates required environment variables in the AgentCore console and adds AWS CLI instructions within Marketplace listings so customers can procure and deploy A2A servers directly. AWS Partners can list A2A and MCP servers and containerized AgentCore Runtime products, define vendor launch configurations, and enable flexible pricing (including free API-based SaaS) to accelerate onboarding. These capabilities reduce deployment complexity and add protocol flexibility to meet diverse customer needs.

📞 Amazon Connect now routes calls between instances in the same AWS account over the AWS global backbone, avoiding the Public Switched Telephony Network when both numbers are provisioned or ported into Amazon Connect. Calls between instances, whether within a region or across regions, gain improved audio quality, simplified billing, and preserved call context for transfers. This capability is available in all commercial regions where Amazon Connect is offered except Africa (Cape Town).

🔒 Amazon Route 53 now supports AWS PrivateLink for the route53.amazonaws.com API, enabling private, regional connectivity from VPCs to the Route 53 API without traversing the public internet. This allows workloads to manage hosted zones, records, and health checks over the AWS backbone and simplifies networking by removing the need for complex private connectivity. Support is global except in AWS GovCloud and China, and cross-region interface VPC endpoints enable native multi-region access.

📱 Amazon CloudWatch RUM now supports iOS and Android apps, extending real user monitoring beyond web applications. Using the OpenTelemetry (OTEL) standard, it captures mobile spans such as application startup time, screen load time, and backend network calls, and records events including crashes and ANRs/AppHangs. Developers and SREs can perform impact analysis for errors or crashes, drill into correlated telemetry, and filter by location, device type, OS, and app version. Mobile telemetry integrates with application metrics, traces, logs, web RUM, and synthetic monitoring in CloudWatch Application Signals, and is available in all AWS Commercial Regions where web monitoring is provided.

🔁 AWS Organizations now supports direct transfers of accounts between organizations, removing the prior need to convert an account to a standalone entity during moves. The simplified transfer preserves governance controls, consolidated billing, and account settings and uses the same console and APIs (invite and accept). This capability is available in all commercial AWS Regions and the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.

🔒 Amazon S3 now provides a bucket-level default encryption configuration to enforce SSE-S3 or SSE-KMS for all write requests, allowing organizations to standardize server-side encryption types across buckets. The PutBucketEncryption API update lets you disable SSE-C on specific buckets or in CloudFormation templates. This capability is available in all AWS Regions and configurable via Console, SDK, API, or CLI. It helps simplify compliance and reduce misconfiguration risk.

☁️ Microsoft unveiled two Windows 11 recovery capabilities — Point-in-Time Restore (PITR) and Cloud Rebuild — designed to reduce downtime and simplify device recovery. PITR builds on System Restore by capturing full system snapshots, enabling admins and users to roll a device back to a known-good state, including local files and applications. Cloud Rebuild allows remote reinstallation through Intune, leveraging Autopilot, OneDrive, and Windows Backup for Organizations to restore settings and data.

🔔 Today, EC2 Auto Scaling launched a synchronous LaunchInstances API that gives customers precise control over where instances are provisioned and provides immediate feedback on capacity availability. The API supports overrides for any Availability Zone and/or subnet in an Auto Scaling group and includes optional asynchronous retries to help reach desired capacity. It is available now in US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Europe (Ireland), and Asia Pacific (Singapore) at no additional cost beyond standard EC2 and EBS usage. Use the AWS CLI or SDKs to get started.

🔔 Amazon Bedrock introduces two new inference tiers—Priority and Flex—to help customers balance cost and latency for varied AI workloads. Flex targets non-time-critical jobs like model evaluations and summarization with discounted pricing and lower scheduling priority. Priority offers premium performance and preferential processing (up to 25% better OTPS vs. Standard) for mission-critical, real-time applications. The existing Standard tier remains available for general-purpose use.

🛡️ Microsoft will integrate Sysmon natively into Windows 11 and Windows Server 2025, removing the need to deploy the standalone Sysinternals tool. The built-in functionality will preserve Sysmon’s capabilities, including support for custom configuration files and advanced event filtering, and logs events to the Windows Event Log. Administrators can enable it via Optional Features or run sysmon -i (or sysmon -i <config>) to load a custom configuration, and updates will be delivered through Windows Update to simplify management and improve coverage in large environments.