All news with #product update tag

🚀 Amazon has expanded Amazon Elastic VMware Service (EVS) to all availability zones in Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Canada (Central), and Europe (Paris). EVS runs VMware Cloud Foundation on EC2 bare‑metal instances powered by AWS Nitro, and can be deployed via a step‑by‑step workflow or the AWS CLI in hours. The expansion delivers lower latency, improved data‑residency options, and additional resiliency and high‑availability choices for VMware workloads.

🔒 CloudWatch Application Signals is now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West), extending automated application observability to government and regulated workloads. The service automatically collects telemetry from Amazon EC2, Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS and AWS Lambda to provide real-time health, dependency visualization and anomaly detection. By eliminating manual instrumentation, it helps teams meet compliance and monitoring requirements while improving incident detection and resolution. For pricing and setup, consult the CloudWatch pricing page and Application Signals documentation.

🔒 Amazon DynamoDB Streams now supports AWS PrivateLink for all available Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) endpoints in US and Canada commercial Regions. Customers can establish private VPC interface connections to Amazon DynamoDB Streams FIPS endpoints instead of routing traffic over the public internet. This capability helps organizations meet business, compliance, and regulatory requirements that limit public internet connectivity. Supported Regions include US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (N. California), US West (Oregon), Canada (Central), and Canada West (Calgary).

🔐 Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) now supports mounting Amazon EBS volumes to containers running as non-root users. ECS automatically sets file system permissions on the attached EBS volume so non-root processes can securely read and write while preserving root ownership. This removes the need for manual chown/chmod or custom entrypoint scripts, simplifying security-first container deployments. The capability is available across all AWS Regions for EC2, AWS Fargate, and ECS Managed Instances.

🔐 AWS Backup now lets you encrypt logically air-gapped vaults with your own AWS KMS customer managed keys (CMKs). This gives organizations more control over key lifecycle, access policies, and compliance posture while preserving the security benefits of logically air-gapped backups. Support covers same-account and cross-account CMKs and is available in all Regions where air-gapped vaults are supported. You can enable CMK encryption when creating vaults via the console, API, or CLI.

🚀 Deadline Cloud now supports an expanded set of EC2 instance families — including C7i, C7a, M7i, M7a, R7a, R7i, M8a, M8i and R8i — plus additional 6th-generation types that were previously unavailable. The update broadens compute-optimized, general-purpose and memory-optimized options for visual effects and animation rendering workloads. Studios can better right-size resources for tasks ranging from compute-heavy simulations to memory-intensive scene processing, improving performance and cost-efficiency in the Regions where Deadline Cloud is offered.

🔒 AWS IoT Greengrass v2.16 adds a system log forwarder and a new nucleus lite (v2.3) with TPM 2.0 support. The system log forwarder uploads system logs to AWS CloudWatch to simplify debugging and centralize operational visibility for edge applications. The nucleus lite TPM integration provides a hardware-based root of trust for secure secrets storage and streamlined device authentication on resource-constrained devices. The update is available in all AWS Regions where Greengrass is offered.

🎧 Cloudflare Stream now lets developers extract audio-only M4A tracks from videos with a single API call or dashboard action. Use Media Transformations (mode=audio) for on-the-fly clipping or create persistent audio downloads for VOD-managed content. This reduces bandwidth, cost, and complexity for transcription, translation, moderation, and other audio-first AI workflows.

🚀 The Ironwood TPU stack is a co‑designed hardware and software platform that scales from massive pre‑training to low‑latency inference. It combines dense MXU compute, ample HBM3E memory, and a high‑bandwidth ICI/OCS interconnect with compiler-driven optimizations in XLA and native support for JAX and PyTorch. Pallas and Mosaic enable hand‑tuned kernels for peak performance, while observability and orchestration tools address resilience and efficiency across pods and superpods.

📲 AWS End User Messaging now offers Carrier Lookup, enabling customers to retrieve carrier-related details for a phone number — including country, number type, dialing code, and mobile network and carrier codes. By validating these attributes before sending, teams can improve SMS deliverability, reduce failed or misrouted messages, and avoid sending to incorrect destinations. The capability supports common use cases such as OTPs, account updates, reminders, and promotions, and is available in all AWS Regions where the service is offered.

🔖Amazon S3 now supports tags on S3 Tables to enable attribute-based access control (ABAC) and cost allocation. Tags can be applied to table buckets and individual tables, letting you manage permissions for users and roles without frequent IAM or resource-policy updates. Tagging is available in all Regions where S3 Tables is offered and can be used via the Console, SDK, API, or CLI. Use tags to simplify governance and track costs.

🔒 Amazon announced that CloudFront now supports cross-account VPC origins, enabling distributions to reach ALB, NLB, and EC2 origins inside private subnets across different AWS accounts. Customers can grant access via AWS RAM, including across Organizations and OUs, removing the need to place origins in public subnets. The capability is available in AWS Commercial Regions at no extra charge and is designed to simplify security and multi-account operations.

🔍 Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights now detects anomalies across additional metrics in its on‑demand analysis experience. The ML-driven on‑demand reports identify anomalies in database-level and OS-level counters and surface per‑SQL anomalies for top statements, automatically comparing selected periods to learned baselines. The feature pairs intuitive visualizations with specific remediation advice to help reduce mean time to diagnosis. Enable Advanced mode for Amazon Aurora or Amazon RDS via the AWS Management Console, APIs, or CloudFormation and consult RDS and Aurora documentation for availability by region, engine, and instance class.

🔒 Amazon FSx now integrates with AWS Secrets Manager to store and manage Active Directory domain service account credentials for FSx for Windows File Server and FSx for NetApp ONTAP Storage Virtual Machines (SVMs). This removes the need to supply plain-text service account usernames and passwords in the console, APIs, CLI, or CloudFormation, and enables credential rotation and improved credential hygiene. The capability is available in all AWS Regions where FSx is offered.

🧰 The Microsoft Store web now enables Windows 11 users to create a Ninite-style multi-app installer that downloads and installs multiple apps from a single executable. Users can select apps on the Store website and click Install selected, which generates a background installer to run the installs. The capability currently works only in the Store web, is limited to a curated set of 64 apps, and restricts packages to 16 apps per download to avoid overwhelming Store servers.

🚀 Buildertrend describes migrating from Memorystore for Redis to Google Cloud’s managed Memorystore for Valkey to gain native cross‑regional replication, improved networking via Private Service Connect, and performance advantages. The team exported cache data to Google Cloud Storage and seeded Valkey instances to minimize downtime, eliminated a proxy layer, and now uses Valkey for caching, session state, job queues, pub/sub idempotency, and authentication tokens.

🇮🇳 Buyers and sellers in India can now transact locally on AWS Marketplace using INR, with invoices issued in Indian Rupees and tax compliance facilitated by AWS India. India-based sellers can register to sell paid offerings, create private offers in USD or INR, and work with India-based Channel Partners. AWS India will automate WHT and GST-TCS collection and remittance to authorities, simplifying buyer compliance.

🔔 Amazon GameLift Streams now integrates with AWS Health to deliver automated lifecycle notifications for stream groups. AWS Health will send reminders on day 45 and day 150 about upcoming restrictions at day 180, and a final reminder on day 335 before automatic expiration on day 365. Stream groups older than 180 days cannot add new applications. The feature is available in all Regions at no extra cost, and the ExpiresAt field in the GetStreamGroup API or the Stream group details page in the console shows status.

🔧 AWS Glue Schema Registry now provides C# support in its client library, extending beyond the existing Java SDK to offer first-class integration for .NET streaming applications. C# services using Apache Kafka, Amazon MSK, Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, or Apache Flink can register, validate, and enforce schemas to keep producers and consumers aligned. The serverless registry enforces centralized schema validation at no additional charge. C# support is available in all regions where Glue Schema Registry is offered and the SDK is distributed via NuGet.

🛠️ AWS Launch Wizard now provides a guided workflow to size, configure, and deploy Windows Server EC2 instances with Microsoft SQL Server Developer Edition installed from your own media. The capability simplifies provisioning cost-effective, full-featured SQL Server instances on Amazon EC2 and is aimed at developers building non-production and test database environments. It supports customers migrating non-production databases from SQL Server Enterprise and Standard Editions to reduce licensing costs while preserving feature parity, and is available in all supported commercial AWS Regions and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.