All news with #product update tag

🗺️ AWS has added an interactive map view to AWS Global View in the AWS Management Console, enabling users to visualize AWS Regions and AWS Local Zones on a single map. Users can toggle between the new map view and the existing list view to see enabled locations and all available AWS locations at a glance. The feature is available in all public AWS Regions and can be accessed via the Regions and Zones page in the AWS Global View console.

🔧 Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) now lets administrators configure control plane parameters for the scheduler, controller manager, and API server. This capability enables tuning of pod placement strategies, horizontal pod autoscaler responsiveness, and resource lifecycle settings such as event retention. Cluster operators can choose different scheduler fit strategies (for example, MostAllocated or LeastAllocated) to prioritize density or headroom. These control plane configuration options are available in any AWS Region where Amazon EKS is offered.

🔔 Amazon Connect Customer now allows agents to view and self-assign queued agent-first callbacks alongside emails, tasks, and chats. This capability lets agents prioritize follow-ups or take ownership when they already have context, reducing handoffs and accelerating resolution. The feature is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon Connect Customer is offered, with guidance in the product documentation and Worklist app setup materials.

🧭 AWS Glue now lets users open Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio with a single click from the Glue console, enabling analysts and engineers to query cataloged data, run data quality checks, and build pipelines without switching contexts. Access from S3 Tables, Athena, EMR, Redshift and Glue consoles is supported, and the same IAM role is used when launching SageMaker Notebooks. An inline permissions panel simplifies setup by letting you create and customize required IAM policies in-context if SageMaker Unified Studio isn't yet configured.

🔐 AWS Secrets Manager now supports managed external secrets for Jenkins API Tokens and SonarQube Tokens, enabling automatic rotation and lifecycle management directly from the AWS console. For Jenkins, Secrets Manager mints new tokens and revokes old ones only after verifying the replacement is active, supporting both self-rotation and admin-assisted rotation. SonarQube rotation covers User Tokens, Global Analysis Tokens, and Project Analysis Tokens via the SonarQube Web API, with user tokens supporting self-rotation and analysis tokens rotated using an admin token. These additions join other supported services and are available in all Regions where managed external secrets is supported.

📊 Amazon Connect Customer now offers a performance dashboard for Cases that enables managers to monitor case volume, resolution trends, and SLA performance. The dashboard supports comparisons between current and prior periods across metrics such as cases created, average resolution time, first-contact resolution percentage, and SLA achievement rate. Managers can slice trends by case template, assigned user, or queue to identify issues and prioritize improvements.

🚀 Amazon RDS for MariaDB now supports the MariaDB 12.3 Long-Term Support release, starting with minor version 12.3.2. This update brings Oracle-compatible TO_DATE(), an IS JSON predicate for native JSON validation, and optimizer improvements for LEFT JOIN and RANGE partition scans. Upgrades can be performed via Blue/Green Deployments, in-place upgrades, or snapshot restore, and migrations are supported through AWS Database Migration Service.

🖥️ Amazon GameLift Streams now captures and distributes shader caches for applications without requiring code changes. You mark a stream session to capture a cache, and the service replicates it across compatible stream groups and locations to reduce load times and visual stuttering. Monitor cache status and size via the ListApplicationShaderCaches API or the GameLift Streams console. The feature supports Linux (Ubuntu 22.04), Proton, and Windows Server 2022 runtimes, and storage of the latest cache version is billable.

🚀 Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) now supports in-place migration from Apache ZooKeeper to KRaft, letting customers convert existing clusters without provisioning new infrastructure or reconfiguring clients. KRaft moves metadata management into Kafka controllers, improving metadata propagation, scalability, and simplifying architecture. The migration requires Kafka 3.9.x as an intermediate step and enables upgrades to Kafka 4.x, and is available today in all MSK provisioned regions except the European Sovereign Cloud (Germany).

🔐 The Python ecosystem now offers post‑quantum cryptography via a new pip-installable library. Funded by the Sovereign Tech Agency, contributions to pyca/cryptography add support for ML-KEM and ML-DSA, the NIST-standard key-establishment and digital-signature primitives. The announcement emphasizes there is no immediate emergency, but adopting crypto agility is prudent.

🛠️ Cloudflare is consolidating AI Gateway and Workers AI into a single unified control plane and entrypoint. The unified path provides a shared binding and a single /ai/ REST API endpoint, enabling automatic creation of a default gateway for immediate observability, logging, token tracking, and cost attribution. Users can route to any provider or Workers AI with unified billing and optional elevated rate limits when using AI Gateway credits.

🕒 Amazon CloudWatch now supports wall clock evaluation windows for metric alarms, letting customers align evaluations to fixed calendar boundaries such as the top of the hour, midnight, or start of the week. This complements existing sliding window behavior and helps reduce false alerts for scheduled or business-aligned workloads. Time zone support and automatic handling of daylight saving transitions are included, and the feature is available in all Regions except UAE and Bahrain.

📰 OpenAI has released updated GPT-5.6 models: GPT-5.6 Sol for Plus and Pro users and GPT-5.6 Luna as the default for Free users. The upgrades aim to produce more direct, factually accurate, and consistent responses across quick queries and complex reasoning. A new slider lets users trade speed for deeper reasoning, while Free users gain unlimited text chats and a new Think button to extend processing time. OpenAI reports substantial reductions in factual errors versus prior versions, and additional safety protections for minors are being introduced. Rollout is gradual and some usage limits remain on non-text features.

🚀 Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) now supports fractional GPU scheduling on Amazon EC2 G6f instances, allowing containers to request GPU partitions as small as one-eighth of an NVIDIA L4 Tensor Core GPU (3 GB). This enables cost-efficient runs for small-model AI inference, model experimentation, and graphics rendering by right-sizing GPU resources. Configure fractional GPUs by setting GPU=0.125, GPU=0.25, or GPU=0.5 in your ECS task definition; support is available on ECS Managed Instances and ECS on EC2 with integrated monitoring and automated instance lifecycle handling.

🛠️ AWS Lambda console now extends console-to-IDE integration to support Kiro and Cursor IDEs, building on earlier Visual Studio Code support. Developers can follow a guided setup from the Lambda console to start local development in Kiro or Cursor while preserving code and configurations. The integration also enables conversion to AWS SAM templates to simplify IaC and CI/CD workflows. This feature is available in all commercial AWS Regions at no additional cost.

🚀 Amazon ElastiCache now supports Graviton4-based M8g, R8g, and C8gn node families for Valkey and Memcached. These nodes deliver up to 47% higher throughput, up to 43% lower P99 latency, and up to 31% better price-performance for on-demand pricing compared with Graviton3 equivalents, varying by family, size, and workload. Graviton4 instances also provide more memory per node and enhanced networking, with C8gn offering up to 200 Gbps. The new sizes are available from large to 16xlarge across 30+ AWS Regions, including AWS GovCloud and China Regions; use the Console, SDK, or CLI to create or modify clusters.

📊 Amazon Connect Customer dashboards now support one-click drill-down into real-time queue and routing profile performance. Supervisors can jump from a summary view into pre-filtered routing profile, queue, agent, or routing step widgets to investigate spikes or bottlenecks. This enables rapid identification of agent activity and reassignment to reduce wait times. The feature is available in all AWS commercial and AWS GovCloud (US-West) regions where Amazon Connect Customer is offered.

🔧 AWS Transform now automates post-launch actions through the migration workflow, letting teams define actions at the account level and automatically apply them to each source server across target accounts, including multi-account migrations. Actions execute via AWS Systems Manager (SSM) immediately after test or cutover launches, and users can choose predefined actions or supply custom SSM documents. The migration inventory file now includes a new structure for bulk post-launch configurations, and the Transform agent handles end-to-end migration configuration, including replication templates, EC2 launch templates, right-sizing, and post-launch actions. This capability is available in all Regions where AWS Transform is offered.

🔍 Amazon RDS now surfaces the initialization status of storage volumes created from snapshots, enabling customers to know when restored or converted instances reach full performance. The new StorageOperationStatus and StorageOperationPercentProgress fields are available in the RDS Console and the DescribeDBInstances API, showing initialization and optimization progress in real time. This visibility helps you schedule latency-sensitive workloads appropriately and is available by default in all commercial and US GovCloud Regions via console, CLI, or SDKs.

🚀 Amazon WorkSpaces Applications now emits expanded performance and session health metrics to Amazon CloudWatch at no extra cost. These include network indicators (e.g., TCP retransmissions, congestion window), compute and GPU utilization, memory page hard faults, and session lifecycle events like connection failures and duration. Administrators can set CloudWatch alarms, create custom or automatic dashboards, and gain fleet-wide visibility to identify and remediate issues faster. Metrics are available in all Regions where WorkSpaces Applications is supported.