All news with #product update tag

🔍 Amazon Rekognition Face Liveness now provides Feedback Codes in the GetFaceLivenessSessionResults response to explain why a liveness check scored low and how users can retry successfully. The codes identify specific issues such as poor lighting, face obstruction, closed eyes, or low video quality, and a single session can return multiple codes to guide comprehensive corrections. This update targets identity verification, re-authentication, and accessibility use cases.

🛰️ Google Earth Engine now integrates Gemini AI via a new Ask feature in the Code Editor, enabling users to write, debug, and optimize geospatial scripts using their own Gemini API key. Ask understands the active script, imported assets, geometries, and session history to provide context-aware code suggestions, explanations, diffs, and merges. Users can choose from Gemini models, search docs or datasets, or ground results with Google Search. Ask is available globally and requires a Gemini API key to enable.

🔄 Azure has published a formal Virtual Machine lifecycle policy to give customers clear, predictable guidance on VM platform generations and transitions. The policy defines four stages—Current, Extended, End of Life, and Retired—each with recommended customer actions, Microsoft investment levels, regional availability, and purchasing implications. Azure will provide notifications, tooling, and AI-augmented guidance to help customers plan and execute modernization with confidence.

🚀 Today Cloudflare launched an experimental preview adding first-class support for the Rust wasm32-unknown-emscripten target in the wasm-bindgen toolchain and Rust Workers. This enables improved native Rust and Tokio-based applications to run on Workers, Node.js, and the web, increasing library compatibility and enabling examples like a Rust-native Minecraft server running in a Durable Object. The preview includes patches and examples, with upstream collaboration across Google, wasm-bindgen, Emscripten, and Tokio maintainers.

🚀 Over the four months since joining Cloudflare, VoidZero has shipped 80+ releases, closed over 1,200 issues, and delivered major performance wins across its toolchain. Vite+ reached 1.0, and work on a new "Bundled Dev" mode aims to speed development for very large web apps. The team shipped the Oxc React Compiler and improvements across Vitest, Oxlint, and Oxfmt, while Cloudflare doubled its open source funding commitment.

🔒 AWS Backup now supports Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP in logically air-gapped vaults, enabling immutable, encrypted backups that can be shared across accounts and Regions. These vaults lock backups by default and support AWS-owned or customer-managed keys for encryption. Administrators can target FSx ONTAP backups to an air-gapped vault via the console, CLI, or SDKs, and share access using AWS RAM or Multi-party approval for secure recovery. Direct restores from the sharing account are supported once available, reducing recovery overhead.

🛠️ Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) now supports retryable writes beginning with engine version 8.0.2. This feature lets supported MongoDB drivers automatically retry certain write operations once on transient errors like network interruptions or primary failovers, improving application resilience. Retryable writes are enabled by default in most drivers and are supported for all write commands except updateMany and deleteMany, as well as for transaction commit and abort commands. The capability is available on instance-based and serverless clusters in all regions where Amazon DocumentDB 8.0 is offered; earlier engine versions must disable retryable writes.

🔔 Amazon DocumentDB (MongoDB-compatible) 8.0.2 adds retryable writes, five new aggregation stages, change stream improvements, and query planner optimizations to boost migration compatibility and performance. The release supports automatic retry of insert/update/delete on transient network failures, introduces $setWindowFields, $bucketAuto, $facet, $graphLookup, and correlated $lookup, and enhances change streams to split large events and surface createCollection/createIndex events. Indexing and query execution gains include index-only scans, index scans on $expr, incremental sort, faster count operations, and reIndex support for partial indexes. These features are available in all regions where Amazon DocumentDB is offered.

🛠️ Microsoft confirmed that some users experience desktop loading problems, including black screens, after installing August 2026 preview updates and later updates. The issue primarily affects Azure Virtual Desktop hosts using FSLogix, causing black screens after sign-in and Windows Explorer crashes shown in event logs. Microsoft recommends a temporary workaround of manually launching explorer.exe via Task Manager and has provided a mitigation for enterprises through Known Issue Rollback (KIR) group policies.

📞 AWS End User Messaging now supports voice calls on WhatsApp, letting businesses place and receive calls using their existing verified business identity. Conversations can transition from chat to voice within the same thread so context is not lost. Calls work both ways: customers can call businesses from a chat and businesses can call customers who granted permission. Manage the feature via the AWS End User Messaging console or API; it’s available in all Regions where Social is offered.

🛠️ Microsoft announces updates to Foundry, offering expanded model options, native voice agents, long-running resilience, and continuous optimization tools to help teams build and operate production agents faster. The platform now supports recent frontier models like GPT-6 family and Claude Opus 5.5, voice agents in public preview with expressive multi-lingual capabilities, and developer tooling such as the Foundry Toolkit for VS Code. Enterprise governance features integrate with Microsoft Entra and include network egress controls, audit capabilities, and upcoming AI Gateway integration for centralized policy management.

🚀 Amazon RDS now offers PostgreSQL 19 Beta 4 in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment, enabling evaluation of the pre-release on RDS. This beta refines query performance and autovacuum management, fixes TOAST table reporting in pg_stat_autovacuum_scores, and rebalances parallel autovacuum cost limits. Preview instances persist up to 60 days, snapshots are limited to the Preview Environment, and standard dump/load tooling is supported.

🛠️ Microsoft released the KB5124010 September 2026 non-security preview update for Windows 11 24H2 and 25H2, delivering 46 changes including Bluetooth fixes and the ability to remap the Copilot key. This optional update focuses on quality improvements and new features—such as Emoji 17.0 support, an Open apps maximized accessibility option, and a WinRE remote management plug-in—without including security patches. Administrators can install it via Settings > Windows Update or manually from the Microsoft Update Catalog, and it upgrades affected systems to builds 26200.9550 and 26100.9550.

🔖 Amazon ElastiCache now supports resource tagging and tag-based access control (TBAC) for Global Datastore. You can use AddTagsToResource, RemoveTagsFromResource, and ListTagsForResource on Global Datastore and reference tags in IAM policies and SCPs. Tag changes propagate automatically across all Regions the Global Datastore spans, keeping access control and cost allocation consistent. There is no additional cost and no change to Global Datastore creation or management.

🔔 Amazon RDS for SQL Server now enables Multi‑AZ deployments using Always On Availability Groups for SQL Server Developer Edition. This provides a synchronous standby replica in a separate Availability Zone and automatic failover to support testing of high availability in non‑production environments. The capability mirrors Enterprise Edition functionality at no license cost and is available for SQL Server 2019, 2022, and 2025 Enterprise Developer Edition; SQL Server 2025 Standard Developer Edition is not supported.

🔔 Google Cloud announced built-in Prometheus metrics processing for GKE, enabling HPA to use PromQL queries directly via Google Managed Service for Prometheus. This removes the need for third-party adapters, reduces latency, and simplifies autoscaling configuration. The controller runs in the control plane and only deploys pods on nodes when PromQL metrics are actively requested, minimizing resource use. The feature is in preview with plans to add self-hosted Prometheus support before GA.

🚀 GKE 1.37 introduces native scale-to-zero so workloads can fully scale down to zero replicas and stop consuming compute while idle. The feature uses HPA with the new AutoscalingMetric CRD and KEP-2021 support for minReplicas: 0 to wake workloads based on external signals such as Pub/Sub or Cloud Monitoring. Capacity buffers provide pooled warm capacity to eliminate cold-start latency and balance cost with instant responsiveness.

🛠️ Cloudflare has added Vary header support to Cache Rules across all plans, letting origins declare potentially variable request fields while operators control how Cloudflare treats each header. You can choose normalize, passthrough, or bypass per header, with a recommended default of normalize. This reduces cache fragmentation from incidental differences while preserving correct responses for negotiated content.

🚀 Amazon EMR 7.14 adds platform-wide enhancements across Amazon EMR on EC2, Amazon EMR on EKS, and Amazon EMR Serverless, and upgrades key components including Apache Spark to 3.5.8 and Apache Iceberg to 1.10.1. Iceberg materialized views refresh faster by using change data capture to limit file reads. EMR on EKS supports Spark Connect endpoints with token-based authentication and IPv6 clusters, while EMR Serverless increases Spark job storage from 200 GiB to 1 TiB. The release is available in all Regions where Amazon EMR is offered.

🤝 Amazon Connect Customer now enables agent-to-agent collaboration, allowing enterprises to bring specialized AI agents into live interactions to resolve customer requests. Connect Customer supports collaboration over the open agent-to-agent (A2A) protocol via text and bidirectional voice, letting AI agents delegate tasks and maintain session continuity. Administrators receive a unified contact record with observability, guardrails, and escalation controls captured for analytics and quality management.