All news with #product update tag

🌐 Amazon Web Services announced that CloudFront now assigns both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses for Anycast Static IP configurations. Previously limited to IPv4, the change enables dual‑stack deployments so customers can meet IPv6 compliance and reach IPv6‑only end users. IPv6 addresses are available from all edge locations except the AWS China (Beijing) and AWS China (Ningxia) regions operated by partner carriers. Customers should review the CloudFront Developer Guide and pricing for details.

🔐 AWS has expanded its Service Reference Information to map SDK operations to the specific IAM action(s) required to call them. This enables teams to answer questions such as “Which permission is needed for this API operation?” and to retrieve authoritative answers programmatically. You can integrate the data into policy management and automation pipelines to reduce manual effort and keep policies aligned with service updates. The capability is provided at no additional cost.

🧪 Cloudflare has added local, isolated testing APIs for Workflows, enabling developers to introspect and mock workflow instances using the new cloudflare:test module. Available with @cloudflare/vitest-pool-workers v0.9.0+, the APIs (introspectWorkflowInstance and introspectWorkflow) let tests run offline inside the Workers runtime, mock step results and events, and preserve isolated storage for reliable, deterministic tests. This improves debug visibility, reduces flaky tests, and lets teams assert on intermediate steps without hitting external systems.

🔍 Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics now supports running the same canary scripts across Chrome and Firefox in AWS GovCloud (US‑East, US‑West). You can use Playwright‑based or Puppeteer‑based canaries to collect browser-specific performance metrics, success rates, and visual monitoring results while retaining aggregate health views. This helps teams detect and remediate browser compatibility issues faster.

🔔 AWS has simplified pricing for Amazon Cognito machine-to-machine (M2M) authentication by removing the M2M app client price dimension. Customers will now be charged only for successful M2M token requests per month instead of both registered app clients and token requests. The change is effective immediately across all supported Cognito regions and is automatic, requiring no customer action. This reduces the cost to build and scale M2M integrations.

🚀 Google Cloud and Anyscale have enhanced the Ray experience on Cloud TPUs with GKE to reduce setup complexity and improve performance. The new ray.util.tpu library and a SlicePlacementGroup with a label_selector API automatically reserve co-located TPU slices and preserve SPMD topology to avoid resource fragmentation. Ray Train and Ray Serve gain expanded TPU support including alpha JAX training, while TPU metrics and libtpu logs appear in the Ray Dashboard for faster troubleshooting and migration between GPUs and TPUs.

🚀 Google Cloud and Anyscale describe tighter integration between Ray and Kubernetes to improve distributed AI scheduling and autoscaling on GKE. The release introduces a Ray Label Selector API (Ray v2.49) to align task, actor and placement-group placement with Kubernetes labels and GKE custom compute classes, enabling targeted placement and fallback strategies for GPUs and markets. It also adds Dynamic Resource Allocation for A4X/GB200 racks, writable cgroups for Ray resource isolation on GKE v1.34+, TPU/JAX training support via a JAXTrainer in Ray v2.49, and in-place pod resizing (Kubernetes v1.33) for vertical autoscaling and higher efficiency.

🔔 AWS Config now supports 52 additional AWS resource types across services including Amazon EC2, Amazon Bedrock, and Amazon SageMaker. With recording for all resource types enabled, AWS Config will automatically begin tracking these additions and they are available to Config rules and aggregators. You can monitor the new types in all Regions where supported, expanding discovery, assessment, audit, and remediation coverage.

📈 The Amazon CloudWatch agent can now collect detailed performance metrics for NVMe local volumes attached to EC2 instances, including queue depths, I/O sizes, and device utilization. These metrics mirror the detailed statistics available for EBS volumes, enabling a consistent monitoring experience across storage types. You can create CloudWatch dashboards, set alarms, and analyze trends for NVMe-based instance store volumes, and the capability is available for all local NVMe volumes on Nitro-based EC2 instances in AWS Commercial and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.

📈 You can now monitor Mountpoint operations in observability tools such as Amazon CloudWatch, Prometheus, and Grafana. Mountpoint emits near real-time metrics (request count, request latency, and error types) over the OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP), so you can use the CloudWatch agent or an OpenTelemetry collector to publish metrics and build dashboards. Configure Mountpoint at mount time to stream per-EC2-instance metrics for proactive monitoring and faster troubleshooting.

🚀 Amazon Kinesis Data Streams introduces On‑demand Advantage, letting customers warm on‑demand streams to absorb instant throughput spikes up to 10 GB or 10 million events per second without over‑provisioning. The mode removes the fixed per‑stream charge and offers a simpler usage pricing model with data ingest at $0.032/GB and retrieval at $0.016/GB in US East (N. Virginia). Extended retention costs fall by 77%, and Enhanced fan‑out retrievals are priced the same as shared throughput, making high fan‑out scenarios more economical. On‑demand Advantage requires a minimum billed aggregate of 25 MB/s for both ingest and retrieval at the discounted rates and is available in all AWS regions, including GovCloud (US) and China.

📰 OpenAI is weighing memory-based advertising on ChatGPT as it looks to diversify revenue beyond subscriptions and enterprise deals. The company, valued near $500 billion, has about 800 million users but only ~5% pay, and paid customers generate the bulk of recent revenue. Internally the move is debated — focus groups suggest some users already assume sponsored answers — and the company is expanding cheaper Go plans and purchasable credits.

📣Google says its ad business will remain central as it integrates advertising into AI-powered search experiences. Google currently offers AI Overviews and a more capable AI Mode, and has begun limited experiments placing ads within those results. Executives say ads won't disappear but may appear differently and become more personalized based on user data. Tests and further plans are expected to continue into next year.

🖥️ Windows 11 Build 26220.7051 introduces a taskbar-based Ask Copilot, allowing testers to query the web, local files, and AI using text or voice. The feature is optional and can be enabled under Settings > Personalization > Taskbar; Microsoft says it may eventually replace the existing Windows Search UI. The update also rolls out a full-screen Xbox handheld experience, a Bluetooth LE-based "Shared audio" preview to stream audio to two devices, and improved x64 emulation support to boost ARM PC performance.

🗞️ Windows 11 Build 26220.7051 is rolling out to Insiders and introduces three headline features: a taskbar-based Ask Copilot, a new full-screen Xbox experience for handhelds, and Bluetooth Shared audio. Ask Copilot lets users search the internet, local files, and AI using text or voice and can be enabled via Settings > Personalization > Taskbar > Ask Copilot. The new full-screen experience (FSE) aims to prioritize gaming on compatible handheld devices and can be set under Settings > Gaming > Full screen experience. Additionally, Windows now supports sharing audio to two Bluetooth devices and improves ARM PC performance by expanding x64 emulation support.

🔒 Amazon Route 53 Resolver now supports AWS PrivateLink, allowing customers to access and manage Resolver and its associated features privately over the Amazon network rather than the public internet. This private access covers Resolver endpoints, Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall, Resolver Query Logging, and Resolver for AWS Outposts, with create, delete, edit and list operations handled via PrivateLink. Route 53 Resolver continues to respond recursively for public records, VPC-specific DNS names, and private hosted zones and remains available by default in all VPCs. The capability can be used in regions where Resolver and its features are offered, including AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.

🔊 Microsoft is testing a new Shared audio feature in Windows 11 that uses Bluetooth LE Audio broadcast technology to stream audio to two Bluetooth devices simultaneously on eligible Copilot+ PCs. The option appears as Shared audio (preview) in Quick Settings in Windows 11 Build 26220.7051 (KB5067115). Initially it is limited to select Surface models with Qualcomm Snapdragon X and a few upcoming Samsung and Surface AI PCs, and requires compatible accessories such as Galaxy Buds2 Pro.

🔔 Amazon GameLift Streams is integrated with AWS Health to send automated lifecycle notifications about aging stream groups. Accounts receive reminders on days 45 and 150 warning that adding new applications will be restricted after day 180, with a final re-creation reminder on day 335 before expiration at day 365. The feature is available in all AWS Regions at no additional cost, and expiration details are visible in the console or via the GetStreamGroup ExpiresAt field.

🔒 Amazon Route 53 Resolver now supports AWS PrivateLink, enabling private management and access to Resolver and its features without traversing the public internet. Customers can use PrivateLink to reach Resolver endpoints, Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall, Resolver Query Logging, and Resolver for AWS Outposts over the Amazon network. All operations — create, delete, edit, list — are supported via the private connection in supported regions, including AWS GovCloud.

🚀 AWS PrivateLink now supports native cross-region connectivity for select AWS services. With this change, Interface VPC endpoints can privately access Amazon S3, Route 53, ECR and other supported services hosted in different Regions of the same AWS partition without cross-region peering or internet exposure. Endpoints present a private IP in your VPC, simplifying secure inter-region connectivity and helping meet data residency requirements. Refer to AWS PrivateLink pricing and documentation for the full list of supported services and Regions.