All news with #product update tag

🚀 Amazon Web Services has made EC2 I7i storage-optimized instances available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East, US-West) Regions. These instances use 5th-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and 3rd-generation AWS Nitro SSDs to deliver up to 23% better compute performance and more than 10% better price performance versus prior I4i instances, along with up to 45 TB of NVMe local storage. I7i is offered in eleven sizes (nine virtual up to 48xlarge and two bare metal) with up to 100 Gbps network and 60 Gbps EBS bandwidth, and supports torn write prevention up to 16KB to reduce database bottlenecks for I/O-intensive, latency-sensitive workloads.

📣 Amazon Web Services has increased the maximum record size for Kinesis Data Streams from 1MiB to 10MiB and doubled the maximum PutRecords request size to 10MiB. You can update a stream's maximum record size to 10MiB via the AWS Management Console or the UpdateMaxRecordSize API using the AWS SDK or CLI, and continue using existing Kinesis APIs to publish and consume larger records. AWS Lambda now supports Kinesis payloads up to 6MiB; there are no additional charges beyond standard Kinesis fees. The feature is available in supported regions and AWS provides documentation describing region coverage and downstream handling guidance.

🚀 At Partner Connect during the Google Public Sector Summit, Google announced expanded investments to deepen collaboration and accelerate AI adoption across the public sector partner ecosystem. Highlights include increased Rapid Innovation Team funding, doubled capacity for Partner Development Sprints, and boosted Deal Acceleration Funds to shorten sales cycles. Google also launched three new Public Sector Partner Expertise badges for Google Distributed Cloud, Infrastructure Modernization, and Gemini for Government, a standardized Services Subcontractor Program, and an expanded ISV ATO Accelerator offering up to $250,000 in GCP credits plus $500,000 in services reimbursements to speed FedRAMP/Impact Level readiness. Partner Demo Portal improvements, enhanced analytics, new labs, and bootcamps round out efforts to simplify co-selling and accelerate partner time-to-market.

🔍 Cloudflare announces an Open Beta for Workers tracing that provides automatic, out-of-the-box instrumentation with no code changes. Traces are visible in the Workers Observability dashboard alongside logs, and spans include timing, attributes, and error context. You can export OTLP-formatted traces and correlated logs to third-party providers like Honeycomb or Grafana. Enable tracing via wrangler.jsonc or the Cloudflare dashboard and join the beta to provide feedback.

🚀 Amazon EC2 R8i and R8i-flex instances are now available in Europe (London), powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors exclusive to AWS. AWS reports up to 15% better price-performance and 2.5x more memory bandwidth versus previous Intel-based generations, and up to 20% higher performance compared to R7i for many workloads. R8i-flex introduces memory-optimized Flex sizing (large through 16xlarge) for applications that do not fully utilize compute, while R8i offers 13 sizes including two bare-metal options and a new 96xlarge and is SAP-certified. Instances can be purchased via On-Demand, Savings Plans or Spot.

🔍 AWS has expanded Resource Explorer to support 47 additional resource types across services including Amazon Bedrock, AWS Shield, AWS Glue, VPC Lattice, WAFv2, SageMaker, and S3. With this update, customers can search for and discover these resources centrally, improving inventory accuracy and operational visibility. The change aims to streamline compliance, incident response, and cross-service troubleshooting by making more resource types queryable from a single interface.

🚀 Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) introduces PlannerVersion 2.0 for DocumentDB 5.0, delivering advanced query optimization and up to 10x performance improvements for indexed find and update operations. The new planner improves cost estimation, selects more optimal index plans, and adds index-scan support for negation operators such as $neq and $nin, as well as nested $elementMatch. Enabling PlannerVersion 2.0 requires a simple parameter change in your cluster parameter group and does not require a restart or incur downtime; you can revert to the legacy planner if needed.

🚀 Amazon Web Services has made Amazon EC2 I7ie instances available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. I7ie instances, powered by 5th Gen Intel Xeon processors and 3rd-generation AWS Nitro SSDs, are designed for large storage I/O–intensive workloads and offer up to 120 TB of local NVMe, higher vCPU and memory densities, and up to 100 Gbps network bandwidth. AWS cites up to 40% better compute performance and 20% better price performance versus I3en, along with substantial improvements in storage throughput, latency, and latency variability for low-latency, high-random I/O use cases.

🔍 Microsoft is testing a new feature in Windows 11 that prompts users to run a memory scan when signing in after a blue screen of death (bugcheck). If accepted, the system schedules an Windows Memory Diagnostic to run at the next reboot, typically taking five minutes or less, and will notify users post-reboot if issues are found and mitigated. Initially all bugcheck codes will trigger the prompt while Microsoft investigates correlations with memory corruption, with targeting to be refined over time.

🔔 Google Cloud previewed Bigtable tiered storage, which automatically moves less-frequently accessed data from high-performance SSD storage to an infrequent access tier while exposing the same Bigtable API. The fully managed feature integrates with Bigtable autoscaling so applications can read and write across hot and cold tiers via a single interface. Google says the infrequent access tier can be up to 85% less expensive than SSD and that a tiered-storage node offers substantially more usable capacity, making it suited for large time-series and telemetry datasets that require long-term retention for analytics or compliance.

🚀 Vertex AI Training introduces managed features designed for large-scale model development, simplifying cluster provisioning, job orchestration, and resiliency across hundreds to thousands of accelerators. The offering integrates Cluster Director, Dynamic Workload Scheduler, optimized checkpointing, and curated training recipes, including NVIDIA NeMo support. These capabilities reduce operational overhead and accelerate transitions from pretraining to fine-tuning while improving cost and uptime efficiency.

🛠️ Microsoft now enables IT administrators to remove selected pre-installed Microsoft Store apps on Windows 11 Enterprise 25H2 and Education 25H2 devices using a new app management policy. The policy can be applied via CSP, Group Policy, or the Microsoft Intune settings catalog and is disabled by default until explicitly enabled by admins. Once enforced, targeted packages and associated local app data are deprovisioned and deleted from devices, removing the need for custom Windows images or brittle scripts.

🔐 Amazon Cognito now accepts resource indicators in OAuth 2.0 access token requests, enabling app clients to request tokens targeted to a specific protected resource rather than a broad service audience. After authenticating the client, Cognito issues an access token with the aud claim set to that resource. This replaces prior workarounds that relied on non‑standard claims or custom scopes and simplifies issuing resource‑specific tokens for agents and other clients. The capability is available to Cognito Managed Login customers on Essentials and Plus tiers in Regions where Cognito is offered, including AWS GovCloud (US).

🔒 AWS has introduced enhanced API key restrictions for Amazon Location Service to help developers secure location-based applications. Keys can now be bound to specific Android applications using package names and SHA-1 certificate fingerprints, or to iOS apps using Bundle IDs, enabling separate keys for testing and production. The feature is available in multiple AWS Regions and is configurable via the console or APIs. This reduces the risk of key misuse and enforces app-level access control.

⚙️ AWS has expanded Predictive Scaling for EC2 Auto Scaling to six additional regions: Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Israel (Tel Aviv), Canada West (Calgary), Europe (Spain), and Europe (Zurich). Predictive Scaling learns from historical patterns and launches instances ahead of anticipated demand to reduce over-provisioning, lower EC2 costs, and keep applications responsive. It complements real-time policies like Target Tracking and Simple Scaling and can be previewed using a "Forecast Only" mode. The feature is available via the console, AWS CLI, CloudFormation, and AWS SDKs.

🔍 Amazon announced that VPC Reachability Analyzer and VPC Network Access Analyzer are now available in AWS GovCloud (US-West) and AWS GovCloud (US-East). Reachability Analyzer diagnoses network paths between source and destination resources in VPCs to identify misconfigurations such as missing route table entries across accounts. Network Access Analyzer finds unintended access paths by letting you define scopes to ensure traffic traverses required controls, for example verifying web app traffic goes through a firewall. See the product documentation and the Network Analysis section of the Amazon VPC pricing page for details.

🔒 Amazon Web Services has added resource-based policies to Aurora DSQL, letting administrators define which IAM principals can perform specific IAM actions on Aurora DSQL resources. Policies also support Block Public Access (BPA) controls to restrict access to public or VPC endpoints. The capability is available now in a set of regions and the documentation provides guidance to get started.

🛡️ Amazon has launched VPC Reachability Analyzer and VPC Network Access Analyzer in both AWS GovCloud (US‑West) and GovCloud (US‑East) Regions. These tools let administrators diagnose network reachability between source and destination resources across VPCs and accounts, for example identifying missing route table entries that block EC2-to-EC2 connectivity. Network Access Analyzer finds unintended access paths such as traffic that bypasses firewalls so teams can enforce security and compliance scopes. For pricing and operational details consult the VPC Network Analysis pricing information.

🔁 AWS Transfer Family now lets administrators change a server's identity provider (IdP) type without service interruption. This update allows dynamic switching among service-managed, Active Directory, and custom IdP authentication for SFTP, FTPS, and FTP servers, enabling zero-downtime migrations and faster compliance adaptation. The capability is available in all AWS Regions where Transfer Family operates.

🔔 Amazon introduced two new Amazon CloudWatch instance-level metrics — Instance EBS IOPS Exceeded Check and Instance EBS Throughput Exceeded Check — that flag when the driven IOPS or throughput exceeds the EBS-Optimized limits of an EC2 instance. Each metric returns 0 (not exceeded) or 1 (exceeded), enabling rapid identification of I/O bottlenecks and the creation of dashboards or alarms. These metrics are provided by default at a 1-minute frequency at no additional charge for Nitro-based EC2 instances with EBS attached and are accessible via the EC2 console, CLI, or CloudWatch API across Commercial, GovCloud (US), and China Regions.