All news with #product update tag

🛠 Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS) now lets administrators specify supported combinations of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) and ESX software versions when provisioning environments and hosts. You can designate a VCF version with the CreateEnvironment API, select an ESX version when adding hosts via CreateEnvironmentHost, and query valid pairings with the GetVersions API. AWS also adds support for new environment deployments using VCF 5.2.2 to broaden compatibility.

⚡ ChatGPT Go has expanded its limits and now provides unlimited access to GPT‑5.2 Instant for an $8 monthly fee, offering more messages, uploads, image creation, and longer memory and context windows. The plan is positioned as a lower-cost alternative to ChatGPT Plus, though it is locked to GPT‑5.2 Instant and lacks the higher reasoning capabilities available in Plus. A higher-tier ChatGPT Pro option is also available at $200/month. Subscribers who want an ad-free experience still must choose Plus or Pro.

🔍 OpenAI is internally testing a web update for ChatGPT that it plans to roll out gradually in the coming weeks. Leaked references highlight a new task-oriented feature codenamed Salute, an "is model preferred" flag intended to improve local business and map results, and a secure tunnel option for MCP servers. The company is also trialing inline editable code and math blocks to expand the existing formatting block functionality. Collectively, these changes aim to streamline file-based workflows, enhance location-specific answers, and simplify secure enterprise connectivity.

📰 OpenAI said it will begin showing ads in ChatGPT to logged-in adult U.S. users in both the free and ChatGPT Go tiers in the coming weeks, with ads appearing at the bottom of conversations. The company emphasized that ads will be clearly labeled, will not influence chatbot responses, and that user conversations will not be sold to advertisers. Users can dismiss ads and opt out of personalization, while paid tiers (Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise) will remain ad-free.

📰 OpenAI confirmed that ChatGPT will begin showing ads inside answers in the coming weeks, likely displayed at the bottom and clearly labeled. Ads will appear only to free account holders and the ChatGPT Go tier; Plus, Pro, Business and Enterprise subscribers will not see them. The company says ads will not influence responses, advertisers will not receive conversation data, and users can control or delete ad-related data. Ads will also be excluded from chats on sensitive topics such as health, mental health, and politics.

🔒 Amazon Bedrock expands its Reserved service tier to provide predictable tokens‑per‑minute capacity for mission‑critical workloads. The tier lets customers reserve prioritized compute and separately configure input and output tokens‑per‑minute to match asymmetric usage patterns and control costs. When reserved capacity is exceeded, traffic automatically overflows to the pay‑as‑you‑go Standard tier to avoid interruptions. Reserved access is available today for Anthropic Claude Opus 4.5 and Claude Haiku 4.5, with 1‑month or 3‑month reservations billed monthly per 1K tokens‑per‑minute.

🚀 Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) is now available in the AWS Region Asia Pacific (Thailand). The managed service delivers the familiar Apache Airflow orchestration platform with AWS-managed infrastructure, offering improved scalability, availability, and security while removing the operational burden of maintaining clusters. Customers in Thailand can deploy workflows closer to their data, helping reduce latency and address data residency needs. Consult the documentation and AWS region table to plan deployments and verify service limits.

🚀Palo Alto Networks partnered with Google Cloud to replace a brittle single-tenant data pipeline model with a unified, multi-tenant Unified Data Platform powered by Dataflow, Pub/Sub and BigQuery. The migration consolidated more than 30,000 pipelines into a shared, autoscaling platform that processes billions of events daily. The change delivered roughly 30% compute cost savings, faster onboarding, and reduced operational overhead, enabling engineers to refocus on analytics and threat detection.

🖧 AWS now supports multiple local gateway (LGW) routing domains on Outposts racks, allowing you to create up to 10 isolated routing domains per Outpost. Each domain has independent route tables, its own LGW VIF Group, and dedicated BGP sessions to on‑premises networks, enabling traffic separation and simultaneous use of Customer-owned IP (CoIP) and Direct VPC Routing (DVR). The capability is available on second‑generation Outposts racks at no additional charge and can be configured through the AWS Management Console or the AWS CLI.

🔁 AWS Outposts racks now support up to 10 isolated local gateway (LGW) routing domains per Outpost. Each domain has independent route tables, LGW VIF Groups, and BGP sessions, enabling traffic separation and preventing cross-domain routing while allowing both Customer-owned IP (CoIP) and Direct VPC Routing (DVR) on the same hardware. You can configure multiple LGW routing domains via the AWS Management Console or AWS CLI. This capability is available on second-generation Outposts racks at no additional charge.

🚀Second-generation AWS Outposts racks are now supported in the South America (São Paulo) and Europe (Stockholm) Regions. Outposts racks extend AWS infrastructure, services, APIs, and tools into on-premises data centers and colocation facilities to provide a consistent hybrid experience. Customers can order racks connected to these Regions to optimize for latency and data residency requirements while maintaining centralized application management.

🔍 Amazon S3 Storage Lens is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, providing organization-wide visibility into object storage usage and activity. S3 Storage Lens delivers cost, data protection, and performance metrics to identify inefficient access patterns, incomplete multipart uploads, and buckets with non-current object versions. Free basic metrics include 14 days of history while advanced metrics offer extended retention and greater detail.

✉️ Google has begun rolling out an option that lets users change their primary @gmail.com address to a new @gmail.com address. When changed, the previous address becomes an alias and continues to receive mail; account data (photos, messages, and existing emails) is preserved and accessible. You can sign in with either the old or new address, revert to the prior address at any time, and Google limits creation of additional new addresses for the same account over a 12‑month period; the new address cannot be deleted.

🔍 OpenAI is rolling out an upgrade to ChatGPT that improves chat-history search and recall. The new reference chat history option lets ChatGPT more reliably find details from past conversations and marks any past chat used to answer queries as a source you can open and review. The feature is currently rolling out to Plus and Pro subscribers. OpenAI also updated personality controls and improved dictation accuracy for all logged-in users.

📦 Amazon S3 on Outposts is now supported on second-generation AWS Outposts racks, offering 196 TB, 490 TB, and 786 TB storage tiers for on‑premises workloads. The update enables customers to use the same S3 APIs, security controls, and access management for local data residency, low-latency access, and on-site processing. It is available in all Regions and countries where second-generation racks are offered. Customers can select tiers optimized for production, backup, or archival use cases while maintaining familiar S3 management and features.

🚀 AWS Deadline Cloud integrates with Foundry Nuke CopyCat, enabling machine learning training jobs for visual effects to run directly on cloud render farms. Artists can submit CopyCat training jobs to scale workloads, run multiple trainings in parallel, and free local workstations for creative work. Training and render jobs are tracked together in the Deadline Cloud interface for unified project monitoring. The integration is available in all AWS Regions where Deadline Cloud is supported.

🧩 AWS Clean Rooms now supports parameters in PySpark analysis templates, allowing template authors to define input values that collaborators supply at job submission time without editing the template code. When a collaborator is approved to run an analysis, they submit parameter values directly to the PySpark job, enabling reusable templates and faster iteration. This feature lets partners vary time windows, geographic regions, and other inputs dynamically to adapt analyses. It supports collaboration across companies on AWS or Snowflake and helps accelerate time-to-insights for use cases like advertising attribution.

🎉 Fortinet announced its 2026 Customer Excellence Award winners, recognizing organizations that have embedded security into core business strategy and delivered measurable outcomes. Awardees include Monolithic Power Systems, Wendy’s, Group 1 Automotive, Marvell Technologies, and Thames Water, showcasing advances in Secure SD‑WAN, OT protection, and security automation. The program highlights how the Fortinet Security Fabric enables consolidation, scalability, and operational resilience across industries.

🔔 Amazon Connect now delivers agent scheduling metrics directly into the Connect analytics data lake, making interval-level (15- or 30-minute) schedule data available for analysis. You can access forecasted headcount, scheduled headcount, and projected service level aggregated by forecast groups or broken down by demand groups. The data can be visualized in Amazon QuickSight or other BI tools to identify over- and under-staffing and reduce manual schedule reviews.

🔒 This article describes a pre-built Tines workflow that automates Just-In-Time (JIT) access to applications by orchestrating Okta, Jira, and Slack (or Teams) for request intake, approval, provisioning, and revocation. Users submit a self-service request via a customizable Tines Page; approvers receive interactive notifications and can approve instantly. On approval the workflow adds the user to the correct Okta group, logs actions in Jira for auditability, and enforces a timed revocation. The outcome is faster access for users, enforced least privilege, and a clear, auditable trail without manual click-ops.