All news with #product update tag

📣 AWS End User Messaging now supports international SMS sending from US toll-free numbers to more than 150 countries, including Canada. This lets customers use a single US toll-free number to reach supported global destinations, simplifying account and resource setup. Available in all AWS Regions where AWS End User Messaging is offered, the capability supports common use cases such as OTPs, notifications, reminders, and promotions.

🌐 RDS Data API now supports IPv6 with dual-stack (IPv4/IPv6) connectivity for Aurora databases, enabling expanded address space and simplified migration from IPv4. The capability is available in all commercial AWS regions where Data API is offered, except Canada (Central). IPv6 lets you assign contiguous IP ranges to microservices and scale beyond VPC IPv4 limits while retaining IPv4 connectivity during transition. Data API continues to pool connections and integrates with AWS AppSync GraphQL; consult the documentation for endpoint and network configuration guidance.

⏸️ Amazon Neptune Analytics now supports a Stop/Start capability that lets organizations pause and resume graph workloads on demand. While a graph is stopped, all data and configuration are preserved and customers pay only 10% of the normal compute cost. Customers can pause and resume via the AWS Console, CLI, API, or SDKs with a single action. The feature is available in all commercial regions where Neptune Analytics is offered and aims to reduce lifecycle overhead and lower costs for periodic workloads like fraud detection, recommendation engines, and research simulations.

🧬 AWS HealthOmics now supports third-party container registries through Amazon ECR pull-through cache and a new container URI remapping capability, easing access to tools hosted on Docker Hub, GitHub, Quay, GitLab, Azure, and other registries. The pull-through cache automatically retrieves and caches images while URI remapping translates third-party references to private ECR URIs using customer-defined mapping rules. These capabilities remove the need for manual image migration or workflow edits and are available in all regions where AWS HealthOmics is offered, helping bioinformatics teams accelerate workflow development and execution.

🔒 Amazon Verified Permissions is now available in Asia Pacific (Taipei), Asia Pacific (Thailand), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), and Mexico (Central), expanding regional coverage to 35 AWS Regions. The managed service provides scalable, fine-grained authorization using the open-source Cedar policy language, enabling applications to enforce permissions as policies rather than embedding them in code. Developers and administrators can define role-, attribute-, and context-aware access controls for APIs and application resources, simplifying authorization and improving governance.

🔒 Amazon EMR on EC2 now supports Apache Spark native fine-grained access control (FGAC) through AWS Lake Formation and adds support for AWS Glue Data Catalog views. These capabilities let administrators define and enforce granular Lake Formation policies once and apply them consistently to Spark jobs and interactive sessions, reducing administrative overhead and security risk. Access checks support named resource grants, data filters, and tag-based controls and are logged in AWS CloudTrail for auditing.

🔐 AWS introduced three new global IAM condition keys—aws:VpceAccount, aws:VpceOrgPaths, and aws:VpceOrgID—to simplify network-origin access controls across multiple accounts and OUs. These keys let administrators restrict resource access based on the account, organizational unit path, or organization that owns the VPC endpoint used for a request, reducing the need to enumerate VPC or VPC endpoint IDs. Example use cases include S3 bucket policies and centrally applied RCPs or SCPs to enforce corporate network perimeters and intra-organization segmentation; adoption depends on service support and testing prior to production rollout.

🕒 AWS HealthOmics now supports the Nextflow time directive, enabling task-level timeout controls to limit runtime for specific Nextflow tasks. Customers can automatically cancel tasks that exceed defined durations to prevent wasted compute and downstream delays. AWS HealthOmics is HIPAA-eligible, and this capability is available in all regions where the service operates.

🔁 Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) now supports snapshot copy for AWS Local Zones, enabling point-in-time local snapshots to be copied to the parent Region or another Local Zone. The feature is generally available and accessible via the AWS Console, CLI, and SDKs. This capability helps customers meet disaster recovery, data migration, and compliance requirements by storing snapshots in Amazon S3 within the chosen Region or Local Zone.

📝 Microsoft is testing a change that will enable autosave and save new documents to OneDrive by default in Word for Windows, delivered first to Microsoft 365 Insiders in the Beta Channel with Version 2509 (Build 19221.20000) or later. Microsoft says the feature will come to Excel and PowerPoint for Windows later this year. Users can choose a local folder instead or toggle the behavior off via the Save page in Word options. Microsoft lists several known issues being addressed during testing.

🚀 Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports i8g instances, the latest generation of storage-optimized instances powered by AWS Graviton4 processors. i8g delivers up to 60% better compute and uses third-generation Nitro NVMe SSDs for up to 65% better storage performance per TB, lower latency, and reduced latency variability. Supported for OpenSearch and Elasticsearch 7.9/7.10 across multiple regions.

🚀 Amazon SageMaker Training and Processing Jobs now supports the new EC2 P5 instance size with a single NVIDIA H100 GPU, offering the P5.4xlarge configuration for cost‑effective ML and HPC workloads. The instance enables fine-grained scaling so customers can begin with smaller configurations and expand incrementally, improving cost management and infrastructure flexibility. P5.4xlarge is available via SageMaker Flexible Training Plans and in select regions through On‑Demand and Spot.

🚀 Check Point has been named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Hybrid Mesh Firewall, recognized for ability to execute and completeness of vision. The firm emphasizes its AI-powered network security to deliver consistent, high-performance threat prevention across on-premises, cloud and SASE environments. The recognition highlights unified management and proactive defenses designed for distributed enterprises facing AI-driven attacks.

🔒 Microsoft Defender has been ranked number one in modern endpoint security market share for the third consecutive year, according to IDC’s 2024 report. Market share rose from 25.8% in 2023 to 28.6% in 2024, reflecting a 28.2% growth rate. Defender emphasizes cross-platform protection—Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android, and IoT—leveraging AI-powered detection and built-in exposure management to enable rapid SOC response and attack disruption.

🌐 AWS App Runner now supports IPv6 for both inbound and outbound traffic on public and private service endpoints. This removes the need for IPv4/IPv6 address translation and helps customers meet IPv6 compliance requirements. You enable the capability by selecting the dual-stack option in the networking configuration for new or existing services. IPv6 support is available in all Regions where App Runner is offered.

⚡ Infire is Cloudflare’s new, Rust-based LLM inference engine built to run large models efficiently across a globally distributed, low-latency network. It replaces Python-based vLLM in scenarios where sandboxing and dynamic co-hosting caused high CPU overhead and reduced GPU utilization, using JIT-compiled CUDA kernels, paged KV caching, and fine-grained CUDA graphs to cut startup and runtime cost. Early benchmarks show up to 7% lower latency on H100 NVL hardware, substantially higher GPU utilization, and far lower CPU load while powering models such as Llama 3.1 8B in Workers AI.

🚀 Cloudflare is expanding Workers AI to include closed-source partner models from Leonardo and Deepgram, bringing optimized image generation and real-time audio capabilities to the edge. The launch includes Leonardo's @cf/leonardo/phoenix-1.0 and @cf/leonardo/lucid-origin and Deepgram's @cf/deepgram/nova-3 and @cf/deepgram/aura-1. These models run on Cloudflare's low-latency GPU infrastructure and integrate with Workers, R2, Images, and Realtime for end-to-end developer workflows.

🎨 Today AWS announced general availability of account color settings in the AWS Management Console across all Public Regions. Account administrators can assign a persistent color (for example, red for production or yellow for testing) that appears in the Console navigation bar for all authorized users, enabling quick visual identification of accounts. The default color is grey; viewing the color requires AWSManagementConsoleBasicUserAccess or the custom permission uxc:getaccountcolor.

🔬 Amazon Braket now offers a local device emulator to test verbatim circuits with device-specific constraints and realistic noise models before running on quantum hardware. The emulator validates qubit connectivity, native gate sets, and topology while applying depolarizing channels to one- and two-qubit gates using device calibration data and local density-matrix simulation. It supports both real-time and historical calibration snapshots and can be instantiated from AWS quantum devices or custom device properties via the Amazon Braket SDK, integrating into existing workflows so developers can catch compatibility and performance issues early without incurring hardware costs.

🔒 AWS Client VPN now supports secure remote access to IPv6-enabled VPC resources, allowing administrators to connect remote users and devices directly to IPv6 workloads. Administrators can deploy IPv6-only or dual-stack Client VPN endpoints to preserve end-to-end IPv6 connectivity and simplify network design for organizations adopting IPv6. This capability expands prior IPv4-only support and helps meet IPv6 adoption and compliance goals. The feature is generally available in all Client VPN regions except Middle East (Bahrain) and is provided at no additional cost, with IPv6 and dual-stack endpoints billed at the existing per-hour endpoint rate.