All news with #product update tag

🔒 Microsoft has made Windows Backup for Organizations generally available, offering an enterprise-grade, opt-in solution to preserve Windows settings, user preferences, and Microsoft Store-installed apps. The capability is available after installing the September 2025 Windows Monthly Cumulative Update on Entra-joined devices and must be enabled by administrators through Intune or backup and restore policy settings. Backups are stored in Exchange Online in the tenant's selected Country/Region, are protected by encryption, and are accessible to Microsoft personnel only under strict oversight for troubleshooting or legal compliance, helping streamline migrations to Windows 11 during device setup.

🤝 VirusTotal announces simplified access and tiered pricing to keep the platform open and sustainable. The update preserves a robust, free VT Community tier for researchers and educators while introducing a dedicated Contributor Tier for engine partners that includes blindspot feeds, priority support, and early feature access. New paid tiers (VT Lite, VT Duet) target small teams and large organizations respectively, with pricing aligned to usage and contribution.

🔍 Amazon Q Developer now offers integrated pricing and cost estimation, enabling developers and architects to query product attributes, regional availability, and service pricing in natural language. The assistant retrieves data from the AWS Price List APIs to provide workload cost estimates and side-by-side comparisons, so teams can evaluate cost/performance tradeoffs without manually consulting multiple pricing pages. Access the feature via the Amazon Q chat panel in the AWS Management Console.

🗺️ Amazon Location Service updated Vietnam mapping data to reflect the nationwide administrative reorganization that took effect on July 1, 2025. The refresh consolidates provincial-level units from 63 to 34 (28 provinces and 6 centrally managed cities) and reduces commune-level units from 10,310 to 3,321 while preserving street-level address accuracy. Place names and administrative components in POI records were updated, and the revised data is automatically available to customers querying Vietnam addresses. The update supports logistics, e-commerce, and public-service use cases such as delivery zone planning, service-area management, and address validation.

🚀 Amazon EC2 C7gd instances are now available in the Europe (Zurich) Region, offering up to 3.8 TB of local NVMe SSD block storage and DDR5 memory on the AWS Nitro System. These Graviton3-based instances deliver up to 45% improved real-time NVMe storage performance versus comparable Graviton2 instances and use up to 60% less energy for equivalent performance. They suit workloads needing high-speed, low-latency temporary storage such as scratch space, caches, and temp files, and AWS provides migration tools like the Graviton Fast Start program and Porting Advisor.

🔒 Docker has opened unlimited, subscription-based access to its Hardened Images catalog starting today, offering a 30-day free trial to make near-zero CVE container images affordable for startups and SMBs. These images are built from source, signed, rootless by default, include SBOM and VEX data, and are covered by a seven-day patch SLA for newly discovered CVEs. Docker says removing nonessential components can reduce attack surface by up to 95%, and hardened variants are compatible with Alpine and Debian and can be adopted by changing a single Dockerfile line.

🔧 Amazon Web Services announced that Amazon VPC Lattice now lets you configure the number of IPv4 addresses assigned to resource gateway ENIs. The selected IPv4 count is immutable after creation and directly affects network address translation capacity and the maximum concurrent IPv4 connections to backend resources. By default VPC Lattice assigns 16 IPv4 addresses per ENI; for IPv6 it always assigns a /80 CIDR per ENI. This capability is available at no additional cost in all Regions where VPC Lattice is offered.

💾 Amazon RDS for Db2 now supports native database-level backups that let customers back up individual databases within a multi-database instance. This enables selective migration of specific databases to other RDS instances or on-premises environments, and lets teams create isolated copies for development, testing, or compliance. By targeting single databases rather than full instance snapshots, customers can reduce storage costs and streamline operations. The feature is available in all Regions where Amazon RDS for Db2 is offered; see the service documentation and pricing pages for configuration and cost details.

🔐 Google Cloud Key Management Service (Cloud KMS) now offers preview support for post-quantum Key Encapsulation Mechanisms (KEMs), enabling customers to begin migrating to quantum-resistant key exchange. Cloud KMS supports ML-KEM-768, ML-KEM-1024, and the hybrid X-Wing (X25519+ML-KEM-768) option. The preview aims to mitigate "Harvest Now, Decrypt Later" risks and provide HPKE-compatible integrations via Tink and BoringCrypto. Developers are advised to adopt hybrid deployments and plan for larger key and ciphertext sizes that affect bandwidth and storage.

🔒 Microsoft is removing further methods that allow creating local accounts and bypassing the Microsoft account requirement during Windows 11 setup. The change appears in Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.6772 (KB5065797) on the Dev Channel and is expected to reach production releases. Microsoft said it will remove known mechanisms in the OOBE experience because they can skip critical setup screens and leave a device not fully configured. Going forward, OOBE will require internet access and a Microsoft account to complete setup.

🧾 Starting today, AWS Marketplace expands Japan consumption tax (JCT) support to Channel Partner Private Offers (CPPOs), improving tax handling for Japan ISVs and Channel Partners. AWS Japan will collect the 10% JCT on the first leg between ISVs and Channel Partners, issue a tax qualified invoice (TQI) to Channel Partners, and disburse the JCT to ISVs. AWS Japan will continue to collect the 10% JCT and issue a TQI on the second leg to buyers, unifying compliance for transactions via the AWS Japan Marketplace Operator.

🌍 AWS Marketplace now supports usage-based private offers priced in four additional local currencies—EUR, GBP, AUD, and JPY. Sellers and Channel Partners can create private offers and receive disbursements in the offer currency for consumption-based and contract pricing, simplifying cash flow and reducing foreign-exchange exposure. For Channel Partner Private Offers, the seller, partner, and buyer must transact in the same currency; public offers remain in USD only.

🔔 AWS has announced the general availability of AWS Service Quotas automatic quota management, a capability that monitors quota usage and notifies customers before they exhaust allocated limits. Customers can configure preferred notification channels such as email, SMS, or Slack via the Service Quotas console or API. Notifications are also surfaced in AWS Health, and related AWS CloudTrail events can be subscribed to for automation. This capability is available at no additional cost in all AWS commercial regions.

🧾 AWS Marketplace has expanded pricing dimension capabilities, raising the per-listing limit from 24 to 200 dimensions for both contract and usage-based pricing. Sellers can immediately use newly added SaaS usage dimensions in public offers, enabling instant access to newly launched features. AWS also removed the 90-day price update restriction for dimensions that have no active subscriptions, and these updates are available in all supported AWS Regions.

⚙️ Amazon Redshift Serverless now offers a reduced minimum base capacity of 8 Redshift Processing Units (RPUs) in the AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul) and Canada (Central) regions. Each RPU provides 16 GB of memory and billing remains per-second for RPU-hours; the prior minimum was 32 RPUs. Capacity can be adjusted in 8-RPU increments, making Redshift Serverless more cost-effective and flexible for small production, test, and development workloads.

🔧 Microsoft is investigating a bug that prevents the Copilot pane and other WebView2-dependent features from launching when multiple Office applications (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, OneNote, Publisher, Access) run concurrently. The issue occurs when one app initializes a WebView2 instance and a second app attempts to start another; closing the first app allows the pane to open normally. The Office team is working on a resolution and will provide updates when available.

🚀 AWS announced that Amazon EKS and EKS Distro now support Kubernetes version 1.34. Starting today, you can create new clusters or upgrade existing clusters via the EKS console, eksctl, or infrastructure-as-code tools, with EKS Distro images available in ECR Public Gallery and GitHub. Kubernetes 1.34 introduces projected service account tokens for kubelet image credential providers, Pod-level resource requests and limits for simpler multi-container resource management, and Dynamic Resource Allocation prioritized alternatives to improve device scheduling and workload placement. AWS recommends using EKS Cluster Insights and consulting EKS version lifecycle guidance before upgrading.

🔗 Amazon Connect now exposes new APIs within Amazon Connect Cases that let developers link related cases, attach custom related items, and search across those relationships programmatically. Agents get consolidated context to resolve issues faster and coordinate responses. Typical uses include airlines grouping flight-related tickets and retailers attaching order or shipment records to refund cases. The capability is available in multiple AWS regions.

📞 Amazon Connect now lets supervisors and managers customize how service level is calculated directly from the analytics dashboards. Administrators can define time thresholds that determine when a contact meets service level and choose which outcomes to include, such as counting callbacks, excluding contacts transferred out while waiting, or omitting short abandons via a configurable threshold. The feature is accessible in the metric configuration section and is available in all AWS regions where Amazon Connect is offered.

🤖 OpenAI is testing social features in ChatGPT, with leaked code showing support for direct messages, usernames, and profile images. References discovered in an Android beta (version 1.2025.273) and linked traces to Sora 2 indicate the company may be rolling social tools beyond its video feed app. The code, codenamed Calpico and Calpico Rooms, also mentions join/leave notifications and push alerts for messages.