All news with #product update tag

📈 Amazon WorkSpaces now publishes expanded performance and session health metrics to Amazon CloudWatch, covering network, compute, storage, and session lifecycle events at no additional cost. These metrics let administrators detect and troubleshoot issues—such as TCP retransmissions, GPU usage, CPU queue length, disk I/O queue lengths, and memory page hard faults—by setting alarms and building dashboards. The metrics are available in all Regions where Amazon WorkSpaces is supported and can be viewed via the CloudWatch console or integrated into WorkSpaces dashboards.

💡AWS Marketplace now allows sellers to configure net payment terms on private offers, choosing Net 30, Net 45, Net 60, or Net 90. Buyers view these terms on the procurement page before accepting an offer, and the terms apply to all charges within that private offer, including upfront, scheduled, and usage-based fees. For Channel Partner Private Offers (CPPO), ISVs set a maximum term and channel partners may offer equal or shorter terms. This feature is generally available in all commercial AWS Regions and requires no additional onboarding; default AWS payment terms remain unchanged if none are set.

📣 Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) now marks Open and Click event notifications with an isBotEvent field to indicate whether interactions were likely triggered by automated systems or human recipients. Values are Likely or Unlikely, and the field is automatically included for customers publishing Open or Click events via configuration set event destinations. This capability is available in all AWS Regions where SES operates and requires no additional configuration for existing publishers.

📊 Amazon Quick now supports multi-dataset topics, allowing users to model relationships across multiple datasets within a single topic and use that model for dashboards and natural-language Q&A. Previously, cross-dataset questions required pre-joining data into a single dataset, consuming SPICE capacity and manual JOIN logic. The new feature performs runtime joins, reuses dataset permissions, and preserves row- and column-level security, providing a governed semantic model as a single source of truth.

🛡️ Amazon Bedrock AgentCore introduces temporal policies for stateful agent authorization and rate limiting to control AI traffic. Temporal policies evaluate requests in the context of prior actions within a session, enabling workflow sequencing, exact argument matching, human approvals, and data freshness checks. Rate limiting provides per-user and per-group controls via OAuth or AWS IAM to cap requests, token usage, and concurrent connections for improved downstream availability. Documentation, a blog announcement, and the Dogwood reference implementation offer regional details and guidance.

🚀 Amazon Aurora Serverless now provides a faster initial scale-up, delivering up to 12 ACUs within one second and continuing to scale up to 256 ACUs as workloads grow. This capability, enabled by default on platform versions 3 and 4, is well suited for agentic AI and bursty applications because clusters automatically scale down to zero when idle. Existing clusters on versions 1 and 2 can upgrade to platform version 4 to take advantage of the improvement. Check platform version in the AWS Console or via the RDS API to confirm eligibility.

🔒 AWS reintroduces explicit forward proxy functionality within Network Firewall, allowing customers to use existing firewall policies across both proxy and transparent modes. The feature supports managed rule groups, active threat defense, Geo-IP, URL/category filtering, and container attribute rules for Amazon EKS and ECS. Available in a no-source-preservation deployment during public preview in US East (Ohio), the preview is free and intended for testing and validation.

🛠️ Amazon Connect Customer now allows agents to export cases to CSV directly from the agent workspace. Agents can filter and select cases and choose which case fields to include, while admins manage export access via a security profile permission. The feature is available across multiple AWS regions including US, Canada, Europe, Asia Pacific, and Africa.

📈 Amazon Connect Customer now supports generating capacity plans at 15- or 30-minute intervals, offering workforce planners finer visibility into staffing needs across Voice, Chat, Task, and Email channels. Interval-level plans reflect intra-day demand shifts — such as lunchtime chat surges or end-of-day call changes — enabling precise alignment of agent capacity with real-time demand. Planners can also set shrinkage assumptions and available headcount per interval for greater accuracy, reducing over- and under-staffing and improving service levels and efficiency.

📣 Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports publishing native SQL Server Audit logs to CloudWatch. You can configure audits and audit specifications as on-premises and publish logs to S3, CloudWatch, or both. When both destinations are enabled, publication completes only after successful upload to both services, and CloudWatch enables real-time log analysis. The feature is available in all AWS Commercial and GovCloud (US) Regions where RDS for SQL Server is offered.

🎮 Amazon GameLift Streams now supports temporary stream URLs that let recipients open a playable stream session in a supported web browser without an AWS account, credentials, or any software install. You create a stream URL for a stream group and application, set duration and session limit, and share the link; each opener gets an independent session routed to a nearby selected streaming location. Management is available via the console or the new CreateStreamUrl, GetStreamUrl, ListStreamUrls, and RevokeStreamUrl APIs, and there is no extra charge for the URL itself—only for the underlying stream capacity consumed.

🚀 Amazon SageMaker Studio notebooks now support EC2 G7 instances powered by NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs. G7 offers up to 4.6x AI inference performance versus G6, with up to 8 GPUs and 700 Gbps EFA-enabled bandwidth to accelerate inference, graphics, and analytics workloads. These instances are available in AWS US East (N. Virginia and Ohio) and US West (Oregon). Refer to developer guides for JupyterLab and CodeEditor setup and the pricing page for cost details.

🚀 AWS has launched Storage Optimized Amazon EC2 I7i instances in the Asia Pacific (Thailand) and Israel (Tel Aviv) Regions. Powered by 5th Gen Intel Xeon processors and 3rd generation AWS Nitro SSDs, I7i delivers up to 23% better compute and >10% improved price performance over I4i. These instances offer up to 45TB NVMe, reduced storage latency and variability, torn write prevention for up to 16KB blocks, and up to 100Gbps network bandwidth across multiple sizes.

🛠️ AWS announced general availability of offline source transformation in AWS Transform for full-stack Windows modernization, allowing customers to convert Microsoft SQL Server schemas and stored procedures to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL without a live database connection. The service accepts uploaded SQL Server DDL files, assesses complexity, generates transformation plans, converts storage and code objects, and deploys converted schemas. It also offers workflows to update .NET applications for PostgreSQL compatibility, validate equivalence, iterate in the console or an IDE via the MCP server, and populate test data for end-to-end validation. This capability is available in US East (N. Virginia).

🛡️ AWS WAF now supports two new partner-managed rule groups from Miggo Security available via AWS Marketplace: Miggo Rules for AWS WAF – High Emerging Application Threats and Miggo Rules for AWS WAF – AI/ML Application Protection. These rule groups provide continuously updated protection against actively exploited vulnerabilities, public proof-of-concept exploits, and items listed in the CISA KEV catalog without custom rule maintenance. Subscriptions can be added directly to a web ACL in the AWS WAF console with no extra configuration; Miggo manages versioning and pricing in AWS Marketplace.

🔔 AWS Config now supports 15 additional AWS resource types across services such as Amazon Bedrock, Amazon OpenSearch Serverless, and Amazon SageMaker. If recording for all resource types is enabled, AWS Config will automatically track these new additions. The new types are also available for use with Config rules and Config aggregators, improving discovery, assessment, audit, and remediation coverage across Regions where the resources exist.

🧩 Cloudflare has extended Workers RPC to enable direct cross-language calls between JavaScript and Python Workers. Using Pyodide’s FFI and a custom type-conversion layer, objects, functions, keyword arguments and callbacks translate seamlessly across the boundary. The workers-runtime-sdk provides native Python wrappers for Web API objects, and no extra dependencies are required to call Python from JS or vice versa. Examples include calling Python packages like Pygments from JavaScript using simple Service bindings.

🛠️ Cloudflare announces private beta support for inbound TCP connections and expanded gRPC capabilities on Workers. The update adds a connect() handler to accept raw sockets, routing via Durable Objects and Containers, and a Spectrum integration to expose TCP applications. Developers can deploy bidirectional gRPC servers in any language, use gRPC-web translation for Workers, and leverage Cloudflare’s global network for low-latency, real-time voice and AI applications.

🤖 OpenAI has reduced API prices for two GPT-5.6 models, cutting Luna by 80% and Terra by 20% to improve cost efficiency. Luna now costs $0.20 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens, down from $1 and $6; Terra’s rates dropped to $2 per million input and $12 per million output. OpenAI also updated usage accounting for Codex and ChatGPT Work and upgraded Auto-review to GPT-5.6 Luna, yielding significant cost savings. Additionally, GPT-5.6 Sol gains a Fast API option that is up to 2.5× faster at twice the price for latency‑sensitive workloads.

🚀 Amazon RDS for Oracle now offers 1-year and 3-year Reserved Instances for R8i and M8i instances, delivering up to 53% savings versus On-Demand pricing. These instances use custom Intel Xeon 6 processors exclusive to AWS, offering improved performance and memory bandwidth over prior Intel-based instances. Reserved Instance benefits apply across Multi-AZ and Single-AZ configurations and include size flexibility for BYOL licensing. Purchase options are available via the AWS Console, CLI, or SDK in supported regions.