All news with #product update tag

📰 Microsoft announced that it will retire the Calendar, People, and Files Microsoft 365 companion apps on December 16, 2026, and advised admins to remove them from managed devices. The company previously began auto-installing these taskbar-integrated apps on compatible Windows 11 enterprise devices with the Microsoft 365 desktop client. Admins could opt out via Device Configuration or users disable auto-launch in app settings. Microsoft has stopped installing the apps via Microsoft 365 Apps updates and asked unmanaged users to uninstall them.

📣 Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) now supports message payloads up to 1 MiB, a 4x increase from the prior 256 KiB limit. This change lets you publish larger messages to both Standard and FIFO topics by configuring the new MaximumMessageSize topic attribute. Topics with sizes above 256 KiB are compatible with Amazon SQS, Amazon Data Firehose, and AWS Lambda subscriptions, supporting up to 100 subscriptions per topic. The feature is available today in all Regions where Amazon SNS operates.

🛡️ Microsoft Teams will let administrators customize the list of file extensions blocked by the built-in Weaponizable File Protection feature to align with organizational security policies. The capability is in development and slated to begin rolling out in November 2026 across Android, desktop, iOS, macOS, and web for standard multi-tenant cloud environments. Previously, admins could only rely on Microsoft’s default blocked file list. The change gives organizations greater flexibility to tailor file protection while preserving secure collaboration.

🚀 The new AgentCore Runtime for Amazon Bedrock AgentCore is now generally available, introducing elastic memory management that reclaims unused memory and consistent cold start times regardless of container image size. It preserves serverless benefits—no pre-provisioning, scale-to-zero, hardware-enforced isolation, and pay-for-use—while lowering costs and speeding startup. Sessions begin with a compact memory profile and expand on demand; idle memory is reclaimed. Snapshot-based cold start restoration delivers P75 cold starts of ~1.9–2.0s across 200 MB–2 GB images in tests. The runtime is available in select regions and can be enabled by setting platformVersion to V2 when creating or updating a runtime.

🛠️ Microsoft released a targeted update to address a code regression in KB5002914 that caused silent copy-and-paste, autofill, and formula dragging failures in Excel. The fix, KB5002655, applies only to the Microsoft Installer (.msi) edition of Office 2016, not Click-to-Run or Office 365 editions. Affected users can use Paste Special or uninstall the security update as temporary workarounds, though uninstalling removes important security patches.

🔒 AWS PrivateLink now supports a new VPC tunnel endpoint that lets customers privately and securely access network segments in another VPC or account. Instead of sharing individual resources, owners can create a Resource Configuration for a CIDR range and share it via AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM). Vendors create a tunnel endpoint and use GENEVE encapsulation to access the specified CIDR range. Pricing includes an hourly tunnel endpoint fee plus per-GB data charges.

🛠️ AWS Batch now supports bulk cancellation and termination of up to 50 jobs via new APIs, simplifying management of large-scale batch workloads. The new CancelJobs, TerminateJobs, and TerminateServiceJobs APIs return per-job results in a single response and work with individual and array jobs. ListJobs and ListServiceJobs now expose lifecycle flags isCancelled and isTerminated to help track job state across regions.

🚀 AWS Elastic Beanstalk introduces Cluster Mode, a deployment option that runs multiple applications on shared, EKS-powered infrastructure. Provide source code, a Dockerfile, or an Amazon ECR image and Elastic Beanstalk handles containerization, provisioning, and lifecycle operations via the console, CLI, APIs, or a new GitHub Action. Cluster Mode supports autoscaling, OpenTelemetry observability, AWS Secrets Manager, and HTTPS via AWS Certificate Manager, and is available in all commercial AWS Regions where Elastic Beanstalk is offered.

📊 Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) now provides tenant-level deliverability insights in Virtual Deliverability Manager (VDM). The VDM dashboard adds a Tenants view with per-tenant metrics and a detail page that breaks metrics down by mailbox provider, identities, and configuration sets. Customers can search and export tenant sent messages and query metrics via the BatchGetMetricData API using the new TENANT_NAME dimension. VDM is available in all Regions where Amazon SES is offered.

🛠️ Amazon Quick expands Generate Analysis with two new features that speed dashboard creation. With Generate Sheet, users describe a sheet in natural language and Quick inserts it into an existing analysis with visuals, filters, and common calculated fields. With the new image-driven generator, users attach a dashboard image and Quick recreates an editable analysis from supported elements.

🔧 Amazon SageMaker AI now supports serverless model customization for the NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning model, enabling supervised fine‑tuning (SFT), Direct Preference Optimization (DPO), and reinforcement fine‑tuning (RFT). The hybrid Mixture‑of‑Experts model has 3B active parameters and 30B total parameters. SageMaker handles infrastructure and orchestration so teams can focus on data and evaluation. Serverless customization is available in US East, US West, Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and Europe (Ireland).

🖥️ AWS Client VPN now supports macOS 27 Golden Gate with client versions 6.0 and later. The AWS-supplied desktop VPN client can be run on the latest macOS releases and remains available free of charge. Client VPN is a managed service that securely connects remote users to AWS and on-premises networks and supports macOS, Windows (x64 and Arm64) and Ubuntu Linux clients.

🚀 Amazon WorkSpaces Personal and Core now offer Graphics G7 bundles powered by NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs and Intel Xeon 6 processors. These bundles deliver up to 2.1x better graphics performance versus Graphics G6 and come in four sizes from 8 vCPUs/32 GB/1 GPU to 48 vCPUs/192 GB/2 GPUs. Graphics G7 supports demanding professional workloads, Windows licensing options, AlwaysOn and AutoStop modes, and is initially available in three US Regions with broader rollout planned.

🔔 AWS Elemental MediaTailor now supports two additional monetization function lifecycle hooks: post ADS response and pre manifest insertion. These hooks let customers run custom logic after ADS responses are parsed and just before ad pods are returned to viewers, enabling secondary ad sourcing, policy-based ad removal, house ads, and final checks including personalized slates. Pre-built recipes are available and both hooks are fail-open to avoid playback disruption.

🛈 Microsoft confirmed a known issue that causes the Copilot and Copilot Chat buttons to disappear in Classic Outlook for Windows for customers with Copilot Chat (Basic) or paid M365 Copilot licenses. The problem appears after upgrading Classic Outlook to build 20026.20182 or later, and Outlook cannot locate a required MAPI property, preventing Copilot settings from persisting. Microsoft advised enabling Show Apps in Outlook as a temporary workaround, creating a new Outlook profile, or using the new Outlook client or OWA while it investigates a permanent fix.

🔒 AWS Security Token Service (STS) now enforces a single 4,096-byte size limit for session tokens, replacing separate limits for tokens and passed-in parameters. This change lets you combine larger session policies and session tags more flexibly. STS also returns token size and percentage utilization in responses, logs those values to AWS CloudTrail, and publishes metrics to Amazon CloudWatch. An optional API parameter lets you request larger tokens for testing, and the features are available in all commercial, GovCloud (US), and European Sovereign Cloud Regions.

🧾 AWS Billing and Cost Management now includes a Detected Anomalies widget in BCM Dashboards, letting teams view cost anomalies alongside budgets, usage, and Savings Plans or Reserved Instance reports. The widget shows anomaly counts, cost impact relative to month-to-date spend, root cause, duration, and supports 30/60/90-day look-backs. Filters for severity, service, account, and region and direct links to the Cost Anomaly Detection console facilitate investigation. The widget is available in all commercial AWS Regions at no additional charge and supports exports, scheduled email reports, CSV/PDF downloads, and cross-account dashboard sharing.

🔔 AWS Direct Connect now offers flat-rate monthly pricing for 10 Gbps and 100 Gbps dedicated connections, eliminating per-gigabyte data transfer out (DTO) charges within the chosen pricing tier. The model provides five geographic tiers from same-metro to global coverage and introduces an optional port-pair concept that provisions two redundant connections sharing the same bandwidth at no extra charge. Flat-rate pricing is available at all commercial AWS Direct Connect locations (excluding China Regions) and can be applied or changed per connection.

🛠️ AWS Billing Conductor now supports defining custom rate pricing and usage tiers for AWS services, enabling customers and partners to model negotiated commercial agreements more accurately. Using SKU-scoped pricing rules, users can enter exact rates and configure tier thresholds rather than applying percentage markups or markdowns to public on-demand rates. This feature is available in all commercial AWS Regions except the two China regions operated by Sinnet and NWCD. It simplifies pro forma billing configuration by providing precise control over pricing and tier breaks.

🛠️ AWS Step Functions now automatically adds AWS SDK integrations for newly released AWS services and capabilities within weeks, starting with AWS Lambda MicroVMs and AWS Lambda Core. This lets you orchestrate the latest AWS services from workflows without waiting for manual updates. The integrations are generally available in all Regions where Step Functions is offered, though specific APIs depend on regional service availability. Continuous updates mean AWS will no longer publish What's New posts for these SDK integration updates.