All news with #product update tag

🚀 Amazon Web Services has made M8a general-purpose Amazon EC2 instances available in the AWS Europe (Ireland) region starting today. Powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC (Turin) processors with up to 4.5 GHz, these instances deliver up to 30% higher performance and up to 19% better price-performance versus M7a. They provide 45% more memory bandwidth, are SAP-certified, and come in 12 sizes including two bare-metal options. Built on sixth-generation AWS Nitro Cards, M8a targets latency-sensitive and high-throughput workloads and can be purchased via On-Demand, Savings Plans, or Spot instances.

🚀 Amazon EC2 M8a instances are now available in AWS GovCloud (US-West). Powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors (Turin) with up to 4.5 GHz, M8a delivers up to 30% higher performance and up to 19% better price-performance versus M7a, plus 45% more memory bandwidth for latency-sensitive workloads. The family includes 12 sizes, two bare-metal options, and is SAP-certified. Instances can be purchased via Savings Plans, On-Demand, or Spot.

🚀 AWS has expanded availability of I7ie Amazon EC2 instances to seven additional regions, targeting large storage I/O–intensive workloads. I7ie instances are powered by 5th Gen Intel Xeon processors (3.2 GHz all-core turbo), provide up to 120 TB local NVMe storage density and up to twice the vCPUs and memory of prior generations. Using 3rd-generation AWS Nitro SSDs, they deliver lower latency and improved real-time storage performance and are offered in nine sizes with up to 100 Gbps networking and 60 Gbps EBS bandwidth.

🔒 Google is introducing post-quantum cryptography support in Android 17, integrating NIST’s lattice-based standards into boot, keystore, and app signing to establish a quantum-resistant chain of trust. The release adds ML-DSA to Android Verified Boot and migrates KeyMint certificate chains and Remote Attestation toward PQC compliance. Developers gain native support for ML-DSA-65 and ML-DSA-87 via the KeyPairGenerator API, and Google Play will offer hybrid APK signing with keys managed by Google Cloud KMS to preserve compatibility during migration.

🛡️ Kali Linux 2026.1 is now available, introducing eight new tools, a refreshed visual theme, and a BackTrack mode for Kali-Undercover. The update adds 25 new packages, updates 183 others, and upgrades the kernel to 6.18, while polishing the installer, boot, and login experiences. New network-repository tools include AdaptixC2, Atomic-Operator, Fluxion, GEF, MetasploitMCP, SSTImap, WPProbe, and XSStrike. The release also delivers Kali NetHunter fixes and recommends WSL 2 for GUI support.

📦 AWS Backup now supports Amazon DocumentDB in 12 additional AWS Regions, bringing policy-based data protection and recovery to DocumentDB clusters in those locations. Newly supported Regions include Asia Pacific (Malaysia, Thailand, Osaka, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Melbourne), Europe (Stockholm, Spain, Zurich), Africa (Cape Town), Israel (Tel Aviv), and Mexico (Central). To start protecting clusters, add them to existing backup plans or create a new backup plan and attach clusters via the AWS Backup console, AWS CLI, or AWS SDKs.

📨 AWS Transfer Family now supports receiving Message Disposition Notifications (MDNs) asynchronously for messages exchanged over AS2. You can request MDNs over a separate TLS connection so partner systems with extended processing times or high latency can return dispositions independently. Transfer Family continues to support synchronous MDNs, enabling seamless migration of AS2 workflows to AWS while preserving interoperability with existing trading partners. This capability is available in the majority of AWS regions where Transfer Family is offered.

🚀 AWS ParallelCluster 3.15 is now generally available, adding support for P6-B300 instances and upgrading Slurm to 25.11 with expedited job requeue. The release improves EFA network configuration defaults and introduces network interface customization, plus more reliable cluster updates and better performance for tightly coupled workloads at scale. It also enables non-disruptive cluster tag updates. ParallelCluster remains open-source for provisioning HPC and AI/ML clusters on AWS.

🚀 Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports continuous provisioning for clusters using the Slurm orchestrator, allowing training jobs to start immediately on available instances while remaining capacity is provisioned in the background. Priority-based provisioning brings up the Slurm controller first, then login and worker nodes in parallel, with asynchronous retries for failed launches. The feature reduces time-to-training, improves utilization, and removes the need for manual scaling interventions.

📦 Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime now offers managed session storage in public preview. When configured, each session receives a persistent directory at your specified mount path so agents can read and write files as usual while the runtime transparently replicates data to durable storage. On stop, data is flushed during graceful shutdown and, when you resume with the same session ID, a new microVM mounts the same storage so source files, installed packages, build artifacts, and git history are preserved. The feature supports standard Linux filesystem operations, provides up to 1 GB per session, retains data for 14 days of idle time, and confines storage communication to a single session for isolation.

🔄 AWS reports it is actively testing an LTS upgrade in production. The brief notice, posted Mar 24, 2026 and attributed to aws@amazon.com, confirms ongoing activity but does not disclose targeted components or version details. Customers should validate compatibility in staging, confirm third-party support, and prepare rollback and monitoring procedures. Monitor official channels for formal release notes and status updates.

🚀 Amazon has expanded Timestream for InfluxDB to the Mexico (Central), Japan (Osaka), and Brazil (Sao Paulo) regions, enabling locally hosted, fully managed InfluxDB databases for real-time time-series applications. The service supports Multi-AZ high availability, read replicas, enhanced durability, and multi-node scaling from single-node setups up to 15-node Enterprise clusters. You can create and manage databases via the console, AWS CLI, or AWS SDKs, giving developers and DevOps teams flexible deployment and scaling options.

🛡️ Firefox 149 introduces a free built-in VPN that provides signed-in users with up to 50 GB of browser-only monthly traffic via a secure proxy. The feature can be toggled globally or enabled on up to five specific sites to save data, while certain sites and services are excluded to avoid sign-in and reconnection issues. Mozilla says it will collect only limited technical and interaction data to monitor performance, and routing servers are U.S.-based. Rollout begins in the US, UK, Germany and France; the update also adds Split View and fixes 46 security vulnerabilities.

🔧 Microsoft has resolved a known issue that caused Classic Outlook to stop syncing Gmail and Yahoo accounts and to show 0x800CCC0F and 0x80070057 error codes. Affected accounts reportedly stopped syncing on February 26, 2026; Microsoft says the fix was applied in the Microsoft 365 service, but some users may still see issues until their OAuth token expires. As a temporary workaround, Microsoft recommends deleting the affected email address entries under the Identities key at Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Common\Identity\Identities to force a sign-in prompt.

⚡ CrowdStrike is extending the Falcon Flex consumption model to its expert-led services, allowing customers to draw down a standalone services entitlement across incident response, proactive security, advisory, platform services, and training. The approach reduces procurement friction and supports pre-arranged incident response readiness independent of Falcon subscriptions or standard retainers. For qualifying new customers, the Zero Dollar Flex Fund provides 200 hours (160 incident response, 40 proactive) over 12 months to simplify first-time engagement.

🔧 Microsoft released an out-of-band update, KB5085516, to fix a sign-in failure that prevented Microsoft account authentication in multiple apps after the March cumulative update KB5079473. Affected apps included Microsoft Edge, Teams, OneDrive, Microsoft 365 Copilot and Office apps, which reported the device was not connected to the Internet. The optional fix is available for Windows 11 25H2 and 24H2 via Windows Update or the Microsoft Update Catalog, and Microsoft recommends installing the latest updates.

🛡️ CrowdStrike is extending Falcon Next‑Gen SIEM to ingest and operationalize telemetry from third‑party EDRs, beginning with Microsoft Defender, without requiring a Falcon sensor. The release embeds real‑time data pipelines via Falcon Onum to filter, enrich, and route telemetry, and expands federated search to include Falcon LogScale, ExtraHop, and cloud archives. It also introduces Third‑Party Indicator Management to operationalize external threat intelligence and a Query Translation Agent to convert legacy searches into CQL. Together these capabilities aim to reduce ingestion costs, accelerate investigations, simplify SIEM migrations, and let teams modernize SOC operations without replacing endpoint agents.

🔒 CrowdStrike announced a suite of innovations that expand AI detection and response across endpoints, SaaS, and cloud environments. New capabilities include runtime monitoring for desktop AI applications and Copilot Studio agents, unified discovery and classification of AI agents across SaaS, and data-flow visibility for cloud-hosted AI workloads. Several features are in pre-beta or early beta with staged GA rollouts planned over upcoming quarters.

🔒 Google is introducing Advanced Flow, a new Android mechanism that lets power users sideload APKs from unverified developers while adding multi-step protections. The one-time process requires enabling Developer Mode, confirming you are not being coached by a threat actor, restarting and reauthenticating, then waiting one day to validate the changes. After completion users may enable installations for a week or indefinitely, and Android will display a warning that the app is from an unverified developer. The flow is intended to add friction and disrupt urgency-driven scam tactics.

🔐 AWS DataSync now integrates with AWS Secrets Manager for credential management across all DataSync location types, including HDFS and Amazon FSx variants. Customers can centralize secrets in their account and optionally encrypt them with a customer-managed AWS KMS key to meet governance requirements. DataSync supports providing a secret ARN you manage or having DataSync automatically create and manage secrets. This capability is available in the majority of AWS regions where DataSync is offered.