All news with #product update tag

🆕 Aurora DSQL now supports the PostgreSQL JSON data type, enabling applications and tools that depend on PostgreSQL's native JSON type to work with Aurora DSQL without code changes. You can create or modify tables to store semi-structured data such as API payloads, configuration objects, or event logs alongside relational data. PostgreSQL compression is available and enabled by default for larger JSON payloads, helping reduce storage costs and improve storage efficiency.

🔒 AWS updated VPC Lattice to allow resource configurations to reference domain-name targets that are private to your VPC. You can share a resource configuration for a private FQDN across accounts by setting the Resource Config DNS Resolution property to IN_VPC, causing VPC Lattice to use the VPC's DNS to resolve targets. This enables secure cross-account access to privately hosted backends without public DNS entries. The capability is available via Console, CLI, SDKs and APIs at no additional cost in all regions where VPC Lattice is offered.

📊 Amazon Quick now supports Dataset Q&A, a conversational analytics feature that lets users ask natural language questions directly against enterprise datasets while enforcing governance such as Row Level and Column Level Security. Powered by a text-to-SQL agent, it identifies relevant data and generates engine- and dialect-aware SQL for SPICE and AWS data assets like Amazon Redshift, Amazon Athena, Aurora PostgreSQL, and Apache Iceberg. Dataset owners can add custom instructions and semantic metadata to a knowledge graph, and an Explain capability lets users inspect the generated SQL and reasoning before acting on results.

🖥️ Microsoft is testing a modernized Windows 11 Run dialog in preview Build 26300.8346 that adopts Fluent Design, enables dark mode, and shows icons in suggestion lists while preserving a minimalist interface. Microsoft reports a median time-to-show of 94 ms versus roughly 103 ms for the legacy dialog and expects further platform improvements. The rarely used Browse button was removed based on telemetry. The feature is optional and can be enabled via Settings > Advanced Settings while Microsoft collects feedback.

📈 Amazon Redshift now supports concurrency scaling for auto-copy and zero-ETL, improving ingestion throughput for both S3-based loads and near real-time replication from operational databases. Enabled for Amazon Redshift Serverless and RA3 provisioned warehouses across all commercial and GovCloud regions, this feature automatically adds compute to handle spikes in reads and writes. Organizations can immediately enable it to maintain faster, consistent ingestion during peak loads.

🔁 AWS Transform customers can now use BI migration agents to convert Power BI and Tableau dashboards into Amazon QuickSight assets, reducing migration effort from months to days. Built by Wavicle Data Solutions and delivered through AWS Marketplace, the new offering includes Analyzer and Converter agents for each source and operates entirely within your AWS account so no data leaves your environment. After conversion, administrators assign dashboards to BI authors for validation and publishing.

🔧SDMA on AWS now supports custom transformation connectors and a unified desktop installer. Custom connectors enable submission of compute‑intensive jobs—such as format conversion, 3D rendering, image tiling, and metadata extraction—to AWS Deadline Cloud using Open Job Description templates, and can extend SDMA's built-in content analysis with bespoke verification or transformation logic. Connectors run in isolated compute environments and automatically ingest declared outputs back into SDMA's governed asset repository, allowing automated, chained processing across spatial data pipelines. The SDMA desktop application now offers a standalone installer that bundles required dependencies, removing the need to install the CLI or other components separately.

🚀Amazon EKS now supports Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA) for Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA), simplifying RDMA and high-performance inter-node communication for AI/ML and HPC workloads. The EFA DRA driver, based on the upstream DRANET project, enables topology-aware allocation and EFA interface sharing so network traffic uses the closest NIC to GPUs, Trainium, or Inferentia. It’s recommended for new EKS deployments on Kubernetes 1.34+ and is available in all AWS Regions; the existing EFA device plugin remains supported and is still recommended for use with Karpenter and Amazon EKS Auto Mode.

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🚀 Amazon SageMaker AI endpoints now support prioritized instance pools for flexible provisioning. When your preferred instance type has insufficient capacity, SageMaker AI automatically provisions from the next option in your prioritized list for endpoint creation, updates, and autoscaling — keeping endpoints reliable without manual intervention. You can specify hardware-optimized model artifacts per instance type and monitor per-instance-type CloudWatch metrics for latency, throughput, GPU utilization, and instance counts.

☁️ Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) now offers one-click cluster access from the AWS Management Console via AWS CloudShell, eliminating the need to install or configure kubectl, AWS CLI, or kubeconfig files locally. From the EKS console, selecting Connect launches a CloudShell session with kubectl pre-configured for the chosen cluster so you can run commands immediately. The feature supports clusters with both public and private API server endpoints and each session also includes the AWS CLI and standard CloudShell utilities for troubleshooting and management.

🔔 AWS Outposts racks now publish the LagStatus Amazon CloudWatch metric so operators can monitor Link Aggregation Group (LAG) connectivity directly from CloudWatch. A metric value of 1 denotes the LAG is operational and forwarding traffic, while 0 indicates it is down. The metric is available in all AWS commercial Regions and both AWS GovCloud (US-East and US-West) Regions where Outposts racks are supported. Use it with existing VifConnectionStatus and VifBgpSessionState metrics to isolate LAG, VIF, or BGP problems quickly.

🖥️ Amazon ECS Managed Instances now exposes NVIDIA GPU metrics through CloudWatch Container Insights with enhanced observability. Customers can monitor GPU capacity, utilization, memory usage, device-level hardware health, and thermal conditions for containerized workloads. The metrics are available in all commercial AWS Regions; to use them, enable Container Insights with enhanced observability and launch GPU-accelerated EC2 instance types via an ECS Managed Instances capacity provider.

📈 Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ now includes the Prometheus plugin on RabbitMQ 4.2 brokers, providing a native Prometheus-compatible metrics endpoint. You can scrape broker, queue, and connection metrics from the /metrics, /metrics/detailed, and /metrics/memory-breakdown endpoints in Prometheus text format. AWS also publishes a curated subset of these metrics to CloudWatch. The plugin is enabled by default in all Regions where Amazon MQ is available.

🔐 Microsoft is open-sourcing the firmware, drivers, and software stack for the Azure Integrated HSM, a tamper-resistant hardware security module built into new Azure servers and engineered to meet FIPS 140-3 Level 3. The move, announced at the OCP EMEA Summit, includes publishing validation artifacts and launching an OCP workgroup to guide ongoing development. Azure says the HSM protects keys in hardware so they never appear in host or guest memory, reducing classes of exfiltration attacks, and will be available in Azure V7 VMs globally in the coming weeks.

🔐 Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity now supports On-Behalf-Of (OBO) token exchange, enabling developers to build agents that securely access protected resources on behalf of authenticated users without additional consent flows. The OBO exchange issues a new, scoped-down access token that carries both the user and agent identities, granting just-in-time, least-privilege access to outbound services. This capability is generally available in 14 AWS Regions.

🔧 Amazon announced a preview of optimization features for Bedrock AgentCore, adding automated recommendations plus batch evaluations and controlled A/B tests. These capabilities complete the observe–evaluate–improve loop by converting evaluation outputs and production traces into suggested system prompts and refined tool descriptions tailored to specific workloads. Batch evaluations validate recommendations against predefined test cases, while A/B tests measure impact on held-out or live traffic with statistical significance before changes are promoted and only after user approval.

🔧 AWS announced Neuron Agentic Development, an open-source set of agents and skills that bring agentic coding capabilities to development on AWS Trainium and AWS Inferentia. The initial release focuses on Neuron Kernel Interface (NKI) kernel development, enabling an agentic IDE to author, debug, profile, and analyze custom kernels. Developers can request kernels from natural-language descriptions, get automated fixes for compilation errors, and receive performance reports identifying bottleneck lines of code.

🚀 AWS Lambda now supports creating serverless applications with Ruby 4.0. Developers can use Ruby 4.0 as both a managed runtime and a container base image, and AWS will automatically apply updates to the managed runtime and base image as they become available. The runtime adds advanced logging controls including JSON structured logs, configurable logging levels, and the ability to target specific Amazon CloudWatch log groups. Ruby 4.0 is available in all AWS Regions, including China and AWS GovCloud (US).

🧩 Amazon Quick has introduced preview Microsoft 365 extensions for Excel, PowerPoint, and Word that let the service perform tasks directly inside users’ Microsoft 365 environments. The Excel extension supports complex spreadsheet analysis including pivot tables, charts, and data import/cleaning. PowerPoint enables template-driven deck creation and refinement from Quick data, while Word gains formatted document generation, sweeping edits with track changes, and reviewer participation in comments. The extensions are available in multiple AWS regions for early access.