All news with #product update tag

🔁 Google has softened its planned Developer Verification requirements after widespread backlash, saying it will create a dedicated account type for limited app distribution and an advanced sideloading flow for experienced users. The original rule would have blocked installation of apps from unverified developers on certified devices beginning in 2026. Google says these changes respond to concerns from students, hobbyists, and power users who need accessible or higher-risk pathways to install apps.

🚀 Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now supports PostgreSQL major version 18.1, bringing community improvements to managed RDS instances. Key performance updates include skip scan for multicolumn B-tree indexes, parallel GIN builds, and better OR/IN handling, while UUIDv7 adds ordered UUIDs for high-throughput systems. Observability and extension support are expanded, and upgrades can use Blue/Green, in-place, or snapshot restore options.

⚡ Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) version 8.0 adds support for MongoDB API drivers 6.0, 7.0, and 8.0 while delivering up to 7x improved query latency and up to 5x better compression. The release introduces Planner Version3, new aggregation stages and operators, dictionary-based Zstandard compression, text index v2, and parallel vector index builds. Upgrades from 5.0 instance-based clusters are supported via AWS Database Migration Service, and DocumentDB 8.0 is available in all Regions where the service is offered.

🔧 Amazon EventBridge introduces an enhanced visual rule builder that integrates a comprehensive event catalog with the EventBridge Schema Registry to simplify building event-driven applications. The schema-aware, console-based drag-and-drop canvas lets developers browse and subscribe to events with sample payloads and schemas, and visually construct filter patterns to reduce syntax errors. The feature is available today in all regions where the Schema Registry is launched and is accessible via the EventBridge console at standard usage charges.

🚀 AWS Lambda now supports Java 25, using the latest long‑term support distribution from Amazon Corretto. The runtime is available as a managed runtime and as a container base image, and AWS will automatically apply updates to each as they are released. The release introduces new language features and performance improvements, including Ahead‑of‑Time caches and adjusted tiered compilation defaults. Lambda Snap Start and Powertools for AWS Lambda (Java) support Java 25, and the runtime is available in all Regions, including GovCloud (US) and China.

🔒 Microsoft is rolling out a new Teams Premium setting that blocks screenshots and recordings in meetings on Windows desktop and Android devices. The feature, called 'Prevent screen capture', was announced for July 2025 but the rollout was delayed and is being introduced in late November 2025. The control is off by default and must be enabled per meeting by organizers or co-organizers; unsupported clients will join audio-only.

📹 Amazon Kinesis Video Streams now supports WebRTC-based multi-viewer streaming, enabling up to three concurrent viewers of a live feed without increasing device compute or bandwidth. The feature records session audio and video to the cloud for storage, playback, and analytics, and supports two-way audio so participants can communicate in real time. Developers can use the Kinesis Video Streams with WebRTC SDK across cameras, IoT devices, PCs, and mobile devices to build live and on-demand scenarios such as home security, remote proctoring, and robot control centers.

🚀 AWS announced that the Network Load Balancer (NLB) now supports QUIC in passthrough mode, enabling low-latency forwarding of QUIC traffic while preserving session stickiness via the QUIC Connection ID. This helps mobile applications maintain consistent connections when client IPs change during roaming between cellular towers or when switching between Wi‑Fi and cellular. You can enable QUIC on existing or new NLBs through the AWS Management Console, CLI, or APIs. QUIC support is available at no additional charge in all AWS commercial and AWS GovCloud (US) regions and is metered under existing UDP Load Balancer Capacity Unit entitlements.

🚀 Amazon Web Services has expanded availability of EC2 G6f instances powered by NVIDIA L4 GPUs to Europe (Spain) and Asia Pacific (Seoul), improving access for graphics and visualization workloads. G6f instances support GPU partitions as small as one-eighth of a GPU with 3 GB of GPU memory, enabling finer-grained right-sizing and cost savings compared to single‑GPU options. Instances are offered in multiple sizes paired with third‑generation AMD EPYC processors, and are purchasable as On‑Demand, Spot, or via Savings Plans; customers should use NVIDIA GRID driver 18.4 or later to launch these instances.

🚀 Amazon Web Services announced general availability of Amazon EC2 I8g Storage Optimized instances in Asia Pacific (Seoul) and South America (São Paulo). These instances use third-generation AWS Nitro SSDs to deliver up to 65% better real-time storage performance per TB, with significantly lower storage I/O latency and variability. I8g instances target I/O-intensive, low-latency workloads with up to 45 TB local NVMe storage, up to 100 Gbps networking, and 60 Gbps dedicated EBS bandwidth across multiple sizes including a metal option.

🔗 Amazon ECS Service Connect now supports cross-account communication in AWS GovCloud through integration with AWS Resource Access Manager (AWS RAM). You can share the underlying AWS Cloud Map namespaces with individual accounts, Organizational Units (OUs), or your entire AWS Organization to register services from multiple accounts in a single namespace. The capability works for both Fargate and EC2 launch modes in GovCloud (US-West and US-East) and is available via Console, API, SDK, CLI, and CloudFormation, simplifying service discovery and reducing duplication.

🚀 Amazon EventBridge now supports sending events directly to Amazon SQS fair queues, improving message distribution across consumer groups and reducing noisy-neighbor effects in multi-tenant systems. You can choose a fair queue as an EventBridge target via the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, or AWS SDKs and must supply a MessageGroupID, either as a static value or using a JSON path. Fair queues let multiple consumers process messages from the same tenant concurrently while keeping processing times consistent. Support for Fair Queue and FIFO targets is available in all AWS commercial and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.

🚀 Amazon has made EC2 High Memory U7i instances with 12TB of DDR5 memory available in the Europe (Stockholm) Region. The u7i-12tb.224xlarge offers 896 vCPUs, up to 100 Gbps for both EBS and networking, and supports ENA Express for improved network performance. Powered by custom fourth‑generation Intel Xeon (Sapphire Rapids), these instances target mission‑critical in‑memory databases such as SAP HANA, Oracle, and SQL Server, enabling higher transaction throughput and faster data loading.

🔧 Amazon Connect Cases now supports conditional field visibility and dependent field options to streamline case layouts and reduce data-entry errors. Administrators can show fields only when relevant (for example, display a Return Reason field for return cases) and restrict choice lists based on other selections (e.g., limit Issue Type to hardware options when Issue Category is Hardware). The feature is available in multiple AWS regions.

🔧 Microsoft resolved a bug that caused incorrect end-of-support warnings to appear in Windows Update settings after the October 2025 updates. The cosmetic issue affected Windows 10 22H2 devices enrolled in the Extended Security Updates (ESU) program as well as LTSC 2021 editions that remain supported, but affected systems continued to receive security updates. Microsoft issued a cloud configuration fix and on Nov 11, 2025 released KB5068781; admins can also apply a Known Issue Rollback policy if immediate deployment is required.

🔔 Microsoft released cumulative updates KB5068861 and KB5068865 for Windows 11 25H2/24H2 and 23H2, delivering the November 2025 Patch Tuesday security fixes, bug repairs, and several feature changes. The updates are mandatory security releases and update system build numbers to 26200.7019 (25H2/24H2 variants) and 226x1.6050 (23H2). Notable additions include a redesigned Start menu with Categories mode, updated battery icons with percentage, a new Copilot page in Get Started, Administrator Protection Preview, and post-quantum cryptography API support. Microsoft said the rollout is gradual and reported no new known issues at announcement time.

⚡ Effective today, all new Amazon MSK Provisioned clusters with Express brokers support Intelligent Rebalancing at no additional cost. The feature automates partition balancing when clusters scale up or down, maximizing capacity utilization and removing the need for manual or third-party partition management. AWS reports Intelligent Rebalancing runs up to 180× faster than Standard brokers and scales brokers without impacting client availability.

🔬 Amazon Braket notebook instances now include native support for CUDA-Q, enabled by upgrading the underlying OS to Amazon Linux 2023 to deliver improved performance, security, and compatibility for quantum development and production-ready workflows. Developers can run GPU-accelerated quantum circuit simulation alongside access to QPUs from IonQ, Rigetti, and IQM within the managed notebook environment. This eliminates the need for local deployment or separate Hybrid Jobs, streamlining hybrid quantum-classical experimentation. CUDA-Q support is available in all Regions where Braket operates.

🌐 Amazon now supports Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) addresses for S3 Express One Zone gateway VPC endpoints, enabling access over IPv6 or DualStack without additional translation infrastructure. This applies in all Regions where the storage class exists at no extra cost. You can enable IPv6 for new or existing endpoints via Console, CLI, SDK, or CloudFormation. See the S3 User Guide to get started.

🔁 AWS Control Tower customers can now automatically enroll member accounts simply by moving them into an Organizational Unit (OU). When moved, Control Tower applies the destination OU's baseline configurations and controls and removes the originals from the prior OU, removing the need for manual re-registration. This streamlines provisioning by allowing accounts to be created and then placed in the correct OU using the AWS Organizations console or the CreateAccount and MoveAccount APIs. Customers on landing zone version 3.1+ can opt in by toggling the automatically enroll accounts flag or by setting RemediationTypes to Inheritance_Drift in the CreateLandingZone or UpdateLandingZone APIs.