All news with #product update tag

🚀 Amazon MSK now supports Graviton3-based M7g instances for Standard brokers on MSK Provisioned clusters across eight additional AWS Regions, including both AWS GovCloud regions and several Asia Pacific and European locations. M7g instances offer up to 24% lower compute costs and up to 29% higher write and read throughput versus comparable M5-based clusters. The expansion helps customers optimize performance and reduce operational expenses for production Kafka workloads.

📞 Amazon Connect now supports multi-user web, in-app, and video calling, allowing multiple participants to join the same session with an agent via browser or mobile app. Agents can dynamically add participants during live calls or host scheduled multi-party sessions, and attendees can use audio, video, and screen sharing. This feature enables richer, more inclusive interactions for scenarios such as joint financial planning, family medical consultations, and meetings with legal representatives or translators.

🔔 Amazon Web Services has made EC2 I7i storage-optimized instances available in AWS Europe (Frankfurt, London) and Asia Pacific (Malaysia, Sydney, Tokyo). Powered by 5th generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and 3rd generation AWS Nitro SSDs, I7i delivers up to 23% better compute and >10% improved price performance versus I4i, plus up to 45TB NVMe and significant latency and IOPS gains. Eleven sizes (including two bare metal) offer up to 100 Gbps network and 60 Gbps EBS bandwidth, and a torn write prevention feature supporting 16 KB blocks helps remove database bottlenecks.

🔐 Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for SQL Server now supports Kerberos authentication when instances are joined to a self-managed Microsoft Active Directory. Previously, Kerberos integration required AWS Managed Microsoft AD; customers can now enable Kerberos authentication with their existing on-premises or self-managed AD environments. This change simplifies migrations and preserves enterprise identity configurations while continuing to support existing integrations with AWS Managed AD. The feature is available in all AWS Commercial and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.

📹 TwelveLabs Pegasus 1.2 is now available in US East (N. Virginia) and Asia Pacific (Seoul) through Amazon Bedrock. The video-first language model is optimized for long-form content and combines visual, audio, and textual signals to deliver advanced video-to-text generation and temporal understanding. Regional availability reduces latency and simplifies architecture for enterprise video-intelligence applications. To begin, request model access via the Amazon Bedrock console.

📨 Amazon Connect now supports embedding Tasks and Emails directly into websites and applications via a new contact form option in the communication widget. Supervisors and managers can use a drag-and-drop editor to design customer-facing forms and generate code snippets for seamless site integration. These interactions continue to be managed through existing Amazon Connect workflows, enabling flexible callback requests and web-based email submissions.

🔒 Amazon announced that Amazon RDS io2 Block Express volumes are now available in AWS GovCloud (US‑West) and AWS GovCloud (US‑East) Regions. These volumes provide consistent sub‑millisecond latency and industry‑leading outlier latency control for mission‑critical database workloads. io2 Block Express supports up to 256,000 Provisioned IOPS, 4,000 MB/s throughput, 64 TiB volumes, and 99.999% durability. Customers can upgrade from io1 without downtime using the ModifyDBInstance API and modify existing io1, gp2, or gp3 volumes in the RDS Management Console.

🔎 Amazon QuickSight has increased calculated-field capacities: analyses can now include up to 2,000 calculated fields (previously 500) and datasets can include up to 500 calculated fields (previously 200). The expansion enables authors and data curators to build more transformations and extract richer, more complex insights from very large datasets and diverse end-user personas. In regions where Amazon Q is available, users can also construct calculations using natural language. The new limits are currently available across all supported QuickSight regions.

🔁 Amazon Connect now supports recurring activities in agent schedules, enabling managers to create repeating events such as daily stand-ups or weekly team meetings with a few clicks. You can configure recurring series for individual agents or share a single recurring series across multiple agents, removing the need to create each occurrence manually. This capability is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon Connect agent scheduling is offered and is designed to improve manager productivity and keep agent calendars up to date.

🚀 Amazon Bedrock now supports Batch inference for Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4 and OpenAI GPT-OSS (120B, 20B), enabling asynchronous processing of large workloads at approximately 50% of on-demand inference cost. The update targets bulk scenarios such as document analysis, large-scale summarization, content generation, and structured data extraction, and is optimized to deliver higher overall batch throughput on these newer models. Batch progress and workload metrics — including pending and processed records, tokens per minute, and Claude-specific pending tokens — are exposed at the AWS account level via Amazon CloudWatch.

🔔 AWS Batch now offers two new default instance type categories: default-x86_64 and default-arm64. These options automatically select the most cost-effective EC2 instance types across generations based on your job queue requirements and will be expanded as new instance types become available in a region. You can enable them via the instanceType parameter for managed compute environments; the existing optimal option remains supported. Only Compute Environments in an ENABLED and VALID state will receive automatic updates.

🚀 AWS Marketplace has introduced a streamlined fulfillment experience for Amazon Machine Image (AMI) and AMI with CloudFormation products across both the website and console. The update combines configuration and purchase steps on a single page, clearly presenting fulfillment options, related AWS services, and seller-provided guidance. It also brings a new in-console launch experience for container products, providing a consistent multi-region, multi-language workflow.

🆕 Amazon Athena now supports CREATE TABLE AS SELECT (CTAS) statements targeting S3 Tables, enabling creation and population of a managed S3 Table from a single SQL query. The capability supports source data in Parquet, CSV, JSON and lake formats such as Apache Iceberg, Hudi, and Delta Lake. CTAS lets you partition data on the fly and the resulting tables can be queried, JOINed, and updated in Athena. This feature is available in AWS Regions where both Athena and S3 Tables are supported.

🚀 Amazon EC2 R8g instances powered by AWS Graviton4 are now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) region. R8g delivers up to 30% better performance versus Graviton3, offers larger sizes—up to 48xlarge and 1.5 TB memory across 12 sizes including two bare-metal options—and targets memory‑intensive workloads. Built on the AWS Nitro System, these instances provide up to 50 Gbps networking and up to 40 Gbps to EBS for databases, in‑memory caches, and real‑time analytics.

🔔 Amazon DynamoDB now emits more granular throttling exceptions together with matching Amazon CloudWatch metrics. The enhanced exception payloads include a list of reasons for the throttle event and the Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the table or index affected, helping teams pinpoint what was throttled. CloudWatch metrics are available immediately; to receive the richer exception details you must upgrade to the latest SDK. This capability is available in commercial, GovCloud (US), and China Regions.

📈 DynamoDB now supports selectively emitting events for throttled keys to CloudWatch Contributor Insights, enabling you to monitor only throttled items rather than all accessed keys. By emitting exclusively throttled-key events, you reduce monitoring costs and noise while maintaining visibility into throttling and usage hotspots. This mode is available in all commercial AWS Regions, GovCloud (US), and China Regions.

🔒 Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus now supports resource-based policies on workspaces, allowing owners to specify which IAM principals can ingest metrics or run PromQL queries from other accounts. This removes the previous need to assume an IAM role in the workspace owner account for cross-account access. Workspace owners can attach policies to allow-list non-owner principals for Prometheus-compatible API actions, and the capability is available in all regions where the service is generally available.

🔍 In July, Google announced a broad set of AI updates designed to expand access and practical value across Search, creativity, shopping and infrastructure. AI Mode in Search received Canvas planning, Search Live video, PDF uploads and better visual follow-ups via Circle to Search and Lens. NotebookLM added Mind Maps, Study Guides and Video Overviews, while Google Photos gained animation and remixing tools. Research advances include DeepMind’s Aeneas for reconstructing fragmentary texts and AlphaEarth Foundations for satellite embeddings, and Google said it used an AI agent to detect and stop a cybersecurity vulnerability.

🛡️ Over the coming weeks Google will begin a limited U.S. rollout of age assurance, a system designed to distinguish users under 18 from adults and apply age-appropriate protections across its products. For accounts identified as minors Google will enable defaults such as YouTube Digital Wellbeing tools, disable Maps Timeline, turn off personalized advertising, and block adult-only apps on Google Play. The approach combines machine-learning age estimation based on existing account signals with optional age verification — including a government ID or a selfie — when users dispute their estimated age, and Google will notify users and provide options for adult verification.