All news with #product update tag

🛠️ AWS Lambda now supports Java 8, Java 11, and Java 17 runtimes on Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023), available as managed runtimes and container base images. These AL2023-based runtimes let customers migrate from Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) without having to upgrade their Java version immediately. AL2 reached end of life on June 30, 2026; AL2-based Java runtimes will receive critical and selected important patches until June 30, 2027 to assist migration.

📍Amazon Location Service now supports proximity-based point of interest discovery using GrabMaps data in the Asia Pacific (Singapore) and Asia Pacific (Malaysia) AWS Regions. Developers can call SearchNearby to return places within a specified radius and rank results by distance, with optional category filters such as fuel stations, hospitals, or restaurants. This enables localized discovery use cases for delivery, ride-hailing, and travel apps using hyperlocal data validated by millions of daily Grab journeys.

🔧 Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now provides full Git version control directly within core tools like Query Editor, Visual ETL, Workflows, and Notebooks. The updated Repositories experience replaces automatic sync with flexible, file-level control and lets teams choose which files to track in Git on GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket. Repositories are decoupled from project creation, support multiple repos and branches concurrently, and preserve CLI access via JupyterLab or Code Editor terminals.

🔔 Amazon Redshift now offers Graviton-based rg.large and rg.12xlarge instances on the trailing maintenance track starting with patch P202. The trailing track targets customers prioritizing stability by running versions validated in the leading track. RG instances deliver up to 2.4x faster query performance than RA3 at ~30% lower price per vCPU. Customers can provision or resize clusters to these instance types via the AWS Console, CLI, or SDKs in all regions where RG is generally available.

🛠️ AWS has updated the IAM Policy Simulator with three key changes: it is now integrated into the IAM console, it supports testing of service control policies (SCPs), and it offers greater modeling flexibility for realistic scenarios. The simulator replaces the standalone site and lets you include SCPs to evaluate interactions with identity and resource policies. New options allow excluding specific policies to model removal scenarios, and cross-account simulations report per-policy decisions with matched statements shown for denials. These enhancements aid automation of policy unit tests, detection of over-permissive access, and validation of guardrails across regions where the simulator is available.

🚀 Amazon MSK Express brokers can now continuously materialize Apache Kafka topics as Apache Iceberg streaming tables on Amazon S3, reducing ingestion and downstream query costs versus self-managed deployments. The capability provides intelligent inline compaction to avoid the small-file problem, built-in coordination for concurrent writers, and supports up to 10 GB/s throughput to Iceberg on S3. Customers can enable the feature via the MSK console, APIs, or MCP server; it is available in all Regions that offer MSK Express brokers.

🛠️ cdnjs, a major open-source CDN for JavaScript and CSS, now runs entirely on the Cloudflare Developer Platform. The migration centralized file content in R2, moved metadata to KV, and rebuilt the publishing pipeline with Workflows, Queues, Containers, and Durable Objects. The change improved observability, simplified architecture, and introduced multi-region mirrors with DigitalOcean Spaces as a live fallback.

🔔 AWS Directory Service now lets you upgrade an AWS Managed Microsoft AD directory from Standard Edition to Enterprise Edition directly via the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, or API. The upgrade preserves trust relationships, application integrations, and group policies without requiring DNS changes or workload re-joins. Standard supports up to 5,000 objects while Enterprise supports up to 500,000 objects for larger deployments. This capability is available in all Regions where AWS Directory Service is offered.

🟦 You can now run OpenSearch 3.7 on Amazon OpenSearch Service, which brings vector search performance gains, improved search relevance, and enhanced Query Insights. The release adds 1-bit scalar quantization for Faiss and Lucene to compress vectors, doc values retrieval for faster vector access without reindexing, and new Search Relevance Workbench metrics and CSV judgments. Query Insights gains automated recommendations, a finished-queries cache, and S3 export for top queries. OpenSearch 3.7 is available in all regions where the service is offered.

🔔 Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now supports Instance Refresh as a CloudFormation update policy. When you set the new AutoScalingInstanceRefresh update policy and change properties that require replacement, CloudFormation will automatically trigger an Instance Refresh. The integration includes features such as replace root volume for in-place updates, launch-before-terminate, alarm-based monitoring, and checkpoints with bake time for controlled rollouts. Rollback is managed through CloudFormation stack rollback, and the capability is available in all AWS Regions at no additional cost.

⚙️ Amazon Redshift Data API adds long polling to return SQL results without repeated polling, a ListSessions call to enumerate active sessions, and flexible BatchExecuteStatement options including AUTO_COMMIT and shared parameters. These features reduce API chatter, improve session visibility, and let batch statements run independently or reuse parameters. The capabilities are generally available for Provisioned and Serverless Redshift in supported AWS commercial and GovCloud Regions.

🔒 Today, AWS WAF adds pre-parse text transformations for query arguments and ten new text transformations for use in any rule statement. These capabilities help normalize request content so that AWS WAF inspects requests the same way your application interprets them. New pre-parse options close HTTP parameter pollution and parser-differential evasion gaps, while new transforms include Uppercase, Trim, SHA256, and OS- and JavaScript-aware decoders.

📣 Amazon Connect Customer now automatically surfaces relevant example agent evaluations to help managers prepare coaching feedback. When composing feedback, managers receive recent high- and low-scoring evaluation examples on the selected coaching topic, along with human or AI evaluator notes explaining agent behaviors. This includes paired examples such as successful de-escalations and escalated calls, enabling tailored, evidence-backed coaching across all regions where the service is offered.

🔒 Amazon EFS now supports cross-account Replication in AWS GovCloud (US), enabling customers to replicate file systems between separate AWS accounts. EFS Replication keeps an up-to-date replica of file systems in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region of your choice, supporting business continuity, multi-account disaster recovery, and compliance. Customers can configure replication via the Amazon EFS Console, AWS CLI, CloudFormation, or APIs for streamlined, automated synchronization across accounts.

🔁 IAM Identity Center now replicates identities and entitlements from the primary AWS Region to additional Regions when using the Identity Center directory as the identity source. This extends prior multi‑Region support for organization instances that used external identity providers to those using the Identity Center directory, improving resilience and enabling deployment closer to users and for data residency. The feature requires a multi‑Region customer managed KMS key and is available in the 17 enabled‑by‑default commercial Regions; standard KMS charges apply.

⚙️ Amazon EKS Provisioned Control Plane increases Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) sync concurrency up to 40× the default Kubernetes value, enabling faster scaling for HPA-driven workloads. This reduces the latency between increased demand and pod scale-out across clusters with many HPA objects. The change is applied for all Provisioned Control Plane customers with no configuration required. It enhances responsiveness for clusters operating at large scale.

💡 AWS Console Home now supports the Cost and Usage widget in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany) Region, enabling users to surface insights from Cost Explorer and Cost Optimization Hub on their dashboard. The widget shows month-to-date and forecasted costs, highlights savings opportunities, and breaks down spend by service over time. To enable it, sign in to the AWS Management Console, select Add widgets, and drag the Cost and Usage widget onto your Console Home dashboard.

🔄 AWS DataSync Enhanced mode now supports Amazon EFS and Amazon FSx for Lustre as source or destination locations. Enhanced mode provides parallel data processing, removes file count limits, and offers detailed transfer metrics to simplify large-scale migrations and high-performance workloads. This capability is available in all Regions where AWS DataSync is offered.

🟦 Amazon S3 Tables now support the Variant data type from the Apache Iceberg Version 3 specification, enabling direct writing of semi-structured data like JSON without a fixed schema. Variant shards data into hidden columns and generates Parquet column statistics to optimize queries through techniques such as file pruning. S3 Tables also handle ongoing maintenance including compaction for Variant columns and the feature is available in multiple global AWS Regions.

🛡️ Microsoft introduced MAI-Cyber-1-Flash inside its MDASH multi-model vulnerability harness, claiming a 95.95% CyberGym score when paired with GPT-5.4 and a 50% cost reduction versus its previous MDASH mix. The new model is limited to MDASH private preview through Azure AI Foundry and is not available as a standalone API. Microsoft says MAI-Cyber-1-Flash handles up to 90% of tasks while GPT-5.4 addresses the hardest 10%, but the headline score applies to the MDASH configuration rather than the model alone.