All news with #product update tag

🛡️ AWS Firewall Manager is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region. The service centralizes policy management so cloud security administrators and site reliability engineers can protect applications while reducing the operational overhead of manually configuring and maintaining rules. With AWS Firewall Manager, customers can enforce defense-in-depth policies across AWS security services and create and manage AWS WAF security policies at scale. See the product documentation and region table for detailed availability and setup guidance.

📈 The AWS MCP Server (Preview) now publishes operational metrics to Amazon CloudWatch and adds semantic similarity search for Agent SOP discovery. Metric publishing under the AWS-MCP namespace tracks invocation counts, success rates, client and server errors, and throttling for tools such as call_aws and retrieve_agent_sop, enabling alarms and visibility into agent-driven activity. The documentation search (search_documentation) now returns relevant Agent SOPs alongside AWS docs, helping AI assistants find the correct workflows.

🔁 AWS now allows customers to use EC2 Fleet to consume interruptible Capacity Reservations by specifying reservation IDs across Launch Templates in a single Fleet call. When On‑Demand Capacity Reservations are idle, owners can make them temporarily available to accounts within an AWS Organization as interruptible reservations. The capability is available in all AWS commercial regions and aims to improve utilization and lower costs.

⚙️ Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server now enables customers to view and schedule operating system updates for RDS provided engine versions (RPEV), where each RPEV is a SQL Server version pre-installed on an Amazon Machine Image. Customers can check pending updates via the describe-pending-maintenance-actions API or subscribe to event RDS-EVENT-0230 for alerts. They can apply updates immediately or use apply-pending-maintenance-action to schedule installation during the next maintenance window. These capabilities are available in all AWS Regions that offer RDS Custom for SQL Server.

📢 Amazon Bedrock now supports GLM 5 and Minimax M2.5, expanding its frontier model selection across select AWS Regions. GLM 5 targets complex systems engineering and long‑horizon agentic tasks, offering improved multi‑step reasoning, math (including AIME‑style capabilities), advanced coding, and long context support for sophisticated agents. Minimax M2.5 is agent‑native and optimized for efficient task decomposition, high inference throughput, and token‑efficient decisioning to deliver fast, cost‑sensitive task completion. Both models are available in Bedrock for enterprise and agentic workflows.

🚀 Amazon Bedrock now supports NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super, an open hybrid Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model designed for complex multi-agent and agentic workloads. The model delivers fast, cost-efficient inference for long, multi-step tasks while preserving context, and is released with open weights, datasets, and recipes for customization. Bedrock exposes Nemotron 3 Super via a single, fully managed, serverless API with built-in security controls and compatibility with OpenAI API specifications, and the model is available in select AWS Regions.

🔒 Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) pull through cache now supports Chainguard as an upstream registry, enabling customers to cache private Chainguard images within ECR. This feature synchronizes frequently with Chainguard's registry so images stay up to date without extra tooling. Cached images can be managed with ECR capabilities like image scanning and lifecycle policies, and the pull through cache is available in all AWS Regions where ECR supports it. By centralizing Chainguard images in ECR, customers gain improved availability, manageability, and security posture.

🔒 Amazon S3 Access Grants are now generally available in the AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region. The capability maps identities from directories such as Microsoft Entra ID and AWS IAM principals directly to S3 datasets, enabling identity-driven, automated access provisioning for users. This reduces the need for manual policy changes and simplifies large-scale permission management. Local availability also helps improve latency and supports regional compliance and governance requirements for organizations operating in New Zealand.

🤝 Palo Alto Networks has reimagined the NextWave Partner Program to align partners, customers and platform-driven security in the AI era. The update expands support for MSSPs, increases authorized services capacity with ASC and APS, and supports Distributor Managed Partner growth. It introduces a Partner Development Fund (PDF) to reinvest rebates into partner-led demand generation, training and solution development. New incentives, proficiency-based discounts and streamlined quoting and enablement tools emphasize platform adoption, operational readiness and profitable services within a framework of Access, Commitment and Profitability.

🚀 Google Cloud has made Valkey 9.0 generally available on Memorystore, delivering substantial throughput and latency improvements for high-performance caches and message queues. The release builds on IO-threading work and introduces pipeline memory prefetching, zero-copy responses, and SIMD-optimized commands to improve real-world performance at scale. New developer features include per-field hash expirations, GEOSEARCH BYPOLYGON, and DELIFEQ for safer distributed locks without Lua. Customers reported meaningful gains during preview, and existing instances can be upgraded in-place with no downtime.

🔎 Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports custom metadata search filters, enabling teams to narrow catalog results using organization-specific attributes like business region, data classification, or study name. Filters accept string fields with a contains operator and numeric fields (Integer, Long) with equals, greater than, and less than operators. Users can also filter by asset name, description, and date range, combine multiple filters, and retain selections across browser sessions; the feature is available in all AWS Regions where Unified Studio is supported.

🚀 Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports OpenSearch 3.5, introducing agentic AI enhancements, improved search relevance tooling, and expanded observability capabilities. The update adds persistent agentic conversation memory to capture multi-turn context and tool reasoning, plus context management that automatically truncates and summarizes inputs to reduce LLM token costs. A redesigned no-code agent interface with MCP integration and expanded search relevance workbench—including LLM-powered evaluation and scheduled experiments—helps teams tune and validate agent-driven search experiences without code.

🗣️ Amazon Connect now supports agentic speech-to-speech voice experiences in the Europe (London) AWS Region and introduces three new voices: Pedro (es-US), Amy (en-GB) and Brian (en-GB). These agentic AI agents can understand, reason and take action across voice and messaging channels, adapting responses to match customer tone and sentiment while preserving natural conversational pacing. The expansion increases regional availability and voice variety to help organizations deliver more personalized, automated customer interactions.

🎥 AWS Elemental MediaConnect now supports NDI® as a live video source, enabling broadcasters and production teams to ingest NDI streams and convert them to transport stream outputs such as SRT for downstream distribution. This capability lets teams bridge NDI-based production environments with standards-based cloud distribution workflows without custom transcoding or protocol conversion infrastructure. NDI support is available in most regions where MediaConnect is deployed; consult AWS documentation and pricing for details.

🔒 AWS Security Agent now lets users generate and download customizable penetration testing reports in PDF format. Reports include an executive summary, test scope and methodology, task details, and comprehensive findings with vulnerability data and risk assessments. Users can filter outputs by risk and confidence levels, finding and task status, and risk types to tailor reports for executives, engineers, or auditors. The capability is intended to accelerate on-demand pentesting from weeks to hours and simplify cross-team review and sharing.

🌐 Amazon Web Services announced that Amazon Connect voice AI agents now support 13 additional languages, bringing the total supported locales to 40. New additions include Arabic (Saudi Arabia), Czech, Danish, Dutch (Belgium), English variants for Ireland, New Zealand and Wales, German (Switzerland), Icelandic, Romanian, Spanish (Mexico), Turkish, and Welsh. The update extends agentic self-service capabilities to more regions, enabling AI agents to understand, reason, and take action across voice and digital channels to automate routine and complex customer service tasks. See the Amazon Connect Administrator Guide for configuration details and the Amazon Connect website for broader product information.

🔊 Amazon Connect now offers generative text-to-speech voices in three additional AWS Regions: Europe (London), Asia Pacific (Seoul), and Asia Pacific (Sydney). The service adds nine new voices across US English, UK English, European French, German, and Italian, including Tiffany, Amy, Brian, Ambre, Florian, Tina, Lennart, Beatrice, and Lorenzo. These voices support Amazon Connect’s agentic self-service capabilities, enabling more natural, sentiment-aware voice interactions across voice and messaging channels. Organizations can deploy these voices to deliver human-like conversational experiences to a broader set of customers and locales.

🔍 Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now provides an aggregated view of data lineage that consolidates all jobs contributing to a dataset. The aggregated view displays multi-level transformations and dependencies to help you identify upstream sources and downstream consumers across the full lineage graph. It is the default for IdC-based domains, with an option to revert to the previous event-timestamp-ordered view, and the new QueryGraph API exposes node graphs with metadata and augmented business context.

🔍 Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now offers an aggregated lineage view that shows all jobs contributing to a dataset across multiple levels of the lineage graph. The aggregated view is the default for IdC-based domains, while the previous event-timestamp snapshot can be restored via a "display in event timestamp order" toggle. A new QueryGraph API returns lineage node graphs with metadata and augmented business context; the capability is available in all SageMaker Unified Studio regions, with documentation and API references provided.

🔁 Amazon SageMaker Training Plans can now be extended to cover AI training runs that take longer than originally scheduled. Extensions are available in 1-day increments up to 14 days, or 7-day increments up to 182 days, and can be purchased through the SageMaker console or via API. Once an extension is purchased the reserved GPU capacity (clusters up to 64 instances) continues to run without interruption, and SageMaker automatically provisions infrastructure so workloads keep running without reconfiguration. The feature helps teams maintain cost-efficient training schedules and reduce operational disruptions.