All news with #product update tag

🔒 Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports index-level encryption using AWS Key Management Service (KMS) customer managed keys. This allows you to assign different customer managed keys to individual indexes on the same domain, enabling more granular, tenant-specific encryption policies and isolating encrypted data across indexes. The capability builds on existing domain-level encryption and is available at no additional cost for domains running OpenSearch 3.3 or later in select AWS Regions.

🚀 Amazon RDS for MySQL now supports the community MySQL 9.6 Innovation Release in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment. You can deploy MySQL 9.6 as fully managed Single‑AZ or Multi‑AZ instances on the latest-generation instance classes to evaluate new features, bug fixes, and security patches. Preview instances are retained for a maximum of 60 days and snapshots created there can only be used within the Preview Environment. Pricing for preview instances aligns with production RDS in the US East (Ohio) Region.

🚀 Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is now available in the Canada West (Calgary) region. This fully managed, native JSON database delivers automatic storage scaling up to 128TiB, support for up to 15 low‑latency read replicas, and native integrations with AWS services such as AWS DMS, Amazon CloudWatch, AWS CloudTrail, AWS Lambda, and AWS Backup. You can create clusters via the AWS Management Console, CLI, or SDK to support mission‑critical document workloads at scale.

🚀 Amazon CloudFront now supports invalidation by cache tag, letting teams remove groups of related cached objects at edge locations with a single request. Developers add a configurable response header with comma-separated tag values and can assign multiple tags per object for precise control. This reduces reliance on URL lists or broad wildcards and helps preserve cache hit ratios while ensuring fresh content quickly.

🤖 AWS has added Google DeepMind's instruction‑tuned Gemma 4 E4B, Gemma 4 26B‑A4B, and Gemma 4 31B to SageMaker JumpStart, making multimodal foundation models directly accessible to AWS customers. The models offer configurable step‑by‑step reasoning, interleaved text and image inputs, video and image understanding, native function calling, and multilingual support across 140+ languages. Gemma 4 E4B also supports audio input for ASR and speech‑to‑translated‑text workflows. Customers can deploy these models via SageMaker Studio or the SageMaker Python SDK for rapid experimentation and production.

🆕 Amazon SageMaker JumpStart now includes paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2, Microsoft Table Transformer Detection, and Bielik-11B-v3.0-Instruct. The MiniLM model maps sentences to 384-dimensional dense vectors across 50+ languages for cross-lingual semantic search, multilingual clustering, and sentence similarity scoring. The Microsoft Table Transformer is a DETR-based detector trained on PubTables-1M to locate tables in PDFs and scanned images for document digitization. Bielik-11B offers an 11B-parameter multilingual generative model focused on Polish and 32 European languages for dialogue, STEM reasoning, and enterprise NLP.

🔧 Amazon CloudWatch now provides a visual configuration editor for the CloudWatch agent directly in the Amazon EC2 console, eliminating the need to hand-edit JSON. You can graphically build agent configurations, select metrics, log sources, and deployment targets, then deploy with a single click. From the EC2 console you can install the agent on one or more instances, create tag-based policies for automated fleet-wide management, and view agent status and health from each instance detail page. The feature is available in all AWS Commercial Regions at no additional cost; standard CloudWatch pricing applies for collected telemetry.

🤖 UKG built People Fabric to unify its legacy HCM and WFM systems into a single, real-time data and intelligence platform powered by AlloyDB for PostgreSQL and Google's Agentic Data Cloud. The platform establishes a canonical data model, ingests change streams via a custom CDC pipeline and Dataflow, and serves operational queries from AlloyDB while routing analytics workloads to BigQuery and tenancy metadata to Cloud SQL. The outcome is millisecond read-after-write behavior, native vector support for AI agents, and faster developer velocity across 126 application teams and thousands of database instances.

🚀 Amazon Bedrock now includes OpenAI GPT OSS (120B and 20B) and NVIDIA Nemotron models (Nano 9B v2, Nano 12B v2, Nano 30B, Super 120B), enabling developers to access open-weight foundation models through a single API. The integration is powered by Mantle, a distributed inference engine that provides serverless, high-performance inference, unified capacity pools, automated quota management, and OpenAI API compatibility. These models are available on AWS GovCloud (US) for compliant, enterprise-grade deployments.

📊 Amazon QuickSight now supports custom sort for filter controls, letting authors control how dropdown and list values are ordered instead of relying on alphabetical sorting. Custom sort applies to dropdown and list controls in single- and multi-select modes and supports ascending, descending, or fully custom orders for manually entered values. For dataset-backed controls authors can sort by the bound column or by another field using aggregations like Sum, Average, Count, Min, and Max, enabling business-driven ordering such as priority levels or revenue-ranked categories.

🐍 Amazon EMR 7.13 is now generally available and ships with Python 3.11 as the default runtime for Apache Spark. The release also includes patch upgrades for Apache HBase (2.6.3), Apache Hadoop (3.4.2), Apache Phoenix (5.3.0) and the AWS SDK (v2.41.11). EMR 7.13 is available in all AWS regions; administrators should validate application compatibility and dependency packaging before rolling out clusters.

🔐 Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports configuring a JSON Web Key Set (JWKS) URL for JWT authentication. With a JWKS URL configured, OpenSearch domains automatically fetch and validate public keys from an identity provider’s JWKS endpoint, removing the need to manually manage static keys when providers rotate signing keys. The feature includes built-in security validation checks and clearer error messaging, requires OpenSearch version 3.3 or later, and can be configured via the console, AWS CLI, or the CreateDomain and UpdateDomainConfig APIs.

🚀 Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime now supports Node.js as a managed language runtime for direct code deployment, joining existing Python support. Developers can package Node.js apps or compiled TypeScript projects and their dependencies into a .zip, upload to Amazon S3, and create an agent runtime without building container images. Node.js agents gain session isolation, built-in SigV4 and OAuth 2.0 authentication, bidirectional streaming, managed session storage, and observability via Amazon CloudWatch and the AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry Node.js auto-instrumentation.

🚀 AWS Glue 5.1 is now generally available across commercial and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, bringing updated runtimes, open-table-format support, and enhanced security controls. This release upgrades core engines to Apache Spark 3.5.6, Python 3.11, and Scala 2.12.18, and refreshes support for Apache Hudi 1.0.2, Apache Iceberg 1.10.0, and Delta Lake 3.3.2. It also adds Apache Iceberg format v3.0 features and extends AWS Lake Formation fine-grained access control to include write DML and DDL for Spark DataFrames and Spark SQL, plus full-table access control for Hudi and Delta tables.

🎮 Amazon GameLift Streams now supports Proton 10, an updated Proton compatibility layer for running Windows games on Linux-based stream classes. Proton 10 expands support to newer titles including modern DirectX 12 games and updates graphics translation layers (VKD3D/DXVK) for improved rendering and performance. The release also addresses Media Foundation video playback issues such as black screens and color bars and is available at no additional cost.

🏆 Microsoft has been named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide API Management 2026 Vendor Assessment, reflecting its emphasis on scaling APIs and AI together. Built on a decade-old foundation, Azure API Management governs over 38,000 customers, nearly 3 million APIs, and 3 trillion monthly requests while extending to AI gateway capabilities used by 2,000+ enterprises. The platform provides a single, Azure-native control plane to enforce policy, observability, and cost controls for both APIs and AI workloads.

📝 Amazon Quick now supports integrated document and visual creation directly within chat conversations, enabling users to produce polished Word, PDF, PowerPoint, and Excel files without leaving the interface. The capability also generates images, infographics, charts, and other visuals that can be embedded or exported as standalone files. Visual creation is currently in preview in US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon), while document creation is available across supported Regions. Users can sign up for free without an AWS account or credit card.

🔒 Microsoft announced that Azure Local now supports deployments of up to thousands of servers within a single sovereign environment. The platform extends the Azure operating model to customer-owned datacenters, edge sites and industrial facilities with local policy enforcement, role-based access control, auditing and compliance capabilities even when disconnected. Validated compute and storage partners, plus Intel® Xeon® 6 and GPU support, let organizations run large-scale, latency-sensitive AI and regulated workloads entirely within their sovereign boundary while retaining lifecycle management through Azure.

🛠️ Microsoft is rolling out a revamped Windows Insider Program to simplify channel structure and improve transparency around feature availability. The company is merging Dev and Canary into a new Experimental channel for high-risk or potentially non-shipping work, while maintaining an updated Beta channel where features in release notes will be broadly available without gradual rollouts. Experimental items may be gated behind Feature flags that users can toggle in Settings, and Microsoft is migrating Insiders in phases while shipping several preview builds and an updated Windows Update experience to give users more control over updates and reboots.

🐧 AWS now offers new Amazon WorkSpaces Personal bundles featuring Rocky Linux 9, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9, and Ubuntu 24.04, enabling customers to launch managed WorkSpaces with the latest enterprise-grade Linux distributions. These bundles provide access to modern package ecosystems, improved security postures, and extended long-term support lifecycles, and they offer a migration path ahead of Amazon Linux 2 end of life in June 2026. The new options are available in all AWS Regions where WorkSpaces is offered; select a bundle when creating a Linux WorkSpace and review pricing on the Amazon WorkSpaces pricing page.