All news with #product update tag

🆕 Amazon SageMaker now supports instance preference lists for training and processing jobs, letting you submit prioritized sets of instance types and counts so SageMaker can pick the first available configuration. This reduces wait times and removes the need for complex retry logic or multiple concurrent submissions during high-demand GPU periods. You can include on-demand sources or reserved SageMaker Flexible Training Plans, and the feature is available today in all AWS Regions via CLIs, APIs, SDKs, and the Console.

🔔 Amazon Connect Customer now lets contact center agents bid on preferred shifts, giving them greater control over schedules. Schedulers establish agent rankings via CSV upload or randomized generation, and Connect Customer uses forecasted demand and shift profiles to create available shifts for agents to rank. After the bidding window closes, the service assigns agents to their highest-ranked available shift, using rankings as tiebreakers to resolve conflicts. This feature aims to improve agent satisfaction and reduce manual scheduling effort.

🔔 AWS Glue zero-ETL integrations for Salesforce now capture archived records and expose their status via the isArchived field, providing a complete replica of Salesforce data for analytics and reporting. This applies automatically to new integrations and is backfilled for existing integrations with no reconfiguration or schema changes. The feature is available in all AWS Commercial and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions where AWS Glue zero-ETL for Salesforce is supported.

🛠️ Homebrew 7.0.0 introduces a native BrewUI graphical interface for macOS 14 “Tahoe” and later, a built-in vulnerability scanner (brew vulns), and a Homebrew-specific advisory database. The release also tightens sandboxing by blocking default access to users' home directories and separates network downloads from offline installs. Users will see faster installs through concurrent download and install operations.

🟢 AWS End User Messaging now supports dynamic WhatsApp flows so businesses can create interactive, in-chat experiences for customers. Instead of redirecting users to external pages, organizations can guide bookings, sign-ups, surveys, lead capture, and transactions directly within WhatsApp using templates or custom flows. Each screen can call your HTTPS endpoint in real time to surface live availability and personalized content, and flows are managed via AWS End User Messaging Social through the console or APIs.

📣 AWS End User Messaging now enhances SMS deliverability for customers using phone pools by providing automatic failover to the next best performing number when downstream disruptions occur. The service detects delivery delays, failures, and conversion drops, and reroutes traffic to optimized delivery paths without requiring customer action. This capability is available in all Regions where AWS End User Messaging is offered, and users can create phone pools if they do not already use them. See the SMS User Guide for more details.

🔒 AWS Elemental MediaLive introduces Video Aligned Locking to synchronize video pipelines without requiring source timecode. The feature uses visual signatures to detect and align specific frames across multiple streams, enabling frame-accurate input switching for standard and linked cross-region single-pipeline channels. Supported outputs include HLS, MediaPackage, CMAF Ingest, UDP and SRT, and the capability is available in all Regions where MediaLive operates. Documentation and implementation guides provide configuration and synchronization details.

🚀 Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports model caching to speed up LLM inference by pre-loading model weights and container images onto cluster nodes. This reduces cold-start delays for scale-out events, allowing pods to start in seconds rather than minutes. The feature includes a weights cache on local NVMe and an image cache that pre-pulls container images, with automatic fallback to the original source if a cache is unavailable. Model caching is GA across all SageMaker HyperPod regions and is enabled via the HyperPod Inference Operator.

📢 AWS Lambda now supports configurable direct reads for Amazon S3 Files, letting you choose whether functions read from S3 Files high-performance storage or directly from your S3 bucket. This setting enables optimizing throughput and latency per application by routing large reads (≥1 MB) directly from the bucket for maximum throughput when enabled, or serving all reads from high-performance storage for lowest latency when disabled. The feature is available across most AWS commercial and GovCloud regions and can be configured via Console, CLI, SDKs, or CloudFormation with no additional charge beyond standard pricing.

📊 AWS HealthOmics now publishes real-time run metrics to Amazon CloudWatch, providing live visibility into workflow resource utilization as runs execute. The 14 new metrics cover CPU and GPU usage, memory, file system usage and I/O, network throughput, and ephemeral storage. Emitted using the Amazon CloudWatch OpenTelemetry standard, these metrics support native dashboards, alarms, and integration with third-party observability tools. Real-time metrics are available in multiple US, Europe, and Asia Pacific Regions, and CloudWatch ingestion charges apply.

🛠️ AWS DevOps Agent now enables engineers to manage production operations and the full investigation lifecycle directly within Slack. Teams can @mention the agent in connected private channels to initiate and steer investigations, with findings, recommended actions, and team context captured in a single thread. This reduces context switching during high-severity incidents and is available in all commercial AWS Regions where the agent is supported.

🛠️ Microsoft patched a bug that blocked Teams and the new Outlook from launching on ARM-based Windows 11 devices after August 2026 updates. The issue affected devices such as Surface Pro 11 and Surface Laptop 7 that had not installed Microsoft Store updates, while classic Office apps were reportedly unaffected. Microsoft resolved the problem in the September 8, 2026 cumulative update (KB5124012) and advised users to install the latest updates.

🔗 Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports ODBC connections, enabling Microsoft Power BI and other ODBC-compatible tools to connect directly to governed data using the Amazon Athena ODBC driver. The project overview page adds an ODBC connection details view alongside the existing JDBC view, providing DSN-less connection strings or parameters for named DSNs. The Athena ODBC driver (v2.2.0.1+) supports SageMakerBrowserIdc and SageMakerIam authentication modes. ODBC access is available today in all Regions where SageMaker Unified Studio is offered, at no additional cost.

🛠️ AWS announced that AWS Transform for .NET can automatically generate unit tests for modernized code. When enabled, the feature targets testable classes such as business logic and controllers and produces unit test code as part of the migration job. The generation is opt-in and available via the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio in all Regions that support AWS Transform for .NET. To use it, run a .NET transformation in Visual Studio and choose to generate unit tests.

🔔 Amazon API Gateway now supports configurable delivery destinations and larger execution log events for REST APIs. Previously limited to a single API Gateway-managed CloudWatch Logs group with 1 KB truncation, execution logs can now be routed up to 1 MB to your own CloudWatch Logs groups, Amazon S3 buckets, or Amazon Data Firehose streams. You can deliver to multiple destinations simultaneously and choose structured formats like Apache Parquet for S3 or JSON for CloudWatch. This capability is available in all Regions where API Gateway REST APIs run, including AWS GovCloud (US), and log delivery is charged at vended logs rates.

🎬 AWS Elemental MediaPackage now offers Dynamic Multiview, a server-side feature that composes multiple live video sources into viewer-selected tiled layouts on demand. It delivers multi-angle and personalized experiences as standard HLS and DASH streams playable on modern devices without custom player development. The capability operates in the compressed domain without re-encoding, supports AVC/HEVC, DRM, SCTE-35 passthrough, and full-screen ad replacement.

📰 AWS Elemental MediaTailor now supports Low-Latency HTTP Live Streaming (LL-HLS) ad insertion via HLS Interstitials, enabling advertisers to place ads into low-latency live streams without increasing viewer latency. MediaTailor uses cacheable ad playlists to maintain CDN-edge caching and moves ad decision logic off the manifest request path. This capability has been validated in production during large live sporting events and is available in all Regions where MediaTailor is offered.

🔔 AWS Marketplace now delivers customer demo and private-offer requests to sellers instantly using an automated qualification workflow. When a customer submits a request they can include use-case details; AWS Marketplace evaluates those details and creates an opportunity that appears in AWS Partner Central with contact and use-case information. Previously, AWS manually qualified requests, causing multi-day delays. Sellers who haven’t enabled the request buttons can activate them via the AWS Marketplace Seller Guide to start receiving leads immediately.

🔔 Amazon Connect Customer now lets contact center managers define specific capacity limits for different Task and Email types, replacing channel-only concurrency settings. Managers can classify contacts by complexity, priority, or function and assign distinct concurrency and interruption rules, e.g., allowing three low-effort Tasks concurrently but only one high-attention Task. The feature is available in all AWS commercial and AWS GovCloud (US-West) regions where Amazon Connect Customer is offered, with details in the Administrator Guide.

🚀 AWS Lambda now supports AWS Graviton5-powered C9g, C9gd, M9g, and M9gd instances on Lambda Managed Instances, delivering up to 25% better compute performance versus Graviton4. Lambda Managed Instances lets you run Lambda functions on EC2 while retaining Lambda’s operational simplicity, with infrastructure tasks fully managed. You can specify Graviton5 instance types when creating a capacity provider or leave the instance type as default so Lambda can select Graviton5 based on function configuration. Support is available in all Regions where both Lambda Managed Instances and the listed EC2 instances are offered.