All news with #product update tag

🔧 Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) now supports the now() and uuid() functions in SELECT clauses, extending prior support in WHERE, INSERT, and UPDATE. It also introduces a native Duration data type to represent elapsed time between timestamps, removing the need to store intervals as strings or bytes. These updates improve Apache Cassandra compatibility and simplify time-based operations and identifier generation across AWS Commercial and GovCloud regions.

🤖 Amazon Web Services announced enhancements to the Amazon Q Developer chat experience within SageMaker Unified Studio Jupyter notebooks and added a command-line interface for use in notebooks and the Code Editor. By integrating with Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, the assistant becomes aware of project resources—data, compute, and code—and provides personalized, context-aware help. These updates aim to speed tasks like code refactoring, file edits, and troubleshooting while preserving transparency around assistant actions. The capabilities are available at no additional cost via the Amazon Q Developer Free Tier where SageMaker Unified Studio is offered; customers can enable Amazon Q Developer Pro for expanded functionality.

🔎 Google will let users set AI mode as their default search tab, replacing the traditional blue links view for those who opt in. The change will be user-controlled via a toggle or button so individuals can choose AI-driven summaries as their primary experience while the classic Web tab remains accessible. Google says it is studying the impact on ads and publishers.

🔁 OpenAI is rolling out two notable updates to ChatGPT: the Projects feature is now available to all users for free, and a new Branch in new chat toggle lets you split and continue conversations from a chosen message. Projects create independent workspaces that organize chats, files, and custom instructions with separate memory, context, and tools. The branching option spawns a new conversation that includes everything up to the split point, helping manage divergent topics and streamline brainstorming. Both changes aim to improve organization and continuity for repeated or evolving work.

🚀 Baseten reports major cost-performance gains for AI inference by combining Google Cloud A4 VMs powered by NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs with Google Cloud’s Dynamic Workload Scheduler. The company cites 225% better cost-performance for high-throughput inference and 25% improvement for latency-sensitive workloads. Baseten pairs cutting-edge hardware with an open, optimized software stack — including TensorRT-LLM, NVIDIA Dynamo, and vLLM — and multi-cloud resilience to deliver scalable, production-ready inference.

🔍 AWS Systems Manager Configuration Manager now supports SAP HANA, enabling automated validation of SAP HANA databases running on AWS against best practices defined in the AWS Well‑Architected Framework SAP Lens. The capability automatically assesses configurations, proactively flags misconfigurations, and provides specific remediation guidance so teams can address issues before they impact operations. Checks can be scheduled or run on demand, and SSM for SAP Configuration Manager is available in all commercial AWS Regions.

💡 Microsoft Cost Management released a set of July–August 2025 updates to help organizations monitor and reduce Azure spend. The release adds service principal support for the Partner Admin Reader role, enabling EA indirect partners to programmatically access cost data without interactive accounts. Other highlights include a Pricing Calculator user tip, new cost-saving offers such as Azure Firewall ingestion-time transformation (GA) and the Azure Storage Mover preview, updated documentation on billing and reservations, and new instructional videos on cost allocation and Copilot for cost insights.

🔍 Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus now exposes applied quota values and utilization through AWS Service Quotas and Amazon CloudWatch. This integration delivers centralized visibility of service limits across workspaces, enables quick quota increase requests, and provides usage metrics that you can incorporate into CloudWatch alarms and dashboards. Usage metrics are always enabled, provided at no extra cost, and accessible via console, APIs, and CLI in all regions where the service is generally available.

🔐 The AWS Management Console now supports ECS Exec, allowing operators to open secure, interactive shell sessions to running containers directly from the console. This removes the need to switch to the CLI, API, or SDKs for troubleshooting and avoids opening inbound ports or managing SSH keys. You can enable ECS Exec when creating or updating services and standalone tasks, and configure encryption and logging at the cluster level. Sessions launch through CloudShell, and the console displays the underlying AWS CLI command for reuse in a local terminal.

📞 Amazon Connect now provides expanded disconnect reasons that map outbound call failures to standard telecom error codes. These enhanced reasons appear in Contact Trace Records and reporting, giving contact center teams real-time visibility into granular disconnection data to speed troubleshooting and reduce support tickets. The feature is available in all AWS regions where Amazon Connect is offered; refer to the public documentation and best practice guide for implementation details.

🔔 AWS CloudFormation Hooks now supports managed proactive controls, allowing teams to validate resource configurations against AWS best practices without writing custom Hook logic. Customers can select controls from the AWS Control Tower Controls Catalog and apply them during CloudFormation operations, and run them in warn mode for nonblocking evaluation before enforcing policies. A new Hooks Invocation Summary page provides a centralized historical view of control executions and outcomes to simplify compliance reporting and troubleshooting.

📦 Amazon ECR now supports repository creation templates in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Templates let you preconfigure encryption, lifecycle policies, access permissions, and tag immutability for repositories that ECR creates during pull-through cache and replication operations. Templates use a prefix to automatically match and apply settings to new repositories, reducing manual setup and helping enforce consistent registry governance across environments.

🆕 Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL 18 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) is now available in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment, letting customers evaluate a fully managed pre-release. PostgreSQL 18 adds skip scan support for multicolumn B-tree indexes, parallel GIN index builds, improved OR/IN WHERE handling, and updated join behavior. Observability enhancements expose buffer usage counts, index lookup details during execution, and a per-connection I/O utilization metric. Preview instances are retained for up to 60 days, snapshots remain usable only within the preview, and pricing follows the US East (Ohio) region.

🔧 AWS Clean Rooms now lets customers configure compute size for PySpark analyses, enabling selection of instance type and cluster size at job runtime for each analysis. Customers can choose larger instances for complex datasets and higher performance or smaller instances to optimize costs. The change provides flexible, per-job resource allocation to balance scale, throughput, and budget while maintaining Clean Rooms' collaborative data protections.

🧬 AWS HealthOmics private workflows are now available in the Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region, providing fully managed bioinformatics pipelines for healthcare and life sciences customers in Korea. The HIPAA-eligible service supports domain-specific languages such as Nextflow, WDL, and CWL and offers features like call caching, dynamic run storage, Git integrations, and ECR pull-through cache. These capabilities simplify pipeline migration, accelerate genomics development, and help maintain data provenance and compliance.

🔐 Amazon MQ now supports OAuth 2.0 authentication and authorization for RabbitMQ brokers, allowing client and user authentication via JWT-encoded access tokens in single-instance and Multi-AZ cluster deployments. You can enable OAuth 2.0 through the AWS Console, CloudFormation, CLI, or CDK, and the feature is available in all regions where Amazon MQ is offered. Compatibility with standard RabbitMQ OAuth 2.0 implementations helps ensure a smooth migration for existing deployments.

🌐 Google Cloud introduces DNS64 and NAT64 for Cross‑Cloud Network to allow IPv6-only workloads to access IPv4-only services without dual‑stack. DNS64 synthesizes AAAA responses by embedding IPv4 addresses into the 64:ff9b::/96 prefix, and NAT64 translates traffic by extracting those addresses and initiating IPv4 connections on behalf of IPv6 clients. The blog post includes step‑by‑step gcloud commands to create VPCs, DNS64 policies, and a NAT64 gateway.

🔁 Soft failover in BigQuery Managed Disaster Recovery defers promotion of secondary compute and datasets until replication is confirmed, reducing the risk of data loss during planned disaster recovery tests. Unlike hard failover, which may promote immediately and accept RPO gaps to restore service, soft failover coordinates primary and secondary acquiescence to ensure data integrity. Available via the BigQuery UI, DDL, and CLI, it provides administrators with controlled, realistic DR drills without compromising production data.

🕒 Amazon Web Services now enables customers to query CloudWatch metrics up to two weeks in the past using the Metrics Insights query source. Metrics Insights delivers fast, SQL-based metric queries and this enhancement expands the prior ~3-hour visualization window to 14 days for dashboards, alarms, and investigations. The capability is available now in commercial AWS regions and is automatically enabled at no additional charge, though standard pricing still applies for alarms, dashboards, and API usage.

🔔 Amazon CloudWatch now supports creating a single alarm that evaluates and acts on multiple individual metrics dynamically. By authoring a Metrics Insights (SQL) query with GROUP BY and ORDER BY clauses, the alarm automatically includes matching metrics as resources are created or removed, eliminating manual per-resource alarm management. You can configure these alarms via the CloudWatch console, AWS CLI, CloudFormation, or CDK; the capability is available in all commercial AWS regions, AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, and China Regions, and Metrics Insights query alarm pricing applies.