All news with #product update tag

🔁 AWS Organizations now supports direct transfers of accounts between organizations, removing the prior need to convert an account to a standalone entity during moves. The simplified transfer preserves governance controls, consolidated billing, and account settings and uses the same console and APIs (invite and accept). This capability is available in all commercial AWS Regions and the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.

🔒 Amazon S3 now provides a bucket-level default encryption configuration to enforce SSE-S3 or SSE-KMS for all write requests, allowing organizations to standardize server-side encryption types across buckets. The PutBucketEncryption API update lets you disable SSE-C on specific buckets or in CloudFormation templates. This capability is available in all AWS Regions and configurable via Console, SDK, API, or CLI. It helps simplify compliance and reduce misconfiguration risk.

☁️ Microsoft unveiled two Windows 11 recovery capabilities — Point-in-Time Restore (PITR) and Cloud Rebuild — designed to reduce downtime and simplify device recovery. PITR builds on System Restore by capturing full system snapshots, enabling admins and users to roll a device back to a known-good state, including local files and applications. Cloud Rebuild allows remote reinstallation through Intune, leveraging Autopilot, OneDrive, and Windows Backup for Organizations to restore settings and data.

🔔 Today, EC2 Auto Scaling launched a synchronous LaunchInstances API that gives customers precise control over where instances are provisioned and provides immediate feedback on capacity availability. The API supports overrides for any Availability Zone and/or subnet in an Auto Scaling group and includes optional asynchronous retries to help reach desired capacity. It is available now in US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Europe (Ireland), and Asia Pacific (Singapore) at no additional cost beyond standard EC2 and EBS usage. Use the AWS CLI or SDKs to get started.

🔔 Amazon Bedrock introduces two new inference tiers—Priority and Flex—to help customers balance cost and latency for varied AI workloads. Flex targets non-time-critical jobs like model evaluations and summarization with discounted pricing and lower scheduling priority. Priority offers premium performance and preferential processing (up to 25% better OTPS vs. Standard) for mission-critical, real-time applications. The existing Standard tier remains available for general-purpose use.

🛡️ Microsoft will integrate Sysmon natively into Windows 11 and Windows Server 2025, removing the need to deploy the standalone Sysinternals tool. The built-in functionality will preserve Sysmon’s capabilities, including support for custom configuration files and advanced event filtering, and logs events to the Windows Event Log. Administrators can enable it via Optional Features or run sysmon -i (or sysmon -i <config>) to load a custom configuration, and updates will be delivered through Windows Update to simplify management and improve coverage in large environments.

🔔 Microsoft is adding a user-driven false-positive reporting capability to Microsoft Teams, allowing users to flag chat or channel messages they believe were incorrectly marked as security threats. The feature began a targeted rollout in September and is scheduled to reach general availability worldwide by the end of November 2025. It will be available to organizations using Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Plan 2 or Microsoft Defender XDR, and accessible on desktop, mobile, and web. Administrators can enable or disable the feature from the Teams admin center or the Microsoft Defender portal.

🕒 Google is integrating the TimesFM time-series foundation model into BigQuery and AlloyDB, enabling zero-shot forecasting on customer data without retraining. AI.FORECAST and AI.EVALUATE are now Generally Available in BigQuery, while AI.DETECT_ANOMALIES is in public preview. TimesFM 2.5 offers improved accuracy and lower latency, supports dynamic context windows up to 15K, and can return historical data with forecasts. AlloyDB preview lets users call TimesFM endpoints hosted on Vertex AI so operational data can be forecasted in-place, preserving data residency and reducing export overhead.

🔧 Microsoft today expanded Foundry, its platform for building production AI apps and agents, with new models, developer tools, and governance controls. Key updates include broader model access (Anthropic, Cohere, NVIDIA), a generally available model router, and public previews for Foundry IQ, Agent Service features (hosted agents, memory, multi-agent workflows), and the Foundry Control Plane. Foundry Tools and Foundry Local bring real-time connectors and edge inference, while Managed Instance on Azure App Service eases .NET cloud migrations.

🔁 Amazon Web Services has expanded MSK Replicator to the Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) and Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Regions, enabling customers to replicate streaming data between Amazon MSK clusters. MSK Replicator automates asynchronous replication and preserves Kafka metadata such as topic configurations, ACLs, and consumer offsets, while automatically scaling underlying resources. The feature simplifies failover and regional resilience and is available from the MSK console or CLI.

🚀 AWS has made high performance, storage-optimized Amazon EC2 I7i instances available in Asia Pacific (Melbourne, Mumbai, Osaka) and Middle East (UAE) regions. Powered by 5th‑generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and 3rd‑generation AWS Nitro SSDs, I7i delivers up to 23% better compute performance and more than 10% better price performance versus prior I4i instances. I7i offers up to 45 TB of NVMe storage with significant reductions in storage I/O latency and variability, supports torn-write prevention up to 16 KB blocks, and is offered in eleven sizes including bare metal, with up to 100 Gbps network and 60 Gbps EBS bandwidth.

📈 Amazon Redshift now supports Just‑In‑Time (JIT) ANALYZE for Apache Iceberg tables, automatically collecting table‑ and column‑level statistics during query execution. The feature uses intelligent heuristics and lightweight sketch data structures to determine when runtime statistics will improve optimizer decisions and to build high‑quality statistics on the fly. JIT ANALYZE is generally available in all AWS regions with Redshift and requires no configuration changes to begin improving query plans and performance.

🔎 AWS CloudFormation now validates change sets for three common template errors—invalid property syntax, resource name conflicts with existing account resources, and S3 bucket emptiness constraints on delete—before provisioning begins. If validation fails, the change set status is marked 'FAILED' and includes detailed failure messages and property paths to pinpoint issues. Runtime failures can still occur during execution, so CloudFormation also groups stack events by a unique operation ID that you can view in the Console or via the describe-operation API to filter and diagnose failures quickly. Together these capabilities are intended to shorten deployment cycles and cut troubleshooting time from minutes to seconds.

🧩 Amazon Redshift now supports the SUPER data type in databases configured with case-insensitive collation, enabling analytics on semi-structured and nested data alongside structured SQL types. Using PartiQL, users can query JSON and mixed data without additional normalization. The COLLATE function lets you explicitly control case sensitivity for SUPER columns. This capability is available in all AWS Regions, including AWS GovCloud (US).

🔔 AWS Lambda now supports Python 3.14 for both managed runtimes and as a container base image. AWS will automatically apply updates to the managed runtime and base image as they become available, reducing maintenance overhead. The runtime is available in all Regions, including AWS GovCloud (US) and China Regions, and is supported for Lambda@Edge in applicable Regions. Developers can deploy using the Lambda console, AWS CLI, AWS SAM, AWS CDK, and CloudFormation, and Powertools for AWS Lambda (Python) also supports Python 3.14.

🚀 Amazon FSx for Lustre now delivers up to 5× faster directory listing performance, reducing the time it takes to run ls and inspect file system contents. The improvement benefits interactive use cases such as home directories and source code repositories commonly used by ML researchers, data scientists, and developers. These gains are provided via the Lustre 2.15 client in all FSx regions; upgrade to 2.15 and apply the recommended client tunings to realize the speedups.

🛡️ Amazon Web Services has added Dictionary-based DGA detection to Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall Advanced, enabling real-time monitoring and blocking of domain queries that use word-based DGA techniques designed to mimic legitimate names. Administrators can create DNS Firewall Advanced rule(s) targeting Dictionary DGA and add them to rule groups to enforce protections on VPCs directly or through AWS Firewall Manager, RAM, CloudFormation, or Route 53 Profiles. The capability is available in all AWS Regions, including AWS GovCloud (US). See the Route 53 documentation for setup and pricing details.

🌍 Amazon Web Services has added Europe (Milan), Europe (Spain), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), and Israel (Tel Aviv) to the regional footprint for Amazon WorkSpaces Applications. The fully managed, secure application streaming service lets organizations stream desktops and apps to users without local installs while AWS manages hosting, scaling, and on‑demand access. Deploying applications closer to end users reduces latency and improves responsiveness. Administrators can enable the service from the WorkSpaces Applications console; pricing follows a pay‑as‑you‑go model.

🔔 Amazon Redshift now supports write operations to Apache Iceberg tables in general availability, enabling SQL DDL and DML including CREATE, SHOW, DROP, and INSERT for append-only workloads. Customers can execute concurrent read and write queries against Iceberg tables cataloged in AWS Glue Data Catalog while benefiting from transactional consistency and schema and partition evolution support. The capability is available in all regions where Amazon Redshift is offered.

🚀 Amazon WorkSpaces Applications now offers expanded compute and storage flexibility, adding 100+ instance types across general purpose, compute-optimized, memory-optimized, and accelerated families. Customers can configure storage volumes from 200GB to 500GB and import custom EC2 AMIs, including Windows Server 2022, for image creation and customization. These enhancements are generally available in all supported AWS Regions and follow the standard pay-as-you-go pricing for the service.