All news with #product update tag

🔍 Target rebuilt its on-site search to combine lexical keyword matching with semantic vector retrieval, using AlloyDB AI to power filtered vector queries at scale. The engineering team implemented a multi-index architecture and a multi-channel relevance framework so hybrid queries can apply native SQL filters alongside vector similarity. The overhaul produced measurable gains — ~20% improvement in product discovery relevance, halved "no results" occurrences, and large latency reductions — while consolidating the stack and accelerating development.

🆕 Amazon RDS for Oracle and Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle now support a range of bare metal instance types, with pricing at about 25% below equivalent virtualized instances. Supported families include M7i, R7i, X2iedn, X2idn, X2iezn, M6i, M6id, M6in, R6i, R6id, and R6in. Using the Multi-tenant feature you can consolidate multiple databases onto a single bare metal instance to reduce infrastructure cost, and you may also be able to lower commercial Oracle licensing and support fees because bare metal provides full visibility into CPU cores and sockets. Bare metal is available with Bring Your Own License (BYOL) for Oracle Enterprise Edition; consult RDS pricing and your licensing partner for region and configuration availability.

🔔 AWS Config now supports five additional AWS resource types, expanding its ability to discover, assess, audit, and remediate resources across your accounts. The new types — AWS::CodeArtifact::Domain, AWS::Config::ConformancePack, AWS::Glue::Database, AWS::NetworkManager::TransitGatewayPeering, and AWS::RolesAnywhere::TrustAnchor — are tracked automatically if you record all resource types and are available for Config rules and aggregators. Support applies in all Regions where these resources are available, enabling broader compliance and operational visibility. This update simplifies monitoring and remediation workflows.

🔁 Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4 is now available with Global cross‑Region inference in Amazon Bedrock, allowing inference requests to be routed to any supported commercial AWS Region for processing. The Global profile helps optimize compute resources and distribute traffic to increase model throughput. It supports both on‑demand and batch inference and is intended for use cases that do not require geography‑specific routing.

🔒 AWS Clean Rooms now lets collaboration owners add new data provider members to existing collaborations, enabling partners to contribute data without creating a separate collaboration. New members can be configured to only supply data while inheriting the collaboration’s existing privacy controls and access rules. Invitations and member additions are recorded in the collaboration change history for transparency and auditability. This reduces onboarding time for multi‑party workflows such as publisher–advertiser measurement and third‑party enrichment.

🔒 AWS Clean Rooms ML collaborators can now configure a privacy control to send redacted error log summaries to selected collaboration members. Summaries include exception type, error message, and the line in the code where the error occurred. When associating a model with a collaboration, parties decide which members receive summaries and whether detectable PII, numbers, or custom strings will be redacted. This helps teams debug models while protecting sensitive data and intellectual property.

🔒 Today, AWS announced the ability to manage access to AWS Regions and AWS Local Zones from a single location in the AWS Management Console. The new AWS Global View Regions and Zones page lets customers view infrastructure location details, opt-in status, and parent Region relationships across multiple Regions. This centralizes monitoring and access control and is available in all AWS commercial Regions.

🔍 Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics now supports Firefox in addition to Chrome, enabling cross-browser canary tests. You can run the same canary script across Chrome and Firefox for Playwright-based and Puppeteer-based canaries. CloudWatch Synthetics collects browser-specific performance metrics, success rates, and visual monitoring while maintaining an aggregate health view to help teams detect and resolve browser compatibility issues. Multi-browser support is available in all commercial AWS Regions.

🚀 OpenAI has released a major update to Codex, its agentic coding assistant, adding a native VS Code extension and expanded terminal and IDE support. Plus and Pro subscribers can now use Codex with every build across web, terminal, and IDE without separate API keys, as the service links to your ChatGPT account to preserve session state. The release also adds a Seamless Local ↔ Cloud Handoff to delegate paired local tasks to the cloud asynchronously, alongside CLI command upgrades and bug fixes; competitors like Claude are pursuing similar web-to-terminal integrations.

📚 ChatGPT now offers an interactive flashcard-style quiz feature within its new Study and Learn tool, designed to help users evaluate and reinforce their knowledge on any topic. Using models such as GPT-5-Thinking (or Instant/Default), the assistant generates embedded flashcards, presents answer choices, and provides a running scorecard at the end of the quiz. The system preserves conversational memory so it can refine future quizzes and adapt to a learner’s progress, aligning with research that shows testing improves retention.

🧠 OpenAI is testing a new "Thinking effort" picker for ChatGPT that lets users set how much internal compute—or "juice"—the model can spend on a response. The feature offers four levels: light (5), standard (18), extended (48) and max (200), with higher settings producing deeper but slower replies. The 200 "max" tier is gated behind a $200 Pro plan. OpenAI positions the picker as a way to give users more control over response depth and speed.

🔔 Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus now sends alerts directly to PagerDuty, removing the need for custom Lambda functions or intermediary services. The native integration simplifies authentication and improves delivery reliability for incident notifications. It is available in all AWS regions where the service is generally available and can be configured from the Alert manager tab or via the AWS CLI, SDK, or APIs. Refer to the user guide for detailed setup instructions.

🔒 Google Cloud has expanded its Intel TDX-based Confidential Computing portfolio, now offering Confidential GKE Nodes, Confidential Space, and Confidential GPUs alongside broader regional availability. Creating an Intel TDX Confidential VM is exposed directly in the GCE Create an instance flow under the Security tab, with no code changes required. The C3 machine series supports Intel TDX across additional regions and zones, and NVIDIA H100 GPUs on the A3 series enable confidential AI by combining Intel CPU protection with NVIDIA Confidential Computing on the GPU.

🔁 Google Cloud and an ecosystem of partners — including Confluent, Databricks, dbt, Fivetran, Informatica, and Snowflake — reaffirm support for the open table format Apache Iceberg to power modern lakehouse architectures. The post highlights Google innovations such as BigLake and a REST Catalog API that unify metadata and enable interoperability across engines like BigQuery, Databricks, and Snowflake. The collaboration aims to reduce data silos, enable time travel and pruning, and accelerate AI-ready analytics.

🔁 Amazon SageMaker introduces account-agnostic, reusable project profiles within the SageMaker Unified Studio domain, enabling domain administrators to define project templates once and reuse them across multiple AWS accounts and regions. Profiles are decoupled from specific accounts and regions and can reference a new account pool for dynamic account and region selection at project creation, driven by custom authorization policies or predefined strategies. This reduces duplication, simplifies governance, and accelerates onboarding across large-scale data and ML environments. The feature is available in all Regions where Unified Studio is supported.

📣 AWS End User Messaging now supports international SMS sending from US toll-free numbers to more than 150 countries, including Canada. This lets customers use a single US toll-free number to reach supported global destinations, simplifying account and resource setup. Available in all AWS Regions where AWS End User Messaging is offered, the capability supports common use cases such as OTPs, notifications, reminders, and promotions.

🌐 RDS Data API now supports IPv6 with dual-stack (IPv4/IPv6) connectivity for Aurora databases, enabling expanded address space and simplified migration from IPv4. The capability is available in all commercial AWS regions where Data API is offered, except Canada (Central). IPv6 lets you assign contiguous IP ranges to microservices and scale beyond VPC IPv4 limits while retaining IPv4 connectivity during transition. Data API continues to pool connections and integrates with AWS AppSync GraphQL; consult the documentation for endpoint and network configuration guidance.

⏸️ Amazon Neptune Analytics now supports a Stop/Start capability that lets organizations pause and resume graph workloads on demand. While a graph is stopped, all data and configuration are preserved and customers pay only 10% of the normal compute cost. Customers can pause and resume via the AWS Console, CLI, API, or SDKs with a single action. The feature is available in all commercial regions where Neptune Analytics is offered and aims to reduce lifecycle overhead and lower costs for periodic workloads like fraud detection, recommendation engines, and research simulations.

🔒 Amazon EMR on EC2 now supports Apache Spark native fine-grained access control (FGAC) through AWS Lake Formation and adds support for AWS Glue Data Catalog views. These capabilities let administrators define and enforce granular Lake Formation policies once and apply them consistently to Spark jobs and interactive sessions, reducing administrative overhead and security risk. Access checks support named resource grants, data filters, and tag-based controls and are logged in AWS CloudTrail for auditing.

🔒 Amazon Verified Permissions is now available in Asia Pacific (Taipei), Asia Pacific (Thailand), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), and Mexico (Central), expanding regional coverage to 35 AWS Regions. The managed service provides scalable, fine-grained authorization using the open-source Cedar policy language, enabling applications to enforce permissions as policies rather than embedding them in code. Developers and administrators can define role-, attribute-, and context-aware access controls for APIs and application resources, simplifying authorization and improving governance.