All news with #product update tag

⚙️ AWS has expanded Predictive Scaling for EC2 Auto Scaling to six additional regions: Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Israel (Tel Aviv), Canada West (Calgary), Europe (Spain), and Europe (Zurich). Predictive Scaling learns from historical patterns and launches instances ahead of anticipated demand to reduce over-provisioning, lower EC2 costs, and keep applications responsive. It complements real-time policies like Target Tracking and Simple Scaling and can be previewed using a "Forecast Only" mode. The feature is available via the console, AWS CLI, CloudFormation, and AWS SDKs.

🔍 Amazon announced that VPC Reachability Analyzer and VPC Network Access Analyzer are now available in AWS GovCloud (US-West) and AWS GovCloud (US-East). Reachability Analyzer diagnoses network paths between source and destination resources in VPCs to identify misconfigurations such as missing route table entries across accounts. Network Access Analyzer finds unintended access paths by letting you define scopes to ensure traffic traverses required controls, for example verifying web app traffic goes through a firewall. See the product documentation and the Network Analysis section of the Amazon VPC pricing page for details.

🔒 Amazon Web Services has added resource-based policies to Aurora DSQL, letting administrators define which IAM principals can perform specific IAM actions on Aurora DSQL resources. Policies also support Block Public Access (BPA) controls to restrict access to public or VPC endpoints. The capability is available now in a set of regions and the documentation provides guidance to get started.

🛡️ Amazon has launched VPC Reachability Analyzer and VPC Network Access Analyzer in both AWS GovCloud (US‑West) and GovCloud (US‑East) Regions. These tools let administrators diagnose network reachability between source and destination resources across VPCs and accounts, for example identifying missing route table entries that block EC2-to-EC2 connectivity. Network Access Analyzer finds unintended access paths such as traffic that bypasses firewalls so teams can enforce security and compliance scopes. For pricing and operational details consult the VPC Network Analysis pricing information.

🔁 AWS Transfer Family now lets administrators change a server's identity provider (IdP) type without service interruption. This update allows dynamic switching among service-managed, Active Directory, and custom IdP authentication for SFTP, FTPS, and FTP servers, enabling zero-downtime migrations and faster compliance adaptation. The capability is available in all AWS Regions where Transfer Family operates.

🔔 Amazon introduced two new Amazon CloudWatch instance-level metrics — Instance EBS IOPS Exceeded Check and Instance EBS Throughput Exceeded Check — that flag when the driven IOPS or throughput exceeds the EBS-Optimized limits of an EC2 instance. Each metric returns 0 (not exceeded) or 1 (exceeded), enabling rapid identification of I/O bottlenecks and the creation of dashboards or alarms. These metrics are provided by default at a 1-minute frequency at no additional charge for Nitro-based EC2 instances with EBS attached and are accessible via the EC2 console, CLI, or CloudWatch API across Commercial, GovCloud (US), and China Regions.

🔒 Starting 3 November 2025, Mozilla will require new Firefox extension developers to declare data collection practices in manifest.json via a browser_specific_settings.gecko.data_collection_permissions key. Developers must adopt the framework across all extensions in the first half of 2026, and extensions that collect no personal data must state that explicitly. The declared practices will appear during installation, on the add-on listing, and in about:addons; submissions that omit the declaration will be blocked.

🚀 AWS has increased the maximum payload size for AWS Lambda asynchronous invocations from 256 KB to 1 MB. This change lets customers deliver richer, complex events—such as LLM prompts, telemetry batches, or detailed JSON outputs—without splitting, compressing, or externalizing data. The increase is generally available in all AWS Commercial and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions and can be used via the Lambda invoke API. Billing counts 1 request for the first 256 KB and an additional request per 64 KB chunk beyond that up to 1 MB.

📊 Data engineers and analysts can now connect Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio to existing Amazon Athena workgroups to run SQL queries using the workgroups' default settings and properties. This lets teams reuse access controls, cost limits, and query-tracking policies already defined in Athena, reducing setup time while maintaining governance. To enable it, choose 'Add compute' → 'Connect to existing compute resources' in Unified Studio; the connected Athena workgroup then appears in the query editor and is available in all regions where Unified Studio is supported.

⚠️ HP has pulled an over-the-air update to HP OneAgent for Windows 11 after a cleanup script removed Microsoft certificates required for some organizations to authenticate to Microsoft Entra ID. The silent update deployed on HP AI PCs ran package SP161710 and an install.cmd that deleted any certificate containing the substring "1E", producing false positives. Affected devices disconnected from Entra ID/Intune; HP says the update is no longer available and is assisting impacted customers.

📞 Amazon Connect outbound campaigns introduces a preview dialing mode that gives agents customer context—name, balance, and prior interactions—before placing calls. Campaign managers can set review time limits, optionally remove contacts, and use new dashboards to monitor agent behavior, discard rates, and engagement trends. By reserving an agent prior to dialing, teams gain operational control and help support TCPA and OFCOM compliance.

🔒 Amazon Connect now offers granular UI permissions for conversation recordings and transcripts, enabling administrators to control access to playback, copying and downloads separately. Administrators can allow users to listen to calls while preventing transcript copying, and set download rules that permit redacted recordings but block unredacted downloads. The capability supports complex scenarios where sensitive conversations remain redacted while other interactions remain fully available.

🔒Microsoft outlines expanded Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) capabilities designed for modern, hybrid environments. The post highlights general availability of unified identity and endpoint sensors, broad on‑premises sensors for Domain Controllers, AD FS, and AD CS, and native integration with Microsoft Entra ID. It emphasizes an identity‑centric approach that correlates accounts across platforms, integrates with PAM, and links identity signals into Defender XDR to enable contextualized alerts, coordinated response, and automatic attack disruption across devices and sessions.

🔒 AWS now supports the Outposts 2U server in AWS GovCloud (US-East) and GovCloud (US-West). The fully managed, industry-standard 2U form factor delivers up to 128 vCPUs and extends AWS infrastructure, services, APIs, and tools to on-premises or edge locations with limited space. Customers can run Amazon EC2, Amazon ECS, and AWS IoT Greengrass locally while connecting to the parent GovCloud region for broader management and operations.

🔒 Microsoft has updated File Explorer to disable the preview pane by default for files downloaded from the Internet or marked with the Mark of the Web. The change, included in Windows security updates released on and after October 14, 2025, is designed to block exploits that can leak NTLM hashes when previewed documents reference external resources. When preview is blocked, File Explorer shows a warning and users can manually unblock trusted files via Properties > Unblock or add the location to Trusted sites/Local intranet; a sign-out may be required for the change to take effect.

📊 Amazon QuickSight now provides a visual data preparation experience that enables business users to clean, transform, and combine data without writing code. The interface supports multi-step workflows—appends, aggregations, flexible joins—and records each transformation step to improve traceability and shareability. It increases dataset source depth from 3 to 10 levels and boosts cross-source join capacity 20× (1GB to 20GB), and is available to Author, Author Pro, and select Quick Suite Enterprise subscribers across multiple regions.

🔁 The Amazon DynamoDB zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift is now available in the Asia Pacific (Taipei) region, enabling analytics on production DynamoDB tables without impacting operational workloads. Customers can run high-performance SQL, leverage built-in ML and Spark integrations, and use materialized views with automatic incremental refresh and data sharing. History mode provides built-in support for analyzing historical data and building Type 2 Slowly Changing Dimension (SCD 2) tables without custom ETL code.

📧 Amazon Connect now includes threaded email views and appends conversation history to agent replies, helping agents and customers preserve context and continuity across exchanges. The update provides a familiar, mail-like threading model and surfaces prior messages inline within Amazon Connect Email, making follow-ups and issue resolution faster. The capability is available in multiple AWS regions and streamlines agent workflows.

🚀 Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) now supports Graviton4-based R8g instances, delivering DDR5 memory and Nitro System improvements for memory‑intensive workloads. R8g is available for Amazon DocumentDB 5.0 on both Standard and IO‑Optimized cluster storage. Customers can modify existing clusters or create new ones via the AWS Management Console, CLI, or SDK; check documentation for regional availability and pricing.

🔒 AWS has made Nitro Enclaves available in every AWS Region, expanding regional support to include new locations across Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, and North America. Nitro Enclaves enables customers to create isolated compute environments inside EC2 instances to protect and process sensitive data and reduce attack surface. There is no additional charge beyond the EC2 and associated service usage.