All news with #product update tag

🚀 AWS Lambda now supports a 90-minute function timeout for asynchronous and event source mapping (ESM) invocations on Lambda Managed Instances (LMI), increasing the previous 15-minute limit sixfold. This change enables longer-running workloads such as data processing, media transcoding, financial calculations, AI inference, and batch jobs without re-architecting applications. Configuration is available via the AWS Lambda Console, CLI, API, IaC tooling, or the Agent Toolkit. Synchronous invocations remain limited to 15 minutes; the feature is available in all Regions that support LMI.

🛠️ Google Cloud Spanner now allows transactions to include any number of DML statements provided each individual statement produces fewer than 80,000 mutation mods. This change moves the previous 80,000 cumulative transaction-level cap to a per-statement limit, enabling larger, more natural transactions without code changes. Existing client libraries remain compatible, though longer transactions may increase lock contention and aborts, so developers should monitor CommitStats and optimize large operations.

📱The Amazon Quick activity feed is now available on the Amazon Quick mobile app for iOS and Android, providing a single prioritized view of items that need attention across enterprise communications and tools. Items requiring action surface to the top, and you can take actions directly within the app instead of switching between tools. Quick learns your priorities over time and retains context between desktop and mobile, allowing seamless continuation of chats and tasks. The mobile app is included with existing Amazon Quick access at no additional cost.

🔔 Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Memory now offers the IngestData API to submit content directly for long-term memory extraction without first creating a short-term memory event. The API accepts conversational and JSON payloads along with optional metadata, fans content out to configured long-term strategies, and makes resulting records available via existing retrieval operations. Developers can verify and manage extraction results with ListMemoryRecords, RetrieveMemoryRecords, Kinesis streaming for notifications, and ListMemoryExtractionJobs for redrives.

🔬 Today, AWS HealthOmics introduces the resource fallback directive, allowing users to specify an ordered list of preferred accelerator types — including a final CPU fallback — for tasks in Workflow Description Language (WDL) workflows. This feature reduces time spent diagnosing and resubmitting runs when accelerators are constrained and helps keep production workflows running. HealthOmics is HIPAA-eligible and available in multiple AWS Regions to support bioinformatics at scale.

🖼️ Today, AWS announced four new features for Dynamic Image Transformation for Amazon CloudFront (DIT), enhancing smart cropping with custom label detection and advanced composition controls to preserve products, text, logos, and custom objects. The update also adds enhanced automatic image optimization across devices using CloudFront's multi‑tier device detection, an interactive transformation playground for testing, and full feature parity between ECS and Lambda architectures. DIT is available in all commercial regions and four opt‑in regions.

🔐 Cloudflare introduces Automatic Key Exchange, extending Automatic SSL/TLS to probe origin servers and choose the optimal TLS 1.3 key agreement on the first ClientHello. This measurement-driven approach replaces a static X25519 guess, dramatically reducing HelloRetryRequests and lowering handshake latency while enabling broader post-quantum hybrid key usage. The feature is active by default and includes compliance filters for operators who need to restrict allowable algorithms.

🔐 AWS Builder ID now supports adding a recovery email and new self-service account recovery options to help users regain access without contacting support. You can reset forgotten passwords via primary or recovery email and restore access if an MFA device is lost by verifying both emails. Third-party sign-ins from Google, Apple, GitHub, or Amazon can now register MFA devices directly in AWS Builder ID, and users may permanently switch to an email/password sign-in if they lose a third-party account.

✉️ OpenAI is testing a new "Writing Style" feature for ChatGPT that can learn a user's voice by referencing examples in connected apps. The trial, limited to a small group, supports examples from Messaging, Documents, and Email, with services like Slack, Google Drive, Notion, and Gmail listed. Once enabled, ChatGPT can use these real examples to draft content that matches a user's natural tone without repeated instruction. OpenAI confirmed the experiment but has not announced a wider rollout timeline.

🔁 Amazon Web Services now offers automatic sync scheduling for Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base, a fully managed RAG service that removes the need to manage vector databases or custom pipelines. You can configure daily, weekly, or monthly syncs for native connectors to keep knowledge bases current. This replaces manual syncs and custom scheduling solutions, reducing operational overhead and ensuring AI agents retrieve up-to-date enterprise information.

🔧 Amazon EC2 now allows AMI owners to declare which instance types are compatible or incompatible with their AMIs. Owners can specify supported, unsupported, or both lists, and any launch on a non-permitted type is blocked automatically. By default AMIs remain launchable on any instance type, so existing workflows are unchanged until restrictions are applied. The feature is available in all AWS Regions at no extra cost.

🚀 Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) introduces Early Success Criteria for rolling service deployments, letting you declare a deployment successful once a configured healthy percent of tasks are running. This reduces wait time for deployments to complete, unblocks dependent CI/CD and operational workflows, and better supports constrained capacity workloads like GPU inference. You can configure behavior for source revision cleanup using BLOCKING or DEFERRED, and enable the feature across AWS Commercial and GovCloud regions via Console, CLI, SDKs, or IaC tools.

🛠️ Microsoft is investigating a known issue that delays or prevents some Windows users from opening the Microsoft Teams desktop client, with initial loads taking up to two minutes or failing to load. The company recommends using Teams on the web or the mobile app as temporary workarounds while it analyzes logs and telemetry to identify root causes. Separately, Microsoft is also probing a Mac-specific problem that prevents users from joining calls and meetings and has revised its initial assessment of the cause. These incidents follow prior Teams-related issues and broader Microsoft service disruptions that the company continues to remediate.

🚀 Amazon SageMaker AI now supports Amazon EC2 G6e instances for Batch Transform, enabling high-performance offline inference on large datasets stored in Amazon S3. G6e instances feature up to eight NVIDIA L40S Tensor Core GPUs with 48 GB memory per GPU and third-generation AMD EPYC processors, improving throughput for GPU-intensive workloads. Use supported ml.g6e instance types when creating Batch Transform jobs via AWS SDKs, AWS CLI, or the CreateTransformJob API. G6e support is available in select AWS regions including US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon).

🔔 Amazon ECS now supports non-critical Managed Daemons for ECS Managed Instances, allowing operators to mark daemons so their failure won’t interrupt mission-critical application tasks. This ensures container instances remain active, existing application tasks continue running, and ECS will still place new tasks even when a daemon fails. Events are emitted to EventBridge and service action logs record daemon health; disablement is configured by setting the critical parameter to false via Console, CLI, CloudFormation, or SDKs.

🚀 Customers can now subscribe and manage CloudFront flat-rate pricing plans programmatically via the AWS CLI, SDKs, CloudFormation, CDK, or the PricingPlanManager API. Flat-rate plans cover global content delivery, WAF, DDoS, DNS, logging, and edge compute under one monthly fee without usage overages. Paid plans offer a two-phase activation (create then approve) for controlled billing, while free plans activate immediately. There are no extra fees for using the API.

🖥️ Amazon WorkSpaces Applications now supports Graphics G7 instances powered by NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs and Intel Xeon Scalable (6th Gen) processors. G7 delivers up to 2.1× better performance for graphics workloads versus G6 and offers 32 GB of GDDR7 per GPU with 2.67× faster memory bandwidth. Six sizes are available (1–8 GPUs, 8–192 vCPUs, 32–768 GB RAM) and G7 is initially available in three US regions.

🔧 AWS Gateway Load Balancer (GWLB) now supports sending TCP Reset packets to accelerate failure recovery for client and server connections. Previously, GWLB exhibited fail-open behavior where traffic continued to be forwarded to unhealthy targets, causing prolonged interruptions due to TCP retries and back-off. TCP Reset can be enabled per target group via the Console, CLI, or API and responds to three independent triggers: target unhealthy, target deregistration after connection draining, and TCP idle timeout expiry. This capability is available in all GWLB regions at no additional cost and is off by default for backward compatibility.

🔷 Amazon Redshift now supports single-node clusters for rg.large instances on P204 or later patches, enabling cost-effective testing and proof-of-concept deployments without high-availability requirements. RG instances, powered by AWS Graviton processors, offer up to 2.4x faster performance than prior RA3 generations and a ~30% lower price per vCPU. The RG family includes Redshift’s custom vectorized engine for SQL analytics over Apache Iceberg and Parquet data, and these instances are available across numerous global AWS Regions.

📢 Amazon Aurora MySQL now supports multi-source replication and delayed replication, enabling consolidation of multiple MySQL sources into a single Aurora cluster and intentional replica lag for protection against human error and logical corruption. Multi-source replication simplifies merging shards or aggregating regional and departmental databases into a central cluster for reporting and backups. Delayed replication allows a binlog replica to intentionally lag, letting you stop replication and promote the replica to recover quickly from harmful changes without a full restore. These features are available on Aurora MySQL 8.4.8+ in all Regions where Aurora MySQL is offered.