All news with #product update tag

🚀 Today AWS removed networking bandwidth burst duration limits for Amazon EC2 I7i and I8g instances larger than 4xlarge, doubling the network bandwidth available at all times for those sizes. Where instances previously relied on a network I/O credit mechanism to burst above a baseline, larger I7i and I8g instances can now sustain their maximum network performance indefinitely. The change delivers more predictable, uninterrupted throughput for memory- and network‑intensive workloads such as distributed databases, real‑time analytics and AI preprocessing; smaller sizes retain existing baseline-and-burst behavior.

⚡ Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now allows customers to force-cancel ongoing instance refreshes immediately by setting WaitForTransitioningInstances to false when calling the CancelInstanceRefresh API. The change bypasses waiting for in-progress launches, terminations, or instance lifecycle hooks, enabling rapid aborts of deployments during incidents or to roll forward to corrected releases. The capability is available in all AWS regions, including AWS GovCloud (US).

🌐 WhatsApp has begun rolling out a new message translation feature for Android and iPhone that translates messages in chats, groups, and channel updates. On iOS, users can translate individual messages via long-press and tapping 'Translate', while Android users can also enable automatic translation to convert all messages in a thread. Initial language support differs by platform and the rollout will be gradual.

📊 Amazon Connect's Flow Designer now includes an analytics mode that surfaces aggregate metrics across drag-and-drop flows to help teams build and optimize customer journeys. You can visualize step-level behavior, including where users abandon, encounter errors, or are transferred to agent queues, enabling targeted troubleshooting and configuration fixes. This capability is included with Amazon Connect (with unlimited AI) pricing and is available in all AWS regions.

🔁 Mozilla now allows Firefox extension developers to roll back recently approved versions to a previously approved release, enabling fast mitigation of critical bugs and regressions. When reverted, users cannot install the problematic version, and browsers with automatic updates will revert affected installations within 24 hours. Developers can republish a prior build via the Developer Hub or the Add-on Submission API. Rollbacks require at least two approved versions on addons.mozilla.org, while self-distributed extensions may revert to any approved version.

🚀 Cloudflare’s Workers Launchpad helps startups build and scale by providing cloud credits, technical mentorship, and direct access to product teams. Since expanding to a $2B funding commitment, the program has supported 145 startups across 23 countries, spanning AI, developer tools, and infrastructure. Cohort #6 introduces a new slate of founders and emphasizes hands-on collaboration, community, and pathways to funding and acquisition.

🚀 Cloudflare has opened its Startup program to registered non-profit, civil society, and public interest organizations, offering up to $250,000 in credits to support developer and core services. Eligible groups can use credits for databases & storage, compute, AI, media, and performance and security tools. Applications are open now through December 1, 2025; awards will be made based on project description, technical needs, and expected impact. Applicants must be a registered 501(c)(3) or equivalent and describe the tool they plan to build or scale.

🔐 AWS announced that AWS Organizations service control policies (SCPs) now support the full IAM policy language, adding features such as NotAction, NotResource, resource-level Allow statements, conditions in Allow, and more flexible action wildcards. The update is available across AWS commercial and GovCloud (US) Regions. These changes simplify permission models, reduce prior workarounds (such as tagging-based exceptions), and make SCPs more expressive and concise. AWS recommends careful wildcard use and continuing to prefer explicit Deny statements for robust controls.

🔁 Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion now supports cross-account ingestion for push-based sources such as HTTP and OpenTelemetry (OTel). This capability lets teams share ingestion pipelines across AWS accounts without relying on VPC peering or AWS Transit Gateway, simplifying centralized observability and analytics workflows. The feature is available today in all regions where OpenSearch Ingestion is offered; customers can configure resource policies in the AWS Management Console or CLI and enable pipeline endpoints from their VPCs to begin ingesting data.

🚀 Amazon RDS for MySQL now supports MySQL Innovation Release 9.4 in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment, enabling customers to evaluate the latest community Innovation Release on managed RDS instances. The Preview Environment supports Single‑AZ and Multi‑AZ deployments on current instance classes and retains preview instances for up to 60 days. Snapshots created in the Preview Environment are restricted to the Preview Environment, and preview instances are billed at the same rates as production RDS instances in the US East (Ohio) Region.

🚀 Amazon Redshift announces general availability of Multidimensional Data Layouts (MDDL), a dynamic sorting feature that reorganizes data according to actual query filters to accelerate analytics. MDDL creates a multidimensional virtual sort key that co-locates rows typically accessed together, enabling block-level and predicate-column skipping during execution. For tables using the default AUTO sort key, Redshift analyzes query history and automatically selects MDDL or an optimal single-column sort key based on expected benefits. AWS reports up to 10x end-to-end performance improvements for workloads with repetitive filters; MDDL is available in all AWS commercial regions.

🚀 AWS has released Neuron SDK 2.26.0 as generally available, delivering framework and runtime improvements for Inferentia and Trainium-based instances. The update adds support for PyTorch 2.8 and JAX 0.6.2, enhances inference on Trainium2 (Trn2) instances, and enables deployment of models such as FLUX.1-dev and beta Llama 4 Scout/Maverick. It also introduces expert parallelism (beta) for MoE models, new Neuron Kernel Interface APIs, and an improved Neuron Profiler with system profile grouping for distributed workloads.

🔎 OpenAI has rolled out an update to ChatGPT Search that improves accuracy, reliability, and link summarization to reduce hallucinations and make answers easier to verify. The search now better detects shopping intent, surfacing products when appropriate while keeping results focused for other queries, and it improves link summaries so users can follow back to sources. Answers are reformatted for quicker comprehension without sacrificing detail. OpenAI also added an GPT-5 Thinking toggle with adjustable 'juice' effort levels; the changes are rolling out gradually.

⚙️ OpenAI is rolling out a toggle that lets Plus, Pro, and Business subscribers choose how much "thinking" the GPT-5 Thinking model performs, trading off speed, cost, and depth. The simpler toggle UI replaces a tested slider and exposes internal "juice" effort levels — for example, Standard (juice=18) and Extended (64). Pro users also get Light (5) for very fast replies and Heavy (200) for the model's maximum reasoning depth.

🔒 Cloudflare now lets administrators route traffic to a Cloudflare Tunnel by hostname or domain, removing the need to track changing IP addresses. By binding hostnames or wildcard domains to tunnels and writing Access or Gateway policies, teams can enforce per-resource zero-trust rules and secure egress without touching IP lists. Gateway uses synthetic initial IPs to tag hostname intent at Layer 4, map traffic back to private IPs, and forward it through the correct tunnel.

🚀 AWS has expanded availability of OpenAI open weight models on Amazon Bedrock to eight additional regions. The update adds US East (N. Virginia), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Europe (Stockholm), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Europe (Ireland), South America (São Paulo), Europe (London), and Europe (Milan) to the previously supported US West (Oregon). This broader regional coverage reduces network latency, helps meet data residency preferences, and makes it easier for customers to deploy AI-powered applications closer to their users. Customers can access the models through the Amazon Bedrock console and supporting documentation to get started.

🤖 Amazon Lex now supports built-in confirmation and currency slot types in 10 additional languages: Portuguese, Catalan, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese, and Korean. These built-in slots normalize varied user phrasing—mapping acknowledgements to 'Yes', 'No', 'Don't know', or 'Maybe' and converting currency expressions into structured formats such as 'USD 1.00'—to simplify multi-lingual conversational flows. The feature is available in all commercial AWS Regions where Amazon Lex operates and can improve chatbots and contact-center interactions.

⚙️ AWS Step Functions now expands Distributed Map input sources and adds visibility metrics. Distributed Map can now iterate S3 objects via S3ListObjectsV2, read AWS Athena data manifests and Parquet files directly, and extract arrays from JSON stored in S3 or passed as state input. New observability metrics — Approximate Open Map Runs Count, Open Map Run Limit, and Approximate Map Runs Backlog Size — provide operational insight. These features are available in all commercial AWS Regions; enable Distributed Map mode in the Step Functions console and consult the developer guide for examples.

🚀 AWS has expanded availability of OpenAI open weight models on AWS Bedrock to eight additional AWS Regions worldwide. The update brings the models to US East (N. Virginia), Asia Pacific (Tokyo, Mumbai), Europe (Stockholm, Ireland, London, Milan) and South America (São Paulo), alongside existing US West (Oregon) support. This broader footprint aims to lower latency, improve model performance and help customers meet data residency requirements. To get started, use the Amazon Bedrock console or consult the documentation.

📝 Microsoft is adding free AI-powered text features to Notepad on Copilot+ PCs running Windows 11, rolling out now to Windows Insiders in the Canary and Dev channels on Notepad version 11.2508.28.0. The new Summarize, Write, and Rewrite tools were previously part of Microsoft 365 subscriptions but are available without an extra subscription on Copilot+ devices. Features support English only; subscribers can switch between local and cloud models while unsigned users use the local model. Users may disable the AI options in settings or uninstall the updated Notepad to use classic notepad.exe. Paint and Snipping Tool also received recent updates.