Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports layout customization for designations
AWS added designation layout customization to Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio, enabling domain administrators to restrict visible tools and navigation items based on user roles.
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AI Function task support in Declarative Automation Bundles (Beta)
Databricks introduced Beta support for AI Function tasks within Declarative Automation Bundles.
Give agents only the access they need
Buildkite released token permissions and queue scopes for agent tokens, allowing teams to restrict agent capabilities and limit job acceptance to specific queues.
Many-to-many relationships in semantic views (Preview)
Snowflake Cortex AI launched a public preview for modeling many-to-many relationships between logical tables within semantic views.
BigQuery connections for MySQL, Oracle, and PostgreSQL are in preview
Google Cloud introduced BigQuery federated query connections to MySQL, Oracle, and PostgreSQL in public preview.
Upcoming deprecation of selected GitHub Copilot models in December
GitHub announced the upcoming deprecation of several Copilot models on December 14, 2026, including Claude Fable 5, Gemini 3.8 Flash, and Grok 4.6.
Deploy pg\_pinecone to Render or Railway
Pinecone released one-click templates to deploy pg_pinecone on Render or Railway running PostgreSQL 18 with preloaded vector extensions.
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Ornith-1.0-9B and Ornith-1.0-35B models now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
DeepReinforce AI's Ornith-1.0-9B and Ornith-1.0-35B models are now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart. These open-source models are designed for agentic coding workflows.
DeepSeek-V4-Pro, DeepSeek-V4-Flash, and DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash models now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
DeepSeek-V4-Pro, DeepSeek-V4-Flash, and DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash models are now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart. These mixture-of-experts models are designed for reasoning, coding, and agentic workloads.
Amazon MWAA Serverless supports DuckDB operators
Amazon MWAA Serverless now supports DuckDB operators, enabling you to analyze and transform data with high-performance in-memory analytics directly in your workflows. You can query data in Amazon S3 or run analytics locally, without manual credential configuration. DuckDB operators are also supported in SageMaker Unified Studio visual workflows.
AWS Analytics services now support Workday Data Cloud integration
AWS Analytics services, including SageMaker, EMR, Glue, Redshift, and Athena, now support zero-copy integration with Workday Data Cloud. This allows users to query Workday data in place using Apache Iceberg.
Amazon SageMaker AI Studio Now Supports IAM Identity Center Multi-Region Replication
Amazon SageMaker AI Studio now supports IAM Identity Center multi-region replication, allowing administrators to deploy domains in regions separate from their primary identity instance.
Amazon SageMaker AI inference now supports GPU partitioning for real-time endpoints
SageMaker AI now supports GPU partitioning using NVIDIA Multi-Instance GPU (MIG) technology. This allows multiple models to share a single GPU with hardware-enforced isolation.
Amazon SageMaker AI now supports SOCI-indexed images to start training jobs in seconds
Amazon SageMaker AI now supports Seekable OCI (SOCI)-indexed container images, allowing training and processing jobs to lazy-load images and start in seconds instead of minutes.
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports custom designations
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio introduced domain-level custom designations, enabling administrators to configure fine-grained role permissions across catalog, connection, and notebook resources.