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A 2026 global survey revealed AI's dominant use has shifted to learning, with students, teachers, and parents leveraging it for education-related tasks.
NASA explored blockchain technology in drone flight tests to protect aviation data and enhance air traffic management security.
The ISS marked 25 years of continuous human presence, contributing to cancer treatment breakthroughs, medical implant manufacturing, and solar corona observations.
AWS introduced cross-account access for DynamoDB Streams, allowing Lambda functions in different accounts to trigger in response to stream events without complex data replication.
AWS extended its 7th generation High Memory U7i instances with up to 16 TiB memory to additional global regions, supporting mission-critical in-memory database workloads.
AWS expanded Amazon Bedrock with a Reserved service tier to provide predictable compute capacity and token throughput for AI workloads needing consistent performance.
AWS announced availability of Amazon MWAA, a managed Apache Airflow service for workflow orchestration, in the Asia Pacific (Thailand) region in 2026.
AWS enhanced Outposts racks to support up to 10 isolated local gateway routing domains per rack, enabling improved traffic segregation and network management.
AWS broadened regional availability of its second-generation Outposts racks to South America (Sao Paulo) and Europe (Stockholm) to support hybrid cloud deployments.
Amazon S3 Storage Lens, a tool for organization-wide storage visibility and optimization, became available with advanced metrics in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions in 2026.
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