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AWS introduced Rich Communication Services (RCS) support in its End User Messaging platform to enable verified, interactive business messaging beyond traditional SMS.
AWS released the DevOps Agent as a proactive, AI-driven tool to reduce incident resolution time and optimize application performance across cloud and on-premises environments.
Amazon Connect introduced easy-to-configure testing and simulation for chat interactions, improving validation and deployment of customer service workflows.
AWS integrated Direct Connect configuration into CloudFormation, enabling automated, version-controlled management of network resources.
AWS launched Security Agent to perform continuous, automated penetration testing across multicloud and on-premises environments, aiming to improve security validation speed and scale.
AWS enhanced Private Certificate Authority with real-time usage metrics published to Amazon CloudWatch for monitoring certificate issuance and CA quotas.
Amazon Location Service incorporated GrabMaps to provide local, up-to-date mapping data through streamlined APIs tailored for Southeast Asia applications.
Amazon EC2 Capacity Manager updated to support grouping and filtering capacity metrics by resource tags and added Account Name dimension for cross-account analysis.
AWS Payment Cryptography added the South America (São Paulo) Region to its global footprint, enabling low-latency payment cryptographic operations.
Amazon QuickSight introduced sheet tooltips that display detailed, filter-responsive information to enhance interactive data exploration in dashboards.
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