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Amazon RDS for MySQL added support for MySQL Innovation Release 9.6 via its Database Preview Environment, enabling customers to evaluate the latest features and fixes in a managed service.
AWS expanded Amazon DocumentDB availability to the Canada West (Calgary) region, delivering a fully managed document database service compatible with MongoDB workloads.
Amazon CloudFront introduced cache invalidation by cache tag, allowing developers to efficiently refresh groups of related cached objects at edge locations.
AWS added new pre-trained models to SageMaker JumpStart including a multilingual semantic similarity model, a table detection model, and a large multilingual generative language model.
AWS launched Gemma 4 series models in SageMaker JumpStart, offering multimodal AI with reasoning, multilingual support, and function calling capabilities for sophisticated applications.
CloudWatch enhanced its agent setup by adding a graphical configuration editor directly in the EC2 console, simplifying monitoring setup for EC2 instances.
Amazon Bedrock expanded its foundation model catalog in AWS GovCloud (US) with OpenAI’s open-weight GPT OSS and NVIDIA Nemotron models, enhancing generative AI capabilities.
Amazon QuickSight improved data visualization controls by enabling authors to customize the sort order of filter dropdown and list values beyond default alphabetical ordering.
AWS updated its Transfer Family Terraform module with practical examples integrating Okta and Microsoft Entra ID as custom identity providers, facilitating streamlined authentication setup.
AWS launched Amazon RDS for Db2 in GovCloud regions, providing customers with managed setup and scaling for Db2 databases with high availability configurations.
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