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Amazon Application Recovery Controller (ARC) Region Switch introduced Lambda event source mapping execution blocks to streamline failover in event-driven applications across AWS Regions.
AWS enhanced the Management Console by listing AWS Local Zones alongside Regions in the Region selector to simplify resource management across global infrastructure.
AWS Glue zero-ETL integrations launched in the Mumbai Region reduce the complexity of data replication and ingestion for analytics and machine learning workloads.
Lightsail introduced support for IPv6-only instances as origins in its CDN distributions, enabling seamless content delivery to users regardless of their network IP protocol.
Amazon EVS increased its maximum supported ESXi hosts per environment from 16 to 32, providing customers greater flexibility in VMware Cloud Foundation domain scaling.
AWS SAM CLI added support for CloudFormation Language Extensions, enabling developers to write less repetitive infrastructure code while locally iterating serverless applications.
Amazon Redshift introduced ALTER TABLE DDL operations and write capabilities for Apache Iceberg tables via AWS Glue Data Catalog mount, improving data lake integration.
Amazon ECS added support for mounting Amazon EBS volumes on container tasks in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, enhancing storage options for containerized applications.
Amazon SageMaker Studio integrated GPU capacity reservations through Flexible Training Plans, improving cost predictability and resource availability for machine learning development.
AWS Secrets Manager Agent enhanced secret retrieval with pre-fetching at startup and cross-account IAM role assumption support, reducing latency and simplifying access across accounts.
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