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Amazon RDS expanded compatibility to include IBM Db2 v12.1, incorporating Standard, Advanced, and Community Editions to facilitate managed, licensed database usage for development and testing.
AWS IoT Core enhanced troubleshooting with two new CloudWatch log event types targeting MQTT keep-alive and authentication failure diagnostics across IoT devices.
Amazon Connect Customer added dashboard alerts triggered by keywords and sentiment analysis during live interactions to empower supervisors' timely interventions.
AgentCore Runtime introduced persistent terminal sessions, enabling developers direct, interactive command execution within microVM-hosted agents over WebSocket.
IAM-based authorization introduced for Amazon S3 Tables and Apache Iceberg materialized views streamlines permission management across catalog and query engines in AWS GovCloud.
OpenSearch Service launched its updated UI, including collaborative workspaces and multi-source data analysis, in AWS GovCloud to support operational analytics and security use cases.
The sixth-generation Intel Xeon-powered C8in instances, featuring superior network bandwidth and compute capabilities, became accessible in new AWS regions including Sydney and Frankfurt.
AWS Fargate extended its compute capability to 32 vCPUs with up to 244 GiB memory, accommodating larger and compute-intensive container workloads.
The AWS Command Line Interface incorporated an interactive wizard to install and manage Agent Toolkit skills across multiple AI coding agents efficiently.
The AWS Model Context Protocol Server introduced multi-profile support allowing AI coding agents to operate across AWS accounts and roles within a single uninterrupted session.
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