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NASA's Flight Dynamics Research Facility provides a unique vertical wind tunnel environment to study aircraft stability and control at subsonic speeds.
Amazon extended its FSx Intelligent-Tiering storage class to eight additional AWS Regions, optimizing cost and performance for diverse file workloads.
AWS enhanced SageMaker Unified Studio Notebooks by adding support for Apache Spark Connect with EMR Serverless, enabling data engineers to select Spark runtimes suited to their workloads.
Amazon introduced S3 Access Grants in its German Sovereign Cloud to streamline identity-based data permissions for S3 datasets.
AWS introduced a FinOps-focused agent offering automated financial operations workflows, cost anomaly detection, and optimization recommendations in preview.
AWS released new large-scale EC2 metal instances featuring sixth generation Intel Xeon processors and enhanced networking for demanding workloads.
AWS launched Claude Fable 5, a Mythos-class AI model with safety features for broad deployment in professional autonomous knowledge tasks.
AWS Backup added data protection capabilities for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service clusters in Germany's European Sovereign Cloud region.
Amazon EMR announced support for Apache Spark 4.0.2, offering improved SQL compatibility, fine-grained access control, and enhanced real-time streaming.
Amazon EMR Serverless enables persistent interactive Apache Spark sessions via Spark Connect, integrated with popular notebooks and IDEs.
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