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NASA introduced the Minority University Research and Education Project Space Technology Artemis Research (M-STAR) to boost academic aerospace capabilities supporting lunar, Martian, and deep space exploration.
Amazon EC2 introduced 8 TiB U7i-8TB instances using 4th-generation Intel Xeon processors to boost in-memory database performance in the AWS Europe (Paris) region.
Amazon Quick now connects with Snowflake Cortex AI via the Model Context Protocol, enabling natural language queries over structured and unstructured data and multi-step workflow automation.
Amazon EKS extends its local clusters capability to AWS Outposts racks using EC2 instances booting from instance store, improving stability and feature parity with cloud clusters.
CloudWatch Application Signals enhances service health monitoring with service ranking on application maps and consolidated access to infrastructure, logs, and traces for faster root cause identification.
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition upgraded to PostgreSQL 18.3, bringing performance enhancements, new extensions, and improved replication capabilities.
Elastic Beanstalk now features embedded CloudWatch Logs viewing within its console Logs tab, simplifying log access without switching tools.
Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) Serverless emits workflow and task state events to Amazon EventBridge, enabling event-driven automation.
Lake Formation now grants read/write access to underlying Amazon S3 data files through table permissions, simplifying data access management across SQL and file operations.
Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus added support for native histograms using exponential bucketing, improving metric resolution and reducing data series cardinality.
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