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AWS Glue Interactive Sessions incorporated Apache Spark Connect to allow development and execution of Spark applications from diverse environments using a thin client model.
AWS HealthOmics added real-time streaming of its bioinformatics workflow engine logs to Amazon CloudWatch for enhanced observability during scientific workflow executions.
AWS DevOps Agent expanded to support release management by assessing code changes and running autonomous tests to improve deployment safety and operational reliability.
Amazon RDS launched Graviton5-based M9g instance types for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB, offering up to 30% better performance and improved price-performance over previous generation.
Amazon Aurora and RDS for MySQL extended security and bug fix support for MySQL 5.7 versions, allowing customers more time for major version upgrades.
AWS released bmn-cx3a instances on second-generation Outposts racks, combining 5th Gen AMD EPYC CPUs with NVIDIA ConnectX-7 network cards for high-throughput workloads on-premises.
Amazon Quick introduced autonomous agents for continuous task automation and added natural language analytics across multiple datasets with a new interactive activity feed.
AgentCore introduced features that analyze production traces to detect silent failures, generate data-driven fixes, and validate improvements via batch evaluation and A/B testing.
AgentCore now enforces Bedrock Guardrails policies at the gateway level to detect and prevent security and safety risks like prompt injections in AI agent workloads.
The general availability of AgentCore’s managed harness facilitates rapid creation and operation of AI agents by providing orchestration, tool management, and session state persistence as a service.
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