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NASA transferred a 105-acre wooded parcel formerly used for propellant research to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Patuxent Research Refuge, expanding conservation land.
Amazon EC2 introduced 12TiB U7i high memory instances powered by Intel Sapphire Rapids processors in the AWS Zurich region for intensive in-memory database workloads.
Amazon GameLift Streams introduced Stream Session Admin Shell enabling secure terminal access for live stream debugging without managing keys or open ports.
Amazon S3 Vectors, a scalable vector data storage service for AI and semantic search, became available in AWS GovCloud regions.
AWS expanded its Security Hub service to monitor Microsoft Azure resources, enabling unified cross-cloud risk and vulnerability management.
AWS lowered management fees for GPU and accelerated instance types using Amazon ECS Managed Instances, improving cost efficiency for accelerated workloads.
Amazon EMR Serverless upgraded its maximum worker size to 32 vCPUs and 244 GB memory to support more demanding compute and memory tasks.
AWS debuted C8ine instances powered by sixth-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors in Frankfurt, optimized for security and network appliance workloads.
Amazon SageMaker Enhanced its Unified Studio with OpenLineage-compatible data lineage tracking for IAM-based domains, improving data provenance visualization and management.
AWS introduced Redshift RG instances powered by Graviton processors to GovCloud regions, offering up to 2.4x speed at lower cost than previous RA3 instances.
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