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NASA employs small remotely piloted aircraft at its Armstrong Flight Research Center to test new aerospace concepts efficiently before scaling to full-sized aircraft flights.
Data from Mars' Jezero Crater rim indicates a thick rock sequence formed by repeated asteroid impacts over 3.9 billion years ago.
CloudWatch Logs Insights adds a broad set of commands for advanced log analysis and data transformation.
Amazon CloudWatch Logs now automatically moves log data among storage tiers to optimize cost and access.
Amazon MQ now allows customizable disk storage sizes for RabbitMQ brokers separate from instance type selection.
AWS deploys NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs in G7e instances offering enhanced AI inference performance in multiple global data centers.
New high-performance Graviton4-based database instances offer significant upgrades for Amazon Aurora and RDS across expanded global regions.
Imported users can now sign in immediately with existing passwords as Cognito supports hashed credential imports via CSV files.
AWS extends availability of database instances with local NVMe SSD storage to improve query throughput and latency.
AWS integrates Apache Kafka version 4.2 into MSK Express Brokers, improving availability and stream processing coordination.
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