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Amazon enhanced CloudWatch Synthetics by enabling encryption of canary environment variables through customer-managed AWS KMS keys.
Amazon Managed Grafana attained FedRAMP High authorization, enabling compliant use for federal and public sector workloads in AWS GovCloud.
AWS Billing and Cost Management dashboards now include a Cost Efficiency widget to track optimization performance alongside spending metrics.
Amazon EC2 now returns AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store identifiers linked to public AMIs, simplifying AMI management.
Amazon S3 enhanced event notification payloads by including AWS-applied system-generated tags.
Amazon RDS introduced PostgreSQL 19 Beta 2 in its Database Preview Environment, enabling users to test upcoming features with managed hosting benefits.
AWS Sustainability added annual water withdrawal metrics for workloads, complementing existing carbon emissions reporting.
Amazon Redshift introduced rg.large and rg.12xlarge RG instances, delivering Graviton-powered performance improvements and cost advantages.
AWS made EC2 U7in-24TB High Memory instances generally available in Europe (Paris), boosting capacity for memory-intensive workloads.
Amazon S3 updated lifecycle transitions to allow immediate moves to Standard-IA and One Zone-IA, removing the prior 30-day minimum.
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