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NASA awarded a $158 million contract to Chugach Intelligence Solutions LLC for maintaining and operating Ames Research Center's facilities over five years.
Amazon Web Services updated RDS to allow database storage modifications up to four times within a 24-hour window without waiting periods.
AWS Backup introduced logically air-gapped vaults for immutable, encrypted backups in six additional global regions to enhance data protection.
AWS Backup now offers automated restore testing for supported resources in seven more regions to help clients verify recovery readiness.
AWS Control Tower Account Factory for Terraform now auto-reapplies customizations when accounts are reassigned between Organizational Units, reducing manual overhead.
Amazon Aurora Distributed SQL database is now authorized under FedRAMP Moderate in multiple US regions, enabling government cloud workloads.
SageMaker Unified Studio added the ability to build and share reusable custom visual transforms in ETL workflows without coding.
GameLift Streams now supports assigning IAM roles to stream sessions, enhancing security by providing automatic short-lived credentials to applications.
Amazon OpenSearch Service introduced a one-click migration feature to transfer tenants and saved objects from legacy Dashboards to new OpenSearch UI seamlessly.
SageMaker HyperPod added support for configuring network topology per partition in Slurm clusters to optimize distributed training.
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