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NASA's Curiosity rover captured images of widespread polygonal fracture patterns in the Martian valley Valle Grande, providing clues to ancient surface processes.
Amazon Connect introduced capability to set sending numbers or email addresses dynamically by region or brand in customer outreach campaigns.
AWS CloudFormation introduced an update policy enabling automatic EC2 Auto Scaling instance refreshes during stack updates requiring instance replacement.
New Amazon Redshift Data API features reduce API call volume and provide flexible batch query executions and session visibility.
AWS Glue updated its REST API connector to support VPC connections, filter pushdown, and partitioning for efficient, secure data ingestion.
AWS WAF introduced pre-parse text transformations for query arguments and ten new transformations to better normalize web requests before rule evaluation.
AWS Interconnect offers a purpose-built solution for private, scalable connections between AWS and other cloud providers, starting with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Google Cloud.
Amazon Connect Customer now surfaces relevant high- and low-scoring agent evaluations to managers preparing coaching feedback, enabling data-driven conversations.
Amazon EFS added support to replicate file systems across AWS accounts within AWS GovCloud regions to enhance business continuity and compliance.
IAM Identity Center now replicates identities and entitlements from a primary AWS region to additional regions for directory-based identity sources, improving resilience and access availability.
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