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Amazon Bedrock augmented its AI model hosting with expanded OpenAI GPT-5.6 APIs and introduced automatic cross-Region inference for scalability and cost efficiency.
Amazon Elastic Container Registry expanded replication capabilities by allowing up to 25 replication rules per registry, facilitating complex multi-region deployments.
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling introduced batch instance terminations via a single API call, improving efficiency for rapid scale-down scenarios.
Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka simplified custom domain name management by enabling cluster-level configuration across metadata modes.
Amazon EC2 launched new Intel Xeon 6-based R8i and memory-optimized R8i-Flex instances in Canada West, offering improved performance and memory bandwidth.
Amazon Connect enhanced customer dashboards to report on routing steps and agent proficiencies, assisting in contact center performance optimization.
AWS Network Firewall added metrics for stateful rule hit counts, aiding network security management through actionable insights.
Amazon Quick introduced Microsoft 365 extensions for Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Outlook, applying AI to enhance productivity within familiar applications.
Amazon OpenSearch Service extended automatic semantic enrichment to support VPC-enabled domains, enhancing private network search capabilities.
AWS Console-to-Code enhanced developer tooling by adding 26 services and enabling unified multi-region and multi-tab action recordings.
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