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Amazon ECS introduced an automatic system to monitor and repair container instances experiencing agent connectivity problems across all deployment options.
AWS Glue expanded support for federated metadata access to Iceberg REST catalogs stored remotely, facilitating real-time synchronized queries within AWS GovCloud regions.
Amazon SageMaker MLflow incorporated encryption using customer-managed keys via AWS KMS to meet stringent security and compliance needs.
Amazon EKS enhanced Kubernetes cluster authentication by enabling up to ten external OpenID Connect identity providers per cluster.
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL introduced support for multiple recent minor PostgreSQL releases, offering improved security and operational enhancements.
Amazon MSK Replicator introduced SASL/OAUTHBEARER support, enabling secure data replication from externally authenticated Kafka clusters.
SageMaker HyperPod integrated enhanced features for Ray, offering improved observability, fault tolerance, and interactive development environments.
Amazon Connect Customer implemented automated extraction of key data and insights from agent voice and chat interactions to enhance productivity and automation.
AWS ParallelCluster delivered an integrated diagnostic tool and software stack updates to improve cluster management and troubleshooting for HPC workloads.
OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 series launched on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud, featuring high-performance, secure large language models with extended context capacities.
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