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Amazon EC2 introduces new M8i and M8i-flex instances in the Canada West (Calgary) region, featuring custom Intel Xeon 6 processors optimized for cloud workloads.
Amazon RDS incorporated support for the latest cumulative update CU6 for Microsoft SQL Server 2025, enhancing security and stability for hosted instances.
Amazon RDS for Oracle incorporated the July 2026 Release Update, providing security and maintenance improvements for versions 19c, 21c, and 26ai.
AWS Secrets Manager extended its managed external secrets rotation to support Cisco Security Platform and Netskope API credentials, streamlining credential lifecycle management.
Amazon Cognito added an administrative API that allows resetting users’ TOTP multi-factor authentication settings, facilitating account recovery.
Amazon Connect Customer introduced features to handle unplanned agent absences in staffing schedules, enhancing schedule accuracy.
Mountpoint for Amazon S3 gains memory usage controls to better coexist with memory-intensive workloads and environments with constrained resources.
Amazon Connect Customer enhances performance evaluations by enabling configurable points-based scoring to better reflect business priorities.
AWS Glue 5.1 became available in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud Region featuring upgraded Apache Spark, Python, Scala, and extended open table format support.
AWS Backup added cross-region backup copying and immutable vault features for Amazon DocumentDB in nine new AWS Regions, enhancing disaster recovery and data security.
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