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Amazon introduced streaming tables in Kinesis Data Streams, enabling serverless, continuous data delivery to Apache Iceberg tables on Amazon S3 with cost and performance improvements.
AWS expanded availability of EC2 C8gn instances featuring AWS Graviton4 CPUs for enhanced compute and networking performance targeting network-intensive workloads.
Amazon enhanced its Bedrock AgentCore Memory with fine-grained access control, allowing secure per-user and per-tenant data isolation without custom authorization code.
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Memory introduced customizable namespace variables, allowing precise control over memory organization suitable for complex, multi-tenant applications.
AWS expanded FedRAMP compliance for its Transform migration and modernization service, facilitating secure government cloud migrations at FedRAMP Moderate classification.
AWS released P6-B300 instances featuring advanced NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs to additional regions, targeting large-scale AI model training and deployment.
AWS enhanced EMR on EKS with admission controls to limit concurrent job runs, preventing resource contention in multi-tenant environments.
Amazon updated Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition to include MySQL 8.0.45 features and fixes, enhancing database performance and maintainability.
CloudWatch agent enhanced its Linux log collection by reading systemd journal logs directly, improving log metadata capture and management.
SpaceXAI’s Grok 4.6 model, focused on coding and complex interactive tasks, became available on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud with extended capabilities.
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