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Amazon DocumentDB introduced in-place major version upgrades directly from 3.6 and 4.0 to 8.0, streamlining version transitions while preserving data and settings.
AWS broadened User Agent string support to additional services, enhancing Partners’ revenue attribution and consumption insights through Partner Revenue Measurement.
MediaTailor added an in-console analytics dashboard, providing publishers with detailed, multi-region insights into ad monetization and streaming metrics.
Amazon Quick enhanced user workflows by integrating AWS Agent Registry, allowing direct discovery and activation of agents and MCP servers within its interface.
Amazon Redshift supports AWS IAM Identity Center single sign-on with enhanced VPC routing, securing analytics traffic within the AWS network without public internet egress.
Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB became available in more AWS regions, facilitating managed time-series databases using open-source APIs worldwide.
Amazon Connect Global Resiliency introduced cross-region routing between two active AWS regions, balancing live traffic for unified contact center operations.
Amazon Redshift added support for Apache Iceberg version 3, enabling advanced table features for improved data lake integration and management.
AWS introduced R9g and R9gd EC2 instances based on Graviton5 processors, providing enhanced compute performance for memory-intensive workloads.
Amazon Cognito introduced the GetClientToken API enabling machine-to-machine access tokens without requiring a user pool domain configuration.
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