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Amazon Connect Customer introduced Live Sync and Touchpoint to enhance web and mobile self-service during voice or chat sessions.
Amazon Bedrock’s built-in Web Search now supports government-compliant AI workloads by introducing grounded web-based results in AWS GovCloud (US-West).
Amazon Connect Customer expanded its automated performance evaluations to support Malay language interactions, enhancing multilingual contact center assessment.
Amazon Quick introduced advanced administrative controls and Model Context Protocol synchronization to improve connector management and tool deployment.
Amazon Connect Customer debuted agentic CX designer, a visual no-code canvas combining agentic and deterministic AI to build controlled, AI-powered self-service experiences.
AWS expanded support for second-generation Outposts racks to AWS GovCloud (US-East and US-West), facilitating hybrid cloud deployments with low latency and data residency needs.
AWS CloudFormation updated contract testing to version 2, adding deeper lifecycle tests and live-state verification for resource types.
AWS Config added support for 60 additional AWS resource types including Bedrock, EC2, SageMaker, and Organizations, improving audit and remediation capabilities.
Amazon MemoryDB introduced support for AWS PrivateLink in AWS GovCloud (US-West and US-East), enabling private and secure connectivity from VPCs.
AWS User Experience Customization (UXC), allowing account-level console appearance and service visibility settings, became available across all commercial AWS Regions.
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