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Amazon CloudWatch extended synthetic monitoring capabilities to cover network paths via AWS Transit Gateway inter-Region peering, improving performance issue diagnostics.
AWS introduced EC2 X2idn instances powered by 3rd Gen Intel processors to the Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) region, targeting memory-intensive workloads.
AWS enhanced SageMaker HyperPod with model caching to accelerate inference start times, notably benefiting large language model workloads.
AWS Lambda functions gained explicit configuration options to control direct reads from Amazon S3 Files, improving performance tuning.
AWS integrated TwelveLabs Marengo 3.0 embedding model into Bedrock knowledge base, enabling direct multimodal search over video, audio, and images.
AWS HealthOmics provides live resource utilization metrics across compute and storage, enhancing bioinformatics workflow observability.
The AWS DevOps Agent enhances operational workflows by enabling full incident investigation from within Slack channels.
SageMaker Unified Studio added native ODBC connection support, facilitating direct access to governed data for tools like Microsoft Power BI.
AWS Parallel Computing Service enhanced Slurm cluster management with refined hardware awareness and Multi-Instance GPU scheduling.
Amazon RDS expanded support for Oracle Database's Supplemental Patch Bundle in the July 2026 release update for versions 19c and 26ai.
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