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NASA utilized a Dynamic Aviation A200 aircraft to perform low-altitude flights measuring agricultural emissions near Greeley, Colorado, marking the first FarmFlux mission series.
AWS expanded its MediaTailor service to support low-latency HTTP Live Streaming (LL-HLS) ad insertion, enabling personalized ads with reduced stream delay.
Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server was updated to support Microsoft SQL Server 2022 Cumulative Update 26, incorporating Microsoft-recommended fixes and improvements.
Amazon Connect Customer introduced agent-to-agent collaboration allowing AI agents to interact over an open protocol for enhanced live customer support.
Amazon Kinesis Data Streams introduced automatic partition key management for On-Demand streams to optimize shard distribution without user-specified keys.
AWS enhanced its Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base service with native connectors that automate syncing of Salesforce and Zendesk support content.
Amazon Connect Customer now includes routing step data in its analytics data lake, enabling detailed insight into contact routing performance.
AWS extended Amazon EMR on Amazon EKS to operate on IPv6 clusters, providing expanded address space for running large Apache Spark and Flink jobs.
DynamoDB global tables with multi-Region strong consistency became available in five more AWS Regions, enabling diverse geographic configurations with zero data loss recovery objectives.
AWS introduced Amazon CloudWatch Omni, a new AI-first observability service unifying monitoring and troubleshooting across AWS, other clouds, and AI agents.
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