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Amazon WorkSpaces Core Managed Instances introduced support for new NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell GPUs, enhancing graphics-intensive workloads.
AWS introduced system-managed materialized views for Apache Iceberg to ensure immutable, consistent precomputed query results across tools.
AWS added CLI commands enabling bulk checking and updating of agent skills within the Agent Toolkit for improved developer productivity.
S3 Vectors added metadata pre-filtering, improving search recall up to fivefold when filtering selective data subsets.
Amazon Managed Grafana updated to version 13.2 workspaces, introducing Git Sync, dynamic dashboards, and PromQL in CloudWatch plugin.
Amazon Connect Customer Outbound Campaigns became available in AWS GovCloud (US-West), supporting secure outbound calls for government clients.
Amazon Bedrock added UltraFast mode to OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra, offering up to 6x faster inference tailored for real-time applications.
AWS PCS introduced scaling logs that track compute node state transitions, improving troubleshooting for HPC cluster scaling.
Aurora Serverless improved scaling speed and increment size to address fast, unpredictable AI workloads and reduce latency.
Support for R8a instances powered by 5th generation AMD EPYC processors expands database options with high per-core performance.
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