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Amazon ECS introduced native support for blue/green, linear, and canary deployment patterns using Amazon VPC Lattice for controlled traffic shifting.
AWS Health established the version catalog to centralize and track lifecycle information of software versions across key AWS services.
Amazon Aurora DSQL introduced partial indexes, letting users index selective subsets of table data to improve query efficiency and reduce storage.
Amazon EKS and EKS Distro added support for Kubernetes 1.37, featuring promoted APIs and autoscaling improvements for container management.
AWS Brazil provides automated workflows to sell and distribute non-Brazilian SaaS licenses, handling local invoicing and taxes.
Amazon OpenSearch Service introduced warnings in configuration validation to inform users of risky but possible changes without blocking them.
The AWS MCP Server, facilitating AI agent interactions with AWS APIs, is now available in six additional AWS Regions for lower latency and data residency compliance.
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway extended support for TLS certificates signed by private CAs, enabling native secure connections to private VPC endpoints.
Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey expanded monitoring with OpenTelemetry metrics integration and a detailed 15-second monitoring mode for enhanced observability.
Amazon GuardDuty’s Runtime Monitoring is now included under AWS Security Hub’s Threat Analytics plan, simplifying billing while maintaining detection capabilities.
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