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Amazon Redshift enhanced its data analytics capabilities by supporting creation and refresh of materialized views stored as Apache Iceberg tables, enabling efficient shared querying across multiple engines.
Amazon Bedrock incorporated GLM 5.3, an expansive mixture-of-experts model from Z.ai, designed to enhance agentic coding and complex software engineering workflows with large context windows.
IAM Identity Center extended security controls by allowing administrators to restrict Identity Store API access based on originating network sources such as VPC endpoints and IP ranges.
AWS expanded its HPC offerings to Asia Pacific (Singapore) with Hpc8a instances featuring 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors, boosting performance for compute- and memory-intensive workloads.
The AWS Control Tower Account Factory for Terraform introduced plan-only customization runs, enabling administrators to preview Terraform changes without applying them in managed environments.
AWS Continuum for Penetration Testing advanced security by embedding continuous pentesting directly into CI/CD pipelines, enabling deploy-time vulnerability detection.
EC2 enhanced AMI sharing by allowing owners to propagate selected tags alongside AMIs automatically across AWS accounts, organizations, or public access, improving metadata consistency.
Client VPN introduced integration with device posture providers, enabling network access only to compliant and trusted devices through policy-driven evaluation before and during VPN sessions.
The AWS Advanced Ruby Driver Wrapper became generally available, improving failover times and authentication methods for Amazon RDS and Aurora PostgreSQL and MySQL databases.
AWS Batch added support for Amazon EKS access entry authentication, easing cluster access management for compute environments by using API-driven IAM principal authorization.
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