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Amazon RDS expanded instance options by adopting AMD's 5th generation EPYC processors with M8a database instances, targeting improved consistent per-core performance across multiple database engines.
Amazon Bedrock expanded its regional AI inference capabilities by introducing Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5.5 and Claude Sonnet 5 models with data processing confined to the London region for compliance and latency benefits.
AWS extended IAM Identity Center multi-region support beyond default commercial AWS Regions to GovCloud and China, improving access continuity and administrative flexibility.
AWS Secrets Manager integrated with AWS Recommended Actions to provide users with immediate, context-aware security suggestions directly in the console to improve secrets management.
Amazon S3 Tables raised the quota from 10 to 100 table buckets per AWS Region per account, raising the potential scale of tabular data management and isolation across workloads.
Amazon EC2 launched C8gb instances powered by AWS Graviton4 processors in additional global regions offering up to 30% compute performance improvements over previous generation.
AWS enhanced its Capabilities by Region tool to notify users about service feature availability and introduced filters to compare service APIs and resource types across regions efficiently.
AWS Config broadened visibility and compliance monitoring to 77 additional AWS resource types, increasing its scope over cloud infrastructure and services.
AWS introduced Claude Haiku 5.5 on Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform, optimized for subagents and large-scale tasks with significant efficiency and cost improvements over prior models.
AWS GovCloud added Anthropic’s Claude Haiku 5.5 model, offering efficient AI for real-time and high-volume applications with regional data compliance for government customers.
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