THE TECHNOLOGY BRIEFING
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NASA's SSPICY mission tests integrated technologies enabling close-range inspection of defunct satellites to support future in-space servicing and debris mitigation.
The SPHEREx space telescope surveys thousands of brown dwarfs, revealing chemically rich atmospheres akin to those of giant planets.
AWS broadens geographic availability of its managed penetration testing service to help customers meet localized security and compliance needs.
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL now supports querying data stored in Iceberg and Parquet formats directly, streamlining data lake and operational data integration.
AWS introduces Ultrafast inference mode for OpenAI’s GPT-6.1 Sol on Bedrock, enhancing response speed for latency-critical AI workloads.
AWS enhances cost analysis by introducing product attribute dimensions to monitor Amazon Bedrock expenses by model and inference type.
Enhancements to RDS for Oracle improve patching reliability and reduce application downtime during upgrades.
Wildcard capabilities in AWS Network Firewall simplify management of dynamic container workloads by covering multiple container variants in security rules.
GuardDuty expands database threat detection to identify suspicious data activities targeting Aurora and RDS PostgreSQL instances without extra infrastructure.
GameLift’s container fleets now support CPU burstability, balancing resource efficiency with peak game server performance needs.
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