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NASA utilized 12 experimental capsules with 3D-printed heat shields deployed via cargo spacecraft to gather data on thermal protection during atmospheric re-entry.
AWS Security Hub introduced functionality allowing security findings export directly to Amazon S3 in both CSV and JSON (OCSF) formats for operational flexibility.
AWS expanded availability of M8id instances offering triple the compute, memory, and local NVMe SSD storage, boosting workload efficiency in Malaysia and Sydney regions.
AWS introduced C9g, C9gd, M9g, and M9gd EC2 instances powered by Graviton5 processors in multiple new regions, providing improved compute performance and novel security isolation.
The R8gd EC2 instances, featuring Graviton4 processors and up to 11.4 TB of local NVMe SSD storage, debuted in the European Sovereign Cloud region for high I/O workloads.
The R8g instance family powered by Graviton4 CPUs became available in AWS's European Sovereign Cloud, offering notable gains in memory and CPU performance for demanding applications.
Amazon Bedrock introduced support for reasoning.summary, enabling developers to receive human-readable summaries of OpenAI model reasoning alongside responses.
Anthropic's latest Claude Opus 5.5 and Claude Sonnet 5.5 language models became available through AWS GovCloud Kiro IDE and CLI, enhancing coding and knowledge work.
Amazon Connect Customer introduced automated evaluation form analysis to identify and suggest improvements for better AI scoring accuracy in agent performance evaluations.
Amazon S3 Vectors enabled metadata pre-filtering in AWS GovCloud, improving retrieval quality by evaluating filters before similarity searches for vector queries.
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