THE TECHNOLOGY BRIEFING
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NASA's ISAM State of Play report has become a key resource documenting tangible space servicing and manufacturing technologies existing as hardware or flight demonstrations.
AWS introduced a feature allowing partners to create one product listing in their primary account and authorize subsidiaries to sell through private offers locally.
Amazon RDS added autoscaling support on secondary storage volumes for Oracle and SQL Server, enhancing storage management with zero downtime.
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL introduced options for post-quantum TLS key exchange to enhance data in transit security against future quantum threats.
Amazon MSK Connect now allows updating connector plugins and worker configurations without deleting and recreating connectors, preserving task offsets.
AI agents can now invoke AWS Step Functions workflows as tools, executing multi-step business processes directly and consistently under AI control.
Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator, an in-memory cache providing microsecond latency for DynamoDB, became available in Canada Central and Africa Cape Town regions.
AWS Certificate Manager introduced ACMEv2 protocol support in AWS GovCloud (US-East and US-West) to automate public TLS certificate issuance and renewal.
AWS DataSync's Enhanced mode now supports Amazon FSx for Windows and NetApp ONTAP file systems and runs agents on Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization.
Amazon SageMaker AI introduced Seekable OCI-indexed (SOCI) container images, reducing GPU idle time by lazy-loading container files during startup.
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