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Anthropic's Haiku 5.5 model, the fastest in the Claude 5.5 family, was integrated into the Kiro IDE and CLI for AWS GovCloud (US) to improve high-volume, fast-response text-processing tasks.
Amazon RDS enhanced its cost reporting by offering per snapshot billing, allowing users to track the exact cost associated with individual database snapshots.
Amazon Quick desktop application began supporting sign-in through an organization's existing Amazon Quick web authentication, simplifying user access management.
Amazon announced general availability of Aurora MySQL 8.4.10, incorporating MySQL community fixes plus new features including GTID tagging and support for up to 50,000 simultaneous connections per instance.
AWS Lambda introduced queue support using Kafka share groups for self-managed Kafka event sources, allowing higher parallelism beyond partition limits and improved throughput during load spikes.
Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition 3.14, aligned with MySQL 8.0.46, added post-quantum TLS key exchange support and operational fixes to enhance security and encryption.
Amazon Connect Customer introduced the External Tool block, allowing flows to invoke third-party Model Context Protocol tools for data retrieval and action triggers without custom coding.
Amazon Connect Customer enhanced its flow capabilities by allowing the Wait block to respond dynamically to changes in Cases and External Tool events, improving interaction management.
Amazon Inspector expanded its capabilities to scan EC2 Amazon Machine Images for software vulnerabilities before instance launch, enhancing security at the image creation stage.
Amazon Textract expanded availability to Tokyo and Zurich regions, providing machine learning-based extraction of text and data from scanned documents beyond OCR capabilities.
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