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AWS reintroduced explicit forward proxy functionality within Network Firewall based on customer feedback to unify security policy management.
Amazon Connect Customer enhanced agent workspace to enable exporting filtered cases to CSV files, facilitating data sharing.
Amazon Bedrock introduced Web Search enabling OpenAI GPT models to ground responses with up-to-date web data securely within AWS infrastructure.
Amazon EMR introduced Spark Connect support for interactive Apache Spark workloads to enhance development and debugging workflows.
AWS Security Hub Extended incorporated supply chain security to detect and prevent malicious open-source dependencies.
AWS made Amazon EC2 C8g instances with Graviton4 processors available in multiple new regions to support compute-intensive workloads.
AWS Application and Network Load Balancers updated TLS policies to comply with NSA’s CNSA 1.0 suite via RFC 9151 standards.
Amazon S3 Vectors became generally available in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud Germany region for AI-related vector storage.
Amazon Connect Customer introduced 15- and 30-minute interval capacity planning to optimize workforce alignment with demand.
Amazon EC2 launched I8g instances powered by Graviton4 processors for storage-intensive workloads in new AWS regions.
AWS introduced Transform continuous modernization to help engineering teams analyze and remediate technical debt across multiple source repositories at scale.
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna models now handle up to one million tokens per input on Amazon Bedrock, supporting comprehensive document and codebase processing.
Amazon GameLift Streams added stream URLs enabling viewers to access playable game streams via web browsers without credentials or software installation.
SageMaker Studio expanded instance options to include Amazon EC2 G7 instances, offering notably improved AI inference performance with NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 GPUs.
AWS HealthOmics introduced task-level timeout capability for Workflow Description Language (WDL) workflows to limit execution duration per task.
AWS Resilience Hub now offers automated, pre-configured tests validating service recovery from common failure scenarios based on service architecture and policies.
AWS Organizations customers gained direct visibility into maximum account number quotas and utilization within the Service Quotas console interface.
AWS Lambda Provisioned Mode for Amazon SQS event sources increased maximum event pollers fivefold to 10,000, boosting concurrent invocation capacity to 100,000 per source mapping.
AWS expanded Storage Optimized I7i instances, featuring 5th Gen Intel Xeon processors and 3rd Gen Nitro SSDs, to Asia Pacific (Thailand) and Israel (Tel Aviv) Regions.
SageMaker AI serverless model customization expanded with full fine-tuning support for over 25 popular open-source models, enabling deep domain adaptation.
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio expanded its data source capabilities to include Teradata Vantage, enabling integrated querying and analysis alongside other cloud datasets.
Amazon Aurora Distributed SQL added multi-Region cluster capabilities in Stockholm, Spain, Mumbai, and Singapore, enhancing high availability and consistency geographically.
AWS expanded Amazon RDS for Oracle with 1- and 3-year Reserved Instances for R8i and M8i instances, promising significant cost savings and enhanced performance cycles.
Amazon Location Service integrated GrabMaps data for point-of-interest proximity searches, enhancing hyperlocal discovery in Singapore and Malaysia.
AWS Lambda updated Java runtimes to operate on Amazon Linux 2023, aiding migration from the now deprecated Amazon Linux 2 environment.
Amazon CloudWatch introduced fully managed Prometheus collectors, eliminating self-managed agent overhead for AWS workloads.
AWS CodeDeploy extended its fully managed application deployment service to Asia Pacific and Mexico regions, improving regional access and compliance.
AWS introduced Context Ontology Accelerator, an open source tool that accelerates building machine-readable business ontologies to improve AI decision transparency and governance.
AWS expanded its EC2 C7i-flex instance family to the Europe (Milan) region, featuring custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon processors optimized for compute efficiency.
AWS introduced EC2 C7i instances with custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon processors in Milan and Calgary, enhancing compute options in these markets.
Amazon introduced an improved Git version control experience within SageMaker Unified Studio, broadening source control to all project tools including Notebooks.
AWS enhanced Direct Connect with BGP route visibility, allowing users to inspect routes exchanged between AWS and on-premises routers across virtual interfaces.
Amazon Redshift made RG large and 12xlarge Graviton instances available on its trailing track, prioritizing stability with validated versions for production workloads.
AWS incorporated the IAM Policy Simulator into the IAM console, adding service control policy testing and enhanced simulation flexibility.
Amazon Bedrock aligned with OpenAI to reduce inference pricing up to 80% for GPT-5.6 Luna and 20% for Terra, facilitating broader usage.
AWS introduced Policy-Based Routing on Transit Gateway, allowing packet-level forwarding decisions beyond destination addresses.
AWS introduced MSK Express brokers that automatically deliver high-throughput Kafka data to Amazon S3 with reduced operational complexity and cost.
Amazon MSK Express brokers gained capability to stream Apache Kafka data as Apache Iceberg tables on Amazon S3, improving analytics efficiency.
xAI released its reasoning-focused Grok 4.3 model on Amazon Bedrock within AWS GovCloud, enhancing generative AI capabilities for enterprise use.
The Gemma 4 family from Google DeepMind launched on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud, supporting multimodal generative AI workloads.
NASA's Curiosity rover captured images of widespread polygonal fracture patterns in the Martian valley Valle Grande, providing clues to ancient surface processes.
Amazon Connect introduced capability to set sending numbers or email addresses dynamically by region or brand in customer outreach campaigns.
AWS CloudFormation introduced an update policy enabling automatic EC2 Auto Scaling instance refreshes during stack updates requiring instance replacement.
New Amazon Redshift Data API features reduce API call volume and provide flexible batch query executions and session visibility.
AWS Glue updated its REST API connector to support VPC connections, filter pushdown, and partitioning for efficient, secure data ingestion.
AWS WAF introduced pre-parse text transformations for query arguments and ten new transformations to better normalize web requests before rule evaluation.
AWS Interconnect offers a purpose-built solution for private, scalable connections between AWS and other cloud providers, starting with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Google Cloud.
Amazon Connect Customer now surfaces relevant high- and low-scoring agent evaluations to managers preparing coaching feedback, enabling data-driven conversations.
Amazon EFS added support to replicate file systems across AWS accounts within AWS GovCloud regions to enhance business continuity and compliance.
IAM Identity Center now replicates identities and entitlements from a primary AWS region to additional regions for directory-based identity sources, improving resilience and access availability.
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