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NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope aims to identify distant supermassive black holes by observing stellar tidal disruptions up to 11 billion years ago.
AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery enhances failover speed for Amazon EC2 workloads by skipping unnecessary preparation steps, reducing recovery durations.
AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery now manages Amazon EBS volume initialization rates to accelerate full storage performance during recoveries and drills.
Amazon CloudWatch Pipelines gain a lookup processor that enriches log events by matching fields against user-uploaded tables during ingestion.
Amazon Keyspaces enables prepared statements inside logged batches, combining atomic multi-statement operations with improved query performance.
AWS launches new M8i instance types featuring sixth-generation Intel Xeon CPUs and Nitro cards in US, Europe, and Asia Pacific regions.
The AWS Lambda console introduces a single-click prompt to configure coding agents with embedded serverless best practices and skills.
AWS IAM Identity Center achieved FedRAMP Class C authorization, enabling compliant workforce access management in select US regions.
AWS makes Connect Customer's digital outreach via SMS, WhatsApp, and email available to African businesses through Cape Town region support.
Amazon GuardDuty expands threat detection to safeguard AI services including SageMaker and Bedrock from AI-specific attacks.
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 family of models, comprising Sol, Terra, and Luna, became generally available on Amazon Bedrock, aiming to balance intelligence, cost, and performance for diverse AI tasks.
AWS broadened access to Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus, a scalable monitoring solution compatible with Prometheus metrics, by launching it in the Asia Pacific (New Zealand) region.
Amazon DocumentDB with MongoDB compatibility was introduced as a specialized skill within AWS’s Agent Toolkit, enabling AI coding agents to automate management and migration tasks.
Amazon DocumentDB expanded its MongoDB-compatible API by adding support for 46 new aggregation operators and cursor methods in minor version 8.0.1, facilitating smoother migration of MongoDB workloads.
AWS incorporated Gemma-4-E2B-it, a multimodal and instruction-tuned foundation model from Google DeepMind, into Amazon SageMaker JumpStart for efficient AI application development.
The privacy-filter model from OpenAI, designed for fast and context-aware detection and masking of personally identifiable information, became available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart to support data sanitization tasks.
AWS added Qwen3-VL-Embedding-2B and Qwen3-Reranker-4B models to SageMaker JumpStart, enabling advanced multimodal and multilingual information retrieval pipelines.
Voxtral-Mini-4B-Realtime-2602, a multilingual, real-time speech transcription model from Mistral AI, was launched on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart to support instantaneous audio-to-text applications.
Amazon Redshift Serverless improved disaster recovery workflows by preserving zero-ETL and S3 event integrations automatically when restoring from snapshots within the same namespace.
SageMaker HyperPod introduced the ability to specify custom Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) for Slurm clusters, enabling tailored and secure AI/ML environment deployments.
New EC2 R8in, R8ib, R8idn, and R8idb instances powered by sixth generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors deliver significant improvements in compute and networking across additional AWS regions.
Amazon EMR on EKS incorporated an AI-driven troubleshooting agent to simplify diagnosis of Spark job failures using natural language and automated analysis.
Updates to Amazon Location Service Places APIs introduce address formatting control, multilingual names, travel-mode optimization, and drive-through data for more precise location-based applications.
Amazon SageMaker HyperPod added support for AMI-based node provisioning in Slurm clusters using continuous provisioning, simplifying node setup and improving availability.
EKS Auto Mode now integrates Amazon ARC zonal shift and autoshift capabilities to maintain application availability during Availability Zone impairments without additional customer configuration.
The introduction of G7 instances powered by NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server GPUs delivers substantial improvements in AI inference, graphics, and data analytics performance within AWS’s US East infrastructure.
Offline source conversion in AWS Database Migration Service Schema Conversion reduces dependency on direct access, streamlining SQL Server migrations under strict security policies.
The I7ie instance family offers expanded local NVMe storage capacity and improved performance over prior generations, targeting demanding storage-optimized applications in the Hyderabad region.
New R8g large instance types with AWS Graviton4 processors and DDR5 memory enable higher throughput and memory capacity in Amazon DocumentDB clusters.
AWS expanded DMS Schema Conversion to support AI coding agents that perform end-to-end migration tasks using natural language within integrated development environments.
AWS enhanced security for AI agents connecting to the MCP Server by implementing OAuth support integrated with existing AWS identity and governance systems.
AWS extended availability of higher-performance Intel Xeon-powered EC2 instances to new regions, delivering increased compute, memory bandwidth, and storage for diverse workloads.
AWS GovCloud regions gained availability of Graviton4-powered EC2 instances featuring large local NVMe SSD storage and configurable network and EBS bandwidth.
AWS released I8g instances with advanced Nitro SSDs and Graviton4 processors in GovCloud regions to accelerate storage-intensive workloads with lower latency.
AWS added the capability to replace an EC2 instance's root volume with a pre-configured EBS volume, simplifying updates without instance downtime.
AWS enhanced operational monitoring by enabling Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB to emit database lifecycle events directly to EventBridge for real-time automation.
AWS broadened its fully managed Client VPN service to new international regions, enhancing secure remote access for distributed workforces.
AWS introduced Partner Lead Prospecting to assist eligible partners in accelerating lead conversion using AI-generated personalized sales content.
SageMaker Unified Studio expanded its cataloging capabilities by enabling domain administrators to register and manage any asset type with customizable metadata.
SageMaker HyperPod introduced comprehensive health monitoring for asynchronously added Slurm cluster nodes, ensuring GPU and network reliability before workloads run.
Amazon RDS for Oracle integrated Oracle Database 26ai, enhancing SQL generation and vector search within databases via AI features.
Builders can access free, time-limited AWS sandbox environments for hands-on learning without personal accounts or charges.
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio Workflows added operators for Amazon Bedrock, S3 Tables, S3 Vectors, and Glue Catalog to streamline orchestration.
Network Scanning capability probes resources to confirm public internet reachability, augmenting existing configuration-based findings.
AWS expanded M8gd and R8gd Graviton4-powered instances with large local NVMe SSD storage to additional regions for high-performance local storage needs.
DocumentDB enhances its scalable document database service by supporting up to 256 TiB storage per cluster for large datasets.
Redshift RG Graviton-based instances become available on the stable trailing track, offering enhanced performance and cost efficiency.
Aurora DSQL CDC streams database change events to Kinesis Data Streams to support event-driven applications and integrations.
Forecasting, planning, and scheduling now support email and task channels alongside voice and chat for unified agent optimization.
Neuron 2.31.0 introduces new kernel support, tensor layout APIs, and an UltraServer Operator for Amazon EKS to streamline ML operations.
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