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NASA transferred a 105-acre wooded parcel formerly used for propellant research to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Patuxent Research Refuge, expanding conservation land.
Amazon EC2 introduced 12TiB U7i high memory instances powered by Intel Sapphire Rapids processors in the AWS Zurich region for intensive in-memory database workloads.
Amazon GameLift Streams introduced Stream Session Admin Shell enabling secure terminal access for live stream debugging without managing keys or open ports.
Amazon S3 Vectors, a scalable vector data storage service for AI and semantic search, became available in AWS GovCloud regions.
AWS expanded its Security Hub service to monitor Microsoft Azure resources, enabling unified cross-cloud risk and vulnerability management.
AWS lowered management fees for GPU and accelerated instance types using Amazon ECS Managed Instances, improving cost efficiency for accelerated workloads.
Amazon EMR Serverless upgraded its maximum worker size to 32 vCPUs and 244 GB memory to support more demanding compute and memory tasks.
AWS debuted C8ine instances powered by sixth-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors in Frankfurt, optimized for security and network appliance workloads.
Amazon SageMaker Enhanced its Unified Studio with OpenLineage-compatible data lineage tracking for IAM-based domains, improving data provenance visualization and management.
AWS introduced Redshift RG instances powered by Graviton processors to GovCloud regions, offering up to 2.4x speed at lower cost than previous RA3 instances.
A new feature in AWS Security Hub maps potential attack paths from exposed resources to downstream assets, improving organizational risk visibility.
Disaggregated Prefill and Decode (DPD) separates phases of large language model inference across GPU pools for improved latency and throughput.
Cognito users can now flexibly modify provisioned API rate limits instantly to match application traffic without manual approvals.
Direct integration with Hugging Face allows immediate access to models within SageMaker Studio for streamlined customization and deployment workflows.
New declarative policies enable customers to centrally enforce and monitor VPC encryption in transit settings across AWS Organizations.
Amazon Elastic VMware Service users gain the ability to deploy and manage VCF 9.0 and 9.1 on AWS bare-metal instances.
ACM users can automate issuance and renewal of short-validity public certificates using standard ACMEv2 clients and centralized governance.
New Service Events feature records error snapshots, performance anomalies, and deployments without code changes for faster diagnostics.
The continuous delivery service becomes available in New Zealand, enabling local customers to automate and secure their software release processes.
Automatic rotation of third-party credentials now includes Paddle API Keys and multiple GitLab Access Token types.
AWS expanded its End User Messaging service to include rich media and interactive RCS messaging across 22 countries, facilitating direct user actions within messaging apps.
AWS broadened microsecond accurate time availability across 26 additional EC2 instance types, enhancing precision time usage in distributed applications.
AWS introduced a managed cloud workspace service enabling AI agents to securely operate critical enterprise desktop applications without requiring modernization.
AWS added a new Auto Scaling distribution strategy prioritizing the use of capacity reservations before balancing across Availability Zones to optimize resource utilization.
AWS introduced a new automated security standards set to help organizations continuously assess AI workloads against recommended best practices without manual policy creation.
AWS released Capability Insights, an open-source tool deploying regional AWS service capability data within a user's VPC to meet compliance and governance needs.
AWS enhanced Network Firewall with container attribute-based rules to streamline security policy management for containerized applications on EKS and ECS.
SageMaker Inference introduced automatic caching of container images, significantly reducing latency during generative AI model scale-out events.
AWS introduced a new OpenSearch engine variant tailored for log analytics, delivering improved price-performance and storage efficiency.
AWS extended CodeBuild functionality by allowing build environments to run on Amazon Linux 2023 alongside Amazon Linux 2, enhancing build environment options.
Express Mode in Amazon ECS expanded to allow use of custom task definitions, enhancing deployment flexibility.
Amazon EKS added rollback capability for Kubernetes minor versions to enhance cluster upgrade resilience.
Prometheus monitoring now compliant with stringent federal and DoD security standards in AWS GovCloud.
Security automation and threat modeling capabilities extended to new AWS Regions for broader application protection.
Db2 instances can now join self-managed Microsoft AD domains without needing AWS Managed AD or trust relationships.
SageMaker Unified Studio integrates with Terraform enabling infrastructure-as-code deployment workflows.
X8i instances powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 CPUs become available in Seoul, Malaysia, and Tokyo with notable improvements.
Dedicated Hosts now enable secure encrypted virtualization using AMD SEV-SNP technology for confidential workloads.
HyperPod clusters gain tools for AMI version tracking and automated security patching without workload disruption.
AWS Config introduces monitoring support for additional resource types in key services like API Gateway, EC2, and S3 Vectors.
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore increased its default runtime quota limits to support larger-scale agent-based workloads across AWS Regions.
Amazon CloudWatch introduced a feature allowing direct creation of alarms from log query results, simplifying monitoring and alerting workflows.
Amazon Elastic Container Service enhanced its Management Console with real-time deployment visibility and diagnostic tools for faster issue resolution.
AWS Artifact added Assurance Assistant, an AI-driven tool to generate citation-backed answers for security and compliance questions based on AWS documentation.
AWS Partner Central now enables associating existing AWS Marketplace product listings directly with co-sell opportunities to unify solution tracking.
Amazon Relational Database Service expanded automated backup replication capabilities across multiple new geographic Regions for enhanced disaster recovery.
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore platform extended regional support to Asia Pacific and Europe locations to reduce latency and improve agent deployment.
Amazon Elastic Container Service enhanced deployment automation by allowing fine-tuned rollback thresholds and failure counting methods.
Amazon GuardDuty Runtime Monitoring expanded to detect and alert on unauthorized changes to critical files across EC2 and container workloads.
AWS AppConfig introduced built-in experimentation features to facilitate controlled A/B and multivariate testing without custom infrastructure.
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