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Amazon introduced OTel Container Insights for Amazon EKS, leveraging open-source receivers to provide detailed infrastructure metrics.
Claude Tag brings Anthropic’s AI assistant into team communication channels with secure, scoped access and collaboration features.
AI integration streamlines migration from self-managed Apache Solr, Elasticsearch, or OpenSearch to Amazon OpenSearch Service clusters.
AMI watermarks embed metadata in private AMIs, enabling traceability and policy enforcement across derived images.
Key EMR Serverless application settings can now be updated dynamically to reduce operational disruption.
The new SDK empowers Swift developers to build secure AWS IoT applications across macOS, iOS, tvOS, and Linux.
New feature allows centralized DNS resolution while preserving private hosted zone ownership and management.
Users can now define and automate Neptune global multi-region graph database deployments as code.
Dashboard tagging enables improved categorization, filtering, and attribute-based access permissions within CloudWatch.
The newest high-memory instances provide large DDR5 capacity and improved performance for demanding workloads.
NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center has conducted flight tests using an F-15 aircraft equipped with a scale-model wing aiming to enhance laminar flow and reduce fuel costs for commercial aviation.
The Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate (ARMD) issues solicitations seeking proposals for detailed open fan flight demonstration plans to advance radical aircraft and engine technologies.
Amazon CloudWatch Logs now supports direct ingestion of syslog messages from network devices and Linux servers, simplifying log management without agent installation.
AWS previewed AI-driven investigations in Amazon GuardDuty to rapidly analyze security findings and reduce manual effort in threat response.
Amazon SageMaker integrates EC2 G6e instances featuring NVIDIA L40 GPUs and AMD EPYC processors to boost machine learning model training and deployment.
ElastiCache's upgrade to Valkey 9.1 introduces improved throughput, memory efficiency, and refined access controls for multi-tenant database workloads.
Amazon Bedrock enhances AgentCore Memory by allowing multi-account access and cross-account resource sharing through resource-based policies.
AWS HealthOmics adds dedicated ephemeral storage per workflow task to improve performance and reduce costs in genomics data processing.
Amazon Cognito now allows use of AWS KMS customer managed keys to encrypt user pool data at rest, enhancing organizational control.
AWS enhances Automated Reasoning checks in Amazon Bedrock Guardrails with new workflows that iteratively improve validation policies and reduce ambiguities.
NASA integrated student experiments from two programs on a single sounding rocket to enhance aerospace education.
A NASA team turns engineering designs into physical components to support research aircraft innovation.
AWS HealthOmics integrated Nextflow profiles to streamline bioinformatics workflow configuration and portability.
Lambda MicroVMs provide VM-level isolation combined with rapid launch and suspend-resume capabilities for running user or AI-generated code.
AWS now supports migration targets in every commercial region to facilitate region-specific workload deployments and data residency compliance.
AWS updated Network Firewall defaults to reduce unintended disruption of legitimate TCP traffic in stateful inspection.
Amazon Connect Customer preview introduces a no-code tool to build AI-driven voice and digital customer interactions efficiently.
New allocation strategies in AWS Batch offer users prioritized control over compute instance selection based on workload needs.
IAM Identity Center now independently quotas AWS accounts and applications to support large-scale management without resource competition.
Amazon MSK’s new AI skills assist developers with operational tasks and streamline migration from external Kafka clusters.
Preview release enriches Glue Data Catalog tables with glossary terms and custom metadata for improved semantic search and AI agent integration.
Enhanced recommendations incorporate IOPS and throughput spike metrics for better balancing of cost and performance in EBS volumes.
AWS integrates Mistral AI's 14-billion parameter model supporting multimodal inputs and agentic features for edge-optimized AI applications.
New feature allows routing Kubernetes API server traffic through user VPCs, supporting private network requirements and compliance.
New monitoring tools provide real-time insights into token latency, GPU health, and autoscaling for SageMaker AI endpoints.
SNS in Seoul region enables SMS delivery to over 200 countries, broadening global mobile communication reach.
New features improve container permission control and enable service discovery among containers on the same instance.
Updated Linux environment offers latest packages, security, and extended support for managed Ubuntu desktops in China.
Expanded storage capacity up to 64 TiB and enhanced IOPS and throughput support larger, high-demand SQL Server workloads.
New regional infrastructure extends AWS services closer to users with compliance support and local storage options.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory developed ERNEST, a four-wheeled prototype rover tested for advanced autonomy and mobility over harsh desert terrain mimicking lunar conditions.
AWS enhanced CloudWatch Synthetics to run the same monitoring canary across multiple regions simultaneously, simplifying global application availability testing.
AWS extended Intelligent Rebalancing capabilities to all existing Amazon MSK Provisioned clusters with Express brokers to optimize partition distribution automatically.
Amazon ECS improved its service auto scaling feature, enabling it to detect and respond to workload changes up to 76% faster using high-resolution metrics.
Amazon EC2 G7 instances became generally available with up to 8 NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell GPUs, enhancing AI inference and graphics performance.
Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ added support for private networking, enabling brokers to securely access private resources within VPCs without public exposure.
AWS Parallel Computing Service now integrates with Amazon EC2 P6e-GB200 and P6e-GB300 UltraServer instances, enabling scalable HPC GPU clusters managed by Slurm.
Nested virtualization capability broadened to additional Intel-based EC2 instance families and AWS GovCloud regions, enhancing virtualization flexibility.
Amazon Connect Customer introduced a feature allowing urgent contacts to override an agent’s current call, improving responsiveness for time-sensitive communications.
AWS added the all-MiniLM-L12-v2 sentence transformer model to SageMaker JumpStart, facilitating semantic search and text similarity applications.
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