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AWS introduced Rich Communication Services (RCS) support in its End User Messaging platform to enable verified, interactive business messaging beyond traditional SMS.
AWS released the DevOps Agent as a proactive, AI-driven tool to reduce incident resolution time and optimize application performance across cloud and on-premises environments.
Amazon Connect introduced easy-to-configure testing and simulation for chat interactions, improving validation and deployment of customer service workflows.
AWS integrated Direct Connect configuration into CloudFormation, enabling automated, version-controlled management of network resources.
AWS launched Security Agent to perform continuous, automated penetration testing across multicloud and on-premises environments, aiming to improve security validation speed and scale.
AWS enhanced Private Certificate Authority with real-time usage metrics published to Amazon CloudWatch for monitoring certificate issuance and CA quotas.
Amazon Location Service incorporated GrabMaps to provide local, up-to-date mapping data through streamlined APIs tailored for Southeast Asia applications.
Amazon EC2 Capacity Manager updated to support grouping and filtering capacity metrics by resource tags and added Account Name dimension for cross-account analysis.
AWS Payment Cryptography added the South America (São Paulo) Region to its global footprint, enabling low-latency payment cryptographic operations.
Amazon QuickSight introduced sheet tooltips that display detailed, filter-responsive information to enhance interactive data exploration in dashboards.
NASA investigates plant and algae growth in microgravity to support long-term crew nutrition on deep space missions.
Amazon FSx extended backup copy capabilities to include opt-in AWS Regions, enhancing disaster recovery options.
AWS DRS now supports IPv6 for data replication and control plane communication, enabling modern network configurations.
AWS Interconnect - last mile simplifies high-speed, secure connection setup from branch sites to AWS using Lumen's network.
High-performance P6-B300 instances provide enhanced GPU and networking capabilities for AI training in a GovCloud region.
AWS Transform integrations in Kiro and VS Code accelerate automated migration and modernization workflows for developers.
Secrets Manager clients now automatically use hybrid classical and post-quantum cryptography to secure secret retrieval.
New AWS Data Exports feature allows direct export of cost and usage reports to authorized S3 buckets in other AWS accounts.
AWS Interconnect - multicloud provides easy, resilient private connections between AWS and other cloud providers starting with Google Cloud.
AWS doubled EBS bandwidth and IOPS for C8gn, M8gn, and R8gn instance types in largest sizes, enhancing data-intensive workloads.
NASA's long-standing student competition challenges teams globally to design and test human- or remote-controlled lunar rovers.
AWS incorporates NVIDIA's Nemotron-3-Super-120B and Qwen3.5 models in SageMaker to support specialized AI workloads.
OpenSearch Serverless adds a feature to reconstruct stored document fields dynamically, reducing storage needs.
Redshift optimizes ORDER BY and LIMIT queries by reading only relevant minimum data blocks to deliver faster results.
Quick now respects individual Google Drive file and folder permissions during indexed content queries.
A new PHP connector simplifies secure, scalable authentication when building PHP apps on Aurora DSQL databases.
New custom Intel Xeon 6-based EC2 instances provide enhanced performance and memory bandwidth for diverse workloads.
Saved queries now support user-defined parameters, enabling reusable, customizable log queries.
New R8i series offers higher performance and memory bandwidth for intensive workloads in AWS GovCloud.
AWS IoT Core and Device Management services become available in two additional AWS Regions for improved data locality and compliance.
Amazon EC2 X8i instances bring enhanced processing power and memory bandwidth optimized for workloads like SAP HANA and large databases.
New processing controls in CloudWatch Pipelines allow selective log transformations and filtering to optimize data handling and costs.
Deadline Cloud now supports managing rendering monitors across multiple regions seamlessly, aiding global creative teams.
New compliance tools in CloudWatch Pipelines ensure original log preservation and fine-grained pipeline creation permissions.
Enhanced FSx ONTAP file systems with high scalability and throughput become available in Europe, Asia Pacific, South America, and GovCloud regions.
Granular ACL support enables precise user permissions on documents within Amazon Quick's S3-based repositories.
Automated emailing of billing reports helps streamline financial monitoring and decision-making processes.
Health monitoring in RTB Fabric improves uptime and reduces failed bidding transactions in AdTech environments.
Backup and restore features for FSx file systems reach new regions with increased cross-account and cross-region replication.
Amazon RDS for SQL Server integrates recent cumulative and distribution updates addressing security vulnerabilities.
NASA's WindShaper fan array enables precise simulation of variable wind conditions for unmanned flight testing.
AWS extended Timestream for InfluxDB to allow users to schedule routine maintenance at preferred times.
AWS introduced cost allocation for Amazon Bedrock model usage down to individual IAM identities.
AWS OpenSearch Service integrates Prometheus metrics and AI-driven tracing for unified application monitoring.
AWS updated S3 Lifecycle to avoid expiring or transitioning objects until replication issues are resolved.
AWS enhanced Blue/Green database deployments by integrating RDS Proxy to reduce downtime during environment switchovers.
AWS introduced an API enabling programmatic retrieval of product and pricing data from AWS Marketplace.
AWS released a preview of Agent Registry for organization-wide discovery and management of AI agents and related tools.
AWS OpenSearch Serverless now uses Zstandard codec to optimize storage size and query performance.
AWS enhanced Private Certificate Authority sharing with customizable permission control via AWS RAM.
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