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AWS Lambda now offers recursive loop detection in all commercial AWS Regions, automatically detecting and stopping recursive invocations to prevent runaway workloads.
Engineering & CloudAmazon DocumentDB now supports direct major version upgrades to version 8.0, eliminating the need for intermediate version upgrades and preserving existing data, configurations, and cluster settings.
Engineering & CloudAmazon Kinesis Data Streams now delivers streaming data directly to general purpose Amazon S3 buckets, reducing data delivery costs by up to 60% compared to self-managed alternatives.
Engineering & CloudAWS has added support for collecting systemd journal (journald) logs with the Amazon CloudWatch agent, allowing Linux instances to send logs directly to Amazon CloudWatch Logs.
Engineering & CloudAmazon EC2 C8id and M8id instances with up to 22.8 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage are now available in additional regions, including Asia Pacific (Sydney) and Canada (Central) for C8id instances and Asia Pacific (Mumbai) and Canada (Central) for M8id instances.
Engineering & CloudKubernetes v1.37 has formally graduated its Metrics API to stable, providing cluster operators and application developers with stability guarantees, according to a recent article.
Engineering & CloudAmazon Redshift now supports streaming of 10MiB records from Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, a 10x increase from the previous limit, enabling simplified ingestion pipelines and unlocking new use cases for high-volume, large-record workloads.
Engineering & CloudAmazon Connect Customer now supports generative AI-powered summaries, real-time call analytics, and real-time rules in the Africa (Cape Town) Region.
Engineering & CloudAmazon Connect Customer now supports unplanned shrinkage in agent schedules, providing a more accurate picture of staffing due to unscheduled agent absences.
Engineering & CloudAmazon Bedrock AgentCore memory now supports extracting memories from non-conversational JSON payloads, a feature that enables agents to consolidate long-term memories from structured data and multi-turn conversations.
Engineering & CloudSimon Willison released LLM 0.33, which upgrades the OpenAI Python library to 3.x and switches the HTTP client dependency from httpx to httpx2.
Engineering & CloudAmazon Bedrock has announced up to 80% lower prices for OpenAI GPT-5.6 models, with effective July 30 reductions in on-demand inference prices.
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