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+========================================================================
+Amazon CloudWatch Agent 1.300045.0 (2024-08-20)
+========================================================================
+Enhancements:
+* [ContainerInsights] Add HyperPod status metrics for SageMaker (#1309)
+* [ContainerInsights] Add pod_cpu_usage_total & pod_memory_working_set (#1294)
+* Reduce the size of the start-amazon-cloudwatch-agent binary (#1302)
+
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 Amazon CloudWatch Agent 1.300044.0 (2024-08-14)
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