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NASA’s Orion Crew Survival Systems team developed and certified pressure suits and survival hardware critical for Artemis II, contributing to crew safety during lunar missions.
Amazon EC2 P6-B200 instances, powered by NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs and 5th Gen Intel Xeon processors, deliver up to double the AI training performance of previous-generation instances.
AWS Elastic Network Adapter Express now supports up to 25 Gbps single-flow bandwidth between instances across Availability Zones, improving network throughput for multi-AZ applications.
Amazon EC2 G6e instances featuring NVIDIA L40 GPUs and AMD EPYC processors offer up to 2.5x performance gains over G5 for model training and deployment.
Amazon EC2 G6 instances with NVIDIA L4 GPUs and AMD EPYC processors provide doubled inference performance over prior G4dn instances for diverse AI applications.
AWS introduced P4de instances with NVIDIA A100 GPUs featuring double the memory and up to 60% faster ML training performance at reduced cost compared to P4d.
The fastest serverless distributed SQL database, Amazon Aurora DSQL, has expanded to five more AWS regions, enhancing scalability and availability for database applications.
AWS expanded Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall to include new threat and content domain categories, allowing more precise DNS query blocking for security and compliance.
HealthOmics now caches outputs from cancelled bioinformatics workflow runs, allowing task reuse and reducing recomputation in healthcare and life science analysis.
AWS WAF now supports dynamic label interpolation, allowing flexible forwarding of WAF classification signals to applications for adaptive request and response handling.
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