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Amazon EC2 P5.4xl instances with NVIDIA H100 GPUs became generally available for SageMaker Studio notebooks, promising significant performance improvements for machine learning training and inference.
AWS expanded availability of Amazon EC2 C8g, M8g, and R8g instances powered by Graviton4 processors to its AWS Secret East region, offering improved performance and energy efficiency for diverse workloads.
SageMaker Unified Studio added guided getting started tutorials and integrated release notes to accelerate user onboarding and feature discovery across supported regions.
AWS Route 53 Domains broadened its domain registration scope by adding 34 new top-level domains, enabling more industry-specific and specialized web presence options for customers.
AWS announced that customers can now access Anthropic's Claude conversational AI platform directly from their AWS accounts, integrating billing and security controls.
The P5.48xl GPU instances powered by NVIDIA H100 tensor cores became available in multiple new AWS regions to support demanding AI and HPC workloads via SageMaker Studio notebooks.
AWS launched EC2 G6 instances featuring NVIDIA L4 GPUs and AMD EPYC processors across Asia Pacific and Europe for improved ML inference and training on SageMaker notebooks.
SageMaker Data Agent added support for IAM Identity Center domains, enabling users to generate Python and SQL code from natural language inputs across SageMaker notebooks and Query Editor.
AWS enabled creation of highly available Multi-AZ FSx for OpenZFS file systems in shared VPCs across AWS Organizations, enhancing centralized network and storage management.
AWS expanded RDS for Oracle to include M8i and R8i instances running Oracle Standard Edition 2 with licenses included, simplifying deployment and lowering costs.
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