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Amazon EC2 C9g and C9gd instances with AWS Graviton5 CPUs became available in Tokyo, delivering up to 35% speed improvements for compute workloads.
Amazon ECS introduced support for non-critical Managed Daemons, allowing auxiliary agents to fail without impacting primary application tasks.
AWS released M9g and M9gd EC2 instances with Graviton5 processors in Europe (Ireland) and Asia Pacific regions, boosting memory-intensive workload performance.
AWS introduced P6-B200 EC2 instances accelerated by NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs in Hyderabad, doubling AI training and inference performance over prior generation.
The new P6-B300 EC2 instances with NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs deliver increased memory and networking for AI model training in Jakarta and other regions.
CloudFront introduced programmatic subscription and management of flat-rate pricing plans via API and infrastructure-as-code tools.
Amazon Quick introduced Quick Max plan granting five times more usage and storage than the Plus tier for demanding workloads.
Gateway Load Balancer added TCP Reset feature to reduce traffic disruption by enabling quicker detection and recovery from unhealthy targets.
The addition of Graphics G7 instances with NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell GPUs accelerates professional graphics workloads on Amazon WorkSpaces Applications.
AWS Redshift enabled single-node cluster deployment of rg.large instances to support smaller analytics workloads without high availability.
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