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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.
To improve communications efficiency at congested airports, a NASA aerospace engineer completed specialized FAA training on digital clearance systems used by controllers.
During its fifth science campaign, NASA’s Perseverance rover captured a detailed selfie against diverse Martian terrain far west of Jezero Crater’s rim.
AWS Lambda now enables scheduled adjustments of function capacity on Lambda Managed Instances via Amazon EventBridge Scheduler to optimize performance and cost.
Amazon EventBridge Scheduler extended its AWS SDK capabilities, adding 619 new API actions across 13 services including Lambda Managed Instances for broader scheduling control.
AWS released a new feature in Security Agent that performs architecture-aware, contextual vulnerability analysis across entire codebases to detect systemic risks.
SageMaker Feature Store integrated SageMaker Python SDK v3, offering modular interfaces with Lake Formation and Apache Iceberg support for improved feature data governance and storage optimization.
The open-source Karpenter project now integrates with Amazon Application Recovery Controller zonal shift and autoshift to automate Kubernetes traffic redirection during AZ impairments.
Amazon Redshift introduced RG instances using Graviton processors, delivering up to 2.4x faster data analytics performance at lower cost compared to prior generation nodes.
CloudFront’s Premium flat-rate plan now offers multiple self-service monthly usage options, allowing customers to select and adjust traffic levels without custom contracts.
Amazon Connect expanded its SDK to let developers embed Cases and Customer Profiles directly into custom agent interfaces, enhancing agent efficiency.
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.
NASA partners with Microchip Technology to create a radiation-hardened system-on-chip with over 100 times the computing power of legacy space processors, targeting complex and long-duration missions.
AWS enhances its Advanced JDBC Wrapper to support client-side encryption of database columns, improving data security beyond traditional in-transit and at-rest protections.
Amazon Connect expanded its outbound campaign capabilities to detect and respect multiple time zones per customer profile, improving contact timing accuracy.
AWS Client VPN adds compatibility for the latest Ubuntu 26.04 LTS desktop client, expanding secure remote connectivity options for Linux users.
Amazon Connect automates post-call agent workflows with default guides that launch during After Contact Work, enhancing efficiency and consistency.
Amazon Route 53 enables dynamic addition and removal of AWS Regions for anycast DNS resolution, enhancing control over DNS query routing and compliance.
AWS broadens the geographic reach of its Service Catalog, enabling infrastructure governance and deployment in Asia Pacific (New Zealand) and Canada West (Calgary).
Amazon Quick introduced functionality allowing querying of Athena data across AWS accounts using chained IAM roles for fine-grained access control.
Amazon RDS integrates the latest MySQL minor releases, encouraging upgrades for security patches, bug fixes, and performance improvements.
IAM Policy Autopilot now analyzes Java code and Terraform resource definitions to create more precise AWS IAM policies reducing over-permissioning.
NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center continues nearly 80 years of flight research by adding diverse aircraft to support aerospace science and aeronautics missions.
A NASA-supported university CubeSat mission tests a novel solar neutrino detector in low Earth polar orbit to advance understanding of fundamental particles from the Sun.
AWS improved its Route 53 Resolver endpoints to better manage DNS queries across hybrid IPv4 and IPv6 networks using DNS64 and IPv6 forwarding features.
A new AWS Marketplace portal centralizes access to invoices, simplifying tax and financial record management for sellers and partners.
Amazon EC2 G6 instances, equipped with NVIDIA L4 GPUs and AMD EPYC processors, become available in AWS's European Sovereign Cloud (Germany) to support ML and graphics workloads.
New availability of Intel Xeon-powered X8i instances enhances AWS capacity for memory-intensive enterprise workloads and data analytics.
New administrative controls enable flexible and secure identity configurations for SageMaker Unified Studio across IAM and Identity Center authentication methods.
AWS introduces G7e instances powered by NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPUs to the London region for advanced AI and graphics workloads.
AWS Builder Center introduces automated alerts to notify users when AWS services or features become available in selected geographic regions.
MediaTailor introduces monetization functions enabling customers to customize ad server requests and session handling without middleware.
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