Animals Crossing: AI Helps Protect Wildlife Across the Globe

From Seattle, Washington, to Cape Town, South Africa — and everywhere around and between — AI is helping conserve the wild plants and animals that make up the intricate web of life on Earth. It’s critical work that sustains ecosystems and supports biodiversity at a time when the United Nations estimates over 1 million species
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AWS Weekly Roundup: DeepSeek-R1, S3 Metadata, Elastic Beanstalk updates, and more (February 3, 2024)

Last week, I had an amazing time attending AWS Community Day Thailand in Bangkok. This event came at an exciting time, following the recent launch of the AWS Asia Pacific (Bangkok) Region. We had over 300 attendees and featured 15 speakers from the community, including an AWS Hero and 4 AWS Community Builders who shared […]

Amphitrite Rides AI Wave to Boost Maritime Shipping, Ocean Cleanup With Real-Time Weather Prediction and Simulation

Named after Greek mythology’s goddess of the sea, France-based startup Amphitrite is fusing satellite data and AI to simulate and predict oceanic currents and weather. It’s work that’s making waves in maritime-shipping and oceanic litter-collection operations. Amphitrite’s AI models — powered by the NVIDIA AI and Earth-2 platforms — provide insights on positioning vessels to
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New Amazon EC2 P5en instances with NVIDIA H200 Tensor Core GPUs and EFAv3 networking

Amazon EC2 P5en instances deliver up to 3,200 Gbps network bandwidth with EFAv3 for accelerating deep learning, generative AI, and HPC workloads with unmatched efficiency.

Introducing storage optimized Amazon EC2 I8g instances powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and 3rd gen AWS Nitro SSDs

Elevate storage performance with AWS’s newest I8g instances, which deliver unparalleled speed and efficiency for I/O-intensive workloads.

Announcing future-dated Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations

AWS EC2 Capacity Reservations empowers you to secure compute capacity for critical future workloads up to 120 days ahead, ensuring seamless performance during peak demand events like product launches or seasonal sales.

AWS Lambda SnapStart for Python and .NET functions is now generally available

AWS Lambda SnapStart boosts Python and .NET functions’ startup times to sub-second levels, often with minimal code changes, enabling highly responsive and scalable serverless apps.

Give AI a Look: Any Industry Can Now Search and Summarize Vast Volumes of Visual Data

Enterprises and public sector organizations around the world are developing AI agents to boost the capabilities of workforces that rely on visual information from a growing number of devices — including cameras, IoT sensors and vehicles. To support their work, a new NVIDIA AI Blueprint for video search and summarization will enable developers in virtually
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Convert AWS console actions to reusable code with AWS Console-to-Code, now generally available

AWS Console-to-Code generates reusable infrastructure as code from your AWS console actions, supporting Amazon EC2, RDS, and VPC. With a few clicks, get CloudFormation, CDK (TypeScript, Python, Java), or CLI code – a game-changer for streamlining cloud automation workflows.

High-Speed AI: Hitachi Rail Advances Real-Time Railway Analysis Using NVIDIA Technology

Hitachi Rail, a global transportation company powering railway systems in over 50 countries, is integrating NVIDIA AI technology to lower maintenance costs for rail operators, reduce train idling time and improve transit reliability for passengers. The company is adopting NVIDIA IGX — an industrial-grade, enterprise-level platform that delivers high-bandwidth sensor processing, powerful AI compute, functional
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