
NVIDIA and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have partnered to enhance AI deployment capabilities at scale. The collaboration introduces EC2 G7 instances featuring NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell GPUs, which significantly boost AI inference and graphics performance. NVIDIA's cuVS library now enables GPU-accelerated vector indexing in Amazon OpenSearch, making large-scale vector databases more cost-effective and faster to build. AWS has also achieved NVIDIA Exemplar Cloud status, ensuring optimized performance for AI training workloads. This partnership aims to simplify AI infrastructure management while delivering high-performance solutions.
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