Hey Reader
Welcome to Issue # 7 of AWS Graviton Weekly, which it will be focused on sharing everything that happened in the past week related to AWS Graviton: from October 14, 2022, to October 21st, 2022.
The big highlight of this week is very simple but exciting: I will be talking about Graviton with Stephen Barr (the Chief Technical Evangelist at DevGraph) in their weekly Livestream of AWS Made Easy.
The Livestream will be Tuesday 9 AM PDT, October 25th.
Now, enjoy the resources of this week related to the universe of AWS Graviton.
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News
Amazon RDS for MySQL, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL now supports up to 15 read replicas for 3X read capacity If you want to start with RDS on Graviton, make sure to read this article about key considerations you have to take into account
Vantage Cloud Cost Report Q3 2022: While we see more forward-thinking organizations make shifts over to AWS Graviton, its adoption is still low in comparison at less than 1% of represents EC2 costs. So, we have a lot of work to do. :)
Articles and Tutorials
The Present And Future Of Arm And AWS Graviton At Honeycomb, by Ian Smith (Honeycomb.io)
Slides, Videos and Audio
[VIDEO] Pushing the Price Performance for Cloud Workloads with AWS Graviton3, with Dave Brown (VP, Amazon EC2, AWS) and Patrick Moorhead at The Six Five Summit
[VIDEO] Building API Infrastructure at Scale with Capital One, with Kevin Jones (NGINX), Rohit Joshi and Vikash Tiwari (Capital One). They discussed how Capital One is using NGINX and Open Source technologies for its API development efforts, but they mentioned how they are adopting AWS Graviton as well
[VIDEO] Deploy Arm-based applications to AWS Graviton2 with CircleCI, with Robert Schanafelt (former CircleCI employee, now part of NVIDIA), and Michael Lanthier (AWS)
AWS Graviton Jobs
Software Development Manager at AWS
Software Development Engineer, Graviton Software at AWS
Events
[EVENT] ARM DevSummit 2022. Interesting talk related to Graviton? Tom Trahan will reveal the ways CircleCI, Arm, and AWS Graviton helps customers scale in the cloud
[MEETUP] AWS Bulgaria #39 - AWS custom silicon (EC2, Nitro System, Graviton), Thursday, October 27, 2022
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM EEST. This event is organized by Daniel Rankov[MEETUP] AWS Meetup Tashkent #1: Friday, November 11, 2022. 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM UZT at Westminster International University. Mikhail (Mike) Golubev (AWS) and Egor Miasnikov will be talking about Graviton.
Quote of the day
After the initial test, we decided to fully roll out the ARM-based version of Ad Exchange to all clusters and AWS regions, and the results are better than expected.
“Intel for Ad Exchange is dead; long live ARM-based instances!”