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Marcos Ortiz

I'm a Data Engineer by day at Riot Games (via X-Team ) and by night, I curate the last news/product announcements/resources about AWS Silicon (Graviton, AWS Nitro, Inferentia, and Trainium).

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AWS Graviton Weekly # 79

Issue # 79: March 15, 2024 to March 22, 2024 Hey Reader. Welcome to Issue # 79 of AWS Graviton Weekly, which will be focused on sharing everything that happened in the past week related to AWS Silicon: from March 15, 2024, to March 22, 2024. Things you can't miss in this edition: The session about modern app development best practices with Amazon ECS at AWS The preview of Amazon EC2 R8g instances, powered by Graviton4 How to optimize your RDS instances, according to my good friend Cristian...

6 days ago • 1 min read

Issue # 78: March 8, 2024 to March 15, 2024 Hey Reader. Welcome to Issue # 78 of AWS Graviton Weekly, which will be focused on sharing everything that happened in the past week related to AWS Silicon: from March 8, 2024, to March 15, 2024. In last week's issue, I mentioned that you need to read the 2024 Kubernetes Cost Benchmark report from CAST.AI if you were using Kubernetes in some way. In the final part of this email, I wanted to answer some of your questions about it. Now, let's focus on...

13 days ago • 2 min read

Issue # 77: March 1, 2024 to March 8, 2024 Hey Reader. Welcome to Issue # 77 of AWS Graviton Weekly, which will be focused on sharing everything that happened in the past week related to AWS Silicon: from March 1, 2024, to March 8, 2024. 1 thing you can't miss in this edition: The 2024 Kubernetes Cost Benchmark Report conducted by CAST.AI To give you a quick perspective on why you should read this report if you are currently using Kubernetes in the cloud, this is one of the key findings in...

20 days ago • 1 min read

Issue # 76: February 23, 2024 to March 1, 2024 Hey Reader. Welcome to Issue # 76 of AWS Graviton Weekly, which will be focused on sharing everything that happened in the past week related to AWS Silicon: from February 23 2024 to March 1, 2024. 1 thing you can't miss in this edition: The collaboration post between ThirdAI and AWS teams Enjoy Recommendation of the week: CAST.AI NEWS NTT DOCOMO Selects AWS to Deploy Nationwide 5G Open Radio Access Network Amazon EC2 I4g Instances are now...

27 days ago • 2 min read

Issue # 75: February 16, 2024 to February 23, 2024 Hey Reader. Welcome to Issue # 75 of AWS Graviton Weekly, which will be focused on sharing everything that happened in the past week related to AWS Silicon: from February 16, 2024, to February 23, 2024. 2 things you can't miss in this edition: A lot of EKS-related gems How Arm launched Arm Neoverse CSS v3 Enjoy Recommendation of the week: CAST.AI NEWS Announcing Region Expansion of G5 instances on SageMaker notebooks AWS announces Amazon...

about 1 month ago • 1 min read

Issue # 74: February 9, 2024 to February 16, 2024 Hey Reader. Welcome to Issue # 74 of AWS Graviton Weekly, which will be focused on sharing everything that happened in the past week related to AWS Silicon: from February 9, 2024, to February 16, 2024. 2 things you can't miss in this edition: The video about how DeviceAtlas migrated to AWS Graviton How Smiles is using Graviton 2-based AWS Lambda functions to save to deliver up to 19 % better performance at a 20 % lower cost. Recommendation of...

about 1 month ago • 1 min read

Issue # 73: February 2, 2024 to February 9, 2024 Hey Reader. Welcome to Issue # 73 of AWS Graviton Weekly, which will be focused on sharing everything that happened in the past week related to AWS Silicon: from February 2, 2024, to February 9, 2024. Enjoy. Tool of the week: Antimetal NEWS Amazon EC2 C6g instances are now available in additional regions Volt Active Data Now Supports 64-bit Arm Processors TechBio Unicorn Owkin Teams Up with AWS to Advance Generative AI for Precision Medicine...

about 2 months ago • 2 min read

Issue # 72: January 26, 2024 to February 2, 2024 Hey Reader. Welcome to Issue # 72 of AWS Graviton Weekly, which will be focused on sharing everything that happened in the past week related to AWS Silicon: from January 26, 2024, to February 2, 2024. Things you can't miss in this issue: I encourage you to read this article. It will help you to identify the costs related to the new price increase for IPv4 addresses And a big thank you to Markus Adhiwiyogo from the AWS team for the incredible...

about 2 months ago • 2 min read

Issue # 71: January 19, 2024 to January 26, 2024 Hey Reader. Welcome to Issue # 71 of AWS Graviton Weekly, which will be focused on sharing everything that happened in the past week related to AWS Silicon: from January 19, 2024, to January 26, 2024. Things you can't miss in this issue: DragonflyDB on Graviton3E numbers 🤯🤯🤯 I wanted to share this again because it seems that a lot of people are not taking advantage of this: Announcing Amazon EC2 T4g Free Trial Extension The Amazon Elastic...

2 months ago • 3 min read

Issue # 70: January 12, 2024 to January 19, 2024 Hey Reader. Welcome to Issue # 70 of AWS Graviton Weekly, which will be focused on sharing everything that happened in the past week related to AWS Silicon: from January 12, 2024, to January 19, 2024. Two quick things I didn't want to start this without answering a fascinating question I got from one of you (Thanks Joe), and the question was simple: Can you share the resources related to the new EC2 R8g instances? Basically, what's the hype...

2 months ago • 1 min read
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