Issue # 107: September 27, 2024 to October 4, 2024

Hey Reader.

Welcome to Issue # 107 of AWS Graviton Weekly, which will be focused on sharing everything that happened in the past week related to AWS Silicon: from September 27, 2024 to October 4, 2024.

Two quick things:

• Congratulations to the incredible team of Kit (formerly known as ConverKit). We have been a proud Kit customer since the start of this newsletter, and now with the new brand refreshing, the platform is even more intuitive and appealing. Well done, Nathan Barry and team.
• Some of you requested to me to share some of the most interesting AWS/DevOps/CloudOps jobs out there inside my network, so I will try to do that since this edition. You will find them in the last part of the issue

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Now, back to biz

Recommendation of the week: CAST.AI​

NEWS

• ​AWS debuts new, home-grown, 192-cores Graviton4 CPUs that can support up to 3TB of RAM as it nibbles away Intel and AMD's memory advantage (Techradar)
• ​AWS ParallelCluster 3.11 now available with login node enhancements​​
• ​AWS Compute Optimizer now supports 80 new Amazon EC2 instance types​
• ​Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 now supports up to 256 ACUs​
• ​Announcing availability of AWS Outposts in Kuwait​​
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ARTICLES AND TUTORIALS

• ​Vendor lock-in when using AWS Graviton processors is no longer a real thing, by Joe Stech (Arm)

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• ​How Aura improves database performance using Amazon S3 Express One Zone for caching, by Joshua Banton (Aura Frames)a nd Kellie Cottingame (AWS)

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• ​Amazon DynamoDB adds support for attribute-based access control, by learn2skills​

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• ​Graviton: AWS's Secret Weapon for Performance and Cost Efficiency, by Ronen Amity (Cloudride)

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• ​The Platform Team Dilemma: every buying decision is an engineering decision, by Khawaja Shams (Momento)

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• ​I have reduced my AWS billings by 26% and in the time to come, it will be reduced more with the implemented solution; by Avinash Tiwari​

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• ​Key insights from Dr. Werner Vogels ' keynote at Amazon Web Services (AWS) Empower India, by Shyank Akshar​

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• ​Cloud Tech Bulletin Newsletter #6: How the Cloud is Revolutionising the Financial Landscape, by Benedict Xavier​

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• ​Physics Wallah Enhances Security, Improving Student Experiences While Democratizing Learning Across India Using AWS​

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• ​open-appsec WAF Announces Upcoming Support for ARM-Based Platforms, by Christopher Lutat (Check Point)

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• ​Scaling HPC in 6 Months for Aerospace Modeling Using AWS with Hypersonix Launch Systems​​
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• ​MidLink Cloud’s Achievement in AWS Graviton Service Delivery​​

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SLIDES, AUDIO AND VIDEO

• ​Graviton 4 Deep Dive, and AWS DaaS Review, with Stephen J. Barr and Rahul Subramaniam​ from Cloudfix​
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EVENTS

​Graviton Developer Day for Python, Go, and Java​

Date: Thursday 17th October, 03:00 - 09:30 GMT-5

Hosts: Christian Melendez, Mike Dukes, Syl Taylor​

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From the Cloud Silicon Ecosystem

• ​Intel and AWS Expand Strategic Collaboration, Helping Advance U.S.-Based Chip Manufacturing​
• ​SiPearl in a nutshell​

Jobs of the week

• ​Senior Backend Engineer at Chariot (Location: Hybrid in New York, NY; Tech stack: AWS, Node.js, Golang, Docker, Terraform, and Kubernetes; Salary range: $140k to $200k per year)
• ​Backend Engineer (Staff-Level) at Basis (Location: In-Person in New York, NY; Tech stack: ML, Fintech stuff; Salary range: $100k to $200k)
• ​DevOps Engineer at Bill Rewards (Location: In-Person in New York, NY; Tech stack: GCP, Python, Perl ; Salary range: $160k to $200k)

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Good hunting,

Marcos out

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