AWS Graviton Weekly # 11: Week from November 11th, 2022 to November 18th, 2022


Issue # 11: November 11th, 2022 to November 18th, 2022

Hey Reader

Welcome to Issue # 11 of AWS Graviton Weekly, which will be focused on sharing everything that happened in the past week related to AWS Graviton: from November 11th, 2022 to November 18th, 2022.

This week, I've had the pleasure to meet and hang out with incredible folks in the AWS Security Day 2k22 here in Lima, Peru.

It was my first in-person event since 2019, and from my point of view, it was a huge success and showed the incredible health of the AWS community here in the country and in the region as well.

Thanks to Gerardo, Dario, and the whole crew behind the organization of the event. We need more events like this. Seriously.

To check out the posts related to the event, feel free to use the #awssecurityday2k22 hashtag on LinkedIn.

If you want to see some of the talks, you can watch them here in its YouTube channel.


Now, back to Graviton news, this week I participated in an incredible livestream with Will Koplitz (Solution Architect from AWS) and JP Robinson (Staff Engineer at Datadog), where they discussed Datadog's journey to use Graviton based infrastructure.

Serious Tip: Your technical knowledge will be challenged here, so feel free to take your notes.

And don't miss the post from Lewis Monteith, co-founder of Squeaky, where he explained the entire process how the company migrated all components of its architecture to Graviton based infrastructure (AWS Fargate + Ruby on Rails + ClickHouse).

Enjoy !!!


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News


Articles and Tutorials

When the AWS Graviton2 instances were introduced, they provided 40% better price performance for many workloads, compared to similar x86 Amazon EC2 instances. Graviton3 features an additional 25% improved performance over Graviton2.
Video processing and transcoding has been growing in importance, and Graviton is well suited for this workload. AWS engineers and the open source community have worked on video encoding tools, such as FFmpeg and the codec libraries, to further optimize for Graviton.
You can get these improvements on GitHub from a build in the development branch of FFmpeg, or use FFmpeg version 5.2 when it is released.

Hint?

Runtime Architecture is changed from X86_64 to ARM64. This results in no visible performance increase for our case but AWS charges 25% less for ARM64 so we went with it.

  • AWS libcrypto (AWS-LC): a general-purpose cryptographic library maintained by the AWS Cryptography team for AWS and their customers. It іs based on code from the Google BoringSSL project and the OpenSSL project. The project is using AWS Graviton processors to test ARMv8 optimizations


Slides, Videos and Audio


Jobs

If you are actively looking for a new role, you should join our Talent Collective here. It's completely free to the candidates.

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Events

Over the last few years, machine learning (ML), more specifically deep learning (DL), has become important for the HPC community. DL uses frameworks like TensorFlow and PyTorch, which use underlying hardware features for better performance. In this session, learn about how DL frameworks use ML-specific Arm architecture features like BFloat16 for faster inference on AWS Graviton3 compared to other platforms.


Quote of the week

We’re strong believers in continuously improving tools and process, and that’s really paid off this time.
By having all our apps running the latest versions of languages, frameworks and dependencies, we’ve been able to switch over to brand new infrastructure with almost zero code changes.
Switching our entire operation over to Graviton only took one day and we’ve saved approximately 35% on our infrastructure costs.
When comparing our CPU and memory usage, along with latency metrics, we’ve seen no performance degradation. In fact, our overall memory footprint has dropped slightly, and we expect to see further improvements as the month rolls on.
It’s fair to say we're all-in on ARM, and any future pieces of infrastructure will now be powered by Graviton.

Lewis Monteith, Co-founder and CEO of Squeaky

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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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