AWS Graviton Weekly # 112


Issue # 112: November 1, 2024 to November 8, 2024

Hey Reader.

Welcome to Issue # 112 of AWS Graviton Weekly, which will be focused on sharing everything that happened in the past week related to AWS Silicon: from November 1, 2024 to November 8, 2024.

Enjoy.


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NEWS


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SLIDES, AUDIO AND VIDEO


EVENTS

Reduce costs and improve sustainability with AWS Graviton


Date: November 19, 2024

Speakers: Jyri Seiger and Jordan Kramsky, AWS

During this workshop you will learn about the use of Graviton processors with managed AWS services and architectures as well as containerized workloads. You will do hands-on exercises covering following topics:

  • EKS cluster with multi-architecture (x86-64 and arm64) node groups
  • ECS cluster with sample task and service running on a Graviton instance type
  • CI pipeline for multi-architecture docker container images using CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeCommit, and ECR (with docker manifests)
  • RDS migration scenario from MySQL 8 on M5 instance type to MySQL on M6g instance type
  • Amazon OpenSearch Service cluster migration scenario from the M5 to the M6g instance families, with minimal downtime.
  • Testing the performance of an application on Graviton-based instances and evaluating the impact of changes.

Who should attend: Cloud Architects, SREs, DevOps engineers, and other IT Professionals


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