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.

Recommendation of the week: CAST.AI​

NEWS

• ​Exclusive: AWS’ sustainable cloud push drives 99% carbon footprint reduction for Aussie users [ITBrief]
• ​Amazon EC2 R8g instances now available in AWS Europe (Ireland)​
• AWS CDK last release (v2.166.0) now supports I4G nodes for OpenSearch
• ​Amazon EC2 High Memory instances now available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai) region​​
• ​Amazon SageMaker Notebook Instances now support JupyterLab 4 notebooks​
• ​New Kinesis Client Library 3.0 reduces stream processing compute costs by up to 33%​​
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ARTICLES AND TUTORIALS

• ​Google Axion CPU With GCE C4A vs. AWS Graviton4 Performance, by Photonix ​
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• ​How Infinitium reduced fraud detection time by 95% with Amazon ECS and AWS Fargate on AWS Graviton, by Arun Surendran, Mudzaffar Mansor, and Syed Absar Karim​
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CloudFix @cloudfix_saves AWS continues to push the boundaries of performance and cost efficiency with the Graviton 4 chip. This latest innovation challenges the norm, offering advanced capabilities and new instance types, the C8Gs and M8Gs, now available across more regions. 👉 Ready to optimize your… https://x.com/i/web/status/1853912835320938557 4:30 PM • Nov 5, 2024 0 Retweets 0 Likes Read 1 replies

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• ​Does AWS’s new Graviton 4 really deliver on price-performance? by Tech Insights

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• ​Support for AWS Graviton instances on QuestDB? Someone from Arm should look into this issue here

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• ​TPCDS Spark Benchmark Results for Graviton R6g, R7g, and R8g​
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• ​AWS Graviton 3 support instances in Cloudera Data Engineering​

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• ​Embracing ARM Architecture for Enhanced Performance, by Artem Malyshev (Kloudfuse)​
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SLIDES, AUDIO AND VIDEO

• ​Brendan Bouffler (AWS) & David Lecomber (Arm): Making Nextflow run smoother: What we’ve cooked up with Seqera​

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• ​Graviton 4 Deep Dive, and AWS DaaS Review, by Stephen J Barr and Rahul Subramaniam (Cloudfix)

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• ​Twilio & Amazon Verified Permissions, by Peter Lavelle (Twilio) and Edward Sun (AWS)​
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EVENTS

​Reduce costs and improve sustainability with AWS Graviton​

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​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

From the Cloud Silicon Ecosystem

• ​Arm Holdings plc Reports Results for the Second Quarter of the Financial Year Ended 2025​

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• ​Panasonic Automotive Systems and Arm Partner to Standardize Software-Defined Vehicles​​​
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• ​How Arm’s Success in Data Centers is Shaping the Future of Chip Technology​​​
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Jobs of the week

• ​IT Operations Manager (Onsite: Oak Brook, IL)
• ​Senior Cloud Engineer at Trek10​
• ​Senior Infrastructure Engineer​​ at ​​Thrive Freeze Dry​
• ​Staff Engineer at PGA of America (Frisco, TX)​​
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Good hunting,

Marcos out

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