Issue # 115: November 22, 2024 to November 29, 2024

Hey Reader.

Welcome to Issue # 115 of AWS Graviton Weekly, which will be focused on sharing everything that happened in the past week related to AWS Silicon: from November 22, 2024 to November 29, 2024.

On Sunday, AWS:reinvent 2024 will start.

I couldn't join this year (US visa is getting longer to get), so please if you make it: enjoy your time there, meet new people, network with intent to actually make true connections there.

And more important: wear a pair of confortable shoes. Believe me: this matters more than you think. I love these ones from ATOMS​

Enjouy your time at reinvent, my friend.

Recommendation of the week: CloudFix​

NEWS

• ​Amazon’s secretive AI weapon: An exclusive look inside AWS’ Annapurna Labs chip operation [SiliconAngle]
• ​Amazon EC2 C7g instances are now available in additional regions​
• ​Amazon EC2 R8g instances now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai)​​
• ​Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB now supports M8g and R8g database instances​
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ARTICLES AND TUTORIALS

• ​AWS Reserved Instance and Savings Plan Policy Changes: What You Need to Know by Stephen J. Barr (Cloudfix)

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• ​What’s Next for VMware Workloads on AWS? by Steven Jones​

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• ​Your telecom cloud journey on AWS: Part 2 – A technical roadmap with AWS, by Amir Choudhri, Rolando Jr Hilvano, and Dr. Young Jung​

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• ​Analyzing your AWS Cost Explorer data with Amazon Q Developer: Now Generally Available, by Riya Dani ​

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• ​How 123RF saved over 90% of their translation costs by switching to Amazon Bedrock, by Fahim Surani and Mark Roy​​
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SLIDES, AUDIO AND VIDEO

• ​Run performant and cost-effective GenAI Applications with AWS Graviton and Arcee AI, by Lorenzo Winfrey (AWS), Jeff Underhill (AWS) and Julien Simon (Arcee AI)
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EVENTS

​How AWS infrastructure is powering the GenAI boom​

Date: December 17, 2024. 12pm

Place: Online

Generative AI’s capacity to transform just about every industry and sector – thereby revolutionizing standard line-of-business processes and enabling enterprises to find new opportunities – is increasingly evident.

To enable its customers to meet the challenges this important technology shift brings, AWS has been growing its infrastructure to power GenAI. AWS has a broad portfolio of services in compute, networking and storage designed to support GenAI developers.

Understanding emergent GenAI trends – such as Large Language Models (LLMs), Small Language Models (SLMs), multi-modal models, and techniques like domain adaptation – is essential if enterprises are to gain business advantage from GenAI’s potential.

In this webinar The Register’s James Hayes is joined by Diwakar Bansal, Principal GenAI Specialist at AWS, to take a deep delve into the latest advances in performant, scalable and cost-effective Machine Learning infrastructure from AWS, ranging from the latest GPUs to instances based on AWS’s AI chips Trainium and Inferentia.

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Join this insightful webinar to find out about:

• The latest advancements in AWS infrastructure to power GenAI.
• Emergent GenAI trends such as LLMs, SLMs, multi-modal models, and other key GenAI development techniques.
• Challenges GenAI developers face, and how AWS is helping to resolve those.

Speaker: Diwakar Bansal, Principal GenAI Specialist, AWS

​CMP346 | Uncover compute efficiency with AWS Graviton Savings Dashboard​

Date: Tuesday, Dec 3, 11:30 AM - 11:50 AM PST

Speakers:

• ​Rosa Corley, FinOps Commercial Architect, AWS
• ​Rajani Guptan, Senior Technical Account Manager, Amazon Inc

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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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