Issue # 115: November 29, 2024 to December 13, 2024

Hey Reader.

Welcome to Issue # 116 of AWS Graviton Weekly, which will be focused on sharing everything that happened in the past week related to AWS Silicon: from November 29, 2024 to December 13, 2024.

We are changing the cadence of this newsletter from weekly to bi-weekly. We think that bi-weekly will have a richer format and more meat for the brain.

The past week was AWS:reInvent 2024, and the event was full of incredible announcements and case studies. So, in this edition of the newsletter. we will focus to share the most interesting stuff according to us.

Enjoy

Recommendation of the week: CloudFix​

NEWS

• ​AWS Graviton accounts for 50% of new CPU “capacity” in the last two years​
• ​Introducing storage optimized Amazon EC2 I8g instances powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and 3rd gen AWS Nitro SSDs​
• ​Introducing Amazon Nova, our new generation of foundation models​
• ​Amazon introduces Amazon EC2 Trn2 Instances and Trn2 UltraServers​
• ​AWS announces AWS Trainium 3 ​
• ​AWS announces S3 Tables (one of my favorite announcements)
• ​Amazon Aurora DSQL is announced ​
• ​Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse​
• ​Apple is using AWS Graviton3 and Inferentia2 with incredible results: They have achieved over 40% efficiency gains in some of its machine learning services
• ​Now available: Storage optimized Amazon EC2 I7ie instances​​
• ​New Amazon EC2 P5en instances with NVIDIA H200 Tensor Core GPUs and EFAv3 networking​
• ​Amazon EC2 F2 instances, featuring up to 8 FPGAs, are generally available​​
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ARTICLES AND TUTORIALS

• ​How To Migrate Stateful Workloads On Kubernetes With Zero Downtime, by CAST.AI​

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• ​Accelerate your AWS Graviton adoption with the AWS Graviton Savings Dashboard, by Rosa Corley (Commercial Architect at AWS) and Rajani Guptan (Senior Technicial Account Manager at AWS)

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• ​Migrating from x86 to AWS Graviton on Amazon EKS using Karpenter, by Johannes Brück( Senior Staff Engineer at Personio), Donald Dragoti (Lead Platform Engineer at Personio), Steve Flinchbaugh (Lead Platform Engineer at Personio), Maximilian Schellhorn (Senior Solutions Architect at AWS) and Dionysios Kakaletris (Technical Account Manager at AWS)​
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• ​Amazon EC2 Trn2 Instances and Trn2 UltraServers for AI/ML training and inference are now available, by Jeff Barr (Chief Evangelist at AWS)​
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VIDEOS

• ​AWS re:Invent 2024 - Optimizing performance and cost with AWS Graviton (DEV302), with Liz Fong-Jones (Field CTO at Honeycomb)
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• ​AWS re:Invent 2024 - Use cases for migrating workloads to AWS Graviton (PEX107)​

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• ​AWS re:Invent 2024 - Dive deep into the AWS Nitro System (CMP301), by Ali Saidi (Sr. Principal Engineer at Amazon​
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• ​AWS re:Invent 2024 - AWS Graviton: The best price performance for your AWS workloads (CMP320), with Sudhir Raman (Dtor of PM at AWS), Ali Saidi (Sr. Principal Engineer at Amazon) and ​Sujith Katakam (Staff Software Engineer at Robinhood)

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• ​AWS re:Invent 2024 - Uncover compute efficiency with AWS Graviton Savings Dashboard (CMP346), by Rosa Corley (Commercial Architect at AWS) and Rajani Guptan (Senior Technicial Account Manager at AWS)

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• ​AWS re:Invent 2024 - Optimize your AI/ML workloads with Amazon EC2 Graviton (CMP323), by Jeff Underhill (Principal BD Specialist at AWS), Shengcai Cheng (Sr. Solutions Architect at AWS) and ​Nova DasSarma (Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic)

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• ​AWS re:Invent 2024 - What’s new with Amazon EC2 (CMP101), with Art Baudo (Head of Product Marketing at AWS), Ed Peters (VP, Distinguished Engineer at CapitalOne) and Willem Visser (VP, EC2 at AWS)​
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• ​AWS re:Invent 2024 - Run workloads efficiently on EKS with Karpenter and EC2 Spot Instances (CMP213), with Mike Dukes (Sr Manager Startups Specialist at AWS) and Miles Bryant (Senior Platform Engineer at Monzo Bank)​
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2025 will be a very interesting year for Compute and AI at AWS, so we will keep an eye on it.

Happy hacking,

Marcos from AWS Graviton Weekly

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