Issue # 36: May 5th, 2023 to May 12th, 2023
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Welcome to Issue # 36 of AWS Graviton Weekly, which will be focused on sharing everything that happened in the past week related to AWS Silicon: from May, 5th, 2023 to May, 12th, 2023
The recommended resources for this week?
- The launch of Cedar, an Open Source language for access control
- The support of Graviton3 R7g instances for Amazon Aurora and PostgreSQL, and the launch of I4g instances
- An online event you can't miss if you want to port code to Graviton
- An interesting post from the Coiled team about some performance tests for Dask on Graviton3 instances
- and more cool stuff
Enjoy the content of this week
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NEWS
Introducing Cedar, an open-source language for access control
Learn more:
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/05/cedar-open-source-language-access-control/
https://www.cedarpolicy.com/en
https://www.amazon.science/blog/how-we-built-cedar-with-automated-reasoning-and-differential-testing
https://github.com/cedar-policy
Introducing Amazon EC2 I4g storage-optimized instances
Learn more:
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/05/amazon-ec2-i4g-storage-optimized-instances/
Amazon Aurora MySQL and PostgreSQL support for Graviton3 based R7g instance family
Learn more:
AWS announces Amazon Aurora I/O-Optimized
Learn more:
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/05/amazon-aurora-i-o-optimized/
ARTICLES AND TUTORIALS
.NET Workflows for arm64 with Amazon CodeCatalyst: Part 1, by Kirk Davis (Principal Solutions Architect for Microsoft Workloads on AWS)
Learn more:
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/dotnet/net-workflows-for-arm64-with-codecatalyst-part-1/
New Storage-Optimized Amazon EC2 I4g Instances: Graviton Processors and AWS Nitro SSDs, by Jeff Barr (Chief Evangelist for AWS)
Learn more:
Reduce Amazon SageMaker inference cost with AWS Graviton, by Sunita Nadampalli (Software Development Manager at Amazon), Jaymin Desai (Software Engineer at AWS AI), Lauren Mullennex (Senior AI/ML Specialist Solution Architect at AWS), Mohan Gandhi (Senior Software Engineer at AWS), Qingwei Li (Senior AI/ML Specialist Solution Architect at AWS), Wayne Toh (EC2 Graviton Specialist at AWS), and Mike Schneider (System Development Engineer II at AWS)
Learn more:
Running Golang on ARM Lambdas, by James Farrell (Senior Software Engineer I at NS1)
Learn more:
https://james-farrell.com/posts/running-golang-on-arm-lambda/
Using Open Source Cedar to Write and Enforce Custom Authorization Policies, by Mike Hicks (Senior Principal Scientist at Amazon Web Services, and Professor Emeritus at the University of Maryland)
Learn more:
How Canva saves over $3 million annually in Amazon S3 costs, by Joshua Smith (Engineering Lead for the Core Data team at Canva)
Learn more:
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/storage/how-canva-saves-over-3-million-annually-in-amazon-s3-costs/
How well does Dask run on Graviton? by Nat Tabris (Staff Software Engineer at Coiled) and Sarah Johnson (Documentation Engineer at Coiled)
Learn more:
https://medium.com/coiled-hq/how-well-does-dask-run-on-graviton-29d5d9c20279
SLIDES, VIDEOS, and AUDIO
[VIDEO] AWS Made Easy Livestream - Ep 48 - Cloud Intelligence Dashboards with Meredith Holborn (Technical Account Manager at AWS Enterprise Support), Rahul Subramaniam (CEO and founder at CloudFix) and Stephen Barr (Principal Architect and Technical Evangelist at CloudFix )
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- Senior Software Engineer (LATAM Only) at Kasa
EVENTS
Graviton Essentials - Developer Day
Wednesday, May 31 2023 | 8:30AM - 5:00PM PDTAmazon SJC18, 2100 University Avenue, East Palo Alto, CA94303
About the event
AWS presents the Graviton Essentials Developer Day. Graviton Essentials Developer Day is a free in-person immersion event where AWS Graviton experts deliver technically-focused Graviton-based Amazon EC2 training. This full-day event helps attendees learn best practices to accelerate migration and development of their workloads on Graviton-based instances. Attendees can expect to leave Graviton Essentials Developer Day feeling confident they will know how to achieve performance gains and cost reductions from using Graviton-based instances. Sessions will cover topics such as Introduction to Graviton, programming language and focused deep dives, testing and optimization techniques, and workload deployments. Space is limited, so sign up today.
Presenters & Hosts
AWS Graviton Specialist Solution Architects
About Graviton: AWS Graviton processors are custom Arm-based processors designed by Amazon Web Services (AWS). Graviton-based instances deliver up to 20% lower cost, up to 40% better price performance, and up to 60% less energy consumption than comparable x86-based instances. With Graviton-based instances, you can:
1. Increase and scale your application performance to enhance your customer experience
2. Reduce your operational cost
3. Support running workloads sustainably in the cloud
Who should attend
- Software Engineers
- Cloud Architects
- DevOps Engineers
- Platform Engineers
What to expect
- Introduction to Graviton
- Programming language & focused deep dives
- Testing & optimization techniques
- Workload deployments
- Hands-on working sessions
- Interaction with AWS Graviton SMEs
- Light breakfast, lunch, and happy hour
Requirements
- Participants need to supply their own laptop and power supply
- Some coding knowledge
No prior Graviton experience is necessary
AWS on Air: Porting Advisor for AWS Graviton: May 16th, 2:00 PM PST / 5:00 PM EST
Speakers:
- Art Baudo (Principal Product Marketing Manager at AWS)
- Vishal Manan (Sr. Solution Architect, Graviton at AWS)
- Ryan Doty (Solution Architect at AWS)
AWS Migration Meetup: June 7, 4 PM CEST | Online
Join Migration Meetup by N-iX on June 7th to discuss cases about migration and data engineering on AWS for business growth!
We’ll deep dive into how the Migration Acceleration Program helps organizations achieving their business goals and how to start the migration journey! And focus on AWS tools and services you need to easily collect, store, process, and analyze data in real-time, enabling you to make informed decisions faster than ever before.
Free online event.
All Talks will be in English
Speakers:
- Evgeny Ershov (EMEA Business Development Manager at Amazon Web Services)
- Rostyslav Fedynyshyn (Data Solutions Architect | Head of Data & Analytics Practices at N-iX)
- Moderator: Wiktoria Dalach, Senior Software and Security Engineer
From the ARM Ecosystem
Social Media post of the week
The post came from Ronen Laviv (Enterprise Account Manager at AWS)