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AWS Graviton Weekly # 37
Issue # 37: May 12th, 2023 to May 19th, 2023
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Welcome to Issue # 37 of AWS Graviton Weekly, which will be focused on sharing everything that happened in the past week related to AWS Silicon: from May, 12th, 2023 to May 19th, 2023.
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The recommended resources for this week?
- G5 instances are available in LA Local Zones
- The episode # 50 of AWS Made Easy with Arthur Petitpierre and the CloudFix team
- The vide of the livestream called "Porting Advisor for AWS Graviton". Highly recommended !!!
- A very interesting benchmark for Apache Kafka on AWS Graviton2, Graviton3 and AMD
- Another benchmark of Intel vs AWS Graviton, made by Intel
- C-DAC reveals AUM, India’s first indigenous ARM-Based HPC chip with 96 cores
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NEWS
Announcing the general availability of EC2 G5 instances in Los Angeles Local Zones
Learn more:
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/products/a10-gpu/
https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/g5/
Amazon EC2 C6in instances are now available in 20 AWS regions
Learn more:
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/05/amazon-ec2-c6in-instances-new-aws-regions/
ARTICLES AND TUTORIALS
10 Reasons You Should Run SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) on AWS, by Ferry Mulyadi (Principal Partner Solution Architect at AWS), Sumit Goyal (Principal Solutions Architect at AWS), and Anil Nallamotu (Head of Partner Solutions Architecture, Strategic Alliances, APJ at AWS
Learn more:
https://blogs.sap.com/2022/09/30/sap-hana-cloud-to-support-arm-based-aws-graviton-processors/
SaaS: How AWS Graviton moves money from Snowflake customers' wallets to shareholders' pockets, by Neil Carson (CEO of Yellowbrick Data, Inc)
Learn more:
https://www.neilcarson.me/aws-graviton-snowflake/
Optimizing AWS Cloud Compute Cost using Graviton, by Agye Udar (Senior Solution Architect) and Saravanan Mani (VP of Technology) from Stovl Consulting
Learn more:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/optimizing-aws-cloud-compute-cost-using-graviton-stovl-consulting/
Kafka Benchmarking on AWS Graviton2, Graviton3 and AMD, by Jonah Kowall (VP of Product Management at Aiven) and Titouan Chary (Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Aiven) via The New Stack
Learn more:
https://thenewstack.io/kafka-benchmarking-on-aws-graviton2-graviton3-and-amd/
Comparing Graviton vs Intel?
A very interesting comparison from Intel by Intel.
SLIDES, VIDEOS, and AUDIO
[Livestream] 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)
[Livestream] Building SaaS on AWS - Architecting for AI/ML inference at extreme scale
Speakers:
- Gunnar Grosch (Senior Developer Advocate at AWS)
- Mehran Najafi (Senior AWS Solution Architect at Amazon, AWS SaaS Canada Leader, AI/ML@Scale)
- Steven Alyekhin (Senior Solution Architect at AWS)
JOBS
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
[Livestream] AWS Made Easy Livestream - Episode 50 - Graviton special with Arthur Petitepierre (EC2 Graviton Principal Specialist Solutions Architect at AWS), Rahul Subramaniam and Stephen Barr from CloudFix (Tuesday May 23th, 9 AM PDT)
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
- Ampere Gets Out In Front Of X86 With 192-Core “Siryn” Ampere One
- Ampere launches a new cloud native processor family with its first custom-designed cores via TechCrunch
- Using vector math functions on Arm, by Chris Goodyer (Director of Engineering and Distinguished Engineer at Arm)
- Container Runtimes and WasmEdge benchmarking on Arm
- Unlocking software innovations for Cloud, Edge and Telco Deployments with Red Hat and Arm
- C-DAC reveals AUM, India’s first indigenous ARM-Based HPC chip with 96 cores
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