I'm a Data Engineer by day at Riot Games (via X-Team ) and by night, I curate the last news/product announcements/resources about AWS Silicon (AWS Graviton, Nitro, Inferentia, and Trainium).
AWS Graviton Weekly # 4: Week from Sept 23th to Sept 30th, 2022
Issue # 4: September 23th to September 30th, 2022
Hey Reader
Welcome to the Issue # 4 of AWS Graviton Weekly, which it will be focused on sharing everything that happened in the past week related to AWS Graviton: from September 23th to September 30th, 2022.
First, a big shout out to my incredible friends of Vantage for its interesting launch of a new feature for its cloud costs savings product called Cost Anomaly Alerts. No more big suprises with your cloud bills.
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News
- CleverTap Saves 20% with AWS Graviton and Data Lake on Amazon S3 for Petabyte-Scale User Retention Platform
- The ever-widening world of Wasm
- NTT DOCOMO and NEC Reduce Power Consumption for 5G SA Core by an Average of 72% using AWS Graviton2, followed by a Successful Onboarding of 5G SA Core on Hybrid Cloud
- Support for AWS Graviton instances is GA, by the Databricks team
Articles and Tutorials
- Everything You Want To Know About The AWS Graviton IC Family & Its Value, by Qubole
- When Lambda deployments aren’t zero-downtime (and how to fix it), by the MOIA Engineering team explains how to move AWS Lambda from Intel to Graviton architecture
- Spark for EMR on EKS with Graviton Processors, by Leandro Vaz (XONAI) and Phil Schwab
- Use case - daily limit: SELECT FOR UPDATE vs. UPDATE RETURNING in Aurora and YugabyteDB, by Franck Pachot (YugabyteDB)
- How to save up to 50% of your AWS costs, by Sai Rahul
Slides, Videos and Audio
- [VIDEO] Matt Wood (VP of Amazon), explains how ten of thousands of AWS customers are using Graviton 3 today at London Summit 2022 Keynote
- [VIDEO] Building multi-architecture container images for AWS Graviton, by Andreas Wittig from the cloudonaut YouTube channel
- [VIDEO] Building a Lakehouse on AWS for Less with AWS Graviton and Photon, with Igor Alekseev (AWS) and Piyush Singh (Databricks)
- [VIDEO] Flexing your EMR Cluster with Graviton processors, by Priyanka Chaudhary (Data Architect at AWS)
- [VIDEO] Roadmap: OpenSearch and Amazon OpenSearch Service, by Carl Meadows, (AWS) explaining how Amazon OpenSearch is a cost-concious service, thanks to AWS Graviton
AWS Graviton Jobs
- Check this post from Anshul Gang, who recently joined to the AWS Graviton team, and is looking for new people to join.
- Sr Software Development Engineer - Machine Learning, Graviton SW, at AWS
If you are actively looking for a new role, join our Interesting Data Gigs Talent Collective.
Events
- [WEBINAR] How & why software company Ably migrated 80% of its compute loads to AWS Graviton. Date: 19 October 2022 - 12:00 Pm UK / 1:00 Pm CEST. Learn how Ably optimized costs and transitioned their computing to AWS Graviton with James Aley (CTO at Ably), Jean Latiere (Sr. Graviton Specialist, AWS) and Jon Hammant (UKIR Head of Compute, AWS)
Quote of the day
Lalitha Duru, VP of Engineering at CleverTap
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I'm a Data Engineer by day at Riot Games (via X-Team ) and by night, I curate the last news/product announcements/resources about AWS Silicon (AWS Graviton, Nitro, Inferentia, and Trainium).
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