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 # 45
Issue # 45: July 7th, 2023 to July 14th, 2023
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Hey Reader.
Welcome to Issue # 45 of AWS Graviton Weekly, which will be focused on sharing everything that happened in the past week related to AWS Silicon: from July 7th, 2023 to July 14th, 2023
In this issue, you will find:
- How to use the power of pgvector and PostgreSQL for Generative AI purposes
- How to mix AWS Graviton with x86 CPUs to optimize cost and resiliency using Amazon EKS
- How to combine AWS Graviton 2 and Amazon EBS GP3 volumes to save a lot of money for AWS OpenSearch Service
- How Segment is optimizing cloud costs with Graviton instances
- How to measure performance on Graviton instances
and much more.
Enjoy
NEWS
- Siemens expands collaboration with AWS to help IC and electronics design customers accelerate innovation
- Amazon GuardDuty EKS Runtime Monitoring expands operating systems and processor support
- AWS Mainframe Modernization expands control and visibility of runtime environments
- AWS Lambda now detects and stops recursive loops in Lambda functions
- Amazon Aurora supports PostgreSQL 15.3, 14.8, 13.11, 12.15, and 11.20 versions
- AWS Karpenter now supports Windows containers
- Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports OpenSearch version 2.7
- AWS CodeBuild now supports GitHub Actions
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AWS Glue Crawlers now supports Apache Iceberg Tables
ARTICLES AND TUTORIALS
- Mixing AWS Graviton with x86 CPUs to optimize cost and resiliency using Amazon EKS, by Yahav Biran and Yuval Dovrat
- Better Together – Graviton 2 and GP3 with Amazon OpenSearch Service, by Ryan Doty, Dan Alvarez, and Mukesh Kumar
- High-performance actuarial reserve modeling using AWS Batch, by Maksim Tybar, Raj Pathak, and Alfredo Castillo
- Leverage pgvector and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL for Natural Language Processing, Chatbots, and Sentiment Analysis, by Shayon Sanyal
- How Segment is optimizing cloud costs with Graviton instances, by Abhinav Ittekot (Staff Engineer at Twilio)
SLIDES, VIDEO, AND AUDIO
- [LIVESTREAM] ECS Builder series - Skylar Graika (Smartsheet) | Containers from the Couch with Adam Keller and Justin Garrison
EVENTS
AWS User Group Lviv Meetup #12, (Tuesday, July 25, 2023, at 10:00 AM PET)
Speakers:
- Oleksandr Vorobiov (AWS Cloud Architect at SoftServe): "AWS GRAVITON: revolutionizing cloud computing"
- Yurii Martyniuk (DevOps Engineer at TechMagic): "AWS Service Catalog"
Public Sector Day Indonesia 2023 (July 27th, 2023)
Speakers:
- Hendry Anwar (Solutions Architect @ AWS):
How to measure performance on Graviton instances (July 18th, 2023, 2:00 PM PST)
Speakers:
From the ARM Ecosystem
- Arm Neoverse-powered servers demonstrate HPC leadership
- Multi-Arch Cloud Infrastructure from the Ground Up: Why and How to Get Started, with Cheryl Hung (Senior Ecosystem Director in Infrastructure at Arm)
- Build your web applications with GitHub Actions on new Arm-powered Microsoft Azure Burstable VMs
- Task-aware Scheduling and Performance Optimization on Yitian710 SoC for GEMM-based Workloads on the Cloud
- 2023 Edge AI Technology Report, by Wevolver
Marcos Ortiz
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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