Issue # 48: July 28th, 2023 to August 4th, 2023

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Hey Reader.

Welcome to Issue # 48 of AWS Graviton Weekly, which will be focused on sharing everything that happened in the past week related to AWS Silicon: from July 28th, 2023 to August 2nd, 2023.

Before sharing the regular stuff related to the AWS Silicon universe, I wanted to highlight some news that will have a big impact in the near future:

It seems this is a simple charge, but it's not:

Andree Toonk @atoonk I was thinking some more about the @awscloud IPv4 costs. Just for fun, let's do some back-of-the-napkin math; let's say that by now, AWS' IPv4 pool is at a 50% usage of the 2020 capacity number. I.e. 50M IPv4 addresses are actively being used. $50M * $43 = $2.15 Billion dollars… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1685858408082423808 10:42 PM • Jul 30, 2023 7 Retweets 31 Likes Read 3 replies

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Reading the news, I assumed (wrongly) that this could be a great opportunity to bring more companies and services to the IPV6 world; but the truth is very different: AWS has very poor support for IPv6, according to this comment from the SudoAlex user on the AWS subreddit:

Then, I found this amazing article from Greg Cockburn called Can I? IPv6 and Graviton Only. Greg confirmed this as well:

​AWS is taking the right steps, but still, it's a long journey to the IPv6-only world.

Back to business.

NEWS

• ​Amazon ElastiCache now supports M7g and R7g Graviton3-based nodes​
• ​Introducing Amazon EC2 C7gd, M7gd, and R7gd Instances​​
• ​Amazon Redshift now supports querying Apache Iceberg tables​
• ​AWS Batch on AWS Fargate now supports Linux ARM64 and Windows x86 containers in Console​
• ​Introducing Amazon EC2 M7i-flex and M7i instances​​
• ​AWS Batch now supports price capacity optimized allocation strategy for Spot Instances​
• ​AWS announces new AWS Direct Connect location in Herzliya, Israel​
• ​Amazon EBS announces up to 128 volume attachments per EC2 instance​
• ​Amazon EC2 M6a instances now available in Hyderabad region​
• ​New – AWS Public IPv4 Address Charge + Public IP Insights​
• ​AWS Says 40,000 Customers Use Homegrown Graviton Chips​
• ​Amazon.com Announces Second Quarter Results​
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ARTICLES AND TUTORIALS

• ​Prime Day 2023 Powered by AWS – All the Numbers, by Jeff Barr​
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• ​Identify and optimize public IPv4 address usage on AWS, by Alexandra Huides, Aditya Santhanam, and Matt Lehwess

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• ​Building and operating a pretty big storage system called S3, by Werner Vogels

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• ​Zixi to feature enhancements and industry lowest TCO at IBC​

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• ​SageMaker Distribution is now available on Amazon SageMaker Studio, by Durga Sury and Ketan Vijayvargiya​

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• ​Use Case: Migration to AWS Graviton Processors, by Alexander Abgaryan​

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• ​Vantage Cloud Cost Report: ​​How Businesses are Allocating Cloud Spend in Q2 of 2023​

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• ​New Seventh-Generation General Purpose Amazon EC2 Instances (M7i-Flex and M7i), by Jeff Barr​

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• ​Introducing the first AWS Security Heroes, by Taylor Jacobsen. Proud to see a good friend of mine on this list: Congratulations Gerardo Castro​

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• ​The Rise and Fall of Spot Instance Pricing in 2023, by Philip Andrews. This research from CAST.AI is simply fascinating ​
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• ​Amazon.com Announces Second Quarter Results: Many interesting comments from Andy Jassy:

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SLIDES, VIDEO, AND AUDIO

• ​[VIDEO] How to optimize workloads for sustainability using AWS Graviton-based EC2 instances, by Zi Shen LIM and Chad Schmutzer​

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• ​[VIDEO] Powering PQC Encryption Security for AWS with Bloombase StoreSafe on Amazon Graviton3E Arm-based CPU​

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• ​[PODCAST] For Instance - Episode 001, by Sarah Musick & Sarbjeet Johal​

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• ​[VIDEO] Matrix Moments: Why now, for the India Semiconductor opportunity? Seed to Silicon - Part 1, with Nivedith Keswani and Sudipto Sannigrahi​

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• ​[LIVESTREAM] Under the Hood w/ AWS developing and building a python module, with Art Baudo and Arthur Petitpierre​

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• ​[VIDEO] Best practices when migrating from Amazon ECS with EC2 to AWS Fargate, by Jooyoung Kim​

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• ​[VIDEO] What's new in KPI Dashboard v2.0.0, with Yuriy Prykhodko and Anjali Dhanerwal​
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EVENTS

​AWS Storage Day, August 9, 2023 (9:00 AM – 5:00 PM PT / 12:00 PM – 8:00 PM ET)

About the event:

Data has become a strategic asset with organizations breaking data silos to develop new insights, protecting their data with resilient architectures and recovery planning, and integrating on premises and cloud in shared workloads with modern cloud applications.
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AWS offers storage services to help you make the most of your data, whether that data starts on-premises or in AWS, by making it available to the applications, analytics, and advanced AI and ML workloads that are transforming how organizations and people interact with data. The built-in resilience of AWS Storage services is the foundation for organizations’ own data protection plans, and the ability to budget for storage based on frequency of use and not just capacity offers customers an option to retain more data for longer time, for innovations in the future.​
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This event is ideal for anyone who is eager to learn more about:
How to prepare for AI/ML with the storage decisions you make now

• How to deliver holistic data protection for your organization, including recovery planning to help protect against ransomware
• How to do more with your budget by optimizing storage costs for on-premises and cloud data

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From the ARM Ecosystem

​China Hosts 40% of all Arm-based Servers in the World​

Eric Jhonsa @EricJhonsa Bernstein breaking down CPU suppliers and the growth of Arm server CPUs. $INTC $AMD $AMZN $BABA 2:11 PM • Jul 30, 2023 9 Retweets 70 Likes Read 4 replies

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• ​SoftBank’s Arm Targets $60 Billion Value in September IPO​
• ​Cortex-R and the next-generation of vehicles, by Bernhard Rill​
• ​An Armful of Clusters: Run Kubernetes Workloads More Efficiently and Sustainably, with Carlos Arilla Navarro, Technical Product Marketing Engineer at Giant Swarm​
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