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

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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:

We are introducing a new charge for public IPv4 addresses. Effective February 1, 2024, there will be a charge of $0.005 per IP per hour for all public IPv4 addresses, whether attached to a service or not (there is already a charge for public IPv4 addresses you allocate in your account but don’t attach to an EC2 instance).

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

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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:

If I’m totally honest it’s a really poor experience for IPv6 only. Support is messy and inconsistent across services. Requiring a VPC to have an IPv4 CIDR defined but never using it seems like some huge piece of leftover technical debt that is really hard to get rid of somewhere.

I haven’t done a comparison to any other cloud provider out there but I’d guess the situation is just as dire. This is really disappointing as many governments are mandating support for IPv6 and many telcos around the world are deploying IPv6 only networks (though usually with DNS64 and NAT64/CGNAT).

With respect to IPv6 I give AWS a 5/10. It’s a good effort, but it’s got a long way to go before it’s ubiquitous and even further before it can be deployed as a single stack.

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

Back to business.

NEWS

ARTICLES AND TUTORIALS

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

Zixi to feature enhancements and industry lowest TCO at IBC

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

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

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

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

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

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

“It was another strong quarter of progress for Amazon. We continued lowering our cost to serve in our fulfillment network, while also providing Prime customers with the fastest delivery speeds we’ve ever recorded.

Our AWS growth stabilized as customers started shifting from cost optimization to new workload deployment, and AWS has continued to add to its meaningful leadership position in the cloud with a slew of generative AI releases that make it much easier and more cost-effective for companies to train and run models (Trainium and Inferentia chips), customize Large Language Models to build generative AI applications and agents (Bedrock), and write code much more efficiently with CodeWhisperer.

We’re also continuing to see strong demand for our advertising services as the team keeps innovating for brands, including the ramp-up for Thursday Night Football with the ability for advertisers to tailor their spots by audience and create interactive experiences for consumers. We remain excited about what lies ahead for customers and the company.”

SLIDES, VIDEO, AND AUDIO

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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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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