AWS Graviton Weekly # 48


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:

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:

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

“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


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



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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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