Issue # 50: August 11th 2023 to August 18th, 2023

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Hey Reader.

Welcome to Issue # 50 of AWS Graviton Weekly, which will be focused on sharing everything that happened in the past week related to AWS Silicon: from August 11th, 2023 to August 18th, 2023.

Before the usual weekly news, I want to do 2 quick things:

• The first one to give a big shoutout to Corey Quinn (yep, THAT Corey Quinn), and the whole crew behind Last Week in AWS newsletter + podcasts. Thanks a lot for the incredible feedback you gave me this week, and more importantly for taking the time to do it. It means a lot for this guy here
• And the second thing is taking a moment to congratulate the AWS Security team for the incredible design they have done with AWS Nitro hypervisor. Why I'm saying this now? Because after the news that AMD vulnerability known as "Zenbleed" was discovered, AWS published this:

It's always great to know you are working with a great foundation.

I will take this opportunity to share some of my favorite resources to revisit AWS Nitro:

• ​[Video] Introducing AWS Nitro Enclaves​​
• ​[White Paper] Security Design of the AWS Nitro System​
• ​[Video] - re:Inforce - Security Benefits of EC2 Nitro Architecture (Launch Pad)​
• ​[Video] - re:Inforce - Security Benefits of EC2 Nitro Architecture (Presentation)​
• ​[Video] - re:Invent - Nitro Deep Dive (Presentation)​
• ​[Video] - re:invent - Evolution of Nitro System (Presentation)​
• ​Amazon EC2 Update – Additional Instance Types, Nitro System, and CPU Options​
• ​Perspectives - AWS Nitro System Support for Previous Generation Instances - James Hamilton​

Now, back to business.

In this issue, you will find:

• how Graphite uses a particular feature of AWS Aurora to save 90% of the costs
• the availability of new Amazon EC2 instances like C7g, M7g, R7g, M7g and D3en in new regions around the globe
• how Monzo Bank is using AWS Nitro Enclaves
• a fascinating podcast episode about I4g instances
• and much more

Enjoy.

NEWS

• ​Amazon EC2 C7g, M7g, and R7g instances are now available in AWS Region Asia Pacific (Mumbai)​
• ​Announcing general-purpose Amazon EC2 M7a instances​
• ​Amazon EC2 D3en instances are now available in additional regions​
• ​Amazon EC2 M7g and R7g instances are now available in AWS Region Asia Pacific (Singapore)​​
• ​AWS CodePipeline now supports GitLab​
• ​Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle now supports R6i, M6i, and T3 instances​
• ​Amazon OpenSearch Serverless expands support for larger workloads and collections​
• ​Amazon RDS now supports T4g database instances in 6 additional AWS regions​
• ​Amazon RDS now supports M6g and R6g database instances in six additional AWS regions​
• ​Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle now supports R5b and X2iedn instances​
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ARTICLES AND TUTORIALS

• ​How an AWS Aurora feature cut our DB costs by 90%, by Greg Foster from Graphite

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• ​The Amazon Prime Day 2023 AWS Bill, by Corey Quinn​

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• ​Start small, save big: 3 steps to ongoing AWS cost savings, by Rahul Subramaniam from CloudFix

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• ​Defining the Sensitive IAM Actions, by Chris Farris​

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• ​How Intuit decided to think smaller when operating on the cloud, by Tom Krazit​

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• ​Exploring the AWS Graviton Processor: Unveiling the ARM-Based Architecture, by Anujesh Soni​

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• ​Future Trends and Developments in AWS Graviton: What to Expect, by Meghna Rawat​

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• ​New – Amazon EC2 M7a General Purpose Instances Powered by 4th Gen AMD EPYC Processors, by Channy Yun​

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• ​AWS: Five Reasons to Love It Despite Growth Slowdown, by Bob Evans​

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• ​Spend less on AWS Neptune by cleaning up idle instances, by Stephen Barr from CloudFix

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• ​Enhancing the Security of Time-Bound Credentials Using AWS Nitro Enclaves with Monzo Bank, with Dino Fizzotti and Craig Ferguson​

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• ​Introducing AWS Glue crawler and create table support for Apache Iceberg format, with ​Sandeep Adwankar, Srividya Parthasarathy, and Mahesh Mishra

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• ​Strategies for Achieving Carbon Neutrality and Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions on AWS, by Wolk Technology​

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SLIDES, VIDEO, AND AUDIO

• ​[VIDEO] Amazon EC2 Hpc7a instances​

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• ​[PODCAST] Episode # 612: I4g storage instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors​

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• ​[LIVESTREAM] Let's look at Llama2, Falcon, and more! New season start | S2 E1 | Build ON Generative AI, with Darko Mesaroš and Emily Webber​

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• ​[LIVESTREAM] Fraud Detection with MongoDB Atlas and Amazon SageMaker Canvas, with Du'An Lightfoot and Brooke Jamieson​

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• ​[VIDEO] How Amazon Is Making Custom Chips To Catch Up In Generative A.I. Race, from CNBC

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• ​[VIDEO] Modernizing Microsoft workloads on AWS, with Riccardo Freschi and Prasad Rao​

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• ​[VIDEO] SIL in the cloud with ARM HPC, with Fabian Bronne, Luke Harvey, Jerry Bonnah, and Simon Dürr

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• ​[LIVESTREAM] AWS Made Easy Livestream - Ep 62 - Removing Idle AWS Neptune Instances, with Stephen Barr and Rahul Subramaniam​​

EVENTS

​Graviton Essentials - New York Developer Day (Tuesday, September 19th, 2023)

Morning Session - 8:30 AM to 2:00 PM EDT

Afternoon Session - 12:00 PM to 5:30 PM EDT

Place: Amazon JFK14, 7 West 34th Street, New York, NY10001​

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​AWS NLP Conference 2023: Large Language Models and Beyond​

Date: Sep 13, 2023 - Sep 14, 2023, | 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM

Place: LHR16 Amazon 1 Principal Place, London, England EC2A 2FA​

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​AWS Summit Mexico 2023

(30 de agosto de 2023 | Centro Internacional de Exposiciones y Convenciones WTC)

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​AWS Summit Johanesburg 2023

(September 26, 2023 | Sandton Convention Centre)

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From the ARM Ecosystem

• ​Using Perf to enable PMU functionality on Armv8-A CPUs: Enable Arm PMU support for the kernel and install Linux Perf tool (Part I), by Jiaming Guo​
• ​Using Perf to enable PMU functionality on Armv8-A CPUs: Stage 1 and Stage 2, by Jiaming Guo​
• ​Enhancing Chromium’s Memory Safety with Armv9, by Richard Townsend​
• ​Learning Path: Learn how to Tune PostgreSQL, by Julio Suarez​
• ​Learning Path: Deploy Arm Instances on AWS using Terraform​
• ​[Arm Innovation Coffee] Smells Like ML talks about Remyx AI, with Michael Hall, Gabriel Peterson, Salma Mayorquin, and Terry Rodriguez (from Terry and Salma of Smells Like ML )

and ONE MORE THING...

Arm @Arm Arm TCS23 provides a whole new CPU cluster including the Arm Cortex-X4, Cortex-A720 and A520 and our DynamIQ Shared Unit, DSU-120. Each has been designed with ultimate performance to help you redefine the computing experience. 🦾 Learn how: https://bit.ly/3QD5t0y 12:0 PM • Aug 15, 2023 2 Retweets 18 Likes

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