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 # 51
Issue # 51: August 18th, 2023 to August 25th, 2023
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Hey Reader.
Welcome to Issue # 51 of AWS Graviton Weekly, which will be focused on sharing everything that happened in the past week related to AWS Silicon: from August 18th, 2023 to August 25th, 2023.
In this issue, you will find:
- How Amazon GameLift instances are now powered by AWS Graviton3 processors
- How AWS is supporting F1’s sustainability drive using the cloud and AI
- How Rippling used Spot instances to save and scale CI/CD
- The announcement of AWS Dedicated Local Zones
- Amazon EC2 C7gd, M7gd, and R7gd instances now available in Europe (Frankfurt) region
- and much more
Enjoy.
NEWS
- Trn1 instances optimized for Generative AI now available in US East (Ohio)
- Announcing Amazon GameLift support for instances powered by AWS Graviton3 processors
- Amazon EC2 C7gd, M7gd, and R7gd instances now available in Europe (Frankfurt) region
- Amazon EC2 M7i-flex and M7i instances are now available in AWS Regions Europe (Spain, Stockholm)
- EC2 Hibernate now supports Amazon EC2 M7i and M7i-flex instances
- AWS Outposts rack supported in the AWS Middle East (UAE) and the AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) Regions
- Amazon RDS for MariaDB now supports MariaDB 10.11 for up to 40% higher transaction throughput
- Announcing AWS Dedicated Local Zones
- Amazon EC2 I4i is available in UAE, Jakarta, and Hyderabad regions
ARTICLES AND TUTORIALS
- Deep-dive into Hpc7a, the newest AMD-powered member of the HPC instance family, by Stephen Sachs, Karthik Raman, Neil Ashton, and Nicola Venuti
- Choose AWS Graviton and cloud storage for your Ethereum nodes infrastructure on AWS, by Nikolay Vlasov and Aldred Halim
- NGINX Plus on Arm-Based AWS Graviton2 AMIs, from NGINX
- How AWS is supporting F1’s sustainability drive using the cloud and AI, by Rob Smedley and Neil Ashton
SLIDES, VIDEO, AND AUDIO
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
AWS Summit Mexico 2023
(30 de agosto de 2023 | Centro Internacional de Exposiciones y Convenciones WTC)
AWS Summit Johanesburg 2023
(September 26, 2023 | Sandton Convention Centre)
From the ARM Ecosystem
- High-Throughput Computing on Rescale Enables Innovation at Scale with Multi-Cloud Accelerated Computing
- ARM IPO – SECOND IMPRESSIONS
- Multi-Arch Cloud Infrastructure: Why and How to Get Started, with Cheryl Hung
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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