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 # 52
Issue # 52: August 25th, 2023 to September 1st, 2023
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Hey Reader.
Welcome to Issue # 52 of AWS Graviton Weekly, which will be focused on sharing everything that happened in the past week related to AWS Silicon: from August 25th, 2023 to September 1st, 2023.
Before sharing the resources this week, I wanted to take a moment to talk about an upcoming launch from my friends of AWS Fundamentals: They will release an updated version of their incredible ebook on Product Hunt. So stay tuned here.
In this issue, you will find:
- how Amazon EBS processes 100 Trillion of I/O operations per day.
- why Fig joins forces with AWS
- How Zendesk is using Graviton-based instances
- how Inspector is adopting Graviton and saving a ton of resources in the process
Enjoy.
NEWS
- AWS Lambda Functions powered by AWS Graviton2 now available in 6 additional regions
- Amazon RDS Optimized Writes for MySQL and MariaDB now supports r5 database instances
- Announcing Amazon CodeCatalyst’s Launch in Europe (Ireland)
- Amazon SES now offers email delivery and engagement history for every email
- Announcing availability of AWS Outposts in Iceland and Uruguay
- Announcing AWS ParallelCluster 3.7 with Login nodes and Ubuntu 22 support
ARTICLES AND TUTORIALS
- Dive into AWS CloudWatch & 📖 Upgrade Alert: New Fundamentals Book Version! by Tobias Schmidt and Sandro Volpicella
- Develop and test automotive software at scale using AWS, by Martin Schleicher, Kathrin Monika Buhmann, and Srini Raghavan
- Inspector adoption of Graviton ARM instances (and what results we’ve seen), by Valerio Barbera from Inspector
- Scaling SQL Server performance beyond 1M transactions per minute with Amazon FSx, by Alex Zarenin, Sudhir Amin, and Vikas Babu Gali
- How Continental uses Mountpoint for Amazon S3 in autonomous driving development – accelerating simulation performance by 20%, by Devabrat Kumar, Hendrik Schoeneberg, Junjie Tang, Srinivas Reddy Cheruku, and The An Binh Nguyen
- Delete idle volumes to save 10% or more on Amazon Elastic File System (EFS), by Stephen Barr from CloudFix
- Let’s Architect! Cost-optimizing AWS workloads, by Luca Mezzalira, Federica Ciuffo, Vittorio Denti and Zamira Jaupaj
SLIDES, VIDEO, AND AUDIO
- [VIDEO] VMware on ARM, with Darragh Grealish from 56k.Cloud
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 Johanesburg 2023
(September 26 2023 | Sandton Convention Centre)
From the ARM Ecosystem
- Arm Neoverse V2 Platform: Best in Class Performance/TCO for the Cloud, by Saptarshi Mondal
- Neoverse Compute Subsystems, the Fastest Path to Production Silicon, by Steve Demski
- How Google and Arm Collaborate on the Next Wave of Cloud Infrastructure
- What’s new in Google Cloud’s workload-optimized infrastructure: C3A instances powered by AmpereOne processors
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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