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 # 53
Issue # 53: September 1st, 2023 to September 8th, 2023
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Hey Reader.
Welcome to Issue # 53 of AWS Graviton Weekly, which will be focused on sharing everything that happened in the past week related to AWS Silicon: from September 1st, 2023 to September 8th, 2023
In this issue, you will find:
- the new capabilities of AWS Step Functions for error handling (It was about time)
- How Swiggy migrated its k8s workload to Graviton
- Amazon EC2 High Memory instances now available in Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region
Enjoy.
BTW: AWS Fundamentals Version 2 is out
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Back to business
NEWS
- Amazon EC2 C6gd and R6gd instances are now available in AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region
- Amazon EC2 C6id instances are now available in AWS Europe (London) Region
- Amazon EC2 M6i and R6i instances are now available in Europe (Zurich) region
- AWS Security Hub now supports findings consolidation in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
- AWS Step Functions launches enhanced error handling
- Amazon EC2 High Memory instances now available in Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region
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AWS Compute Optimizer supports rightsizing for G4dn and P3 instances
ARTICLES AND TUTORIALS
- Why AWS Graviton CPU outperforms better than x86 CPUs? An explanation from Guy Almog. An image worth more than 1k words
- Dive into AWS CloudWatch & 📖 Upgrade Alert: New Fundamentals Book Version! by Tobias Schmidt and Sandro Volpicella
- New Amazon EC2 R7iz Instances are Optimized for High CPU Performance, Memory-Intensive Workloads, by Veliswa Boya
- Spread Your Wings: Falcon 180B is here, by Philipp Schmid, Omar Sanseviero, Pedro Cuenca, Leandro von Werra, and Julien Launay from Hugging Face
- Enable pod-based GPU metrics in Amazon CloudWatch, by Amr Ragab, Alex Iankoulski, and Keita Watanabe
- Migrate existing Amazon ECS services from an internal Application Load Balancer to Amazon ECS Service Connect, by Asif Haque and Jessica Deen
SLIDES, VIDEO, AND AUDIO
- [VIDEO] AWS Public Sector Symposium Canberra 2023 - Keynote with Simon Elisha (Chief Technologist, Australia, New Zealand, and Oceania, public sector, at Amazon Web Services (AWS))
- [VIDEO] AWS Graviton과 함께하는 계획문제 최적화 애플리케이션 개발 - 강필모 프로토타이핑 엔지니어, AWS :: AWS Summit Seoul 2023, with
EVENTS
Graviton Developer Breakfast (Friday, September 15 2023 | 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM BST)
Place: Amazon Corporate Office, 1 Principal Pl, London, London EC2A 2FA
Graviton Essentials Virtual 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
Due to popular demand, the Graviton Essentials Developer Day team is converting this event to a virtual event. The event will start at 9:00AM PDT / 12:00PM EDT.
AWS Summit Johanesburg 2023
(September 26 2023 | Sandton Convention Centre)
From the ARM Ecosystem
- First macOS release of Arm Performance Libraries
- Debug the Arm Trust Firmware, U-boot and Linux Kernel on Juno-r2 board from source level with Arm Development Studio by Chris Goodyer
- Collaboration accelerates data centre design success with AI-driven flows
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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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