Issue # 55: September 15th, 2023 to September 22nd, 2023

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Hey Reader.

Welcome to Issue # 55 of AWS Graviton Weekly, which will be focused on sharing everything that happened in the past week related to AWS Silicon: from September 15, 2023, to September 22, 2023.

Before going to the usual share of resources, I wanted to share two quick things.

First: Cisco just announced they are acquiring Splunk for $28 Billion. This is the most expensive acquisition made by Cisco until today, and if you were wondering if Splunk works with Graviton, the answer is a big YES.

Second: Several of you have asked me if I could provide some tips to save on AWS Cloud costs, especially those related to AWS EKS.

The long answer?

90% of costs associated with EKS are Compute and Memory. So: if you optimize these two resources, you have a big win in the cost battle.

2 simple ways to accomplish that?

1. Move to Graviton: especially if your app's code is based on Python, Ruby, PHP, Go, or Rust. For better performance: use C7g instances which are based on AWS Graviton3.

2. Consider using EC2 Spot Instances, but be thoughtful about it.

Another area you can watch is your EBS volumes, especially if your team is using GP2, IO1, and IO2 volumes. There is a simple tool to do this called EBS Optimizer

We can continue with more tips, but there is a simpler way to do this: just use CAST.AI, the leading all-in-one platform for Kubernetes automation, optimization, security, and cost management.

Here's a guide about how to reduce dramatically your AWS EKS costs, where the platform uses some of these optimizations (and many more) to bring the costs down dramatically.

That's it. If you have more tips to optimize AWS EKS or ECS costs, reply to this email. I love to chat about this stuff.

Now, back to business.