Issue # 56: September 22, 2023 to September 29, 2023

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Hey Reader.

Welcome to Issue # 56 of AWS Graviton Weekly, which will be focused on sharing everything that happened in the past week related to AWS Silicon: from September 22, 2023, to September 29, 2023.

The past September 23, 2023, was the AWS User Group Peru Conf 2023, and if I have to qualify the event with one word is ELECTRIFYING.

I shared my thoughts about the event on LinkedIn and Twitter and the message is clear: the AWS community in Peru and LATAM in general is more alive than ever. Seriously.

But one of the things I noted in the event is that many people knew about Graviton, but they weren't using it on prod or some of them didn't know about it, mainly because there is not a lot of Graviton-focused content in Spanish.

Well, that particular aspect is changing: I will create more Spanish content related to the AWS Silicon Universe in the AWS en Español space on DEV.to.

If you want to help me with this, reply to this email and we will figure out a way to work together on this.

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The other stuff I wanted to share with you were 3 tools I found this week focused on cloud optimizations:

• ​InfraCost's VSCode Extension: shows you cost estimates for Terraform right in your editor! Prevent costly infrastructure changes before they get into production
• ​InfraCost's CI/CD tool: Cloud cost estimates for Terraform in pull requests💰📉 Love your cloud bill!​
• ​InfraCost Cloud: the paid version of the product for Engineering teams, team leads, managers, and FinOps​

And the highly recommended resource of the week? The Build On Costs Optimization live stream of today. Grab a pen and a notebook, and watch the entire thing. Believe me: you will learn a lot there.

Now, back to business.

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NEWS

• ​Amazon EC2 C7g, M7g, and R7g instances are now available in AWS Region Europe (Spain)​
• ​Amazon EC2 Hpc7g instances now available in additional regions​
• ​Amazon EC2 R7g and M7g Instances are now available in Europe (Stockholm) region​
• ​AWS Compute Optimizer now supports 153 new EC2 instance types as well as multi-attached EBS volumes​
• ​Amazon Bedrock is now generally available​
• ​AWS Graviton2-based Amazon EC2 C6gd instances now available in Europe (Zurich) region​
• ​Amazon EKS and Amazon EKS Distro now support Kubernetes version 1.28​
• ​Bottlerocket announces new ECS-optimized AMI​
• ​Meet MadPot, a threat intelligence tool Amazon uses to protect customers from cybercrime​
• ​Amazon and Anthropic announce strategic collaboration to advance generative AI​​
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ARTICLES AND TUTORIALS

• ​Automate Kubernetes Deployment with CAST AI to Reduce Your Cloud Bill by 60%, by Laurent Gil (CAST.AI)

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• ​Cómo comenzar a trabajar con AWS Graviton: La pregunta del Millón​

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• ​Shift Cloud Costs Left: What Does It Really Mean? by Hassan Khajeh-Hosseini (InfraCost)

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• ​How to install FFmpeg with Harware Acceleration on AWS: A step-by-step guide for FFmpeg with Nvidia GPU on AWS for ARM, AArch64, or x86_64 across Amazon Linux 2023, Ubuntu, and more, by Mirza Bilal​

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• ​AWS Lambda base container image for AL2023 is published, by Mark Sailes. You can find it here: https://gallery.ecr.aws/lambda/provided​

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• ​How AWS threat intelligence deters threat actors, by Mark Ryland​

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• ​Benchmarks from DigitalRoute for Achieving Cost Savings with Serverless and AWS Graviton, by Amanveer Singh (AWS), Jonas Wallenius, and Jenny Sjöström (DigitalRoute)

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• ​Give Your Graph Workload a Cost-Performance Boost with Neo4j and AWS Graviton, by Lee Razo (Neo4j), Stuart Moore(Neo4j), and Antony Prasad Thevaraj (AWS)

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• ​How 6 Companies saved up to 80% Cloud Costs – Case Studies​

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• ​5 AWS Logging Tips and Best Practices, by Sandro Lima (ChaosSearch)

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• ​How to Cut Your Data Processing Costs by 30% with Graviton​

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• ​Optimizing AWS Costs: Your Handbook to Financial Efficiency​

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• Amazon EBS Volumes Modernize gp2 to gp3​

SLIDES, AUDIO AND VIDEO

[Livestream] Build On on Cost Optimizations with Steph Gooch and Darko Mesaroš. If you have time, please watch the stream. It was amazing, and they and the guests shared a lot of cloud optimization tips there, including a lot of Graviton tips, and one of my favorite commands to save big:

love to see my good friend Stephen Barr from CloudFix doing a demo and sharing a lot of tips in the process as well

And don't forget to check the Github repos mentioned in the live stream:

• ​https://github.com/stephenVertex/cost-optimization-demo-sept2023/tree/main ​
• ​https://github.com/awssteph/buildonlive_ta_jira_ticket​

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[VIDEO] AWS and Sumo Logic: Observability With OpenTelemetry, with Melissa Sussmann (Sumo Logic) and Michael Hausenblas (AWS)

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EVENTS

​Driving Performance, Controlling Costs: Aerospike & AWS Graviton Meetup @AWS TLV​

Place: AWS Experience at Floor28, Derech Menachem Begin 121 · Tel Aviv-Jaffa​

Date: October 16, 2023 (5:00 PM - 7:30 PM IDT)

Speakers:

• ​Barak Nissim, Compute Specialist (AWS)
• ​Ami Aharonovich, VP, General Manager (Aerospike)
• ​Dotan Mor, Data Platform Engineer (Riskified)
• Zohar Elkayam, Senior Solution Architect (Aerospike)

About the event

Join Us for the Aerospike & AWS Graviton Summit On Driving Performance while Controlling Cost.

Discover how you can supercharge your data infrastructure while optimizing cost at the Aerospike & AWS Graviton Summit. This exclusive event will delve into the synergies between Aerospike's cutting-edge data solutions and the cost-effective power of AWS Graviton processors.

From the ARM Ecosystem

• ​Introducing: Raspberry Pi 5, powered by Arm Cortex-76​
• ​Simplifying motor control software development on NXP S32K automotive microcontroller​
• ​Sensing, AI, and the Power of Imagination: How Vision is Shaping IoT​
• ​Arm at HC35 (2023): CSS-Genesis​​
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