Issue # 57: September 29, 2023 to October 6, 2023

Hey Reader.

Welcome to Issue # 57 of AWS Graviton Weekly, which will be focused on sharing everything that happened in the past week related to AWS Silicon: from September 29, 2023, to October 6, 2023.

Things you can't miss:

• ​AWS Made Easy # 70: I will be chatting with Jeff Barr from AWS, Rahul Subramaniam, and Stephen Barr from CloudFix about the amazing health of the AWS community in LATAM and AWS Graviton in general.
• The live stream called "Graviton is easier than you think" is highly recommended. The cool number to know? Over 50,000 customers are actively using AWS Graviton in some form, which is awesome
• The invitation to the Antimetal DevOps Dinner on AWS:reInvent 2023

Now, back to business.

Recommendation of the week

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NEWS

• ​Amazon EC2 C7g, M7g, and R7g instances are now available in AWS Region US West (N. California)​
• ​Announcing compute-optimized Amazon EC2 C7a instances​
• ​AWS Lambda adds support for Python 3.11 in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions​
• ​Amazon EC2 High Memory instances now available in Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region​
• ​Announcing memory-optimized Amazon EC2 R7a bare metal instances​
• ​Amazon EC2 Hibernate now supports more operating systems​

ARTICLES AND TUTORIALS

• ​CloudFormation Auto Scaling Group sample template for mixed X86 (Intel, AMD) and AWS Graviton instances, by Michael Fischer​

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• ​8 things you must be doing wrong during migration to Graviton, by To The New team

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• ​Analyze EKS Fargate costs using Amazon Quicksight, by Re Alvarez-Parmar, Catherine Zhu, and Pratik Yeole​

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• ​Start Spring Boot applications faster on AWS Fargate using SOCI, by Sascha Moellering and Steffen Grunwald​

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• ​Kubernetes Resource Management: Rightsizing Limits, Requests, and HPA for Your Workload, by Ronak Patil from CAST.AI​

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• ​How to Optimize AWS Costs with FinOps, by the GlobalDots team

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• ​The Insider’s Guide to Building a Multi-Arch Infrastructure, by Cheryl Hung from Arm​

SLIDES, AUDIO AND VIDEO

[Livestream] AWS Made Easy Livestream - Ep 66 - Compute Optimizer with Rick Ochs (AWS)

[Livestream] Graviton is easier than you think (Under the Hood with AWS), with Art Baudo, Michael Fischer, and Arthur Petitpierre from AWS

[Livestream] AWS On Air ft. NVIDIA AI Enterprise, with Art Baudo from AWS and Charlie Huang from NVIDIA

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EVENTS

​AWS Made Easy # 70 (October 10th at 9 a.m. PDT)

​AWS EC2 Graviton - Developer Virtual​

Thursday 12th October, 04:00 - 05:00 GMT-5

AWS Graviton processors were developed by AWS to deliver optimum price performance for application hosting and data processing in the cloud. Since the launch of the first Graviton generation in 2018, AWS has developed a strong software ecosystem to make the shift to arm64 architecture a seamless and quick procedure.

Speakers

• ​Syl Taylor, Specialist Solution Architect; AWS
• ​Louis Demerliac, Graviton Specialist BD;
• ​Tommaso Di Gregorio, Customer Optimization & Enablement Specialists

​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.

​re:Invent 2023: Antimetal DevOps Dinner (Tuesday, November 28, 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM PST)

You're invited to the AWS re:Invent 2023: Antimetal DevOps Dinner!

​Join us for an evening of good food and even better conversation. If you or someone you know is in DevOps, then this is the place for you.
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The venue will be announced closer to the date!
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A bit more about the hosts:
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​Antimetal helps companies automate their cloud savings. No long-term contracts or engineering are required.​
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From the ARM Ecosystem

• ​Arm at SC23​
• ​Mali GPU Driver Vulnerabilities​​
• ​Jupiter exascale supercomputer to be built by Atos' Eviden​

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