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 # 59
Issue # 59: October 13, 2023 to October 20, 2023
Hey Reader.
Welcome to Issue # 59 of AWS Graviton Weekly, which will be focused on sharing everything that happened in the past week related to AWS Silicon: from October 13, 2023, to October 20, 2023.
Things you can't miss:
- The conversation between Lorenzo and Tyler Jones about building Go applications with AWS Graviton
- The AWS Graviton Transition Guide
Now, back to business.
Recommendation of the week: Antimetal
NEWS
- Amazon OpenSearch Service now offers Amazon EC2 Im4gn instances
- Amazon EC2 M6gd instances are now available in additional regions
- AWS Glue for Apache Spark announces native connectivity for Google BigQuery
- Amazon EMR Managed Scaling is now available in Indonesia (Jakarta)
- Introducing Amazon EC2 R7i instances
- Amazon EC2 C7gd, M7gd, and R7gd instances now available in additional regions
- Amazon EC2 M6in and M6idn instances are now available in new regions
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AWS CloudWatch launches out-of-the-box alarm recommendations for AWS services
ARTICLES AND TUTORIALS
- Why you should use Fargate with AWS Batch for your serverless batch architectures, by Angel Pizarro
- Comparing performance of new releases of Babelfish and comparing Babelfish performance with SQL Server, by Alex Zarenin
- Two billion downloads of Terraform AWS Provider shows value of IaC for infrastructure management, by Irshad Buchh
- Reduce container startup time on Amazon EKS with Bottlerocket data volume, by Alick Wong, Shawn Zhang, and Xiangyan Wang
SLIDES, AUDIO AND VIDEO
[Livestream] Building Go applications for AWS Graviton, with Lorenzo Winfrey and Tyler Jones
[Video] Running a .NET application on AWS Graviton, with Santosh Kumar
[Livestream] Migration Adventures - Episode # 4: Lift and Shift: Migrating On-Premises Applications to AWS, with
EVENTS
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.
The venue will be announced closer to the date!
A bit more about the hosts:
Antimetal helps companies automate their cloud savings. No long-term contracts or engineering are required.
From the ARM Ecosystem
- Harnessing the power of the ecosystem in the era of custom silicon on Arm
- Socionext collaborates with Arm and TSMC on 2nm chiplet development
- Arm Simplifies System-On-A-Chip Development with Arm Total Design
- Ampere Makes A Strong Case For On-Chip AI
- Windows launching Arm Advisory Service for developers
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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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