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 # 61
Issue # 61: October 27, 2023 to November 3, 2023
Hey Reader.
Welcome to Issue # 61 of AWS Graviton Weekly, which will be focused on sharing everything that happened in the past week related to AWS Silicon: from October 27, 2023, to November 3, 2023.
Things you can't miss:
- The benchmark for RDS on Graviton 3
- how GoDaddy is using Graviton 2 to bring the costs down for its Spark workloads
Now, back to business.
Recommendation of the week: Antimetal
NEWS
- Finch is now Generally Available on macOS
- Amazon EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML
- Amazon S3 Object Lambda now integrates with Amazon Athena
- Introducing eight new Amazon EC2 bare metal instances
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Amazon EC2 C6in instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Seoul) region
ARTICLES AND TUTORIALS
- GoDaddy benchmarking results in up to 24% better price-performance for their Spark workloads with AWS Graviton2 on Amazon EMR Serverless, by Mukul Sharma, Harsh Vardhan Singh Gaur, Ozcan Ilikhan, and Ramesh Kumar Venkatraman
- Powering Amazon RDS with AWS Graviton3: Benchmarks, by Davide Coccia, Francesco Martini, and Stefano D'Alessio
- Automating Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling with Amazon CloudWatch custom metrics and AWS CDK, by Amit Gaur, IbukunOlu Odularu, Chayan Panda, and Zarif Samar
- Announcing Amazon EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML to reserve GPU capacity for your machine learning workloads, by Channy Yun
- How to monitor Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) storage costs, by Satish Bhonsle
- Accelerating green-urban planning simulations with AWS Batch,
- Security considerations for running containers on Amazon ECS, by Mutaz Hajeer, Ibtissam Liedri, and Temi Adebambo
- Building multi-tenant JupyterHub Platforms on Amazon EKS, by Lucas Soriano Alves Duarte, Apoorva Kulkarni, Ravi Yadav, and Vara Bonthu
- Multi Cloud Kubernetes: Reducing Cost And Complexity, from CAST.AI
- Multi-architecture Kubernetes clusters on Amazon EKS, by Jason Andrews (Arm)
- Antimetal is now SOC2 Type 2 Certified
- New! How to automatically right-size pricey GPU instances, by Stephen Barr (Cloudfix)
SLIDES, AUDIO AND VIDEO
- AWS Summit ASEAN 2023: Improving price-performance with AWS Graviton-based instances (MOD202), by Chetan Suri (AWS)
- AWS Summit ASEAN 2023: Set up Foundations on AWS for successful cloud transformation (MOD201), by Shanaka Jayasundera and Ahilan Thiagarajah
- Arm and AWS: Cloud-Native Automotive Software Development, by Robert Day (Arm)
EVENTS
CMP313 | AWS Graviton: The best price performance for your AWS workloads (Nov. 30 | 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM (PDT)
Speaker: Ambud Sharma (Pinterest)
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
- Phytium claims to match Arm’s Neoverse N2 and Intel's Xeon Platinum 8330 speeds with its latest FTC870 Arm-based CPU
- Building the Future of Cloud-Native Software on a Multi-Architecture Infrastructure
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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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