Issue # 62: November 3, 2023 to November 10, 2023

Hey Reader.

Welcome to Issue # 62 of AWS Graviton Weekly, which will be focused on sharing everything that happened in the past week related to AWS Silicon: from November 3, 2023, to November 10, 2023.

We are almost in the week of AWS:reInvent 2023, so the sessions related to the AWS Silicon Universe are live here. Grab this link for future reference

Things you can't miss in this issue:

• SAP HANA Cloud Now Supports AWS Graviton
• How Rescale is using the Amazon EC2 Hpc7g instances
• How Kry reduced its AWS costs by 70% (🤯🤯🤯)

Now, back to business.

Recommendation of the week: Antimetal​

NEWS

• ​Amazon ElastiCache now supports network-optimized C7gn Graviton3-based nodes​
• ​Amazon EC2 C7g, M7g and R7g instances are now available in additional AWS Regions​
• ​Amazon EC2 High Memory instances now available in Europe (Milan) Region​
• ​Amazon EC2 D3 instances are now available in additional regions​
• ​EC2 Image Builder adds Amazon Linux 2023 and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS managed image support​
• ​AWS CodeBuild now supports AWS Lambda compute​​
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ARTICLES AND TUTORIALS

• ​Lattice Boltzmann simulation with Palabos on AWS using Graviton-based Amazon EC2 Hpc7g instances, by Jun Tang​

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• ​Migration considerations – Cloud Foundry to Amazon ECS with AWS Fargate, by Utsab Roy, Arvind Soni, Chad Moon, Ramakant Joshi, and Niall Thomson​

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• ​SAP HANA Cloud Now Supports AWS Graviton​

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• ​How to Deal With AWS’s Ban On Reserved Instances Resale​

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• ​New – Amazon Aurora Optimized Reads for Aurora PostgreSQL with up to 8x query latency improvement for I/O-intensive applications, by Gowri Balasubramanian, Peipei Yin, and Jeremy Schneider​

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• ​How VMware partnered with AWS to nurture a culture of sustainability, by Steven David, Aniruddha Dhar, Isha Dua, Scott Webber, and Satya Pattanaik​

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• ​Leading Your Brand Into Uncharted Territory, by WIRED Brand Lab​

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• ​Rescale Automates the Deployment of Ansys LS-DYNA and Ansys Fluent Workloads on Amazon EC2 Hpc7g Instances, by Matt Nierman and Chris Langel​

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• ​Netgate Releases pfSense Plus 23.09 on AWS Graviton, by Glen Shok​

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• ​Writing Optimized Functions Using AWS Lambda Power Tuning, by Scottie Enriquez​

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• ​How to Set up Minecraft Server Java Edition for Free for 12 Months on AWS — 2023/2024 Complete Tutorial, by Pawel Zawadzki​

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• ​Running eComscan​
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SLIDES, AUDIO AND VIDEO

• [VIDEO] DBS Bank: Architecting Quant Pricing Engine for Performance with Amazon ElastiCache, with Gerardo Estaba from AWS and Jinjun Kang from DBS
• [VIDEO] IBM WebSphere Application Server on AWS, with Eduardo Monich Fronza and Mark Brown from AWS
• [SLIDES] AWS Graviton3 and GP3, by ​Olaf Reitmaier Veracierta​
• [PODCAST] From high bills to high-fives: How Kry reduced its AWS costs by 70%, from Matan Bordo and Sam Clark from DoiT International and Martin Borek from Kry​

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)

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​HPC and AI on Arm architecture: Observations, learnings and path forward (Monday 18 Dec 2023)

Organizers, Speakers:

• ​Rama Malladi (AWS India)
• ​Bhagyaraju Kasina (AWS India)
• ​Santosh Kumar (AWS India)

Tentative Speakers:

• ​Ashok Bhat (Arm India)
• ​Sanjay Tiwary, Bhagyaraju Kasina, Santosh Kumar (AWS India)
• ​Vinod Kumar (Ampere)
• Priyanka Sharma (Fujitsu)

​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

• ​How Arm is gaining chip dominance with its architecture in Apple, Nvidia, AMD, Amazon, Qualcomm and more​
• ​Supercomputing 2023 - Change is Manifest​
• ​Profile firmware with Performance Monitor Unit (PMU) in Armv8-A CPU​
• ​Arm-based Cloud Instances Outperform x86 Instances by up to 64% on VP9 Encoding​

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