Issue # 63: November 10, 2023 to November 17, 2023

Hey Reader.

Welcome to Issue # 63 of AWS Graviton Weekly, which will be focused on sharing everything that happened in the past week related to AWS Silicon: from November 10, 2023 to November 17, 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:

• The PHP on Graviton Guide

Now, back to business.

Recommendation of the week: Antimetal​

NEWS

• ​AWS Cost Explorer now provides more historical and granular data​
• ​Amazon EC2 C7g, M7g, and R7g instances are now available in additional AWS Regions​
• ​Amazon EC2 C6in instances are now available in US West (N. California)​
• ​Amazon EC2 M6in and M6idn instances are now available in US West (N. California)​
• ​Amazon EC2 C6in, M6in, M6idn, R6in, and R6idn instances now support higher Amazon EBS-optimized instance performance​
• ​Amazon EC2 R6a instances now available in additional regions​
• ​Amazon Time Sync Service now supports microsecond-accurate time​​
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ARTICLES AND TUTORIALS

• ​5 reasons we can’t wait for AWS re:Invent 2023, by Stephen Barr (CloudFix)

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• ​Fast and cost-effective LLaMA 2 fine-tuning with AWS Trainium, by Hao Zhou, Karthick Gopalswamy, Luke Huan, Youngsuk Park, Shruti Koparkar, Yida Wang, and Xin Huang​​
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• ​Optimize AZ traffic costs using Amazon EKS, Karpenter, and Istio Editorial, by Sanjeev Ganjihal, Goutham Annem, and Lukonde Mwila​

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• ​PHP on Graviton Guide​

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• ​K8s Automation: A Better Alternative to AWS EC2 Reserved Instances & Capacity Commitments, from the CAST.AI team
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SLIDES, AUDIO AND VIDEO

• [PODCAST] Ep. 637: Plan AI development cycles with Amazon EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML, with Jillian Forde and Jake Siddall​​

EVENTS

​AWS Graviton Workshop (Nov. 23)​

El evento será virtual en el siguiente horario para cada país:

• 9:00AM - 11:00AM Mexico
• 10:00AM - 12:00PM Colombia
• 12:00PM - 2:00PM Chile

​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

• ​Arm Collaborates with Microsoft on Custom Silicon to Unlock Sustainable, AI-Driven Infrastructure​
• ​With a systems approach to chips, Microsoft aims to tailor everything ‘from silicon to service’ to meet AI demand​
• ​Jupiter selects NVIDIA GH200 To Power New Era in Supercomputing​
• ​Announcing plans to offer NVIDIA Grace Hopper Superchip on OCI​

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