Issue # 65: November 24, 2023 to December 1, 2023

Hey Reader.

Welcome to Issue # 65 of AWS Graviton Weekly, which will be focused on sharing everything that happened in the past week related to AWS Silicon: from November 24, 2023, to December 1, 2023.

We are in the AWS re:Invent 2023 week, so my advice? Keep an eye on the AWS Events channel, because you will see a lot of videos coming in the next few days about it.

A lot of great talks. I shared some of my favorite ones related to AWS Silicon in the SLIDES AND VIDEOS section.

Things you can't miss in this issue:

• The announcement of Graviton 4 and Trainium 2 chips
• The incredible case study (and talk) about how Smartsheet uses AWS Fargate to save 70% on costs
• The Laws of The Frugal Architect by Werner Vogels
• and so many things​
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Now, back to business.

Tool of the week: Antimetal​

NEWS

• ​Announcing new Amazon EC2 R8g instances powered by AWS Graviton4 processors (Preview)​
• ​Amazon MSK now supports Graviton3-based M7g instances for new provisioned clusters​
• ​Introducing Cost Optimization Hub​
• ​Amazon SQS announces increased throughput quota for FIFO High Throughput mode​
• ​ENA Express supports 58 new instances with sizes as small as 16 vCPUs​

ARTICLES AND TUTORIALS

• ​AWS Graviton 4 and AWS Trainium 2: AWS chips to support a more sustainable future for data centers​

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• ​Join the preview for new memory-optimized, AWS Graviton4-powered Amazon EC2 instances (R8g), by Jeff Barr​

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• ​Redpanda Cloud improves cost-efficiency by 50% with new ARM processor-based instances, by Doug Flora​

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• ​Announcing the new Amazon S3 Express One Zone high-performance storage class, by Jeff Barr​

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• ​How to take advantage of Rightsizing recommendation preferences in Compute Optimizer, by Wenyen Huang​

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• ​Tech Predictions for 2024 and beyond, by Werner Vogels​

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• ​How Smartsheet optimized cost and performance with AWS Graviton and AWS Fargate, by Ravi Yadav, Steven Follis, Utsav Shah, and Skylar Graika (Smartsheet)

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• ​Amazon MSK now provides up to 29% more throughput and up to 24% lower costs with AWS Graviton3 support, by Sai Maddali, Lanre Afod, and Umesh Chaudhari​
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Newsletter recommendation of the week

SLIDES, AUDIO AND VIDEO

• [VIDEO] AWS re:Invent 2023 - CEO Keynote with Adam Selipsky. Here is the exact moment where Adam announced Graviton 4​

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• [VIDEO] AWS re:Invent 2023 - Monday Night Live Keynote with Peter DeSantis​

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• [VIDEO] AWS re:Invent 2023 - Compute innovation for any application, anywhere (CMP219) with Dave Brown. Key moment? The benchmarks conducted by the team on Graviton 4​

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• [VIDEO] AWS re:Invent 2023 - Keynote with Dr. Werner Vogels. Love the new website from Vogels called The Laws of the Frugal Architect​

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• [PODCAST] Mastering EOL Migrations: Lessons learned from MySQL 5.7 to 8.0 with RDS managed services, with Ronald Bradford, Adam North, Matan Bordo, and Sam Clarkfrom DoiT International​

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• [VIDEO] AWS re:Invent 2023 - Boosting efficiency: How to realize 70% cost reduction with AWS Fargate (CON318), with Steven Follis (AWS) and Skylar Graika (Smartsheet)

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• [VIDEO] AWS re:Invent 2023 - Smart savings: Amazon EC2 cost-optimization strategies (CMP211), with Boyd McGeachie​

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• [VIDEO] AWS re:Invent 2023 - Accelerate automotive cockpit development with Panasonic SkipGen & AWS (AUT103), with Masashige Mizuyama (Panasonic AUTOMOTIVE) and Dr. Patrick Bartsch (AWS)

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• [VIDEO] AWS re:Invent 2023 - HPC on AWS for semiconductors and healthcare life sciences (CMP214), with Srinivas Tadepalli (AWS), Mark Galbraith (Arm) and Sean O'Dell (AstraZeneca)​
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EVENTS

​CMP334-NEW | AWS Graviton: The best price performance for your AWS workloads (Dec. 1 | 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM (PST) Caesars Forum | Level 1 | Summit 214)

Speakers:

• ​Stephanie Shyu​
• ​Ali Saidi​
• ​Sudhir Raman​

​Trino Summit 2023: Pinterest: Journey to achieving 2x efficiency improvement on Trino (December 13 and 14, 2023)

​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)

From the ARM Ecosystem

• ​Pace of Innovation for Custom Silicon on Arm Continues with AWS Graviton4, by Dermot O'Driscoll​
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• ​Why CPUs also make sense for AI inference - interview with Ampere Computing's Jeff Wittich, by James Martin (Scaleway)
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