Issue # 70: January 12, 2024 to January 19, 2024

Hey Reader.

Welcome to Issue # 70 of AWS Graviton Weekly, which will be focused on sharing everything that happened in the past week related to AWS Silicon: from January 12, 2024, to January 19, 2024.

Two quick things

I didn't want to start this without answering a fascinating question I got from one of you (Thanks Joe), and the question was simple:

Basically, what's the hype behind this new class of instances? The big difference is that they rely on Graviton 4, the new generation of Graviton processors which are a beast:

• 96 Neoverse V2 cores,
• 2 MB of L2 cache per core,
• and 12 DDR5-5600 channels work together to make the Graviton4 up to 40% faster for databases, 30% faster for web applications, and 45% faster for large Java applications than the Graviton3.

Well, the best resources I can share with you are these:

• The official documentation for it​
• This post from Jeff Barr
• and this article on Medium

If you have any additional questions, please reply to this email or simply send me an email at marcos@awsgravitonweekly.com

The second matter I wanted to share with you is that on February 1st, 2023, AWS will start charging you for IPv4 addresses, so you need to be prepared for this change.

A good tip I can share with you? Cristian Măgherușan-Stanciu (founder of LeanerCloud, and the creator of AutoSpotting) created this Open Source tool to check the potential costs for this.

Back to business.

Recommendation of the week: CAST.AI​

NEWS

• ​Amazon MSK expands support for M7g instances to four additional AWS Regions​
• ​Amazon EC2 High Memory instances now available in Europe (London) Regions​
• ​Amazon S3 on Outposts enables support for IPv6​​
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ARTICLES AND TUTORIALS

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• ​Brace yourself, IPv6 is coming, by Paul Copplestone (Supabase)

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• ​Amazon Graviton Three Ways​, by ​Jimmy Dahlqvist​

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• ​Upping Performance by 40% and Optimizing Cost Using Amazon OpenSearch Service with Dream11​

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• ​Save up to 90% using EC2 Spot, even for long-running HPC jobs, by Eran Brown​​
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• ​Our Journey Migrating to AWS IMDSv2, by Achintha Gunasekara​

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• ​DreamCasino Scales Up While Reducing Costs by 30% Using AWS​

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• ​How to Unlock Faster Analytics with Amazon S3 Express One Zone, by David Bunting ​​​
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SLIDES, AUDIO AND VIDEO

• [VIDEO] AWS onAir: Under the Hood with AWS No benchmarks, faster apps instead, with Art Baudo, Tyler Jones, Arthur Petitpierre, and Hahnara Hyun

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From the ARM Ecosystem

• ​Generative AI on mobile is running on the Arm CPU: here’s how​
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