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 # 71
Issue # 71: January 19, 2024 to January 26, 2024
Hey Reader.
Welcome to Issue # 71 of AWS Graviton Weekly, which will be focused on sharing everything that happened in the past week related to AWS Silicon: from January 19, 2024, to January 26, 2024.
Things you can't miss in this issue:
- DragonflyDB on Graviton3E numbers π€―π€―π€―
- I wanted to share this again because it seems that a lot of people are not taking advantage of this: Announcing Amazon EC2 T4g Free Trial Extensionβ
Now, back to business.
Tool of the week: Antimetalβ
NEWS
- βAmazon EC2 M7a, R7a instances now available in Asia Pacific (Tokyo) regionβ
- βAmazon Inspector now supports CIS Benchmark assessments for operating systems in EC2 instancesβ
- βAmazon ECS announces managed instance drainingβ
- βAmazon EC2 High Memory instances now available in Asia Pacific (Seoul) Regionβ
- βAmazon EC2 Instance Connect and EC2 Serial console available in AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) regionβ
- βAmazon EC2 C7i instances are now available in 2 additional regionsβ
- βSellers can now resell third-party professional services in AWS Marketplaceβ
- βAmazon plots massive cloud expansion in Japan with $15B investmentβ
ARTICLES AND TUTORIALS
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- βRust and Lambda Performance, by Benjamen Pyleβ
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- βIntroducing Docker Build Cloud: A New Solution to Speed Up Build Times and Improve Developer Productivity, by Rebekah Dumouchelle and Mat Wilson
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- βGame Developerβs Guide to Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) Part Three: Operation Best Practices, by Jackie Jiang, Douglas Bonser, and Matthew Nimmoβ
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- β2024 New Year, New Number: New Benchmarks Show Dragonfly Achieves 6.43 Million Ops/Sec on an AWS Graviton3E Instance, by Joe Zhou (DragonFlyDB)
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- βMobiuspace Delivers up to 40% Improved Price-Performance Using Amazon EMR on EKSβIn Search of Optimal Solutions: ADROβs Migration to AWSβ
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- βUnveiling Snowflakeβs Stealthy Upgrade: A Deep Dive into Enhanced Worker Node Specs, by Kentaro Maeda β
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Newsletter recommendation of the week
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SLIDES, AUDIO AND VIDEO
- [PODCAST] A Welcome EKS Price Hike, by Corey Quinnβ
- [VIDEO] Build on AWS UAE: Amazon RDS Gravition Migration, by Daniel Loveβ
- [VIDEO] AWS Instance Performance: Cost and Carbon Footprint Comparison, with Jean Latiere (OptimNow), and Nandesh Guru (Greenscale)
EVENTS
βAWS User Group Pune: AWS Re:invent Recap: Exploring the Future of Cloud Infrastructure (Jan 27th, 2024 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM IST, Pune, Maharashtra, India)
Speakers:
- βMayur Bhagia (AWS)
- βVikram Shitole (AWS)β
- βDheeraj Choudhary (EPAM Systems)β
- βVishal Alhat (Forcepoint)
βAccelerating Kubernetes Graviton Migration (February 13th, 2024, 9 AM PT)
Speaker:
- βIdo Kotler (Pelanor)
βDriving Performance, Controlling Costs: Aerospike & AWS Graviton Meetup @AWS TLV (Monday, February 26, 2024 at 5:00 PM to Monday, February 26, 2024 at 7:00 PM IST)
Discover how you can supercharge your data infrastructure while optimizing cost at the Aerospike & AWS Graviton meetup. This exclusive event will delve into the synergies between Aerospike's cutting-edge data solutions and the cost-effective power of AWS Graviton processors.
From the ARM Ecosystem
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Marcos Ortiz
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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