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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 (Graviton, AWS Nitro, Inferentia, and Trainium).

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AWS Graviton Weekly # 83: It's LAUNCH DAY: The AWS Silicon Content Library is Ready

Issue # 83: April 12, 2024 to April 19, 2024 Hey Reader. Welcome to Issue # 83 of AWS Graviton Weekly, which will be focused on sharing everything that happened in the past week related to AWS Silicon: from April 12, 2024, to April 19, 2024. I shared a little bit about last week's issue, and today is the day to finally reveal to you what I was working on a long time ago. It's called the AWS Silicon Content Library But first, let me talk about the PROBLEM When I started working on this...

about 8 hours ago • 2 min read

Issue # 82: April 5, 2024 to April 12, 2024 Hey Reader. Welcome to Issue # 82 of AWS Graviton Weekly, which will be focused on sharing everything that happened in the past week related to AWS Silicon: from April 5, 2024, to April 12, 2024. This week has been very quiet related to AWS Silicon because most headlines were occupied by Google Next, especially the new Arm-based CPU called Axion, which looks very interesting and promising. But one thing I noticed was that more and more times we will...

7 days ago • 3 min read

Issue # 81: March 29, 2024 to April 5, 2024 Hey Reader. Welcome to Issue # 81 of AWS Graviton Weekly, which will be focused on sharing everything that happened in the past week related to AWS Silicon: from March 29, 2024, to April 5, 2024. Things you can't miss in this issue: How Quora modernized its model serving with NVIDIA Triton and Amazon EKS Now, back to business. Tool of the week: Antimetal New website, new product; same incredible possible outcome if your company uses this tool to...

14 days ago • 1 min read

Issue # 80: March 22, 2024 to March 29, 2024 Hey Reader. Welcome to Issue # 80 of AWS Graviton Weekly, which will be focused on sharing everything that happened in the past week related to AWS Silicon: from March 22, 2024, to March 29, 2024. Before doing the normal stuff I do here every week, let me share with you an exciting product I'm building here. Some of you have always asked about having a single place with all the resources I've shared here in this newsletter since its foundation, but...

21 days ago • 3 min read

Issue # 79: March 15, 2024 to March 22, 2024 Hey Reader. Welcome to Issue # 79 of AWS Graviton Weekly, which will be focused on sharing everything that happened in the past week related to AWS Silicon: from March 15, 2024, to March 22, 2024. Things you can't miss in this edition: The session about modern app development best practices with Amazon ECS at AWS The preview of Amazon EC2 R8g instances, powered by Graviton4 How to optimize your RDS instances, according to my good friend Cristian...

28 days ago • 1 min read

Issue # 78: March 8, 2024 to March 15, 2024 Hey Reader. Welcome to Issue # 78 of AWS Graviton Weekly, which will be focused on sharing everything that happened in the past week related to AWS Silicon: from March 8, 2024, to March 15, 2024. In last week's issue, I mentioned that you need to read the 2024 Kubernetes Cost Benchmark report from CAST.AI if you were using Kubernetes in some way. In the final part of this email, I wanted to answer some of your questions about it. Now, let's focus on...

about 1 month ago • 2 min read

Issue # 77: March 1, 2024 to March 8, 2024 Hey Reader. Welcome to Issue # 77 of AWS Graviton Weekly, which will be focused on sharing everything that happened in the past week related to AWS Silicon: from March 1, 2024, to March 8, 2024. 1 thing you can't miss in this edition: The 2024 Kubernetes Cost Benchmark Report conducted by CAST.AI To give you a quick perspective on why you should read this report if you are currently using Kubernetes in the cloud, this is one of the key findings in...

about 1 month ago • 1 min read

Issue # 76: February 23, 2024 to March 1, 2024 Hey Reader. Welcome to Issue # 76 of AWS Graviton Weekly, which will be focused on sharing everything that happened in the past week related to AWS Silicon: from February 23 2024 to March 1, 2024. 1 thing you can't miss in this edition: The collaboration post between ThirdAI and AWS teams Enjoy Recommendation of the week: CAST.AI NEWS NTT DOCOMO Selects AWS to Deploy Nationwide 5G Open Radio Access Network Amazon EC2 I4g Instances are now...

about 2 months ago • 2 min read

Issue # 75: February 16, 2024 to February 23, 2024 Hey Reader. Welcome to Issue # 75 of AWS Graviton Weekly, which will be focused on sharing everything that happened in the past week related to AWS Silicon: from February 16, 2024, to February 23, 2024. 2 things you can't miss in this edition: A lot of EKS-related gems How Arm launched Arm Neoverse CSS v3 Enjoy Recommendation of the week: CAST.AI NEWS Announcing Region Expansion of G5 instances on SageMaker notebooks AWS announces Amazon...

about 2 months ago • 1 min read

Issue # 74: February 9, 2024 to February 16, 2024 Hey Reader. Welcome to Issue # 74 of AWS Graviton Weekly, which will be focused on sharing everything that happened in the past week related to AWS Silicon: from February 9, 2024, to February 16, 2024. 2 things you can't miss in this edition: The video about how DeviceAtlas migrated to AWS Graviton How Smiles is using Graviton 2-based AWS Lambda functions to save to deliver up to 19 % better performance at a 20 % lower cost. Recommendation of...

2 months ago • 1 min read
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