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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).

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB now supports M8g and R8g database instances
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AWS Graviton Weekly # 115

Issue # 115: November 22, 2024 to November 29, 2024 Hey Reader. Welcome to Issue # 115 of AWS Graviton Weekly, which will be focused on sharing everything that happened in the past week related to AWS Silicon: from November 22, 2024 to November 29, 2024. On Sunday, AWS:reinvent 2024 will start. I couldn't join this year (US visa is getting longer to get), so please if you make it: enjoy your time there, meet new people, network with intent to actually make true connections there. And more...

AWS Graviton Weekly # 114: Run performant and cost-effective GenAI Applications with AWS Graviton and Arcee AI?

Issue # 114: November 15, 2024 to November 22, 2024 Hey Reader. Welcome to Issue # 114 of AWS Graviton Weekly, which will be focused on sharing everything that happened in the past week related to AWS Silicon: from November 15, 2024 to November 22, 2024. Enjoy. Recommendation of the week: CAST.AI Save big today NEWS Amazon and Anthropic deepen strategic collaboration Amazon EC2 added New CPU-Performance Attribute for Instance Type Selection The next generation of Amazon FSx for Lustre file...

AWS Graviton Weekly # 113: Fluid Attacks Cut Costs by 70% with AWS Graviton

Issue # 113: November 8, 2024 to November 15, 2024 Hey Reader. Welcome to Issue # 112 of AWS Graviton Weekly, which will be focused on sharing everything that happened in the past week related to AWS Silicon: from November 8, 2024 to November 15, 2024. AWS re:Invent 2024 is almost here, and if I have to recommend some talks there, check out the Datadogs talks and this one from the EC2 team called "CMP323 | Optimize your AI/ML workloads with Amazon EC2 Graviton". Enjoy. Recommendation of the...

AWS Graviton Weekly # 112: How Infinitium reduced fraud detection time by 95% with Amazon ECS and AWS Fargate on AWS Graviton?

Issue # 112: November 1, 2024 to November 8, 2024 Hey Reader. Welcome to Issue # 112 of AWS Graviton Weekly, which will be focused on sharing everything that happened in the past week related to AWS Silicon: from November 1, 2024 to November 8, 2024. Enjoy. Recommendation of the week: CAST.AI Save big today NEWS Exclusive: AWS’ sustainable cloud push drives 99% carbon footprint reduction for Aussie users [ITBrief] Amazon EC2 R8g instances now available in AWS Europe (Ireland) AWS CDK last...

AWS Graviton Weekly # 111: CloudFix Introduces Lambda Graviton Migration

Issue # 111: October 25, 2024 to November 1, 2024 Hey Reader. Welcome to Issue # 111 of AWS Graviton Weekly, which will be focused on sharing everything that happened in the past week related to AWS Silicon: from October 25, 2024 to November 1, 2024. Enjoy. Recommendation of the week: CAST.AI Save big today NEWS Over 90% of AWS's biggest data-center customers are using its homegrown Graviton chips, an executive says [Business Insider] Introducing Amazon EC2 M8g instances in Dallas Local Zone...

?Running Llama 3 70B on the AWS Graviton4 CPU with Human Readable Performance?

Issue # 110: October 18, 2024 to October 25, 2024 Hey Reader. Welcome to Issue # 110 of AWS Graviton Weekly, which will be focused on sharing everything that happened in the past week related to AWS Silicon: from October 18, 2024 to October 25, 2024. Enjoy. Recommendation of the week: CAST.AI Save big today NEWS Cockroach Labs Partners with AWS to Enhance Cloud Migrations and GenAI Capabilities EC2 Image Builder now supports Apple macOS Amazon EKS now supports Amazon Application Recovery...

AWS Graviton Weekly # 109: Do you want to cut costs in your AWS workloads every single month? We need to chat ASAP

Issue # 109: October 11, 2024 to October 18, 2024 Hey Reader. Welcome to Issue # 109 of AWS Graviton Weekly, which will be focused on sharing everything that happened in the past week related to AWS Silicon: from October 11, 2024 to October 18, 2024. Enjoy. Recommendation of the week: We need to chat about cost cutting on AWS Before doing the standard stuff we do every week, I wanted to let you know I'm working with an amazing team to help you save big if you have your workloads on AWS today....

AWS Graviton Weekly # 108

Issue # 108: October 4, 2024 to October 11, 2024 Hey Reader. Welcome to Issue # 108 of AWS Graviton Weekly, which will be focused on sharing everything that happened in the past week related to AWS Silicon: from October 4, 2024 to October 11, 2024. Enjoy. Recommendation of the week: CAST.AI Save big today NEWS MYCOM OSI's Assurance Cloud Service launches AWS Graviton support for higher performance and energy efficiency Accelerator Card Market to Reach $208.37 Billion by 2032 Driven by...

AWS Graviton Weekly 107: Graviton 4 Deep Dive, and AWS DaaS Review?

Issue # 107: September 27, 2024 to October 4, 2024 Hey Reader. Welcome to Issue # 107 of AWS Graviton Weekly, which will be focused on sharing everything that happened in the past week related to AWS Silicon: from September 27, 2024 to October 4, 2024. Two quick things: Congratulations to the incredible team of Kit (formerly known as ConverKit). We have been a proud Kit customer since the start of this newsletter, and now with the new brand refreshing, the platform is even more intuitive and...

AWS Graviton Weeky # 106: Introducing Amazon EC2 C8g and M8g Instances

Issue # 106: September 20, 2024 to September 27, 2024 Hey Reader. Welcome to Issue # 106 of AWS Graviton Weekly, which will be focused on sharing everything that happened in the past week related to AWS Silicon: from September 20, 2024 to September 27, 2024. Enjoy. Recommendation of the week: Kubernetes Cost Optimization: Reduce Your Cloud Bill Save big today NEWS Introducing Amazon EC2 C8g and M8g Instances How Amazon is preparing for the energy needs of the future AWS Lambda now supports...