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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).

AWS Graviton Weekly # 97: How Amazon’s New CPU Fights Cybersecurity Threats?
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AWS Graviton Weekly # 97

Issue # 97: July 19, 2024 to July 26, 2024 Hey Reader. Welcome to Issue # 97 of AWS Graviton Weekly, which will be focused on sharing everything that happened in the past week related to AWS Silicon: from July 19, 2024 to July 26, 2024. Enjoy. Recommendation of the week: CAST.AI NEWS AWS Step Functions now supports Customer Managed Keys Llama 3.1 models from Meta are now available on AWS, offering more options for building generative AI applications AWS Lambda now supports Amazon MQ for...

Issue # 96: July 11, 2024 to July 19, 2024 Hey Reader. Welcome to Issue # 96 of AWS Graviton Weekly, which will be focused on sharing everything that happened in the past week related to AWS Silicon: from July 11, 2024 to July 19, 2024. Before continuing with the regular content: #hugops for CrowdStrike for the Microsoft Windows BSOD issue today. BTW, Cristian Măgherușan-Stanciu worked on some Terraform automation tool to fix this issue on AWS. He is looking for testers. Back to business now...

Issue # 95: July 5, 2024 to July 11, 2024 Hey Reader. Welcome to Issue # 95 of AWS Graviton Weekly, which will be focused on sharing everything that happened in the past week related to AWS Silicon: from July 5, 2024 to July 11, 2024. Enjoy. Recommendation of the week: CAST.AI NEWS Amazon EC2 R8g instances powered by AWS Graviton4 now generally available AWS Neuron introduces Flash Attention kernel enabling high performance and large sequence lengths Announcing availability of AWS Outposts in...

Issue # 94: June 28, 2024 to July 5, 2024 Hey Reader. Welcome to Issue # 94 of AWS Graviton Weekly, which will be focused on sharing everything that happened in the past week related to AWS Silicon: from June 28, 2024 to June 5, 2024. Enjoy. Recommendation of the week: CAST.AI NEWS Australian Government partners with Amazon Web Services to bolster national defence and security Amazon EKS natively supports EC2 capacity blocks for ML Amazon GuardDuty EC2 Runtime Monitoring now supports Ubuntu...

AWS Graviton Weekly 93: Amazon MSK supports in-place upgrades from M5, T3 instance types to Graviton3 based M7G

Issue # 93: June 21, 2024 to June 28, 2024 Hey Reader. Welcome to Issue # 93 of AWS Graviton Weekly, which will be focused on sharing everything that happened in the past week related to AWS Silicon: from June 21, 2024 to June 28, 2024. Enjoy. Recommendation of the week: CAST.AI NEWS AWS CodeBuild supports Arm-based workloads using AWS Graviton3 Amazon MSK supports in-place upgrades from M5, T3 instance types to Graviton3 based M7G AWS Billing and Cost Management now provides Data Exports for...

AWS Graviton Weekly # 92: Vantage Cloud Cost Report Q1 2024 and much more

Issue # 92: June 14, 2024 to June 21, 2024 Hey Reader. Welcome to Issue # 92 of AWS Graviton Weekly, which will be focused on sharing everything that happened in the past week related to AWS Silicon: from June 14, 2024 to June 21, 2024. Enjoy. Recommendation of the week: CAST.AI NEWS Amazon EC2 C7g and R7g instances are now available in additional regions AWS KMS now supports Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman (ECDH) key agreement AWS Compute Optimizer supports rightsizing recommendations for...

AWS Graviton Weekly # 91: ?Sprinklr improves performance by 20% and reduces cost by 25% for machine learning inference on AWS Graviton3?

Issue # 91: June 7, 2024 to June 14, 2024 Hey Reader. Welcome to Issue # 91 of AWS Graviton Weekly, which will be focused on sharing everything that happened in the past week related to AWS Silicon: from June 7, 2024 to June 14, 2024. Enjoy. Recommendation of the week: CAST.AI NEWS Amazon EC2 M6in and M6idn instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai) AWS Mainframe Modernization Application Testing is now generally available ARTICLES AND TUTORIALS Only 13% of Provisioned CPUs End Up...

Issue # 90: May 31, 2024 to June 7, 2024 Hey Reader. Welcome to Issue # 90 of AWS Graviton Weekly, which will be focused on sharing everything that happened in the past week related to AWS Silicon: from May 31, 2024 to June 7, 2024. It has been a quite week, but there are still some gems. Enjoy Recommendation of the week: ConvertKit (Soon to be Kit): The amazing tool I use to send this weekly email every single week is doing a rebranding in public. Nathan Barry and the whole crew are doing a...

Issue # 89: May 24, 2024 to May 31, 2024 Hey Reader. Welcome to Issue # 89 of AWS Graviton Weekly, which will be focused on sharing everything that happened in the past week related to AWS Silicon: from May 24, 2024 to May 31, 2024. Before sharing the regular stuff from each week, I wanted to join to the help to raise some funds for fellow members of the global AWS communitity that are passing a hard time today due to health related issues. If you can donate to them, we will appreciate that:...

Issue # 88: May 17, 2024 to May 24, 2024 Hey Reader. Welcome to Issue # 88 of AWS Graviton Weekly, which will be focused on sharing everything that happened in the past week related to AWS Silicon: from May 17, 2024 to May 24, 2024. Things you can't miss in this edition: The conversation that happened between the CTO of ClickHouse and AWS about the company using Amazon EC2 R8g instances powered by AWS Graviton4 processors. Highly recommended !!! Back to business Recommendation of the week:...