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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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AWS Graviton Weekly # 141

Issue # 141: October 17, 2025 to October 31, 2025 Brought to you by CAST AI Hey Reader. Welcome to Issue # 141 of AWS Graviton Weekly, which will be focused on sharing everything that happened in the past week related to AWS Silicon: from October 15, 2025, to October 31, 2025. Before sharing the usual stuff we put every week here, we wanted to say two things. The first one is related to the AWS outage. I know for sure this wasn't an easy period for the AWS crew, so HugOps for the whole team...

AWS Graviton Weekly # 140

Issue # 140: October 10, 2025, to October 17, 2025 Brought to you by CAST AI Hey Reader. Welcome to Issue # 140 of AWS Graviton Weekly, which will be focused on sharing everything that happened in the past week related to AWS Silicon: from October 10, 2025, to October 15, 2025. Enjoy Recommendation of the week: CAST AI: Automated Kubernetes cluster optimization Monitor organization-wide and cluster-level resource spending. Automate resource allocation and scale instantly with zero downtime.....

AWS Graviton Weekly # 139

Issue # 139: September 26, 2025, to October 10, 2025 Brought to you by CAST AI Hey Reader. Welcome to Issue # 139 of AWS Graviton Weekly, which will be focused on sharing everything that happened in the past week related to AWS Silicon: from September 26, 2025, to October 10, 2025. Enjoy Recommendation of the week: CAST AI: Move Any Workloads Without Disruption Migrate live Kubernetes containers — including those running stateful workloads — with zero downtime. Cast AI’s automation ensures...

AWS Graviton Weekly # 138

Issue # 138: September 19, 2025, to September 26, 2025 Brought to you by CAST AI Hey Reader. Welcome to Issue # 138 of AWS Graviton Weekly, which will be focused on sharing everything that happened in the past week related to AWS Silicon: from September 19, 2025 to September 26, 2025. Enjoy Recommendation of the week: CAST AI: Move Any Workloads Without Disruption Migrate live Kubernetes containers — including those running stateful workloads — with zero downtime. Cast AI’s automation ensures...

AWS Graviton Weekly 137

Issue # 137: September 12, 2025 to September 19, 2025 Brought to you by CAST AI Hey Reader. Welcome to Issue # 137 of AWS Graviton Weekly, which will be focused on sharing everything that happened in the past week related to AWS Silicon: from September 12, 2025, to September 19, 2025. Enjoy Recommendation of the week: CAST AI: Move Any Workloads Without Disruption Migrate live Kubernetes containers — including those running stateful workloads — with zero downtime. Cast AI’s automation ensures...

AWS Graviton Weekly # 136

Issue # 136: September 5, 2025 to September 12, 2025 Brought to you by CAST AI Hey Reader. Welcome to Issue # 136 of AWS Graviton Weekly, which will be focused on sharing everything that happened in the past week related to AWS Silicon: from September 5, 2025 to September 12, 2025. There is an interesting debate happening on Reddit now. The main question: Should we move to AWS Graviton? The answer is YES, and you can read real stories about it. Enjoy Recommendation of the week: CAST AI Book a...

AWS Graviton Weeky # 135

Issue # 135: August 23, 2025 to September 5, 2025 Brought to you by CloudFix Hey Reader. Welcome to Issue # 135 of AWS Graviton Weekly, which will be focused on sharing everything that happened in the past week related to AWS Silicon: from August 23, 2025 to September 5, 2025. Enjoy. Recommendation of the week: CloudFix Fix Your AWS Costs today Get a free assesment NEWS Amazon EC2 C8gn instances are now available in US West (N. California) Introducing Amazon EC2 I8ge instances New General...

AWS Graviton Weekly # 134

Issue # 134: August 8, 2025 to August 23, 2025 Brought to you by CloudFix Hey Reader. Welcome to Issue # 134 of AWS Graviton Weekly, which will be focused on sharing everything that happened in the past week related to AWS Silicon: from August 8, 2025 to August 23, 2025 Enjoy. Recommendation of the week: CloudFix Fix Your AWS Costs today Get a free assesment NEWS AWS Batch now supports AWS Graviton-based Spot compute with AWS Fargate Amazon EC2 R7g instances now available in Africa (Cape...

AWS Graviton Weekly # 133

Issue # 133: August 1, 2025 to August 8, 2025 Brought to you by CloudFix Hey Reader. Welcome to Issue # 133 of AWS Graviton Weekly, which will be focused on sharing everything that happened in the past week related to AWS Silicon: from August 1, 2025 to August 8, 2025. Before doing the standard stuff we do every single week here, I wanted to congratulate Christian Melendez for his upcoming book called "Kubernetes Autoscaling: Building Efficient and Cost-Optimized Clusters with KEDA and...

AWS Graviton Weekly # 132

Issue # 132: July 25, 2025 to August 1, 2025 Brought to you by CAST. AI Hey Reader. Welcome to Issue # 132 of AWS Graviton Weekly, which will be focused on sharing everything that happened in the past week related to AWS Silicon: from July 25, 2025 to August 1, 2025. Enjoy. Recommendation of the week: Cut your Kubernetes costs in half with CAST.AI Book a demo NEWS Amazon EC2 now supports force terminate for EC2 instances Amazon announces Extended Support for ElastiCache version 4 and version...