WNiCF - August 2023 - News

Frank and Stephen go through the plethora of news from AWS, Azure and GCP for August 2023.  A lot of updates this month. 

Frank and Stephen have gone through everything that has a financial impact and quickly try to tell you why it may matter to you and your organisation.

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August 2023

Data/DBs

• https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/08/amazon-aurora-automatic-backup-deleted-clusters/  (F)

Visibility (Billing conductor - Tags - cost categories)

• https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/08/manage-cost-allocation-tags-updated-used-timestamps/ (S) 
• https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/08/aws-cost-explorer-billing-conductor/  (F)
• https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/exportbehindfirewall/ (S)
• https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/containerinsightscostoptimization/ (S)
• 404-PNF Pikmin

Commitment

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Savings 

• https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/08/aws-batch-price-capacity-optimized-allocation-strategy-spot-instances/  (F)

Storage

• https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/glacier-vault-lock/ (F) 
• https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/08/amazon-s3-glacier-flexible-retrieval-improves-restore-time/ (F)
• https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/08/scale-iops-separately-storage-amazon-fsx-windows-file-server/ (S)
• https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/generally-available-azure-cold-storage/ (S)

Instances

• https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/08/amazon-elasticache-m7g-r7g-graviton-3-nodes/ (F)
• https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-ec2-m7a-general-purpose-instances-powered-by-4th-gen-amd-epyc-processors/ (F)
• https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-ec2-hpc7a-instances-powered-by-4th-gen-amd-epyc-processors-optimized-for-high-performance-computing/ (F)
• Cloud TPU v5e: Our most cost-efficient, versatile, and scalable purpose-built AI accelerator to date. Now, customers can use a single Cloud TPU platform to run both large-scale AI training and inference. Cloud TPU v5e scales to tens of thousands of chips and is optimized for efficiency. Compared to Cloud TPU v4, it provides up to a 2x improvement in training performance per dollar and up to a 2.5x improvement in inference performance per dollar. (S)
• A3 VMs with NVIDIA H100 GPU: Our A3 VMs powered by NVIDIA’s H100 GPU will be generally available next month. It is purpose-built with high-performance networking and other advances to enable today’s most demanding gen AI and large language model (LLM) innovations. This allows organizations to achieve three times better training performance over the prior-generation A2.  (S)

Sustainability

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Misc/Silly

• GKE Enterprise: This enables multi-cluster horizontal scaling ;-required for the most demanding, mission-critical AI/ML workloads. Customers are already seeing productivity gains of 45%, while decreasing software deployment times by more than 70%. Starting today, the benefits that come with GKE, including autoscaling, workload orchestration, and automatic upgrades, are now available with Cloud TPU v5e. (S)
• Cross-Cloud Network: A global networking platform that helps customers connect and secure applications across clouds. It is open, workload-optimized, and offers ML-powered security to deliver zero trust. Designed to enable customers to gain access to Google services more easily from any cloud, Cross-Cloud Network reduces network latency by up to 35%. (S)
• https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/prime-day-2023-powered-by-aws-all-the-numbers/ (F)
• Here is the link to the event on LinkedIn (F + S) https://www.linkedin.com/events/thecloudcostwhisperer-unveiling7105235395935629312/comments/
  • But the main details are
  • Thu, Sep 28, 2023, 3:00 PM - 9:00 PM (UK Time) 8:00am -1:00 pm PST