Title

AWS re:Invent 2023 - Migrating to AWS Graviton with AWS container services (CMP404)

Summary

AWS Graviton is custom AWS silicon using 64-bit ARM processor cores, tailored for a broad spectrum of workloads.
Graviton offers the best price performance in Amazon EC2, costs up to 20% less per instance hour, and uses up to 60% less energy than comparable EC2 instances.
Containers and Graviton are a great fit, supported by all major container orchestrators and runtimes, and offer architecture-neutral deployment.
Migrating to Graviton can start with identifying suitable workloads, testing in lower environments, and gradually moving to production.
All major observability agents and providers support Graviton.
AWS offers a variety of Graviton instances for different workloads, including the latest Graviton 4, which is up to 30% faster than Graviton 3.
Building container images for Graviton involves either native builds on Graviton-based EC2 instances or emulated builds using Docker BuildX and QEMU.
Multi-architecture images can be built to support both x86 and Graviton-based instances.
AWS Fargate and AWS Lambda also support Graviton, simplifying the management of compute resources.
Samsung Electronics shared their successful migration journey to Graviton, highlighting cost savings, performance improvements, and sustainability benefits.
AWS encourages further learning and offers a compute knowledge digital badge and learning path via AWS Skill Builder.

AWS Graviton's energy efficiency and cost-effectiveness align with the growing emphasis on sustainability and cost optimization in cloud computing.
The support for Graviton across major container services and tools indicates a strong ecosystem and ease of adoption for customers.
The ability to build multi-architecture images simplifies the migration process and provides flexibility in deployment across different CPU architectures.
Samsung's case study demonstrates real-world benefits of migrating to Graviton, including improved performance and reduced costs, which can serve as a compelling example for other organizations.
The emphasis on learning and skill development, as shown by the AWS Skill Builder program, reflects the importance of continuous education in the rapidly evolving cloud industry.