Summary of AWS re:Invent 2022 - Keynote with Peter DeSantis

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In his keynote at AWS re:Invent, Peter DeSantis discusses the importance of performance and how AWS has continuously invested in innovative ways to achieve peak performance while also ensuring security and low cost. He introduces the latest Nitro chip and EC2 instance, the C7gn, which improve performance by 50% compared to the previous generation. DeSantis also discusses the Scalable Reliable Datagram (SRD) networking protocol, which is designed to improve network reliability and performance. Finally, he talks about how AWS is improving performance in a different area - serverless computing.

  • 00:00:00 In this keynote, Senior Vice President of AWS Utility Computing, Peter DeSantis, discusses the importance of performance and how AWS has continuously invested in innovative ways to achieve peak performance while also ensuring security and low cost. Nitro, a special chip designed specifically for AWS, is a key part of this strategy and is instrumental in providing high performance and security while also reducing performance variability.
  • 00:05:00 The presenter introduces the latest Nitro chip and EC2 instance, the C7gn. These new features improve performance by 50% compared to the previous generation Nitro chip and EC2 instance, the C6gn. Additionally, the Graviton3E processor is specifically designed for high performance computing, offering 35% more performance on HPL and 12% more performance on GroMacs.
  • 00:10:00 In his keynote at AWS re:Invent, Peter DeSantis discusses the importance of HPC7g and the Elastic Fabric Adapter, which is designed to improve networking performance in the AWS environment. DeSantis also discusses the Scalable Reliable Datagram (SRD) networking protocol, which is designed to improve network reliability and performance.
  • 00:15:00 SRD, or "network multipath," uses multiple paths in the network to increase throughput and avoid issues, resulting in lower latency and higher network throughput than traditional networking protocols. EBS, a type of block storage used by EC2 instances, is particularly sensitive to network latency, and one way to reduce it is to design for worst case latency.
  • 00:20:00 In this keynote, Peter DeSantis explains that with the introduction of ENA Express, Amazon is making it easier for customers to benefit from the performance benefits of SRD without having to change the code of their applications. ENA Express allows customers to use SRD on any network interface and provides improved throughput for single flow TCP connections.
  • 00:25:00 Large machine learning models are becoming increasingly complex and require faster and more efficient hardware. AWS's Trn1 instance provides 16 more optimized Trainium processors and 512 gigabytes of memory for high performance networking and storage of model parameters in large floating point numbers. The Trn1 can be used to train very large models with low loss and reasonable throughput.
  • 00:30:00 Machine learning scientists have found that stochastic rounding can enable practitioners to use lower precision floating point numbers and get the benefits of larger floating point numbers. This reduces training times and costs.
  • 00:35:00 This YouTube video illustrates the trade-offs between throughput and latency when scaling out a machine learning model with multiple processors. The most naive approach would be for every processor to share its information with every other processor after each iteration, but this quickly becomes overwhelming and leads to longer and more expensive training runs. Instead, some savvy scientists observed that with machine learning you can compute parameter averages incrementally, which reduces the number of exchanges required and speeds up the training process. By the time everybody combines their results with everyone else, the model has received the same results as if one processor had combined all the results on its own. This opens up the possibility to vastly optimize the communication phase, which reduces the time it takes to complete the training process by a factor of 2n minus 2.
  • 00:40:00 The keynote speaker, Peter DeSantis, discussed how the same approach that allows incremental computation can be used to compute averages hierarchically, creating a Ring of Rings approach. This new approach has two phases, the first of which averages the results of the other chips on the same processor. This process scales on constant time, based on the throughput, and the second phase averages one processor from each server, using the same process as the original. Finally, a Trainium instance optimized for low latency network bandwidth is announced.
  • 00:45:00 The talk discusses the challenges and challenges of designing and building a modern Formula 1 car, including the need to account for a variety of factors such as aerodynamics, power, and weight. The talk also mentions how driver skill is essential in making sense of data and communicating this to engineers.
  • 00:50:00 In his keynote, Peter DeSantis discusses the various decisions engineers have to make every day, how they impact other decisions, and how they need to use their skill and judgment to strive for the fastest lap. He also goes into detail about Ferrari's investments in performance-enhancing technologies, including Nitro and Trainium chips and the Scuderia Ferrari app powered by AWS. Finally, DeSantis discusses how AWS is improving performance in a different area - serverless computing.
  • 00:55:00 The presenter talks about how AWS operates as a multitenant service, emphasizing the importance of virtual machine level isolation. He then goes on to discuss historical examples of virtual machine security breaches. He concludes the talk by saying that AWS uses virtual machines for all customer functions to provide the best security and performance possible.

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In his keynote at AWS re:Invent, Peter DeSantis described how Lambda has evolved over the years, and how the new Firecracker technology can be used to improve performance without increasing costs. He also announced the launch of Lambda SnapStart, which further reduces the cold start time for Lambda functions.

  • 01:00:00 In this keynote, Peter DeSantis discusses how AWS Lambda has evolved over the years, highlighting the importance of efficient cache management. He explains how Lambda's cold start problem is exacerbated by the need to provision new capacity when load changes occur, and how Firecracker technology can be used to improve performance without increasing costs.
  • 01:05:00 The presenter introduces the Firecracker technology, which allows for the execution of MicroVMs in a fraction of a second. This results in smaller VM sizes and a bigger cache, which reduces cold start latency. Additionally, the presenter announces the launch of Lambda SnapStart, which further reduces the cold start time for Lambda functions.
  • 01:10:00 The three innovations discussed in this keynote are: assuring uniqueness for initialization processes, efficient snapshot management, and predictive snapshot loading. These innovations help to reduce cold starts and improve performance and cost.
  • 01:15:00 In his keynote at AWS re:Invent, Peter DeSantis described how SnapStart is a new way of loading virtual machine snapshots that makes microVMs never blocked waiting for a snapshot to load. He also listed some of the customers using SnapStart and the benefits they've seen.

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