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What actually changes when you move to the new AWS I8 instances? AWS’s Kshitij Tambe walks through the Graviton4 CPU and Nitro SSD design and why it matters for high performance, storage-intensive workloads. Tzach Livyatan then shares how these infrastructure optimizations play out on ScyllaDB’s shard-per-core architecture.
Tzach has a B.A. and MSc in Computer Science (Technion, Summa Cum Laude), and has had a 15 year career in development, system engineering and product management. In the past he worked in the Telecom domain, focusing on carrier grade systems, signaling, policy and charging applications.
Kshitij Tambe (KT) is a Product Manager for EC2 storage-optimized I-family instances at AWS, where he has driven innovation in high-performance computing infrastructure for the past year and a half. With over 25 years of industry experience spanning datacenter infrastructure, servers, storage, networking, and filesystems, he brings deep technical expertise to cloud infrastructure optimization. In his current role, he has led the development of next-generation instance families and worked closely with enterprise customers to optimize storage-intensive workloads in the cloud.
