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Public Preview of Azure Compute Fleet: Streamlining Azure Compute Capacity Management
At the annual Build conference, Microsoft announced the public preview of Azure Compute Fleet, a new service that streamlines the provisioning and management of Azure compute capacity across different virtual machine (VM) types, availability zones, and pricing models to achieve desired scale, performance, and cost.
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Microsoft Introduces the Public Preview of Bicep Templates Support for Microsoft Graph
Microsoft announced that the Bicep templates for Microsoft Graph resources will be in public review starting May 21st. Bicep templates simplify the deployment of Microsoft Graph resources, allowing for efficient infrastructure definition and repeated deployments using declarative syntax, well-suited for DevOps and infrastructure-as-code workflows.
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Microsoft Introduces the Public Preview of Flex Consumption Plan for Azure Functions at Build
At the annual Build conference, Microsoft announced the flex consumption plan for Azure Functions, which brings users fast and large elastic scale, instance size selection, private networking, availability zones, and higher concurrency control.
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AWS Introduces Amazon Bedrock Studio for Building Generative AI Applications
AWS has recently announced Amazon Bedrock Studio, a web interface for developers to collaborate and build generative AI applications. Currently in public preview, the rapid prototyping environment provides access to multiple foundation models, knowledge bases, agents, and guardrails.
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Amazon EC2 C7i-flex Instances: Price-Performance Benefits for Compute-Intensive Workloads
AWS has announced the general availability of Amazon EC2 C7i-flex instances, which, according to the company, deliver up to 19% better price performance compared to C6i instances.
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UniSuper’s Entire Infrastructure Deleted by Internal Google Cloud Error
An Australian superannuation fund manager, UniSuper, using Google Cloud for an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) contract, found it had no disaster recovery (DR) recourse when the entire infrastructure subscription was deleted.
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Ahrefs Joins Others in Suggesting That On-Premises Hosting Can Be More Cost Effective than Cloud
A recent article claims that Ahrefs, an SEO software suite company, was able to prevent $400 million in expenditures over three years by not leveraging cloud resources. Similarly, 37Signals, the makers of Basecamp, has begun a cloud exodus with the stated goal of saving seven million dollars in infrastructure costs over five years.
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Enhanced Security for Enterprises: Google Launches Google Threat Intelligence
At the recent RSA Conference in San Francisco, Google Cloud introduced Google Threat Intelligence, a new security offering for large organizations. The new solution provides users with actionable insights, external threat monitoring, attack surface management, digital risk protection, and in-depth analysis of Indicators of Compromise (IOC).
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Azure API Center Now Generally Available
Microsoft has announced Azure API Center's general availability (GA), which offers centralized API inventory for easy API discovery, reuse, and governance regardless of API type, lifecycle stage, or deployment location.
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Microsoft Launches Trusted Signing in Public Preview: an End-to-End Signing Solution for Developers
Microsoft recently launched Trusted Signing in Public Preview, a fully-managed end-to-end signing solution for developers backed by a Microsoft-managed certification authority.
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QCon London: Modernizing in Healthcare – from On-Prem to the Cloud
At QCon London, Leander Vanderbijl, senior engineer at Livi, discussed the journey of migrating an on-premises solution to the cloud, including the challenges he faced and the thinking behind the choices he made throughout the journey. The session was part of the "Connecting Systems: APIs, Protocols, Observability" track.
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Amazon Q Business and Amazon Q Developer Now Generally Available
AWS has recently announced the general availability of Amazon Q a generative AI-powered assistant tailored for businesses and developers. Amazon Q Developer provides code suggestions and recommendations in real time, while Amazon Q Business enables companies to get insights from structured and unstructured data.
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Enhance Cloud-Based Monitoring with Azure Monitor Pipeline
Azure Monitor is Microsoft's cloud monitoring service for gathering, visualizing, and analyzing telemetry data from applications, infrastructure, and networks. The company recently added a data collection capability in preview with the edge pipeline, which enables the collection and routing of telemetry data before it's sent to the cloud.
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Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink is Now Generally Available with AI Features
Confluent announced last month the general availability (GA) of Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink. This fully-managed service enables real-time data processing and the creation of high-quality, reusable data streams. The service is available across Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.
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Amazon S3 Unauthorized Request Billing Issue: an Empty S3 Bucket Can Dramatically Increase the Costs
Maciej Pocwierz, a senior software engineer, recently revealed a significant issue—an empty S3 bucket can unexpectedly result in a substantial AWS bill. In his case, nearly 100,000,000 S3 PUT requests were executed within a single day, leading to a bill that was far from negligible.