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AWS Announces the General Availability of CloudFront Functions
Recently, AWS announced the general availability of CloudFront Functions, a new edge computing capability. With this new CloudFront feature, customers can run JavaScript functions across the Cloud Front edge locations worldwide.
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New Exploit Breaks Current Spectre Defenses; Fixes Hard without Performance Impact
Researchers from the University of Virginia School of Engineering recently disclosed a new Spectre hardware exploit that can steal secrets via Intel/AMD micro-op caches and circumvents current Spectre defenses. Intel and AMD say no new guidance is needed. Researchers say suggested fixes are inconvenient to deploy or have performance drawbacks.
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How GitHub Leverages Feature Flags to Ship Quickly and Safely
In a recent blog post, Alberto Gimeno, GitHub actions engineer, shared how GitHub makes use of feature flags to enable frequent, safe deployments. GitHub leverages feature flags for all potentially risky changes, allowing them to quickly disable the change if needed.
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Amazon Nimble Studio: Visual Effects, Animations, and Interactive Content on AWS
Amazon has recently announced Nimble Studio, a service for creative studios to produce visual effects, animations, and interactive content. The cloud-based studio provides on-demand access to virtual workstations, elastic file storage, render farm capacity and tools to manage security, permissions, and collaborations.
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Microsoft Announces Preview Service for Building Real-Time Web Applications Called Azure Web PubSub
Recently Microsoft announced a preview of Azure Web PubSub, a new service for building real-time web applications. Azure Web PubSub is a fully-managed service that supports native and serverless WebSockets.
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AWS Launches a New Type of AWS Storage Gateway: Amazon FSx File Gateway
Recently, AWS launched Amazon FSx File Gateway as a new type of AWS Storage Gateway, providing customers with a way to access data stored in the cloud with Amazon FSx for Windows File Server, instead of using and managing on-premises file servers. Amazon FSx File Gateway optimizes the on-premises access of file shares by maintaining a local cache of frequently-accessed data.
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Google Cloud Supports PHP on Cloud Functions
Google Cloud recently announced the public preview of PHP on Cloud Functions. The Functions Framework for PHP supports HTTP functions, to respond to HTTP events, and CloudEvent functions to process events sourced from external and internal Google Cloud services like Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage and Firestore.
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Gremlin Adds Automated Service Discovery for Targeting Chaos Experiments
Gremlin, a chaos engineering platform, recently announced automated service discovery. This new feature will auto discover services running within dynamic environments. These services are then available to target for chaos experiments. Gremlin has also added role based access control for their API keys.
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GitHub Reacts to Growing Cryptocurrency Mining Attacks Using GitHub Actions
In response to the recent surge in cryptocurrency mining attacks, GitHub has changed how pull requests from public forks are handled in GitHub Actions to prevent abuse.
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AWS Introduces Savings Plans and Instant Price Reductions for Amazon Sagemaker
Recently, AWS announced instant price reductions and Savings Plans for Amazon SageMaker, their fully-managed Machine Learning (ML) service. With Savings Plans for Amazon SageMaker, customers can benefit from cost savings up to 64% compared to the on-demand price. The company also drops the price of several instance families in Amazon SageMaker by up to 14.2%.
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Amazon Updates Its Elasticsearch Service, Begins Embrace of New Fork
Amazon recently released several enhancements to Amazon Elasticsearch Service. The new capabilities stem from two different sources: Elasticsearch, the project long associated with the service, and Open Distro for Elasticsearch, a new fork.
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CNCF Promotes GitOps Tool Flux to Incubated Status
The CNCF has promoted the Flux project from the sandbox level to incubated level. This is not only proof of widespread use of Flux, but also of its joining the GitOps family of projects and bringing a unified toolkit approach to continuous delivery.
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Grafana Labs Changes Licenses to AGPLv3 for Grafana, Loki, and Tempo
Grafana Labs has recently announced the plan to change the licenses for their core products. They will relicense Grafana, Grafana Loki, and Grafana Tempo from the Apache License 2.0 to the Affero General Public License (AGPL) v3. Plugins, agents, and certain libraries will remain Apache-licensed.
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HashiCorp Boundary: Remote Access Management Service Adds OIDC Support
HashiCorp has announced the release of version 0.2 of Boundary, their open-source identity-based access management service designed for dynamic infrastructure. This release includes support for OIDC authentication methods. The Boundary Desktop application is now at version 1.0 for macOS.
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IBM, Red Hat and Cobuilder Develop OpenBuilt, a Platform for the Construction Industry
IBM, Red Hat and Cobuilder recently announced a collaboration to develop OpenBuilt, a platform for the construction industry supply chains built on the hybrid cloud platform Red Hat OpenShift and running on IBM Cloud.