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AWS Releases Privatelink for Amazon S3 into General Availability
AWS has recently announced that PrivateLink for Amazon S3 is now generally available (GA). With PrivateLink for Amazon S3, customers can securely connect Amazon S3 to on-premise resources.
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AWS Announces Amazon Aurora Supports PostgreSQL 12
AWS has recently announced that Amazon Aurora, a MySQL and PostgreSQL-compatible relational Database built for the Cloud, now supports major version 12 of PostgreSQL.
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Open Policy Agent Graduates at CNCF
The CNCF announced the graduation of the Open Policy Agent (OPA) project. OPA is an open source policy management and enforcement engine that has declarative policies and integrates with various systems including Kubernetes.
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Google Announces VM Manager, a Suite of Infrastructure Management Tools
In a recent blog post, Google announced VM Manager, a suite of infrastructure management tools to maintain large fleets of Compute Engine VMs more efficiently.
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Newest TeamTNT IRC Bot Steals AWS and Docker Credentials
Cybercrime group TeamTNT’s internet relay chat (IRC) bot has had its functionality expanded from resource theft for crypto-mining to include the theft of Docker API, AWS, GCP and secure shell (SSH) credentials. Researchers have identified multiple recent changes in post-invasion behaviour. The crime group have likened it to a 'Docker Gatling Gun'.
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AWS Step Functions Gains Synchronous Express Workflows
Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently announced that AWS Step Functions supports synchronous Express workflows to "easily build web-based applications and orchestrate high-volume, short-duration microservices". Express workflows, a cost-effective, high-performance workflow type with a runtime of up to five minutes, can now be synchronously invoked from Amazon API Gateway or directly via the API.
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Docker Engine 20.10 Released: Supports cgroups v2 and Dual Logging
Docker announced the next release of Docker Engine 20.10, adding support for cgroups v2 with improvements in the command line interface (CLI) and support for dual logging. This is the first major release after Docker Engine 19.03, released on 22nd July, 2019.
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Google Cloud Workflows Now Generally Available
Google has recently announced that Google Cloud Workflows, the service to orchestrate Google Cloud and HTTP-based API services with serverless workflows, is now generally available. Workflows Connectors are now in public preview.
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Docker Hub and JFrog Partnership Removes Image Pull Limits for Artifactory Users
Docker Hub and JFrog announced a partnership that would enable JFrog Artifactory users to avoid Docker Hub image pull rate and retention limits.
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BBC Online Uses Serverless to Scale Extremely Fast
In a series of blog posts published recently, BBC Online's lead technical architect explains why BBC Online uses serverless and how they optimize for it. According to the author, BBC Online uses AWS Lambda for most of its core implementation due to its ability to scale extremely fast. When a breaking news story erupts, traffic can increase 3x in a single minute and then keep rising after that.
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Google Updates Its Cloud Run Service Support for WebSockets, HTTP/2, and gRPC Bidirectional Streams
Cloud Run is a managed compute platform that enables developers to run stateless containers invocable via web requests or Pub/Sub events. It is serverless, meaning all infrastructure management is abstract away, and developers can focus more on building applications.
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Elastic Changes Licences for Elasticsearch and Kibana: AWS Forks Both
Elastic recently announced licensing changes to Elasticsearch and Kibana, with the company moving away from Apache 2.0 and adopting the Server Side Public License (SSPL) and the Elastic License. Amazon reacted with a plan to maintain a fork of both Elasticsearch and Kibana under the previous license.
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Cockroach Labs 2021 Cloud Report: GCP Outpaces Azure and AWS
Cockroach Labs recently released their annual cloud report identifying Google Cloud Platform as the best overall provider. The 2021 Cloud Report compares AWS, Azure, and GCP on benchmarks that reflect critical applications and workloads.
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The "Wasmer" WebAssembly Runtime is Generally Available
Wasmer recently released version 1.0 of its server-side WebAssembly runtime, and it is now generally available. Wasmer enables super lightweight containers based on WebAssembly. Version 1.0 marks a significant milestone on a journey, which started more than two years ago with version 0.1.0. It is an indicator of the growing interest in WebAssembly on the server-side.
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AWS Introduces HealthLake and Redshift ML in Preview
AWS introduced preview releases of Amazon HealthLake service and a feature for Amazon Redshift called Redshift ML during re:Invent 2020 in December. Amazon HealthLake is a data lake service that helps healthcare, health insurance, and pharmaceutical companies to derive value out of their data with the help of NLP. Redshift ML is a service that provides a gateway into SageMaker to Redshift users.