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CloudNativeSecurityCon 2023: Identifying Suspicious Behaviors with eBPF
At CloudNativeSecrityCon 2023 in Seattle, WA, Jeremy Cowan and Wasiq Muhammad, both engineers at AWS, presented on identifying suspicious behaviors with eBPP, its use cases, and how AWS is using it for threat detection and protection.
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Service Mesh Kuma Improves Policy Handling and Debugging Experience
Kuma, a service mesh technology, released version 2.1 with improved policies and an updated UI. The improved policies build upon the 2.0 release and move the remaining policies over to the new targetRef system. The targetRef system provides an improved matching system for defining policies.
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Azure Announces Native New Relic Service for Full-Stack Observability
Azure recently announced a native New Relic service for full-stack observability. The performance monitoring service allows monitoring and troubleshooting of cloud applications in real-time, providing metrics, traces, and logs.
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Microsoft’s Fully-Managed Azure Load Testing Service Now Generally Available
Microsoft recently announced the general availability of Azure Load Testing, a fully-managed load-testing service allowing customers to test the resiliency of their applications regardless of where they are hosted.
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Azure Durable Functions Now Supports Storage Backends Microsoft Netherite and MSSQL
Microsoft recently announced that Azure Durable Functions support for the new storage providers, Netherite and Microsoft SQL Server (MSSQL), is generally available.
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Software Security Report Finds JavaScript Applications Have Fewer Flaws Than Java and .NET
Veracode's State of Software Security report for 2023 found that there is a 27% chance within a given month that security flaws will be introduced into an application. The report also found that JavaScript applications on average have fewer flaws and faster flaw resolution than Java and .NET applications.
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gopaddle, a Low Code Internal Developer Platform for MicroK8s and Edge
gopaddle is a low-code internal developer platform (IDP) for MicroK8s edge cloud. It aims to simplify and accelerate the development of edge cloud applications by providing a web-based interface to Kubernetes developers for creating, deploying, and managing applications.
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VMware Tanzu Application Platform Adds Buildpack Improvements and Application Limits
VMware released a number of new features for the Tanzu Application Platform and the Tanzu Application Service. Tanzu Application Platform provides a multi-cloud platform that runs on Kubernetes. Tanzu Application Service is a delivery and operations platform. The features include buildpack improvements, API maturity scoring, services to prevent the impact of noisy neighbors, and shared routes.
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Azure Now Supports Database as a Service Couchbase Capella
A cloud database platform company Couchbase recently announced that its Capella database as a Service (DBaaS) offering as a fully-managed service is available on Azure.
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AWS Patches Undocumented APIs Bypassing CloudTrail Event Logging
AWS recently patched undocumented IAM APIs that bypassed CloudTrail logging. The vulnerability allowed a malicious user to perform reconnaissance activities on IAM without recording events in CloudTrail or being detected by Amazon GuardDuty.
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Terraform Cloud Adds Dynamic Provider Credentials and OPA Support
Hashicorp has released several new features into Terraform Cloud, their managed service offering for Terraform. The new features include dynamic provider credentials, native OPA support, and the addition of projects as an organization tool.
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Kubefirst Platform Improves Local Experience and Password Management
Kubefirst, an open-source infrastructure application platform, recently released version 1.11. This version adds improved support for their local installation including a new local DNS implementation, enables Traefik ingress controller for local installs, and adds trusted local TLS certificates.
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CNCF Kicks off CloudNativeSecurityCon NA 2023
The Cloud Native SecurityCon North America 2023 kicked off this week in Seattle. The first dedicated event focused on Cloud Native Security with over 800 attendees, 70 sessions, 50 sponsors, and vendors organized by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).
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AWS OpenSearch Serverless Now Generally Available
Amazon recently announced the general availability of OpenSearch Serverless, a new serverless option for Amazon OpenSearch service, which automatically provisions and scales the underlying resources for faster data ingestion and query responses.
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Slack's Lessons Learned from Supporting Highly Regulated Workloads on AWS GovCloud
Archie Gunasekara, staff software engineer at Slack, and Andrew Martin, staff software engineer at Slack, recently shared their learnings in building GovSlack, an instance of Slack running on the AWS GovCloud region. They shared challenges in adapting to unsupported services, account creation, and account isolation.