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AWS Announces Redis 7 Compatibility to Amazon ElastiCache for Redis
Recently AWS announced Redis 7 compatibility with Amazon ElastiCache for Redis, which brings several new features, such as Redis Functions, ACL improvements, and Sharded Pub/Sub.
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AWS Lambda Telemetry API Provides Enhanced Observability Data
AWS has released the AWS Lambda Telemetry API, a new way for extensions to receive enhanced function telemetry from the Lambda service. The new API simplifies collecting traces, logs, and custom and enhanced metrics from Lambda functions. Along with several example extensions, there are several extensions available from third parties including Datadog, Dynatrace, Serverless, and Sumo Logic.
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CNCF Accepts Istio as an Incubating Project
The CNCF recently announced that it has voted to accept Istio as an incubating project. Initially developed by Google and IBM alongside the Lyft team, Istio is the most widely adopted service mesh. The Istio steering committee shared the announcement in a blog post, reflecting on Istio’s journey from 2016.
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AWS Researchers Propose a Method That Predicts Bias in Face Recognition Models Using Unlabeled Data
AWS researchers presented a novel method for evaluating bias in face recognition algorithms, which does not require data with identity annotations. The tests show that, despite the method's limitation to estimating a model's performance on data from various demographic groups, those estimates are reliable enough to identify performance discrepancies that are indicative of bias.
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Fermyon Built a WebAssembly Cloud to Push Serverless Microservices Beyond Containers
At KubeCon/CloudNativeCon 2022, Fermyon launched its microservice-oriented platform for WebAssembly apps, called Fermyon Cloud, which is now available in open beta.
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Microsoft Introduces New Azure HX and HBv4 Virtual Machines for High-Performance Computing
Microsoft recently announced new HBv4-series and HX-series virtual machines (VMs) in preview suitable for high-performance computing (HPC) workloads such as computational fluid dynamics (CFD), finite element analysis, frontend and backend electronic design automation (EDA), rendering, molecular dynamics, computational geoscience, weather simulation, AI inference, and financial risk analysis.
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AWS Introduces Resource Explorer to Simplify Search and Discovery of Resources
AWS recently announced the general availability of Resource Explorer, a managed capability to search and discover resources inside an AWS account. The new option is available at no additional charge and can query multiple regions but not multiple accounts.
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New Metrics Capabilities for OpenTelemetry on Azure Monitor
Microsoft released for preview a series of updates to its Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Exporter packages for .NET, Node.js and Python applications.
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AWS Opens New Region in Switzerland
AWS recently announced the availability of the 28th region in Zurich, Switzerland, also known by its API name eu-central-2.
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Salesforce Open-Sources Language-Vision AI Toolkit LAVIS
Salesforce Research recently open-sourced LAnguage-VISion (LAVIS), a unified library for deep-learning language-vision research. LAVIS supports more than 10 language-vision tasks on 20 public datasets and includes pre-trained model weights for over 30 fine-tuned models.
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.NET 7 for Azure Functions Isolated Worker Process Now Generally Available
Microsoft recently announced the general availability of the .NET 7 for Azure Functions isolated worker process. Azure Functions will support .NET 7 serverless apps hosted on all Windows and Linux SKUs, including Consumption plan, Elastic Premium plan, and App Service plans.
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AWS App Runner Adds Support for Private Services
Amazon announced App Runner private services, allowing for AWS App Runner services to be privately accessible within an Amazon VPC. This release builds upon the previously released App Runner VPC support which allows for communication between App Runner services and applications running within a VPC.
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HashiCorp's Boundary Now Generally Available on HCP
Following a successful beta trial, HashiCorp has announced the general availability of Boundary on their cloud platform HCP. This adds a key new aspect to HashiCorp's managed solution for zero-trust security.
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Kubecost Open Sources OpenCost: an Open Source Standard for Kubernetes Cost Monitoring
Kubecost recently open sourced OpenCost, an open source cost standard for Kubernetes workloads. OpenCost enables teams to operate with a single model for real-time monitoring, measuring, and managing Kubernetes costs across different environments. OpenCost introduces a new specification and an implementation to monitor and manage the costs in Kubernetes environments above 1.8.
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AWS Introduces Amazon EventBridge Scheduler
AWS recently introduced Amazon EventBridge Scheduler, a new capability from Amazon EventBridge that allows organizations to create, run, and manage scheduled tasks at scale.