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CloudFormation IaC Generator Scans and Imports Existing AWS Resources
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has introduced new tools to simplify infrastructure management for its customers, announcing the "IaC Generator" and "CDK Migrate" tools. "CDK Migrate" has been recently covered at InfoQ, whilst the IaC Generator allows enineers to create CloudFormation templates based on pre-existing resources and their relationships.
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Finch 1.1.1: AWS Enhances Windows Compatibility for Open Source Container Development Tool
AWS recently announced the general availability of Windows support for Finch, an open-source CLI tool. Finch enables developers to create, execute, and distribute Linux containers on both Windows and macOS. It streamlines container development by combining a minimalistic native client with select open-source components.
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Falco, Cloud-Native Security Tool for Kubernetes, Graduates from CNCF
CNCF announced the graduation of Falco, a tool designed for Linux systems and a de facto Kubernetes threat-detection engine. The project successfully met all graduation requirements, including undergoing the due diligence process, completing a third-party security audit, and obtaining the software licensing approvals.
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Enhanced Protection for Large Language Models (LLMs) against Cyber Threats with Cloudflare for AI
Cloudflare recently announced a new capability called Firewall for AI in its Web Application Firewall (WAF) offering. The capability adds a new layer of protection that will identify abuse and attacks before they reach and tamper with Large Language Models (LLMs).
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Anthropic Unveils Claude 3 Models, Highlighting Opus and Its Near-Human Capabilities
Anthropic has introduced the Claude 3 family models, surpassing other industry models such as GPT-4. The Claude 3 family consists of three distinct models: Haiku, Sonnet, and Opus, arranged in ascending order of capability, each designed to cater to diverse user needs in terms of intelligence, speed, and cost.
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Glasskube an Emerging Kubernetes Package Management System
The cloud-native landscape is thriving, but a crucial aspect remains missing: a robust package management system. Glasskube, an open-source emerging project in this domain, with its first release (v0.0.1) wants to close this gap.
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Slack Conquers Deployment Fears with Z-score Monitoring
An engineer at team communication platform Slack has written about confronting their fear of deployments and successfully implementing a bot to monitor them instead. Describing a seemingly scary delegation of responsibility, Sean McIlroy explains the reasoning and logic behind giving a pivotal role to their ReleaseBot in a detailed blog post.
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Amazon Announces One Billion Parameter Speech Model BASE TTS
Amazon Science recently published their work on Big Adaptive Streamable TTS with Emergent abilities (BASE TTS). BASE TTS supports voice-cloning and outperforms baseline TTS models when evaluated by human judges. Further, Amazon's experiments show that scaling model and data size improves the subjective quality of the model's output.
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Mistral AI Models Are Now Available on Amazon Bedrock
Mistral AI has made its Mixtral 8x7B and Mistral 7B foundation models available on Amazon Bedrock. These models, now accessible via Amazon Bedrock's single API, aim to offer users a broader selection of high-performing models for building generative AI applications.
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CNCF Survey: Half of Organizations Spend More with Kubernetes, Mostly Due to Overprovisioning
CNCF published the results of its latest microsurvey report on cloud-native FinOps and cloud financial management (CFM). Kubernetes has driven cloud spending up for 49% of respondents, while 28% stated their costs remain unchanged and 24% saved after migrating to Kubernetes. Respondents listed overprovisioning, lack of awareness and responsibility, and sprawl as the main factors for overspending.
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AWS CodePipeline Embraces Monorepos, GitFlow and Branches
AWS has announced new features in CodePipeline, their managed continuous delivery service facilitating automated release pipelines for application and infrastructure updates. These additions aim to support teams employing various delivery strategies, providing customers with more flexibility in their pipeline designs.
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Data Solutions Framework: an Open Source Project for Building Data Solutions on AWS
AWS recently released the Data Solutions Framework (DSF), an opinionated open-source framework designed to accelerate the creation of data solutions on AWS. Built using the AWS CDK, the framework exposes abstractions and patterns as building blocks for constructing data solutions and is available in TypeScript (npm) and Python (PyPi).
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The Guardian Creates a Newsroom Collaboration Tool Using Serverless, React and GraphQL
The Guardian created Pinboard, a discussion and asset-sharing tool integrated into a variety of content management platforms used by the company. The solution uses a range of technologies, including Typescript for coding the business logic, different serverless services for code execution, API endpoints, and GraphQL server, as well as AWS RDS (PostgreSQL) for storage.
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Azure Elastic Storage Area Network Solution Generally Available in the Cloud
Microsoft recently announced the general availability (GA) of its iSCSI-based Azure Elastic SAN, a fully-managed and cloud-native storage area network (SAN) offering.
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Docker Desktop 4.27 Brings Docker Init GA with Java Support, Synchronized File Shares, and More
Docker has released Docker Desktop 4.27. This version brings Docker Init GA with Java support, synchronized File Shares, support for Test Containers with Enhanced Container Isolation, Docker build cloud, Docker Debug and more.