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New Features with the GA Release of Second-Generation Cloud Functions
Like other public cloud vendors, Google has a Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) offering with Cloud Functions – and recently announced the second generation's general availability (GA).
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Run Visual Studio Software on Amazon EC2 with User-Based License Model
AWS recently announced the general availability of license-included Visual Studio software on Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (Amazon EC2) instances. Organizations can now pay a per-user subscription fee for fully compliant AWS-provided Visual Studio licenses.
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Amazon GuardDuty Introduces Malware Detection
At the recent re:Inforce security conference, AWS announced the availability of malware detection for Amazon GuardDuty. The new functionality of the managed threat detection service initiates a scan of the EBS volumes when it detects suspicious behavior indicative of malware on EC2 or containers.
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Microsoft’s New Azure Fluid Relay Service Now Generally Available
Recently, Microsoft announced its Azure Fluid Relay service's general availability (GA). This managed cloud offering enables web developers to use the Fluid Framework for building enterprise-grade collaborative applications.
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Amazon Comprehend Announces the Reduction of the Minimum Requirements for Entity Recognition
Amazon is announcing that they lowered the minimal requirements for training a recognizer with plain text CSV annotation files as a result of recent advances in the models powering Amazon Comprehend. Now, you just need three documents and 25 annotations for each entity type to create a unique entity recognition model.
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Google Introduces Zero-ETL Approach to Analytics on Bigtable Data Using BigQuery
Recently, Google announced the general availability of Bigtable federated queries, with BigQuery allowing customers to query data residing in Bigtable via BigQuery faster. Moreover, the querying is without moving or copying the data in all Google Cloud regions with increased federated query concurrency limits, closing the longstanding gap between operational data and analytics.
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AWS Announced Tiered Pricing for Its Serverless Offering Lambda
Recently, AWS announced tiered pricing for Lambda, a serverless, event-driven compute service allowing developers to run their code for virtually any application or backend service without provisioning or managing servers. With tiered pricing, monthly costs for running large workloads on Lambda can be reduced.
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Developing and Evolving SaaS Infrastructures for Enterprises
SaaS companies that are focused on the enterprise market need to evolve their infrastructure to meet the security, reliability, and other IT requirements of their customers. IT admins and large customers are two important sources of requirements to drive development.
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CNCF Publishes the Kubernetes Policy Management Whitepaper
The CNCF recently published a new whitepaper about Kubernetes Policy Management. The whitepaper highlights the importance of Kubernetes policy management when it comes to the security and automation of clusters as well as workloads. Also, it goes in-depth into the problems Kubernetes policies solve and the proper implementation of such policies.
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Microsoft Previews Azure Premium SSD V2 Disk Storage
Recently Microsoft announced the preview of Premium SSD v2, the next generation of Microsoft Azure Premium SSD Disk Storage. This new disk offering provides, according to the company, the most advanced block storage solution designed for a broad range of input/output (IO)-intensive enterprise production workloads that require sub-millisecond disk latencies .
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Google Expands the Tau VM Family with Arm-Based Processors
Recently, Google announced its Cloud Virtual Machines (VMs) based on the Arm architecture of Compute Engine called Tau T2A. These VMs are the latest addition to the Tau VM family that offers VMs optimized for cost-effective performance for scale-out workloads and are available in preview.
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AWS Announces AMD Based R6a Instances for Memory-Intensive Workloads
AWS recently announced the general availability of the R6a instances, EC2 designed for memory-intensive workloads like SQL and NoSQL databases.. The new instances are built on the AWS Nitro System and are powered by AMD Milan processors.
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AWS Expands Amazon Detective for Kubernetes Workloads on Amazon EKS
Amazon Detective is a security service in AWS that allows customers to analyze, investigate, and quickly identify the root cause of potential security issues or suspicious activities. Recently, AWS announced the expansion of Amazon Detective towards Kubernetes workloads on Amazon’s Elastic Kubernetes Service.
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GitLab 15 Improves Editing, Metrics, Container Scanning, Security and More
With the recent release of GitLab version 15.2, open-core company GitLab Inc. has announced a series of improvements, including an enhanced Wiki editor, adding SAML integration for enterprises, improving dashboards, and adding internal notes.
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Google Cloud Introduces Optimized Rocky Linux Images for Customers Moving off CentOS
Google recently announced the general availability of Rocky Linux optimized for Google Cloud. The new images are customized variants of Rocky Linux, the open-source enterprise distribution compatible with Red Hat Enterprise.