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Zurich Insurance Group's Journey with Scalable Account Vending and AWS Account Factory for Terraform
AWS recently highlighted Zurich Insurance Group's use of AWS Account Factory for Terraform, which enabled them to attain the desired performance parameters needed to facilitate the provisioning of more than 3000 accounts. Zurich Insurance Group streamlined its Cloud Adoption Strategy by using the Scalable Account Vending solution, automating the process of setting up new AWS environments easily.
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Modifies Pricing Model for Cloud Deployments
Red Hat has recently announced a revised pricing tied to vCPU count for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) deployments across major cloud providers, including AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. The updated pricing will be effective on April 1st and has sparked concerns among certain users.
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TLS 1.3 Preview Now Available in Azure API Management
Azure API Management is set to introduce TLS 1.3 support in its V1 and V2 tiers starting in the initial week of February 2024. According to Microsoft, the rollout will occur progressively across regions. Inbound traffic for both V1 and V2 tiers will inherently support TLS 1.3 for incoming requests from API clients.
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Enhancing Observability: Amazon CloudWatch Logs Introduces Account-Level Subscription Filter
The recent update to Amazon CloudWatch Logs introduces support for account-level subscription filtering. With this enhancement, developers can now access a real-time feed of CloudWatch Logs from all logs groups and have it delivered to a single destination for further processing.
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Azure Monitor Metrics Data Plane API for Enhanced Resource Insight Gathering
Microsoft recently announced the general availability (GA) of Azure Monitor Metrics Data Plane API, which makes resource insight gathering more efficient by providing developers with the capability to retrieve the metric data for up to 50 resource IDs in the same subscription and region in a single batch API call, thus improving query throughput and reducing the risk of throttling.
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Instacart Creates Real-Time Item Availability Architecture with ML and Event Processing
Instacart combined machine learning with event-based processing to create an architecture that provides customers with an indication of item availability in near real-time. The new solution helped to improve user satisfaction and retention by reducing order cancellations due to out-of-stock items. The team also created a multi-model experimentation framework to help enhance model quality.
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AWS Launches CDK Migrate and CloudFormation IaC Generator for Infrastructure as Code Adoption
AWS announced the general availability (GA) of CDK Migrate, a component of the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK – an open source project), which enables developers to migrate AWS CloudFormation templates, previously deployed CloudFormation stacks or resources created outside of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) into a CDK application.
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TikTok Owner Open-Sources Next Gen Kubernetes Federation Tool
ByteDance, the company behind popular global platforms like TikTok, has unveiled KubeAdmiral, its next-generation cluster federation system for Kubernetes, designed to manage multiple clusters with the efficiency and effectiveness comparable to a seasoned navy admiral commanding a fleet. KubeAdmiral scales to run more than 10 million pods across dozens of federated Kubernetes clusters.
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Microsoft Introduces Visual Studio Code Extension for SharePoint Embedded
Last week Microsoft released a preview release of SharePoint Embedded extension for Visual Studio Code. The extension enables developers to easily set up Azure Entra app registrations for SharePoint Embedded. It also helps manage free trial container types, create guest apps, load sample apps, and export settings for use with the SharePoint Embedded Postman Collection.
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ScaleOps Automates Rightsizing to Reduce Kubernetes Costs
ScaleOps, a startup working in the cloud resource management sector, has unveiled a fully-automated cloud-native cost saving platform. ScaleOps claims to slash cloud costs by up to 80%, with a fully-automated platform that continuously optimizes and manages cloud-native resources during runtime.
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Public Preview of the Arc Visual Studio Code Extension
Microsoft recently introduced the Arc Visual Studio Code Extension in public review. This extension improves the developer experience for both workloads that are running on the Edge and services that are built to be published on the Azure Marketplace.
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AWS Has Started Charging for Public IPv4 Usage
Since the beginning of February, AWS has been charging every public IPv4 address used by customers. While the 0.005 USD per hour charge might encourage developers to be more frugal with the usage of public IPv4 addresses, AWS is estimated to generate an extra annual revenue ranging between 400 million and 1 billion USD.
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Pinecone Introduces its Serverless Vector Database
Pinecone recently announced the public preview of its new serverless vector database, designed to reduce infrastructure management costs while improving the accuracy of generative AI applications.
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Docker Now on AWS Cloudshell
AWS recently announced that AWS CloudShell now provides access to Docker Engine for its users. With this integration, containers can be locally prototyped and pushed to registries prior to deploying them on AWS.
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Kubernetes 1.29 Released with KMS V2 Improvements and nftables Support
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) released Kubernetes 1.29 named Mandala last month. The latest release introduces new features such as load balancer IP mode for services, mutable pod resources for Windows containers, and nftables for the kube-proxy.