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How Security by Design Helped to Manage Risks in a Cloud Migration
When a company migrated to the cloud, security issues arose due to difficulties in getting stakeholders on board and involving security from the start. Embedding security assessments as part of the continuous cloud DevOps process and adopting an agile strategy for security risk management throughout the lifecycle of the project helped to increase the governance of security during the migration.
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Google Announces Second Generation Cloud Functions
Google recently announced the public preview of the second generation of Cloud Functions, the functions as a service platform on Google Cloud. The new version introduces more controls over functions runtime, provides better performances and scalability and supports triggers from more than 90 event sources.
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Grafana Cloud Adds Incident and On-Call Management Solutions
Grafana has announced the addition of incident management and on-call support to their Grafana Cloud offering. Grafana Incident, currently in preview, generates meeting spaces, integrates with Slack, and constructs incident timelines with information pulled from Grafana dashboards. Grafana OnCall provides on-call rotation scheduling and notification from connected monitoring systems.
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AWS Introduces Managed Prefix List for CloudFront
AWS recently announced the availability of the AWS managed prefix list for CloudFront. Customers can now limit inbound HTTP/HTTPS traffic to a VPC and an application from only IP addresses that belong to CloudFront’s origin-facing servers.
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New CodeGuru Reviewer Features Detector Library and Security Detectors for Log-Injection Flaws
Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer is a developer tool that leverages machine learning to detect security defects in code (Java and Python) and offers suggestions for code quality improvement. Recently, AWS introduced two new features for the tool, with a new Detector Library and security detectors for Log-Injection Flaws.
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AWS Details Its Local Zones’ Expansion Disclosing 32 Cities Worldwide
In December last year, AWS announced the launch of over 30 new AWS Local Zones in significant cities worldwide, however yet not disclosing which cities. The company now announced the completion of its first 16 AWS Local Zones in the U.S. and plans to launch new AWS Local Zones in 32 new metropolitan areas in 26 countries worldwide.
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Amazon Introduces S3 Batch Replication to Replicate Existing Objects
Amazon recently introduced Batch Replication for S3, an option to replicate existing objects and synchronize buckets. The new feature is designed for use cases such as disaster recovery setup, reduce latency or transfer ownership of existing data.
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Google Cloud Python Logging Library Release Improves Serverless Support
Google has announced version 3.0.0 of their Google Cloud Python logging library. The release brings a number of new features including enhanced support for Cloud Run and Cloud Functions, support for string JSON payloads, and automated metadata attachments.
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AWS Introduces New Compute-Optimized Amazon EC2 C6a Instances Providing Better Price-Performance
Recently, AWS introduced new compute-optimized Amazon EC2 C6a instances that provide up to 15 percent improvement in price-performance versus C5a instances and 10 percent lower cost than comparable x86-based EC2 instances. These new instances are ideal for running compute-intensive workloads such as high-performance web servers, batch processing, ad serving, HPC, and machine learning.
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ValidKube Aims to Help Enforce Kubernetes YAML Best Practices
ValidKube is a new open-source tool that combines several tools to make it easier to validate, clean, and secure Kubernetes YAML configuration files. InfoQ has spoken with Itiel Shwartz, CTO and co-founder of Komodor, creator of ValidKube.
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KubeVela Announces 1.2: Application-Centric Multi-Cluster Control Plane with Extensible Engine
KubeVela is a modern application delivery platform that makes shipping applications across hybrid, multi-cloud environments easier and faster. The OAM community released version 1.2 of the KubeVela project in Jan 2022, bringing a new GUI framework VelaX, unified multi-cluster management capabilities, and an extensible design with an addon ecosystem.
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AWS Introduces a New Open-Source Solution: AWS Virtual Waiting Room
Recently, AWS introduced a new open-source solution called AWS Virtual Waiting Room, allowing integration with existing web and mobile applications. In addition, the solution protects systems from resource exhaustion by buffering user requests during sudden traffic bursts.
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AWS CloudFormation Hooks Provide Proactive Validation of CloudFormation Operations
AWS has announced the general availability of AWS CloudFormation Hooks which allow for custom logic prior to a create, update, or delete CloudFormation stack operation. CloudFormation hooks support versioning, public and private distribution, and can be published into multiple AWS accounts and regions.
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Report Finds 75% of Cloud Runtimes Contain High or Critical Vulnerabilities
Sysdig’s latest cloud-native and security-usage report finds that shipping containers with vulnerabilities has become standard practice - with the report finding that 75% of containers have high severity vulnerabilities which could have been patched. The report stresses that many organisations find this to be an acceptable risk, in order to move and release quickly.
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Fast-Track Application Refactoring with the Generally Available AWS Migration Hub Refactor Spaces
AWS first introduced the preview of AWS Migration Hub Refactor Spaces, a new capability of AWS Migration Hub, last November at re:Invent 2021. Now, the public cloud provider announced the general availability of the Migration Hub capability.