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Microsoft Previews Enterprise-Grade Edge Functionality to Optimize Azure Static Web Apps
Azure Static Web Apps are a serverless web app hosting service for static web apps, which Microsoft manages. The company now announced a preview of Azure Static Web Apps enterprise-grade edge powered by Azure Front Door, enabling faster page loads, enhanced security, and increased reliability for global apps with no configuration or additional code required.
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Meta and AWS to Collaborate on PyTorch Adoption
Meta and AWS will work together to improve the performance for customers of applications running PyTorch on AWS and accelerate how developers build, train, deploy, and operate artificial intelligence and machine-learning models.
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Kubernetes Proceeding with Deprecation of Dockershim in Upcoming 1.24 Release
Kubernetes is proceeding with deprecation and removal of dockershim in the upcoming 1.24 release. Workflows and systems that make use of the Docker Engine as the container runtime for their Kubernetes cluster will need to migrate prior to moving to the 1.24 release. The 1.23 release will retain dockershim and will be supported for another year.
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AWS Launches a New Console Home Page to Manage Cloud Resources
Recently, AWS launched a version of the AWS Management Console. Through the home page of the console, customers can have access to each service console, and it offers a single place to access the information they need to perform their AWS related tasks.
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HashiCorp Waypoint Adds Triggers and External Data Fetching
HashiCorp has released version 0.7 of Waypoint, their open-source application deployment tool. This release presents a number of redesigns to the user interface, the introduction of scripting and continuous integration lifecycle operations via triggers, external data fetching, and scoping of configurations to specific workspaces.
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Amazon EC2 Hpc6a Instances, Optimized for High-Performance Computing, Are Now Generally Available
Recently, AWS announced the general availability (GA) of Amazon EC2 Hpc6a Instances. With these instances, the company expands its portfolio of HPC compute options.
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AWS Proton Adds Terraform Support and Git Template Storage
AWS recently announced two new additions to AWS Proton, their fully-managed application delivery service. The first feature allows for defining and provisioning infrastructure via Terraform. The second feature allows for using Git repositories to manage the Proton templates.
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Cloudflare Report Highlights Staggering Increase in DDoS Attacks in Q4 2021
In keeping with its custom of releasing a quarterly trends report on DDoS attacks, Cloudflare has just published its new findings for Q4 2021, which show a 95% increase in L3/4 DDoS attacks and record-breaking levels of Ransom DDoS attacks.
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eBPF and Wasm: Exploring the Future of the Service Mesh Data Plane
With the advancement of lightweight runtimes, such as eBPF and WebAssembly (WASM), we are now seeing a new generation of service mesh data plane solutions that are lighter, safer, and faster.
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AWS Finally Gets Official SDKs for Rust, Kotlin, and Swift
Previewed at Re:invent, the new AWS SDKs for Rust, Kotlin, and Swift provide idiomatic wrappers around AWS APIs that will allow developers to interact with AWS services in a more familiar and consistent way.
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AWS Releases Fully-Managed Data Lake for CloudTrail Logs
AWS announced the release of CloudTrail Lake, a fully-managed data lake for storing and analyzing CloudTrail logs. CloudTrail Lake can aggregate logs across regions and accounts. Once in the lake, the logs can be queried using SQL syntax.
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AWS Offers Two New Outposts SKUs Suitable for Space Constrained Locations
AWS Outposts provides customers with on-premises compute and storage monitored and managed by AWS and controlled by the same, familiar AWS APIs. Last year at re:Invent in Vegas, AWS announced two new smaller AWS Outposts form factors suitable for locations such as branch offices, retail stores, hospitals, and cell sites that are space-constrained and need access to low-latency compute capacity.
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AWS Releases Multi-Cloud Kubernetes Autoscaler Karpenter
AWS recently released Karpenter, their open-source Kubernetes cluster autoscaler. This improves upon their Kubernetes Cluster Autoscaler by providing a easily configurable, fully automated scheduler. Karpenter is able to monitor for unscheduled pods and launch new nodes as well as terminate unneeded infrastructure. Karpenter is designed to work with any Kubernetes cluster in any environment.
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Google Cloud Embraces Security Orchestration through Siemplify Acquisition
Google has announced the acquisition of security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR) provider Siemplify, with the aim of integrating SOAR capabilities into its own Google Chronicle security solution.
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Incorrect IAM Policy Raised Questions about AWS Access to S3 Data
An unexpected change in the policy used by AWS Support raised concerns about access to customers' S3 data. The cloud provider reverted the change, stating that the permissions were not and could not be used and published a security bulletin. Security experts suggest steps to detect and prevent similar issues in the future.