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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.
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Kubernetes 1.23 Released with Improved Events, gRPC Probes, and Support for Dual-Stack
CNCF released Kubernetes 1.23 recently. The release has new features such as the events subcommand for kubectl, gRPC probes, and expression language validation for custom resources, generally available features such as generic ephemeral volumes, Horizontal Pod Autoscaling, and IPv4/IPv6 dual-stack networking, beta features such as PodSecurity, and deprecated features such as FlexVolume.
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AWS Announces Further Worldwide Expansion of Local Zones
AWS Local Zones are an infrastructure deployment that places compute, storage, database, and other select AWS services close to a large population and industrial centers. And recently, AWS announced the launch of over 30 new AWS Local Zones in significant cities worldwide.
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Amazon Introduces re:Post, a "Stack Overflow" for AWS
At re:Invent Amazon announced re:Post, a Q&A service that replaced the AWS Forums and is designed to offer crowd-sourced and expert-reviewed answers to technical questions about AWS.
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Kubernetes IPv4/IPv6 Dual Stack Q&A with Khaled (Kal) Henidak of Microsoft & Tim Hockin of Google
InfoQ caught up with Khaled (Kal) Henidak of Microsoft and Tim Hockin of Google, designers of the Kubernetes dual-stack, regarding its design and implementation.
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JetBrains Releases IntelliJ IDEA 2021.3 with New Remote Development Feature
IntelliJ IDEA 2021.3 is the last release for 2021 and now includes support for Groovy 4 and Selenium 4. The release contains bug fixes, generic improvements and more specific improvements for languages and tools like Java, Kotlin, Docker and Kubernetes. This version introduces remote development as a beta feature, to use a remote machine as if it was a local machine.