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Amazon Introduces RDS Custom for Legacy and Custom Oracle Databases
Amazon recently announced RDS Custom, a managed database service for legacy and custom applications that need access to the underlying operating system and database environment. RDS Custom for Oracle is the first available service.
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GitHub Introduces Projects, Updates Codespaces, Copilot, Code Scanning, and More
At its Universe 2021 conference, GitHub promoted its new Issues experience to public beta, providing projects and dynamic tables, expanded Copilot support for Jetbrains and Java, added Ruby support for code scanning, and announced many more features.
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Analyze Video Feeds at the Edge with AWS Panorama Appliance
Recently, AWS announced the general availability (GA) of AWS Panorama Appliance, a new device that customers can install in their facilities to run applications that analyze multiple video streams from existing on-premises cameras.
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AWS Announces the Public Preview of AWS Data Exchange for Amazon Redshift
Recently AWS announced the public preview of AWS Data Exchange for Amazon Redshift. This new feature enables customers to find and subscribe to third-party data in AWS Data Exchange to query in an Amazon Redshift data warehouse.
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Dynamic Process Isolation Helps Cloud System to Defend Against Spectre
Dynamic process isolation, a technique developed at Cloudflare to safeguard their systems from Spectre-like attacks, provides effective protection and fully mitigates Spectre attacks between multiple tenants, a Cloudflare-Graz University joint research has recently shown.
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Google Announces the Preview of Anthos for VMs
During the Google Cloud Next'21 virtual event, Google announced the preview of Anthos for Virtual Machines(VMs). Furthermore, the company introduced a new Anthos Multi-Cloud API, which will become generally available in Q4.
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Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus Now GA: Alerting, PromQL Support, and More
Recently AWS announced the general availability (GA) of Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus (AMP), a Prometheus-compatible monitoring service for container infrastructure and application metrics for containers.
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Lowering Recovery Time through AI-Enabled Troubleshooting
Machine learning algorithms for anomaly detection can assist DevOps in daily working routines, where generalized ML models are trained and applied to detect hidden patterns and identify suspicious behaviour. Applied machine learning for IT-operations (AIOPs) is starting to move from research environments to production environments in companies.
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Cockroach Labs Announces CockroachDB Serverless
Cockroach Labs announced today the public beta of CockroachDB Serverless. CockroachDB Serverless delivers a fully elastic cloud data infrastructure that enables building applications with less planning for capacity, performance, or availability. It's based on CockroachDB, a NewSQL database that seeks to combine the scalability of NoSQL systems with ACID guarantees of a traditional database system.
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TriggerMesh Cloud Native Integration Platform Released as Open Source
Recently TriggerMesh, a cloud native integration platform provider, announced that their Cloud Native Integration Platform is now open source and available under the Apache Software License 2.0. It allows cloud operators and DevOps practitioners to freely deploy integrations as code.
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Intel Loihi 2 and Lava Framework Aim to Advance Neuromorphic Computing Research
Intel introduced its second-generation neuromorphic chip, Loihi 2, with the aim to provide tools for research in the field of neuromorphic computing. In addition, Intel has released Lava, a software framework to build neuromorphic apps both on conventional and neuromorphic hardware.
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Cloudflare Challenges AWS with R2 Storage and No Egress Fees
Cloudflare has recently announced R2 storage, a S3-compatible service to store large amounts of data with no egress bandwidth fees associated. An automatic migration of objects from Amazon S3 to Cloudflare R2 will be offered to facilitate the transition or integration for existing AWS deployments.
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AWS Lambda Functions Powered by AWS Graviton2 Processor for Better Price to Performance Ratio
AWS Graviton2 processors are 64-bit Arm-based processors custom built by AWS to offer customers a better price to performance ratio for workloads like web and mobile backends, data, and media processing. Recently, AWS announced the general availability (GA) of AWS Lambda functions powered by AWS Graviton2 processors.
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Microsoft Announces the General Availability of Azure Purview
Recently Microsoft announced the general availability (GA) of Azure Purview, its data governance solution in the cloud. It provides customers with a unified data governance solution for on-premises, cloud, and app-based systems. The GA release is a follow-up from its public preview release almost a year ago.
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AWS Introduces Static IP Addresses for Application Load Balancer
Amazon recently announced that the Application Load Balancer supports AWS PrivateLink and static IP addresses by direct integration with the Network Load Balancer.