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How a Test Strategy Helped to Increase Deployment Maturity and Product Quality
Implementing a test strategy helped an organization to move away from push and pray deployment toward continuous and confident deployment to production. The organization mapped their test strategy in a framework with different enablers, which has helped them align on quality metrics for the whole product together with a strong safety net of tests before moving to production.
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AWS Renames Amazon Elasticsearch Service to Amazon OpenSearch Service
Recently AWS announced that it would rename Amazon Elasticsearch Service to Amazon OpenSearch Service. With the renaming, the company releases the service with OpenSearch 1.0 support and makes it the successor to Amazon Elasticsearch Service.
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Amazon Announces Alexa Prize SocialBot Grand Challenge 4 Winners
Amazon recently announced the winners of the 4th Alexa Prize SocialBot Grand Challenge, a competition for university students to develop conversational AI. A team from Czech Technical University (CTU) won first prize, while teams from Stanford University and University of Buffalo took second and third.
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Announcing General Availability of CIS Service Catalog and Reference Architecture 2.0
Gruntwork, an organization focused on creating reusable infrastructure code, announced the general availability of CIS Service Catalog and CIS Reference Architecture 2.0. Existing and future users of Gruntwork can now rapidly get started with a production-ready AWS technology stack and AWS services.
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Cloud Providers Publish Ransomware Mitigation Strategies
In the last few weeks AWS, Azure and Google Cloud have posted articles and documentation with suggestions on ransomware mitigation techniques on the cloud, highlighting the main protections and recovery preparation actions.
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AWS Introduces New Intelligent Tier Options for S3 and EFS
AWS announced a few features and changes to their storage approach for S3 and Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) regarding Intelligent Tiering options during the recent AWS Storage Day. The updates and changes will allow customers to leverage S3 and EFS more efficiently and cost-effectively.
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AWS Introduces Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP
At AWS Storage Day 2021, the cloud provider announced Amazon FSx for ONTAP, a managed file system for ONTAP data management software. Supporting file access and storage functionalities already used by enterprise customers, the service targets the migration to the cloud of applications and workloads that require high-performance ONTAP storage.
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Microsoft Announces Azure Spring Cloud Enterprise in Preview
Recently Microsoft announced Azure Spring Cloud Enterprise, a new managed service tier for Spring that is optimized for the needs of enterprise developers. The new enterprise tier is available in preview.
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Google Introduces Minimum Instances to Reduce Cold Starts
Google’s Function as a Service (FaaS) offering Cloud Functions now supports minimum (“min”) instances. With this new feature, Google aims to take away a well-known friction point of FaaS called "cold-starts".
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Docker Now Requiring Paid Subscription for Large Businesses
Docker has introduced a new Subscription Service Agreement which requires organizations with more than 250 employees or more than $10 million in revenue to buy a paid subscription, starting at $5 per user per month. Additionally, Docker has launched a new Business subscription plan for larger organizations operating at scale.
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Amazon Aurora Supports PostgreSQL 13
AWS has recently announced that Amazon Aurora supports major version 13 of PostgreSQL. The compatibility with the latest major PostgreSQL version adds improvements such higher performing partitioned table queries and deduplication of B-tree index entries.
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AWS Introduces Backup Audit Manager for Compliance Requirements
Amazon recently announced the availability of AWS Backup Audit Manager, a new feature of AWS Backup to monitor the compliance status of backups and generate reports to meet business and regulatory requirements.
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Microsoft Warns Customers about a Critical Vulnerability in Azure Cosmos DB
Azure Cosmos DB is a globally-distributed and fully-managed NoSQL database service. Recently, Microsoft warned thousands of its Cosmos DB customers of a vulnerability that exposes their data. A flaw in the service could grant a malicious actor access keys to steal, edit or delete sensitive data.
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AWS Introduces Security Analytics Bootstrap to Perform Security Investigations
AWS recently announced Security Analytics Bootstrap, an open source framework to perform security investigations on AWS service logs using an Amazon Athena analysis environment.
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Google Announces Enterprise API to Fix "Product-Killing" Reputation
Last month Google announced the Google Enterprise APIs that will be governed by a stricter policy when they change or are deprecated. The company will apply the Enterprise API label to most APIs across Google Cloud, Google Workspace, and Google Maps Platform.