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Microsoft Announces Azure Functions 4.0 with .NET 6 Support in Preview
Microsoft recently announced the public preview release of Azure Functions 4.0 – its Function as a Service (FaaS) offering. The release of this new runtime includes support for .NET 6.0.
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Microsoft Announces Preview of On-Demand Capacity Reservations for Azure Virtual Machines
Recently, Microsoft announced the preview of on-demand capacity reservations for Azure Virtual Machines (VMs). With this new feature for VMs, customers can reserve more compute capacity.
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Google Cloud Announces Backup for Google Kubernetes Engine
Google has recently announced the preview of Backup for GKE, a cloud-native way to protect, manage, and restore containerized applications and data running on Kubernetes.
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Litmus 2.0 Release Includes Multi-Tenancy, Chaos Workflows, GitOps, and Observability
Last month, Litmus 2.0 was released for general availability, with the goal of simplifying chaos engineering by adding new features like chaos center, chaos workflows, GitOps for chaos, multi-tenancy, observability, and private chaos hubs. InfoQ interviewed Umasankar Mukkara, CEO of ChaosNative and co-creator and maintainer of Litmus engineering platform.
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Canonical Anbox Cloud Appliance Simplifies Running Android Apps on AWS
Anbox Cloud is a solution from Canonical that lets you stream Android apps at scale to any device. The new Anbox Cloud Appliance makes a small-scale version of Anbox Cloud readily available on the AWS marketplace. InfoQ has taken the chance to speak with Simon Fels, engineering manager at Canonical and Anbox Cloud team lead.
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NSA and CISA Publish Kubernetes Hardening Guidance
The National Security Agency(NSA) in partnership with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency(CISA) recently published the Kubernetes Hardening Guidance, a technical report focused on securing Kubernetes environments. The report identifies the common areas of Kubernetes security risks: supply chain, malicious actors, and insider threats.
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AWS Introduces Amazon EC2 VT1 Instances for Video Transcoding
AWS recently announced the general availability of Amazon EC2 VT1 instances, the first instances optimized for video transcoding. The new virtual machines feature hardware acceleration and are designed for workloads such as live broadcast, video conferencing, and just-in-time transcoding.
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AWS Releases Amazon EKS Anywhere into General Availability
Amazon EKS Anywhere is an open-source deployment option for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) that allows customers to create and operate Kubernetes clusters on-premises, with optional support offered by AWS. Recently, AWS announced the general availability (GA) of Amazon EKS Anywhere.
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Travis CI Vulnerability Potentially Leaked Customer Secrets
Popular continuous integration and delivery service Travis CI disclosed a vulnerability that potentially leaked secure environment variables, including signing keys, access credentials, and API tokens. The flaw was quickly fixed on September 10, but the developer community found Travis CI handling of this issue insufficient.
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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.