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.NET News Roundup: .NET 6, MAUI, EF Core 6, Visual Studio 2022
It's been a busy week for the .NET community, with the release of new previews for .NET 6 and its related frameworks (including MAUI), along with the first preview of Visual Studio 2022, new Azure SDK libraries, and more. InfoQ examined these and a number of smaller stories in the .NET ecosystem from the week of June 14th, 2021.
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Microsoft Announces Preview of a New Set of Azure Arc-Enabled Services
Recently, Microsoft, during its annual Build conference, announced a new set of Azure Service in preview that customers can run on virtually any CNCF-conformant Kubernetes cluster with the help of its Azure Arc multi-cloud service. With Azure Arc, customers can use a single service in the Cloud to manage their container clusters across clouds and on-premises data centers.
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AWS Announces the General Availability of AWS Proton
Recently, AWS announced the general availability (GA) of its fully-managed application delivery service, AWS Proton, allowing customers to easily provision, deploy, and monitor the microservices that form the basis of modern container and serverless applications.
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AWS Announces the General Availability of Amazon ECS Anywhere
Recently AWS announced the general availability of Amazon ECS Anywhere, a new capability in Amazon ECS that enables customers to quickly run and manage container-based applications on-premises, including virtual machines (VMs), bare-metal servers, and other customer-managed infrastructure.
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Amazon Location Service Generally Available with Routing and Satellite Imagery
AWS has recently announced the general availability of Amazon Location Service, a managed solution designed to add location functionalities to applications. The service relies on location providers like Esri and HERE and now supports routing and satellite imagery capabilities.
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Xcode Cloud Brings CI/CD to iOS App Development
At WWDC21, Apple announced Xcode Cloud, a continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) system to help developers build, test, and distribute apps. Still in beta, Xcode Cloud supports both releasing to TestFlight and on the App Store.
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Lightbend Announces Akka Serverless Open Beta
Lightbend today announced the launch of Akka Serverless open beta, with general availability later this year. Akka Serverless is a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering that aims at cloud-native application development. It is built on Lightbend's Akka Platform technology and delivered via a model similar to existing serverless offerings.
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Amazon Adds Global Clusters to DocumentDB
Amazon recently announced support for global clusters on DocumentDB, the document-oriented database compatible with MongoDB.
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Microsoft Announces the General Availability of Logic App Standard
At the annual Build conference, Microsoft announced the general availability (GA) of Logic App Standard, the latest installment of their integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) offering. Logic App Standard is a new single-tenant offering allowing customers to run workflows anywhere.
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Q&A with AWS VP of Compute Services Deepak Singh about AWS App Runner
InfoQ caught up with Deepak Singh, VP of compute services at AWS, regarding the philosophy and design of App Runner.
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Zesty Disk Provides Automatic Scaling for AWS EBS
Zesty recently released Zesty Disk, an automated scaling solution for AWS EBS. Zesty Disk monitors EBS performance metrics and can automatically scale the cluster size based on those metrics. This is done by creating a cluster of EBS volumes that can be attached or detached as needed based on system usage.
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Microsoft Announces Event Hubs Premium in Preview
Azure Event Hubs is Microsoft’s managed real-time event ingestion service designed to serve demanding big data streaming and event ingestion needs in the Cloud. Microsoft announced the public preview of Event Hubs Premium during the annual Build conference as a new product SKU tailor-made for high-end event streaming scenarios requiring elastic, superior performance with predictable latency.
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CDK for Terraform Adds Go Support and Improves Asset Construction
Hashicorp recently released version 0.4 of their CDK for Terraform. The CDK allows for writing Terraform configurations in a number of programming languages including C#, Python, TypeScripts, and Java. This release adds experimental support for using Go to write Terraform configurations. Also included are enhanced support for Terraform modules and asset construction.
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AWS Announces the General Availability of Lambda Extensions
Recently AWS announced Lambda extensions' general availability (GA), which allows its users to integrate Lambda functions with their preferred tooling for monitoring, observability, security, and governance. The GA release includes performance improvements and an expanded set of partners.
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Amazon SNS Gains Message Archiving and Analytics via Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose
Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently announced that Amazon SNS supports Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose subscriptions to send messages to "data lakes, data stores, and analytics services [...] without writing custom code". The new event destination also simplifies the integration of third-party service providers.