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Ahrefs Joins Others in Suggesting That On-Premises Hosting Can Be More Cost Effective than Cloud
A recent article claims that Ahrefs, an SEO software suite company, was able to prevent $400 million in expenditures over three years by not leveraging cloud resources. Similarly, 37Signals, the makers of Basecamp, has begun a cloud exodus with the stated goal of saving seven million dollars in infrastructure costs over five years.
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Enhanced Security for Enterprises: Google Launches Google Threat Intelligence
At the recent RSA Conference in San Francisco, Google Cloud introduced Google Threat Intelligence, a new security offering for large organizations. The new solution provides users with actionable insights, external threat monitoring, attack surface management, digital risk protection, and in-depth analysis of Indicators of Compromise (IOC).
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Azure API Center Now Generally Available
Microsoft has announced Azure API Center's general availability (GA), which offers centralized API inventory for easy API discovery, reuse, and governance regardless of API type, lifecycle stage, or deployment location.
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Microsoft Launches Trusted Signing in Public Preview: an End-to-End Signing Solution for Developers
Microsoft recently launched Trusted Signing in Public Preview, a fully-managed end-to-end signing solution for developers backed by a Microsoft-managed certification authority.
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QCon London: Modernizing in Healthcare – from On-Prem to the Cloud
At QCon London, Leander Vanderbijl, senior engineer at Livi, discussed the journey of migrating an on-premises solution to the cloud, including the challenges he faced and the thinking behind the choices he made throughout the journey. The session was part of the "Connecting Systems: APIs, Protocols, Observability" track.
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Amazon Q Business and Amazon Q Developer Now Generally Available
AWS has recently announced the general availability of Amazon Q a generative AI-powered assistant tailored for businesses and developers. Amazon Q Developer provides code suggestions and recommendations in real time, while Amazon Q Business enables companies to get insights from structured and unstructured data.
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Enhance Cloud-Based Monitoring with Azure Monitor Pipeline
Azure Monitor is Microsoft's cloud monitoring service for gathering, visualizing, and analyzing telemetry data from applications, infrastructure, and networks. The company recently added a data collection capability in preview with the edge pipeline, which enables the collection and routing of telemetry data before it's sent to the cloud.
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Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink is Now Generally Available with AI Features
Confluent announced last month the general availability (GA) of Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink. This fully-managed service enables real-time data processing and the creation of high-quality, reusable data streams. The service is available across Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.
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Amazon S3 Unauthorized Request Billing Issue: an Empty S3 Bucket Can Dramatically Increase the Costs
Maciej Pocwierz, a senior software engineer, recently revealed a significant issue—an empty S3 bucket can unexpectedly result in a substantial AWS bill. In his case, nearly 100,000,000 S3 PUT requests were executed within a single day, leading to a bill that was far from negligible.
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API Access with Amazon Verified Permissions and Amazon Cognito
AWS recently announced that Amazon API Gateway requests can now be authorized with Amazon Verified Permissions. With this feature, HTTP requests containing tokens issued by Amazon Cognito can be used to perform authorization decisions against API resources.
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Azure Virtual Network Flow Logs for Enhanced Network Monitoring and Security Analysis
Microsoft recently announced the general availability (GA) of Virtual Network flow logs, a new capability of the Network Watcher service in Azure.
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AWS Introduces Amazon CloudWatch Internet Weather Map
AWS recently announced the availability of the Internet Weather Map, a new feature of CloudWatch that displays a 24-hour global snapshot of internet latency and availability outages. This new map offers a worldwide perspective on Internet conditions, allowing users to zoom in and analyze performance and availability problems in specific cities or with particular service providers.
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Axion Processor: Google Announces Its First Arm-Based CPU
During the recent Google Next '24 conference, Google unveiled Axion, its first custom Arm-based CPUs designed for data centers. Utilizing the Arm Neoverse V2 CPU architecture, the new processor will be available to customers later this year.
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Radius is Now a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Sandbox Project
The Microsoft Azure Incubations Team recently announced the approval of Radius as a Cloud Native Compute Foundation (CNCF) sandbox project. Radius is a cloud-native, cloud-agnostic application platform that the CNCF has recognized as having the potential to contribute to the cloud-native ecosystem.
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Azure Event Grid Supports MQTT Last Will and Testament in Public Preview
Recently, Microsoft announced the public preview release of the Last Will and Testament (LWT) support in Azure Event Grid's MQTT broker capability, which complies with the MQTTv3.1.1 and MQTTv5 specifications.