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QCon New York 2023: Living on the Edge with Erica Pisani
Erica Pisani, Sr. software engineer at Netlify, presented Living on the Edge at QCon New York 2023. Pisani discussed: edge computing anatomy; communication between users, edge locations and origin servers; various edge computing challenges with corresponding solutions; and introduced the AWS Snowball Edge Device. Pisani spoke to InfoQ to learn more about edge computing.
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AWS Signer Simplifies Signing and Verifying Container Images
AWS has released AWS Signer Container Image Signing (AWS Signer) to provide native AWS support for signing and verifying container images in registries such as Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR). AWS Signer manages code signing certificates, public and private keys, and provides lifecycle management tooling.
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Amazon SQS Supports Reprocessing Messages from Dead-Letter Queue
AWS recently announces support for dead-letter queue redrive in SQS using the AWS SDK or the Command Line Interface. The new capability allows developers to move unconsumed messages out of an existing dead-letter queue and back to their source queue.
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Terraform Adds Support for Azure Linux, Introduces New CI/CD Tool
HashiCorp has released a number of new improvements to Terraform and Terraform Cloud. Within Terraform Cloud, there is a new CI/CD pipeline integration tool. Terraform has added support for Azure Linux container host for Azure Kubernetes Service. The HashiCorp Terraform AWS provider version 5.0 was released with improved support for default tags.
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AWS Payment Cryptography: New Service for Payment Processing Applications
At the recent re:Inforce conference, AWS announced Payment Cryptography, a new service to manage payment cryptography operations. The new elastic option simplifies key management for payment processing applications, helping customers meet PCI security requirements.
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AWS Launches Amazon S3 Dual-Layer Server-Side Encryption with Keys Stored in AWS KMS
Recently AWS launched Amazon S3 dual-layer server-side encryption with keys stored in AWS Key Management Service (DSSE-KMS), a new encryption option in Amazon S3 that applies two layers of encryption to objects when they are uploaded to an Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket.
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Exploring the Cost Efficiency of AWS Spot Instances: a Research Investigation
A recent research study delved into the cost advantage offered by AWS Spot Instances in terms of an organization's overall cloud spending. By analyzing the preemption rates of t3/t4 Spot Instances within the research group, the data revealed a notable surge in demand for spot instances as a whole.
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AWS Lambda Now Supports Ruby 3.2 Runtime
AWS continues to bring support for new versions of runtimes for AWS Lambda. Recently, the company announced the support of the Ruby 3.2 runtime.
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Datadog Creates Scalable Data Ingestion Architecture
Datadog created a dedicated data ingestion architecture offering exactly-once semantics for their third-generation event store, Husky. The event-driven architecture (EDA) can accommodate bursts in traffic in the multi-tenant platform with reasonable ingestion latency and acceptable operational costs.
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AWS DMS Serverless Brings Automated Scalability and Performance Optimization with Database Migration
AWS recently announced a new option in its Database Migration Service (DMS) called serverless. It automatically sets up, scales, and manages migration resources to make database migrations easier and more cost-effective.
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AWS Announced the Support of Kubernetes Version 1.27 for Amazon EKS
AWS announced the support of Kubernetes version 1.27, called Chill Vibes, for Amazon EKS and Amazon EKS Distro. In this version of Kubernetes there are a lot of new features that are generally available and some of them are potentially destructive for the clusters.
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AWS Open-Sources Policy-Based Access Control Language Cedar
AWS has open-sourced Cedar, their language for defining access permissions using policies. Cedar is integrated within both Amazon Verified Permissions and AWS Verified Access. Cedar can also be integrated directly into an application via the provided SDK and language specification.
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Amazon Security Lake for Centralized Security Data Management Now GA
AWS recently announced the general availability of Security Lake, a managed service to automate the sourcing, aggregation, normalization, and data management of security data. The new service centralizes data from AWS environments, SaaS providers, on-premises, and cloud sources into a data lake stored in an AWS account.
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AWS Shifts Strategy: Public GitHub Documentation to Be Retired
In the next few days, AWS will start retiring the AWS documentation currently available on GitHub. After reviewing the results of the project and considering the overhead of manually keeping the internal documentation in sync, the cloud provider recently decided to retire most of its public repositories.
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AWS Adds Multi-AZ with Standby Support to OpenSearch Service
OpenSearch Service recently introduced support for Multi-AZ with Standby, a new deployment option for the search and analytics engine that provides 99.99% availability and better performance for business-critical workloads.