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Terraform Cloud Adds Dynamic Provider Credentials and OPA Support
Hashicorp has released several new features into Terraform Cloud, their managed service offering for Terraform. The new features include dynamic provider credentials, native OPA support, and the addition of projects as an organization tool.
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Kubefirst Platform Improves Local Experience and Password Management
Kubefirst, an open-source infrastructure application platform, recently released version 1.11. This version adds improved support for their local installation including a new local DNS implementation, enables Traefik ingress controller for local installs, and adds trusted local TLS certificates.
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AWS OpenSearch Serverless Now Generally Available
Amazon recently announced the general availability of OpenSearch Serverless, a new serverless option for Amazon OpenSearch service, which automatically provisions and scales the underlying resources for faster data ingestion and query responses.
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Slack's Lessons Learned from Supporting Highly Regulated Workloads on AWS GovCloud
Archie Gunasekara, staff software engineer at Slack, and Andrew Martin, staff software engineer at Slack, recently shared their learnings in building GovSlack, an instance of Slack running on the AWS GovCloud region. They shared challenges in adapting to unsupported services, account creation, and account isolation.
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AWS Gives Developers More Control over Lambda Function Runtime with Runtime Management Controls
AWS recently introduced runtime management controls, which provide more visibility and control when Lambda applies runtime updates to functions.
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Optimized Reads and Optimized Writes Improve Amazon RDS Performances for MySQL Compatible Engines
AWS recently introduced RDS Optimized Reads and RDS Optimized Writes, which are designed to enhance the performance of MySQL and MariaDB workloads running on RDS. These new functionalities can improve query performances and provide higher write throughput but are available on a limited subset of instances and have multiple prerequisites.
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GCP Adds Simplified Operator for Connecting Google Kubernetes Engine to Cloud SQL
Google Cloud has released a public preview of Cloud SQL Proxy Operator. The operator simplifies the process of connecting an application running in Google Kubernetes Engine with a database deployed in Cloud SQL.
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AWS Lambda Now Supports Maximum Concurrency for SQS as Event Source
AWS Lambda now provides a way to control the maximum number of concurrent functions invoked by Amazon SQS as an event source. Setting the Maximum Concurrency, developers can determine the concurrency of the functions processing messages in individual SQS queues, simplifying the scalability of serverless applications.
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Amazon Athena Now Supports Apache Spark Engine
Amazon Athena now supports the open-source distributed processing system Apache Spark to run fast analytics workloads. Data analysts and engineers can use Jupyter Notebook in Athena to perform data processing and programmatically interact with Spark applications.
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AWS Releases SimSpace Weaver for Real-Time Spatial Simulations
AWS recently released SimSpace Weaver, a managed option to run real-time spatial simulations across multiple EC2 instances. Distributing simulation workloads, the service can handle large real-world environments, crowd simulations, and immersive interactive experiences.
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Amazon S3 Encrypts All New Objects with AES-256
Since January 5th, Amazon S3 encrypts all new objects by default with AES-256 to protect data at rest. S3 automatically applies server-side encryption using Amazon S3-managed keys for each new object, unless a different encryption option is specified.
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Elastic 8.6 Released with Improvements to Observability, Security, and Search
Elastic has released Elastic 8.6 with improvements across the entire Elastic Search Platform including Elastic Enterprise Search, Elastic Observability, Elastic Security, and Kibana. The release includes additional connector clients, better observability of dependencies, improvements to alerts generated from prebuilt security rules, and temporary data views.
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AWS Introduces Step Functions Distributed Map for Large-Scale Parallel Data Processing
AWS recently announced a distributed map for Step Functions, a solution for large-scale parallel data processing. Optimized for S3, the new feature of the AWS orchestration service targets interactive and highly parallel serverless data processing workflows.
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Amazon ECS Adds Automated Rollbacks
Amazon has released native support for automated rollbacks within their Amazon ECS service. This feature leverages Amazon CloudWatch metric alarms to monitor and, if necessary, reverts the in-progress deployment. This feature supports using any system metrics that CloudWatch Container Insights collects for Amazon ECS as well as custom metrics.
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Zero Trust Access to Corporate Applications with AWS Verified Access
At re:Invent 2022, AWS released a new enterprise application connectivity service, Verified Access. The service provides Zero Trust access to enterprise web applications by employing endpoints and policies to authenticate and authorize user requests against identity providers or device management systems. Verified Access is currently in public preview in 10 AWS regions.
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