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Vendors Argue over AWS’ Open Distro for Elasticsearch
AWS announced the release of their Open Distro for Elasticsearch back in March. However, the release has not come with support from all members of the community. While AWS states that they have released Open Distro in order to ensure that Elasticsearch remains fully open source, other members of the tech community claim this is another move by Amazon to further solidify their strong customer base.
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Amazon Updates SageMaker Ground Truth with New Labeling Features, Vendor Support and Availability
Amazon announced that SageMaker Ground Truth now offers simplified labeling workflows, support for additional labeling vendors, and is available in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) AWS region – bringing the total to six supported AWS regions in the Americas, Europe, and Asia.
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Fully Managed Blockchain Networks with Amazon Managed Blockchain Now Generally Available
Introduced at the AWS re:Invent 2018 event, Amazon Managed Blockchain has left preview and reached general availability. This new service aims to simplify creating and managing scalable blockchain networks based on Hyperledger Fabric and, soon, Ethereum.
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Microsoft Releases High-Performance C# and F# Support for Apache Spark
Microsoft announced the release of .NET for Apache Spark, adding new high-performance C# and F# binding to the big-data computation engine.
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AWS Releases Enhancements to AI Services for NLP, Speech-to-Text Transcription, and Image Detection
Amazon Web Services (AWS) released new features for three of its AI services: Amazon Comprehend, Amazon Rekognition, and Amazon Transcribe.
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Google Releases Anthos, a Hybrid Cloud Platform, to General Availability
Recently, Google announced on their blog the general availability of Anthos, a service for hybrid cloud and workload management that runs on the Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). Furthermore, besides running on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP), it also allows customers to manage workloads running on third-party clouds like AWS and Azure.
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Amazon Expands Its Machine Learning Offering with AWS Deep Learning Containers
Recently, Amazon introduced AWS Deep Learning Containers (AWS DL Containers), which are Docker images pre-installed with deep learning frameworks allowing customers to deploy custom machine learning environments quickly.
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Quarkus, a Kubernetes Native Java Framework
Red Hat has released Quarkus, a Kubernetes native Java framework tailored for GraalVM and OpenJDK HotSpot. Quarkus aims to make Java a leading platform in Kubernetes and serverless environments, offering developers a unified reactive and imperative programming model.
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TriggerMesh Releases Open Source Knative Event Sources for Multi-Cloud Environments
TriggerMesh has released their latest open-source project, Knative Lambda Sources (KLASS). KLASS are event sources that can be used to trigger Knative functions in Kubernetes clusters. This enables AWS events to be consumed within a multi-cloud or on-premise environment. This release follows the release of Knative Lambda Runtimes which further enhance the TriggerMesh cloud platform.
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Amazon Releases Five New EC2 Bare Metal Instances: M5, M5d, R5, R5d, and Z1d
Amazon has announced the availability of five new Amazon EC2 bare metal instances. The new EC2 M5, M5d, R5, R5d, and z1d instances will provide applications with direct access to the Intel Xeon Scalable processor and memory resources of the underlying server.
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Evolution of Metrics Collection and Log Aggregation at Coinbase
Luke Demi, software engineer at Coinbase, writes about the changes in monitoring and logging that have taken place at Coinbase since mid-2018. Coinbase moved from a self-managed Elasticsearch cluster that served the dual purpose of log analysis and metrics visualization, to Datadog for metrics collection and managed Elasticsearch on AWS for log aggregation.
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Amazon Announces AWS PrivateLink Support for Its ECR and ECS Services
In a recent blog post, Amazon announced AWS PrivateLink support for its Elastic Container Registry (ECR) and Elastic Container Service (ECS). With AWS PrivateLink support customers can create endpoints for ECS and ECR appearing as elastic network interfaces with a private IP address in their Virtual Private Cloud (VPC).
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AWS Identity and Access Management Gains Tags and Attribute-Based Access Control
Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently enabled tags for IAM users and roles to ease the management of IAM resources. Notably, this release also includes the ability to embrace attribute-based access control (ABAC) and match AWS resources with IAM principals dynamically to "simplify permissions management at scale".
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Microsoft Azure Government Cloud: New Online Training Material Available
Microsoft recently expanded its Microsoft Learn platform with an introductory class on Azure Government. Azure Government is Microsoft’s solution for hosting United States government solutions on its cloud. In this article we will discuss what the Azure Government offers and how it pans against AWS GovCloud US offering.
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AWS Launches New Document-Oriented Database Compatible with MongoDB
AWS just released their 10th database service (15th, if you count each engine offered in the relational database services). This one, called Amazon DocumentDB, stores semi-structured data inside a scalable, highly-available managed service. While offering a MongoDB-compatible API, DocumentDB is not running MongoDB software, which caused hand-wringing among some tech watchers.