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Amazon VPC Route Server Generally Available, Providing Routing Flexibility and Fault Tolerance
AWS has recently announced the general availability of Amazon VPC Route Server. This new option simplifies dynamic routing in a VPC, allowing developers to advertise routing information via Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) from virtual appliances and dynamically update the VPC route tables associated with subnets and internet gateways.
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QCon London: Mistakes People Make Building SaaS Software
Jon Topper, AWS ambassador and founder of The Scale Factory, shared key insights at QCon London 2025 on building effective SaaS solutions. He highlighted pitfalls, stressing the importance of multi-tenancy from day one, automating tenant provisioning, and planning disaster recovery. Topper encouraged leveraging community wisdom to avoid costly mistakes and implement secure, scalable architectures.
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QCon London 2025: Distributed Event-Driven Architectures across Multi-Cloud Boundaries
At QCon London 2025, Teena Idnani from Microsoft addressed the rise of multi-cloud adoption, revealing that 89% of organizations embrace this strategy. Using the fictional FinBank, she showcased practical strategies to overcome latency, resilience, event ordering, and duplication challenges, emphasizing the importance of security, observability, and continuous team education.
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QCon London 2025: Kraken Technology's Approach to Renewable Energy Management
Kevin Bowman of Kraken Technology unveiled how serverless cloud solutions are revolutionizing the UK's power grid management amid a 40% surge in renewable energy. By leveraging intelligent control systems, battery storage and microservices, Kraken optimizes energy flow and grid stability while advocating for consumer cooperation and continued investment in cloud technologies for future resilience.
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AWS CodeBuild Adds Parallel Test Execution for Faster CI
AWS CodeBuild now supports parallel test execution, significantly reducing build times by allowing concurrent test suite runs across multiple environments. This feature addresses long CI pipeline cycles that impede productivity and increase costs. With intelligent test distribution and automatic result merging, developers can enhance efficiency and streamline feedback loops.
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AWS Enhances EC2 Capacity Reservation Management with Split, Move, and Modify Features
AWS enhances Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations with powerful "split, move, and modify" features, enabling granular control over reserved capacity. These updates optimize resource allocation, boost efficiency, and reduce costs, offering flexibility while maintaining stability for critical workloads, surpassing similar offerings from Azure and GCP.
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European Cloud Providers: What Are the Options Today?
Current geopolitical tensions have raised attention to existing cloud providers in Europe, with many European companies increasingly concerned about reliance on US-controlled services. According to various articles by specialists and practitioners, local cloud providers still offer few viable alternatives for organizations focused on European digital sovereignty.
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Amazon GameLift Streams Launches for High-Fidelity, Browser-Based Game Streaming
Introducing Amazon GameLift Streams: a revolutionary service that empowers developers to stream games directly to WebRTC-enabled browsers at 1080p and 60fps. Simplify deployment, reach a broad audience, and enhance player engagement. No infrastructure hassles or code overhauls needed—just instant access to high-fidelity gaming. Transform your titles today!
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AWS AppSync Events Adds Direct WebSocket Message Publishing
AWS has boosted AppSync Events with direct WebSocket message publishing, enhancing real-time communication. This serverless API facilitates seamless event broadcasting to numerous subscribers and simplifies development by allowing combined publishing and receiving via WebSocket. Discover a faster way to build engaging applications today!
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Local Development with Workflow Studio for Step Functions
AWS has enhanced its Workflow Studio for Step Functions, now integrated into Visual Studio Code via the AWS Toolkit. This allows developers to create and edit state machines locally with intuitive visual tools. Key features include Design and Code modes, localized testing capabilities, and support for ASL definitions, streamlining the development of distributed applications and workflows.
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How GitLab Automated ECR Image Migration and Pull Delays
GitLab recently discussed a solution to automate the migration of container images from Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) to GitLab's Container Registry. The team created a CI/CD pipeline to automate the process of discovering, retagging, and transferring container images from Amazon ECR to GitLab's Container Registry.
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Resilience Best Practices: How Amazon Builds Well-Behaved Clients and Well-Protected Services
Using the analogy of addressing the lunch rush in restaurants, Michael Haken, senior principal solutions architect at AWS, describes how Amazon builds both well-behaved clients and well-protected services through operational and architectural strategies.
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AWS Introduces a New Quantum Computing Chip with Ocelot
AWS announced Ocelot, an innovative quantum computing chip designed to revolutionize error correction, reducing it by up to 90%. This cutting-edge architecture integrates 'cat qubit' technology, marking a significant advancement in quantum applications. As Ocelot paves the way for affordable, fault-tolerant quantum computing, it raises critical questions about security in a quantum-driven future.
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AWS CDK Introduces Garbage Collection to Remove Outdated Assets
Amazon recently introduced the preview of garbage collection in the AWS CDK. The new feature automatically deletes old assets in bootstrapped S3 buckets and ECR repositories, reducing maintenance and deployment costs.
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Cloud Giants Collaborate on New Kubernetes Resource Management Tool
Google Cloud, AWS, and Microsoft Azure have jointly announced a new open-source project called Kube Resource Orchestrator (kro, pronounced "crow"). The project is an attempt to standardise how Kubernetes resources are grouped together and deployed, and it aims to make it easier for platform teams to deploy workloads.