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The Commoditization of Software Stack: How Application-First Cloud Services are Changing the Game
Cloud services are evolving, which influences how developers build distributed applications. At QCon London, Bilgin Ibryam, product manager at Diagrid, discussed the intersection of cloud-native technologies like Dapr with developer-focused cloud services.
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Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr) v1.10 Released
Recently, the Dapr maintainers released V1.10 of Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr), a developer framework for building cloud-native applications, making it easier to run multiple microservices on Kubernetes and interact with external state stores/databases, secret stores, pub/sub-brokers, and other cloud services and self-hosted solutions.
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Amazon Releases Elastic Kubernetes Service for Snowball Edge
Amazon has released Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) Anywhere on Snow. This release automates the creation and management of EKS clusters on AWS Snowball Edge devices. These devices are able to run with or without an internet connection.
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Google Delivers Comprehensive Cloud Infrastructure Reliability Guide
Google recently delivered a cloud infrastructure reliability guide combining best practices and expertise from its engineers for its customers.
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HashiCorp Vault Enhances Plugin Framework, Adds New Secrets Engines
HashiCorp has released a number of new features and improved core workflows for Vault, their secrets and identity management platform. The improvements include a new PKCS#11 provider, support for Redis and Amazon ElasticCache as secrets engines, improvements to the Transform secrets engine, and a better user experience for working with plugins.
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AWS CloudFormation Adds New Language Extensions
AWS has added new language transforms that enhance the core CloudFormation language. For this initial release it includes new intrinsic functions for JSON string conversion, length, and support for intrinsic functions and pseudo-parameter references in update and deletion policies.
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Trusted Advisor Priority Capability Now Available for Enterprise Support Customers
Recently, AWS announced the general availability of a new capability for their Trusted Advisor service with Trusted Advisor Priority, allowing Enterprise Support customers prioritized and context-driven recommendations manually curated by the AWS account team based on their knowledge of the customer’s environment and the machine-generated checks from AWS Services.
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AWS Lambda Powertools for TypeScript Now Generally Available
Amazon recently announced the general availability (GA) of AWS Lambda Powertools TypeScript. The set of utilities for Node.js Lambda functions helps developers follow best practices for tracing, structured logging, and custom metrics.
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HashiCorp Vault Improves Eventual Consistency with Server-Side Consistent Tokens
HashiCorp has released Vault 1.10, introducing a number of new features to their secrets and identity management platform. Server-side consistent tokens provide greater control over the eventual consistency model when using performance standby nodes. Authentication can now be performed using the new open source login multi-factor authentication integration.
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Mammoths Stumping in the Cloud Era: Meeting EU Regulations by Being Cloud Native and Cloud Agnostic
Financial institutions are famous for their conservative approach in multiple areas, technology being no exception. Many of them are still running mainframe solutions built a long time ago. But together with times, the banks are changing too: at KubeConEU mBank, a polish bank showed how it managed to marry Cloud Native and Cloud Agnotisc principles to also satisfy the EU regulation in the field.
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Easy Google Cloud Solution Architecture Designs with the Architecture Diagramming Tool
Recently, Google released an Architecture Diagramming Tool allowing the creation of architectural diagram of solution architecture with the available Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services.
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Recap of AWS re:Invent 2021
After one year as a virtual-only event, re:invent was back last week to Las Vegas with fewer attendees for the 10th edition, and with multiple sessions and keynotes, including a first one for the new CEO Adam Selipsky. AWS announced new features and improvements, with a focus more on packaged solutions than new primitives.
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AWS Announces Custom Lenses Feature for Its Well-Architected Framework
Recently, AWS announced AWS Well-Architected Custom Lenses, a new feature of the AWS Well-Architected Tool. With this new feature, customers can bring their own best practices to complement the existing framework based on their industry, operational plans, and internal processes.
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Amazon Introduces AWS Resilience Hub to Monitor and Improve RPO and RTO
Amazon recently announced the availability of AWS Resilience Hub, a service designed to help customers define, measure, and manage the resilience of their applications on the cloud.
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Airbnb Open Sources Ottr: a Serverless Public Key Infrastructure Framework
Airbnb announced that it has open-sourced Ottr, a serverless public key infrastructure framework developed in-house. Ottr handles end-to-end certificate rotations without the use of an agent. Ottr's primary design goal is to be a scalable and configurable serverless framework on AWS with little operational overhead or reliance on enrollment protocols.