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AWS Releases Amazon Route 53 Application Recovery Controller into General Availability
Recently, AWS announced the general availability (GA) of Amazon Route 53 Application Recovery Controller, an additional new set of capabilities in Amazon Route 53. With the capabilities, it will be easier for customers to continuously monitor their applications’ ability to recover from failures and control their recovery across AWS Regions, Availability Zones, and on-premises infrastructure.
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ElasticSearch Fork OpenSearch is Generally Available
Amazon has recently announced the general availability of OpenSearch 1.0, the Apache 2.0-licensed fork of Elasticsearch that was created after Elastic changed their license.
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After 15 Years AWS Retires EC2-Classic
AWS has announced the plan to retire the EC2-Classic platform in the next few months. The cloud provider expects that customers still running the first iteration of its virtual cloud computing instance will migrate to the newest Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) by August 2022.
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Node-RED 2.0 Improves Developer Experience with New Flow Debugger and Flow Linter
IoT-focused low-code programming tool Node-RED reaches version 2.0, bringing flow debugger and flow linter to help programmers find bugs in their flows.
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InfoQ Live August 17th: Deep-Dive in Cloud Native, CI/CD, Service Mesh, and More
Practically every development team would benefit from building and running applications that use the advantages of the cloud computing delivery model. This August 17th at InfoQ Live, software leaders dive into topics such as service mesh, CI/CD, cloud native best practices and pitfalls, and more. Join them and book your spot now for just $19.95.
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Need Help Tracking Cloud Emissions? Microsoft Previews Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability
At the recent Inspire 2021 conference, Microsoft announced the preview of Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability, a new service to help companies measure and manage their carbon emissions, set sustainability goals and take measurable action.
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AWS Announces the General Availability of Amazon EBS io2 Block Express Volumes
Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes are a key Elastic Compute (EC2) component with several HDD and SSD volumes, each designed for a particular use case. And recently, AWS announced the general availability of its cloud-based storage area network (SAN) offering, Amazon EBS io2 Block Express volumes – providing 4x higher throughput, IOPS, and capacity than io2 volumes.
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AWS Announces Customizable Image Support for Amazon EMR on EKS
Recently, AWS announced customizable image support for Amazon EMR on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) that allows customers to modify the Docker runtime image that runs their analytics application using Apache Spark on their EKS cluster.
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Q&A with Jeff Hollan of Microsoft Regarding Azure Application Services on Kubernetes
InfoQ caught up with Jeff Hollan, director of product management, Azure Application Platform at Microsoft, about the philosophy behind running Azure App Service on Kubernetes, some of the technical details and the requirement on Azure Arc.
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Making a Case against Kubernetes at Ably
In a recent article in the Ably Engineering series, Ably's engineer Maik Zumstrull explained why real-time messaging platform Ably does not use Kubernetes. InfoQ has taken the change to speak with Zumstrull to learn more.
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Microsoft Has Now Its Own Linux Distribution Builder, CBL-Mariner
CBL-Mariner is Microsoft's internal tool to create Linux distributions. Meant to power Microsoft's own Cloud infrastructure, CBL-Mariner distributions aim to consume limited disk and memory resources, as well as offer minimal attack surface.
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Google Cloud Introduces Option to Choose Region with Lowest CO2 Footprint
Google has recently introduced the option to choose a Google Cloud region according to the lowest CO2 footprint. The new feature is currently available for Cloud Run and Datastream only, with Google planning to extend the offer to more Google Cloud services in the future.
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AWS Announces the General Availability of Amazon HealthLake
Recently AWS announced the general availability of Amazon HealthLake, a fully-managed, HIPAA-eligible service. With the service, healthcare providers, health insurance-, and pharmaceutical companies can securely store, transform, query, and analyze health data.
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Microsoft Announces the Public Preview of Disk Pool for Azure VMware Solution
Microsoft recently announced the preview of disk pool enabling Azure Disk Storage as a persistent storage option for Azure VMware Solution - a vSAN hyper-converged vSphere cluster. With this persistent storage option, customers have another choice for running VMware workloads on Azure.
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Azure VM Image Builder Service Now Generally Available
Azure has recently announced the general availability of Azure VM Image Builder service, the managed service built on HashiCorp Packer to create Linux or Windows virtual machine images and be compliant with security policies across Azure and Azure Stack.