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Google Cloud SQL Supports MySQL 8.0
Google Cloud has recently made MySQL 8.0 available on Cloud SQL, the managed relational database service for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server.
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Microsoft Announces the General Availability of Azure Spring Cloud
Recently Microsoft and VMware both announced the general availability of Azure Spring Cloud, a fully-managed service for Spring Boot apps. The service allows enterprises to deploy JARs or code to it, and the service automates the process of wiring the apps to the Spring service runtime.
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Q&A with Canonical's Alex Chalkias about Kubernetes 1.19 Enterprise Support and KubeCon
InfoQ caught up with Alex Chalkias, product manager at Canonical at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU 2020, regarding the enterprise support for Kubernetes 1.19, KubeCon EU 2020, the future of Kubernetes, and how Canonical is enabling its adoption in the enterprise.
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Microsoft Announces the General Availability of Immersive Reader Service on the Azure AI Platform
Immersive Reader, which is a part of the Cognitive Services suite within the Microsoft Azure AI Platform, provides help for readers to read and comprehend text. In a recent blog, Microsoft announced the general availability of the service.
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SpringOne 2020 Conference: Running Persistent Data in a Multi-Cloud Architecture
Managing persistent data workloads in a multi-cloud architecture is critical for organizations hosting their apps on-premise and in public cloud environments. Aditya Tripathi and Judy Wang from VMware spoke at SpringOne 2020 Conference on Wednesday about architectural best practices to help simplify a multi-cloud strategy.
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Multi-Cloud: Worst Practice or the Future of Public Cloud?
Corey Quinn, cloud economist at The Duckbill Group, recently argued that multi-cloud is "the worst practice to be avoided by default”. Not everyone agrees.
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Amazon Announces the Preview of AWS Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK)
AWS Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK) is a new tool by AWS allowing users to manage AWS services from Kubernetes directly. In a blog post, the public cloud vendor states the tool will make it easy to build scalable and highly-available Kubernetes applications that utilize AWS services.
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KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2020 Keynote Summary
The annual KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe event ran as a virtual conference in August. Key takeaways included: there is an increasing importance in understanding end-user adoption patterns of technologies; it is important to recognize and discuss the topics of security, observability, and energy efficiency as more organizations move to the cloud; and more.
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Google Announces a New, More Services-Based Architecture Called Runner V2 to Dataflow
Google Cloud Dataflow is a fully-managed service for executing Apache Beam pipelines within the Google Cloud Platform(GCP). In a recent blog post, Google announced a new, more services-based architecture called Runner v2 to Dataflow – which will include multi-language support for all of its language SDKs.
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AWS Introduces a Solution of AI Services to Manage Contact Center Workflows
AWS has recently made Contact Center Intelligence (CCI) solutions available, a combination of services that enables companies to integrate contact centers with AI.
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Google Announces General Availability of CPU Overcommit for Sole Tenant Nodes
In a recent blog post, Google announced that CPU overcommit for sole-tenant nodes is generally available. With CPU overcommit for sole-tenant nodes, customers can over-provision their dedicated host virtual CPU resources by up to two times.
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Containers Running on EKS and AWS Fargate Can Now Use Amazon Elastic File System
Recently, Amazon announced that Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) pods running on AWS Fargate can now mount Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) file systems. The update is a follow-up to AWS customers requesting support for EFS with Fargate when using Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS).
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Amazon Announces ECS Now Supports EC2 Inf1 Instances
In a recent blog post, Amazon announced that customers can now use the Amazon EC2 Inf1 instances on Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS). The company promises the instances will be high performant and have low, predictable costs.
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AWS Wavelength Now Generally Available
AWS has recently made AWS Wavelength zones in San Francisco and Boston available to provide a subset of their computing services on Verizon datacenters. The new zones will allow developers to build applications that can benefit from the ultra-low latency of the mobile carriers.
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Amazon Announces the General Availability of AWS Glue 2.0
AWS Glue is a fully-managed extract, transform, and load (ETL) service that makes it easy for customers to prepare and load their data for analytics. With AWS Glue, customers don’t have to provision or manage any resources, and only pay for resources when the service is running.