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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.
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Amazon Releases Quantum Computing Service Braket into General Availability
Amazon Braket is a fully-managed AWS service that provides a development environment for exploring and designing novel quantum algorithms. With the service, customers can test and troubleshoot their algorithms on quantum circuit simulators and run them on different quantum hardware technologies.
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HashiCorp Introduces HashiCorp Cloud Platform
HashiCorp, the company behind the software tool Terraform, introduces a platform to run their products on AWS, Azure, and GCP as managed services. This will extend their enterprise offer with a focus on multi-cloud environments.
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Microsoft Announces the Preview of Java Message Service 2.0 over AMQP on Azure Service Bus
In a recent blog post, Microsoft announced the preview support for Java Message Service (JMS) 2.0 over AMQP in the Azure Service Bus Premium tier. The support will allow customers to modernize their application stack by lifting and shifting their Java and Spring workloads to Azure.
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Go 1.15 Improves the Go Linker, Small Object Allocation, and More
The latest release of the Go language, Go 1.15, focuses on improving the toolchain, runtime, and core libraries. Besides improving the linker and allocation for small objects, Go 1.15 deprecates X.509 CommonName, supports a new embedded tzdata package, and more.
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KubeCon EU, CNCF Community, and the Role of the Cloud during the Pandemic: Q&A with Priyanka Sharma
InfoQ caught up with newly appointed GM of CNCF, Priyanka Sharma, regarding the role of the cloud, open source and the work of the foundation for the current unprecedented times and going forward.