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Microsoft Announces the General Availability of Windows Server Containers, and More for AKS
Almost a year ago, Microsoft launched a preview of Windows Server Containers in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). Now the company announced the general availability of Windows Server containers in AKS, including the support of private clusters and managed identities.
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Amazon Introduces the New Streaming ETL Feature on AWS Glue
Recently, Amazon announced AWS Glue now supports streaming ETL. With this new feature, customers can easily set up continuous ingestion pipelines that prepare streaming data on the fly and make it available for analysis in seconds.
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Q&A with Amazon's VP Kurt Kufeld Regarding Amazon AppFlow
InfoQ caught up with Kurt Kufield, VP AWS Platform, Amazon Web Services (AWS), regarding Amazon AppFlow, a bidirectional integration service between the AWS platform and a variety of SaaS platforms.
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Google Updates Cloud Spanner with New Features: Backup on Demand, Local Emulator, and More
In a recent blog post, Google announced a slew of new features for Cloud Spanner. The public cloud provider released the service with new updates including the managed backup-restore feature, foreign key support, query optimizer versioning feature, a C++ client library, and a local emulator.
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Google Cloud Healthcare API Now Generally Available
In a recent blog post, Google announced the general availability of its Cloud Healthcare API. This service facilitates the exchange of healthcare data between solutions built on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and applications.
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Google Announces Anthos Support for Multi-Cloud is Generally Available
In a recent blog post, Google announced that Athos support for multi-cloud is generally available. With Anthos, customers can now consolidate all their operations across on-premises, Google Cloud, and other clouds starting with AWS and Microsoft Azure as it is currently in preview.
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KSQL Now Available on Confluent Cloud
KSQL is the streaming SQL engine for Apache Kafka, and it is currently available as a fully-managed service on the Confluent Cloud Platform for all its customers on usage-based billing plans. In a recent blog post, Confluent announced the availability of Confluent Cloud KSQL.
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Amazon Updates AWS Snowball Edge with Faster Hardware, OpsHub GUI, IAM, and AWS Systems Manager
AWS Snowball is a part of the AWS Snow Family of edge computing and data transfer devices. Recently Amazon announced a few updates for Snowball Edge device option. It now has a graphical user interface with AWS OpsHub, 25% faster data transfer performance, and support for local Identity and Access Management (IAM), and AWS System Manager.
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Google Introduces Service Directory to Manage All Your Services in One Place at Scale
In a recent blog post, Google introduced a new managed service on its Cloud Platform (GCP) called Service Directory. With this service, Google allows customers to publish, discover, and connect services consistently and reliably, regardless of the environment and platform where they reside.
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Q&A with Amazon's Deepak Singh Regarding Bottlerocket, Containers and EC2
InfoQ caught up with Deepak Singh, VP of compute services at AWS, regarding technical details about Bottlerocket and its roadmap.
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Containers Running on ECS and AWS Fargate Can Now Use Amazon Elastic File System
Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) provides a simple, scalable, elastic, fully-managed shared file system. Recently, Amazon announced that Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) tasks running on both Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and AWS Fargate are now able to use EFS.
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Amazon Announces General Availability of AWS Deepcomposer
Recently, Amazon announced the general availability of Deepcomposer, a service in AWS, which provides developers with a creative way to learn Machine Learning (ML). Deepcomposer is a machine learning-enabled keyboard for developers, and is available for purchase.
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AWS Announces the General Availability of New Security Service: Amazon Detective
Recently, Amazon announced the general availability of Amazon Detective. This new security service in AWS allows customers to analyze, investigate, and quickly identify the root cause of potential security issues or suspicious activities.
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Microsoft Updates Azure Dedicated Hosts with Reservations, Maintenance Control and More
In a recent blog post, Microsoft announced new updates to its Dedicated Host service in Azure. The public cloud vendor made a few updates to the service such as cost-saving reservations, maintenance control, further options with SKUs, and Resource Health alerts.
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Spectro Cloud Launches a Kubernetes-Based Hybrid Cloud Platform
Spectro Cloud, an enterprise cloud-native infrastructure company, launched a platform for managing multiple distributions of Kubernetes. The platform bearing the company name gives customers fine-grained control, flexibility and multi-cloud capabilities for their Kubernetes stack, including the ease of use and scalability of a managed SaaS platform.