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Amazon Introduces Managed Blockchain and Quantum Ledger Database
Amazon has announced a new managed service for creating and managing blockchain networks. The Hyperledger Fabric project is currently supported and support for Ethereum is coming soon. Amazon has also introduced a complementary blockchain service called Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB) which provides a managed ledger database to store immutable transaction logs.
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Amazon Announces DynamoDB Support for Transactions
Amazon announced that its DynamoDB database service now supports Transactions, offering full atomicity, consistency, isolation, and durability (ACID) guarantee for developing highly scalable apps. With this capability, developers can build transaction guarantees for multi-item updates, making it easier to avoid conflicts and errors when developing highly scalable business-critical applications.
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AWS Amplify Console for Rapid Application Deployment
AWS re:Invent 2018 had numerous announcements of new features and services, including the new AWS Amplify Console, a continuous deployment service for mobile web applications.
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AWS Release “Firecracker”, an Open Source Rust-Based microVM for Container and Serverless Workloads
Amazon has announced the release of Firecracker, an open source virtualization technology that is purpose-built for “creating and managing secure, multi-tenant containers and functions-based services”. Firecracker is a fork of Chromium OS's Virtual Machine Monitor (crosvm), an open source VMM written in Rust, and the technology is used behind the scenes to power Amazon’s AWS Lambda services.
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Recap of AWS re:Invent 2018 Announcements
If you thought Amazon Web Services (AWS) might run out of services to launch, this year's re:Invent put that fear to rest. At the recently concluded event, AWS shared a flurry of announcements across a range of categories. re:Invent rarely has a "theme" for its announcements. But there was heavy attention on machine learning, databases, hybrid cloud, and account management.
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Google’s Plan Towards Go 2: Community Involvement Takes Center Stage
Work on the next major version of Google’s language has already begun with around 120 open proposals candidate to be reviewed for Go 2, writes Google engineer Robert Griesemer. Google also intends to make the Go 2 process much more community-driven.
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Amazon Introduces the Predictive Scaling Feature to EC2 Instances
In a recent blog post, Amazon announced they made Auto Scaling for EC2 instances more powerful with the addition of a predictive scaling feature. Furthermore, with this new feature, customers can create a scaling plan without the need to tweak autoscaling over time manually.
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Microsoft Announces Container Support for Azure Cognitive Services
Microsoft has announced container support for Cognitive Services, which allows taking advantage of machine learning capabilities anywhere, whether it is in the cloud, on the edge or on-premises. With Azure Cognitive Services, organizations can start using various cognitive features, like vision, speech and text processing, without the need for a dedicated data scientist.
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Google Introduces AI Hub and Kubeflow Pipelines for Easier ML Deployment
Google is launching two new tools, one proprietary and one open source: AI Hub and Kubeflow pipelines. Both are designed to assist data scientists design, launch and keep track of their machine learning algorithms.
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Atomist Software Delivery Machine 1.0 Launched
Atomist, a software delivery automation company, has announced their Software Delivery Machine (SDM) 1.0. Atomist SDM is a cloud-native software delivery platform with additional capabilities, specifically for Kubernetes and Spring.
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Amazon Announces AWS GovCloud US-East Region
Amazon has announced their AWS GovCloud (US-East) region, an isolated AWS region, offering FedRAMP High and Moderate baseline security controls. This region is available now and targets federal, state, and local government agencies, IT contractors that serve them, and customers with regulated workloads.
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Google Cloud Announces Transfer Appliance in Beta for Cloud Data Migrations in the EU
Google announced that Transfer Appliance, a high-capacity server that lets customers move large amounts of data to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) quickly and securely, is available in beta in the European Union (EU). Google will handle the data transfer with Transfer Appliance in GCP in the EU, and data will not leave the EU.
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Amazon Introduces CloudFormation Drift Detection
In a recent blog post, Amazon announced CloudFormation Drift Detection which organizations can leverage to automate configuration consistency across AWS cloud resources. The CloudFormation Drift Detection feature allows organizations who have templated their configurations and deployments, known as stacks, to detect when configuration drift occurs from out-of-band changes.
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Facebook Releases PyTorch 1.0 Preview, with Google, AWS and Microsoft Azure Integrations
At a recent PyTorch developer conference in San Francisco, Facebook released a developer preview version of PyTorch 1.0. PyTorch is an open source, deep learning framework used to reduce friction in taking research projects to production. In this release, many investments have been made by public cloud and hardware companies to better support the PyTorch ecosystem.
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Microsoft Announces the Availability of the MongoDB Atlas Free Tier on Azure
Microsoft announced the usage of MongoDB Atlas for free on Microsoft Azure. A free tier known as M0 is available on Azure, which grants users 512 MB of storage to allow learning MongoDB, prototyping, and early development.