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Amazon Announces Managed Databases for Amazon Lightsail
Amazon has announced managed databases for Lightsail, their lightweight and simplified virtual private server offering. The addition of managed databases intends to allow the creation of these databases on the Lightsail platform with a minimal amount of work, and removes several everyday maintenance tasks from the user.
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Google's Apigee API Platform Enhanced with API Monitoring and "Extensions" to Connect GCP Services
Google Cloud's full lifecycle API Management platform Apigee provides customers control over, and visibility into, the API's that connect applications and data across their enterprises and clouds. Recently, Google announced the general availability of various new Apigee capabilities such as Apigee API monitoring, Apigee extensions, and Apigee hosted targets.
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Google's Cloud Spanner DML Updates and Cloud Bigtable's New Key Visualization Feature
The Google Cloud Platform offers various cloud-native database services, and recently Google updated two of them. The updates affect the Cloud Spanner database service, a managed relational database offering and Cloud Bigtable, a managed NoSQL key value and wide-column database.
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Cloudflare Add WebAssembly Support and Key Value Store for CDN "Workers" Deployed at the Edge
Cloudflare has announced two additional capabilities for their Workers. WebAssembly will allow Workers to be written in compiled languages such as C, C++, Rust and Go. Workers KV provides an eventually consistent key value store hosted across Cloudflare’s global network of over 150 data centres.
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Azure Content Delivery Network Is Now Generally Available
Microsoft announced the general availability (GA) of the Azure CDN, allowing customers to deliver content from Microsoft’s global CDN network. The release was a follow up on the public preview last May.
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Amazon S3 Increases Request Rate Performance and Drops Randomized Prefix Requirement
Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently announced significantly increased S3 request rate performance and the ability to parallelize requests to scale to the desired throughput. Notably this performance increase also "removes any previous guidance to randomize object prefixes" and enables the use of "logical or sequential naming patterns in S3 object naming without any performance implications".
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Microsoft Announces Several Updates to Azure Cosmos DB Features
Microsoft has announced multiple updates to Azure Cosmos DB, their globally distributed, massively scalable, multi-model database service. The announcements include features around support for globally scaled multi-master, the addition of a Cassandra API, and price-lowering options with reserved capacity.
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Microsoft Announces the General Availability of Azure Functions 2.0
Microsoft announced the general availability of the second version of Azure Functions, an event-driven, compute-on-demand service on the Azure platform. This new version release of Azure Functions includes several capabilities to let developers build scalable serverless applications more easily than with version one.
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Google Announces Task Queue Service Cloud Tasks
Google has announced Cloud Tasks, a task queue service for Google Cloud Platform’s App Engine service. Cloud Tasks enables asynchronous execution of tasks from applications, decoupling services and supporting the implementation of long-running and background activities.
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Netflix Keystone Real-Time Stream Processing Platform
Netflix recently published a post in their tech blog discussing the design considerations and insights of Keystone, their Real-time stream processing platform. Keystone has been operational since December 2015 and has grown significantly over the years as Netflix subscribers have grown from 65 to over 130 million in the past 3 years. This article follows on the latest state of Keystone platform...
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Google Releases New Code Search in Beta in Revamped Cloud Source Repositories
Google announced it is bringing code search in beta availability with the newly revamped Cloud Source Repositories service. This overhaul provides an entirely new user interface and semantic code search capabilities.
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Amazon Announces AWS Storage Gateway Hardware Appliance
Amazon has announced their AWS Storage Gateway hardware appliance, which provides hybrid storage between on-premises applications and AWS’ storage services. By providing a hardware appliance, Amazon gives a preconfigured solution to cache data locally while synchronizing with the cloud.
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Microsoft Announces the General Availability of the Immutable Storage Functionality in Azure Storage
With the immutable storage, feature blobs will be non-erasable and non-modifiable for a specific retention interval. Now Microsoft announced that this new feature is generally available in all public Azure regions after its preview since June of this year.
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Amazon Announces Extensibility for AWS CloudFormation with AWS Lambda Powered Macros
With AWS CloudFormation developers can model and define their infrastructure as code. Now Amazon announced a new feature of AWS CloudFormation called Macros, which allows developers to extend the native syntax of CloudFormation templates by calling out to AWS Lambda powered transformations.
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Amazon Releases a New Session Manager in AWS Systems Manager
Amazon released a new Session Manager in the AWS Systems Manager. This new session manager will provide a new of way of shell-level access to EC2 instances. IT Administrators can now use a new browser-based interactive shell and a command-line interface (CLI) to manage their Windows and Linux instances.