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Spring Cloud Stream 2.0 Released with Focus on Performance, Flexibility and Consistency
Pivotal has announced the General Availability release of the Spring Cloud Stream 2.0. This release includes a complete revamp of content-type negotiation functionality (allowing user-defined message converters), polling consumers, micrometer metrics support, enhanced Apache Kafka Streams support, and more.
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GCP Release “kaniko”, a Tool to Build Container Images inside Unprivileged Containers or Kubernetes
Google has released "kaniko", an open source tool to build container images from a Dockerfile, inside a container or Kubernetes cluster. kaniko does not depend on a Docker daemon and executes each command within a Dockerfile completely in userspace. This enables building container images in environments that can't easily or securely run a Docker daemon, such as a standard Kubernetes cluster.
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Amazon S3 Receives New Updates: New Storage Class and General Availability of S3 Select
Amazon S3 recently received new updates to its service: a new storage class S3 One Zone-Infrequent Access (Z-IA) Storage Class and S3 Select capability, now generally available for customers. With S3 Select, customers can get a subset of data faster, while the new storage One Zone IA class is a low-cost option for retrieving infrequent data.
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Microsoft Announces General Availability of Azure Availability Zones in Select Regions
Microsoft has announced the general availability of Azure Availability Zones to deliver a high availability option for their customer’s mission-critical applications and data. Last year during Ignite, an annual conference for developers and IT professionals, Microsoft introduced Azure Availability Zones.
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Google’s New Cloud Security Tools Increase DDOS Protection, Transparency and Usability
Recently, Google introduced several new cloud-focused security enhancements for the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). These enhancements include new services like Cloud Security Command Center (Cloud SCC), Google Cloud Armor, VPC Service Controls, and a few new features for G Suite administrators. Furthermore, these enhancements are a part of Google’s investment in their cloud platform.
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Amazon Web Services Reports That All GA Services Are Now GDPR Ready
On May 25, 2018 European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation comes into effect. AWS recently announced that all its generally available services now comply with the GDPR regulation. GDPR is the largest overhaul of data privacy regulations in the past 20 years. In this article we will cover the key changes in AWS and GDPR and what we have to do to become GDPR compliant.
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U.S. Congress Passes CLOUD Act - New Legislation Might Make Microsoft Supreme Court Case Moot
On March 23, 2018, the CLOUD Act became law in the United States. It clarifies how US and foreign countries can gain access to data stored in cloud servers in each other’s jurisdictions. Companies such as Google and Microsoft facing requests for data they have stored in foreign countries support the legislation. Privacy and human rights activists have criticized the measure.
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Microsoft Announces General Availability of Azure Database Services for MySQL and PostgreSQL
Microsoft has announced the general availability of Azure Database for MySQL and Azure Database for PostgreSQL. Both these open-source database engines are now brought in their community version as a managed service, with 99.99% SLA, elastic scaling for performance, and industry-leading security and compliance to Azure.
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IBM Delivers the First Bare Metal Kubernetes in the Public Cloud
IBM offers the industries first bare metal Kubernetes as a managed service. This service will enable developers and data science teams to push containers to a managed service directly on bare metal cloud infrastructure.
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Kubernetes Founder Craig McLuckie on Going Multi-Cloud and Open Source
InfoQ caught up with Craig McLuckie, one of the original founders of the Kubernetes project and CEO of Heptio.
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Microsoft Announces a Public Preview of the MongoDB Aggregation Feature in Azure Cosmos DB
Last November Microsoft announced more capabilities for the support of MongoDB in Azure Cosmos DB. With the deployment of the latest version of the Cosmos DB service, Microsoft included a preview of MongoDB aggregation pipeline support, enabling developers to create more sophisticated queries and manipulate data by combining multiple aggregation ‘stages.’
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Oral Arguments before Supreme Court in Microsoft Cloud Computing Case Focus on Legal Issues
On February 27, 2018, the Supreme Court of the United States heard oral arguments on the Microsoft cloud computing case. A ruling against Microsoft could require companies based in the United States to hand over to law enforcement data stored on foreign servers. U.S. based organizations might then not be able to provide cloud computing services to foreign countries.
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Microsoft Announces the Public Preview of the Azure File Share Backup Capability
Microsoft announced the public preview of the Azure Backup integration with Azure Files. With the Azure File Share service, customers will have a cloud solution for file sharing in Azure, which supports the industry Server Message Block (SMB) Protocol standard. The integration of the Azure backup service will offer a native backup solution for Azure File shares.
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Microsoft Announce General Availability of Azure Redis Cache Geo-Replication
Microsoft recently announced the general availability of geo-replication support for the Azure Redis Cache service, Microsoft’s hosted implementation of the open-source Redis cache. The announcement follows a public preview that was announced in June 2017.
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AWS Makes Serverless Application Repository Generally Available
After a brief preview period since re:Invent 2017, Amazon Web Services (AWS) made its new Serverless Application Repository generally available. Users can now discover, configure, and deploy serverless applications and components via the AWS Lambda console, which AWS considers an "ideal venue for AWS partners, enterprise customers, and independent developers to share their serverless creations".