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Amazon Increases Network Bandwidth for EC2 Instances
Amazon announced it increased the bandwidth in all AWS regions for traffic between current-generation EC2 instances and the latest Amazon Machine Images (AMIs). With the increase, customers will be able to move data more efficiently. Furthermore, the increase will raise the networking bar among the public cloud providers.
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Could the United States Supreme Court Constrain Cloud Computing?
A U.S. Supreme Court decision could change the future of cloud computing by making U.S. companies subject to law enforcement demands for data from foreign servers. If the court rules that the data must be handed over, it is uncertain if the U.S. Congress would change the law, and what the actual content of a new law might be. This law would be still subject to interpretation and litigation.
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Managing and Operating Kafka Clusters in Kubernetes
Nenad Bogojevic, platform solutions architect at Amadeus, spoke at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2017 Conference on how to run and manage Kafka clusters in Kubernetes environment. He talked about provisioning Kafka clusters and configuring them using Kubernetes custom resources or ConfigMaps.
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Microsoft Announces General Availability of Azure Event Grid
Microsoft introduced Event Grid last year in August, and now it is generally available (GA). The Azure Event Grid is a service which enables developers to manage events in a unified way in Azure.
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Amazon Releases a Unified AWS Auto Scaling Service across Cloud Applications
Amazon has released a new service, AWS Auto Scaling, which is built on top of existing, service specific, scaling features. AWS Auto Scaling can aid customers in monitoring their applications and automatically adjust capacity to maintain steady, and predictable performance. The service provides a unified scaling capability for cloud applications in AWS.
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AWS Streamlines Amazon EC2 Spot Instance Pricing Model and Operational Complexity
Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently introduced significant changes on how to request and operate Amazon EC2 spot instances, which can provide considerable cost savings. Users can now request spot instances without specifying a bidding price, spot prices are adjusted more gradually, and spot instances can also be stopped or hibernated and later resumed to further optimize interruptible workloads.
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AWS Lambda Now Supports .NET Core 2.0 for Serverless Applications
Amazon has announced .NET Core 2.0 support for AWS Lambda functions and serverless applications. Developers can now write code in C# using the .NET Core 2.0 for Lambda functions and serverless applications running on AWS.
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Bloomberg Releases Open Source “PowerfulSeal” Kubernetes-Specific Chaos Testing Tool
At the recent KubeCon North America conference, Bloomberg presented their new open source “PowerfulSeal” tool, which enables chaos testing within Kubernetes clusters via the termination of targeted pods and underlying node infrastructure.
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Microsoft Releases Azure Data Factory V2 Visual Tools in Public Preview
After releasing Microsoft Azure Data Factory v2 (ADF) in public preview in September, Microsoft has recently followed up with the announcement of a public preview of new visual tooling for the service.
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AWS Lambda Now Supports Go for Serverless Applications
Amazon has announced Go support for AWS Lambda, which opens the way to writing Go serverless applications running on AWS.
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DigitalOcean Revamps Compute Plans and Pricing Structure
After spending 2017 adding ancillary services to their virtual machine-centric cloud, DigitalOcean kicked off 2018 with some product and pricing changes. Last year, DigitalOcean added support for firewalls, monitoring, load balancers, and object storage. Today's announcement highlights three new classes of servers, some with upgraded CPU, memory and storage.
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PCF 2.0 Expands Platform to Include Containers and Serverless
Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) version 2.0 sees a significant expansion of the platform. As well as the original Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering, PCF 2.0 now also includes a Kubernetes-based container service and an upcoming Function/Serverless service alongside a marketplace of add-on services that extend the capabilities of the platform.
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HashiCorp and Contino Share Enterprise Terraform Recommended Practices
HashiCorp has published a Terraform Recommend Practices guide to assist enterprises looking to embrace cloud technologies and Infrastructure as Code (IaC). An overflow of a typical recommended Terraform workflow is provided, and a “provisioning maturity model” is presented, which also provides advice on how to evolve current practices from one stage to the next.
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Google Introduces Low-Priced Preemptible GPUs for Their Customers
Google announces the beta release of Graphical Processing Units (GPUs) attached to Preemptible Virtual Machines (VMs) in their cloud Platform. Google Cloud Platform (GCP) customers can now attach NVIDIA K80 and NVIDIA P100 GPUs to Preemptible VMs for respectively 0.22 and 0.73 dollar cent per GPU hour, 50 percent cheaper than GPUs connected to on-demand instances.
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Kubernetes and OpenShift Q&A with Brian Gracely from Kubecon 2017
InfoQ caught up with Brian Gracely, director product strategy for Red Hat Openshift, about how Kubernetes has helped shape the product direction and how it's relevant to developers and architects.