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AWS Announces European Sovereign Cloud for Government Agencies and Regulated Industries
AWS has recently announced that it is working on a European Sovereign Cloud, a new European region that will be operationally independent of all existing AWS regions. No availability date has been provided for the new option that targets government agencies and regulated industries that store sensitive data and run critical workloads in the European Union (EU).
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MySQL 8.2 Introduces Transparent Read/Write Splitting
Oracle has recently announced the general availability of MySQL 8.2, which includes support for Read/Write Splitting. This long-awaited feature has been introduced in the latest innovation release and helps optimize database performance and scalability.
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Fermyon Spin 2.0 Adds Support for WebAssembly Components and WASI Preview 2
Spin 2.0, an open-source tool to build and run serverless WebAssembly apps, gets support for WebAssembly components, improves performance and developer experience, and lays the foundation for Wasm portability across runtimes and implementations.
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Azure Synapse Link for Cosmos DB: New Analytics Capabilities
In recent news from the Azure team, Azure Synapse Link introduces a set of new capabilities, including its compatibility with existing MongoDB collections, integration with continuous backup, and custom partitioning, empowering users to leverage analytics workloads with ease and efficiency on top of Azure Cosmos DB data.
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Microsoft Introduces New Tiers for Its API Management Service in Azure
Microsoft recently announced the public preview of two new Azure API Management tiers: Basic v2 and Standard v2.
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Cloudflare, Google and AWS Disclose HTTP/2 Zero-Day Vulnerability
On October 10th, Cloudflare, Google, and AWS disclosed a novel zero-day vulnerability attack known as the "HTTP/2 Rapid Reset." This attack exploits a weakness in the HTTP/2 protocol to generate enormous Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, up to almost 400 million requests per second (rps).
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CloudWatch Introduces Best Practice Alarm Recommendations for 19 AWS Services
AWS has recently introduced "out-of-the-box" best practice alarm recommendations for Amazon CloudWatch. This new option is designed to improve observability on the AWS platform, allowing users to easily add alarms from the console and download templates for CloudFormation, Terraform, and the CLI.
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Amazon MSK Replicator: Active-Passive and Active-Active Clusters for Apache Kafka Service
AWS has recently announced MSK Replicator, a new option for cross-region and same-region streaming data replication. The new feature of the Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka service provides automatic asynchronous replication across clusters, enhancing availability and ensuring business continuity.
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Microsoft Announces Radius: a New Open Application Platform for the Cloud
Microsoft has recently announced Radius, a cloud-native application platform designed to facilitate collaboration between developers and platform engineers who assist them in delivering and managing cloud-native applications. This platform ensures that these applications adhere to corporate standards for cost-efficiency, operational efficiency, and security as the default approach.
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Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Now Supports pgactive for Active-Active Replication
AWS recently announced the general availability of pgactive on RDS for PostgreSQL. The replication extension for PostgreSQL supports asynchronous active-active replication for streaming data between database instances, enhancing resiliency and flexibility.
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Cloudflare Claims Migration to Their Services Can Reduce Network Carbon Emissions by 78-96%
A study conducted by the consultancy firm Analysys Mason suggests that shifting networking and security workloads to Cloudflare can significantly reduce network carbon emissions. According to the report, Cloudflare’s networking products can help companies lower their carbon emissions and meet sustainability objectives.
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Cloudflare Post-Quantum Cryptography Now Generally Available, Including Origin Servers
Cloudflare has announced the general availability of post-quantum cryptography for a number of its services and internal systems. While promising a higher standard of privacy for the post-quantum era, the new feature depends on post-cryptography support in browsers and on the final link between Cloudflare and origin servers.
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Microsoft Playwright Testing: Scalable End-to-End Testing for Modern Web Apps
Microsoft recently announced the public preview of Microsoft Playwright Testing, a new service for running Playwright tests at scale through Azure.
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AWS Application Composer Now Supports All Cloudformation Resources
AWS announced the availability of all AWS CloudFormation resource types within AWS Application Composer. This builds on the GA release which only allowed 13 CloudFormation resource types to be used.
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PlanetScale's Challenge to Oracle: Forking MySQL and Introducing Vector Search
PlanetScale recently announced the intention to fork MySQL adding vector search. While PostgreSQL has been the default open-source choice for vector search, the company behind the Vitess database wants to release a version of MySQL and PlanetScale with vector support.