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Azure Database Drops Support for MariaDB
Microsoft recently announced that Azure Database will drop support for MariaDB. Over the coming months, users will no longer be able to create new MariaDB databases through the console or CLI, with a scheduled sunset for existing instances in 2025.
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Confluent Announces Apache Flink on Confluent Cloud in Open Preview
Confluent recently announced the open preview of Apache Flink on Confluent Cloud as a fully-managed service for stream processing. The company claims that the managed service will make it easier for companies to filter, join, and enrich data streams with Flink.
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Digital Ocean Launches its Managed Kafka Service
Digital Ocean enters the arena of fully-managed Kafka services with its new offering aimed at simplifying management and maintenance of the popular event streaming platform. Digital Ocean Kafka targets startups and SMBs by offering them an all-inclusive, flat-rate pricing model.
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AWS Expands its Cloud Mac Minis Offering with M2 Pro Mac Instances
AWS recently announced the general availability of Amazon EC2 M2 Pro Mac instances (mac2-m2pro.metal) as a virtual Mac offering on its Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2).
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Microsoft Introduces Public Preview of Socket.IO Support on Azure Web PubSub
Microsoft recently added support for Socket.IO on Azure in public preview, allowing developers to leverage a fully-managed cloud solution through Web PubSub for Socket.IO.
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Azure Update Manager as Successor of Update Management Center Now Generally Available
Microsoft recently announced the general availability of Azure Update Manager, known previously as Update Management Center - a SaaS solution to manage and govern software updates to Windows and Linux machines across Azure, on-premises, and multi-cloud environments.
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High Performance Functions in Rust on RDS PostgreSQL
AWS announced the general availability of the Rust procedural language handler, PL/Rust, for Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) instances running versions 13 and 14 of PostgreSQL. This builds on the previous release in May 2023 that enabled the functionality only for instances running PostgreSQL version 15.
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AWS CodeArtifact Now Supports the Swift Package Manager
AWS-based software artifact repository CodeArtifact now supports the Swift Package Manager, in addition to Maven, NuGet, npm, pip, and others. This allows developers to store and retrieve Swift packages using Apple's official package manager just like they do when using other repositories.
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Google Compute Engine Future Reservations in Public Preview
Google recently introduced a new future reservation feature in public preview for its Compute Engine, allowing users to request compute capacity for a future date.
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Cloudflare One Data Protection Suite for Data Security across Web, Private, and SaaS Applications
Cloudflare recently announced its One Data Protection Suite, a unified set of advanced security solutions designed to protect data across every environment – web, private, and SaaS applications. The company states the suite is powered by Cloudflare’s Security Service Edge (SSE), allowing customers to streamline compliance in the cloud, mitigate data exposure and loss of source code.
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State of Serverless 2023 Report Suggests Increasing Serverless Adoption
Datadog recently published the 'State of Serverless 2023' report, an annual analysis tracking the adoption of serverless technologies in cloud workloads. The major cloud providers are witnessing substantial growth in serverless usage, especially for container-based solutions.
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Azure Launches Free Playground for WordPress on App Service
One year after introducing WordPress on Azure App Service, Microsoft has started offering a free hosting tier for developers to explore with WordPress on Azure without incurring any costs (almost).
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AWS Introduces Dedicated Local Zones for Sovereignty Requirements
AWS has recently introduced Dedicated Local Zones, enabling customers to isolate sensitive workloads to meet their digital sovereignty requirements. This new option is designed for public sector and regulated industry customers who need dedicated infrastructure.
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AWS Launches AWS Private CA Connector for Active Directory
AWS recently launched the AWS Private Certificate Authority (CA) Connector for Active Directory (AD). It is a new feature that allows enterprises to use AWS Private CA as a drop-in replacement for self-managed enterprise certificate authorities without the need to deploy, patch, or update local agents or proxy servers.
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Enhanced Error Handling for Step Functions Provides Developers with Fine-Grained Control over Retry
AWS recently announced the availability of enhanced error handling capabilities in AWS Step Functions workflows allowing developers to identify errors more clearly and provide them with fine-grained control over their retry strategies.