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AWS Publishes Reference Architecture and Implementations for Deployment Pipelines
AWS recently released a reference architecture and a set of reference implementations for deployment pipelines. The recommended architectural patterns are based on best practices and lessons collected at Amazon and customer projects.
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Sustainability for Development and Operations with DevSusOps
For a sustainability transformation, a business has to figure out how to measure its carbon footprint, come up with a plan to change the way it powers everything, and change the products they’re making, and even the markets that they operate in. Adrian Cockcroft spoke about sustainability in development and operations at QCon San Francisco 2022.
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Microsoft Joins the FinOps Foundation as a Premier Member
Microsoft has officially joined the FinOps Foundation, a non-profit organization that promotes financial management in cloud technology.
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New CloudWatch Metrics for AWS Lambda Asynchronous Invocations
AWS recently added three new Amazon CloudWatch metrics for AWS Lambda: AsyncEventsReceived, AsyncEventAge, and AsyncEventsDropped, to monitor the performance of asynchronous event processing.
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Faster Startup Time and Lower Memory Usage: New CRT HTTP Client in AWS SDK for Java
AWS recently announced the general availability of the Common Runtime (CRT) HTTP Client in the AWS SDK for Java 2.x. The new asynchronous client provides faster SDK startup time and a smaller memory footprint improving Lambda serverless workloads.
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Google Adds New Pricing Model to Its Security Command Center
Google recently announced several new updates to its Security Command Center (SCC) with a pay-as-you-go pricing model and two capabilities: deployments at the project level and self-service activation.
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Malicious PyPI Package Removes netstat, Tampers with SSH Config
A recent report by Sonatype security researcher Ax Sharma highlights newly discovered malicious packages on the PyPI registry, including aptx, which can install the Meterpreter trojan disguised as pip, delete the netstat system utility, and tamper with SSH authorized_keys file.
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Azure Announces Native New Relic Service for Full-Stack Observability
Azure recently announced a native New Relic service for full-stack observability. The performance monitoring service allows monitoring and troubleshooting of cloud applications in real-time, providing metrics, traces, and logs.
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Microsoft’s Fully-Managed Azure Load Testing Service Now Generally Available
Microsoft recently announced the general availability of Azure Load Testing, a fully-managed load-testing service allowing customers to test the resiliency of their applications regardless of where they are hosted.
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Azure Durable Functions Now Supports Storage Backends Microsoft Netherite and MSSQL
Microsoft recently announced that Azure Durable Functions support for the new storage providers, Netherite and Microsoft SQL Server (MSSQL), is generally available.
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Go 1.20 Improves Compiler Performance and Extends Coverage Support
The latest release of the Go language, Go 1.20, improves compiler performance, bringing it back in line with Go 1.17. Additionally, the language now supports conversion from slice to arrays and revises struct comparison.
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Infrastructure from Code: the New Wave of Cloud Infrastructure Management
Infrastructure-from-Code (IfC) is an approach that creates, configures, and manages cloud resources understanding a software application's source code, without explicit description.
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Azure Now Supports Database as a Service Couchbase Capella
A cloud database platform company Couchbase recently announced that its Capella database as a Service (DBaaS) offering as a fully-managed service is available on Azure.
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AWS Patches Undocumented APIs Bypassing CloudTrail Event Logging
AWS recently patched undocumented IAM APIs that bypassed CloudTrail logging. The vulnerability allowed a malicious user to perform reconnaissance activities on IAM without recording events in CloudTrail or being detected by Amazon GuardDuty.
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AWS OpenSearch Serverless Now Generally Available
Amazon recently announced the general availability of OpenSearch Serverless, a new serverless option for Amazon OpenSearch service, which automatically provisions and scales the underlying resources for faster data ingestion and query responses.