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AWS Introduces Step Functions Distributed Map for Large-Scale Parallel Data Processing
AWS recently announced a distributed map for Step Functions, a solution for large-scale parallel data processing. Optimized for S3, the new feature of the AWS orchestration service targets interactive and highly parallel serverless data processing workflows.
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Zero Trust Access to Corporate Applications with AWS Verified Access
At re:Invent 2022, AWS released a new enterprise application connectivity service, Verified Access. The service provides Zero Trust access to enterprise web applications by employing endpoints and policies to authenticate and authorize user requests against identity providers or device management systems. Verified Access is currently in public preview in 10 AWS regions.
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Google Cloud Introduces Sensitive Actions to Improve Security for Premium Accounts
Google Cloud announced the preview of Sensitive Actions Service, a premium security feature to identify potentially risky behaviors on the cloud. The service detects when actions are taken in a GCP organization that could be damaging if taken by a malicious actor.
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Using Code Instrumentation for Fault Injection at the Application Level at eBay
eBay engineers have been using fault injections techniques to improve the reliability of the notification platform and explore its weaknesses. While fault injection is a common industry practice, eBay attempted a novel approach leveraging instrumentation to bring fault injection within the application level.
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Microsoft’s New Memory Optimized Ebsv5 VM Sizes in Preview Offer More Performance
Microsoft recently announced two additional Memory Optimized Virtual Machines (VM) sizes, E96bsv5 and E112ibsv5, to the Ebsv5 VM family developed with the NVMe protocol providing performance up to 260,000 IOPS and 8,000 MBps remote disk storage throughput.
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AWS Announces GA of DocumentDB Elastic Clusters
At the recent re:Invent conference, AWS announced the general availability of DocumentDB Elastic Clusters, a service that manages the elasticity and sharding for MongoDB workloads.
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Microsoft Brings Its Cloud Services and AI to the Edge
Microsoft recently announced the open-source release of Azure DeepStream Accelerator (ADA) in collaboration with Neal Analytics and NVIDIA, allowing developers to build Edge AI solutions with native Azure Services integration quickly.
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AWS Announces Upcoming Security Changes in April 2023 for Amazon S3
Recently AWS announced it would make two changes to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3): all buckets in a region will have S3 Block Public Access enabled and access control lists (ACLs) disabled by default. These changes will take effect in April 2023 and will be rolled out by the company in all AWS regions within weeks.
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Google Cloud Introduces Autoclass for Cloud Storage to Automatically Optimize Costs
Google Cloud recently announced the availability of Autoclass for Cloud Storage, a bucket-level setting that automates the lifecycle management of objects based on their last access time. The new feature simplifies cost optimization for workloads with unpredictable and unknown access patterns.
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PostgreSQL-Compatible AlloyDB Now Generally Available on Google Cloud
Recently Google announced the general availability (GA) of AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, a fully-managed, PostgreSQL-compatible database service providing scale-out compute and storage, integrated analytics, and AI/ML-powered management.
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Microsoft Previews a Managed Migration Service with Azure Storage Mover
Microsoft recently announced the preview of Azure Storage Mover, a fully-managed, hybrid migration service.
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Vercel Launches Edge Functions to Provide Compute at the Edge
Recently, Vercel announced the general availability of Edge Functions, which are either JavaScript, TypeScript, or WebAssembly functions. According to the company, these functions are generally both less expensive and faster than traditional Serverless Functions.
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Score Provides a Workflow Centric Approach to Container Workload Management
Score is designed to reduce the complexity and duplication required to run workloads across multiple cloud environments. Score defines workloads in a platform-agnostic fashion via YAML. At the time of release, the Score supports three platforms: Helm, Docker Compose, and Humanitec.
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AWS Key Management Service Now Supports External Key Stores
AWS recently announced the availability of AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) External Key Store (XKS), allowing organizations to store and manage their encryption keys outside the AWS KMS service.
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NVIDIA Kubernetes Device Plug-in Brings Temporal GPU Concurrency
Starting from the v12 release, the Nvidia GPU device plug-in framework started supporting time-sliced sharing between CUDA workloads on Kubernetes. This feature aims to prevent under-utilization of GPU units and make it easier to scale applications by leveraging concurrently-executing CUDA contexts.