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Amazon File Cache Now Generally Available
Amazon recently announced the general availability of File Cache, a managed high-speed cache for processing file data stored in disparate locations. The new service can be linked to multiple sources including on premises network file systems and managed AWS services like Amazon FSx or S3.
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Fitbit Health Solution and Google Cloud Introduce Device Connect for Fitbit
Fitbit Health Solutions and Google Cloud have recently announced the release of Device Connect for Fitbit, which will provide healthcare and life sciences enterprises with accelerated analytics and insights to help people live healthier lives.
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Confluent Ships Stream Designer Democratizing Data Streams
Confluent recently released Stream Designer, a visual interface that lets developers quickly build and deploy streaming data pipelines.
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AWS Introduces Amazon Workspaces Core and Support for Ubuntu Desktops on Amazon Workspaces
AWS recently introduced a new addition to Amazon Workspaces with a fully-managed, infrastructure-only Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) offering called Amazon Workspaces Core. In addition, customers can provision Ubuntu desktops on Amazon Workspaces for their developers, engineers, or data scientists.
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Cloudflare Open-Source Workerd Nanoservice Runtime Now in Beta
Recently open-sourced Cloudflare workerd is a new Web runtime for JavaScript/Wasm applications that shares most of its code with the runtime used by Cloudflare Workers. Workerd is based on standardized Web APIs and aims to enable a new approach to microservices removing their intrinsic latency, says Cloudflare.
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Cloudflare Previews Serverless Database D1 Adding Transactions
Cloudflare recently unveiled more details about the serverless database D1, the new service supporting SQLite to store and query relational data globally with low latency. D1 is the first SQL database from the content delivery network company and will support transactions.
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AWS IoT FleetWise Now Generally Available
AWS recently announced the general availability (GA) of its fully managed IoT FleetWise service, allowing customers to easily collect, transform, and transfer vehicle data to the cloud.
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Cloudflare R2 Storage Generally Available
Cloudflare recently announced the general availability of R2 storage, an S3-compatible object storage without egress charges. The new service provides dynamic functionalities integrating with Cloudflare Workers.
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Google Cloud Introduces Startup CPU Boost for Cloud Run and Cloud Functions 2nd Gen
Google Cloud recently introduced startup CPU boost for Cloud Run and Cloud Functions 2nd gen, a new feature that allows developers to significantly reduce the cold start time of Cloud Run and Cloud Functions. The new capability is currently in preview.
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CockroachDB Serverless Now Generally Available
Cockroach Labs, a computer software company that develops commercial database management systems, recently announced the general availability of its serverless database. In addition, the company also announced integrations with HashiCorp's Vault and Terraform.
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Google Distributed Cloud Virtual Now Supports Virtual Machines
Recently Google announced the general availability of virtual machine (VM) support in Anthos for bare metal, also known as Google Distributed Cloud Virtual (GDC), which will allow customers to run VMs alongside containers on a single, unified, Google Cloud-connected platform in their data center or at the edge.
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Terraform 1.3 Release Introduces Simplified Refactoring Experience
HashiCorp has announced the release of the 1.3 version of Terraform. This release introduces optional object type attributes with defaults and expands the capabilities of moved blocks.
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Google Cloud Spanner Introduces Free Trial Instances and Fine-Grained Access Control
Google Cloud recently announced different improvements to their managed databases. The cloud provider introduced free trial instances and fine-grained access control for Spanner to let developers try the managed service and configure access to data at the table and column level.
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Preventing Serverless Vendor Lock-in with Design Patterns
Gregor Hohpe recently published an article proposing a paradigm shift to address vendor lock-in concerns on serverless cloud applications. Designing a solution using well-known patterns decouples its functional characteristics from the underlying cloud implementation, making it easier to avoid lock-in or to go multi-cloud.
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Microsoft Announces New Azure Space Capabilities
Recently Microsoft announced a series of updates around Azure Space, their offering combing cloud and space. The company now brings Azure Orbital to general availability (GA), offers a new service with Azure Orbital Cloud Access in preview, and advances the digital transformation of satellite communication networks.