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AWS Increases the Availability and Reliability of Amazon EventBridge with Global Endpoints
Recently, AWS introduced a new capability called global endpoints for its serverless event bus service Amazon EventBridge to improve availability and reliability.
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AWS Introduces Lambda Function URLs to Simplify Serverless Deployments
AWS recently announced the general availability of Lambda Function URLs, a feature that lets developers directly configure a HTTPS endpoint and CORS headers for a Lambda function without provisioning other services.
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Fauna Transactional Database Introduces Event Streaming
Fauna, the company behind the Fauna transactional database, recently announced the general availability of event streaming, a push-based stream that sends changes at both the document and collection levels to subscribed clients.
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Microsoft Introduces NVads A10 V5 Azure VMs in Preview for Graphics-Heavy Workloads
Microsoft recently announced the NVads A10 v5 series in preview. These virtual machines (VMs) are powered by NVIDIA A10 GPUs and AMD EPYC 74F3V(Milan) CPUs with a base frequency of 3.2 GHz and an all-core peak frequency of 4.0 GHz.
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Kestra: a Scalable Open-Source Orchestration and Scheduling Platform
Kestra, a new open-source orchestration and scheduling platform, helps developers to build, run, schedule, and monitor complex pipelines. The concept of a workflow, called Flow in Kestra, is at the heart of the platform. It is a list of tasks defined with a descriptive language based on yaml.
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AWS Lambda Supports up to 10 GB Ephemeral Storage for Data-Intensive Applications
AWS recently announced that Lambda functions now support up to 10 GB of ephemeral storage that is preserved for the lifetime of the execution environment. The feature will help customers that run data workloads such as media processing, machine learning inference or financial analysis.
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Microsoft Brings Private Link Support in Preview to Azure API Management
Recently, Microsoft announced the preview of Azure Private Link support for Azure API Management service, a fully-managed service that enables customers to publish, secure, transform, maintain, and monitor APIs.
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AWS Releases Amazon GameSparks into Preview
Recently, Amazon announced the preview of Amazon GameSparks, a managed service that provides game developers with features for building, running, and scaling the backend of their games. The public cloud provider also provides an SDK for the Unity game engine with the preview release.
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Developer Experience at Lyft: from the Cloud to Local Environments
Lyft engineering finished their decomposition of a monolith into a collection of microservices back in 2018. Modular development environments using Docker containers eventually moved to the cloud. Recent articles describe how their development tooling struggled to keep up as time passed and the number of microservices exploded. Development environments had to return to the engineer’s machine.
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Compute Engine VMs Cost Optimization with Suspend/Resume
Recently, Google announced the general availability of the Suspend/Resume feature for its Compute Engine VMs. The feature provides customers better control over Google Cloud resource consumption.
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Microsoft Introduces Azure Health Data Services: Protected Health Information on the Cloud
Microsoft recently announced Azure Health Data Services, a Platform-as-a-Service that allows organizations to upload, store, manage and analyze healthcare data in the open standards FHIR and DICOM.
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Google Updates its Cloud MemoryStore with Read Replicas, RDB Snapshots, and Flushless Updates
Recently, Google announced a few updates for its Cloud MemoryStore, a fully-managed in-memory store compatible with open-source Redis. These updates are generally available (GA) Read Replicas, RDB (Redis database) snapshots in preview, and the launch of the flushless update for basic tier instances.
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Growing Concerns among Developers about Google Cloud Price Increases
Google Cloud recently announced changes to their pricing models, with storage and data transfer costs mostly affected. Many experts in the cloud community have been raising concerns about architectural implications and the end of a long term "prices never go up" cloud tenet.
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Customizable Pricing and Cost Visibility with AWS Billing Conductor
Recently, AWS announced AWS Billing Conductor, allowing enterprises to quickly provide customizable pricing and cost visibility for their end customers or business units. The service does not impact the billing and invoicing relationship between customers and AWS, as it is intended for enterprises that have specific showback and chargeback needs.
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Orchestrate Operations, Validations, and Approvals on Data Entities with Azure Purview Workflows
Recently, Microsoft announced the preview of Azure Purview Workflows, allowing customers to orchestrate then create, update and delete operations, validation, and approval of data entities using repeatable business processes. These workflows are currently in preview.