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Amazon Announces AWS Lambda Powertools TypeScript
Amazon recently announced the beta release of AWS Lambda Powertools TypeScript. The set of utilities for Node.js Lambda functions helps developers follow best practices for tracing, structured logging and custom metrics.
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Microsoft Previews Enterprise-Grade Edge Functionality to Optimize Azure Static Web Apps
Azure Static Web Apps are a serverless web app hosting service for static web apps, which Microsoft manages. The company now announced a preview of Azure Static Web Apps enterprise-grade edge powered by Azure Front Door, enabling faster page loads, enhanced security, and increased reliability for global apps with no configuration or additional code required.
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AWS Launches a New Console Home Page to Manage Cloud Resources
Recently, AWS launched a version of the AWS Management Console. Through the home page of the console, customers can have access to each service console, and it offers a single place to access the information they need to perform their AWS related tasks.
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Linux to Adopt New Multi-Generation LRU Page Reclaim Policy
Based on observed behaviour on Android and Chrome OS, Google began working on a new page reclamation strategy for its Linux-based OSes aimed at improving how the virtual memory subsystem reclaims unused memory pages. More recent work shows the new MGLRU policy can benefit server environments, too.
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Google Cloud Spanner Dialect for SQLAlchemy is Generally Available
Google Cloud recently announced the general availability of the Spanner dialect enabling SQLAlchemy applications to run on the distributed SQL database management and storage service.
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Amazon EC2 Hpc6a Instances, Optimized for High-Performance Computing, Are Now Generally Available
Recently, AWS announced the general availability (GA) of Amazon EC2 Hpc6a Instances. With these instances, the company expands its portfolio of HPC compute options.
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Cloudflare Report Highlights Staggering Increase in DDoS Attacks in Q4 2021
In keeping with its custom of releasing a quarterly trends report on DDoS attacks, Cloudflare has just published its new findings for Q4 2021, which show a 95% increase in L3/4 DDoS attacks and record-breaking levels of Ransom DDoS attacks.
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AWS Finally Gets Official SDKs for Rust, Kotlin, and Swift
Previewed at Re:invent, the new AWS SDKs for Rust, Kotlin, and Swift provide idiomatic wrappers around AWS APIs that will allow developers to interact with AWS services in a more familiar and consistent way.
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AWS Offers Two New Outposts SKUs Suitable for Space Constrained Locations
AWS Outposts provides customers with on-premises compute and storage monitored and managed by AWS and controlled by the same, familiar AWS APIs. Last year at re:Invent in Vegas, AWS announced two new smaller AWS Outposts form factors suitable for locations such as branch offices, retail stores, hospitals, and cell sites that are space-constrained and need access to low-latency compute capacity.
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Google Cloud Embraces Security Orchestration through Siemplify Acquisition
Google has announced the acquisition of security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR) provider Siemplify, with the aim of integrating SOAR capabilities into its own Google Chronicle security solution.
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Incorrect IAM Policy Raised Questions about AWS Access to S3 Data
An unexpected change in the policy used by AWS Support raised concerns about access to customers' S3 data. The cloud provider reverted the change, stating that the permissions were not and could not be used and published a security bulletin. Security experts suggest steps to detect and prevent similar issues in the future.
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Amazon RDS Introduces Readable Standby Instances in Multi-AZ Deployments
AWS has recently announced readable standby instances in Amazon RDS multi-AZ deployments. The new database cluster option provides high availability and durability for workloads requiring more read capacity and consistent transaction latency.
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AWS Announces Further Worldwide Expansion of Local Zones
AWS Local Zones are an infrastructure deployment that places compute, storage, database, and other select AWS services close to a large population and industrial centers. And recently, AWS announced the launch of over 30 new AWS Local Zones in significant cities worldwide.
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Amazon Introduces re:Post, a "Stack Overflow" for AWS
At re:Invent Amazon announced re:Post, a Q&A service that replaced the AWS Forums and is designed to offer crowd-sourced and expert-reviewed answers to technical questions about AWS.
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Kubernetes IPv4/IPv6 Dual Stack Q&A with Khaled (Kal) Henidak of Microsoft & Tim Hockin of Google
InfoQ caught up with Khaled (Kal) Henidak of Microsoft and Tim Hockin of Google, designers of the Kubernetes dual-stack, regarding its design and implementation.