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AWS Introduces New Compute-Optimized Amazon EC2 C6a Instances Providing Better Price-Performance
Recently, AWS introduced new compute-optimized Amazon EC2 C6a instances that provide up to 15 percent improvement in price-performance versus C5a instances and 10 percent lower cost than comparable x86-based EC2 instances. These new instances are ideal for running compute-intensive workloads such as high-performance web servers, batch processing, ad serving, HPC, and machine learning.
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ValidKube Aims to Help Enforce Kubernetes YAML Best Practices
ValidKube is a new open-source tool that combines several tools to make it easier to validate, clean, and secure Kubernetes YAML configuration files. InfoQ has spoken with Itiel Shwartz, CTO and co-founder of Komodor, creator of ValidKube.
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KubeVela Announces 1.2: Application-Centric Multi-Cluster Control Plane with Extensible Engine
KubeVela is a modern application delivery platform that makes shipping applications across hybrid, multi-cloud environments easier and faster. The OAM community released version 1.2 of the KubeVela project in Jan 2022, bringing a new GUI framework VelaX, unified multi-cluster management capabilities, and an extensible design with an addon ecosystem.
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AWS Introduces a New Open-Source Solution: AWS Virtual Waiting Room
Recently, AWS introduced a new open-source solution called AWS Virtual Waiting Room, allowing integration with existing web and mobile applications. In addition, the solution protects systems from resource exhaustion by buffering user requests during sudden traffic bursts.
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AWS CloudFormation Hooks Provide Proactive Validation of CloudFormation Operations
AWS has announced the general availability of AWS CloudFormation Hooks which allow for custom logic prior to a create, update, or delete CloudFormation stack operation. CloudFormation hooks support versioning, public and private distribution, and can be published into multiple AWS accounts and regions.
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Report Finds 75% of Cloud Runtimes Contain High or Critical Vulnerabilities
Sysdig’s latest cloud-native and security-usage report finds that shipping containers with vulnerabilities has become standard practice - with the report finding that 75% of containers have high severity vulnerabilities which could have been patched. The report stresses that many organisations find this to be an acceptable risk, in order to move and release quickly.
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Fast-Track Application Refactoring with the Generally Available AWS Migration Hub Refactor Spaces
AWS first introduced the preview of AWS Migration Hub Refactor Spaces, a new capability of AWS Migration Hub, last November at re:Invent 2021. Now, the public cloud provider announced the general availability of the Migration Hub capability.
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Java News Roundup: Payara Platform 2022 Roadmap, OpenJDK Drafts, Kotlin 1.6.20-M1, Gradle 7.4
This week's Java roundup for February 7th, 2022, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 18, JDK 19, JSR 381 approved by the JCP, Payara Platform 2022 roadmap, Quarkus 2.7.1, Helidon 2.4.2, Micronaut 3.3.1, Hibernate Search 6.1.1, Hibernate Reactive 1.1.3.Final, JReleaser Early-Access, Failsafe 3.2.1, Kotlin 1.6.20-M1, Gradle 7.4, Apache Tika 2.3.0 and end-of-life for Apache Tika 1.x release train.
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HashiCorp Terraform AWS Provider Introduces Significant Changes to Amazon S3 Bucket Resource
HashiCorp has announced the release of version 4.0 of their Terraform AWS provider. This release introduces significant, breaking changes to the Amazon S3 bucket resource. The release also includes full lifecycle control over default resources, changes to the provider configuration, and improvements to handling plural data sources.
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HashiCorp Consul on Amazon ECS Adds Development Kit and Support for High Traffic Loads
HashiCorp has announced the release of version 0.3 of their Consul on Amazon ECS service. The release includes support for additional configuration options, deployment without Terraform, and confirmed support for high traffic loads. They have also released, in partnership with AWS, a AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) to support using Consul on Amazon ECS.
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Log4Shell Defenses: Java Agents in Conversation with Contrast Security’s Arshan Dabirsiaghi
Due to the critical nature of the systems and to the severe and critical nature of the log4shell vulnerability, an alternative approach to fixing it was required. Java Agents played a crucial role in this defense strategy. InfoQ reached out to Arshan Dabirsianghi, chief scientist and founder of Contrast Security, for a better understanding of their approach.
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Runtime Security Project Falco Adds Extensible Plugin Framework
Falco, a cloud-native runtime security project, has released version 0.31.0. This release introduces a new plugin system for defining additional event sources and event extractors to Falco. The plugin system includes SDKs to simplify development and this release ships with a new AWS CloudTrail plugin.
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Microsoft Releases Azure Payment HSM in Public Preview for the Payment Card Industry
Recently, Microsoft announced the public preview of a bare-metal infrastructure as a service (IaaS) Azure Payment HSM that provides cryptographic key operations for real-time payment transactions in Azure. It uses the Thales payShield 10K payment HSMs, which delivers a suite of payment security functionality proven in critical environments.
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Microsoft Adds New Services for Historical Weather, Air Quality, and Tropical Storms
Azure Maps Weather Services is a part of the Microsoft Azure Maps Service. It offers a set of RESTful APIs, allowing developers to integrate highly dynamic historical, real-time, forecasted weather data and visualizations into their solutions. Recently, they announced three new services with historical weather, air quality, and tropical storms.
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Java News Roundup: JEP 423, Quarkus 2.7.0, Micronaut Serialization, JReleaser Early-Access
This week's Java roundup for January 31st, 2022, features news from OpenJDK (JEP 423), JDK 18, JDK 19, Project Loom Build 19-loom+3-89, Spring Framework updates, Quarkus 2.7.0.Final, a new Micronaut Serialization module, Apache Camel Quarkus 2.7.0, Apache Camel 3.15.0, a second JReleaser early-access build, JobRunr versions 4.0.7 and 4.0.8, and Failsafe 3.2.