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AWS Launches Centralized Product Lifecycle Page: Transparency and Consolidating Deprecation Info
AWS has launched its Product Lifecycle page, a centralized hub for tracking service availability changes, deprecations, and end-of-support timelines. This initiative streamlines communication, enhances customer confidence, and aligns with other hyperscalers, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. The page offers clear rationales and transition plans, ensuring a smooth process for customers.
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Another Lightweight Kubernetes Distro Choice as k0s Joins CNCF Sandbox
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has accepted k0s, a lightweight Kubernetes distribution, into its Sandbox programme. Mirantis's zero-dependency Kubernetes platform has been gaining adoption in edge computing and resource-constrained environments.
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Azure AI Foundry Agent Service GA Introduces Multi-Agent Orchestration and Open Interoperability
Microsoft's Azure AI Foundry Agent Service has launched with robust, scalable features for building and managing AI agents. This versatile, use-case-agnostic platform supports multi-agent orchestration and integrates seamlessly with tools like Logic Apps and SharePoint. Developers can effortlessly create intelligent ecosystems for diverse applications, boosting productivity and innovation.
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Travel Giant Skyscanner Overhauls Observability, Cuts Telemetry Costs by 90%
The COVID-19 pandemic gave the engineering teams at travel search giant Skyscanner an opportunity to introspectively examine their observability stack. Skyscanner has written about how it has overhauled its approach to technical observability with a system that improves reliability for engineers and travellers alike.
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Cisco Reveals JARVIS: an AI Assistant for Platform-Engineering Teams
Introducing JARVIS by Cisco, an AI-powered assistant revolutionizing platform-engineering workflows. With seamless integration across 40+ tools, JARVIS automates complex tasks, reducing project timelines from weeks to hours. Powered by a hybrid AI architecture, it ensures accuracy and reliability while enhancing productivity.
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Uber Completes Massive Kubernetes Migration for Microservices and Large-Scale Compute Workloads
Uber has successfully completed a large Kubernetes migration, transitioning its entire compute platform from Apache Mesos to Kubernetes across multiple data centers and cloud environments.
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Grafana 12 Launches with Observability as Code and Dynamic Dashboard Features
Grafana Labs have launched Grafana 12, bringing significant updates to its visualisation and dashboarding platform. Several new key features are now generally available, including Git Sync, dynamic dashboards, and improvements to Drilldown which gives code-free point-and-click insights into data, and a Cloud Migration assistant.
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Azure Logic Apps Introduces "Agent Loop" for Building AI Agents in Enterprise Workflows
Microsoft's Build conference unveiled Agent Loop, a transformative feature in Azure Logic Apps enabling developers to embed AI agents into enterprise workflows. Leveraging over 1,400 connectors, it allows for creating autonomous and conversational agents for tasks like loan approvals and customer support, streamlining operations, and enhancing decision-making.
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HashiCorp Releases Terraform MCP Server for AI Integration
HashiCorp has released the Terraform MCP Server, an open-source implementation of the Model Context Protocol designed to improve how large language models interact with infrastructure as code.
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HashiCorp's HCP Vault Radar Achieves General Availability with Vault Import Feature
HashiCorp has announced the general availability (GA) of HCP Vault Radar, a tool designed to help organizations detect and remediate unmanaged and leaked secrets across their environments. With the GA release, HCP Vault Radar introduces a new feature that allows users to import discovered secrets directly into HashiCorp Vault, streamlining the process of securing sensitive information.
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Docker Introduces Hardened Images to Strengthen Container Security
Docker has launched Docker Hardened Images, a catalog of enterprise-grade, security-hardened container images designed to protect against software supply chain threats. By relieving DevOps teams from the chore of securing their containers on their own, hardened images provide an easier way to meet enterprise-grade security and compliance standards, Docker says.
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AWS Transform GA: Agentic AI Automates Mainframe and VMware Modernization on AWS
AWS Transform, now generally available, is an innovative AI service designed to streamline enterprise mainframe and VMware modernization. Leveraging generative AI, it automates legacy systems' transformation into cloud architectures. With specialized multi-agent AI, it enhances code analysis and application migration.
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Cloudflare Enhances Developer Experience with Vite Plugin and React Router v7 Support
Introducing Cloudflare's Vite Plugin (v1.0), revolutionizing web app development on Cloudflare Workers! Seamlessly integrate the Workers runtime into the Vite build process, enhance productivity with official React Router v7 support, and streamline deployment workflows. Experience faster builds, efficient hot module replacement, and robust ecosystem support for modern frameworks.
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SSL/TLS Certificate Lifespans to Shrink to 47 Days by 2029
In a move to enhance internet security, the CA/Browser Forum (CA/B Forum) has approved a proposal to reduce the maximum validity period of SSL/TLS certificates from the current 398 days to just 47 days by March 15, 2029.
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AWS Lambda Introduces Tiered Pricing for CloudWatch Logs and Expands Logging Destinations
AWS enhances Lambda logging with tiered pricing for Amazon CloudWatch Logs, effective May 1, 2025, reducing costs for high-volume deployments. New destinations like Amazon S3 and Firehose simplify integration and enable advanced analytics. These changes promise significant savings and flexibility for AWS users while emphasizing the need for optimized logging strategies.