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AWS Backup for Amazon S3 Generally Available
Amazon recently announced the general availability of AWS Backup for Amazon S3, a managed option to centralize data protection for applications storing data on S3. The new feature automates the backup and restore of application data on S3 and combines it with the backup of other services, including instances and databases.
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Java News Roundup: JDK 19 and Jakarta EE 10 Updates, Ansynch and Buffered Logging by Amazon Corretto
This week's Java roundup for March 7th, 2022, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 19, Jakarta EE 10, updates to Spring Cloud subprojects, Amazon Corretto providing asynchronous and buffered logging for OpenJDK 17, Quarkus 2.7.4.Final, Hibernate ORM 6.0.0.CR2, Apache Groovy 3.0.10 and 2.5.16, Apache Camel 3.14.2, JReleaser early-access, JobRunr 4.0.10, JDKMon 17.0.23 and FailSafe 3.2.3.
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Amazon S3 Supports New Checksum Algorithms for Integrity Checking
Amazon S3 recently introduced support of four checksum algorithms for data integrity checking on upload and download requests. Amazon claims that the enhancements to the AWS SDK and S3 API accelerates integrity checking of the S3 requests by up to 90%.
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Easy Google Cloud Solution Architecture Designs with the Architecture Diagramming Tool
Recently, Google released an Architecture Diagramming Tool allowing the creation of architectural diagram of solution architecture with the available Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services.
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Reduce the Environmental Impact of AWS Workloads with the New Customer Carbon Footprint Tool
AWS recently released a new customer carbon footprint tool to allow its customers to calculate the environmental impact of their workloads.
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QCon Software Development Conferences: Seven Tracks Not to Miss
Why are micro-frontends important? How should you optimise your organisational architecture for speed and flow? How to make microservices successful? Have you ever wondered how well-known tech companies can seamlessly deliver an exceptional user experience while supporting millions of users and billions of transactions? Looking for new processes and best software practices?
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AWS Delivers a New Unified Service Health Dashboard
Recently, AWS updated its Service Health Dashboard with an improved Interface, better responsiveness, and integration with Personal Health Dashboard – all combined in a new Health Dashboard.
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Improve Access Control of Google Cloud SQL with IAM Conditions and Tags
Recently, Google announced the general availability (GA) of IAM Conditions and Tags for Cloud SQL, a fully-managed relational database service for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server.
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AWS Lambda Supports .NET 6
AWS Lambda recently added support for .NET 6, as both a managed runtime and a container base image. The new runtime introduces new .NET language features and performance optimizations, improves logging and simplifies function definition using top-level statements.
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Java News Roundup: JEP 424, NetBeans 13, Hazelcast 5.1, JHipster 7.7, Spring Cloud Gateway CVEs
This week's Java roundup for February 28th, 2022, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 19, point and milestone releases on various Spring projects, Quarkus 2.7.3.Final, Micronaut 3.3.4, HIbernate Validator versions 6.2.2.Final, 7.0.3.Final and 8.0.0.Alpha1, Hazelcast 5.1, Apache NetBeans 13, Apache Log4j 2.17.2, JHipster 7.7.0, and JReleaser 1.0.0-M3.
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AWS WAF Introduces Fraud Control - Account Takeover Prevention
Amazon recently introduced Fraud Control - Account Takeover Prevention, a new feature of AWS Web Application Firewall to protect login pages at network edge.
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Cloudflare Report Shows Rapid Growth in API Traffic
Cloudflare has recently released its annual Landscape of API Traffic report. The report analyzes the traffic data harnessed by Cloudflare’s global network to provide insights into the current industry trends of web traffic.
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How Security by Design Helped to Manage Risks in a Cloud Migration
When a company migrated to the cloud, security issues arose due to difficulties in getting stakeholders on board and involving security from the start. Embedding security assessments as part of the continuous cloud DevOps process and adopting an agile strategy for security risk management throughout the lifecycle of the project helped to increase the governance of security during the migration.
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Google Announces Second Generation Cloud Functions
Google recently announced the public preview of the second generation of Cloud Functions, the functions as a service platform on Google Cloud. The new version introduces more controls over functions runtime, provides better performances and scalability and supports triggers from more than 90 event sources.
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JDK 18 and JDK 19: What We Know So Far
JDK 18, the first non-LTS release since JDK 17, has reached its initial release candidate phase with a final set of nine new features, in the form of JEPs, that can be separated into three categories: Core Java Library, Java Tools and Java Specification. We examine JDK 18 and predict what features may be targeted for JDK 19.