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Google Cloud Deploy Adds Deployment Verification, Support for Cloud Run
Google has added deployment verification capabilities to its Google Cloud Deploy tool. This new feature is in preview release and makes use of recent updates to Skaffold. Along with this announcement, Google has also added support for Cloud Run to Google Cloud Deploy.
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Cloudflare Previews Serverless Database D1 Adding Transactions
Cloudflare recently unveiled more details about the serverless database D1, the new service supporting SQLite to store and query relational data globally with low latency. D1 is the first SQL database from the content delivery network company and will support transactions.
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Cloudflare R2 Storage Generally Available
Cloudflare recently announced the general availability of R2 storage, an S3-compatible object storage without egress charges. The new service provides dynamic functionalities integrating with Cloudflare Workers.
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CockroachDB Serverless Now Generally Available
Cockroach Labs, a computer software company that develops commercial database management systems, recently announced the general availability of its serverless database. In addition, the company also announced integrations with HashiCorp's Vault and Terraform.
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Preventing Serverless Vendor Lock-in with Design Patterns
Gregor Hohpe recently published an article proposing a paradigm shift to address vendor lock-in concerns on serverless cloud applications. Designing a solution using well-known patterns decouples its functional characteristics from the underlying cloud implementation, making it easier to avoid lock-in or to go multi-cloud.
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AWS Adds New Intrinsic Functions for Step Functions
AWS recently expanded support for manipulating input and output data by adding 14 new intrinsic functions for AWS Step Functions to simplify data processing, reduce calls to downstream services, and write less code.
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Discover, Copy, and Share Common Code with the New AWS Serverless Snippets Collection
Recently, the AWS Serverless Developer Advocate team released the Serverless Snippets Collection. This new Serverless Land page makes it easier to find, copy, and share common code that can enhance productivity in serverless application development.
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AWS Brings Support for GitHub, Stripe, and Twilio Events to Amazon EventBridge
Amazon EventBridge is a serverless event bus that allows AWS services, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), and custom applications to communicate with each other using events. The service now supports integrations with GitHub, Stripe, and Twilio via webhooks using Quicks Starts.
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AWS Adds Coding Assistant CodeWhisperer to Lambda Console
AWS recently announced the preview of Amazon CodeWhisperer in the AWS Lambda console. Available as a native code suggestion feature in the code editor, the new functionality of the coding assistant can make code recommendations during Lambda function definition.
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New Features with the GA Release of Second-Generation Cloud Functions
Like other public cloud vendors, Google has a Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) offering with Cloud Functions – and recently announced the second generation's general availability (GA).
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Amazon Redshift Serverless Generally Available to Automatically Scale Data Warehouse
Amazon recently announced the general availability of Redshift Serverless, an elastic option to scale data warehouse capacity. The new service allows data analysts, developers and data scientists to run and scale analytics without provisioning and managing data warehouse clusters.
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AWS Enhances its Step Functions Experience with Workflow Collections
AWS Step Functions is a serverless function orchestrator that makes it easy to sequence AWS Lambda functions and multiple AWS services into business-critical applications. AWS recently introduced a new experience to its Step Functions with Function Workflow Collections allowing users to create Step Functions workflows easier.
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MongoDB Atlas Serverless Instances and Data API Now Generally Available
At the recent MongoDB World 2022 conference, MongoDB announced that serverless instances for Atlas and Data API are now generally available. The new managed serverless option introduces a tiered pricing, with automatic discounts on daily usage.
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New Observability Features for AWS Step Functions
Recently, AWS announced a new opt-in capability on the state-machine page for Step Functions. Developers can quickly analyze, debug, and optimize Standard Workflows by enabling the new execution page option.
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Amazon Elastic MapReduce Now Generally Available as a Serverless Offering
AWS recently announced that Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) Serverless is generally available (GA). The offering is a serverless deployment option for customers to run big data analytics applications using open-source frameworks like Apache Spark and Hive without configuring, managing, and scaling clusters or servers.