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AWS – AWS Fargate increases default resource count service quotas to 1000
AWS Fargate recently increased default service quotas to 500 and starting today you can launch up to 1000 concurrent Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) tasks and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) pods running on Fargate On-Demand and 1000 concurrent Amazon ECS tasks running on Fargate Spot. These are default quotas (also commonly known as limits) […]

AWS – Amazon EKS now supports Kubernetes version 1.19
Kubernetes is rapidly evolving, with frequent feature releases and bug fixes. Highlights of the Kubernetes 1.19 release include Ingress API and Pod Topology Spread reaching stable status, EndpointSlices being enabled by default, and immutable Secrets and ConfigMaps. Learn more about Kubernetes version 1.19 in the Kubernetes project release notes. Read More for the details.

Azure – Automatic Azure VM extension upgrade capabilities now in public preview
Automatic extension upgrade provides safe and automatic upgrades for extensions on Azure virtual machines and virtual machine scale sets, keeping your environments more secure and up to date. Read More for the details.

GCP – Discover and invoke services across clusters with GKE multi-cluster services
Do you have a Kubernetes application that needs to span multiple clusters? Whether for privacy, scalability, availability, cost management, and data sovereignty reasons, it can be hard for platform teams to architect, implement, operate, and maintain applications across cluster boundaries, as Kubernetes’ Service primitive only enables service discovery within the confines of a single Kubernetes […]

GCP – Ship your Go applications faster to Cloud Run with ko
As developers work more and more with containers, it is becoming increasingly important to reduce the time to move from source code to a deployed application. To make building container images faster and easier, we have built technologies like Cloud Build, ko, Jib, Nixery and added support for cloud-native Buildpacks. Some of these tools focus […]

AWS – Update content of inbound and outbound emails using AWS Lambda in Amazon WorkMail
Today, Amazon WorkMail announced that you can now update content of in-transit emails to and from your organization with AWS Lambda functions when using Email Flow Rules. With this, you can easily update the contents of the email as it flows in and out of your organization in order to help meet security, compliance, or […]

Azure – Azure Firewall Premium now in public preview
Azure Firewall Premium provides next generation firewall capabilities that are required for highly sensitive and regulated environments. Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure role-based access control (RBAC) for Azure Key Vault data plane authorization is now generally available
Achieve unified management and access control across Azure resources, Azure Key Vault and keys, certificates, and secrets. Read More for the details.

GCP – Making transport easier and more affordable across India’s urban centers with Google Maps Platform
Editor’s Note: Today’s guest post comes from Varun Agni, CTO and Co-Founder of smart mobility company Bounce, which operates the only dockless self-drive scooter service in India. The motorized scooter is the perfect vehicle for navigating the bustling cities of India. It’s much more affordable than a car, it’s easy to use, and you can […]
GCP – How Citrix and Google Cloud are helping provide secure application access
Google and Citrix have a history of working together for over a decade to make the future of work a simple, secure, and transformative reality for the world’s biggest enterprises—from the Modern Computing Alliance and Chrome Enterprise Recommended, to enabling secure remote access to enterprise applications, to democratizing Zero Trust with the BeyondCorp Alliance, and […]