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GCP – Introducing Anthos for VMs and tools to simplify the developer experience
When it comes to software development using Google Cloud, we have three guiding principles. First, developing on Google Cloud needs to be open—we rely heavily on open-source technologies so that it’s easier to move apps between environments, recruit skilled developers, and access the latest innovations sooner. Second, developing for Google Cloud should also be easy—we […]
AWS – AWS FPGA developer kit now supports Jumbo frames in virtual ethernet frameworks for Amazon EC2 F1 instances
Today we are announcing support for jumbo frames via the virtual ethernet framework in the AWS FPGA Developer kit. With this support, developers using Amazon EC2 F1 instances can use jumbo frames to get the maximum allowed networking bandwidth for the instance delivering up to double the networking performance. Read More for the details.
GCP – New PostgreSQL Interface makes Cloud Spanner’s scalability and availability more open and accessible
Customers in financial services, gaming, retail, and many other industries rely on Cloud Spanner today to power their most demanding relational database workloads that need to scale without downtime. At Google Cloud Next ’21 we announced a preview of the PostgreSQL interface for Cloud Spanner that further democratizes access to Spanner for millions of developers. […]
AWS – AWS CloudFormation customers can now manage their applications in AWS Systems Manager
AWS CloudFormation customers can now view operational data and quickly take action to resolve issues involving CloudFormation stack resources through Application Manager, a capability of AWS Systems Manager. Using this feature, customers can obtain an application view of resources provisioned via a CloudFormation stack. With the operational metrics, logs, alerts, and cost information obtained from […]
AWS – AWS Console Mobile Application adds support for Amazon Elastic Container Service
AWS Console Mobile Application users can now use Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) on both the iOS and Android applications. The Console Mobile Application provides a secure and easy-to-use on-the-go solution for monitoring ECS clusters, services, configurations, tasks and container workloads. Customers can also stop ECS tasks and launch desired number of tasks for […]
AWS – CDK for Kubernetes (CDK8s) now Generally Available
Cloud Development Kit for Kubernetes (CDK8s) is now Generally Available and ready for production usage with any conformant Kubernetes cluster. To ensure continued community involvement, cdk8s is also now an official CNCF Sandbox project and has moved from the AWS Labs GitHub organization to a dedicated home on GitHub, cdk8s-team. Read More for the details.
Azure – Generally available: Service Tag Discovery API
Utilize the Service Tag Discovery API to retrieve a list of Service Tags and corresponding IP ranges to easily configure on-premises firewalls and Azure resources. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure Firewall Premium now generally available in five new Azure regions
New zone options for additional resiliency and tolerance to infrastructure impact. Read More for the details.
AWS – New AWS Solutions Implementation: Automated Account Configuration
Automated Account Configuration helps you automate operational processes in an efficient, error-free, standardized and consistent way, to ensure that your AWS accounts are set up properly and with the necessary resources to meet your business and production needs. You can use the solutions implementation to configure and deploy the following business critical services: AWS Backup to centrally […]
AWS – AWS CDK releases v1.121.0 – v1.125.0 with features for faster development cycles using hotswap deployments and rollback control
During September, 2021, 5 new versions of the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) for JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, Python, .NET and Go were released (v1.121.0 through v.125.0). With these releases, the CDK CLI now has support for hotswap deployments for faster inner-loop development iterations on the application code in your CDK project. Hotswap initially supports AWS Lambda […]