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AWS – Amazon EKS adds support for EC2 Spot Instances in managed node groups
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) now supports creating and managing Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Spot Instances using Amazon EKS managed node groups following Spot best practices. This enables you to take advantage of the steep savings and scale that Spot Instances provide for interruptible workloads running in your Kubernetes cluster. Starting today, […]

AWS – Amazon EKS Console Now Includes Kubernetes Resources to Simplify Cluster Management
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) now allows you to see the Kubernetes API resources and applications running on your Amazon EKS cluster using the AWS Management Console. This makes it easy to visualize and troubleshoot Kubernetes applications using Amazon EKS. Read More for the details.

AWS – Introducing Amazon EKS Distro – an open source Kubernetes distribution used by Amazon EKS.
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) Distro is the same Kubernetes distribution used by Amazon EKS for customers who create Kubernetes clusters manually wherever their applications are deployed. Amazon EKS Distro provides builds and code of open source Kubernetes, etcd, CoreDNS, upstream CNI Core binaries, CSI Sidecar Containers, and the latest security patches. Amazon EKS Distro […]

AWS – Introducing the Next version of Amazon Aurora Serverless in Preview
Aurora Serverless v2 scales to hundreds of thousands of transactions in a fraction of a second, delivering up to 90% cost savings compared to provisioning for peak capacity. Read More for the details.

AWS – Babelfish for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL is Available for Preview
Babelfish for Amazon Aurora is a new translation layer for Amazon Aurora that enables Aurora to understand queries from applications written for Microsoft SQL Server. With Babelfish, applications currently running on SQL Server can now run directly on Aurora PostgreSQL with little to no code changes. Babelfish understands the SQL Server wire-protocol and T-SQL, the […]

AWS – Amazon Web Services Announces AWS Proton
Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) company, launched AWS Proton, the first fully managed deployment service for container and serverless applications. Platform teams can use Proton to connect and coordinate all the different tools needed for infrastructure provisioning, code deployments, monitoring, and updates. Read More for the details.

AWS – Introducing new Amazon EBS general purpose volumes, gp3
Today AWS announced the availability of gp3, the next-generation general purpose SSD volumes for Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) that enable customers to provision performance independent of storage capacity and provides up to 20% lower price-point per GB than existing gp2 volumes. With gp3 volumes, customers can scale IOPS (input/output operations per second) and […]

AWS – AWS quadruples per-volume maximum capacity and performance on io2 volumes (in preview)
Today AWS announced availability, in preview, of io2 Block Express volumes that are designed to deliver up to 4x higher throughput, IOPS, and capacity than io2 volumes, while also delivering sub-millisecond latency and 99.999% durability. io2 Block express refers to io2 volumes running on EBS Block Express architecture. EBS Block Express is the next generation […]

GCP – Licious delivers high quality meat products to the doorstep with help from Google Maps Platform
Editor’s note: Today’s post comes from Bhaskar Konduru, CTO at Licious, a company that’s using technology to disrupt the traditional market for fresh meat and seafood, and delivering high quality fresh products to the doors of Indians in seven major cities. I’ve worked among some of India’s most exciting startups over the past decade, and […]
GCP – Containers – you are now covered by Security Command Center
As more containerized workloads find their way into your organization, you want to be able to detect and respond to threats to containers running in this environment. Today, we’re excited to announce the general availability of Container Threat Detection to help you monitor and secure your container deployments in Google Cloud. Container Threat Detection is […]