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AWS – AWS DataSync can now transfer data to and from AWS Snowcone
AWS DataSync now supports transferring files to and from AWS Snowcone, the smallest member of the AWS Snow Family of edge computing and data transfer devices. Snowcone is portable, ruggedized, and secure – small and light enough to fit in a backpack, and able to withstand harsh environments. The DataSync agent comes pre-installed on the […]
AWS – AWS announces AWS Snowcone – a small, portable, rugged, and secure edge computing and data transfer device
AWS Snowcone is the smallest member of the AWS Snow Family of edge computing and data transfer devices. Snowcone is portable, rugged, and secure – small and light enough to fit in a backpack, and able to withstand harsh environments. Customers use Snowcone to deploy applications at the edge, and to collect data, process it […]
AWS – New on Coursera: Digital course on building Amazon DynamoDB-friendly apps
AWS Training and Certification has launched Amazon DynamoDB: Building NoSQL Database–Driven Applications, a self-paced, digital course now available on Coursera. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon API Gateway allows subprotocols on a WebSocket API connection
While building a WebSocket API with Amazon API Gateway, you can now send back Sec-WebSocket-Protocol field as part of the response from $connect route. This means clients can now request specific subprotocols while connecting to your WebSocket API. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Corretto for Alpine Linux now in preview
Amazon Corretto, a no-cost, multi-platform, production-ready distribution of OpenJDK, is now in preview for Alpine Linux. Read More for the details.
GCP – Announcing API management for services that use Envoy
Among forward-looking software developers, Envoy has become ubiquitous as a high-performance pluggable proxy, providing improved networking and observability capability for increased services traffic. Built on the learnings of HAProxy and nginx, Envoy is now an official Cloud Native Computing Foundation project, and has many fans—including among users of our Apigee API management platform. To help […]
GCP – Setting up advanced network threat detection with Packet Mirroring
When you’re trying to detect—or thwart—an attack, the network can be a good line of defense: attackers could compromise a VM and you could lose access to endpoint data, but you likely still have access to network data. An effective threat detection strategy is to use network data, logs, and endpoint data to gain visibility […]
AWS – Introducing AWS CloudFormation Guard (Preview) – a new open-source CLI for infrastructure compliance
AWS CloudFormation announces the preview of AWS CloudFormation Guard (cfn-guard), an open-source command line interface (CLI) that helps enterprises keep their AWS infrastructure and application resources in compliance with their company policy guidelines. Cfn-guard provides compliance administrators with a simple, policy-as-code language to define rules that can check for both required and prohibited resource configurations. […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now supports Instance Refresh within Auto Scaling Groups
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now lets you automatically update the instances in your Auto Scaling Groups (ASG) to release new application versions or make infrastructure changes. Traditionally, customers had to write custom scripts and build systems to update ASG configurations with new AMIs. With the new Instance Refresh feature, customers can now trigger configuration updates […]
Azure – Azure Private Link for Azure Batch is now generally available in select regions
Azure Private Link for Azure Batch is now generally available in the West US 2, East US, South Central US, US Gov Virginia, and US Gov Arizona regions Read More for the details.