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GCP – Setting resource requests: the key to Kubernetes cost optimization
This is the first installment of a seven-part series covering the key findings from the State of Kubernetes Cost Optimization, a quantitative research report analyzing the cost efficiency of real-world, large-scale, anonymized Kubernetes clusters. Workload requests are used everywhere in Kubernetes, from scheduling to scaling up and scaling down the cluster, to workload quality of […]
GCP – Accelerate your Multiplayer Game Development with the Global Scale Multiplayer Demo
Building the backend for a fast-paced competitive multiplayer game is a complex task. There are many moving parts to coordinate, and the product and solution landscape is practically endless. There are a myriad of managed products, supporting open source solutions and more that need to be evaluated, experimented with and implemented, and the path to […]
GCP – 1 つのプロジェクトで複数の Firestore データベースを管理
※この投稿は米国時間 2023 年 7 月 8 日に、Google Cloud blog に投稿されたものの抄訳です。 このたび、Google Cloud の単一プロジェクトにおける複数 Firestore データベースのサポートを開始しましたので、お知らせいたします。1 つのプロジェクトに複数のデータベースを作成し、顧客データやマイクロサービス、開発 / テスト / ステージングの各種環境を隔離して管理できるようになりました。 この複数データベースのサポートには以下の機能が含まれます。 Firestore データベースの CRUD 管理: Firestore で新しい API エンドポイント、Terraform リソース、gcloud CLI コマンド、Firebase CLI コマンドを使用して、1 つ以上の Firestore データベースを管理できるようになりました。 Identity and Access Management による条件付きアクセス制御: IAM Conditions または Firebase セキュリティ ルールを使用して、異なる Firestore データベースに異なるセキュリティ ポリシーを適用できるようになりました。 Firestore データベースの 2 つのモードをサポート: […]
AWS – AWS Lambda now detects and stops recursive loops in Lambda functions
AWS Lambda can now detect and stop recursive loops in Lambda functions. Customers build event-driven applications using Lambda functions to process events from sources like Amazon SQS and Amazon SNS. However, in certain scenarios, due to resource misconfiguration or code defect, a processed event may be sent back to the same service or resource that […]
AWS – Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL now supports pgvector for vector storage and similarity search
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition now supports the pgvector extension to store embeddings from machine learning (ML) models in your database and to perform efficient similarity searches. Embeddings are numerical representations (vectors) created from generative AI that capture the semantic meaning of text input into a large language model (LLM). pgvector can store and search embeddings […]
AWS – Amazon Aurora supports PostgreSQL 15.3, 14.8, 13.11, 12.15, and 11.20 versions
Following the announcement of updates to the PostgreSQL database by the open source community, we have updated Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition to support PostgreSQL 15.3, 14.8, 13.11, 12.15, and 11.20. These releases contains product improvements and bug fixes made by the PostgreSQL community, along with Aurora-specific improvements. This release also contains new features and improvements […]
AWS – AWS Karpenter now supports Windows containers
Today, AWS announced Windows support on Karpenter (Starting with v0.29.0), the open-source node provisioning and management project. Using Karpenter, customers can now quickly scale their Amazon EKS clusters running Windows with right-sized Amazon EC2 instances in response to changing application load. Karpenter helps customers optimize their operational overhead and costs during this process without manually […]
Azure – Generally available: Autoscale Stream Analytics jobs
Generally available: Autoscale Stream Analytics jobs Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP announces two additional monitoring and troubleshooting capabilities
Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, a service that provides fully managed shared storage built on NetApp’s popular ONTAP file system, is announcing two additional monitoring capabilities that enable you to monitor file system events and diagnose network connectivity: you can now access ONTAP Event Management System (EMS) logs and collect packet captures on your file […]
AWS – Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP now supports IPSec encryption of data in transit
Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, a service that provides fully managed shared storage built on NetApp’s popular ONTAP file system, now supports using the IP security (IPsec) protocol to encrypt data in transit. With this additional option to encrypt your data end-to-end, FSx for ONTAP offers even more flexibility for you to protect your data. […]