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Secure Google Virtual Machines (14/07/2020)		This feature allows customers to keep their data encrypted and inaccessible even while it’s being processed.
Amazon EKS Now Supports Kubernetes 1.17 (13/07/2020)		In addition to a number of Kubernetes capabilities going GA, the Windows containers RunAsUsername feature is now in beta, allowing to run Windows applications in a container as a different username than the default.
Learn How to Import Infrastructure Into Terraform (13/07/2020)		This hands-on tutorial shows how to import an existing Docker container and image into a Terraform project’s state.
From Docker Straight to AWS (09/07/2020)		Now the docker command can talk to ECS natively, and developers can finally avoid the pain of Kuberentes for simple applications.
SUSE to Acquire Rancher Labs (08/07/2020)		Rancher, the Kubernetes management solution, now belongs to a major Linux distro company.
PostgreSQL 12 on Digital Ocean (08/07/2020)		In addition, Digital Ocean is also releasing the capability for in-place major version upgrades.
Docker Compose is Now Open Source (07/07/2020)		This is the Docker Compose spec, not the tool per se.
AWS Outposts Now Supports Amazon RDS (06/07/2020)		This means MySQL and PostgreSQL in the data centre, without the management hassle.
Client-Serverless (01/07/2020)		The 4th generation application model.
Azure and Automatic Image Upgrades (01/07/2020)		Now it is possible to automatically deploy new versions of custom images to scale set virtual machines.
A Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Day at Slack (30/06/2020)		This story describes the technical details of the problems that caused the Slack downtime on May 12th, 2020.
Google Sheets Meets BigQuery (30/06/2020)		The new feature, called Connected Sheets, enables to analyse billions of rows and petabytes of data in Sheets, without SQL.
Google Cloud VMware Engine Goes GA (30/06/2020)		VMware technologies such as vSphere, vCenter, vSAN, NSX-T, and HCX, all can now run in a dedicated environment on Google Cloud.
Amazon EFS Higher Minimum Throughput (30/06/2020)		The minimum throughput goes from 50KiB/s per GiB of Standard class storage to a fixed minimum of 1 MiB/s for file systems with less than 20 GiB of Standard class storage, when burst credits are exhausted.
Bash and Windows CMD on AWS CodeBuild (26/06/2020)		The new natively-supported shell types (Bash on Ubuntu/AWS Linux and CMD on Windows) avoids the need to rewrite shell scripts to be executed by CodeBuild.
Oracle Coherence Community Edition (25/06/2020)		If you can’t beat them, give it away. It turns out, in the age of Hazelcast and Redis, Coherence is still a thing.
OpenJDK for Windows 10 on ARM (24/06/2020)		Developers can start developing Java on Windows 10 ARM64 compatible laptops, like the Surface Pro X, with the core Java extensions on the recently-announced Visual Studio Code for Windows ARM64 along with traditional tools like Apache Maven, Gradle, and others.
Azure Pipelines now supports Linux/ARM64 (24/06/2020)		Owners of the new Raspberry Pi 4s rejoice!
HashiCorp Cloud Platform Announced (22/06/2020)		This is a fully managed cloud offering to automate deployment of HashiCorp products on any cloud provider.
Google Cloud Embraces TLS 1.3 (22/06/2020)		Google rolled out TLS 1.3 as the default for all new and existing Cloud CDN and Global Load Balancing customers.
Amazon SES Emails Delayed? (18/06/2020)		Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) customers can now receive event notifications when the delivery of an email is delayed because of a temporary issue.
Google Apigee Now Plays Ball with Envoy (17/06/2020)		Apigee Adapter for Envoy allows to extend Envoy’s capabilities to include API management, so developers can expose the services behind Envoy as APIs.
Azure Geo-Zone-Redundant Storage (17/06/2020)		GZRS writes three copies of one’s data synchronously across multiple Azure Availability zones, similar to zone-redundant storage (ZRS), providing continued read and write access even if a datacenter or availability zone is unavailable.
Google Dataproc does Spark 3 and Hadoop 3 (16/06/2020)		Spark 3 is still in preview though.
AWS Lambda Talks Amazon EFS (16/06/2020)		To use AWS Lambda with Amazon EFS, customers add an EFS Access Point ARN and the local mount path to their function configuration.
AWS Service Management Connector for ServiceNow (16/06/2020)		The AWS Service Management Connector for ServiceNow allows ServiceNow end users to provision, manage, and operate AWS resources natively via ServiceNow.
Google Maps Customisation (15/06/2020)		New customisation facilitate the creation of customised maps.
It is MongoDB for HSBC (12/06/2020)		HSBC moves from 65 relational databases into one global MongoDB database.
Architecting Serverless Solutions (AWS) (12/06/2020)		The course now offers offers hands-on learning with optional labs.
Go Dev Environment on Docker Images (12/06/2020)		The first of a series of blog posts that will show how to use Docker for Go development.
Cassandra 4.0 5x Data Streaming (11/06/2020)		The upcoming Cassandra release includes a new technique called Zero Copy streaming.
Upgraded GCP Firewall (10/06/2020)		New features include hierarchical firewall policies and firewall insights.
Azure SQL Autoscaling Ceiling Increased (10/06/2020)		The maximum vCore limit for Azure SQL Database serverless has increased more than twofold from 16 vCores to 40 vCores.
Docker Hub Management (10/06/2020)		How to manage Docker Hub organizations and teams.
SRE and Dickerson (10/06/2020)		How to engineer for real reliability using Dickerson’s hierarchy
Terraform VS Code Extension 2.0 (10/06/2020)		The two main features are the usage of the HashiCorp Terraform language server and syntax support for Terraform 0.12.
Anthos and Business Continuity (09/06/2020)		Three strategies to ensure business continuity using Anthos.
AWS Shield Advanced Proactive Response (09/06/2020)		The service now allows proactive engagement from the DDoS Response Team (DRT) when a DDoS event is detected.
Seamless Amazon Redshift to S3 (08/06/2020)		The results of an Amazon Redshift query can now be saved to an external table in Amazon S3 either in text or Apache Parquet formats by just adding an extra keyword to SQL statements.
Kubernetes 1.8 Ingress Controller (05/06/2020)		Additions include: a new pathType field, a new IngressClass resource and support for wildcards in hostnames.
8 NVIDIA T4 GPUs Per AWS EC2 Instance (05/06/2020)		Amazon EC2 G4dn bare metal instances are generally available.
Modernising Java Apps on Anthos (02/06/2020)		Migrate for Anthos helps move Java applications into containers by transparently and automatically implementing a userspace filesystem that addresses the limitations of the Linux filesystem.
Cross-region Replica for Google Cloud SQL (02/06/2020)		Available for the MySQL and PostgreSQL database engines.
High Performance SSDs on Azure VMs (02/06/2020)		The new Dd v4-series and Ed v4-series series Azure Virtual Machines provide up to 64 vCPUs and are based on the Intel Xeon Platinum 8272CL processor and feature local SSD storage (up to 2400 GiB).
Amazon Redshift Performance x2 (02/06/2020)		Amazon Redshift now processes queries 2x faster when they need to be compiled. When queries are sent to Amazon Redshift, the query execution engine compiles the query into machine code and distributes it to the cluster nodes.
Azure Text Analytics v3 is Out (29/05/2020)		New enhancements include more languages (11 in total), improved accuracy, and five new categories and ten subcategories including product, event, skill, and address.
VS Code Cosmos DB Extension is Now Azure Databases (28/05/2020)		As part of the update, support for PostgreSQL is now included.
AWS Loves JetBrains (28/05/2020)		The updated AWS Toolkit for JetBrains now supports CLion, PhpStorm, GoLand, and RubyMine.
Quarkus is Now a Red Hat Runtimes Citizen (27/05/2020)		Quarkus, a full-stack, Kubernetes-native Java framework optimized for memory density and rapid startup time, is now one of the supported Red Hat Runtimes languages.
First Mirantis-branded Docker Enterprise Release (27/05/2020)		Mirantis acquired Docker’s Enterprise platform business at the end of last year, and today, it is rolling out its first major update to Docker Enterprise with the release of version 3.1, featuring Kubernetes 1.7.
Updated AWS Amplify iOS and Android Toolkit (27/05/2020)		Amplify iOS and Amplify Android include libraries and tools (CLI toolchain and IDE helpers) that enable mobile developers to build AWS-based cloud-powered applications.
AWS ELB now supports ALPN (27/05/2020)		Elastic Load Balancing now supports Application-Layer Protocol Negotiation (ALPN) policies on Network Load Balancers.
AWS SAM Does AWS Step Functions (27/05/2020)		Workflow orchestration can now be integrated with serverless applications. This should have been supported from day one.
Java 11 on Google Cloud Functions (26/05/2020)		Both Micronaut and Spring Cloud Function are supported out of the box.
Oracle is Still At The IDE Game (26/05/2020)		Oracle announces Visual Builder Platform, “a complete and integrated environment for development teams to develop and deliver cloud native applications.”
Serverless Bot Framework Facelift (26/05/2020)		Amazon Cognito support, ReactJS and other goodies in the new update.
Amazon QuickSight Now Talks to SageMaker (26/05/2020)		SageMaker ML can now be integrated to analyze augmented data and use it directly in business intelligence dashboards.
Pentagon Unit Taps Google Cloud’s Anthos for Multi-cloud Management (22/05/2020)		The contract is specifically with the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), an organization within the DOD that focuses on scaling commercial technology across the entire Pentagon.
Google Cloud Functions Love VPCs (21/05/2020)		An increasing numbers of organizations “want to use serverless platforms in more traditional IT environments” says Google.
Digital Ocean Updates Its Portal (21/05/2020)		It now conforms the W3C’s WCAG AA accessibility guidelines.
ASP.NET Razor Does WebAssembly (19/05/2020)		ASP.NET Blazor, which allows developers to build interactive web UIs with C# instead of JavaScript, now supports WebAssembly.
EKS Best Practices for Security (18/05/2020)		A guide for security practitioners who are responsible for implementing and monitoring security controls for EKS clusters and the workloads they support.
DynamoDB Now Likes Empty Values (18/05/2020)		Amazon DynamoDB now supports empty values for non-key String and Binary attributes in DynamoDB tables.
Google Cloud Vmware Engine (14/05/2020)		The service delivers a fully managed VMware Cloud Foundation stack (VMware vSphere, vCenter, vSAN, NSX-T, and HCX for cloud migration) in a dedicated environment on Google Cloud’s infrastructure.
Playing with DynamoDB on Linux (04/05/2020)		NoSQL Workbench for DynamoDB adds support for Linux.
A Design Analysis of Cloud-based Microservices Architecture at Netflix (01/05/2020)		A comprehensive system design analysis of microservices architecture at Netflix to power its global video streaming services.
Amazon EFS Adds One Nine (30/04/2020)		Amazon EFS updates Service Level Agreement to 99.99%
Cloud-Native Development Principles and Practices (29/04/2020)		Twenty-three of them!
23 Killer Cloud-Native Development Principles and Practices (29/04/2020)		A fresh departure from the tired 12-factor app principles.
VMWare on Alibaba Cloud (29/04/2020)		Because Alibaba must also play the hybrid/multi-cloud game.
Red Hat OpenShift (28/04/2020)		Not only it is not dead; it is growing!
Multi-Cloud or the Highway (28/04/2020)		Go-to strategy as AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud grab wallet share.
Zoom on Oracle Cloud (28/04/2020)		Yes, you read correctly, not GCP, but Oracle!
Windows Containers on Azure (28/04/2020)		Run Linux and Windows workloads side-by-side in a single cluster using the same control plane. Now that Microsoft loves Linux, Linux loves Microsoft.
Digital Ocean launches VPCs (27/04/2020)		The challenger cloud vendor now supports Virtual Private Cloud (VPCs) ala AWS. No more excuses about Digital Ocean being a toy cloud.
AWS Now Drinks Cappuccinos (27/04/2020)		AWS Europe (Milan) Region is the first region in Italy launched by a major cloud provider.
AWS Cost Categories (24/04/2020)		A feature that allows categorising cost and usage information based on one’s organizational structure and cost allocation needs such as teams, cost centers, geography, applications, etc.
CloudWatch Synthetics Generally Available (23/04/2020)		This features allows monitoring REST APIs, URLs, and website content every minute, 24x7, and creating alerts when application endpoints don’t behave as expected.
Google Anthos does AWS (23/04/2020)		Google Anthos is now generally available for Amazon Web Services; Microsoft Azure would be added by the end of 2020.
AWS Africa Region (22/04/2020)		AWS adds its 23rd region, AWS Africa (Cape Town), which consists of three availability zones.
Top Missing Features in Go (22/04/2020)		Generics, better error handling, functional features, and Azure support.
Kubernetes Cluster API (21/04/2020)		Configure your cluster with a Kubernetes-esque, YAML approach rather than BOSH scripting. Turtles all the way down.
Route 53 Domain Transfer (21/04/2020)		It used to required a support ticket; now it can be done on a self-serve basis.
RHEL 8.2 is Out (21/04/2020)		Other than the usual management features, the big addition is Control Groups (cgroup) v2, which is designed to help limit memory usage through reserving memory and setting usage floors/limits.
HashiCorp Certifications Are Now A Thing (21/04/2020)		Tired of spending hundreds of dollars in AWS certs? Now you can spend even more by becoming a Terraform, Valut, or Consul “Associate”.
AWS Elemental Link (20/04/2020)		AWS Elemental Link is an appliance that connects a camera or video production to securely and reliably transfer video to MediaLive for delivery to viewers.
AWS SnowBall Edge Devices Refreshed (16/04/2020)		40 vCPUs, 80 GB RAM, 3.2 GHz CPUs, 80 TB of Storage, 1 TB of SATA SSD storage and much more.
CNCF Update (16/04/2020)		The state of cloud native software, service mesh, serverless, and more
AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) for Windows Unveiled (06/04/2020)		A “comprehensive” program to execute large-scale migrations and modernizations of your Windows workloads on AWS.
AWS Lambda Functions (03/04/2020)		An accessible blog post on what and how.
Attack Matrix for Kubernetes (02/04/2020)		The major techniques that are relevant to container orchestration security, with focus on Kubernetes.
Amazon Wants To Play Sherlock Holmes (01/04/2020)		Amazon Detective, which uses machine learning to help visualize anomalies in customers’ resources, is now generally available. Launched as a preview at last year’s re:Invent event, the feature is likely to put an end to many security team’s woes.
Cheaper Azure Mananged Disks Backups (01/04/2020)		Cost-effective, point-in-time backup of managed disks can now be achieved using incremental snapshots. Unlike current snapshots, which are billed for the full size, incremental snapshots are billed for the delta changes to disks since the last snapshot.
Kubectl apply on the server? (01/04/2020)		Server-side Apply is an important effort to migrate “kubectl apply” to the apiserver.
SkySQL: Cloud-based MariaDB Without The Vendor Claws (01/04/2020)		SkySQL is a Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) MariaDB that runs on Kuberentes and provides more features, such as Analytics, than the Amazon RDS and Azure Databases counterparts.
Google Outage: The Most Difficulting Thing in Software Engineering is Naming Variables. (01/04/2020)		The second most difficult thing is cache invalidation. The Register tells that the Google Cloud Engine was outage caused by ‘large backlog of queued mutations’.
Google Service Discovery (31/03/2020)		Once again, another Service Directory (yellow pages) solution which aims to overcome the “limitations” of DNS and those of other 10,000 similar solutions such as Eureka, Kuberentes Service Discovery and so on. Good luck.
The Machine Learning Pipeline on AWS (31/03/2020)		This intermediate-level course explores how to use the machine learning (ML) pipeline to solve a real business problem in a project-based learning environment.
Cloud Demand 775% Up on Azure (29/03/2020)		Elastic, infinite scalability? Welcome to the new brave world of Cloud quotas amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
AWS Solutions Consulting Offers (27/03/2020)		Said offers are delivered via consulting engagements provided by AWS Competency Partners. All consulting offers provide customers up-front with a list of what will be delivered by the consulting engagement, the requirements of the customer to participate in the engagement, as well as a diagram of the architecture solution that will be deployed into your account.
Google Services Outage in the U.S. (27/03/2020)		Google Services, included Gmail, Google Drive, and Hangouts, will suffer in various parts of the United States, especially the East Cost.
Kubernetes 1.18 is Out (26/03/2020)		This release includes a much improved Ingress controller service which reduces the need for a full-blown Service Mesh.
AWS EKS 99.95% SLA up from 99.00% (26/03/2020)		Now EKS should not be down for more than four hours a year as opposed to over full three days!
HashiCorp Nomad 0.11 Beta (26/03/2020)		Nomad is a workload orchestrator that allows to deploy and manage containers and non-containerized applications at scale.
Red Hat OpenShift on NVIDIA-GPU Powered Platforms (25/03/2020)		Red Hat claims that many organisations are using Red Hat OpenShift as the foundation for building artificial intelligence (AI) and machine-learning (ML) data science workflows and AI-powered intelligent applications
No Cold Restarts on Azure Functions in Most Regions (25/03/2020)		The new “Premium Plan” for Azure Functions, which allows perpetually warming instances to avoid any cold start, is now available in most regions.
Azure is a Full House (24/03/2020)		UK punters complain of capacity issues on Microsoft’s cloud.
Voicemail for Amazon Connect (24/03/2020)		A customer can call in, enter the extension number of the agent they want to speak with, and leave a voicemail for that specific agent. The solution generates voicemail recordings and transcripts that are delivered to agents using SMS or email.
Updated DevOps Engineering on AWS Course (24/03/2020)		The updated course incorporates the “latest thinking, best practices, and concepts on DevOps”. AWS claims that it is available virtually or in person (good luck with that!)
Tanzu Application Catalogue (24/03/2020)		An actually useful solution to manage curated, vulnerability-scanned, private Docker images, especially in highly-regulated enterprises.
Learn CI/CD Automation with Terraform and CircleCI (23/03/2020)		HashiCorp takes the opportunity of massive WFHing to offer a guide on both Terraform and Circle CI.
Game Servers on GCP (23/03/2020)		A managed Agones-based game server, an open source game server hosting and scaling project built on Kubernetes, cofounded by Google Cloud and Ubisoft is now being offered (beta).
Flatcar Container Linux on Azure Marketplace (23/03/2020)		Given CoreOS Container Linux reaching EOL soon, this fork of the popular immutable Linux distribution comes handy.
AWS Saving Plans amid COVID-19 (23/03/2020)		Up to 70% savings for EC2, Fargate, and Lambda.
Vue.js, Not React, Will Power Wikipedia (20/03/2020)		The Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) will modernise the front-end interface used by Wikipedia and other projects by adopting the Vue.js JavaScript framework.
Kubernetes 101 for vSphere Dudes (20/03/2020)		This VMWare paper provides a gentle introduction to Kubernetes but it is behind a registration-wall.
Traffic Mirroring (19/03/2020)		Zero risk deployments using the Istio Service Mesh.
Alibaba and COVID-19 (19/03/2020)		Alibaba Cloud is offering AI and cloud services to help battle Covid-19 globally. Solutions range from epidemic modelling to genome sequencing.
Azure Functions for Exotic Languages (18/03/2020)		Azure Functions custom handlers allow integrating non-supported languages (Hello Haskell and Erlang!) by means of a language-agnostic HTTP-based protocol.
Mount The Same Disk On Multiple Machines on Azure! (18/03/2020)		Azure Shared Disks, a shared block storage offering, is now available on a preview basis. This technology relies on SCSI Persistent Reservations (PR) to handle cluster node communication as well as write locking.
Append Blob Immutability on Azure Storage (18/03/2020)		A blob that has an immutability policy can support append operations via the AppendBlock API.
GitOps in GKE using Weaveworks Flux (18/03/2020)		A quick and effective recipe based on Google Kubernetes Engine, Cloud Build, and GitHub.
The Doctor Ordered Tanzu, not EKS (17/03/2020)		VMware announces Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Plus for VMware Cloud on AWS.
gRPC on Google Cloud Run (17/03/2020)		Google Cloud Run does more than just waking up to HTTP triggers.
Java 14 is Out (17/03/2020)		Key additions include switch expressions, new APIs for continuous monitoring of JDK Flight Recorder data, and extended availability of the low-latency Z Garbage Collector to macOS and Windows.
Global Memory Caching on AWS (16/03/2020)		It is now possible to write to a ElastiCache for Redis cluster in one region and have the data available for read in two other cross-region replica clusters.
Azure Functions Support for Python 3.8 (13/03/2020)		This enables developing, debugging, and deploying Function Apps for production scenarios using Visual Studio Code, the Azure portal, Azure Functions Core Tools and Azure CLI.
Splunk becomes Gold Member in the CNCF (12/03/2020)		Splunk originally joined the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) as a silver member in 2017 and it has now upgraded its membership to Gold.
Bottlerocket: An AWS Linux Distro Purpose-built to Run Containers (11/03/2020)		Updates to Bottlerocket are applied in a single step rather than package-by-package like in other non-container centric Linux distributions. The idea here is to use Bottlerocket to underpin EKS worker nodes.
Materialised Views on Amazon Redshift (11/03/2020)		This allows storing pre-computed results of queries and maintain them by incrementally processing the latest changes made to the source tables.
RedHat Does “S3 on prem” With Ceph Storage 4 (10/03/2020)		New improvements are around automated backups, recovery, and provisioning.
Amazon EKS Version Bump to 1.15 (10/03/2020)		This upgrade highlights include support configuring TLS termination on NLB load balancers, improved support for CustomResourceDefinitions, as well as NodeLocal DNSCache graduating to beta.
New AWS Certified Database Speciality (10/03/2020)		New specialty exam validates technical skills and experience in designing, deploying, and managing AWS database services.
Pay No Attention to The Man Behind The Curtain Says Oracle (09/03/2020)		The man being Google whose amici (note the use of Italian to evoke mafia-like connotations) include the likes of the Python Software Foundation.
How does Monzo keep 1600 microservices spinning? (09/03/2020)		Kubernetes, Go, and Cassandra, all on top of AWS.
Vulnerability Scanning for Images in Azure Container Registry (07/03/2020)		When you push an image to Container Registry, Security Center automatically scans it, then checks for known vulnerabilities in packages or dependencies defined in the file. Sadly, the capability is powered by Qualys.
Cosmos DB Free Tier Now Available (06/03/2020)		The benefits are 400 RU/s and 5 GB of storage for free for the lifetime of the account. There’s a maximum of one free tier account per Azure subscription and you must opt-in when creating the account.
GCP MySQL and Disaster Recovery (06/03/2020)		This blogs explains how to set up a “resilient” MySQL architecture on GCP.
Alibaba Helps Students and Universities Struggling with Coronavirus (05/03/2020)		Alibaba Cloud will use its Cloud Enterprise Network (CEN) solution, which allows universities to establish fast cross-regional connections for students, so that they can engage in online course work via intranets while overseas.
AWS Amplify Gives the CLI More Love (05/03/2020)		Amplify’s managed hosting and continuous deployment service is now available from the Amplify CLI.
Hush Hush Means Kubernetes Secrets + AWS KMS (05/03/2020)		When secrets are stored using the Kubernetes secrets API, they are encrypted with a Kubernetes-generated data encryption key, which is then further encrypted using the linked AWS KMS key.
Coronavirus Fear Hits KubeCon (05/03/2020)		KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Amsterdam will be rescheduled for July or August [sic]. This means it may as well be cancelled.
Shocking GKE Price Change (05/03/2020)		GKE clusters, even if running no nodes at all, will be charged at USD0.10 per hour from June onward. This is a USD72 bill per month just for a passive master node doing nothing. Peanuts for enterprises of course, but quite a significant bill for many developers who were relying on GKE as their personal Kubernetes environment.
New Oracle Cloud Developer Certification (04/03/2020)		If people can be certified on it, it must be a real Cloud, yes?. To be fair, Oracle has made their training resources available for free.
New Features in Cosmos DB Jupyter notebooks (04/03/2020)		Bulk data uploads into a container, quick visualizations via nteract and ad-hoc queries with GROUP BY nad VALUE clauses.
PowerShell 7.0 is Out (04/03/2020)		New version introduces a wealth of features and syntacitcal improvements including a new pipeline parallelisation loop type.
Microservices Should Not Be The Default Choice (04/03/2020)		Microservices have become today’s equivalent of “nobody ever got fired for buying IBM”, says Sam Newman, author of Building Microservices.
Kubeflow 1.0 Released (02/03/2020)		Google prompts business to run it on Anthos in either a hybrid of multi-cloud setup.
TensorFlow in 7 Hours (01/03/2020)		Learn the framework as well as the concepts of Machine Learning, AI and their core algorithms.
AWS Read Spead 400% Faster (01/03/2020)		Read galore at AWS. 35,000 read operations per second when using the general purpose (GP) EFS mode.
Kubectl Plugins (Kubernetes) (29/02/2020)		Did you know that you could create your own kubectl MY-COMMAND without even writing Go?
Amazon AppStream 2.0 goes Native (28/02/2020)		Using desktop applications on a web browser is fun…only for a few minutes. AppStream 2.0 introduces a native application mode for Windows PCs.
Go 1.14 is Out (25/02/2020)		The key highlight is the implementation of the overlapping interfaces proposal.
New AWS Solutions Architect (Associate) Exam (25/02/2020)		AWS released new exam, SAA-CO2. Lots of new videos for Ryan Kroonenburg to record all over again.
Oracle vs. Google (20/02/2020)		“Google could have licensed Oracle’s software but chose to copy it instead”: Oracle is so happy for the “support” it claims it had received in this case.
Azure Bastion Now Available in 20 Regions (19/02/2020)		We all love RDP/SSH connectivity over SSL and without any public IP addresses on one’s virtual machines.
GitOps in GKE (19/02/2020)		New Application Manager allows the use of GitOps workflows in GKE by means of a new GKE add-on.
Google Acquires a Mainframe Migration Company (19/02/2020)		Google Cloud has acquired Cornerstone Technology which helps enterprises migrate “AS/400 and z/OS systems to more modern technologies like Java and SQL databases” in the words of Boa Vista, an existing customer.
AMD-Powered GCP VMs (18/02/2020)		The family of general purpose VMs, N2D, sit atop 2nd Gen AMD EPYC Processors.
Anthos and Storage: No Longer Just Silly Stateless Kubernetes (18/02/2020)		Anthos Ready Storage is a new qualification already achieved by Dell EMC, HPE, NetApp, Portworx, Pure Storage, and Robin.io.
Stackdriver Trace (15/02/2020)		A little dashboard for every little problem: no more. Finally, Stackdriver supports tracing so that there is no need to spin up that additional Jaeger instance!
AWS Shield Now Supports Health Based Detection (14/02/2020)		It is now possible to define a health check in Amazon Route 53 and then associate it with a resource that is protected by Shield Advanced through the console or API.
Run What you Trust; Isolate What You Don’t (14/02/2020)		Google discusses Kubernetes and container security threads such as cryptojacking.
Alibaba Keeps Expanding in Malaysia (13/02/2020)		The Chine’s IaaS platform will host Sabah Pay, the e-wallet system for Sabah state in Malaysia.
Kubernetes on Azure Stack (13/02/2020)		It is now generally available (GA) and can be installed using Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates generated by ACS-Engine on Azure Stack.
Golang 1.14 Release Candidate 1 is Out (10/02/2020)		Go 1.14 now permits embedding of interfaces with overlapping method sets.
Kubernetes on OpenStack (07/02/2020)		Installing a single control-plane Kubernetes cluster with kubeadm on CentOS.
Azure Key Vault via Azure Private Link (07/02/2020)		Like AWS, Azure is also striving to rendering services available with a simpler connection approach than 40-year old IP engineering and a couple of Cisco certifications.
Canary Deployments on Amazon ECS (06/02/2020)		It is now possible to orchestrate canary deployments on Amazon ECS via AWS CodeDeploy.
Amazon RDS Data API via AWS PrivateLink (06/02/2020)		Accessing the Amazon RDS Data API no longer requires tinkering with Internet Gateways, Network Address Translation (NAT), nor firewalls.
Amazon VPN Desktop Client (05/02/2020)		Amazon released a native VPN desktop client for MacOS and Windows so that is easier to connect to one’s VPC.
AWS, Microsoft, Google and Alibaba Get Fatter (04/02/2020)		Google takes the prize for fastest growth, swelling by 87.8 per cent in 2019, albeit from a relatively low base, to USD6.2bn. Microsoft was in second place growth-wise, up 63.98 per cent to USD18.1bn; Alibaba grew 63.8 per cent to USD5.2bn; and AWS grew 36 per cent to USD34.6bn.
Hands-on HashiCorp on Katakoda (04/02/2020)		HashiCorp Learn now features embedded interactive experiences powered by Katacoda.
AWS Storage Gateway Now Runs on Linux KVM (04/02/2020)		The Linux Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor is now a deployment option for all gateway types.
Oracle Cloud Opens Shop in Five New Regions (03/02/2020)		When we all thought Oracle was dead, customers can now run clunky Oracle Forms and other shenanigans in Saudi Arabia (Jeddah), Australia (Melbourne), Japan (Osaka), Canada (Montreal), and The Netherlands (Amsterdam).
Using SRE Principles to Track and Identify Toil (01/02/2020)		Toil is the kind of work that tends to be manual, repetitive, automatable, tactical, devoid of enduring value, and that scales linearly as a service grows.
Windows Containers on GKE (30/01/2020)		GKE now supports both Windows and Linux containers under one single roof (control plane).
Architecting Serverless Solutions (28/01/2020)		Amazon launches new, free course on how to architect solutions using AWS Lambda and Amazon API Gateway.
Kubernetes Course on EdX is a Blast (28/01/2020)		More than 100,000 people have enrolled on the Kubernetes course at EdX.org which starts on January 31st.
Google App Maker Bites the Dust (27/01/2020)		Another low-code, no-code, turn-off-your-brain experiment that did not fly.
Migrating Kafka to GCP is a Hassle (27/01/2020)		Therefore Google suggests to rewrite the code using GCP’s Pub/Sub instead.
GCP introduces Secret Manager (22/01/2020)		Because installing Vault on a VM is a not a very good idea.
Anthos: 4.8x ROI in Three Years (22/01/2020)		Finger in the air on top of the Walkie-Talkie: Forrester projects that customers adopting Anthos can achieve a range of up to 4.8x Return on Investment (ROI) within three years.
Amazon Cuts EKS Bill in Half! (21/01/2020)		Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) is now reduced fifty percent down to 10 cents per hour for each Kubernetes cluster that you run just in case you were looking at GKE with rose tinted-glasses.
Building Containerised Applications on AWS (21/01/2020)		AWS has published a new edX course to help.
Alibaba Cloud Obtains Trusted Partner Network (TPN) Certification (21/01/2020)		The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) is happy that Alibaba can do DRM and other tricks (encryption, etc) to protect content from the MP4/BitTtorrent crowd.
Space Invaders Meets Kubernetes Chaos Engineering (21/01/2020)		Headless chaos engineering is boring. What about if Pods were alien spaceships and you could shoot them down? Well now you can.
Getting Started With Istio (20/01/2020)		Understanding what a service mesh is and how it can be used effectively in a microservices architecture.
A Serverless Journey Begins with Many Steps, Actually (20/01/2020)		When one thought that serverless was actually about not having to plan in advance and getting on with bringing value to customers.
New Anthos Training and Certification (17/01/2020)		This new course called “Architecting Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure with Anthos” covers all of the Anthos goodies: GCP, GKE, Istio, etc.
CIS Kubernetes Benchmark 1.5.0 (16/01/2020)		A prescriptive guidance for establishing “a secure configuration posture” for Kubernetes 1.15
Kubernetes now runs on MIPS processors (15/01/2020)		What? Kubernetes running on a PlayStation One or a Nintendo 64? Not quite, this is about current MIPS processors used in embedded devices such as home routers.
Google Got Tired of Pleasing Geeks and Acquired AppSheet (15/01/2020)		AppSheet is a “Low Code” application that allows dummies (i.e. business users) building apps quickly using an UI.
Desktop Browser Testing on AWS Device Farm (15/01/2020)		Device Farm is no longer a one trick pony. Now Chrome, Firefox, and Explorer can be tested via Selenium but what about Safari? That’s the one difficult to crack because it requires Apple hardware to run.
Amazon to Ask Court to Block Microsoft (14/01/2020)		Jeff Bezos argues that Trump doesn’t like him and that the award of a 10 billion government military contract to Microsoft was unfair.
Google to Pitch to Retailers (13/01/2020)		Another “Amazon is not your friend” move by Google but in terms of specific, technical assistance such as data-driven strategies for personalized customer services.
IBM Power Systems on GCP (13/01/2020)		Who said the cloud was only about commodity x86 PC-based workloads? IBM AIX and IBM i running on a GCP? Yes. What is next? HP UNIX on PA-RISC?
Taking the Plunge (13/01/2020)		Forbes recommends a few steps that should be taken prior to initiating migration to the cloud to save some security headaches down the road.
IBM: Be Wary of the Cloud (10/01/2020)		IBM Systems CTO Thomas Harrer points at security and data gravity concerns so that we can give some love back to Big Iron again.
4 Habits of Effective DevOps Engineers (09/01/2020)		We live in a world where developers and operations constantly over-engineer, and technologies and cloud providers allow us to easily overspend.
Amazon SQS Monitoring Down to 1 Minute (09/01/2020)		Amazon CloudWatch metrics can be set up a a 1-minute interval at no additional cost in all commercial regions.
Google Thaws Amazon Glacier (09/01/2020)		New GCP’s storage class “Archive” allows cheap low term data storage but without Amazon’s lengthy retrieval times.
Malaysian E-commerce Giant Bets on Alibaba Cloud (09/01/2020)		PrestoMall choses PolarDB, an Alibaba’s managed database that is wire compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle.
Amazon Translate Enables Batch Support (08/01/2020)		Translate large collection documents in S3 using the new asynchronous batch translation service.
Kubernetes AirBnB Performance Issues (07/01/2020)		From developer to developer.
Kubernetes Best Practices (07/01/2020)		Because common sense isn’t common.
Kubernetes 2020 Trends (06/01/2020)		The usual crystal ball exercise.
Christmas Freeze as Code (06/01/2020)		Now possible through AWS System Manager.
Amazon SES with own IP Address (06/01/2020)		A way to prevent emails ending up in customers’ spam folder.
GKE versus EKS versus AKS (06/01/2020)		Not all Kubernetes flavours are born equal.
Code-wise, Cloud-foolish (05/01/2020)		To be “penny-wise and pound-foolish” is to obsess over small savings while making expensive mistakes – for example, spending huge amounts of money on a credit card just to redeem a few rewards points.

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