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AWS Introduces Preview of Aurora Serverless v2

December 7, 2020

During the first keynote of re:Invent 2020, AWS announced the next version of Amazon Aurora Serverless in preview. The new serverless version for the MySQL 5.7-compatible edition of Amazon Aurora scales in fraction of a second and introduces multi-AZ support, global databases, and read replicas. By Renato Losio

AWS Introduces Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow

December 2, 2020

Recently, AWS introduced Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA), a fully-managed service simplifying running open-source versions of Apache Airflow on AWS and build workflows to execute extract-transform-load (ETL) jobs and data pipelines. By Steef-Jan Wiggers

ASPNET Core Improvements in NET 5

November 17, 2020

Earlier this month, at the .NET Conf 2020, Microsoft released the .NET 5 platform. This version includes a broad set of new features and improvements, which are also related to the ASP.NET Core framework. This release’s efforts focus primarily on performance improvements, followed by other features regarding Blazor, SignalR, MVC, OpenAPI support, and Azure AD authentication integration. By Antonio

Docker Pauses Image Expiration Enforcement Announces Subscription Tiers

October 30, 2020

Docker announced that they are pausing enforcement of the changes related to image retention until mid-2021. Earlier, they had announced a change in policies to reduce overall resource consumption on Docker. By Aditya Kulkarni

Podcast: Michelle Noorali on the Service Mesh Interface Spec and Open Service Mesh Project

October 30, 2020

In this podcast, Michelle Noorali, senior software engineer at Microsoft, sat down with InfoQ podcast co-host Daniel Bryant. Topics discussed included: the service mesh interface (SMI) spec, the open service mesh (OSM) project, and the future of application development on Kubernetes. By Michelle Noorali

AWS Announces Gateway Load Balancer

October 23, 2020

AWS Gateway Load Balancer is a new fully managed network gateway and load balancer. The service is tailored to deploy, scale and manage third-party virtual appliances such as firewalls, intrusion detection and prevention systems and deep packet inspection systems in the cloud. By Renato Losio

AWS Announces New Service: Amazon S3 Storage Lens

October 13, 2020

AWS announces a new service called Amazon S3 Storage Lens, which can provide customers with organization-wide visibility into their object storage usage and activity trends. With the service, they can understand what happens across their S3 Object Storage installations. By Steef-Jan Wiggers

BBC Online Going Serverless

October 9, 2020

In a recent article, the BBC engineering team describes the work done moving BBC Online to the cloud and to a serverless deployment. Half of the BBC’s website is now rendered serverlessly with AWS Lambda. By Renato Losio

AWS Announces New S3 Intelligent-Tiering Archive Access Tiers

September 6, 2020

S3 Intelligent-Tiering is a storage class, which AWS added to Amazon S3 for optimization of storage costs for its users. The company recently announced it would add two new archive access tiers designed for asynchronous access optimized for rare access at a very low cost: Archive Access tier and Deep Archive Access tier. By Steef-Jan Wiggers

Article: A Cloud-Native Architecture for a Digital Enterprise

September 3, 2020

This article describes a vendor/technology-neutral reference architecture for a cloud native digital enterprise and this can be mapped into different cloud-native platforms (Kubernetes and service mesh), cloud providers (Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, and Google GCP), and infrastructure services. By Lakmal Warusawithana

AWS Introduces the Event Replay and Archive Capability in Its Eventbridge Service

August 23, 2020

Amazon EventBridge is a serverless event bus that delivers a stream of real-time data from event sources and routes that data to targets like AWS Lambda. Recently, AWS introduced an event replay and archive capability - providing developers a way to replay past events and extend their applications with new functionality. By Steef-Jan Wiggers

Cloud Native Storage Tool Rook Graduates from CNCF

August 23, 2020

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) recently announced the graduation of Rook, an open-source cloud-native storage orchestrator for Kubernetes. Rook is the 13th CNCF project, and provides functionality using a Kubernetes Operator for each storage provider. By Aditya Kulkarni

Fastly Expands Capabilities for Compute@Edge

August 23, 2020

Fastly, the cloud computing company providing solutions for edge cloud networks and content delivery networks, recently announced new features for their serverless compute environment Compute@Edge. The new release introduces new CLI functionalities, Terraform API support and additional language support. By Renato Losio

Microsoft Announces Zone Redundancy for Azure Cache for Redis in Preview

August 23, 2020

Recently Microsoft announced that Azure Cache for Redis would support multiple availability zones, expanding the availability and resiliency. The update to the service means customers can significantly enhance the availability of their Azure Cache for Redis instance. By Steef-Jan Wiggers

The ALB Ingress Controller Is Now the AWS Load Balancer Controller

August 22, 2020

AWS has rebranded the Application Load Balancer (ALB) Ingress controller as the AWS Load Balancer Controller, and now includes support for both Application Load Balancers and Network Load Balancers. The public vendor recently announced the renaming and updates to this Load Balancer controller, labeled as a new controller or AWS ALB Ingress Controller v2. By Steef-Jan Wiggers

Article: Q&A with Kubernetes SIG Network Chair and Googles Tim Hockin Regarding Kubernetes Networking

August 6, 2020

InfoQ caught up with chair of Network SIG, Principal Software Engineer at Google, speaker of the upcoming Kubecon + CloudNativeCon 2020 session, and a Kubernetes maintainer even before it was announced, Tim Hockin about the history of Kubernetes Networking and the roadmap. By Rags Srinivas, Tim Hockin

AWS Announces Amazon MQ Will Support RabbitMQ

July 31, 2020

AWS announced Amazon MQ will now support RabbitMQ, a popular open-source message broker. With the support for RabbitMQ, customers can migrate their existing RabbitMQ message brokers to AWS without rewriting code. By Steef-Jan Wiggers

HashiCorp Enhances Consul with Topology Maps and Improved Kubernetes Integrations

July 24, 2020

Hashicorp has announced the beta release of Consul 1.9, adding new features to their service mesh platform. This release includes enhancements to the intentions model to support Layer 7 constructs, new visualizations for verifying configurations, and custom resources for Kubernetes. By Matt Campbell

AWS Introduces Nitro Enclaves Isolated EC2 Environments for Confidential Computing

July 23, 2020

AWS has recently made available Nitro Enclaves, isolated EC2 environments to process confidential data. Based on a lightweight Linux OS, a Nitro Enclave is a hardened, attested and highly constrained virtual machine. By Renato Losio

Cloud Computing in a Shipping Container: Microsoft Introduces the Azure Modular Datacenter

July 12, 2020

Microsoft recently announced a new Azure in a shipping container service called Azure Modular Datacenter. The new offer provides an option for setting up an Azure datacenter in hybrid or challenging environments where cloud computing previously would not have been possible. By Renato Losio

Podcast: Andrew Clay Shafer on Three Economies the Wall of Confusion and the Origin of DevOps

June 30, 2020

Wes Reisz speaks with one of the people at the center of the creation of the idea of DevOps. Andrew Clay Shafer is the VP of Transformation at Red Hat where his role is about helping companies change their relationship with software in the cloud native ecosystem. On the podcast Shafer talks about the Three Economies, Wall of Confusion, and a bit about those first mentions of DevOps. By Andrew Clay

Amazon SNS Supports FIFO for Pub/Sub Messaging

June 28, 2020

AWS has recently introduced support for First-in-First-out (FIFO) topics in Amazon SNS with strict ordering and deduplication of messages. The new feature enforces ordering in which messages are sent and received, and avoids that a message is processed multiple times. By Renato Losio