Weekly news | 2023-11-29

announcements

• AWS:
  • AWS Backup launches support for restore testing.
  • Announcing major dashboard enhancements in AWS Security Hub, finding enrichment with tags, filtering and central configuration capabilities with Terraform support.
  • Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus collector, a fully-managed agentless collector for Prometheus metrics on Amazon EKS.
  • Amazon EFS now supports up to 250,000 IOPS per file system.
  • Automate AWS Control Tower landing zone operations using APIs.
  • AWS CloudFormation introduces native support for GitOps.
  • Announcing AWS Console-to-Code (Preview) to generate code for console actions (no HCL).
  • AWS announces Amazon Q (Preview), a new generative AI–powered assistant that is specifically designed for work.
  • Upgrade your Java applications with Amazon Q Code Transformation (preview)
  • Announcing the new Amazon S3 Express One Zone high performance storage class, with Terraform launch-day support.
  • Application Load Balancer increases application availability with Automatic Target Weights.
• Broadcom announces successful acquisition of VMware.
• NewRelic Security Advisory concerning ongoing security investigation.

tooling

• Focus is a specification aiming to provide an open standard for cloud cost, usage, and billing data across all major cloud service providers.
• Radius: a new application configuration tool. Using Bicep to define the components of an application, and use reusable recipes to run that on various infrastructure platforms.
• Pipelight: a tiny command line tool that executes a list of tasks you provided in a configuration file. Ideal for CI/CD automation. Config written in Typescript, YAML or TOML.
• kubectl-iam4sa: debugging IAM roles for Kubernetes services accounts on EKS.

blogs

• How Information Security and Risk Management Teams Can Support FinOps.
• Switching Build Systems, Seamlessly, Spotify's post on moving to Bazel, including local and remote instrumentation, parallel running and staggered rollout.
• KubeCon Chicago Key Takeaways: review of the recent KubeCon event in Chicago, with interesting high-level observations and pointers to specific talks.
• A recent talk from SEACON, focused on the challenges with data management, in particular looking at power consumption at scale, data growth due to AI and machine learning adoption and patterns to address the impending problem.
• ScyllaDB on Kubernetes: How to Run Intense Workloads with Spot Instances