Glen Knight

NYC Based IT Professional

AWS Weekly Roundup: 197 new launches, AI training partnership with Anthropic, and join AWS re:Invent virtually (Nov 25, 2024)

Last week, I saw an astonishing 197 new service launches from AWS. This means we are getting closer to AWS re:Invent 2024! Our News Blog team is also finalizing blog posts for re:Invent to introduce some awesome launches from service teams for your reading pleasure. The most interesting news is that we’re expanding our strategic […]

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Microsoft Enlists Endor Labs to Integrate SCA Tool with CNAPP

Microsoft has tapped Endor Labs to incorporate a software composition analysis (SCA) tool into its cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP). Source: DevOps.com

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How to Scale Scrum to Larger Projects

The popularity of agile methodologies has grown significantly among developer teams, compared to sequential software development approaches. 71% of respondents to the 17th State of Agile Report from Digital.ai have adopted Agile in their software development lifecycle. According to the same report, 63% of Agile teams use Scrum, making it the most popular Agile framework. […]

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Introducing a new experience for AWS Systems Manager

Today, I’m excited to introduce a new and improved version of AWS Systems Manager that brings a highly requested cross-account, and cross-Region experience for managing nodes at scale. The new System Manager experience provides centralized visibility of all your managed nodes which include various infrastructure types, such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances, containers, […]

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AWS named as a leader again in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure

Gartner published the second Magic Quadrant for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure (DHI), which includes Amazon Web Services (AWS) as a leader again. AWS has three products in this DHI portfolio: AWS Outposts, AWS Snowball, and AWS Local Zones. In the accompanying Gartner’s Critical Capabilities for DHI, AWS is ranked number one in four out of six […]

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Improve your app authentication workflow with new Amazon Cognito features

Introduced 10 years ago, Amazon Cognito is a service that helps you implement customer identity and access management (CIAM) in your web and mobile applications. You can use Amazon Cognito for various use cases, from providing your customers to quickly add sign-in and sign-up experiences to your applications and authorization to securing machine-to-machine authentication and […]

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CNCF Brings Jaegar and OpenTelemetry Closer Together to Improve Observability

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has made available an update to its Jaeger distributed tracing project that now makes use of OpenTelemetry agent software to collect data. Source: DevOps.com

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Curtailing Software Automation Tool License Costs by Curbing License Needs

Configuring a CI pipeline to invoke automation tests can help reduce license costs. CI tools sit in front of automation test tools, eliminating the need for individual licenses. Source: DevOps.com

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Introducing new capabilities to AWS CloudTrail Lake to enhance your cloud visibility and investigations

Today, I’m excited to announce new updates to AWS CloudTrail Lake, which is a managed data lake you can use to aggregate, immutably store, and query events recorded by AWS CloudTrail for auditing, security investigation, and operational troubleshooting. The new updates in CloudTrail Lake are: Enhanced filtering options for CloudTrail events Cross-account sharing of event […]

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Track performance of serverless applications built using AWS Lambda with Application Signals

In November 2023, we announced Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals, an AWS built-in application performance monitoring (APM) solution, to solve the complexity associated with monitoring performance of distributed systems for applications hosted on Amazon EKS, Amazon ECS, and Amazon EC2. Application Signals automatically correlates telemetry across metrics, traces, and logs, to speed up troubleshooting and reduce […]

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