Glen Knight

NYC Based IT Professional

AlertD Emerges to Apply AI to Observing AWS Environments

AlertD this week emerged from stealth to launch a DevOps platform that leverages generative artificial intelligence (AI) to provide deeper insights into Amazon Web Services (AWS) environments by automatically generating dashboards that make it possible to more easily discover and visualize issues. Fresh off raising $3 million in initial funding, AlertD CEO Geoff Hendrey said […]

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The Future of DevSecOps: From Shifting Left to Shifting Smart

For the better part of a decade, a revolutionary idea has reshaped enterprise security: the “shift left” movement. This mantra taught us to view the software development lifecycle (SDLC) not as a finish line for security, but as its starting point. By embedding security checks at the earliest possible stage, we made incredible strides in […]

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Splunk Donates OpenTelemetry Injector Library to Open Source Instrumentation Framework

Splunk, an arm of Cisco, has donated an OpenTelemetry Injector library it developed for streamlining instrumentation of applications that have not been containerized, to the open source project that is being advanced under the auspices of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Greg Leffler, director of developer evangelism for Splunk, said this latest contribution to […]

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MCP — A Protocol for SREs 

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) standardizes how AI agents access tools, APIs and data. Learn how SREs can leverage MCP to build smarter, automated workflows. Source: DevOps.com

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Beyond the Cloud: A DevOps Blueprint for High-Performance Bare Metal Infrastructure 

Bare metal servers deliver predictable, high-performance compute, storage, and networking—ideal for databases, CI/CD runners, and Kubernetes workloads. Source: DevOps.com

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Simplify access to external services using AWS IAM Outbound Identity Federation

When building applications that span multiple cloud providers or integrate with external services, developers face a persistent challenge: managing credentials securely. Traditional approaches require storing long-term credentials like API keys and passwords, creating security risks and operational overhead. Today, we’re announcing a new capability called AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) outbound identity federation that customers […]

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Accelerate workflow development with enhanced local testing in AWS Step Functions

Today, I’m excited to announce enhanced local testing capabilities for AWS Step Functions through the TestState API, our testing API. These enhancements are available through the API, so you can build automated test suites that validate your workflow definitions locally on your development machines, test error handling patterns, data transformations, and mock service integrations using […]

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Streamlined multi-tenant application development with tenant isolation mode in AWS Lambda

Multi-tenant applications often require strict isolation when processing tenant-specific code or data. Examples include software-as-a-service (SaaS) platforms for workflow automation or code execution where customers need to ensure that execution environments used for individual tenants or end users remain completely separate from one another. Traditionally, developers have addressed these requirements by deploying separate Lambda functions […]

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New business metadata features in Amazon SageMaker Catalog to improve discoverability across organizations

Amazon SageMaker Catalog, which is now built in to Amazon SageMaker, can help you collect and organize your data with the accompanying business context people need to understand it. It automatically documents assets generated by AWS Glue and Amazon Redshift, and it connects directly with Amazon Quick Sight, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) buckets, […]

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AWS Control Tower introduces a Controls Dedicated experience

Today, we’re announcing a Controls Dedicated experience in AWS Control Tower. With this feature, you can use Amazon Web Services (AWS) managed controls without the need to set up resources you don’t need, which means you get started faster if you already have an established multi-account environment and want to use AWS Control Tower only […]

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