Glen Knight

NYC Based IT Professional

In the works – AWS South America (Chile) Region

Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced plans to launch a new AWS Region in Chile by the end of 2026. The AWS South America (Chile) Region will consist of three Availability Zones at launch, bringing AWS infrastructure and services closer to customers in Chile. This new Region joins the AWS South America (São Paulo) and […]

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OpenAI Acquires Windsurf for $3 Billion

OpenAI is buying artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted coding tool Windsurf, formerly known as Codeium, for about $3 billion in its largest acquisition to date. The long-rumored deal, reported by Bloomberg News on Monday, should significantly boost ChatGPT’s coding functionality as well as put OpenAI in position to more effectively compete in the fledgling market for AI-powered […]

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Pulumi Previews IDP to Manage Reusable Software Building Blocks

Pulumi today previewed an internal developer platform (IDP) through which DevOps and platform engineering teams will be able to access reusable building blocks that can be used to create templates and blueprints to build applications. Scheduled to be generally available later this year for self-hosted environments or via a software-as-service (SaaS) application, Pulumi IDP will […]

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Accelerate the transfer of data from an Amazon EBS snapshot to a new EBS volume

Today we are announcing the general availability of Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) Provisioned Rate for Volume Initialization, a feature that accelerates the transfer of data from an EBS snapshot, a highly durable backup of volumes stored in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) to a new EBS volume. With Amazon EBS Provisioned Rate […]

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Causely Extends Reach of Observability to Grafana Dashboards

Causely, a provider of an observability platform based on causal artificial intelligence (AI) models, today revealed it is now adding support for open source Grafana dashboards. Announced at the GrafanaCon 2025 conference, this integration provides DevOps teams with an ability to surface root cause analysis within dashboards that are already widely used by many IT […]

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Tricentis Looks to Further Automate Application Testing

Tricentis has extended a cloud-based testing service to make it easier to ensure that test cases are designed to continuously validate business workflows against mission-critical business objectives, not just technical functionalities. In addition, the latest version of Tricentis Tosca also makes it simpler to make use of reusable test step blocks using a set of […]

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AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Nova Premier, Amazon Q Developer, Amazon Q CLI, Amazon CloudFront, AWS Outposts, and more (May 5, 2025)

Last week I went to Thailand to attend the AWS Summit Bangkok. It was an energizing and exciting event. We hosted the Developer Lounge, where developers can meet, discuss ideas, enjoy lightning talks, win SWAGs at AWS Builder ID Prize Wheel, take a challenge at Amazon Q Developer Coding Challenge, or learn Generative AI at […]

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Amazon Q Developer in GitHub (in preview) accelerates code generation

Starting today, you can now use Amazon Q Developer in GitHub in preview! This is fantastic news for the millions of developers who use GitHub on a daily basis, whether at work or for personal projects. They can now use Amazon Q Developer for feature development, code reviews, and Java code migration directly within the […]

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AI as the Architect’s Muse: Redefining Software Design in the Age of Intelligence 

Software architecture is no longer a static artifact — it’s a dynamic, living thing, shaped by AI’s relentless curiosity and our own audacity. Source: DevOps.com

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AI-Powered DevSecOps: Navigating Automation, Risk and Compliance in a Zero-Trust World

Breaking down how artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping DevSecOps, the security pitfalls that come with it and how to balance the raw efficiency of automation with the actual realities of risk mitigation. Source: DevOps.com

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