Glen Knight

NYC Based IT Professional

What Would Happen if DevOps were a Living, Breathing System?

Imagine for a moment that DevOps was not just a set of practices or a framework but something alive, breathing and evolving. What would that look like? How would it impact our perspective toward collaboration, automation and innovation in software development? DevOps has long been about breaking down silos between development and operations teams, speeding […]

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How an Effective AppSec Program Shifts Your Teams From Fixing to Building

Development teams are under growing pressure to build cutting-edge applications with shorter development lifecycles. However, they are often slowed down by the growing burden of fixing security vulnerabilities. Ineffective application security processes mean these teams can spend more time firefighting than building, diverting focus from their primary objective: Delivering innovative, high-performance software. Yet, healthy security […]

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Top announcements of AWS re:Invent 2024

AWS re:Invent 2024, our flagship annual conference, is taking place Dec. 2-6, 2024, in Las Vegas. This premier cloud computing event brings together the global cloud computing community for a week of keynotes, technical sessions, product launches, and networking opportunities. As AWS continues to unveil its latest innovations and services throughout the conference, we’ll keep […]

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Introducing Amazon GuardDuty Extended Threat Detection: AI/ML attack sequence identification for enhanced cloud security

Today, I’m happy to introduce advanced AI/ML threat detection capabilities in Amazon GuardDuty. This new feature uses the extensive cloud visibility and scale of AWS to provide improved threat detection for your applications, workloads, and data. GuardDuty Extended Threat Detection employs sophisticated AI/ML to identify both known and previously unknown attack sequences, offering a more […]

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Container Insights with enhanced observability now available in Amazon ECS

Last year, we announced enhanced observability in Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights, a new capability to improve your observability for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). This capability helps you detect and fix container issues faster by providing detailed performance metrics and logs. Expanding this capability, today we’re launching enhanced observability for your container workloads running […]

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AWS Clean Rooms now supports multiple clouds and data sources

Today, we are announcing support for Snowflake and Amazon Athena as new sources for AWS Clean Rooms data collaborations. AWS Clean Rooms helps you and your partners more seamlessly and securely analyze your collective datasets without sharing or copying one another’s underlying data. This enhancement helps you collaborate with datasets stored in Snowflake or those […]

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New physical AWS Data Transfer Terminals let you upload to the cloud faster

Today, we’re announcing the general availability of AWS Data Transfer Terminal, a secure physical location where you can bring your storage devices and upload data faster to the AWS Cloud. The first Data Transfer Terminals are located in Los Angeles and New York, with plans to add more locations globally. You can reserve a time […]

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Amazon FSx for Lustre increases throughput to GPU instances by up to 12x

Today, we are announcing support for Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) and NVIDIA GPUDirect Storage (GDS) on Amazon FSx for Lustre. EFA is a network interface for Amazon EC2 instances that makes it possible to run applications requiring high levels of inter-node communications at scale. GDS is a technology that creates a direct data path between […]

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Time-based snapshot copy for Amazon EBS

You can now specify a desired completion duration (15 minutes to 48 hours) when you copy an Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) snapshot within or between AWS Regions and/or accounts. This will help you to meet time-based compliance and business requirements for critical workloads. For example: Testing – Distribute fresh data on a timely […]

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Heroku Uplifts Developer Experience with a Shorter Build and Deploy Cycle

Across the country, companies are on a quest to find an easy button to fast-track delivery of applications to customers. An accumulating number of side tasks are continually pushing out their time to market. A central issue that has plagued app development companies is the stretched-out phase of deployment that begins after developers have written […]

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