news​

• Meet the red team paid to break into top-secret bases
• Global Indie Games Market Report 2024: For the first time ever, indie games are generating as much revenue as AAA and AA titles on Steam.
• Terraform: Introduce S3-native state locking
• Federal Trade Commission Announces Final “Click-to-Cancel” Rule Making It Easier for Consumers to End Recurring Subscriptions and Memberships
• Amazon says 175 million customers now use passkeys to log in
• AWS:
  • Bring your conversations to WhatsApp
  • Amazon Redshift data sharing with data lake tables
  • Zonal shift and zonal autoshift for cross zoned Network Load Balancer
  • Console to Code to generate infrastructure as a service code
  • A new getting started experience for AWS CodePipeline
  • AWS Lambda detects and stops recursive loops between Lambda and Amazon S3
  • Amazon MemoryDB for Valkey
  • Amazon Polly adds four new English voices for the generative engine and expands to three Regions
  • For a full list of AWS announcements, be sure to keep an eye on AWS’s What’s New Feed page.

news​

• AWS:
  • Amazon Q Business is now HIPAA eligible
  • NICE DCV renames to Amazon DCV
  • AWS re:Post launches re:Post Agent
  • Advanced configuration with Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB
  • A new stop ingestion API of Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases
  • Higher storage limit of Amazon AppStream 2.0
  • For a full list of AWS announcements, be sure to keep an eye on AWS’s What’s New Feed page.
• GitHub Repository level Actions Usage Metrics – public preview
• Atlantis is moving to the CNCF Slack
• Terraform v1.10.0-alpha adds pattern to manage "exclusive" relationships between resources

toolings​

• Visual Subnet Calculator
• sq: jq for databases

news​

• AWS:

  • Jamba 1.5 family of models by AI21 Labs is now available in Amazon Bedrock
  • AWS Lambda now supports Amazon Linux 2023 runtimes in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
  • Amazon SageMaker Studio now supports automatic shutdown of idle applications
  • Amazon S3 is implementing a default 128 KB minimum object size for S3 Lifecycle transition rules
  • AWS Lake Formation centralized access control for Amazon Redshift data sharing is now available in 11 additional Regions
  • Llama 3.2 generative AI models now available in Amazon Bedrock
  • Introducing Amazon EC2 C8g and M8g Instances
  • Llama 3.2 models are now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
  • For a full list of AWS announcements, be sure to keep an eye on AWS’s What’s New Feed page.

• New Pre-Defined “CI/CD Admin” Organization Role for GitHub Actions.

• Martin Atkins (former Terraform Core Maintainer) joins Spacelift to work on OpenTofu full time.

toolings​

• k8s-image-swapper: Mirror images into your own registry and swap image references automatically.
• kubewall: A single binary kubernetes dashboard to manage your multiple clusters.

news​

• Artifact Hub becomes a CNCF incubating project.
• CFO of HashiCorp, Navam Welihinda, Steps Down.
• Clever 'GitHub Scanner' campaign abusing repos to push malware.
• Gaining access to anyone’s Arc browser without them even visiting a website.
• Kelsey Hightower: If governments rely on FOSS, they should fund it.
• Open source maintainers underpaid, swamped by security, going gray.
  • 2024 State of the Open Source Maintainer Report

toolings​

• Grafana Tanka: configuration utility for Kubernetes powered Jsonnet.
• octo-sts: A GitHub App that acts like a Security Token Service (STS) for the Github API.
• Stack Auth: the open-source Auth0 & Clerk alternative.
• tfstate-worker: A Terraform HTTP Backend built using Cloudflare Workers with locking support!.
• winter-soldier: Scale down or delete unneeded workload after work hours based on conditions.

news​

• Prometheus 3.0 Beta Released.
• Kubecost Acquired by IBM .
• $20 Domain Purchase Exposed .MOBI’s Critical Security Flaw.

toolings​

• sol: A de-minifier (formatter, exploder, beautifier) for shell one-liners
• Git Credentials & Private Packages Cheatsheet
• Terraform module for Certificate Authority on AWS