#144: Amazon EC2 Bare Metal Instances with Direct Access to Hardware

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Issue 144 — November 29, 2017

Heads up - Amazon Web Services' re:Invent event is going on right now, which means a lot of AWS news is coming out, including several exciting new services. Hence, an AWS-heavy issue this week :-) AWS Fargate: Run Containers without Managing Infrastructure   news  A new service from Amazon that lets you use containers as a fundamental compute primitive without worrying about instances. Amazon Web Services Amazon EC2 Bare Metal Instances with Direct Access to Hardware   news  A new instance type (i3.metal) that provides the benefits of being in the cloud but with direct access to the underlying hardware. Amazon Web Services Codeship Ranked Amongst Top 5 Continuous Integration Vendors by Forrester Codeship ahead of IBM, AWS, Atlassian, and more. To be considered for Forrester’s report, companies needed to have a comprehensive CI product with a strong vision, more than 25 paying enterprise companies, and a strong product vision. Codeship   sponsored  AWS AppSync: Build Data-Driven Apps with Real-Time and Offline Capabilities   news  A fully managed serverless GraphQL service for real-time data queries, synchronization, communications and offline programming features, aimed at mobile app developers. Tara Walker The New DDoS Landscape   news  The number of simple ‘flood the network with traffic’ DDoS attacks appears to be dropping, while sophisticated application-layer attacks are on the rise. Cloudflare The Best Request Is No Request, Revisited   opinion  What’s the role of bundling in performance now that HTTP/2 is becoming more ubiquitous? Let Stefan Baumgartner help you find out. A List Apart Inside Docker's 'FROM scratch'   tutorial  ‘scratch’ is an interesting ‘empty’ Docker image particularly suited for creating containers that contain only a single binary. Michael Gasch Amazon GuardDuty: Intelligent Threat Detection for AWS Accounts   news  A managed threat detection service that continuously monitors for malicious or unauthorized behavior to protect your AWS accounts and workloads. Amazon Web Services Jobs Software Engineer Indeed Prime is a free service that helps engineers secure top offers from leading companies. Indeed Prime In brief Google Nixes Kubernetes Cluster Management Fees   news  Google Cloud Platform Blog Microsoft Centers Azure's Container Services Around Kubernetes   news  The New Stack M5: The Next Generation of General-Purpose EC2 Instances   news  All VPC-only, EBS-optimized, and 14% faster than M4 for the money. Amazon Web Services EC2 Streamlines Access to Spot Instance Capacity   news  Rather than request spot instances separately, you can indicate you want spot instances via the standard instance running interfaces. Amazon Web Services Firefox Will Soon Flag Sites That Have Been Hacked   news  In collaboration with Have I Been Pwned. Steve Dent Sith Spam Bots Take a Page from a Star Wars Novel(s) Attackers take advantage of Star Wars mania and email sharing to launch spam bot attacks. Imperva Incapsula   sponsored  Monitoring Traceroute Through Prometheus and Grafana   tutorial  Automatically monitoring when routes change. Maxence Button Creating a High Availability Setup with Heartbeat & Floating IPs   tutorial  Sebastian Canevari Ping At The Speed of Light   story  Are your packets moving at the speed of light? Well, no. Wesley Aptekar-Cassels Why Stream Stopped Using .IO Domain Names for Production Traffic   story  Stream Migrating from Heroku PostgreSQL to AWS RDS   story  A practical look at how a customer survey company moved their main production database from Heroku to Amazon Web Services. Wootric If Software is Eating the Data Center, Power is Its Next Meal   opinion  Data Center Knowledge Continuous Delivery: GoCD vs. Jenkins We compared GoCD with Jenkins on philosophy, continuous delivery & plugins. Understand how these CI/CD tools fit your needs. GoCD   sponsored  Strongbox: A Secrets Manager for AWS   tools  Schibsted Products stacks-cli: Analyze a Site's Stack From The Terminal   tools  Wesley Chang Tenta DNS: Recursive and Authoritative DNS Server Built in Go   code  Includes DNSSEC and DNS-over-TLS. Tenta Browser Read this issue on the Web See our archives Change your email address Stop getting this newsletter Published by Cooperpress Fairfield Enterprise Centre, Lincoln Way, Louth, LN11 0LS, UK