From HBase at Pinterest to attack surface at AWS, from high-memory U7i instances to data transfer across availability zones, the news I covered for InfoQ in June.

Non-Production Endpoints as an Attack Surface in AWS

The security team at Datadog recently disclosed a security issue on AWS where non-production endpoints were used as an attack surface to silently perform permission enumeration. AWS has since remediated these specific bypasses.

Pinterest Shuts down One of the World’s Largest HBase Deployments

The engineering team at Pinterest recently deprecated their HBase clusters due to high maintenance and infrastructure costs, a lack of Hbase experts, and limited product functionalities. Following Pinterest’s move to TiDB and other database technologies, the community questions whether this is another sign of the decline of the non-relational database that runs on top of Hadoop and HDFS.

Amazon EC2 U7i Instances: 896 vCPUs and up to 32 TiB of Memory for High Memory Workloads

AWS recently announced the general availability of high-memory U7i instances. Simplifying the vertical scaling of large workloads, these new U7i instances are designed to support large, in-memory databases such as SAP HANA, Oracle, and SQL Server.

Azure Eliminates Inter-Availability Zone Data Transfer Fees to Encourage Deployment Best Practices

Microsoft has recently announced that Azure will no longer charge for data transfer across availability zones whether using private or public IPs. This change will facilitate the development of resilient multi-AZ applications without the concern of additional data transfer expenses.

InfoQ Dev Summit Munich: Learn from German Automotive, Banking, and TelCo Software Practitioners

InfoQ Dev Summit Munich is a two-day in-person software development conference for senior software engineers, architects, and team leaders in the Bavarian capital on September 26th and 27th. The sessions will cover critical topics such as generative AI and platform engineering, with use cases from the German automotive, banking, and telecommunication industries.

Cloudflare AI Gateway Now Generally Available

Cloudflare has recently announced that AI Gateway is now generally available. Described as a unified interface for managing and scaling generative AI workloads, AI Gateway allows developers to gain visibility and control over AI applications.