From AWS Console-to-Code to Cloudflare Ephemeral IDs, from Valkey 8.0 to Amazon EC2 Graviton4 instances, the news I covered for InfoQ in October.

AWS Console-to-Code: Convert Console Actions to Reusable IaC

AWS has announced the general availability of Console-to-Code, a service that converts actions performed in the AWS Management Console into reusable code for the AWS CLI, Cloudformation, or CDK, which developers can download. In preview since last November, Console-to-Code currently supports Amazon EC2, RDS, and VPC.

General-Purpose and Compute-Intensive Amazon EC2 Graviton4 Instances Now Available

AWS has recently released the EC2 C8g and M8g instances, powered by the latest Graviton4 processors. The general-purpose M8g and compute-intensive C8g instances are designed to deliver up to 30% better performance compared to Graviton3-based instances, with a cost increase of approximately 10% over the previous M7g and C7g generations.

Ephemeral IDs: Cloudflare’s Latest Tool for Fraud Detection

During its recent Birthday Week, Cloudflare introduced Ephemeral IDs, a new feature for fraud detection. The tool identifies fraudulent activity—whether from bots or humans—by linking behavior to a specific client rather than an IP address.

MongoDB 8.0 Now Available with Performance Gains and Enhanced Sharding

MongoDB has announced the general availability of MongoDB 8.0, introducing significant performance enhancements and new features. Highlights include embedded sharding configuration servers, expanded support for queryable encryption, and the capability to move collections across shards without requiring a shard key.

Valkey 8.0 Now Generally Available with Improved Memory Efficiency

The Linux Foundation has announced the general availability of Valkey 8.0, the open source in-memory storage solution developed as a successor to Redis. By introducing a dictionary per slot and embedding keys directly into dictionary entries, developers can achieve up to 20% more capacity, allowing for the storage of additional keys per node.

AWS Sunsets More Services, Including AWS App Mesh and Amazon FSx File Gateway

In a series of blog posts, AWS has announced the scheduled retirements of several services, including AWS App Mesh and AWS DeepComposer. This new wave of deprecations follows a similar set of retirements earlier in the summer, marking a shift in the cloud provider’s long-standing commitment to existing services.