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September 26, 11:10 am

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News & Trends

Announcing Cloudflare Email Service private beta (5 minute read)

Cloudflare has announced a private beta for its Email Sending service, which lets developers send transactional emails directly from Cloudflare Workers. Available this November, the new feature is part of the Cloudflare Email Service, which unifies Email Sending and Email Routing to streamline email management for developers, with pricing details to be announced. With the Email Service, developers can manage incoming and outgoing emails, integrate with other Cloudflare services, and use REST APIs or SMTP for external services.
Introducing the Docker Premium Support and TAM service (3 minute read)

Docker Premium Support and TAM services are being launched, offering 24/7 support with one-hour SLAs for critical issues to Docker Business and DHI customers. The services also include root cause analysis reporting for major incidents and a Technical Account Manager add-on for proactive support and strategic guidance. A TAM advisor acts as a committed advisor to business lines and engineering teams, and the TAM service will only be available to premium support customers.
Cloudflare's developer platform keeps getting better, faster, and more powerful. Here's everything that's new (9 minute read)

Cloudflare announced new capabilities for its platform, including general availability of R2 Infrequent Access, Media Transformations, Workers Builds, and Remote Bindings. The company has also increased limits for concurrent container instances, added support for Playwright in Browser Rendering, and now supports more APIs from Node.js in Workers.
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Opinions & Tutorials

Multitenant managed logging in Container insights (15 minute read)

Multitenant logging in Container insights enables AKS operators to route container logs from different Kubernetes namespaces to separate Log Analytics workspaces, supporting both multitenancy and multihoming scenarios. The feature relies on ContainerLogV2Extension data collection rules, ConfigMap configuration, and high-scale logging, providing teams with isolated access to logs, compliance, and cost management while allowing centralized infrastructure monitoring.
Implementing Automated Resource Tagging Across AWS Organizations (7 minute read)

An automated tagging solution using CloudFormation, Lambda, and AWS Config ensures consistent resource tags across AWS Organizations by propagating organizational unit tags, enforcing compliance, and reducing manual management overhead. The implementation, deployed through multi-region CloudFormation templates with cross-account roles and StackSets, has been tested in production and delivers improvements in governance, compliance, efficiency, and cost tracking.
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Resources & Tools

Keeper's agentic AI will automatically terminate high-risk sessions (Sponsor)

KeeperAI, a part of KeeperPAM, is real-time, agentic AI threat detection and response that automatically: terminates critical or high-risk sessions > categorizes activities by risk level > explains behavior with command-by-command context > generates encrypted activity summaries with video playback of each session. All in a zero-knowledge environment. Start a free trial
Shimmy (GitHub Repo)

Shimmy, a 5.1MB single-binary, Python-free Rust inference server, was released with 100% OpenAI-compatible endpoints for GGUF models.
Grafana 12.2 release: LLM-powered SQL expressions, updates to canvas and table visualizations, simplified reporting, and more (Resource)

Grafana 12.2 was released with updates to data visualization, including SQL expressions (now in public preview) to join and transform data from any source using SQL syntax, and a revamped table visualization with new formatting features. The new version also includes an updated canvas visualization editor with a re-engineered pan and zoom experience and the ability to control the direction of connections between canvas elements. Saved queries can now be reused and shared in Grafana dashboards and Explore, and a redesigned reporting feature is available in Grafana Enterprise and Grafana Cloud.
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Miscellaneous

Queues, Buses, and Streams (6 minute read)

AWS messaging services can be grouped into queues, buses, and streams, each optimized for different patterns of data movement. SQS provides pull-based queuing with new fair queueing features, SNS and EventBridge enable push-based fan-out and event-driven architectures, while Kinesis and MSK support high-volume streaming use cases where relationships between data elements matter.
R2 SQL: a deep dive into our new distributed query engine (13 minute read)

Cloudflare has launched R2 SQL, a serverless query engine that enables users to run SQL queries over petabytes of data stored in R2 Data Catalog, a managed Apache Iceberg catalog built directly into Cloudflare R2 buckets. R2 SQL addresses I/O and compute challenges by using a Query Planner that intelligently prunes the search space and a Query Execution system that distributes work across Cloudflare's global network for massively parallel execution. The new service is currently available in open beta.
Zalando Engineering Blog - Dead Ends or Data Goldmines? Investment Insights from Two Years of AI-Powered Postmortem Analysis (13 minute read)

Zalando adopted a large language model as an intelligent Site Reliability Engineering assistant to analyze thousands of postmortems, which helped automate the identification of recurring incident patterns in datastores like Postgres, AWS DynamoDB, and Elasticsearch. The AI-powered system reduced analysis time from days to hours and helped identify hidden hotspots, but human curation remained essential for accuracy and addressing limitations like hallucinations. This system has led to solutions like automated change validation for infrastructure as code, which has shielded Zalando from 25% of subsequent datastore incidents.
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Quick Links

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Cloud-native infrastructure moves fast; legacy PAM is slow and reactive. StrongDM gives you real-time control and visibility after access begins - and lets developers keep building in the meantime. Start free
AWS Organizations launches account state information for granular account lifecycle management (2 minute read)

AWS Organizations introduced an account state field that provides more granular lifecycle tracking.
Zone redundancy is now enabled by default in Azure Container Registry (1 minute read)

Azure Container Registry now enables zone redundancy by default across all SKUs in regions with Availability Zones, providing automatic resiliency at no extra cost.
Pulumi Google Cloud Provider Version 9.0.0 (2 minute read)

Pulumi's Google Cloud Provider v9 has been released with updates to Google Cloud resources and functions.
Announcing SQL Server connector from Lakeflow Connect, now Generally Available (5 minute read)

The SQL Server connector from Lakeflow Connect is now generally available, featuring change tracking, CDC, and SCD Type 2 to track historical changes.

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