AWS Lambda Now Supports Environment Variables

AWS has recently added to AWS Lambda the possibility to define variables to customize the environment the code runs in. This will enable writing code that is clean and reusable without requiring its redeployment, writes AWS Chief Evangelist Jeff Barr.

Google Introduces Cloud-Based Encryption Key Management Service

Google has announced a new service for its Google Cloud Platform (GCP) that allows to create, use, rotate, and destroy symmetric encryption keys. Although the new Cloud Key Management Service (KMS) is integrated with Google’s Cloud Identity Access Management and Cloud Audit Logging, keys managed using KMS can be also used independently.

All Google's Servers Contain Custom Security Silicon

Google infrastructure is designed to ensure that information is secure throughout its entire lifecycle. Here we highlight the key points of Google’s approach.

Google Cloud Endpoints is Now Generally Available

After three months in beta, Google has announced the general availability of its Open API-based Cloud Endpoints (GCE) API management system, which aims to make it possible to build efficient, ready-to-scale API platforms, says Google.

NGINX Plus R12 Brings Master-Peer Configuration Sharing, Improved Scripting, and More

Nginx has announced release 12 of NGINX Plus, the paid version of the popular NGINX open source web server. NGINX Plus R12 brings a new configuration-sharing feature aimed to simplify clustering, official support for the nginScript language, and improvements in monitoring and instrumentation, caching, and reliability.