GitLab and DigitalOcean Offer Free Hosting for GitLab CI to Open Source Community

GitLab, maker of the homonymous Git-based code management and continuous integration platform, and Y Combinator cloud platform provider DigitalOcean have partnered to provide free hosting to the open source community to move their continuous integration to the cloud.

DigitalOcean Launches Flexible Block Storage

DigitalOcean has announced the availability of a new Block Storage service to make it possible to grow storage independently of computing power and at a more convenient price.

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.