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2020
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Kubernetes 1.18

We're pleased to announce the delivery of Kubernetes 1.18, our first release of 2020! Kubernetes 1.18 consists of 38 enhancements: 15 enhancements are moving to stable, 11 enhancements in beta, and 12 enhancements in alpha. Kubernetes 1.18 is a "fit and finish" release. Significant work has gone into improving beta…

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Amazon Launches New RabbitMQ Message Broker Service

In 2017, we launched Amazon MQ – a managed message broker service for Apache ActiveMQ, a popular open-source message broker that is fast and feature-rich. It offers queues and topics, durable and non-durable subscriptions, push-based and poll-based messaging, and filtering. With Amazon MQ, we have enhanced lots of new…

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Amazon Common Software for Devices

Apply today to join the Amazon Common Software (ACS) for devices preview! We use ACS in Amazon devices, including the Echo Dot (3rd generation) and the Amazon Smart Oven, and now you can use it to accelerate integration of Amazon Device SDKs on your devices to bring them to market more quickly and cost-effectively.

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AWS Copilot

AWS Copilot CLI will reach end-of-support on May 22, 2026. After this date, the tool will no longer receive updates, security patches, or technical support. The first official command line tool for Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) was created in 2015. In December 2019, we shared the preview release of a…

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Speeding up a Git monorepo

We migrated from Mercurial to Git in 2014 to improve local performance and began consolidating our repositories that hosted our backend code. But as this monorepo grew, we experienced Git performance issues that grew linearly with the number of files we added. Inconveniently, this problem was the most severe on…

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AWS EC2 General Price Cut

It is my great pleasure to tell you about a price reduction for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) customers who plan to use Standard Reserved Instances or EC2 Instance Saving Plans. The price changes are already in effect, and so anyone buying new RIs or a new EC2 Instance Saving Plan will be able […]

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Introducing Swift Service Lifecycle

It is my pleasure to announce a new open source project for the Swift server ecosystem, Swift Service Lifecycle. Service Lifecycle is a Swift package designed to help server applications, also known as services, manage their startup and shutdown sequences.