In late 2023, AWS began informing customers that as of January 15, 2024, they would start enforcing their existing policy of not allowing discounted RIs to be sold on the RI Marketplace, according to AWS Service Terms 5.6.1.: “You may not resell an EC2 Reserved Instance that you purchased through a discount program.” This policy has been in place since at least 2014; however, AWS rarely enforced it.

In RPKI, determining when exactly a ROA expires is not a simple question. In this post, BGP experts Doug Madory and Fastly’s Job Snijders discuss the difference between the expiration dates embedded inside ROAs and the much shorter effective expiration dates used by validators. Furthermore, we analyze how the behavior effective expiration dates change over time due to implementation differences in the chain of certificate authorities.

Even the largest global companies have challenges operating across multiple countries, moving and storing data and navigating multiple jurisdictions. In the globalised digital economy, data can flow across borders in milliseconds. But the legal frameworks governing this data vary widely from one jurisdiction to another. If the UK, Europe and the US are characterised by robust data protection laws, so are many other countries, including the Nordics, Australia, India and China, to name a few.

Telemetry data sent from applications often contains Personally Identifying Information (PII) like names, user IDs, phone numbers, and other information that must be obfuscated before the data is sent to storage or observability tools, in order to be in compliance with corporate or government policies such as HIPAA in the US or the GDPR in the EU.

The latest JFrog collaboration with GitHub enables you to easily combine your favorite solutions for source code and binaries in a seamless integration. This means you now have a unified comprehensive and secure end-to-end experience that supports your software projects. This integration covers everything from curating open source packages, coding, CI, release management, deployment and production. Including three major improvements to your developer experience.

Use Cloudsmith to store your Helm charts alongside your Docker images thanks to Cloudsmith’s support for multi-format repositories. This gives you a unified platform for all your K8s needs, ensuring all your dependencies are stored, managed, and delivered from a single, secure source.

Startup veterans will recognize the opportunity presented by an early-stage company: You not only get to run your organization, you get to define how it runs. All the pieces may not be in place by the time you arrive, and the heart of the job becomes building the organization — the plane — while you run it.

If you run your business on the cloud, you want to maximize what you’re getting for your money and ensure your cloud applications perform up to expectations. To do this, you will need a solid cloud monitoring strategy. This post covers different types of cloud monitoring, their benefits, and some best practices to set you on the right track.