Google Cloud, AWS, and Cloudflare report largest DDoS attacks by CrankyBear

Monster DDoS attacks hit Google Cloud and other major internet services. GoogleDistributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks may be one of the least sophisticated types of cyberattacks but they can do real damage. Now Google and other top cloud companies are reporting new records for the largest DDoS attacks ever.The Google Cloud was hit by the

ByHackTechOctober 11, 20230Comments

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Personal Cloud Storage seems ripe for disruption by AtlasBarfed

Personal Cloud Storage seems outrageously expensive.Virtually all online storage vendors have settled on about 10 bucks per TB per month, and those figures are substantially cheaper than AWS (20/TB-month generally AND high transfer costs)Meanwhile, hard drives are now down to $8 per terabyte as of this post in retail channels, where multiple 10TB drives can

ByHackTechSeptember 6, 20230Comments

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US cloud provider ran from Iran helps ransomware gangs and state hackers by campuscodi

The Halcyon Research and Engineering Team has published new research that details novel techniques used to unmask yet another Ransomware Economy player that is facilitating ransomware attacks and state-sponsored APT operations: Command-and-Control Providers (C2P) who sell services to threat actors while assuming a legal business profile. While these C2P entities are ostensibly legitimate businesses that

ByHackTechAugust 1, 20230Comments

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Documentation as Code for Cloud Using PlantUML by cyneox

This article is part of a series. Basics I’ve become a huge fan of PlantUML even before I came across the concept of “documentation as code” I also code for presentations. So the term presentation as code is also a thing. and it instantly won me over with its capabilities. I have used it in

ByHackTechJuly 30, 20230Comments

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Why do cloud providers keep building datacenters in America’s hottest city? by rntn

With more than a hundred 100F (37.7C) days a year and a persistent drought, on paper Phoenix, Arizona is one of the last places you’d expect to find cloud and colocation providers setting down roots. Yet, Google has just broken ground on a $1 billion, 750,000 square feet datacenter campus in Mesa, east of Phoenix

ByHackTechJuly 15, 20230Comments

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Amazon’s cloud unit is considering AMD’s new AI chips by mfiguiere

SAN FRANCISCO, June 13 (Reuters) – Amazon Web Services (AMZN.O), the world’s largest cloud computing provider, is considering using new artificial intelligence chips from Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD.O), though it has not made a final decision, an AWS executive told Reuters.The remarks came during an AMD event where the chip company outlined its strategy

ByHackTechJune 14, 20230Comments

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Cloud Commander by turrini

Cloud file manager with console and editor Find typo? Help fix it. Contact Main Blog Support Demo Cloud Commander is a file manager for the web. It includes a command-line console and a text editor. Cloud Commander helps you manage your server and work with files, directories and programs in a web browser from any

ByHackTechMay 29, 20230Comments

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Cloud native control plane framework by saikatsg

Created to power your platformUpbound built Crossplane to help organizations build their platforms like the cloud vendors build theirs—with control planes. Crossplane is an open source, CNCF project built on the foundation of Kubernetes to orchestrate anything. Encapsulate policies, permissions, and other guardrails behind a custom API line to enable your customers to self-service without

ByHackTechMay 23, 20230Comments

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Is Scalable OLTP in the Cloud a Solved Problem? (CIDR 2023) by greghn

This paper appeared in CIDR 2023 recently. It is a thought provoking big picture paper, coming from a great team.The paper draws attention to the divide between conventional wisdom on building scalable OLTP databases (shared-nothing architecture) and how they are built and deployed on the cloud (shared storage architecture). There are shared nothing systems like

ByHackTechMay 20, 20230Comments

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Multi Cloud Multi Installation Deployments by artellectual

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ByHackTechApril 12, 20231Comment

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