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title: "#144: Amazon EC2 Bare Metal Instances with Direct Access to Hardware"
publication: "StatusCode Weekly"
issue: 144
published_at: "2017-11-29"
canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/144"
---

WebOps Weekly 144   . 

The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news -[Read this on the Web](https://webopsweekly.com/issues/144) 

[![WebOps Weekly\](https://webopsweekly.com/images/webops-header.png)](https://webopsweekly.com) Issue 144 — November 29, 2017      

Heads up - Amazon Web Services' [re:Invent](https://reinvent.awsevents.com/) event is going on right now, which means a _lot_ of AWS news is coming out, including several exciting new services. Hence, an AWS-heavy issue this week :-) 

[AWS Fargate: Run Containers without Managing Infrastructure](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-fargate/) news A new service from Amazon that lets you use containers as a fundamental compute primitive without worrying about instances. Amazon Web Services [Amazon EC2 Bare Metal Instances with Direct Access to Hardware](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-ec2-bare-metal-instances-with-direct-access-to-hardware/) news A new instance type (i3.metal) that provides the benefits of being in the cloud but with direct access to the underlying hardware. Amazon Web Services [Codeship Ranked Amongst Top 5 Continuous Integration Vendors by Forrester](https://codeship.com/forrester-wave-continuous-integration-report?utm_source=email-sponsorship&utm_medium=cpc-webops-weekly-primary&utm_campaign=forrester-wave-ci-report) Codeship ahead of IBM, AWS, Atlassian, and more. To be considered for Forrester’s report, companies needed to have a comprehensive CI product with a strong vision, more than 25 paying enterprise companies, and a strong product vision. Codeshipsponsored[![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/244765a3.png)](https://codeship.com/forrester-wave-continuous-integration-report?utm_source=email-sponsorship&utm_medium=cpc-webops-weekly-primary&utm_campaign=forrester-wave-ci-report) [AWS AppSync: Build Data-Driven Apps with Real-Time and Offline Capabilities](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/introducing-amazon-appsync/) news A fully managed serverless GraphQL service for real-time data queries, synchronization, communications and offline programming features, aimed at mobile app developers. Tara Walker [The New DDoS Landscape](https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-new-ddos-landscape/) news The number of simple ‘flood the network with traffic’ DDoS attacks appears to be dropping, while sophisticated application-layer attacks are on the rise. Cloudflare [The Best Request Is No Request, Revisited](https://alistapart.com/article/the-best-request-is-no-request-revisited) opinion What’s the role of bundling in performance now that HTTP/2 is becoming more ubiquitous? Let Stefan Baumgartner help you find out. A List Apart [Inside Docker's 'FROM scratch'](https://embano1.github.io/post/scratch/) tutorial ‘scratch’ is an interesting ‘empty’ Docker image particularly suited for creating containers that contain only a single binary. Michael Gasch [Amazon GuardDuty: Intelligent Threat Detection for AWS Accounts](https://aws.amazon.com/guardduty/) news A managed threat detection service that continuously monitors for malicious or unauthorized behavior to protect your AWS accounts and workloads. Amazon Web Services 

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In brief

[Google Nixes Kubernetes Cluster Management Fees](https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/11/Cutting-Cluster-Management-Fees-on-Google-Kubernetes-Engine.html) news Google Cloud Platform Blog [Microsoft Centers Azure's Container Services Around Kubernetes](https://thenewstack.io/azure-kubernetes-service-powers-microsofts-container-integration-strategy-cloud/) news The New Stack [M5: The Next Generation of General-Purpose EC2 Instances](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/m5-the-next-generation-of-general-purpose-ec2-instances/) news All VPC-only, EBS-optimized, and 14% faster than M4 for the money. Amazon Web Services [EC2 Streamlines Access to Spot Instance Capacity](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-ec2-update-streamlined-access-to-spot-capacity-smooth-price-changes-instance-hibernation/) news Rather than request spot instances separately, you can indicate you want spot instances via the standard instance running interfaces. Amazon Web Services [Firefox Will Soon Flag Sites That Have Been Hacked](https://www.engadget.com/2017/11/23/firefox-notification-breached-sites/) news In collaboration with [Have I Been Pwned.](https://haveibeenpwned.com/) Steve Dent [Sith Spam Bots Take a Page from a Star Wars Novel(s)](https://www.incapsula.com/blog/form-filler-bots-do-star-wars.html?utm_source=webops&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=sponsored) Attackers take advantage of Star Wars mania and email sharing to launch spam bot attacks. Imperva Incapsulasponsored [Monitoring Traceroute Through Prometheus and Grafana](https://m-button.blogspot.co.uk/2017/11/monitoring-traceroute-through.html?__s=8gscacnizdqaci6z5vso) tutorial Automatically monitoring when routes change. Maxence Button [Creating a High Availability Setup with Heartbeat & Floating IPs](https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-create-a-high-availability-setup-with-heartbeat-and-floating-ips-on-ubuntu-16-04) tutorial Sebastian Canevari [Ping At The Speed of Light](http://blog.wesleyac.com/posts/ping-lightspeed) story Are your packets moving at the speed of light? Well, no. Wesley Aptekar-Cassels [Why Stream Stopped Using .IO Domain Names for Production Traffic](https://getstream.io/blog/stop-using-io-domain-names-for-production-traffic/) story Stream [Migrating from Heroku PostgreSQL to AWS RDS](https://www.wootric.com/blog/how-we-migrated-from-heroku-postgresql-to-aws-rds/) story A practical look at how a customer survey company moved their main production database from Heroku to Amazon Web Services. Wootric [If Software is Eating the Data Center, Power is Its Next Meal](http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/power-and-cooling/if-software-eating-data-center-power-its-next-meal) opinion Data Center Knowledge [Continuous Delivery: GoCD vs. Jenkins](https://www.gocd.org/2017/04/25/gocd-over-jenkins/?utm_campaign=jenkins_vs_gocd&utm_medium=email&utm_source=cooperess_webops&utm_content=jenkins_blog&utm_term=) We compared GoCD with Jenkins on philosophy, continuous delivery & plugins. Understand how these CI/CD tools fit your needs. GoCDsponsored [Strongbox: A Secrets Manager for AWS](https://schibsted.github.io/strongbox/) tools Schibsted Products [stacks-cli: Analyze a Site's Stack From The Terminal](https://github.com/WeiChiaChang/stacks-cli) tools Wesley Chang [Tenta DNS: Recursive and Authoritative DNS Server Built in Go](https://github.com/tenta-browser/tenta-dns) code Includes DNSSEC and DNS-over-TLS. Tenta Browser     [Read this issue on the Web](https://webopsweekly.com/issues/144) [See our archives](https://webopsweekly.com/issues) [Change your email address](*|UPDATE_PROFILE|*)  [Stop getting this newsletter](*|UNSUB|*)  

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