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1. ???Upcoming Community Events
2. ? Past Community Events
3. ?? Conferences to Attend
4. ???Goodies & Discounts
5. ?? Tech News

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Upcoming Community Events???

• KubeClarity: Bringing Clarity to Your Kubernetes Artifacts Security
• ?? Tuesday, May 3, 2022.

All upcoming community events can be found at?CSN Meetup page. The best way to always stay up to date about the upcoming community events is to add our?shared calendar????to your Google Calendar app.

Past Community Events ?

• Avis Budget Group's Journey to Modern Observability Stack with Open-Source Tools
• ?? Tuesday, April 26, 2022.
• Best Practices in Monitoring a Kubernetes Cluster w/ Prometheus, Grafana & Loki
• ?? Wednesday, April 27, 2022.
• Let your developer easily connect, secure & enforce policy for your microservice
• ?? Wednesday, April 27, 2022.
• Using Kubernetes To Deliver A “Serverless” Service (free webinar)
• ?? Wednesday, April 27, 2022.
• Architecting Your DevOps Pipeline for Automation at Scale (free webinar)
• ?? Thursday, April 28, 2022.

All past community events can be found at?CSN Meetup page.

Conferences to Attend ??

• DevX Conf?(networking)
• ?? Location: Online? ?? Date: May 2-3, 2022.

Find further conferences & summits at?confs.tech.

Goodies & Discounts ??

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Tech News???

• Amazon still undisputed king of public cloud, but Microsoft is creeping closer
• Amazon has steadily controlled a third of the public cloud market for years. Microsoft, on the other hand, has been growing slowly but surely over time.
• Google Cloud Chief Says CEOs View Software as Strategic
• Google Cloud Chief Executive Thomas Kurian discusses the changing role of the CIO in a world of e-everything.
• Cloud computing is a bright spot for tech as the economy grapples with war and inflation
• Microsoft's CEO indicated that companies aren't looking to cut into their IT budgets when economies worsen. That means cloud could be a safe haven for Big Tech.
• Microsoft's $15 billion cybersecurity business is giving investors new reason for optimism
• Security software makers are taking aim at Microsoft now that the company has shown just how big of a target it's become.
• Amazon's cloud business grows almost 37%, but slows from last quarter
• Amazon's overall business lost money in the first quarter, but the loss would have been even steeper were it not for the fast-growing cloud segment.
• After years of debate, Google Cloud is ready to submit Istio to the CNCF
• Istio is the last major component of the Kubernetes ecosystem to sit outside of the CNCF. At one point, Google seemed unsure whether it would cede control of the service-mesh project, but things have changed.
• Amazon re-awarded $10 billion NSA cloud contract after Microsoft dispute
• Amazon has been re-awarded a $10 billion cloud contract with the NSA after a fight with Microsoft.
• Google Cloud acquires MobiledgeX, will make it open source
• MobiledgeX was founded by Germany's Deutsche Telekom in 2018. The company boasted work with 26 operators in total, including Telefonica, Orange, BT and Deutsche Telekom.
• Infrastructure as SQL on AWS: IaSQL is Now Open Source and SaaS
• IaSQL, the company behind a service that models AWS infrastructure using SQL, has recently announced that IaSQL is available as open source and software as a service.
• Microsoft Hatches Plan to Sell Cloud Services to 'Holdout' Businesses
• Microsoft has become a cloud powerhouse provider primarily on the strength of its decadeslong, deep relationships with Fortune 500 companies. Now it’s stepping up its efforts to go after business customers who haven’t previously spent much on the cloud — call them cloud holdouts.

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