Kubernetes

Customers will be able to run containerised applications inside Snowflake, with the company provisioning Kubernetes clusters. "We want to make Snowflake the iPhone for data applications" says co-founder Benoit Dageville.

"I’ve heard people balk at the suggestion of this mixed approach, because they don’t deem it feasible to convert monoliths to microservices later in the application’s lifecycle..."

A recent attack tracked by researchers at cloud security company Sysdig saw the attackers use an exposed Kubernetes container to move laterally to the victim’s AWS account – gaining initial access by exploiting a public-facing service in a self-managed Kubernetes cluster hosted inside an AWS cloud account. The company'