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A red block symbol with the following text: "Defending Against a Login API Brute Force Attack: Because cutting corners can cripple you"

Defending Against a Login API Brute Force Attack

Learn the importance of implementing the 'maximum failed login attempt' safeguard to protect your user accounts.

Project Cirrus blog post

Gaining Control Over Sky-High Cloud Costs: Our Journey So Far

Project Cirrus reduced our public cloud spend by 40% in one year while improving the efficiency and performance of our business-critical applications.

Cloning content to Linode Object Storage with RClone

Cloning Content to Linode Object Storage with RClone

by Stuart Macleod

We'll guide you through using rclone to copy files to Linode Object Storage, making the process as seamless as possible.

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Talia Nassi

How to Lower Video Transcoding Costs by Migrating to Dedicated Linode Instances

Discover how to slash video transcoding costs by 33% with dedicated compute instances and learn effective strategies to reduce egress fees and optimize VM utilization.

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Information on OpenSSH “regreSSHion” Vulnerability

by Linode Support

We are currently evaluating the vulnerability and its impact to our infrastructure.

Metadata GA

Customize Deployments with Akamai’s Metadata Service

Our cloud-init powered metadata service is out of beta and available in more data centers.

Introducing Warm Migrations on Akamai featured image.

Introducing Warm Migrations on Akamai

Our new unified migrations significantly improve cold migration reliability and introduce warm migrations for quickly resizing VMs.

Deploy MainConcept Transcoders & More with Marketplace from Akamai Connected Cloud.

New in Marketplace: MainConcept Transcoder & Live Streaming Software Apps

Easily deploy compute instances for transcoding live and media streaming, or easily start streaming with MainConcept Live Encoder.

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Metadata Service Now Available in Open Beta

by Hillary Wilmoth

We’re adding a metadata service powered by cloud-init to make configuring compute instances faster and easier than ever.

Information on AMD Zenbleed

Jim Ackley

Information on AMD Zenbleed

We successfully implemented recommended mitigations from AMD and have confirmed that our cloud computing systems are no longer vulnerable to exploitation.

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Behind the Scenes: Incremental Infrastructure Improvements

Building for the future with infrastructure improvements, including more powerful CPUs, NVMe local storage, and firmware updates.