Service Announcements / Updates:
- Reinventing Enterprise Search – Amazon Kendra is Now Generally Available
- AWS and Red Hat extend collaboration: announcing a new managed Red Hat OpenShift service on AWS
- Announcing the general availability of Azure Spot Virtual Machines
- Microsoft announces definitive agreement to acquire Metaswitch Networks, expanding approach to empower operators and partner with network equipment providers to deliver on promise of 5G
- Azure Site Recovery – Zone-to-zone disaster recovery now available
- Microsoft Adds OpenShift and RHEL Support to Azure Arc, Its Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Platform
- Microsoft Announces Improvements to Azure AD Conditional Access
https://www.petri.com/microsoft-announces-improvements-to-azure-ad-conditional-access
- New WAF capabilities in Google Cloud Armor for on-prem and cloud workloads
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/new-waf-capabilities-in-cloud-armor
Best Practices:
- The Evolution of Enterprise Security Systems and Best Practices by Alibaba
- Google Architecture Framework
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/new-google-cloud-architecture-framework-guide
Security Related:
- Automating cybersecurity guardrails with new Zero Trust blueprint and Azure integrations
- Azure SQL Auditing to storage account behind Virtual Network and firewall now generally available
Trend Reports:
- The State of Cloud Native Development
https://www.cncf.io/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/State-of-Cloud-Native-Development_CNCF_FINAL.pdf
- Why firms are wasting their cloud spending
https://www.raconteur.net/technology/cloud-waste-digital-transformation
Hardware Announcements:
- New – Amazon EC2 M6g Instances, powered by AWS Graviton2
- https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-m6g-ec2-instances-powered-by-arm-based-aws-graviton2/
sponsored by Silver Lining – The silver Lining podcast was created for software and security architects, by software and security architects
