Trend Reports:
- O’Reilly Cloud Adoption in 2020
https://www.oreilly.com/radar/cloud-adoption-in-2020/
- Oracle and KPMG Cloud Threat Report 2020
https://www.oracle.com/a/ocom/docs/cloud/oracle-cloud-threat-report-2020.pdf
- Security and Cloud Drive IoT Spending
https://blog.451alliance.com/security-and-cloud-drive-iot-spending/
Service Announcements / Updates:
- New Responsible ML innovation in Azure Machine Learning
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/new-responsible-ml-innovation-in-azure-machine-learning/
- Microsoft announces Cloud for Healthcare, its first industry-specific cloud offering
- New Azure Cognitive Services capabilities are now generally available
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-cognitive-services-2/
- Microsoft announces new supercomputer, lays out vision for future AI work
https://blogs.microsoft.com/ai/openai-azure-supercomputer/
- New Azure IoT Central features are now available
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/new-azure-iot-central-features-are-now-available/
- Azure Container Registry diagnostic logs now generally available
- Azure Key Vault service enhancements now available
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-key-vault-service-enhancements-now-available/
- Azure Monitor enhancements are now available
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-monitor-enhancements-are-now-available/
- Announcing Google Cloud VMware Engine: Accelerating your cloud journey
https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/hybrid-cloud/announcing-google-cloud-vmware-engine
- Google Cloud and NVIDIA’s enhanced partnership accelerates computing workloads
- Dell Technologies Cloud OneFS for Google Cloud, now generally available
- Oracle Announces NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPU Availability, Startup Program Collaboration, Data Science VMs, and More
- OpenStack Ussuri Enhances Open Source Cloud Platform
https://www.itprotoday.com/iaaspaas/openstack-ussuri-enhances-open-source-cloud-platform
Cost Optimization:
- Cloud cost optimization: principles for lasting success, based on GCP
https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/cost-management/principles-of-cloud-cost-optimization
Best Practices:
- Introducing the Well-Architected Framework for Machine Learning
- Best practices for organizing larger serverless applications
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/best-practices-for-organizing-larger-serverless-applications/
- Amazon EKS Best Practices Guide for Security
https://aws.github.io/aws-eks-best-practices/
Security Related:
- Encryption at rest with customer-managed keys on Azure Cosmos DB now generally available
- Technologies in all layers of the cloud stack are at risk
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2020/05/20/cloud-stack-risk/
Database Related:
- Azure Cosmos DB Python SDK 4.0 now available
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-cosmos-db-python-sdk-40-now-available/
- Azure Private Link for Azure Cosmos DB now in general availability
- Autoscale provisioned throughput for Azure Cosmos DB
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/autoscale-provisioned-throughput-for-azure-cosmos-db/
- Azure Active Directory support in Azure Database for MySQL now available
- Azure Active Directory support in Azure Database for PostgreSQL—single server now available
Data Analytics:
- Azure Analytics: Clarity in an instant
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-analytics-clarity-in-an-instant/
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