Trend Reports and Strategy:
- How COVID-19 has accelerated the move from a ‘cloud first’ to a ‘cloud now’ approach
https://betanews.com/2020/05/21/cloud-now/
- Businesses in Asia-Pacific Can Find Resilience and Growth in the Cloud
- Cloud Strategies Aren’t Just About Digital Transformation Anymore
- McAfee Released Threat Report on Cloud Adoption by Work from Home Segment
- Securing the cloud for healthcare
https://betanews.com/2020/05/21/securing-the-cloud-for-healthcare/
- Kubernetes Study: Still Early, Still On-Premises
https://virtualizationreview.com/articles/2020/05/13/state-of-kubernetes.aspx
Service Announcements / Updates:
- AWS Systems Manager Explorer now provides a multi-account, multi-region summary of AWS Compute Optimizer recommendations
- AWS Amplify Libraries for Android and iOS
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-aws-amplify-libraries-for-android-and-ios/
- Amazon Network Load Balancer now supports TLS ALPN Policies
- Docker expands relationship with Microsoft to ease developer experience across platforms
- Azure Lighthouse—managing cloud, hybrid, and edge environments at-scale through a single control plane
- Azure Backup now provides protection against accidental deletion of Azure file shares
- Azure IoT Hub virtual network support now available
- Azure Private Link for Azure Monitor is now available
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/private-link-azure-monitor-is-now-available
- Azure server-side encryption with customer-managed keys now available for Azure Ultra Disks
- Azure Service Health – Emerging issues now available
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-service-health-emerging-issues-now-available/
- Azure Advisor recommendation digests now available
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-advisor-recommendation-digests-now-availab/
- Azure Database for MySQL support for intelligent performance with MySQL 8.0 is now available
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/intelligent-performance-mysql-8/
- Introducing VMware Cloud Foundation 3.10
https://blogs.vmware.com/cloud-foundation/2020/05/26/introducing-vmware-cloud-foundation-3-10/
- Announcing Istio 1.6
https://istio.io/news/releases/1.6.x/announcing-1.6/
Architecture Related:
- Evolution of IT R&D Models Based on Cloud Architecture
https://www.alibabacloud.com/blog/evolution-of-it-r%26d-models-based-on-cloud-architecture_596237
- Keeping Customers Streaming — The Centralized Site Reliability Practice at Netflix
Security Related:
- Suppression rules for Azure Security Center alerts are now publicly available
- Azure Key Vault bring your own key (BYOK) is now generally available
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/akv-byok-ga/
- Securing Docker with CIS Controls
https://www.itsecurityguru.org/2020/05/22/securing-docker-with-cis-controls/
- Alibaba Cloud Security Center Launches a One-Click Anti-ransomware Feature
Best Practices:
- Best practices for Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL cross-Region read replicas
- Architecting Successful SaaS: Interacting with Your SaaS Customer’s Cloud Accounts
Database Related:
- The Azure SQL family: Innovation and value in the cloud
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/the-azure-sql-family-innovation-and-value-in-the-cloud/
- General availability of Microsoft Connector for Oracle
Cost Management:
- Evolution, Not Revolution: Cost Optimization Still Tops Challenges of Cloud Computing
https://www.parkmycloud.com/blog/challenges-of-cloud-computing/
- Operate more efficiently and reduce your costs with the cloud, based on GCP
- Choosing between Google BigQuery on-demand and flat rate pricing
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/choosing-bigquery-pricing
- Optimize Google BigQuery costs with Flex Slots
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/optimize-bigquery-costs-with-flex-slots
- Effectively using Google BigQuery Reservations
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/effectively-using-bigquery-reservations
Cloud Certification Related:
- Announcing new role-based learning paths for AWS Media Services
- Level up with Microsoft Certified: Azure IoT Developer Specialty
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/learning/community-blog-post.aspx?BlogId=8&Id=375308
- Extending OpenShift Operator Certification through Badges
https://www.openshift.com/blog/extending-openshift-operator-certification-through-badges
Kubernetes and Containers Related:
- Deploy Any Resource With The New Kubernetes Provider for HashiCorp Terraform
- NIST 800-204A – Building Secure Microservices-based Applications Using Service-Mesh Architecture
https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/SpecialPublications/NIST.SP.800-204A.pdf
- 5 open source projects that make Kubernetes even better
https://enterprisersproject.com/article/2020/5/kubernetes-5-open-source-projects-improve
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