EuropeClouds Recommends #10 - 27.6.2020

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Service Announcements / Updates:

• Introducing Amazon Honeycode – Build Web & Mobile Apps Without Writing Code

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/06/announcing-amazon-honeycode/

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/introducing-amazon-honeycode-build-web-mobile-apps-without-writing-code/

• New – Streamline media analysis tasks with Amazon Rekognition Video

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/media/streamline-media-analysis-tasks-with-amazon-rekognition-video/

• Introducing the Amazon Database Migration Accelerator

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/introducing-the-amazon-database-migration-accelerator/

• Amazon Aurora Global Database supports read replica write forwarding

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/06/amazon-aurora-global-database-supports-read-replica-write-forwarding/

• Introducing AWS Solutions Constructs

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/06/introducing-aws-solutions-constructs/

• Introducing Multi-Region Application Architecture

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/06/introducing-multi-region-application-architecture/

• Announcing availability of AWS Outposts in nine additional countries in Africa, Asia Pacific, Latin America, and Middle East

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/06/announcing-availability-of-aws-outposts-in-nine-additional-countries-in-africa-asia-pacific-latin-america-and-middle-east/

• Manage your AWS Identity and Access Management quotas with AWS Service Quotas

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/06/manage-your-aws-identity-and-access-management-quotas-with-aws-service-quotas/

• Microsoft acquires CyberX to accelerate and secure customers’ IoT deployments

https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2020/06/22/microsoft-acquires-cyberx-to-accelerate-and-secure-customers-iot-deployments/

• Rules Engine for Azure Front Door and Azure CDN is now generally available

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/rules-engine-for-azure-front-door-and-azure-cdn-is-now-generally-available/

• Introducing Azure Load Balancer insights using Azure Monitor for Networks

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/introducing-azure-load-balancer-insights-using-azure-monitor-for-networks/

• Azure Virtual Machines DCsv2-series is now available in West Europe

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-confidential-computing-available-in-west-europe/

• Azure Pipelines now supports Linux/ARM64

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-devops-pipelines-introduces-support-for-linuxarm64/

• Kia and Google Cloud develop AI-based owner’s manual app

https://www.autocarpro.in/news-international/kia-and-google-cloud-develop-aibased-owner%E2%80%99s-manual-app-56603

• Bayer Crop Science seeds the future with 15000-node GKE clusters

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes/google-kubernetes-engine-clusters-can-have-up-to-15000-nodes

• Announcing Microsoft SQL Server 2019 Big Data Clusters on Red Hat OpenShift

https://www.openshift.com/blog/announcing-microsoft-sql-server-2019-big-data-clusters-on-red-hat-openshift

• Announcing the HashiCorp Cloud Platform

https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/announcing-cloud-platform/

• SAP Aims to Simplify Data Analytics in the Cloud

https://www.datanami.com/2020/06/18/sap-aims-to-simplify-data-analytics-in-the-cloud/

• HPE moves closer to everything-as-a-service with Ezmeral and expanded GreenLake cloud services

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/hpe-moves-closer-to-everything-as-a-service-with-ezmeral-and-expanded-greenlake-cloud-services/

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Trend Reports:

• The State of Cloud Native Security 2020

https://blog.paloaltonetworks.com/2020/06/cloud-native-security-genome/

• A Quarter of all Enterprises Will Move to All-cloud Environments within a Year

https://enterprisetalk.com/featured/a-quarter-of-all-enterprises-will-move-to-all-cloud-environments-within-a-year/

• McAfee Cloud Adoption and Risk Report 2020

https://www.mcafee.com/enterprise/en-us/assets/reports/restricted/rp-carr-wfh.pdf

• Cloud computing in Europe: Speculations on EU cloud tech in post-pandemic era

https://betanews.com/2020/06/19/cloud-computing-in-europe/

• How the cloud can provide stability in a changing world

https://www.computing.co.uk/sponsored/4016705/cloud-provide-stability-changing-world

• 12 Biggest Cloud Threats And Vulnerabilities In 2020

https://www.crn.com/slide-shows/security/12-biggest-cloud-threats-and-vulnerabilities-in-2020/1

• Trends and Applications of Serverless Computing

https://www.alibabacloud.com/blog/trends-and-applications-of-serverless-computing_596334

• A New Cloud Price War Unfolds

https://blogs.idc.com/2020/06/26/a-new-cloud-price-war-unfolds/

Security Related:

• AWS Incident Response Runbooks

https://github.com/aws-samples/aws-incident-response-runbooks/tree/master/runbooks

• Accreditation Models for Secure Cloud Adoption

https://d1.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/accreditation-models-for-secure-cloud-adoption.pdf

• 3 Big Amazon S3 Vulnerabilities You May Be Missing

https://cloudsecurityalliance.org/blog/2020/06/18/3-big-amazon-s3-vulnerabilities-you-may-be-missing/

• Monitor Elevate Access Activity In Azure

https://samilamppu.com/2020/06/18/monitor-elevated-global-admin-account-usage/

• Privacy and security concerns related to patient data in the cloud

https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2020/06/22/patient-data-cloud/

https://cloudsecurityalliance.org//artifacts/telehealth-data-in-the-cloud

• Cloud: The Path to Compliance Acceleration, based on Oracle cloud

https://blogs.oracle.com/cloud-infrastructure/cloud%3a-the-path-to-compliance-acceleration

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Cost Management:

• Optimize Cloud Use While Reducing Costs, using GCP

https://medium.com/@d3vtech/optimize-cloud-use-while-reducing-costs-4b239800c690

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Best Practices:

• Simplifying serverless best practices with Lambda Powertools

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/simplifying-serverless-best-practices-with-lambda-powertools/

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Backup Related:

• Managing backups at scale in your AWS Organizations using AWS Backup

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/storage/managing-backups-at-scale-in-your-aws-organizations-using-aws-backup/

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Cloud Training:

• New digital course on edX: Migrating to the AWS Cloud

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/06/new-digital-course-on-edX-migrating-to-the-aws-cloud/