EuropeClouds Recommends #15 - 02.8.2020

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‍Service Announcements / Updates:

• AWS Announces General Availability of Amazon Fraud Detector

https://press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-details/aws-announces-general-availability-amazon-fraud-detector

• VW expands Amazon manufacturing tie-up

https://europe.autonews.com/automakers/vw-expands-amazon-manufacturing-tie

• New – Amazon EC2 Instances based on AWS Graviton2 with local NVMe-based SSD storage

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-graviton2-instance-types-c6g-r6g-and-their-d-variant/

• Introducing Amazon ECR server-side encryption using AWS Key Management System

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/introducing-amazon-ecr-server-side-encryption-using-aws-key-management-system/

• Amazon EFS CSI Driver is now generally available

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/07/amazon-efs-csi-driver-now-generally-available/

• AWS ParallelCluster 2.8.0

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/07/aws-parallelcluster-2-8-0/

• Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations now support Group Targeting

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/07/amazon-ec2-on-demand-capacity-reservations-now-support-group-targeting/

• New – Using Amazon GuardDuty to Protect Your S3 Buckets

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-using-amazon-guardduty-to-protect-your-s3-buckets/

• Announcing the New AWS Community Builders Program!

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/announcing-the-new-aws-community-builders-program/

• Vector and AWS join forces to accelerate the future of energy

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/industries/vector-and-aws-join-forces-to-accelerate-the-future-of-energy/

• PepsiCo partners with Microsoft for new era of operational agility and product innovation amid rising consumer demand

https://news.microsoft.com/2020/07/27/pepsico-partners-with-microsoft-for-new-era-of-operational-agility-and-product-innovation-amid-rising-consumer-demand/

• New Windows Virtual Desktop capabilities now generally available

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/new-windows-virtual-desktop-capabilities-now-generally-available/

• Windows Virtual Desktop Azure portal and Microsoft Teams integrations are generally available

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/windows-virtual-desktop-azure-portal-and-microsoft-teams-integrations-are-generally-available/

• Azure HDInsight now supports virtual network service endpoint policies

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-hdinsight-now-supports-virtual-network-service-endpoint-policies/

• Azure Data Explorer Streaming Ingestion is generally available

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-data-explorer-streaming-ingestion-is-live-in-ga/

• Azure IoT Device Provisioning Service VNET ingress support is now available

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-iot-device-provisioning-service-vnet-ingress-support-is-now-available/

• Azure Monitor Community Repository is now available

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-monitor-community-repository-is-now-available-2/

• Google's new transatlantic data cable to land in Cornwall

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-53553580

• Google Cloud Run adds support for gradual rollouts and rollbacks

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/serverless/cloud-run-now-supports-gradual-rollouts-and-rollbacks

• New Private Service Connect simplifies secure access to services, based on GCP

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/networking/introducing-private-service-connect

• Google breaks AI performance records in MLPerf with world's fastest training supercomputer

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/google-breaks-ai-performance-records-in-mlperf-with-worlds-fastest-training-supercomputer

• Oracle Commerce Now Available on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

https://blogs.oracle.com/cloud-infrastructure/oracle-commerce-now-available-on-oracle-cloud-infrastructure

• IBM Cloud for Financial Services Helping Banks Adopt Cloud

https://www.itprotoday.com/iaaspaas/ibm-cloud-financial-services-helping-banks-adopt-cloud

• Cloudflare Wants to Eat AWS’s Serverless Lunch

https://www.itprotoday.com/hybrid-cloud/cloudflare-wants-eat-aws-s-serverless-lunch

• VMware Hands Control of Kubernetes Ingress Project Contour Over to CNCF

https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/vmware/vmware-hands-control-kubernetes-ingress-project-contour-over-cncf

• Announcing v3.0. of the Terraform AWS Provider

https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/announcing-v3-0-of-the-terraform-aws-provider/

• Announcing the HashiCorp Linux Repository

https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/announcing-the-hashicorp-linux-repository/

Customer Stories:

• Backblaze takes aim at ‘costly and complex’ AWS cloud storage

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252486751/Backblaze-takes-aim-at-costly-and-complex-AWS-cloud-storage

• How Liberty Mutual uses AWS Transfer Family to manage financial data

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/storage/how-liberty-mutual-uses-aws-transfer-family-to-manage-financial-data/

• Wipro to run its business on SAP in Google’s cloud

https://www.cio.com/article/3568491/wipro-to-run-its-business-on-sap-in-google-s-cloud.html

• Verve Group Announces Migration to Google Cloud

https://www.exchangewire.com/blog/2020/07/28/verve-group-announces-migration-to-google-cloud/

Best Practices:

• AWS Unravels ‘Internal Mechanics’ Of Building Clouds

https://www.forbes.com/sites/adrianbridgwater/2020/07/23/inside-the-cloud---aws-unravels-internal-mechanics-of-building-clouds/#65036f1742c3

• 3 Key Issues With Hybrid Cloud Transformation

https://devops.com/3-key-issues-with-hybrid-cloud-transformation/

• Best Practices for Managing Your EC2 Snapshots on AWS Cloud

https://virtualizationreview.com/articles/2020/07/28/snapshots-ec2.aspx

• Easily enable operations best practices across AWS accounts and Regions with AWS Systems Manager Quick Setup

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/07/easily-enable-opertaions-best-practices-aws-accounts-regions-aws-systems-manager-quick-setup/

• How do you choose the best storage option on AWS?

https://cloudonaut.io/how-do-you-choose-the-best-storage-option-on-aws/

• Creating cloud ready environments with Azure landing zones

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/creating-cloud-ready-environments-with-azure-landing-zones/

• Eight ways to optimize costs on Azure SQL

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/eight-ways-to-optimize-costs-on-azure-sql/

Cloud Migration:

• 10 Obstacles for Lift & Shift Architectures

https://blog.cloudcraft.co/10-obstacles-for-lift-shift-architectures/

• RAMP up your cloud adoption with new assessment and migration program

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/cloud-migration/google-cloud-ramp-program-simplifies-cloud-migration

Serverless Related:

• Replacing web server functionality with serverless services

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/replacing-web-server-functionality-with-serverless-services/

• Building well-architected serverless applications: Controlling serverless API access

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/building-well-architected-serverless-applications-controlling-serverless-api-access-part-1/

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/building-well-architected-serverless-applications-controlling-serverless-api-access-part-2/

• Building a serverless tokenization solution to mask sensitive data

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/building-a-serverless-tokenization-solution-to-mask-sensitive-data/

Trend Reports:

• Hybrid cloud by the numbers, 2020: 10 stats to see

https://enterprisersproject.com/article/2020/7/hybrid-cloud-10-statistics

• Finally, private cloud identical to public cloud

https://blogs.gartner.com/lydia_leong/2020/07/09/finally-private-cloud-identical-to-public-cloud/

• Orca Security 2020 State of Public Cloud Security Risks Report

https://orca.security/public-cloud-security-risks-research/

• IDC study shows Google Cloud Platform helps SMBs accelerate business growth with 222% ROI

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/3-ways-google-cloud-platform-helps-smbs-accelerate-business-growth

• The Blueprint for Abstracted Data Architectures

https://blog.451alliance.com/the-blueprint-for-abstracted-data-architectures/

• Container Adoption Is On The Rise: How Can Security Keep Up?

https://go.forrester.com/blogs/container-adoption-is-on-the-rise-how-can-security-keep-up/

• Return Of The Sovereign Cloud

https://go.forrester.com/blogs/return-of-the-sovereign-cloud/

• Five Trends in Cloud-Native

https://www.alibabacloud.com/blog/five-trends-in-cloud-native_596444

Training and Certification:

• Azure Training: How to Start, and How Much It Costs

https://insights.dice.com/2020/07/27/azure-training-how-to-start-how-much-it-costs/

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Security Related:

• NIST 800-210 - General Access Control Guidance for Cloud Systems

https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/SpecialPublications/NIST.SP.800-210.pdf

• How to Achieve AWS Security in 10 Steps

https://devops.com/how-to-achieve-aws-security-in-10-steps/

• Logical Separation on AWS - Moving Beyond Physical Isolation in the Era of Cloud Computing

https://d1.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/compliance/AWS_Logical_Separation_Handbook.pdf

• 5 Core Tenets for Effective Multicloud Security

https://securityintelligence.com/posts/securing-multicloud-deployment/

• Hunting Azure Shadow Admins Like Never Before

https://www.cyberark.com/resources/threat-research-blog/diy-hunting-azure-shadow-admins-like-never-before-2

• Preventing lateral movement in Google Compute Engine

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/preventing-lateral-movement-in-google-compute-engine

• Google Cloud Armor: Introducing 3 key features to protect your websites and applications

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/google-cloud-armor-features-to-protect-your-websites-and-applications

• Security, privacy, and compliance resources for Healthcare and Life Sciences customers

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/healthcare-life-sciences/compliance-resources-for-healthcare-and-life-sciences-customers

Privacy Related:

• Customer update: AWS and the EU-US Privacy Shield

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/customer-update-aws-and-the-eu-us-privacy-shield/

• Schrems 2 – 12 FAQs Published by the EDPB but Little Practical Guidance

https://cloudsecurityalliance.org/blog/2020/07/24/schrems-2-12-faqs-published-by-the-edpb-but-little-practical-guidance/

Strategy Related:

• Budget breakdown: How IT budgets changed over the years

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/budget-breakdown-how-it-budgets-changed-over-the-last-5-years/

• Why ‘Cloud’ Should Be A Skill In This Age of Automation

https://cloudtweaks.com/2020/07/age-of-automation-skills/

• Gaining Maximum Value from the Cloud

https://www.cio.com/article/3568791/gaining-maximum-value-from-the-cloud.html