EuropeClouds Recommends #15 - 10.8.2020

News updates (From 2.8.2020 to 8.8.2020)

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Service Announcements / Updates:

• Global Payments Joins Forces with AWS to Deliver the Future of Payments

https://press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-details/global-payments-joins-forces-aws-deliver-future-payments

• AWS Powers Moderna’s Digital Biotechnology Platform to Develop New Class of Vaccines and Therapeutics

https://press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-details/aws-powers-modernas-digital-biotechnology-platform-develop-new

• European Commission (EC) names AWS as a provider in the Cloud II Framework to realize transformation goals

https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/european-commission/

• Announcing new IoT partner solutions spanning automotive, healthcare, manufacturing, and connected home industry use cases

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/iot/announcing-new-iot-solutions/

• Announcing the Think Big for Small Business Pilot Program for AWS Public Sector Partners

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/publicsector/announcing-think-big-for-small-business-pilot-program-public-sector-partners/

• AWS Fargate now supports UDP load balancing with Network Load Balancer

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/aws-fargate-now-supports-udp-load-balancing-with-network-load-balancer/

• Announcing the General Availability of AWS Wavelength in Boston and the San Francisco Bay Area

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/08/announcing-the-general-availability-of-aws-wavelength-in-boston-and-the-san-francisco-bay-area/

• New AWS Solutions Consulting Offer – VPC-In-A-Box

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/08/new-aws-solutions-consulting-offer-vpc-in-a-box/

• Announcing the AWS DeepComposer Chartbusters Spin the Model challenge

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/announcing-the-aws-deepcomposer-chartbusters-spin-the-model-challenge/

• NICE DCV Releases Version 2020.1 with Printer Redirection and Support for Amazon EC2 6th Generation Instances based on Graviton2

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/08/nice-dcv-releases-version-2020-1-with-printer-redirection-and-support-for-amazon-ec2-6th-generation-instances-based-on-graviton2/

• Azure Monitor Community Repository is now available

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

• Azure Data Lake Storage lifecycle management is now generally available

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/lifecycle-management-for-azure-data-lake-storage-is-now-generally-available/

• Azure Advisor Quick Fix is now available

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-advisor-quick-fix-is-now-available/

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/advisor/advisor-quick-fix

• Large storage for Azure Database for MariaDB

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/large-storage-for-azure-database-for-mariadb-2/

• Microsoft becomes maintainer of the Windows version of PyTorch

https://pytorch.org/blog/microsoft-becomes-maintainer-of-the-windows-version-of-pytorch/

• Microsoft Teams Meetings Can Now Support 20,000 Participants 

https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/microsoft-teams-meetings-support-20000-participants/

• Configure backup for Azure file shares directly from the file share blade

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/configure-backup-for-azure-file-shares-directly-from-the-file-share-blade/

• Azure France has achieved GSMA accreditation

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-france-has-achieved-gsma-accreditation/

• Azure Database for MySQL - Service update

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-database-for-mysql/azure-database-for-mysql-service-update/ba-p/1566580

• Introducing CAS: Securing applications with private CAs and certificates

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/introducing-cas-a-cloud-based-managed-ca-for-the-devops-and-iot-world

• Achieve least privilege with less effort using IAM Recommender

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/achieve-least-privilege-with-less-effort-using-iam-recommender

• 5 Things To Know About Google Cloud’s Best Buy Partnership

https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/5-things-to-know-about-google-cloud-s-best-buy-partnership

• Announcing the Global Availability of Oracle Cloud VMware Solution

https://blogs.oracle.com/cloud-infrastructure/announcing-the-global-availability-of-oracle-cloud-vmware-solution

• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Behind World's Fastest Supercomputer

https://blogs.oracle.com/cloud-infrastructure/oracle-cloud-infrastructure-behind-worlds-fastest-supercomputer

• Moving Telecom to the Cloud via a Hybrid Infrastructure Deployment: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Makes It Possible

https://blogs.oracle.com/cloud-infrastructure/moving-telecom-to-the-cloud-via-a-hybrid-infrastructure-deployment%3a-oracle-cloud-infrastructure-makes-it-possible

• Morpheus Announces First Zero-Trust Cloud Management Platform And Enhances Hybrid Cloud Automation For DevSecOps

https://aithority.com/it-and-devops/cloud/morpheus-announces-first-zero-trust-cloud-management-platform-and-enhances-hybrid-cloud-automation-for-devsecops/

• TeleGeography Maps the World’s Cloud Data Centers

https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/cloud/telegeography-maps-world-s-cloud-data-centers

Trend Reports:

• Slowing AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud revenue growth is a good thing

https://venturebeat.com/2020/07/31/probeat-slowing-aws-microsoft-azure-and-google-cloud-revenue-growth-is-a-good-thing/

• DevSecOps: Risks and Best Practices

https://www.accurics.com/blog/devops/devsecops-risks-and-best-practices/

• 8 Problems with the Kubernetes Architecture

https://www.itprotoday.com/hybrid-cloud/8-problems-kubernetes-architecture

• COVID-19 Accelerates Commitment to Digital Transformation and the Cloud

https://blog.451alliance.com/covid-19-accelerates-commitment-to-digital-transformation-and-the-cloud/

• Strategic adoption of cloud computing can alleviate oil and gas industry challenges, says GlobalData

https://www.globaldata.com/strategic-adoption-of-cloud-computing-can-alleviate-oil-and-gas-industry-challenges-says-globaldata/

• Quarterly Cloud Spending Blows Past $30B; Incremental Growth Continues to Rise

https://www.srgresearch.com/articles/quarterly-cloud-spending-blows-past-30b-incremental-growth-continues-rise

• There Is No Cloud Security Market Segment

https://www.forbes.com/sites/richardstiennon/2020/08/04/there-is-no-cloud-security-market-segment/

Cost Management:

• Backup storage cost savings for Azure SQL Database and Managed Instance

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/backup-storage-cost-savings-for-azure-sql-database-and-managed-instance/

• BigQuery Cost and Performance Optimization

https://medium.com/swlh/bigquery-cost-and-performance-optimization-57dfdce065c9

• Reserved Instances: The Complete Guide

https://spot.io/blog/reserved-instances-the-complete-guide/

Customer Stories:

• BBVA: Architecture for Large-Scale Macie Implementation

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/architecture/bbva-architecture-for-large-scale-macie-implementation/

• How Care Communication Platform Myo Moved to Amazon EKS

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/startups/how-care-communication-platform-myo-moved-to-amazon-eks/

• Verizon and AWS deliver mobile edge computing to customers in Boston and the Bay Area

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/industries/verizon-and-aws-deliver-mobile-edge-computing-to-customers-in-boston-and-the-bay-area/

• How Servian helped REA Group repatriate 500TB of BigQuery data

https://medium.com/weareservian/how-servian-helped-rea-group-repatriate-500tb-of-bigquery-data-f9d42235c3e5

Best Practices:

• Best practices for using Amazon S3 endpoints with AWS CloudFormation

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/infrastructure-and-automation/best-practices-for-using-amazon-s3-endpoints-in-aws-cloudformation-templates/

• 6 steps to build cloud fluency in your organization

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/training-and-certification/6-steps-to-build-cloud-fluency-in-your-organization/

• Prioritize datacenter discovery and readiness assessments to accelerate cloud migration

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/prioritize-datacenter-discovery-and-readiness-assessments-to-accelerate-cloud-migration/

• Stop Downloading Google Cloud Service Account Keys!

https://medium.com/@jryancanty/stop-downloading-google-cloud-service-account-keys-1811d44a97d9

• Compute Engine explained: Picking the right licensing model for your VMs

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/compute-engine-licensing-explained

• Performance and cost optimization best practices for machine learning

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/machine-learning-performance-and-cost-optimization-best-practices

• Real-World Lessons from DevOps: Dockerizing Applications

https://containerjournal.com/topics/container-ecosystems/real-world-lessons-from-devops-dockerizing-applications/

Security Related:

• Azure Confidential Computing vs Google Cloud Confidential Computing

https://medium.com/@stefano.tempesta/azure-confidential-computing-vs-google-cloud-confidential-computing-8b8a81ecb3b0

• A better, safer normal: Helping you modernize security in the cloud or in place

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/helping-you-modernize-security-in-the-cloud

• Logs-based Security Alerting in Google Cloud: Detecting attacks in Cloud Identity

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/logs-based-security-alerting-in-google-cloud

• New best practices to help automate more secure Cloud deployments

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/best-practices-to-help-automate-more-secure-cloud-deployments

• Cloud security vs. network security: What's the difference?

https://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/answer/Cloud-security-vs-network-security-Whats-the-difference

• Security Modernization for the Cloud

https://securityintelligence.com/posts/enterprise-security-cloud-modernization-transformation/

• Common Container and Kubernetes Vulnerabilities

https://containerjournal.com/topics/container-security/common-container-and-kubernetes-vulnerabilities/

• What Companies Using Cloud Services Need To Know About Their Risk Responsibilities

https://www.bitsight.com/blog/what-companies-using-cloud-computing-providers-need-to-know-about-their-risk-responsibilities

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Privacy Related:

• Take control of how data is used in Google Analytics

https://www.blog.google/products/marketingplatform/analytics/take-control-how-data-used-google-analytics/

• Making privacy personal with Files by Google

https://www.blog.google/around-the-globe/google-asia/making-privacy-personal-files-google/

• Introducing new privacy controls with the Microsoft Graph

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-search-blog/introducing-new-privacy-controls-with-the-microsoft-graph/ba-p/1557253

Training and Certifications:

• Get hands on with AWS services to prepare for the AWS Certified Developer – Associate exam

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/training-and-certification/get-hands-on-with-aws-services-to-prepare-for-the-aws-certified-developer-associate-exam/

• Cloud tech certifications count more than degrees now

https://www.infoworld.com/article/3569120/cloud-tech-certifications-count-more-than-degrees-now.html

• New Azure SQL Learning Tools help reduce the global technology skills gap

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/new-azure-sql-learning-tools-help-reduce-the-global-technology-skills-gap/