Week at a Glance - Cloud Computing #64
Amazon shuts down cloud infrastructure linked to NSO Group
AWS has shut down infrastructure and accounts connected to Israeli surveillance vendor NSO Group. The decision follows an investigation held by a consortium of media organisations into the firm’s ‘Pegasus’ spyware. The investigation found that NSO’s military-grade spyware was involved in at least 37 successful hacks of smartphones belonging to journalists, government officials, and human rights activists around the world.
Microsoft Announces the Public Preview of Disk Pool for Azure VMware Solution
Microsoft recently announced the preview of disk pool enabling Azure Disk Storage as a persistent storage option for Azure VMware Solution - a vSAN hyper-converged vSphere cluster. With this persistent storage option, customers have another choice for running VMware workloads on Azure.
Google Cloud Launches New Security Tools for Public and Private Sector
Google Cloud announced a series of new security products, focused on clients in the public and private sector. The new offerings will help organizations address more pressing security challenges, especially after critical cyber attacks that have brought critical operations in the United States and private companies around the world to a standstill
