Week at Glance: Cloud Computing #95- 18.02.22 - 25.02.22
Amazon servers have left millions of Slack users in the dark
AWS service presented major problems and, with the great instability, many platforms stopped working normally. Among one of the services affected is Slack, one of the most popular platforms for collaboration at a professional level. Although Amazon's servers have a greater presence in the United States, the millions of users of the service in Europe were also affected, being without access to the service for a few hours.
Microsoft Defender security expands to support Google cloud
Microsoft is expanding its product for finding and monitoring security weak spots in cloud-computing to include Alphabet’s Google cloud platform. Microsoft Defender for cloud will include support for Google Cloud starting Wednesday, three months after adding support for Amazon’s products. Microsoft, which sells Azure, used open programming interfaces to hook into its competitors’ products, Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services and provide its cybersecurity services.
Google Cloud launches Timeseries Insights API for real-time forecasting and anomaly detection
Google Cloud launched Timeseries Insights API, a highly efficient and scalable system that makes it easier for businesses and developers to quickly gather insights from streamed time series. The Timeseries Insights API is fully integrated with Google Cloud Storage and Google Cloud PubSub and can handle datasets as large as trillions of events.
