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GCP – Earning customer trust through a pandemic: delivering our 2020 CCAG pooled audit
At Google Cloud, we work closely with customers who want to assess and verify the security of our platform. Take as an example our recent collaboration with the Collaborative Cloud Audit Group (CCAG). As our customers increased their use of cloud services to meet the demands of teleworking andaid in COVID-19 recovery, we’ve worked hard […]

GCP – Cloud Spanner launches customer-managed encryption keys and Access Approval
Cloud Spanner is Google Cloud’s fully managed relational database that offers unlimited scale, high performance, strong consistency across regions and high availability (up to 99.999% availability SLA). In addition, enterprises trust Spanner because it provides security, transparency and complete data protection to its customers. To give enterprises greater control of how their data is secured, […]

Azure – Public preview: Azure Purview is now available in the UK South and Australia East region
Azure Purview is now available in public preview in the Australia East and UK South region. You can now provision Azure Purview accounts in these regions as a public preview offering. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon RDS on VMware networking now simplified and more secure
Amazon RDS on VMware no longer requires the use of a Virtual Private Network (VPN) tunnel back to AWS. By removing the VPN tunnel requirement and moving to HTTPS, we’ve simplified the preparation that is required on your network to be able to take advantage of Amazon RDS managed database services in your VMware vSphere […]

AWS – Now available credential profile support for AWS SSO and Assume Role with MFA in the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio
With this new release of the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio, customers can use federated credentials, multi-factor authentication (MFA) and AWS Single Sign-On (AWS SSO) to connect their IDEs to AWS. Read More for the details.

GCP – Choosing the right orchestrator in Google Cloud
What is orchestration? Orchestration often refers to the automated configuration, coordination, and management of computer systems and services. In the context of service-oriented architectures, orchestration can range from simply executing a single service at a specific time and day, to a more sophisticated approach of automating and monitoring multiple services over longer periods of time, […]

AWS – Amazon Elasticsearch Service announces support for Elasticsearch version 7.10
Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports open source Elasticsearch 7.10 and its corresponding version of Kibana. This minor release includes bug fixes and enhancements. Read More for the details.

AWS – Announcing general availability of Amazon Redshift native console integration with partners
Amazon Redshift, a fully-managed cloud data warehouse, now supports native integration with select AWS Partners from within the Amazon Redshift console. With the new console partner integration, you can accelerate data onboarding and create valuable business insights in minutes by integrating with select partner solutions. With these solutions, you can bring data from applications like […]

AWS – Amazon Elasticsearch Service announces support for Asynchronous Support
Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports Asynchronous Search. Asynchronous Search lets you submit a query that gets executed asynchronously, monitor the progress of the request, and retrieve results at a later stage. You can also retrieve partial results as they become available even before the search has fully completed. Once the search completes, it can be […]
AWS – Announcing availability of AWS Outposts in the Philippines and Brunei
AWS Outposts can now be shipped and installed at customer datacenters and on-premises locations in the Philippines and Brunei. Read More for the details.