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AWS – Amazon VPC Flow Logs announces out-of-the-box integration with Amazon Athena
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) flow logs now makes it easier to query VPC flow logs using Amazon Athena. With a few clicks, you can now automate the integration between Athena and your VPC flow logs delivered to Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). You can also choose from a set of predefined Athena queries […]

AWS – Amazon EMR now supported on Amazon EC2 Graviton2-based instances in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon EMR now supports Amazon EC2 M6g, C6g and R6g instances with EMR Versions 6.1.0, 5.31.0 and later in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton2 processors that are custom designed by AWS utilizing 64-bit ArmNeoverse cores to deliver the best price performance for cloud workloads running in Amazon EC2. Please […]

Azure – Updated App Service Authentication portal experience is now generally available
The new Authentication portal experience for App Service and Azure Functions, improving usability, initial setup, and increased security, is now available.” Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure Security Center: General availability updates for March 2021
New enhancements and updates released for general availability in Azure Security Center in March 2021. Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure Security Center: Public preview updates for March 2021
Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure Security Center in March 2021. Read More for the details.

GCP – How reCAPTCHA Enterprise protected customers during the holidays
Every business had to adapt to a new reality in 2020, and make online business their primary channel. But as online business increased, so did web-based attacks. In research commissioned by Forrester consulting, 84% of companies have seen an increase in bot attacks. 71% of organizations have seen an increase in the amount of successful […]

Azure – General availability: Azure Backup supports backup and restore of Azure Dedicated Host
To protect your valuable resources, Azure Backup now supports backup & restore of Azure Virtual Machines with dedicated host. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview: Backup & restore of Azure VM Scale Sets with uniform and flexible orchestration is now supported
Azure virtual machine scale sets provide the management capabilities for applications that run across many VMs, automatic scaling of resources, and load balancing of traffic. Scale set orchestration modes allow you to have greater control over how virtual machine instances are managed by the scale set. Read More for the details.

Azure – General availability: Azure Monitor for Windows Virtual Desktop
Azure Monitor for Windows Virtual Desktop provides a centralized view of the health of your Windows Virtual Desktop environment and enables you to optimize your deployment and quickly troubleshoot issues. Read More for the details.
GCP – Analyze your GKE and GCE logging usage data easier with new dashboards
System and application logs provide crucial data for operators and developers to troubleshoot and keep applications healthy. Google Cloud automatically captures log data for its services and makes it available in Cloud Logging and Cloud Monitoring. As you add more services to your fleet, tasks such as determining a budget for storing logs data and […]