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Azure – New Azure Cloud Services deployment model now generally available
Use Azure Cloud Services (extended support), now generally available, to increase regional resiliency and gain access to new capabilities that the Azure Resource Manager-based deployment model provides. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview: Announcing platform support migration of Azure Cloud Services (classic) to Azure Resource Manager
Seamless, fully orchestrated, no downtime for most scenarios and minimal effort migration path for your existing Cloud Services (classic) deployments. Read More for the details.

GCP – How we’re working with governments on climate goals
Editor’s note: This post originally appeared on The Keyword. When it comes to sustainability, we have a responsibility to work together — across governments, businesses and communities — and take action now. As the former Federal Chief Sustainability Officer for the U.S. government, I know firsthand the positive impact of technology companies and governments working […]

GCP – New this month: Data champions, a key analyst report & features you’re going to want to check out!
Thank you, thank you, thank you! We want to start off this month’s post with an extreme sense of gratitude for the work our customers and partners are doing to innovate with Google Cloud’s Smart Analytics Platform. Your success and enthusiasm was felt in many ways this past month. BigQuery Omni was shortlisted by CRN […]

AWS – Bring Your Own IP for Amazon Virtual Private Cloud is Now Available in Four Additional Regions
Starting today, Bring Your Own IP (BYOIP) is available in four additional AWS Regions: GovCloud (US-East), GovCloud (US-West), Asia Pacific (Hong-Kong), and US West (Northern California). Read More for the details.

AWS – Prepare data from Amazon Redshift and other JDBC-supported databases/data warehouses in AWS Glue DataBrew through native connectors
You can now clean and transform data with an interactive, point-and-click visual interface from Amazon Redshift, Snowflake, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle Database, and PostgreSQL through native JDBC connectors in AWS Glue DataBrew. In just a few clicks, you can configure these JDBC connections from the AWS Management Console to directly explore and experiment with […]

GCP – New whitepaper: Scaling certificate management with Certificate Authority Service
As Google Cloud’s Certificate Authority Service (CAS) approaches general availability, we want to help customers understand the service better. Customers have asked us how CAS fits into our larger security story and how CAS works for various use cases; today we are releasing a white paper about CAS to answer those questions and more. “Scaling […]

AWS – Announcing support for IAM Condition Keys and CMK for custom models for Amazon Comprehend
Amazon Comprehend is a natural language processing (NLP) service that uses machine learning to analyze text documents and identify insights such as sentiment, entities, and topics in text. Today, we are announcing support for two security focused features: support for IAM condition keys and support for encrypting custom models with customer managed KMS keys. With […]

AWS – AWS WAF now supports Labels to improve rule customization and reporting
AWS WAF now lets you generate labels and customize your WAF rules based on those labels. With this feature, you can configure WAF to add descriptive labels to web requests when a WAF rule matches the request, regardless of the action associated with the rule. You can also check for the presence of those labels […]
AWS – AWS Firewall Manager now supports centralized deployment of the new AWS WAF Bot Control across your organization
AWS Firewall Manager now enables security administrators to deploy the recently launched AWS WAF Bot Control across accounts in their organization, from a central administrator account. AWS WAF Bot Control is a new managed rule group that gives you visibility and control over common and pervasive bot traffic to your applications. You can use Bot […]