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Azure – General availability: Azure API Management Premium tier price reduction for incremental purchased units
After the first purchased unit, a price reduction of 50% will be applied on all subsequent units purchased. Read More for the details.

AWS – New digital course: Improve Code Quality with Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer
Learn how to leverage the power of machine learning to automatically identify critical issues, security vulnerabilities, and hard-to-find bugs during application development with our new digital course, Improve Code Quality with Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer. In this course, you’ll learn how to use Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer to identify recommendations to improve the quality and security of […]

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

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

AWS – Amazon WorkSpaces Cost Optimizer v2.3 adds support for existing VPCs and improves billing accuracy and reporting
We recently updated Amazon WorkSpaces Cost Optimizer, a reference implementation that monitors Amazon WorkSpaces usage patterns and automatically updates the billing mode to the most cost-efficient option (hourly or monthly) depending on usage. The Amazon WorkSpaces Cost Optimizer solution saves customers time and money by autonomously managing Amazon WorkSpaces billing so customers can focus on […]

AWS – Amazon Keyspaces is now in scope for AWS SOC Reports to help you run highly regulated Apache Cassandra workloads more easily
Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra), a scalable, highly available, and fully managed Apache Cassandra–compatible database service, is now in scope for AWS System and Organization Controls (SOC) Reports to help you run highly regulated Cassandra workloads more easily. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon EKS pods running on AWS Fargate now support custom security groups
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) now allows you to specify custom Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) security groups for pods running on AWS Fargate, enabling fine grained control over incoming and outgoing network traffic. Read More for the details.

GCP – Zero-trust managed security for services with Traffic Director
We created Traffic Director to bring to you a fully managed service mesh product that includes load balancing, traffic management and service discovery. And now, we’re happy to announce the availability of a fully-managed zero-trust security solution using Traffic Director with Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and Certificate Authority (CA) Service. When platform administrators and security […]

AWS – Amazon Keyspaces now supports customer managed customer master keys (CMKs) for encryption of data at rest to help you meet your compliance and regulatory requirements
Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra), a scalable, highly available, and fully managed Cassandra-compatible database service, now supports customer managed customer master keys (CMKs) for encryption of data at rest to help you meet your compliance and regulatory requirements. Read More for the details.
GCP – What is Cloud Spanner?
Databases are part of virtually every application you run in your organization and great apps need great databases. This post is focused on one such great database—Cloud Spanner. Cloud Spanner is the only enterprise-grade, globally-distributed, and strongly-consistent database service built for the cloud, specifically to combine the benefits of relational database structure with non-relational horizontal […]