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Azure – Azure trusted launch for Virtual Machines now in public preview
Azure offers trusted launch as a seamless way to bolster the security of Generation 2 VMs. Designed to protect against boot kits, rootkits, and kernel-level malware, trusted launch is comprised of secure boot, virtual trusted platform module (vTPM), and boot integrity monitoring. Read More for the details.
GCP – Inventory management with BigQuery and Cloud Run
Many people think of Cloud Run just as a way of hosting websites. Cloud Run is great at that, but there’s so much more you can do with it. Here we’ll explore how you can use Cloud Run and BigQuery together to create an inventory management system. I’m using a subset of the Iowa Liquor […]
Azure – Automatic VM guest patching is now in public preview for Linux VMs
Automatic VM guest patching provides safe and automatic patching for virtual machines to simplify update management and maintain security compliance. Read More for the details.
GCP – Managing cloud firewalls at scale with new Hierarchical Firewall Policies
Following up our previous blog post, we are excited to announce that hierarchical firewalls are generally available. Google Cloud’s hierarchical firewall policies provide new, flexible levels of control so that you can benefit from centralized control at the organization and folder level, while safely delegating more granular control within a project to the project owner. […]
Azure – General availability: Azure API Management now has named values integration with Azure Key Vault
API Management’s named values can now be stored and managed in Azure Key Vault. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure API Management extension for Visual Studio Code now generally available
Perform common management operations on your Azure API Management service instances without switching away from Visual Studio Code. Read More for the details.
Azure – On-demand capacity reservations in public preview
Reserve compute capacity and obtain a capacity SLA for Azure virtual machine deployments with on-demand capacity reservations. Read More for the details.
Azure – New orchestration mode for Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets now in public preview
Increase the availability at scale of business-critical applications with new Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets features. Simplify workload deployment, management, and scalability with Virtual Machine Scale Sets flexible orchestration mode, now in public preview. Read More for the details.
Azure – Improve Azure Spot Virtual Machines runtime and simulate evictions with new features in public preview
New Azure Spot Virtual Machines capabilities – ‘try & restore’ and REST APIs to simulate VM evictions – are now in public preview. Read More for the details.
Azure – Public preview: Register Azure subscriptions and Resource Groups with Azure Purview
Manage your data with greater ease by using Azure Purview to register multiple sources at the same time. Read More for the details.