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AWS – Announcing third-party risk assessments and CSV exports in AWS Audit Manager
Today, AWS Audit Manager announces expanded support for third-party risk assessments with the launch of two new features: a third-party questionnaire and the ability to export evidence as a comma-separated values (CSV) file. Customers can already share custom frameworks with vendors on AWS, so that vendors can create assessments on these frameworks and automatically collect evidence […]

AWS – Amazon GuardDuty enhances console experience with findings summary view
Today, AWS announces a new summary page in the Amazon GuardDuty console to help you more quickly identify and take action on the highest-priority findings across your AWS environment. The summary page presents trends of findings over time, a breakdown of findings by severity and finding type, and top finding volume resources such as Amazon […]

AWS – Amazon CodeGuru Security is now available in preview
Today, AWS announces the preview release of Amazon CodeGuru Security, a static application security testing (SAST) tool that uses Machine Learning to help you identify code vulnerabilities and provide guidance you can use as part of remediation. CodeGuru Security also provides in-context code patches for certain classes of vulnerabilities, helping you reduce the effort required […]

AWS – AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery now supports VPC configurations recover
AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (AWS DRS) now allows you to replicate and recover your AWS network components and configurations to maintain the readiness and security of your AWS recovery site. These components includes subnet CIDR, security groups, route tables, Internet gateways, and network ACLs. Read More for the details.

AWS – Well-Architected introduces Profiles
AWS Well-Architected introduces Profiles, which allows customers to tailor their Well-Architected reviews based on their business goals. This feature creates a mechanism for continuous improvement by encouraging customers to review their workloads with certain goals in mind first, and then complete the remaining Well-Architected review questions. Read More for the details.

Azure – Generally available: Azure Monitor container insights for AKS cluster with ARM64 nodes
Azure Monitor container insights is now generally available for AKS clusters with ARM64 nodes. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview: Confidential Virtual Machines (VM) support in Azure Virtual Desktop
Users can now specify an AMD SEV-SNP based confidential VM for their Windows 11 Azure Virtual Desktop, allowing the execution of sensitive desktop workloads by protecting data in use. Read More for the details.

Azure – General availability: MySQL extension for Azure Data Studio
Connect to, query, and develop for MySQL hosted on-premises or in the cloud with the MySQL extension for Azure Data Studio. Read More for the details.

Azure – General Availability: Online migrations for Azure Database for MySQL instances
Migrate your MySQL instances using Azure Database Migration Service with minimal downtime to Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server. Read More for the details.
Azure – Public preview: Introducing NGads V620 Series VMs optimized for cloud gaming
VGads V620 series virtual machines (VMs), now in public preview in the East US2, Europe west, and West US3 regions, enable service providers to build differentiated cloud gaming experiences. Read More for the details.