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GCP – Achieving Autonomic Security Operations: Why metrics matter (but not how you think)
What’s the most difficult question a security operations team can face? For some, is it, “Who is trying to attacks us?” Or perhaps, “Which cyberattacks can we detect?” How do teams know when they have enough information to make the “right” decision? Metrics can help inform our responses to those questions and more, but how […]

AWS – Amazon Polly now offers Neural TTS support for Hindi and Indian English
Amazon Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech. Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Kajal, a new bilingual neural text to speech (TTS) voice supporting Hindi and Indian English. Read More for the details.

GCP – Cloud IAM Google Cloud
Once you have identified who a user is (authenticated them) using Cloud Identity, the next step is to define what they can do on Google Cloud (authorize them) so they can access the resources they are permitted to use. Access control for Google Cloud resources is managed by Cloud IAM policies for humans and by […]

AWS – Amazon ECR Public now supports tag listing API for public repositories
Today, Amazon Elastic Container Registry Public (ECR Public) launched API support for listing tags for any repository in ECR Public. Now you can use Docker registry HTTP API v2 to list available tags in any public repository in addition to ECR Public gallery. Read More for the details.

AWS – Introducing the re-Launched AWS Security Competency
We are excited to announce AWS Security Competency has been re-Launched with new consolidated categories to help customers more easily discover AWS Partner solutions validated by AWS. Partners with Security Competency provide solutions to help customers elevate their security in the cloud at any stage in their cloud journey. Of the eight new consolidated categories, […]

AWS – Amazon RDS Proxy now supports Amazon RDS for MariaDB running on version 10.3, 10.4 or 10.5
Amazon RDS Proxy, a fully managed, highly available database proxy for Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), now support for Amazon RDS for MariaDB databases running on major versions 10.3, 10.4, or 10.5. With Amazon RDS Proxy, customers can make applications more scalable, more resilient to database failures, and more secure. Read More for the details.

Azure – General availability: VM Applications – Manage and deploy applications to VMs and VMSS
VM Apps is a service that simplifies management, sharing, and global distribution of application packages at scale. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview: SQL DB output connector improvements in Stream Analytics
You can now configure your Azure Stream Analytics job to write to a SQL table that hasn’t yet been created or see schema mismatch detection for an existing SQL table. Read More for the details.

GCP – Unify data lakes and warehouses with BigLake, now generally available
Data continues to grow in volume and is increasingly distributed across lakes, warehouses, clouds, and file formats. As more users demand more use cases, the traditional approach to build data movement infrastructure is proving difficult to scale. Unlocking the full potential of data requires breaking down these silos, and is increasingly a top priority for […]
AWS – Introducing specialization categories for the AWS Level 1 MSSP Competency
We are excited to announce specialization categories for the AWS Level 1 MSSP Competency. These six new specialized managed security services for the Level 1 MSSP Competency help customers discover partner solutions validated by AWS security experts to provide 24×7 monitoring and response services that include and extend beyond AWS’s Level 1 Managed Security Services […]