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Google Cloud Announces Curated Detection in Chronicle SecOps Suite
Google Cloud recently announced general availability of curated detections as a part of Chronicle SecOps Suite. Using the out-of-the-box threat analytics, security operations teams can now detect cybersecurity threats proactively and take relevant actions.
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DataDog Publishes AWS Security Report
DataDog has published their State of AWS Security report, an overview of practices based on data analysis from over 600 organizations. The report compares intersection and divergence between actual usage against industry best practices and the cause of breaches/data leaks.
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Microsoft Introduces Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL
During the recent Ignite conference, Microsoft announced Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL, a new generally available (GA) service to build cloud-native relational applications. It is a distributed relational database offering with the scale, flexibility, and performance of Azure Cosmos DB.
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Open Source Skyplane Targets Faster and Cheaper Data Transfers between Clouds
A team of researchers at the RISELab at UC Berkeley has recently released Skyplane, an open source tool to optimize the transfer of large datasets between cloud providers, reducing transfer times and costs.
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Microsoft Previews Azure Deployment Environments
During the recent Ignite Conference, Microsoft announced the public preview of Azure Deployment Environments. This managed service enables dev teams to quickly spin up app infrastructure with project-based templates to establish consistency and best practices while maximizing security, compliance, and cost-efficiency.
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Threat Operations and Research Team Cloudforce One Generally Available
Cloudflare recently announced that the threat operations and research team Cloudforce One began conducting briefings and is now generally available. Available as an add-on subscription, Cloudforce One includes threat data and briefings, security tools, and the ability to make requests for information (RFIs) to the team.
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HashiCorp Enhances Terraform Drift Detection with Continuous Validation
HashiCorp released a number of new features for Terraform including continuous validation and no-code provisioning. Both features are currently in beta for Terraform Cloud Business users. Additional releases include native Open Policy Agent (OPA) support and Azure provider automation.
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Microsoft Previews Azure Firewall Basic for Small-Medium Businesses
Microsoft recently released the public preview of Azure Firewall Basic for small-medium businesses (SMBs), providing enterprise-grade security at an affordable price. The company offers the Basic SKU as it sees SMBs as particularly vulnerable to budget constraints and gaps in specialized security skills.
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Google Previews Log Analytics Feature in Its Cloud Logging Service
Google recently announced the preview of a new feature called Log Analytics in its Cloud Logging service, allowing companies to analyze data collected from their cloud environments.
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Cloudflare Previews Globally Distributed Queues without Egress Fees
Cloudflare recently announced the private beta of Cloudflare Queues, a message queuing service that allows applications to send and receive messages using Cloudflare Workers. The new service provides at-least once message delivery, supports batching of messages, and does not charge bandwidth egress fees.
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Platform Engineering, DevOps, and Cognitive Load: a Summary of Community Discussions
Operations engineering is moving in the direction of platform engineering according to Charity Majors, CTO at Honeycomb. Majors sees platform teams tending to work higher up the stack than operations, DevOps, and SRE teams do. This shift in focus enables organizations to focus their limited development resources on their core product to drive maximum business value.
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Amazon File Cache Now Generally Available
Amazon recently announced the general availability of File Cache, a managed high-speed cache for processing file data stored in disparate locations. The new service can be linked to multiple sources including on premises network file systems and managed AWS services like Amazon FSx or S3.
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Fitbit Health Solution and Google Cloud Introduce Device Connect for Fitbit
Fitbit Health Solutions and Google Cloud have recently announced the release of Device Connect for Fitbit, which will provide healthcare and life sciences enterprises with accelerated analytics and insights to help people live healthier lives.
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Confluent Ships Stream Designer Democratizing Data Streams
Confluent recently released Stream Designer, a visual interface that lets developers quickly build and deploy streaming data pipelines.
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AWS Introduces Amazon Workspaces Core and Support for Ubuntu Desktops on Amazon Workspaces
AWS recently introduced a new addition to Amazon Workspaces with a fully-managed, infrastructure-only Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) offering called Amazon Workspaces Core. In addition, customers can provision Ubuntu desktops on Amazon Workspaces for their developers, engineers, or data scientists.