News and announcements:
- O2 partners with Microsoft to develop Mobile Edge Computing capability within a Private 5G Network
https://news.o2.co.uk/press-release/o2-partners-with-microsoft-to-develop-mobile-edge-computing-capability-within-a-private-5g-network/ - LaLiga teams up with Microsoft to digitally transform football globally and reimagine a new era in sports
https://news.microsoft.com/2021/05/19/laliga-teams-up-with-microsoft-to-digitally-transform-football-globally-and-reimagine-a-new-era-in-sports/ - AWS Announces General Availability of AWS App Runner
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/introducing-aws-app-runner/ - https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/app-runner-from-code-to-scalable-secure-web-apps/
- Introducing AWS Copilot v1.7 with support for AWS App Runner and more
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/05/aws-copilot-launches-v17-with-support-for-aws-app-runner-and-more/ - Introducing AWS CloudFormation Guard 2.0
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/mt/introducing-aws-cloudformation-guard-2-0/ - Create and share encrypted backups across accounts and Regions using AWS Backup
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/storage/create-and-share-encrypted-backups-across-accounts-and-regions-using-aws-backup/ - Amazon EKS 1.20 Released
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/amazon-eks-1-20-released/ - Announcing general availability of AWS Application Migration Service
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/05/announcing-general-availability-of-aws-application-migration-service/ - Announcing the general availability of AWS IoT Core Device Advisor
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/05/announcing-general-availability-aws-iot-core-device-advisor/ - AWS Compute Optimizer Now Supports Exporting Amazon EBS and AWS Lambda Recommendations to Amazon S3
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/05/aws-compute-optimizer-supports-exporting-amazon-ebs-aws-lambda-recommendations-amazon-s3/ - AWS License Manager now provides historical license usage reporting
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/05/aws-license-manager-now-provides-historical-license-usage-reporting/ - Amazon SageMaker Autopilot adds automatic deployment support for the best trained model
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/05/amazon-sagemaker-autopilot-adds-automatic-deployment-support-for-the-best-trained-model/ - AWS Load Balancer Controller version 2.2 now available with support for NLB instance targeting
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/05/aws-load-balancer-controller-version-2-2-available-support-nlb-instance/ - Amazon EventBridge now supports sharing events between event buses in the same account and Region
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/05/amazon-eventbridge-supports-sharing-events-between-event-buses-same-account-region/ - Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Introduces Predictive Scaling as a Native Scaling Policy
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/05/amazon-ec2-auto-scaling-introduces-predictive-scaling-native-scaling-policy/ - Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights now supports container monitoring
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/05/amazon-cloudwatch-application-insights-now-supports-container-monitoring/ - Amazon SageMaker now offers new flexibility in configuring the model building pipelines
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/05/amazon-sagemaker-offers-new-flexibility-configuring-model-building-pipelines/ - EKS Add-Ons Now Supports CoreDNS and kube-proxy
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/05/eks-add-ons-now-support-coredns-kube-proxy/ - Announcing enhancements to Amazon Rekognition text detection - support for more words, higher accuracy, and lower latency
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/05/enhancements-to-amazon-rekognition-text-detection-support-for-more-words-higher-accuracy-lower-latency/ - Amazon Forecast now supports generating predictions for 5X more items using 3X more historic data points
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/05/amazon-forecast-now-supports-generating-predictions-for-more-items-using-more-historic-data-points/ - AWS App2Container now supports deployment of containerized applications to AWS App Runner
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/05/aws-app2container-supports-deployment-of-containerized-applications-to-aws-app-runner/ - AWS X-Ray now supports VPC endpoints
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/05/aws-x-ray-now-supports-vpc-endpoints/ - AWS customers can now self opt-in to AWS Wavelength Zones
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/05/aws-customers-now-self-opt-in-aws-wavelength-zones/ - Announcing Support for Predictive Scaling Policy in the Terraform AWS Provider
https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/announcing-support-for-predictive-scaling-policy-in-the-terraform-aws-provider - General availability: Azure Key Vault SLA raised to 99.99%
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/akv-sla-raised-to-9999/ - General availability: IoT Hub service API support for Azure Active Directory based access control
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/iot-hub-service-azure-ad-rbac/ - Generally available: Azure Health Bot adds new regions and languages for it’s systems checker
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/generally-available-azure-health-bot-adds-new-regions-and-languages-for-it-s-systems-checker/ - Work Item Integration v2 is now GA
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-monitor/work-item-integration-v2-is-now-ga/ba-p/2361591 - Announcing Active Directory Identity Improvement on AKS on Azure Stack HCI
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/containers/announcing-active-directory-identity-improvement-on-aks-on-azure/ba-p/2374198 - Google More Than Doubles Its AI Chip Performance with TPU V4
https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/machine-learning/google-more-doubles-its-ai-chip-performance-tpu-v4 - Google Cloud unveils Vertex AI, one platform, every ML tool you need
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/google-cloud-launches-vertex-ai-unified-platform-for-mlops - Datasets for Google Cloud: Introducing our new reference architecture
https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/datasets-google-cloud-introducing-our-new-reference-architecture - Advancing healthcare with high-performance computing on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
https://blogs.oracle.com/cloud-infrastructure/advancing-healthcare-with-high-performance-computing-on-oracle-cloud-infrastructure - Announcing General Availability of HashiCorp Nomad 1.1
https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/announcing-general-availability-of-hashicorp-nomad-1-1
Trends and opinions:
- AWS vs Azure vs Google Cloud Market Share 2021: What the Latest Data Shows
https://www.parkmycloud.com/blog/aws-vs-azure-vs-google-cloud-market-share/ - Leveraging Your Cloud-Native Applications with a Cloud-Native WAN
https://blog.451alliance.com/leveraging-your-cloud-native-applications-with-a-cloud-native-wan/ - Containers Are Contagious and Often Misused
https://www.infoq.com/articles/containers-considerations/ - Why Companies Are Migrating Legacy Systems to Cloud Infrastructure
https://www.itprotoday.com/iaaspaas/why-companies-are-migrating-legacy-systems-cloud-infrastructure - 3 Forces are Driving the New Cloud Shift
https://cloud-computing.tmcnet.com/breaking-news/articles/448903-3-forces-driving-new-cloud-shift.htm - Balance precision and speed for a smart cloud migration
https://www.ciodive.com/spons/balance-precision-and-speed-for-a-smart-cloud-migration/600233/ - Defining ‘value’ with cloud architecture
https://www.infoworld.com/article/3619058/defining-value-with-cloud-architecture.html
Cost Management:
- AWS Application Cost profiler
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/05/aws-application-cost-profiler/ - Calculate AWS Costs in Detail
https://cloudonaut.io/calculate-aws-costs-in-detail/ - Cost Optimization Tips and Tricks in AWS
https://cloudrig.wordpress.com/2021/04/12/cost-optimization-tips-and-tricks-in-aws/ - How Amazon Customer Service lowered Amazon Redshift costs and improved performance using RA3 nodes
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/how-amazon-customer-service-lowered-amazon-redshift-costs-and-improved-performance-using-ra3-nodes/ - To FinOps or Not To FinOps: Is It Really Still a Question?
https://finants.com/blog/to-finops-or-not-to-finops-is-it-really-still-a-question/ - Lower development costs: schedule Cloud SQL instances to start and stop
https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/lower-development-costs-schedule-cloud-sql-instances-start-and-stop - Keep your budgets flexible with configurable budget periods
https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/keep-your-budgets-flexible-with-configurable-budget-periods - Enforced budgets on OCI using functions and quotas
https://blogs.oracle.com/cloud-infrastructure/enforced-budgets-on-oci-using-functions-and-quotas - Cloud storage is a great tool, but it can spin IT budgets out of control
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/cloud-storage-is-a-great-tool-but-it-can-spin-it-budgets-out-of-control/ - HOW TO CREATE AN EFFICIENT KPI STRATEGY FOR FINOPS
https://oblcc.com/blog/how-to-create-an-efficient-kpi-strategy-for-finops
Cloud Security:
- Best Practices to Implement Secured Cloud Collaboration Tools
https://www.isaca.org/resources/news-and-trends/isaca-now-blog/2021/best-practices-to-implement-secured-cloud-collaboration-tools - AWS Shield threat landscape review: 2020 year-in-review
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/aws-shield-threat-landscape-review-2020-year-in-review/ - Detecting the "Out of the Ordinary" in Your Microsoft Cloud Environment
https://www.vectra.ai/blogpost/top-10-detections - Take control of your firewall rules with Firewall Insights
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/eliminate-firewall-misconfigurations-with-firewall-insights - Best practices to protect your organization against ransomware threats
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/5-pillars-of-protection-to-prevent-ransomware-attacks - Using OCI Security Advisor workflows to provision objects with customer-managed encryption keys
https://blogs.oracle.com/cloud-infrastructure/using-oci-security-advisor-workflows-to-provision-objects-with-customer-managed-encryption-keys
Privacy and Data Protection:
- European Regulators Green Light Pioneering GDPR Compliance Code for Cloud Infrastructure
https://cispe.cloud/european-regulators-green-light-pioneering-gdpr-compliance-code-for-cloud-infrastructure/ - Google Cloud’s contribution to an environment of trust and transparency in Europe
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compliance/google-cloud-adopts-eu-gdpr-cloud-code-of-conduct
Training and Certifications:
- Build your AWS Cloud knowledge with updated AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials classroom course
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/training-and-certification/build-your-aws-cloud-knowledge-with-updated-aws-cloud-practitioner-essentials-classroom-course/ - Getting Certified as a Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect – 2021
https://sarahchua-sg.medium.com/getting-certified-as-a-google-cloud-professional-cloud-architect-2021-4fa51e90021d - Interested in Learning more about Azure and Cloud Computing? See Azure Charts for your EntryPoint
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/educator-developer-blog/interested-in-learning-more-about-azure-and-cloud-computing-see/ba-p/2360183 - Cybersecurity skills and certifications open doors to the next hot jobs for recent grads
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-learn-blog/cybersecurity-skills-and-certifications-open-doors-to-the-next/ba-p/1820644 - How to prepare for Google cloud certified Associate Cloud Engineer Exam
https://abhisheksharma7389.medium.com/how-to-prepare-for-google-cloud-certified-associate-cloud-engineer-exam-d0d609383b8b - Microsoft Azure AI and Data Fundamentals Specializations are now live on Coursera
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-ai/microsoft-azure-ai-and-data-fundamentals-specializations-are-now/ba-p/2376509
