Week at a Glance - Cloud Computing #68

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This week's news:

AWS announces EC2 M6i using Ice Lake Xeon Scalable processors

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AWS has announced the availability of M6i instances that make use of Intel's Ice Lake Xeon Scalable processors, and its Total Memory Encryption functionality.  The performance bump over M5 instances is said to be an up-to-15% improvement for compute, and twice the networking speed of M5, Amazon said.

Microsoft announces new ransomware detection features for Azure

Microsoft has unveiled a new ransomware detection feature for its Azure customers that will send alerts to security teams when the system observes actions "potentially associated with ransomware activities."

Google Releases Its Certificate Authority Service into General Availability

The Google Cloud Certificate Authority Service (CAS) is a scalable service for managing and deploying private certificates via automation and managing public key infrastructure (PKI). And last month, Google announced the general availability (GA) of this service.

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