An Introduction to the AWS Security Hub

Source:-virtualizationreview.com AWS is a sprawling collection of individual services, each with its own security nuances, but the AWS Security Hub is able to help with this by providing normalized security information that spans AWS services. om the beginning, the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud has been based around a shared security responsibility model. Amazon is responsible for keeping the cloud infrastructure secure, while AWS subscribers are responsible for securing their own resources residing within the Amazon cloud. One of the

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AWS and Microsoft engage in heated public spat over $10bn cloud project

Source:-sify.com San Francisco: After Microsoft slammed Amazon’s Cloud arm for challenging the US government’s decision to award $10 billion Pentagon Cloud project to Satya Nadella-run enterprise, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has hit back, saying Microsoft is doing “an awful lot of posturing”. Drew Herdener, Amazon’s vice president, worldwide communications, said that Microsoft has published multiple self-righteous and pontificating blog posts “that amount to nothing more than misleading noise intended to distract those following the protest”. “We don’t think the JEDI

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New – AWS Elemental Link – Deliver Live Video to the Cloud for Events & Streams

Source:-idk.dev Video is central to so many online experiences. Regardless of the origin or creator, today’s viewers expect a high-resolution, broadcast-quality experience. In sophisticated environments, dedicated hardware and an associated A/V team can capture, encode, and stream or store video that meets these expectations. However, cost and operational complexity have prevented others from delivering a similar experience. Classrooms, local sporting events, enterprise events, and small performance spaces do not have the budget or the specialized expertise needed to install, configure,

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Microsoft Revamps Its Azure VMware Platform

Source:-sdxcentral.com Microsoft this week quietly made a big change to its Azure VMware Solution that allows users to migrate their existing on-premises VMware applications to Azure without needing to re-architect them first. The service is built on Azure and provides customers with the same VMware experience they are used to in their private data centers but in the Azure environment. Customers can provision a full VMware Cloud Foundation environment on Azure for greater elasticity of services typical from a public cloud. This includes

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GOOGLE CLOUD EXPANDS FEATURES IN ANTHOS — NOW RUNNING & MANAGING APPLICATIONS ON AWS

Source:-analyticsindiamag.com Google Cloud has expanded features in Anthos, its multi-cloud application platform which will enable enterprises to modernise existing applications, build new ones, and run them anywhere in a secure manner. Whether customers run workloads on Google Cloud, on-premise or other cloud providers, Anthos provides a consistent platform on which teams can build great applications. The company believes that — In times of uncertainty, every enterprise needs an architecture that offers agility and flexibility. According to the company release —

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Persistent Achieves AWS SaaS Competency Status

Source:-aithority.com Recognizes deep cloud-based expertise building digital mosaics across key verticals Persistent Systems has achieved Amazon Web Services (AWS) Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Competency status. This designation recognizes that Persistent has demonstrated deep experience helping organizations design and build SaaS and cloud-native solutions on AWS. Persistent is a global solutions company that excels at delivering digital business acceleration and enterprise modernization for organizations across industries such as banking/financials services, healthcare and life sciences, and the industrial sector. Achieving the AWS SaaS Competency

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Udacity, AWS to offer scholarships for Machine Learning enthusiasts

Source:-telanganatoday.com With this scholarship, applicants will have an opportunity to take the foundational course titled — AWS Machine Learning Foundations Course. Hyderabad: Learning platform Udacity has announced its partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to offer scholarships to help prepare the global workforce for the demand for machine learning capabilities. With this scholarship, applicants will have an opportunity to take the foundational course titled — AWS Machine Learning Foundations Course. The top 325 performers from this course — who successfully

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Azure VMware Solution Gets a Refresh

Source:-redmondmag.comredmondmag.com A preview of an updated Azure VMware Solution was announced this week, marking another step in Microsoft and VMware’s joint effort to run VMware virtualization technology on the Azure cloud. Azure VMware Solution is a first-party Azure service that’s built and supported by Microsoft and endorsed by VMware. The service is designed to let organizations run VMware workloads natively on Azure. Though VMware now describes its relationship with Microsoft as “a long-standing partnership and a shared heritage in supporting

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How to Manage Data in Hybrid Cloud Environments

Source:-devops.com We’ve long-since established that multi-generational, multi-cloud environments are the new norm. But, how does one go about managing data in those environments? In this post, we’ll take a look at the ramifications of this hybrid cloud reality and best practices for managing your data for increased scalability and heightened availability. It’s All Cloud Whether it’s Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud or Microsoft Azure (or some combination thereof), cloud is all the rage, with a hybrid approach gaining momentum

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Amazon Introduces the New Streaming ETL Feature on AWS Glue

Source:-infoq.com Recently, Amazon announced AWS Glue now supports streaming ETL. With this new feature, customers can easily set up continuous ingestion pipelines that prepare streaming data on the fly and make it available for analysis in seconds. AWS Glue is a fully managed extract, transform, and load (ETL) service that makes it easy for customers to prepare and load their data for analytics. Since its general availability, Amazon updated the service with several features, the latest of which is the

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Clouds need containers, and Containers-as-a-Service smooths the way

Source:-zdnet.com Containers are well regarded for the flexibility they add to application development and deployment, especially when it comes to moving application workloads between clouds, between clouds and on-premises systems, or even from one on-premises system to another. However, effectively building a complex containerized environment still takes skills and experience. Enter Containers-as-a-Service (CaaS), a variation of Platform-as-a-Service that has been around as a concept for a few years, and lately is being embraced in a big way to speed up

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Zoom Avoids Google Cloud, Rivalry Intensifies

Source:-marketrealist.com Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOGL) cloud business suffered a blow amid its intensifying rivalry with Zoom Video (NASDAQ:ZM). The pandemic lockdowns around the world have spurred the work-from-home culture. There has been more demand for remote work software. As a result, Zoom has seen increased demand for its video chat tool, which has provided a huge boost to its stock price. At $135.17 per share at the closing on Thursday, Zoom stock has nearly doubled year-to-date. Zoom avoids Google cloud, rivalry escalates

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Hybrid Cloud: the key to digital transformation?

Source:-gigabitmagazine.com With industry insights provided by Eran Brown, CTO of Infinidat EMEA, Technology Magazine explores the utility and rising popularity of hybrid cloud It can sometimes be easy to understate the importance of cloud computing and its role in changing the tech landscape. Whilst other aspects of the digital transformation triumvirate (cloud, IoT and AI & analytics) are arguably more tangible in their effect, the scale for connectivity and optimisation across an enterprise is severely restricted without an integrated infrastructure

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AWS expands beyond edge connectivity in Italy with datacentre region opening

Source:-computerweekly.com Amazon Web Services (AWS) has pressed ahead with the opening of its datacentre region in Milan, Italy, as that country’s businesses draw on public cloud resources to support them through the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic. Italy has emerged as one of the worst hit by the global Covid-19 outbreak, and was among the first countries in the world to enforce a national quarantine in response to the pandemic. In a blog post announcing the launch of the AWS region in

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AWS Narrowly Escapes Azure Defeat as Public Cloud Surges, Flexera Says

Source:-sdxcentral.com Public cloud adoption continues to accelerate at a rapid pace with the top three cloud providers — Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) — maintaining their positions as they lead the charge, according to Flexera’s 2020 State of the Cloud report. The yearly benchmark assesses cloud adoption for insights into how organizations are progressing in their journey to the cloud. It includes their mix of public and private clouds, spend allocation, cost management, and

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Amazon AppFlow Brings Serverless IPaaS Capabilities To AWS

Source:-forbes.com Last week, AWS announced the launch of Amazon AppFlow, a managed integration service for exchanging data between external Software as a Service (SaaS) applications and AWS services. Pipelines Pipelines PIXABAY Amazon AppFlow acts as a two-way conduit for the data flowing between SaaS applications such as Salesforce, Marketo, Slack, and ServiceNow, and the AWS services such as S3 and Redshift. The unit of integration in AppFlow is called a flow. Customers can create a flow by selecting the source

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Sydney AWS region sees bumper crop of releases

Source:-arnnet.com.au CloudWatch Synthetics and Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) enter GA and EKS gets Fargate support Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced a slew of updates for its Sydney region, bringing website monitoring and Apache Cassandra database services into general availability (GA) and adding containers running through AWS Fargate. The GA of CloudWatch Synthetics allows for users to create ‘canaries’, configurable scripts that follow the same routes and actions as customers. These canaries can monitor representational state transfer application programming interfaces

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Kong for Kubernetes 0.8 Ingress Controller Released

Source:-infoq.com Kong Inc. released Kong for Kubernetes version 0.8 – a Kubernetes Ingress controller that works with the Kong API Gateway. The release adds Knative integration, a new cluster level Custom Resource Definition, and annotations to minimize configuration. The Kong Gateway is an open source API gateway built on top of NGINX. The Kong for Kubernetes product is composed of two parts – “a Kubernetes controller, which manages the state of Kong for K8S ingress configuration, and the Kong Gateway,

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KSQL Now Available on Confluent Cloud

Source:-infoq.com KSQL is the streaming SQL engine for Apache Kafka, and it is currently available as a fully-managed service on the Confluent Cloud Platform for all its customers on usage-based billing plans. In a recent blog post, Confluent announced the availability of Confluent Cloud KSQL. KSQL was one of the available capabilities on the first preview of the release of the Confluent Cloud Platform. Now it is production-ready and available for Confluent Cloud customers as part of the streaming platform.

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AWS and Facebook launch an open-source model server for PyTorch

Source:-techcrunch.com AWS and Facebook today announced two new open-source projects around PyTorch, the popular open-source machine learning framework. The first of these is TorchServe, a model-serving framework for PyTorch that will make it easier for developers to put their models into production. The other is TorchElastic, a library that makes it easier for developers to build fault-tolerant training jobs on Kubernetes clusters, including AWS’s EC2 spot instances and Elastic Kubernetes Service. In many ways, the two companies are taking what

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