Welcome to The Radar, bringing you all the latest happenings in the cloud.

We source and compile the very best news, updates and tips for general cloud, AWS, Azure and GCP. We focus on more general news rather than the 100's of detailed product release notes released every month to make it more consumable for the average reader. Here's this months links:

AWS

 
Amazon Athena adds support for querying data in S3 buckets using AWS Identity and Access Management’s aws:CalledVia condition key
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) has added support for a new condition key, for use with all services that make requests using your credentials.

x https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/03/amazon-athena-support-quer...
 
AWS Control Tower now available in Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region
AWS Control Tower is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region, in addition to US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), Europe (Ireland), and Asia Pacific (Sydney).

x https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/03/aws-control-tower-is-now-a...
 
Understanding Modern Cloud Architecture on AWS: A Concepts Series
Welcome to the Understanding Modern Cloud Architecture on AWS blog series! Over the next couple of weeks I'm going to be diving into the components of modern technology stacks built on AWS

x https://start.jcolemorrison.com/understanding-modern-cloud-architecture-on-aw...

AZURE

 
Azure Cosmos DB free tier is now available
Getting started with our service is easier than ever with the new Azure Cosmos DB free tier. Use it to develop and test your applications, run small workloads in production for free, or simply apply a discount ...

x https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-cosmos-db-free-tier-is-now-av...
 
CNAB packages to deploy applications from Azure to anywhere at all
This repository contains CNAB quickstart solutions for deploying cloud-native applications from Azure to either Azure or anywhere at all. 

x https://github.com/Azure/azure-cnab-quickstarts
 
Microsoft Azure cloud migration: 3 success stories
The ongoing shift to the cloud is affecting nearly all types of IT environments—including Microsoft platforms and applications that companies have been relying on for years to support key business processes.

x https://www.arnnet.com.au/article/670704/microsoft-azure-cloud-migration-3-su...
 
Step by Step how to manage your Systems with Azure Arc
This Blog post is about Azure Arc, how to set this up and get you started with Azure Arc. For customers who want to simplify complex and distributed environments across on-premises, edge and multi cloud

x https://robertsmit.wordpress.com/2020/01/09/step-by-step-how-to-manage-your-s...

GCP

 
Check-list: selecting the right data transformation service for Google BigQuery
This article is a check-list to help you choose the best technology (or combination of technologies) that is right for you. If you’re planning to leverage BigQuery for your analytics and data science projects ...

x https://towardsdatascience.com/check-list-selecting-the-right-data-transforma...
 
Exploring container security: Announcing the CIS Google Kubernetes Engine Benchmark
If you’re serious about the security of your Kubernetes operating environment, you need to build on a strong foundation. The Center for Internet Security’s (CIS)...

x https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes/gke-cis-benchmar...
 
Google Cloud launches new Melbourne region
Google Cloud has launched a new cloud region in Melbourne, set to come online next year. 

x https://www.arnnet.com.au/article/671554/google-cloud-launches-new-melbourne-...
 
I played around with Google Cloud, expecting it to be terrible. It wasn’t.
Truth be told, I was pleasantly surprised by what I found. Here are some takeaways from this experiment.

x https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/i-played-around-with-google-cloud-expectin...

General

 
AWS Named as a Leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Cloud AI Developer Services
Today I am happy to share that AWS has secured the top-right corner of Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Cloud AI Developer Services ...

x https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-named-as-a-leader-in-gartners-magic-quad...
 
Cisco offers on-prem Kubernets-as-a-Service to challenge public cloud
Cisco says it will offer a Kubernetes-based “container-as-a-service” for its HyperFlex hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) environment.

x https://www.arnnet.com.au/article/670628/cisco-offers-on-prem-kubernets-as-a-...
 
How the U.S. Air Force Deployed Kubernetes and Istio on an F-16 in 45 days
Just like almost everything else, military organizations increasingly depend on software, and they are turning to an array of open source cloud tools like Kubernetes and Istio to get the job done ...

x https://thenewstack.io/how-the-u-s-air-force-deployed-kubernetes-and-istio-on...
 
Tech in the time of COVID-19
Here are some other things I think may happen in the tech world as COVID-19 continues to weird everything. Disclaimers: I’m mainly thinking about the US, and am wrong a lot.

x https://forrestbrazeal.com/2020/03/13/tech-in-the-time-of-covid-19/?ck_subscr...
 
The Service Mesh: What Every Software Engineer Needs to Know about the World's Most Over-Hyped Technology
The service mesh was born in the murky, trend-infested waters of the cloud native ecosystem, which unfortunately means that a huge amount of service mesh content ranges from “low-calorie fluff” to...

x https://servicemesh.io/?ck_subscriber_id=637712799

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