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 Redshift announces general availability for federated querying
Amazon Redshift enables you to query data across your operational databases, your data warehouse, and your data lake

x https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/04/amazon-redshift-announces-...
 
AWS Migration Hub now automatically tags migration results for cost tracking
Migration Hub’s automatic tagging helps you track costs of migrated resources and compare that to on-premises costs using Cost Allocation Tagging and AWS Cost Explorer

x https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/04/aws-migration-hub-automati...
 
Introducing AWS Cost Categories
With AWS Cost Categories (GA), you can now categorize your cost and usage information precisely to your organizational structure and cost allocation needs such as teams, cost centers, geography, applications, and more.

x https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/04/introducing-aws-cost-categ...
 
Review and remediate unintended access allowed on your AWS resources from outside your AWS organization
With a single click, customers can now enable AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Access Analyzer for all their accounts centrally managed through AWS Organizations

x https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/03/review-and-remediate-unint...
 
Sydney AWS region sees bumper crop of releases
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.

x https://www.arnnet.com.au/article/678769/sydney-aws-region-sees-bumper-crop-r...

AZURE

 
Advancing safe deployment practices
One of the value propositions of the cloud is that it’s continually improving, delivering new capabilities and features, as well as security and reliability enhancements. But since the platform is continuously evolving, change is inevitable.

x https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/blog/advancing-safe-deployment-practices/
 
Delivering Automated Terraform CI/CD with Azure DevOps
This tutorial demonstrates how to deploy Azure Infrastructure using Terraform. In today's DevOps world, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is an essential component. 

x https://www.dotnetcurry.com/devops/1531/azure-devops-automated-terraform-cicd
 
Microsoft aims to win back consumers with new Microsoft 365 subscriptions
Microsoft is unveiling its new Microsoft 365 Personal and Family subscriptions today, which are designed to replace and enhance existing Office 365 consumer plans

x https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/30/21199376/microsoft-365-subscriptions-offic...
 
Microsoft Cancels Ignite, Embraces All-Digital Experiences
The inevitable has happened: Microsoft has canceled Ignite and will embrace “digital-first experiences” for the rest of 2020.

x https://www.thurrott.com/microsoft/233954/microsoft-cancels-ignite-embraces-a...
 
Microsoft Cleared as Winner of DoD JEDI Contract; sorry Amazon
The Defense Department inspector general released a 317-page report on the JEDI cloud infrastructure procurement on Wednesday, April 14, 2020. In this report, it was found that no meddling was made in awarding the JEDI contract to Microsoft.

x https://build5nines.com/microsoft-cleared-as-winner-dod-jedi-contract-sorry-a...

GCP

 
Google Cloud axes Stackdriver brand in suite upgrade
Google Cloud has revamped products within its cloud management Strackdriver suite and has placed them under the rebranded perations suite.

x https://www.arnnet.com.au/article/671324/google-cloud-axes-stackdriver-brand-...
 
Google enters zero-trust market with BeyondCorp Remote Access offering
Technology giant makes internal zero-trust access infrastructure available on a subscription basis as an alternative to VPNs

x https://www.arnnet.com.au/article/678767/google-enters-zero-trust-market-beyo...
 
Introducing BigQuery column-level security: new fine-grained access controls
We’re announcing a key capability to help organizations govern their data in Google Cloud. Our new BigQuery column-level security controls are an important step toward placing policies on data that differentiate between classes.

x https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/introducing-bigquery-co...
 
Introducing Service Directory: Manage all your services in one place at scale
Customers want to be able to take a service- rather than infrastructure-centric approach to connecting to Google Cloud services, their own applications, and third-party partner services from GCP Marketplace. Service Directory is a new managed solution ...

x https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/networking/introducing-service-directo...
 
Learn to build secure and reliable systems with a new book from Google
In the new “Building Secure and Reliable Systems: Best Practices for Designing, Implementing, and Maintaining Systems” book, engineers across Google's security and SRE organizations share best practices to help you design scalable and reliable systems that are fundamentally secure.

x https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/management-tools/learn-to-build-secure...

General

 
How to Enable Cloud Native DevOps with Kubernetes and Hyper-Converged Infrastructure
The new era of cloud native DevOps brings various new tools and best practices that have offered significant advantages for application development. 

x https://thenewstack.io/how-to-enable-cloud-native-devops-with-kubernetes-and-...

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