Azure archive storage, AWS Bare Metal and more data breaches among other news – Here’s the least you should know about the week.
Security
123 million Americans’ private information exposed in misconfigured S3 bucket from data analytics firm Alteryx, includes identifying info and purchasing habits (link)
Nissan Finance Canada data breach potentially exposes 1.3M customers’ information (link)
Uber says data breach exposed data of 380k customers in Singapore (link)
Google
Contracted by Etsy as cloud provider for e-commerce site’s global services (link)
Makes deal with NCAA to host historical data analysis for March Madness (link)
MIT researchers fool Google’s AI with adversarial example (link)
Microsoft
Azure Archive Storage now generally available at $0.002 per GB per month, competitive with AWS Glacier pricing (link)
Announces preview of Azure region in France (link)
Cuts prices for HDInsight big data service along with improvements, more competitive with AWS (link)
Adds “Insights in Excel” through AI on Office 365 (link)
Amazon
Announces new EU region in Paris, France, enables easier compliance with French data regulations (link)
MongoDB Atlas now available on AWS Marketplace (link)
Launches public preview of new i3.metal bare metal instance with 36 cores, 512GiB memory, and 15.2TB NVMe SSD locally (link)
More
Alibaba announces India datacenter based in Mumbai available in January, its 33rd region (link)
Digital Ocean developer survey shows 17% work with AI and machine learning, 73% that don’t plan to learn more in 2018 (link) (report link)
Cloud Spectator report names CenturyLink best cloud provider in Europe based on performance and value, second is Google (link)
IBM and Walmart use blockchain for food safety in China (link)