CloudTalk | Week of 08.15.2019

Google Cloud Adds Compute, Memory-Intensive VMs and AWS Announced Its Managed Blockchain Now Supports AWS CloudFormation. Here is your weekly quick read for the least you should know about Cloud and Tech.

Security & Breach

Amazon EBS snapshots exposed publicly leaking sensitive data in hundreds of thousands (Link)
Capital One hack suspect may have breached more than 30 organizations (Link)
Credit Karma glitch exposed users to others people’s accounts (Link)
New Data Breach Has Exposed Millions Of Fingerprint And Facial Recognition Records (Link)

Microsoft Azure

Azure Aims for Resilience in Face of Regional Catastrophe (Link)
Microsoft Opens Security Lab to Test Vulnerabilities (Link)
Azure services get new reservation plans with big savings, among other features (Link)
Microsoft Bets on India Expansion with Reliance Jio Alliance (Link)
Azure IoT Edge runs inside an NGD SSD (Link)

Google

CloudBees And Google Cloud Partner To Accelerate Application Development On Anthos (Link)
Google Cloud Adds Compute, Memory-Intensive VMs (Link)
Google Makes Another Move Towards Blockchain as Cloud Wing Partners with Cypherium (Link)
General Availability of Cloud Security Scanner for GKE and Compute Engine (Link)
Google Releases Enterprise Database Options, Targets SQL Server Customers (Link)

Amazon

AWS Announced Its Managed Blockchain Now Supports AWS CloudFormation (Link)
Amazon improves face analysis tech (Link)
AWS Lake Formation arrives to build secure data lakes faster (Link)

IBM

New IBM Challenge Puts Solving Food Waste in the Hands of Developers (Link)
Digital Realty (DLR) Enhances IBM Cloud Capabilities in Sydney (Link)
Enhanced DomainTools App for IBM QRadar (Link)

Other

VMware is planning a new DaaS offering on VMware Cloud on AWS, called Managed Desktops Solution (Link)
Oracle Exadata Creator Launches SaaS Backup ‘Disruptor’ Clumio (Link)
Dell Technologies Cloud Takes Integration Complexity ‘Off The Table’ (Link)
DataLine launches Office 365 data storage service (Link)

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