CloudTalk | Week of 07.26.2019

LinkedIn is moving to Microsoft’s Azure public cloud and Amazon debuts a new cost optimization tool for its EC2 service. Here is your weekly quick read for the least you should know about Cloud and Tech.

Security & Breach

Leveraging Cloud APIs for Comprehensive Security (Link)
Former Equifax exec gets 4 months in prison for insider trading after breach (Link)
Websites are (probably) making less money because of GDP (Link)
WhatsApp spyware could also steal data from your Microsoft, Apple, Google, and Facebook accounts (Link)

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft Announces Public Preview of Azure Data Share (Link)
5 Metrics Behind Microsoft’s Soaring Stock Price (Link)
LinkedIn is moving to Microsoft’s Azure public cloud three years after $27 billion acquisition (Link)
Azure Active Directory Proxy Service Now Supports SAML Identity (Link)
Microsoft invests $1b in OpenAI to develop new supercomputing technologies (Link)

Google

Google Cloud Platform Now Available Through Carahsoft’s GSA Schedule (Link)
Google improves speech recognition for Contact Center tools (Link)
Google Announces Spinnaker For Google Cloud Platform (Link)
Google Adds Deep Learning Containers to AI Lineup (Link)

Amazon

AWS considers Israeli data center, eyes government cloud contract tender (Link)
Amazon Inspector: A cloud-based vulnerability assessment tool (Link)
AWS expands its cloud cost optimization portfolio (Link)
Amazon debuts a new cost optimization tool for its EC2 service (Link)

IBM

IBM expands its storage management software to support competitor products (Link)
IBM gives cancer-killing drug AI project to the open source community (Link)
IBM-Red Hat: Should developers worry we’re headed back to the 1990s? (Link)
IBM and AT&T partnering up (Link)

OTHER

Compliance-as-code tool hits DevSecOps sweet spot for MSP (Link)
Private Multicloud Storage Improves Security, Manageability (Link)
Abode Adds Enhanced Google Assistant Support for DIY Smart Home Security Systems (Link)
Report finds 34M vulnerabilities across AWS, Google Cloud and Azure (Link)
Sigma becomes the First IDE with Live Debugging of AWS Lambda Functions (Link)

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