Starting today, customers running subscriptions included Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Amazon EC2 can seamlessly access Red Hat Knowledgebase at no additional cost. The Knowledgebase is a library of articles, frequently asked questions (FAQs), and best-practice guides to help customers solve technical issues.  Previously, subscriptions included RHEL customers on AWS who had to contact AWS Premium Support in order to access Red Hat Knowledgebase. Now, AWS…

For sending mobile push notifications to Apple devices, Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) now enables token-based authentication. You may now choose between token-based (.p8 key file) and certificate-based (.p12 certificates) authentication when creating a new platform application in the Amazon SNS dashboard or API.  Stateless communication between Amazon SNS and the Apple Push Notification service is enabled using token-based authentication (APNs). Because stateless communication does…

Customers may now see the health of their compute infrastructure using Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS). The customers running their workloads using Amazon ECS on Amazon EC2 or on-premises with Amazon ECS anywhere can now examine the health status of the container runtime (i.e Docker) for their container instances directly from the Amazon ECS API. This would help customers to improve application resiliency.   In a very rare…

Meeting Activities have been added to the Microsoft Teams audit log to help organizations respond more effectively to security events, forensic investigations, internal investigations, and compliance needs. This feature is available now.  Admins may now view TeamsMeetingActivities in the Microsoft 365 Audit Log and analyze specific activities across Microsoft 365 services with this feature upgrade.  Meeting Activities logs:  MeetingDetail: All about Teams meeting – the start time, end time & URL  MeetingParticipantDetail: This…

Beginning November 8, 2021, Microsoft will stop supporting Security Policy Advisor. It is recommended that you use the Office cloud policy service.   Tenants who have not previously established a policy with Security Policy Advisor will have Security Policy Advisor disabled on November 8, 2021.  Microsoft will automatically start moving existing client policies from Security Policy Advisor to the Office cloud policy service after January 17, 2022. Security Policy Advisor will no…

Azure Site Recovery is a Cloud-driven, highly innovative, and automated disaster recovery solution (DRaaS). Azure's native platform capabilities for high availability and disaster recovery continue to ensure the highest levels of resilience from big and small outages. To ensure high availability and disaster recovery poster. In 2018, Microsoft became the first large public cloud provider to launch a first-class cloud-native disaster recovery solution with Azure-to-Azure Disaster…

Azure Virtual Desktop is a service running in the cloud that enables your users to access the data, applications, and resources granted by the organization from any allowed and supported device,  anywhere and anytime, with just an active internet connection. Data protection has been a top priority for all organisations. Now Microsoft has enabled screen capture protection for Azure Virtual Desktop. This feature prevents sensitive data…

Azure blob storage is massively scalable and secure object storage for cloud-native workloads, archives, data lakes, high-performance computing and machine learning. It is very important to protect this data from unintentional deletion. Keeping this in mind Microsoft has recently announced Immutable storage with versioning for Blob Storage is which is now generally available. It provides the capability to store data in WORM (Write Once, Read Many)…

Cloud technology has been impactful in transforming business. From cost savings to easy collaboration, the usage of the Cloud has significantly increased in the past few years. Cloud technology is so reliable when it comes to safety that 94% of businesses report significant improvements in online security after moving their data to the cloud. 91% said that the cloud makes it easier to meet government-compliant requirements.…