Weekly Cloud Provider News – AWS Jira Service Desk, Azure File Shares, Google Eventarc, Oracle UK Cloud Regions, VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery
Each week, we highlight the latest cloud provider news—this week, AWS expands Jira Service Desk, Azure File Shares adds soft delete, Google unveils Eventarc functionality, Oracle expands its cloud presence in the UK, and VMware adds Cloud Disaster Recovery.
- AWS customers can now use Jira Service Desk as a single place to track operational items from the AWS Systems Manager OpsCenter. Users can view, investigate and resolve items related to their AWS resources while using their existing workflows in Jira. They can also use AWS Systems Manager Automation runbooks from Jira Service Desk to remediate known issues. This integrated offering also helps simplify cloud provisioning and resource management. Read more here.
- Microsoft has added soft delete capabilities to protect Azure File Shares from accidental deletion. It will be available in all regions starting in January 2021. This allows administrators to restore a file previously deleted from Azure Files, enabling IT teams to quickly respond to reports of data being lost or inaccessible. Enterprises will benefit from faster time to resolve issues where data has been deleted from Azure Files. Learn more here.
- Google announced Eventarc, new events functionality that allows customers to trigger Cloud Run from more than 60 Google Cloud sources. Eventarc helps users easily build event-driven applications and take care of event ingestion, delivery, security, authorization, observability and error handling. Its microservices-based application architecture enables customers to refactor application workflows into smaller de-coupled microservices that rely on event-driven communication and invocation. Read more here.
- Oracle is expanding its UK cloud presence with a new dedicated government cloud region and a second commercial cloud region in Newport, Wales. These dual-region resources provide both a high-performance cloud infrastructure for the UK’s private sector and help support the UK government’s National Data Strategy, with a goal of transforming the country’s use of data to stimulate business growth and improve public services. This strategy has increased in importance during COVID-19, with millions of UK citizens working from home and rising demand for more public services. Get more details here.
- VMware unveiled Cloud Disaster Recovery, an on-demand disaster recovery-as-a-service (DRaaS) offering that is delivered as an easy-to-use SaaS solution. Customers will benefit from tight integration between VMware cloud DR, VMware cloud services platform, and VMware cloud on AWS. Users will only pay for the recovery host capacity in VMware Cloud on AWS when they need it, and continuous DR health checks run automatically every 30 minutes to identify any configuration drift or other issues that might interfere with a successful recovery. Learn more here.
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