Weekly Cloud Provider News – AWS Single Sign-On, Azure Cross-Resource Groups, Azure Files Premium, Google Cloud Buildpacks, Oracle Access Management
Each week, we highlight the latest cloud provider news from the industry’s top providers. This week, AWS Single Sign-On expands, Azure Files Premium Tier adds regions and lowers it pricing, Google Cloud Buildpacks make container images easy, and Oracle unveils an Access Management upgrade.
- Amazon Single Sign-On (SSO) now allows customers to manage AWS access centrally in a one-click experience because it is compatible with PingFederate – Ping Identity’s federated SSO product. Users can sign in via PingFederate to access all their assigned AWS accounts. The integration helps customers simplify AWS access management across multiple accounts while maintaining familiar Ping Identity experiences for administrators who manage identities. AWS SSO and PingFederate use standards-based automation to provision users and groups, saving administration time and increasing security. Read more here.
- Azure now supports Cross-Resource Group moves, enabling easier management of resources. This means that standard load balancers and standard public IP addresses can be moved from one resource group to another, allowing IT organizations to logically group components of their Azure infrastructure into application- or function-consistent groups. Organizations considering moving to Azure for public cloud will find this capability useful as their estate grows in Azure. Learn more here.
- Azure Files Premium tier is now available in more regions with support for locally redundant storage (LRS), zone redundant storage (ZRS), and Network File System (NFS 4.1) public preview. Organizations can take advantage of the premium tier storage capability in just under 40 regions. In addition to better-performing storage, these solutions also provide synchronization in the same Azure Region or different regions without the additional need to replicate file systems. This is important because it provides more capability to organizations seeking to move to Azure public cloud. Read more here.
- Azure Files Premium also has new reduced pricing, which will be up to 33% lower in all regions and for all redundancy options. The new pricing, combined with the expansion of Azure files regions, makes a compelling case to remove your existing file servers and move to Azure Files. Find out more here.
- Google Cloud announced broad support for Buildpacks – an open-source technology that makes it fast and easy to create secure, production-ready container images from source code. It allows developers to focus on writing code rather than containerizing it. Creating a secure container image can be complicated and time consuming, but the buildpacks create container images from source code without having to write docker files or learning the inner workings of docker. Get details here.
- Oracle Access Management (OAM) has an upgrade available from version 11.2.3 to 12.2.x. OAM forms part of Oracle’s Identity and Access Management Suite (IAM) and some older versions of OAM go out of Premium Support at the end of 2020. Oracle recommends that users upgrade their OAM as soon as possible. OAM/IAM is a key component in user identity and access management for many organizations. Learn more here.
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