Issue #54: July 25-July 31

Google Cloud BigLake now generally available with new capabilities

The service, which lets users build secure multi-cloud data lakes over open file formats, gets analytics hub support on Google Cloud Storage (GCS). Also, allows ML model training on GCS BigLake table using BigQuery ML.
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Amazon Neptune Global Database generally available in select regions

Fully managed graph DB service for applications with highly connected datasets; replicates data with no impact on performance, and provides disaster recovery from region-wide outages.
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AWS Single Sign-On is now AWS IAM Identity Center

No change in technical capabilities, and offered at no extra charge. Follow the walkthrough and see how to enable it.
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Now stream data with Pub/Sub direct to BigQuery

Create a new BigQuery subscription in a Pub/Sub Topic and designate a BigQuery table to it to enable the direct ETL pathway; no extra charges for ingesting data into BigQuery.
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Azure Confidential Ledger now generally available

Let’s users store sensitive, unstructured data requiring high-integrity in an immutable ledger and offers cryptographic verification. Use cases include multi-party data audits and application verification for audits.
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Amazon GuardDuty gets malware protection

Eight new threat detections will detect malicious files residing on an instance or container workload running on EC2 without deploying additional security tools.
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Now copy Amazon S3 backups from across AWS Regions and accounts

Eases compliance of data protection and data recovery directives; capability available via  AWS Backup console, API, or CLI in select regions.
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AWS Security Competency relaunched

New consolidated categories with AWS-validated partner software and services to help customers pick, learn, and implement cloud security tools.
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