MICROSOFT AZURE

AZURE DEVOPS SERVER 2019 RC2 NOW AVAILABLE

In January Microsoft announced that Azure DevOps RC2, the last planned pre-release before the final release of Azure DevOps Server 2019, is now available. New features enable users to:

Integrate GitHub Enterprise repositories with Azure Boards
Configure builds using YAML
Draft pull requests

Azure DevOps Server 2019 RC2

Integrate GitHub Enterprise repositories with Azure Boards. Source: Microsoft

AZURE DATA BOX DISK NOW GENERALLY AVAILABLE

Back in July, Microsoft announced the release of Azure Data Box Disk, the lower capacity, easier-to-use alternative to Data Box. In January they revealed that the SSD-disk based option for offline transfer to Azure is now generally available! The disk promises to be easy to order and use, offers fast data transfer and is highly secure. You can have a read of the announcement here.

NEW FEATURES FOR AZURE MIGRATE AND AZURE SITE RECOVERY ANNOUNCED

Microsoft have listened to our woes and have added new features to Azure Migrate and Azure Site Recovery that will help in your lift and shift migration journey.

Azure Migrate is now enabled in two new geographies, Azure Government and Europe, with plans for other geographies in the pipeline.

Azure Site Recovery has had several enhancements made to it including:

Support for physical servers with UEFI boot type
Linux disk support
Migration from anywhere

MICROSOFT LAUNCHES AZURE DEVOPS BOUNTY PROGRAM

Does a $20,000 bounty reward from Microsoft sound appealing to you? We thought it might! In January Microsoft launched their Azure DevOps Bounty Program where researchers can identify security vulnerabilities in targeted Azure DevOps services and products and get up to anywhere between $500 and $20,000 for qualified submissions! Find out how to get started now.

IN OTHER NEWS:

Azure Monitor for containers support for AKS-engine in public preview

In development: AKS cluster auto-upgrade

Microsoft announces public preview of email one-time passcodes for Azure AD B2B Collaboration

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AMAZON WEB SERVICES

AWS LAUNCHES MONGODB COMPATIBLE ALTERNATIVE

Last year MongoDB introduced a server-side public licence. In response, AWS have introduced Amazon DocumentDB – a fast, scalable, highly available and fully managed document database service that supports MongoDB workloads. Developers can still use the same MongoDB application code they already use in their MongoDB applications. However, all the underlying infrastructure is now managed by AWS. We’re guessing MongoDB is going to have some choice words to say about this!

Migrate your on-premises MongoDB workloads to the cloud. Source: AWS

AMAZON RDS FOR ORACLE NOW SUPPORTS T3 INSTANCE TYPES

Amazon made an exciting announcement in January when they informed us all that we can now launch T3 instance types when using Amazon RDS for Oracle! Easily scale up to this new instance by modifying your existing DV instance in the AWS Management Console.

INTRODUCING AWS BACKUP

The fully managed backup service promises to make it easy to centralize and automate the back up of data across AWS services in the cloud as well as on premises. Unfortunately, AWS Backup is only available in Ireland right now but keep your eye out, it won’t be long until it hits the rest of the EU!

AWS Backup

How AWS Backup works. Source: AWS