03 November, 2021 - AWS Earns over 16billion this quarter + SEGA on Microsoft Azure

Cloud Security News this week 27 October 2021

In case you missed the quarterly earnings updates from last episode, I do encourage you to check it out to see how Google Cloud and Azure faired last Quarter. AWS came out still leading the pack $16.11 billion in the quarter, up almost 39% from a year ago. You can view the report here 
Industry Tech giants including Google, Salesforce, Okta and Slack have announced the creation of a “vendor-neutral” security baseline for businesses called ‘Minimum Viable Secure Product’ (MVSP). Its a minimalistic security checklist for B2B software and business process outsourcing supplier designed  to eliminate overhead, complexity and confusion during the procurement and vendor security assessment process by establishing minimum acceptable security baselines. The intention is to increase clarity reduce the onboarding and sales cycle by weeks or even months. You can view the checklist here
Remote code execution vulnerability was patched by Gitlab in April 2021 however researchers from Rapid 7 recently found that the exploitations were continuing to this day, with  only 21% of the instances fully patched against the issue. Gitlab strongly recommends updating to the latest version to remedy this. Read more about Rapid 7’s research here and Gitlab’s release here
IBM has released their report - Cloud’s Next Leap. They surveyed over 7000 executives in enterprise cloud adoption over 44 countries. 59% of organizations reported that digital transformation has accelerated for them through the pandemic. Not dissimilar to other reports this year, most of their respondents are also yet to fully realize cloud’s full transformational power. Hybrid cloud/multicloud once again is reported to be  the dominant architecture for cloud service delivery. Something rather interesting they reported on is that while many organisations are moving to the cloud, they are often moving to different versions of it.Report here
For our sonic hedgehog gaming fans, Tokyo-based Sega is looking to produce large-scale, global games in a next-generation development environment built on Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform. The intent is to create big-budget titles using Microsoft’s know how  - who also own  Xbox cloud gaming tech.

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