2019 Q4 recipients of AWS Machine Learning Research Awards

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services Feed2019 Q4 recipients of AWS Machine Learning Research Awards The AWS Machine Learning Research Awards (MLRA) aims to advance machine learning (ML) by funding innovative research and open-source projects, training students, and providing researchers with access to the latest technology. Since 2017, MLRA has supported over 180 research projects from 73 schools…

Enable fine-grained permissions for Amazon QuickSight authors in AWS Lake Formation

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedEnable fine-grained permissions for Amazon QuickSight authors in AWS Lake Formation We’re excited to announce the integration of Amazon QuickSight with the AWS Lake Formation security model, which provides fine-grained access control for QuickSight authors. Data lake administrators can now use the Lake Formation console to grant QuickSight users and groups permissions…

Survey: Employee Security Training is Essential to Remote Working Success

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedSurvey: Employee Security Training is Essential to Remote Working Success Organisations have been forced to adapt rapidly over the past few months as government lockdowns kept most workers to their homes. For many, the changes they’ve made may even become permanent as more distributed working becomes the norm. This has major implications…

Build, distribute, and deploy application updates to Azure virtual machine scale sets

By Dustin Ward

As the needs of your business grow, and you deploy business-critical applications at cloud scale, the complexity and administrative overhead of managing those applications can increase substantially. To help reduce this management overhead, Azure continues to invest in new capabilities that make it easier to build and distribute application updates across distributed cloud environments. We…

Azure Firewall Manager is now generally available

By Dustin Ward

Azure Firewall Manager is now generally available and includes Azure Firewall Policy, Azure Firewall in a Virtual WAN Hub (Secure Virtual Hub), and Hub Virtual Network. In addition, we are introducing several new capabilities to Firewall Manager and Firewall Policy to align with the standalone Azure Firewall configuration capabilities. Key features in this release include:…