AWS achieves its first PCI 3DS attestation

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedAWS achieves its first PCI 3DS attestation We are pleased to announce that Amazon Web Services (AWS) has achieved its first PCI 3-D Secure (3DS) certification. Although AWS doesn’t perform 3DS functions directly, the AWS PCI 3DS attestation of compliance enables customers to attain their own PCI 3DS compliance for their services…

Azure Machine Learning—what’s new from Build 2020

By Dustin Ward

Machine learning (ML) is gaining momentum across a number of industries and scenarios as enterprises look to drive innovation, increase efficiency, and reduce costs. Microsoft Azure Machine Learning empowers developers and data scientists with enterprise-grade capabilities to accelerate the ML lifecycle. At Microsoft Build 2020, we announced several advances to Azure Machine Learning across the…

Azure Firewall forced tunneling and SQL FQDN filtering now generally available

By Dustin Ward

Two new key features in Azure Firewall—forced tunneling and SQL FQDN  filtering—are now generally available. Additionally, we increased the limit for multiple public IP addresses from 100 to 250 for both Destination Network Address Translation (DNAT) and Source Network Address Translation (SNAT). Azure Firewall is a cloud native Firewall as a Service (FWaaS) offering that…

Azure Files enhances data protection capabilities

By Dustin Ward

Protecting your production data is critical for any business. That’s why Azure Files has a multi-layered approach to ensuring your data is highly available, backed up, and recoverable. Whether it’s a ransomware attack, a datacenter outage, or a file share that was accidentally deleted, we want to make sure you can get everything backed up…