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Today, we announced the acquisition of Citus Data, an innovative open source extension to scale out PostgreSQL databases without the need to re-architect existing applications. Citus Data delivers unparalleled performance and scalability by intelligently distributing data and queries across multiple nodes, which makes sharding simple. Because Citus Data is packaged as an extension (not a fork) to PostgreSQL, customers can take advantage of all the innovations in community PostgreSQL with queries that are significantly faster compared to proprietary implementations of PostgreSQL.

In this blog, I would like to share how we will work closely together with Citus Data to bring a differentiated PostgreSQL offering to our customers. Our objective since the beginning of our journey in bringing PostgreSQL database to Microsoft Azure has been to provide our customers with the best enterprise grade managed PostgreSQL service in the cloud. We are proud to offer innovations on Azure Database for PostgreSQL such as built-in high availability that can help save customers over half the costs versus other clouds, and capability to scale up or down compute in seconds, helping customers easily adjust to changes in workload demands. Additionally, built-in intelligent features such as auto-tuning help customers further lower their TCO by having customized recommendations and insights to maximize the performance of their PostgreSQL databases. These benefits, coupled with built-in security and compliance, Azure’s global reach, and Azure IP advantage, free up more time for customers to focus on their business and applications. We pair all this value with a community-based engine model, so our customers are not locked in.

As open source relational databases grow on Azure, we continue to see accelerated adoption from customers across various industry verticals serving diverse, mission-critical application patterns ranging from complex analytical applications for digital marketing to machine learning based IoT applications. These applications demand low latency and high query processing throughput, and our investment in Citus Data is a powerful accelerant to deliver high performance and scalable distributed databases.

PostgreSQL is one of the fastest growing open source relational database engines that is loved and embraced by enterprise developers. Citus Data complements Microsoft’s approach to community PostgreSQL with its innovative open source extension built on PostgreSQL. With Citus Data technology, Microsoft will be able to offer customers unparalleled performance and scale for their PostgreSQL databases on top of the innovative, intelligent and secure Azure Database for PostgreSQL.

We are very excited to welcome the Citus Data team to Microsoft and to build on the culture of contribution to the open source community! We look forward to accelerating an open PostgreSQL and can’t wait to see how to see how this technology advances our customer’s business needs.

Check out the following blog post from Rohan Kumar, CVP Azure Data group to learn more about this exciting development.
Quelle: Azure

25. Januar 2019

da Agency

Regulatory compliance dashboard in Azure Security Center now available

Meeting regulatory compliance obligations and complying with all the requirements of benchmark standards can be a significant challenge in a cloud or hybrid environment. Identifying which assessments to perform, evaluating the status, and resolving the gaps can be a very daunting task. Azure Security Center (ASC) now helps streamline this process with the new regulatory compliance dashboard, which was recently released to public preview.

The regulatory compliance dashboard provides insight into your compliance posture for a set of supported standards and regulations, based on continuous assessments of your Azure environment.

The assessments performed by Azure Security Center analyze risk factors in your hybrid cloud environment in accordance with security best practices. These assessments are mapped to selective compliance controls from a supported set of standards. In the regulatory compliance dashboard, you get a single view of the status of all assessments within your environment, in the context of a particular standard or regulation. As you act on the recommendations and reduce risk factors in your environment, you can see your compliance posture improve.

Assess and improve your compliance posture

In the Azure Security Center regulatory compliance blade, you can get an overview of key portions of your compliance posture with respect to a set of supported standards. Currently supported standards are Azure CIS, PCI DSS 3.2, ISO 27001, and SOC TSP.

In the dashboard, you will find your overall compliance score, and the number of passing versus failing assessments with each standard. You can now focus your attention on the gaps in compliance for a standard or regulation that is important to you.

The ASC regulatory compliance dashboard is designed to help you improve your compliance posture by resolving recommendations directly within the dashboard. Click through to each recommendation to discover its details, including the resources for which the recommendation should be implemented.

The information provided by the regulatory compliance dashboard can be very useful for providing evidence to internal and external auditors as to your compliance status with the supported standards. Stay tuned for additional features, like the ability to create and export reports that can be readily shared with stakeholders. In addition, data from the ASC compliance dashboard will soon be integrated into Compliance Manager, delivering the benefit of automated assessments from Azure directly into the Compliance Manager experience instead of requiring manual processes.

The regulatory compliance dashboard preview is available within the standard pricing tier of Azure Security Center, and you can try it for free for the first 30 days.

To learn more about regulatory compliance in Azure Security Center see the documentation, “Tutorial: Improve your regulatory compliance.” Try it out and let us know what you think!
Quelle: Azure

24. Januar 2019

da Agency

AWS Trusted Advisor erweitert seine Funktionalität mit neuen bewährten Prüfungs-Methoden

AWS Trusted Advisor ist eine Anwendung, die auf bewährten Methoden basiert, die sich für Millionen von AWS-Kunden als zuverlässig bewährt haben. Trusted Advisor überprüft Ihre AWS-Umgebung und gibt Empfehlungen zum Geldsparen, zur Verbesserung der Systemleistung und zum Schließen von Sicherheitslücken.
Kürzlich hat AWS Trusted Advisor neun neue Prüfungen veröffentlicht, um Sie dabei zu unterstützen, effizient, sicher und auf dem neuesten Stand der bewährten AWS-Methoden zu bleiben.

DynamoDB Lesekapazität: Prüft auf eine Nutzung, die mehr als 80 % der von DynamoDB bereitgestellten Durchsatzgrenze für Lesezugriffe pro Konto beträgt.
DynamoDB Schreibkapazität: Prüft auf eine Nutzung, die mehr als 80 % der von DynamoDB bereitgestellten Durchsatzgrenze für Schreibzugriffe pro Konto beträgt.
Route53 Gehostete Zonen: Prüft auf eine Nutzung, die mehr als 80 % des Limits der von Route 53 gehosteten Zonen pro Konto beträgt.
Route53 Max. Gesundheitschecks: Prüft auf eine Nutzung, die mehr als 80 % des Limits der von Route 53 durchgeführten Gesundheitschecks pro Konto ausmacht.
Route53 Wiederverwendbare Delegationssätze: Prüft auf eine Nutzung, die mehr als 80 % des Limits der wiederverwendbaren Delegationssätze von Route 53 pro Konto beträgt.
Route53 Datenfluss-Richtlinien: Prüft auf eine Nutzung, die mehr als 80 % des Limits der Datenfluss-Richtlinien von Route 53 pro Konto beträgt.
Route53 Datenfluss-Richtlinien-Instances: Prüft auf eine Nutzung, die mehr als 80 % des Limits der Datenfluss-Richtlinien-Instances von Route 53 pro Konto beträgt.
ENA-Treiberversion für EC2 Windows-Instances: Überprüft die ENA-Treiberversion für Amazon EC2-Windows-Instances und warnt Sie dann, wenn der Treiber (a) veraltet ist und nicht mehr unterstützt wird, (b) veraltet ist und bekannte Probleme aufweist oder (c) aktualisiert werden kann.
NVMe-Treiberversion für EC2-Windows-Instances: Überprüft die NVMe-Treiberversion für EC2-Windows-Instances und warnt Sie dann, wenn der Treiber (a) veraltet ist und nicht mehr unterstützt wird, (b) veraltet ist und bekannte Probleme aufweist oder (c) aktualisiert werden kann.

AWS ist bestrebt, kontinuierlich weitere Prüfungen hinzuzufügen, damit Sie Ihre Betriebssicherheit und eine optimale Leistung sicherstellen können. Klicken Sie hier für eine vollständige Liste von bewährten Prüfungs-Methoden von Trusted Advisor.
Quelle: aws.amazon.com