Ferrari’s AWS Cloud Agreement, AWS Wickr, Azure DevOps Server 2020.1 Patch
In this episode of the newsletter, you'll get insights into some of the key updates around cloud computing, for the latter part of the month of June.
Ferrari revs up plans on AWS Cloud deal around its real-time data streaming service
Ferrari and AWS have reached an agreement to make the AWS Cloud its cloud storage and artificial intelligence provider. The deal will help Ferrari streamline the design and testing of its cars, and allow its Scuderia Ferrari Formula One racing team to launch a digital fan engagement platform.
"Together, the companies will accelerate the pace of innovation across the entire Ferrari organization", including their road cars department, GT Competitions, the Ferrari Challenge, and the Formula One team, it added.
Ferrari will rely on AWS's advanced analytics, machine learning, compute, storage, and database capabilities "to rapidly achieve insights into car design and performance on the road and track,"
Ferrari said in a separate statement that the engagement platform it will launch with AWS was aimed to increasingly connect Formula One fans with the daily life of its racing team and its drivers, "through personalisation tools, exclusive content and interactive applications" AWS stated.
As part of the partnership, and for marketing, the AWS logo has now begun appearing on Scuderia Ferrari's cars and drivers' apparel, this became visible during the French Grand Prix last weekend.
You can view the partnership listing here
AWS Acquires Encrypted Collaboration platform Wickr
AWS has acquired Wickr, a platform for secure online collaboration, for an undisclosed amount.
The acquisition, announced on Friday, would bring AWS toe-to-toe against Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Slack and other collaboration and messaging services, which have dramatically risen in popularity and importance during the remote work surge caused by the pandemic.
New York-based Wickr notably counts public sector organizations, including the U.S. military, police departments and government agencies, among its customers. It’s website describes its offerings this way:
Wickr is an end-to-end encrypted, ephemeral collaboration platform. Wickr is designed to protect highly sensitive communication, data, and file transfers between and throughout governmental agencies. All communications have the same level of security and privacy as a face-to-face conversation.
It offers several flavors of its platform, among them Wickr RAM, which is accredited by the U.S. Department of Defense and is said to be "the only collaboration service with full functionality to meet all security criteria outlined by the National Security Agency."
There are also enterprise, pro and consumer editions of the product.
In a blog post announcing the acquisition, Stephen Schmidt, AWS vice president and chief information security officer, credited Wickr's "advanced security features not available with traditional communications services," particularly as the rise of remote work exposes security vulnerabilities in the way employees share data and communicate with each other.
"The need for this type of secure communications is accelerating. With the move to hybrid work environments, due in part to the COVID-19 pandemic, enterprises and government agencies have a growing desire to protect their communications across many remote locations," Schmidt wrote. "Wickr's secure communications solutions help enterprises and government organizations adapt to this change in their workforces and is a welcome addition to the growing set of collaboration and productivity services that AWS offers customers and partners."
Existing Wickr customers can continue to use the platform uninterrupted, Schmidt indicated, noting that "AWS is offering Wickr services effective immediately."
Read more on the AWS blog statement here
Azure releases patch for its broken Azure DevOps Server 2020.1 release
The Microsoft Azure team has released a patch for its last Azure DevOps Server 2020 release.1 release that has a security flaw around cookies. The released patch has been built to fix the following flaws found in the last release:
Secure cookies used in authorization flows that assert
SameSite=None.Resolve issue with Notifications SDK. Previously, notifications subscriptions using the Area Path filter were not being parsed correctly.
If you’re an Azure DevOp server user, you can get the guide on installing this patch here
EVENTS
August 15 Serverless Days: Student Edition
September 7 - 9 Chef Conf '21: Online
September 27 & 28 DevOpsDays 2021
October 04 - 06 Open Source Automation Days 2021
October 12 - 14 SREcon21
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