196: The Cloud Pod plays with all the stuff it found in the cleanroom

This week’s highlights

• AWS announces new patching policies,
• Azure OpenAI service is now generally available.
• IM/Access Management in CCOE...

• "I think it(access management) should be the first challenge that's tackled, and I usually try to approach it as such but it's also sort of hard to do when it starts off as an experiment…and you have to retrofit it in”

AWS: Announcement of new patching policies

• AWS Systems Manager announces Patch Policies, enabling cross account and cross Region patching
• ️️ This allows users to deploy policies to enforce patch compliance across their AWS accounts and regions...

Azure: Azure OPN AI service is now generally available.

• 0️⃣ General availability of Azure OpenAI Service expands access to large, advanced AI models with added enterprise benefits
• 0️⃣ This is Close to Jonathan's prediction that Azure will launch a ChatGPT service, and more businesses can now access the most advanced AI models with pricing based on the mode of use..

The Cloud Journey Series; The Cloud Center of Excellence (CCOE)

• IM or Access management should be the first area people look at and the first challenge to be tackled, while also defining data protection boundaries.
• CCOE also provides the opportunity to identify activities in production that are unnecessary and should be changed.
• Permissions are the least important part of your IM journey; permissions change and would need to be evaluated continually.

Other Headlines Mentioned:

• Announcing the general availability of AWS Local Zones in Perth and Santiago
• AWS Clean Rooms is now available in preview
• AWS announces changes to AWS Billing, Cost Management, and Account consoles permissions
• AWS CloudTrail vulnerability: Undocumented API allows CloudTrail bypass
• EC2 Image Builder adds Center for Internet Security (CIS) Benchmarks for security hardening of Amazon Machine Images
• Amazon Corretto January, 2023 Quarterly Updates
• EC2 network performance metrics add support for ConnTrack Utilization metric
• AWS Network Firewall announces IPv6 support
• Amazon EFS Supports 1,000 Access Points per File System
• Amazon CloudFront now supports the request header order and header count headers
• AWS Nitro Enclaves announces support for multiple enclaves
• Amazon RDS now supports new SSL/TLS certificates and certificate controls
• AWS Lambda now supports Maximum Concurrency for Amazon SQS as an event source
• AWS Resource Groups now emits lifecycle events
• Amazon Kendra releases the Microsoft Teams Connector to enable Microsoft Teams messaging search
• Amazon Kendra releases Microsoft Exchange Connector to enable email-messaging search
• Amazon Detective adds new AWS managed IAM policies to improve secure access for security analysts
• Announcing the general availability of Amazon Route 53 Application Recovery Controller zonal shift
• Amazon RDS now supports restoring database snapshots from Multi-AZ with two readable standbys
• Changing the customer experience with Contact Center AI: Look back and look forward
• General availability: IoT Edge Metrics Collector 1.1
• Public Preview: Azure Automation Visual Studio Code Extension
• General Availability: Azure Active Directory authentication for exporting and importing Managed Disks
• General Availability: AzAcSnap 7 — Azure Application Consistent Snapshot tool updates