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Spend Smarter, Not More: A Guide to AWS Storage Cost Optimization

Xebia

Introduction With an ever-expanding digital universe, data storage has become a crucial aspect of every organization’s IT strategy. S3 Storage Undoubtedly, anyone who uses AWS will inevitably encounter S3, one of the platform’s most popular storage services. Storage Class Designed For Retrieval Change Min.

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Dropbox drops unlimited storage, blames crypto miners and resellers for the change

TechCrunch

Dropbox is ending its unlimited option because some customers were using it for purposes like crypto mining, pooling storage for personal use cases and even reselling storage. The company’s highest-tier “all the space you need” storage plan will now be capped. Each additional active license will receive 5TB of storage.

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Cloud storage startup Wasabi raises $250M to reach unicorn status

TechCrunch

Two at the forefront are David Friend and Jeff Flowers, who co-founded Wasabi, a cloud startup offering services competitive with Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3). Wasabi, which doesn’t charge fees for egress or API requests, claims its storage fees work out to one-fifth of the cost of Amazon S3’s.

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Top 5 Organization Policy Services for Google Cloud

Xebia

Top 5 Organization Policy Services for Google Cloud The Google Cloud is a cloud service that enables users to create and manage virtual machines and Kubernetes clusters, store data, and run applications. When using Google Cloud, it’s important to implement technical boundaries that enforce your company’s security and privacy policies.

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Hiding in Plaintext Sight: Abusing The Lack of Kubernetes Auditing Policies

Lacework

Jared Stroud Cloud Security Researcher – Lacework Labs Key Points: Kubernetes Audit Policies are critical for cluster-level visibility. Kubernetes Annotations allow for arbitrary storage and can be abused for malicious activity. Introduction to Kubernetes Audit Log [.]. Introduction to Kubernetes Audit Log [.].

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Pre-Deployment Policy Compliance

Abhishek Tiwari

However, amidst the drive for speed, ensuring policy compliance is often overlooked, leading to potential security vulnerabilities and compliance risks. Pre-deployment policy compliance, supported by policy as code frameworks such as Sentinel, Open Policy Agent (OPA), Conftest, etc.

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The dawn of intelligent and automated data orchestration

InfoWorld

IT organizations are in a constant battle between ensuring that data is accessible to users, one the one hand, and that the data is globally protected and in compliance with data governance policies, on the other. But data policies inevitably require files to move to different storage platforms or locations over time.

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