AWS Lands UK Spy Services Contact + Google Cloud + Azure release Q3 results

UK’s spy agencies have given a contract to AWS to host classified material. Their intention is to boost use of data analytics and artificial intelligence for espionage. The agreement, estimated by industry experts to be worth £500m to £1bn over the next decade. The Guardian has reported that “the contract with Amazon is likely to ignite concerns over sovereignty because the UK’s most secret data will be hosted by a single US tech company” - Quite the interesting comment and Cloud Security News would love to hear your thoughts on this

It's also the season for Revenue announcements for Quarter 3 for our big cloud providers. Google announced this week that Google Cloud revenue jumped 45 percent to $4.99 billion in the third quarter compared to the same period last year. You can view the results here

Microsoft also announced their Quarter 3 revenue for Intelligent Cloud to be $17.0 billion, an increase of 31% - You can view the results here

Microsoft shared earlier this month that things remain “Business as usual for Azure customers despite 2.4 Tbps DDoS attack” in Europe. They reported that the attack traffic originated from approximately 70,000 sources and from multiple countries in the Asia-Pacific region. Read the full statement from Microsoft here

The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) has detected nation-state activity associated with NOBELIUM. It's quite the interesting read and the full blog can be found here.

If you use discourse, a popular open source forum software, you should make sure that you update to Discourse versions 2.7.9 or later, as a security bug has been found that affects Discourse versions 2.7.8 and earlier.

Read the Discord blog here

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