Cloud Security News this week - 25 Aug, 2021

• AWS is launching a new partner competency for managed security service providers (MSSPs) which will make their cloud software solutions and services available in the AWS Marketplace. AWS are coining this an industry first + designed to help partners differentiate themselves in a crowded security market
• Default Permissions on Microsoft Power Apps, a cloud-hosted suite of services that allows organizations to create business intelligence applications has exposed 38 million records. This was discovered by an upguard analyst that  Open data protocol  API is enabled by default 
• AWS Cancelled re:Inforce Security Conference In Houston Due To COVID-19 and held, A scaled-down, free version of the event was held virtually on Aug. 24
• Microsoft has protested a  $10B NSA Cloud Contract Awarded To AWS.
• A google cloud news a bit closer to home, Google's newest cloud region, in Melbourne, Australia, which launched just a month ago on 25 July. went down for 1 hour and 30 minutes due to 'transient voltage' issues that rebooted network hardware.

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