AWS Launches Cloud Control API - Cloud Security News

<p><strong>Cloud Security News this week 06 October 2021</strong></p> <ul> <li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/announcing-aws-cloud-control-api/"><u>AWS has announced the availability of AWS Cloud Control API - a set of common application programming interfaces (APIs) that are designed to make it easy for developers to manage their AWS and third-party services.</u></a> AWS Cloud Control API can be used to create, read, update, delete, and list (CRUD-L) your cloud resources that belong to a wide range of services—both AWS and third-party. You won't have to generate code or scripts specific to each individual service responsible for those resources.We have linked in the podcast notes a <a href="https://twitter.com/awscloud/status/1443976801915740181"><u>informative video from AWS</u></a> that explains more about this</li> <li><a href="https://www.hashicorp.com/state-of-the-cloud"><u>The inaugural HashiCorp State of Cloud Strategy Survey with about 3200 responses</u></a> has shared that <a href="https://www.hashicorp.com/state-of-the-cloud"><u>multi-cloud is no longer aspirational goal but an everyday reality - with ¾ of the respondents noting that they were using 2 clouds or more</u></a><u>, t</u><a href="https://www.hashicorp.com/state-of-the-cloud"><u>op drivers for multicloud adoption are digital transformation, avoid vendor lock in, cost reduction and scaling</u></a><u>, m</u><a href="https://www.hashicorp.com/state-of-the-cloud"><u>any enterprises &nbsp;are yet to realise substantial value from their cloud investment</u></a><u> and </u><a href="https://www.hashicorp.com/state-of-the-cloud"><u>Cloud skills shortage still remains a major challenge</u></a></li> <li><a href="https://trustedcloudprinciples.com/principles/"><u>Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Atlassian, CISCO, IBM, Salesforce, Slack and SAP have joined forces to establish the Trusted Cloud Principles as a commitment to protect the rights of their customers.</u></a> <a href="https://twitter.com/amazon_policy"><u>AWS tweeted that this is to “h