What’s new in Defender for Cloud?

Microsoft Defender for Open-Source Relational Databases is now generally available for Amazon Web Services Relational Database Service (AWS RDS) instances. Receive database threat protection and sensitive data discovery insights for supported open-source relational databases, including Aurora PostgreSQL, Aurora MySQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB on AWS RDS.

For more information, see our public documentation.

Expanded multicloud security coverage now GA

Microsoft Defender for Cloud’s expanded multicloud security coverage is now generally available. This release significantly broadens posture assessment for AWS and GCP environments, adding support for about 90 new resource types and over 200 new security recommendations across data, identity and access, networking, compute, and container categories.

For more details, please refer to this documentation. 

Check out other updates from last month here! 

Check out monthly news for the rest of the MTP suite here!  

Blogs of the month

In June, our team published the following blog posts we would like to share:

• Now Generally Available: Microsoft Defender for open source relational databases on AWS RDS


• Start Secure, Stay Secure: How Microsoft is Closing the Gap from Code to Runtime


• The end of patching era for containers: Microsoft Defender for Cloud expands hardened image support


• Closing the loop on container security: From code to runtime in the AI era


• Microsoft Defender for Cloud expands multicloud coverage across AWS and Google Cloud

Defender for Cloud in the field

Watch the latest Defender for Cloud in the Field YouTube episode here:

• Stay Secure: AI-powered Faster fixes


• Visit our YouTube page

GitHub Community

Check out Defender for Cloud GitHub lab module 25. It walks through the integration between Defender for Cloud and XDR to provide a comprehensive CDR solution.  

• Module 25 –  MDC and Defender portal integration


• Visit our GitHub page

Customer journey

Discover how other organizations successfully use Microsoft Defender for Cloud to protect their cloud workloads. This month we are featuring Hassan Allam Holding. Hassan Allam Holding is an Egyptian private-sector company with operations spanning engineering, construction, and infrastructure investment and was facing operational complexity. To overcome, they leveraged an end-to-end Microsoft Security ecosystem with Defender XDR, which integrates with Defender for Cloud and other products to centralize detection and signals across endpoint, identity, email and cloud workloads. As a result, alert noise reduce by up to 90%, and Hassan Allam Holding is able to respond faster with far less complexity.  

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