Security News > 2023 > August > Microsoft Defender for Cloud Gets More Multicloud

With Microsoft Defender for Cloud, cloud security posture management features are now available for Google Cloud Platform, as well as AWS and Azure.
Almost 90% of enterprises use more than one public cloud provider, according to Flexera's 2023 State of the Cloud survey.
For enterprise cloud users, managing their multicloud workloads is the second biggest challenge after managing cloud costs.
Businesses can already use Microsoft Defender for Cloud to monitor security settings on AWS and Google Cloud Platform as well as Azure.
With the GCP connector, Microsoft Defender for Cloud can build a graph database of everything you have in the cloud across AWS, Azure and Google Cloud.
Where Microsoft Defender for Cloud goes next Defender for Storage.
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