Episode 110
110: They didn’t even call The Cloud Pod about the AWS CEO role
Disappointed not to see Amazon take the opportunity to increase its executive diversity with its new CEO. A big thanks to this week’s sponsors: Foghorn Consulting, which provides full-stack cloud solutions with a focus on strategy, planning and execu
The Cloud Pod | Weekly AI & Cloud News on AWS, Azure & GCP · Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas and Matt Kohn | Cloud Computing & AI News
March 31, 202151m 43s
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Show Notes
Disappointed not to see Amazon take the opportunity to increase its executive diversity with its new CEO.
A big thanks to this week’s sponsors:
- Foghorn Consulting, which provides full-stack cloud solutions with a focus on strategy, planning and execution for enterprises seeking to take advantage of the transformative capabilities of AWS, Google Cloud and Azure.
This week’s highlights
- If Amazon was the royal family, this would be like Harry becoming King.
- Google found slugs in its lettuce and is not happy about it.
- Azure wants to shut The Cloud Pod up for good this time.
General News: Nothing Spicy
- Sysdig is releasing unified cloud and container security with the launch of Unified Threat detection across AWS cloud and containers. Interesting that it uses Cloud Custodian.
Amazon Web Services: No Longer Hiring
- Tableau CEO Adam Selipsky will return to Amazon Web Services as CEO. We did not see this coming.
- Introducing Amazon S3 Object Lambda. They listened to us!
Google Cloud Platform: Slurm It Up
- Google Cloud caps sales commissions as losses mount. This will remove the motivation to go after smaller deals.
- Google announces a new method of obtaining Compute Engine instances for batch processing. We thought it was attacking our workloads but it actually wasn’t — our bad.
- Google is announcing the preview of its Network Connectivity Center. No potatoes, thankfully.
- Announcing the newest set of features for Slurm running on Google Cloud. Worst name ever.
- Google announces A2 VMs are now generally available with the largest GPU cloud instances with NVIDIA A100 GPUs. Is this the computer version of scalping tickets?
- Google announces high-bandwidth network configurations for General Purpose N2 and Compute Optimized C2 Compute Engine VM families. We’d love to know what the technology is behind this.
Azure: Not Happy With The Cloud Pod
- Azure announces plans to expand the Azure Availability Zones to more regions. We’l