171: AWS Snowcones in Space
On The Cloud Pod this week, Peter finally returns with some beer-based bets about Amazon extending its TLS deadline. Plus: Terraform drift detection for managing infrastructure, chilling tales of Amazon’s CodeWhisperer ML advances, and Anthos on-premise
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Show Notes
On The Cloud Pod this week, Peter finally returns with some beer-based bets about Amazon extending its TLS deadline. Plus: Terraform drift detection for managing infrastructure, chilling tales of Amazon’s CodeWhisperer ML advances, and Anthos on-premise options finally arrive for your platform of choice. Plus the cloud talks about AWS SNOWCONES in SPACE!!!!!!
A big thanks to this week’s sponsor, 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
- Terraform Cloud finally adds drift detection to help manage infrastructure, now generally available after its 2020 preview.
- Amazon’s crazy “ML-powered coding companion,” CodeWhisperer, is here for our jobs.
- Google expands its Distributed Cloud platform with Anthos on-premises options.
Top Quotes
- “I’m surprised it’s taken so long. Because I mean, the reality is if you’re in a plan, and the plan doesn’t require any changes, then there’s been no drift. So what was the obstacle in delivering this as a feature sooner?”
- “Not only they’re training their own machine learning models, but they’re also generating code. Not concerned at all.”
General News: Drifting in the Right Direction
- While everyone’s been a little afraid to pull the trigger, HashiCorp announced drift detection in Terraform cloud, which is in a public beta. Pretty exciting!
- HashiCorp also announced the launch and free public beta of HCP Boundary, but what’s their long-term vision?
AWS: Whispering Sweet Somethings to the Machine
- SageMaker Ground Truth now supports synthetic data generation, promising to reduce time and training costs for model operations. Getting enough data to actually train a model could be hard… (fake it til you make it?)
- Your new “ML-powered coding companion” CodeWhisperer now writes code for you. We’ve joked about it before, but Alexa really is one step away from upskilling to coding.
- Peter’s betting two beers at his local pub on Amazon extending the deadline on this one: TLS 1.2 is to become the minimum TLS protocol level for all AWS API endpoints. There’s currently just under a year to get yourself sorted. Good luck!
- Apparently, even space has (AWS) Snowcones: Amazon sends one to the International Space Station
- As EKS improves control plane scaling and update speed by up to 4x, get ready for a lot of step function workload.
- Imagine waiting 10 years for private IP VPNs… well, we did, and