188: The CloudPod thinks the AWS Switzerland region is a big plus
On a slow news week, we talk about the new AWS Switzerland region, Googles 2022 State of Devops report and GCP gets those flexible committed use discounts! Thank you to our sponsor, Foghorn Consulting, which provides top notch cloud and DevOps engineers
The Cloud Pod | Weekly AI & Cloud News on AWS, Azure & GCP · Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas and Matt Kohn | Cloud Computing & AI News
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Show Notes
On a slow news week, we talk about the new AWS Switzerland region, Googles 2022 State of Devops report and GCP gets those flexible committed use discounts!
Thank you to our sponsor, Foghorn Consulting, which provides top notch cloud and DevOps engineers to the world’s most innovative companies. Initiatives stalled because you’re having trouble hiring? Foghorn can be burning down your DevOps and Cloud backlogs as soon as next week.
General News [4:02]
Episode Highlights
- Announcing the 2022 Accelerate State of DevOps Report: A deep dive into security.
- AWS opens a new region–its 28th– in Switzerland
- GCP unveils flexible committed use discounts.
Top Quote
“Back when you only had the option of on demand or reserved instances, and you do the math… And if you run the thing, basically more than 40 hours a week, you might as well buy the Ri. You’re not getting any benefit of scaling anyway, at that point. So this is this is so much better, you get the benefit of committing to an aggregate use and the discount to that with the benefit of turning stuff off when you’re not using it.” [32:24]
AWS: Amazon Isn’t Neutral About Switzerland
- AWS opens a new region–its 28th– in Switzerland. [19:29]
- Quickly find resources in your AWS account with new Resource Explorer. [21:55]
GCP: Google Is Committed To Their Flexibility
- Announcing MongoDB connector for Apigee Integration. [24:40]
- GCP unveils flexible committed use discounts. [28:15]