Episode 101: AWS plays the Parler games
On The Cloud Pod this week, news has been a bit slow coming out of the Cloud Providers; the team suspects they might be curled up on the floor in fetal position after the events of last year. A big thanks to this week’s sponsors: Foghorn Consulting, whi
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Show Notes
On The Cloud Pod this week, news has been a bit slow coming out of the Cloud Providers; the team suspects they might be curled up on the floor in fetal position after the events of last year.
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.
- Open Raven, the cloud native data protection platform that automates policy monitoring and enforcement. Auto-discover, classify, monitor and protect your sensitive data.
This week’s highlights
- Amazon has gone to the gym over the holidays and is now kicking butt.
- Helping teach us the ways of the cloud, Google is.
- There’s nothing remotely funny about Azure this week.
General News: Ryan Doesn’t Want to Wear Pants
- Amazon has kicked controversial social media platform Parler off AWS. The multi-cloud people are going to be unbearable now.
- Amazon defends its decision to suspend in response to Parler’s lawsuit. Most people don’t know Amazon sent Parler notices for months — it’s not like they weren’t warned.
- F5 Networks to acquire edge-as-a-service startup Volterra for $500M. There’s so much buzzword lingo in this announcement, we suspect this service will lack substance.
- Red Hat buys Kubernetes security startup StackRox. We’re surprised Google didn’t buy it.
- Pat Gelsinger is stepping down as VMWare CEO to replace Bob Swan at Intel. We think he has a very long road ahead to get Intel back on track.
Amazon Web Services: Family Time
- AWS announces Transfer Family now provides support for EFS file systems as well as S3. Would be nice if this would tie into Incognito or Simple Directory Service.
- Amazon EMR now supports Apache Ranger for fine-grained data access control. Neat.
- Achieve faster database failover with Amazon Web Serv