Episode 102: The Cloud Pod is NOT OK
It’s a Wednesday so things could be better, but spare a thought for the team as they battle Mother Nature on The Cloud Pod this week. A big thanks to this week’s sponsors: Foghorn Consulting, which provides full-stack cloud solutions with a focus on str
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
It’s a Wednesday so things could be better, but spare a thought for the team as they battle Mother Nature on The Cloud Pod this week.
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 is forking people off big time.
- Google wants to help you lose those pandemic lockdown pounds.
- Azure didn’t overwhelm anyone with its “problem.”
General News: The Elastic Kerfuffle
- Elastic blames Amazon for forcing it to change its licensing. One of the most ridiculous blog posts ever.
- Logz.io looks to launch a true open-source distribution for Elasticsearch and Kibana. Everybody’s forking now.
- AWS has also announced that it will also fork its project for a truly open source Elasticsearch. The beginning of the end for Elasticsearch.
- Logz.io followed up its previous announcement by announcing it’s combining its efforts with Amazon. This is great news for the open-source community.
Amazon Web Services: Let’s Talk
- AWS Lex has released a new console experience and new V2 APIs to make it easier to build, deploy and manage conversational experiences. We’ve played with it and it’s very nice.
- Amazon CloudWatch Agent now supports OpenTelemetry APIs and Software Development Kits. Could be a sign it’s about to make a lot of investments in OpenTelemetry and is moving away from CloudWatch.
- Amazon GuardDuty enhances security incident investigation workflows through new integration with Amazon Detective. Integrated security — we like it!
- Amazon Chime SDKs for iOS and Android now support screen share. It’s great it has functionality that other apps have had from the start.
- Amazon ECS Agent v1.50.0 allows customers to