Episode 72: 13 Reasons Why This Episode is Better Than the Last One

Your co-hosts cover conferences past and yet to come on this week’s episode of The Cloud Pod.

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

• We take a good, hard look at the ways Google Cloud has AWS beat.
• Microsoft Build 2020 featured the fifth most powerful computer in the world.
• Google Cloud Next is here to stay for a long, long time.

General News: Let Me Count the Ways

• Peter Wayner of InfoWorld wrote an article listing the 13 ways Google Cloud beats AWS. Well…he didn’t say they were all good reasons.

AWS: That’s a MTHFL

• AWS announced the Cloud Development Kit for Kubernetes called cdk8s is now in alpha. Rolls right off the tongue, doesn’t it?
• You can now use Attribute-based access control with EC2 Instance Connect to define Secure Shell access permissions based on attributes. It’s good to move away from passing around all those extra keys.
• State Manager features for Systems Manager now integrate with AWS CloudFormation. Assuming we’re parsing the naming conventions correctly in these press releases, that’s good news!
• Amazon CodeGuru Profiler added -javaagent switch, and CodeGuru Reviewer now supports Atlassian Bitbucket Cloud. Obviously, profiling and reviewing are totally different services —   how could anyone get those mixed up?
• The AWS CloudTrail console has been redesigned. It’s just the S3 user interface again, so it’s not a very intuitive interface.
• Amazon Elastic Container Service now