Episode 87 – The Cloud Pod gets the AWS Perspective
On The Cloud Pod this week, your hosts eagerly await next week’s Google product announcements so they can update their old phones. A big thanks to this week’s sponsors: Foghorn Consulting, which provides full-stack cloud solutions with a focus
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Show Notes
On The Cloud Pod this week, your hosts eagerly await next week’s Google product announcements so they can update their old phones.
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.
- When the girls get coding!. Join us on your screens, Oct 13, for the live@Manning “Women in Tech” conference to celebrate the rising movement of women in technology. http://mng.bz/MolW
This week’s highlights
- Amazon is helping stop the insanity with patching.
- Google is tired after its event but has still managed to give us new tools.
- Microsoft’s new data center is an igloo in the desert.
Amazon Web Services: Do the Work For Us
- Amazon API Gateway enhances the security of APIs to protect data from client spoofing and man-in-the-middle attacks with mutual TLS support. Twice as nice and great for the financial industry!
- Amazon Detective now analyzes IAM role sessions to assist security analysts in diagnosing issues and understanding their root cause. The Detective is on the case!
- Amazon CloudWatch Agent is now Open Source and included with Amazon Linux 2. Not really a fan of doing a multi-billion dollar company’s job…
- AWS Security Hub now supports viewing patch compliance findings across AWS accounts. Now the question is, do people shadow patch so no one knows they’re out of date?
- AWS Perspective is a new AWS Solutions Implementation that helps customers build detailed architecture diagrams of workloads. Be wary of how much this will cost to run.
- Three new AWS Wavelength Zones on Verizon’s 5G Ultra Wideband network are now available in Atlanta, New York City and Washington, D.C. With COVID shutting everything down and more things going online,