Episode 94: The Cloud Pod No Code Required
This week on The Cloud Pod, the team is getting ready to share their predictions for re:Invent, and that may or may not involve greasing the palms of some Amazon employees. A big thanks to this week’s sponsors: Foghorn Consulting, which provides full-st
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Show Notes
This week on The Cloud Pod, the team is getting ready to share their predictions for re:Invent, and that may or may not involve greasing the palms of some Amazon employees.
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.
- Cloud Academy, which provides an intuitive and scalable training platform to meet teams wherever they are along the cloud maturity curve. Use the code THECLOUDPOD for 50% off its training platform.
This week’s highlights
- Amazon is becoming a connoisseur of international cuisine with its new region.
- Google is borderline nefarious in the scientific community.
- Azure adds a long overdue feature.
Amazon Web Services: Spicing Things Up
- AWS announces the new Hyderabad region in India will open in mid-2022. We’re surprised at how long this took to happen.
- AWS launches managed messaging service Amazon MQ for Rabbit MQ. Only took three years of Justin whinging.
- Amazon now allows customers to proactively manage the EC2 Spot instance lifecycle using the new capacity rebalancing feature. Not sure this needed a whole blog about it.
- AWS announces AWS Gateway Load Balancing for easy deployment, scalability and high availability for Partner Appliances in the cloud. Thanks for helping us out, Amazon!
- AWS makes it easier to export DynamoDB table data to S3 with no code writing required. At lots less Lamda spackle, we like it.
- AWS announces a full set of features across the storage family as part of AWS Storage Day 2020. Buckets, buckets and more buckets.
Google Cloud Platform: Doing What It Does Best
- Google Cloud SQL now supports Postgres 13. Next up, Google announces deprecation of Postgres 13… Just kidding.
- GCP launches a unified console for document processing with Document AI platform. For anyone who hates data en