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Your hosts are back at it — well some of them are. Ian Mckay (@iann0036) fills in for Peter this week as we cover all of the triumphs and troubles in cloud. 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. Blue Medora, which offers pioneering IT monitoring integration as a service to address today’s IT challenges by easily connecting system health and performance data — no matter its source — with the world’s leading monitoring and analytics platforms. This week’s highlights Ian Mckay gives an Aussie perspective on the AWS outage in Sydney. Amazon streamlines permissions with the IAM policy simulator. Google competes with AWS with competitively priced services. Amazon Pressures Pentagon, Suffers in Sydney On January 22, Amazon filed a motion to halt work on the JEDI contract between Microsoft and the Department of Defense until a court rules on the protest filed by Amazon last year. Expect more news here as the story develops through February. That same day, Amazon Web Services (AWS) suffered a six hour outage across multiple services in the Sydney region “including EC2, elastic load balancing (ELB), relational database service (RDS), AppStream 2.0, ElastiCache, WorkSpaces and Lambda.” After the issue was resolved, Amazon assured customers it will use this experience to learn and improve future operational performance. AWS Adds, Updates and Improves AWS DataSync has received an update: You can now use DataSync to quickly transfer large amounts of data to and from Amazon FSx for Windows File Server. Previously, DataSync was not fully compatible with Windows applications and environments. All seven sizes of the T3 instances are now available on single-tenant hardware. It might help you meet your compliance goals by physically isolating your machine from other AWS accounts, but the unlimited bursting capability makes us wonder what use cases Amazon has in mind for these. Amazon GuardDuty has globally released a threat detection enhancement which should allow customers with common architectures to see fewer false alarms, and ultimately 50 percent fewer alerts overall. You can

Your co-hosts move from the atmosphere to DigitalOcean as they recap the week in Cloud on this episode of The Cloud Pod. 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. Blue Medora, which offers pioneering IT monitoring integration as a service to address today’s IT challenges by easily connecting system health and performance data — no matter its source — with the world’s leading monitoring and analytics platforms. This week’s highlights Microsoft releases an ambitious plan to erase its carbon footprint. Amazon slashed prices for two services. Google Cloud fights for market share as connections change with Epic and Sabre. Justin’s Adventures in Oracle Cloud Revisited On Episode 54 we featured an investigative segment where Justin sought answers as to whether non-boot volume cross-region backups were available yet. And while that sleuthing was still an informative experience, Max Verun, a Product Manager at Oracle, has reached out to let us know that those answers were also in paragraph two of the very article we linked to. Thanks, Max. We’d love to have you on the show sometime. Microsoft and DigitalOcean Make Major Reductions (But Not the Same Kind) Microsoft has declared an ambitious plan to remove all of the carbon it has ever emitted from the atmosphere, a goal that far outstrips that of other tech giants. Currently carbon neutral, Microsoft plans to use a combination of forestation, reforestation and other carbon sequestration technologies to go carbon negative and completely remove its legacy carbon footprint. DigitalOcean, on the other hand, is reducing its workforce by about 10 percent with a round of layoffs. Co-founder Moisey Uretsky assured the public that the move is a strategic one, and not indicative of any sort of poor financial health. Amazon Web Services (AWS) — New Features and Price Reductions AWS announced four new features this week, starting with: AWS Health organizational view, which can now aggregate health events</

Your co-hosts discuss the National Security Agency, the Department of Defense, the UK Home Office and more on this week’s episode of The Cloud Pod. 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. Blue Medora, which offers pioneering IT monitoring integration as a service to address today’s IT challenges by easily connecting system health and performance data — no matter its source — with the world’s leading monitoring and analytics platforms. This week’s highlights Amazon seeks a restraining order in a move to contest the JEDI contract. Our first 2020 prediction comes true in a Microsoft/IBM team-up. Jonathan takes a 200 percent lead in the Lightning Round with Amazon Cognito. Matters of National Security Amazon Web Services (AWS) is going to court over allegations that the $10 billion JEDI contract was awarded to Microsoft due to improper pressure from the president as part of his personal issues with Amazon CEO Jeffrey Bezos. Expect the temporary restraining order to be granted or denied on February 11. Amazon may try to drag out proceedings until after the election — and a more favorable administration. For those of you running Windows 10 or Windows Server 2016, be sure to grab the new patch advised by Microsoft and the National Security Agency. The patch solves a vulnerability that was found in a decades-old component called CryptoAPI, and would allow an attacker to copy the digital signature of legitimate software. Amazon Web Services — Seven Short Sweet Stories Though AWS may be hoping to stall the JEDI contract, business as usual shows no sign of slowing. Here are the seven AWS stories we talked about this week: You can now go to Github for the public roadmap of AWS Elastic Beanstalk and voice any of your input. UK Home Office (think Department of Homeland Security) has announced they’ll renew their public cloud services deal with AWS for another £100 million over four more years. To put that in context, it’s 0.13 percent the size of JEDI. Former Vice President of Worldwide Marketing Ariel Kelman has left to join Oracle, and in his absence, AWS is taking the opportunity to <a href="https://siliconangle.com/2020/01/13/amazon-cloud-ceo-andy-jassy-shuffles-ranks-ma

Your co-hosts kick off their first regular news episode of the year with Consumer Electronics Show 2020, Google Cloud Next 2020 and Justin’s Oracle adventure. 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. Blue Medora, which offers pioneering IT monitoring integration as a service to address today’s IT challenges by easily connecting system health and performance data — no matter its source — with the world’s leading monitoring and analytics platforms. This week’s highlights Amazon flexes its tech at the Consumer Electronics Show with an automotive exhibit. Use coupon code GRPABLOG2020 for $500 off your ticket to Google Cloud Next 2020. Justin does a bit of investigative journalism to understand Oracle’s new boot volume backup announcement. Amazon Web Services (AWS) at the Consumer Electronics Show 2020 — Cars and CAs Those attending the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week saw Amazon show off the practical uses of AWS technology and machine learning at their automotive exhibit. The exhibit includes an array of demonstrations from an in-vehicle digital assistant to car-to-home integrations to a fleet of autonomous cars in China. We’d like to see this sort of in-vehicle technology have constant cloud connectivity, where software updates can continue to be pushed out. And speaking of updates, you may have already seen a notification or email for AWS’s upcoming 2019 certificate authority. From the article: “If you are using Amazon Aurora, Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), or Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) and are taking advantage of SSL/TLS certificate validation when you connect to your database instances, you need to download &amp; install a fresh certificate, rotate the certificate authority (CA) for the instances, and then reboot the instances.” -Jeff Barr Yeah, it’s a chore and it sucks to do, but if you use it and you don’t update your CA, you’ll have an outage. Is doing this once every five years really so bad? Lastly, in all AWS regions except China, you can now use Private DNS names to access your AWS PrivateLink based services. We’re happy to see it. Azure Recaps Cost Management for 2019 While Azure’s been quiet since Christmas, their cost management program manager published an article this week recapping the tools they’ve released over the last year to help you monitor and optimize the costs of your cloud operation

Your co-hosts recap 2019 and make predictions for the year ahead on the first episode of 2020. We’re skipping the Lightning Round this week to focus on a collaborative Q&amp;A segment pulled from our Slack channel. 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. Blue Medora, which offers pioneering IT monitoring integration as a service to address today’s IT challenges by easily connecting system health and performance data — no matter its source — with the world’s leading monitoring and analytics platforms. This week’s highlights Our top 3 favorite headlines of the year. Google released a white paper to help you comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA.) We read your questions from our TCP Slack channel for our first Q&amp;A! 2019 Cloud Computing Predictions and Headlines Recap Last year (episode 4), we shared our predictions for what might happen in 2019. Peter took the lead, predicting container-based models would continue to see more adoption over serverless. Justin — who predicted mergers in cloud providers would create a new top contender, and Jonathan, who predicted an acquisition of Slack — haven’t been vindicated. (Yet!) Our 3 favorite headlines of the year. Justin: Google Anthos is probably the best thought-out strategy for being multi-cloud with Kubernetes (if currently pricey.) Azure Tardigrade uses machine learning to address hardware failures before they impact uptime. Cloudwatch Container Insights shows off the power of Cloudwatch. Peter: Transit Gateway became a viable method of creating a global network. DocumentDB (with MongoDB Compatibility) sets the direction for new business models for SaaS companies. EKS SLA reaches a 3 nines standard of reliability. Jonathan: Google’s <a href="https://cloud.google.com/explainable-ai/" target="_blank" rel="noop

Your co-hosts settle into the winter holidays by unwinding from Re:Invent and recording the last episode of The Cloud Pod of 2019. 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. Blue Medora, which offers pioneering IT monitoring integration as a service to address today’s IT challenges by easily connecting system health and performance data — no matter its source — with the world’s leading monitoring and analytics platforms. This week’s highlights Amazon picks fights with Microsoft, the New York Times and the President. Oracle’s finances reflect the trouble we predicted they’d be in when Amazon pulled out. Google sets its sights on dramatically increasing its market share by 2023. Return of the JEDI It’s official: the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) contract has been awarded to Microsoft to modernize the Department of Defense’s IT systems to the tune of $10 billion. Amazon, which anticipated that it would be awarded the JEDI contract, believes the decision was politically motivated, and that Microsoft is under-equipped to deliver on their promises, highlighting the dangers of a vulnerability in such a sensitive system. In case you missed it, Sundar Pichai will be taking over as the new CEO of Google. Since he was already the CEO of Google’s parent company Alphabet, don’t expect any drastic changes. And speaking of CEOs, Safra Catz is now officially the sole CEO of Oracle following the death of her co-CEO Mark Hurd. After Amazon’s migration, she’ll have to deal with the company’s revenue challenges and falling stock prices. It’s not a great time for Oracle as the company continues to lose face with CIOs after years of licensing audits and exorbitant penalties. Football in the Amazon Amazon may have lost the contract with the DoD, but it can proudly claim to be the cloud computation provider for the Seattle Se

Your co-hosts celebrate the one-year anniversary of the podcast by returning to the place where it all started &#8211; AWS Re:Invent. Joining us once again is Ryan Lucas (@ryron01) as we recap the largest week in Cloud. 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. Blue Medora, which offers pioneering IT monitoring integration as a service to address today’s IT challenges by easily connecting system health and performance data–no matter its source–with the world’s leading monitoring and analytics platforms. This week’s highlights Machine Learning took center stage as the engine behind many of the new machines introduced over the week, and we expect to see it implemented more and more. Quantum Computing can be simulated using Amazon Bracket for anyone coding for the razor’s edge in computer science. Check out The Amazon Builder’s Library for insight into how Amazon operates. AWS Draft — and the Winner is… On episode 49, we drafted each of our top three picks for what we thought would be announced at Re:Invent. It’s a three-way tie for first! Each one of us correctly guessed one of our three picks, and nobody guessed that Anderson .Paak would make a musical appearance, leaving the tie unbroken. (Peter predicted that Formula 1 racing would be included, but it was a runner-up choice and goes uncounted.) Moving on to Re:Invent, we cover the announcements day-by-day: Sunday Toys and Security AWS launched DeepComposer, the world’s first machine learning enabled keyboard. The 32-key, 2-octave keyboard is designed to help developers to get hands-on with AI. You can train the program to generate compositions based on musical genres, but don’t expect any compelling vocals from it yet, though. Check out the announcement for sample selections. For only $99 you will be able to buy a MIDI keyboard (worth about $50) with the AWS logo on DeepRacer, a machine-learning based toy from yesteryear has received its own upgrades (a stereo camera and LIDAR sensor) which allow the cars to be trained to race each other physically in addition to virtually. Identity and Access Management (IAM) Access Analyzer launches for free as a way to get an overview on your access control policies — it mathematically analyzes access control policies attached to resources and determines which resources can be accessed publicly or from other accounts. A preview version of <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/automate-os-ima

Sponsors: Foghorn Consulting Blue Medora Your co-hosts are back from Thanksgiving and Re:Invent, and we’re running through all of it for you. In this episode, we cover the lead-up to opening day. Next week, we’ll release an episode fully devoted to Re:Invent coverage. This week’s highlights &nbsp; CloudWatch has been growing quietly into a much more robust tool with 11 updates since the last episode. Attribute-based access control comes to AWS. This should allow a finer control over your security privileges. CloudTrail Insights launches with machine learning to help you separate the signal from the noise in your user activity and API usage. &nbsp; Amazon EC2 introduces new API We’re one step closer to actually paying for what we use with the announcement that EC2 T2 instances will support Unlimited Mode at the account level. If your workload is spread out among multiple accounts, this will be something you should look at. But if you’re looking for load balancer updates, there’s a new batch of those for you too. We especially like the Weighted Target Groups, which have been needed for blue/green deployments for a while now. Restores and Replicas Migrating to the cloud has gotten a bit easier with differential and log restores on RDS for SQL servers. Like a lot of the recent announcements, simplicity was highlighted in the announcement of increased availability of DynamoDB tables using global table replicas. “It’ll only take a few clicks” makes it sound like Amazon thinks clicking things must be very taxing on us. Secrets and Cents CloudTrail Insights will alert you to unusual activity at a cost of 35 cents per 100,000 write management events analyzed. It’s hard to know yet whether how expensive that will end up being, but it sounds cheap. AWS Single Sign-On will connect to Azure AD, making it easier to migrate to Amazon, and AWS Secrets Manager will make it easier to rotate your secrets by handling it at the API level. AWS is moving from role-based to attribute-based access control and will be implementing Tag Policies to allow you to control the standardization of your tags. Implementing these should serve to become b

AWS is getting ready for the biggest event of the year, Re:Invent 2019 in Las Vegas. Your Co-Hosts do their best to guess what AWS may announce, we cover some preannouncement news, and more! NOTE: This episode was recorded on November 20th, to let the co-hosts enjoy Thanksgiving! This episode is AWS specific, as well as our first show after the Re:Invent conference. If you want to stay up to date on Azure or GCP in the interim, follow our Twitter @thecloudpod1 or join our Slack Channel. Sign up for our Newsletter!! Sponsors: Foghorn Consulting &#8211; fogops.io/thecloudpod Topics AWS CloudFormation Update – CLI + Third-Party Resource Support + Registry Announcing Firelens – A New Way to Manage Container Logs In The Works – New AMD-Powered, Compute-Optimized EC2 Instances (C5a/C5ad) Amazon EKS adds support for provisioning and managing Kubernetes worker nodes AWS Systems Manager Explorer – A Multi-Account, Multi-Region Operations Dashboard Application Load Balancer Simplifies Deployment with Weighted Target Groups Add defense in depth against open firewalls, reverse proxies, and SSRF vulnerabilities with enhancements to the EC2 Instance Metadata Service Welcome to AWS Storage Day Continuously monitor unused IAM roles with AWS Config Reinvent Draft Jonathan Zero/Low code application platform Anthos like hybrid/multi-cloud platform/option Transit Gateway cross-regional and/or Security group support Peter Layer 7 Egress Filtering Gateway Cloudwatch Dependency Mapping (mute alerts if downstream from another alert) Outposts GA and/or Shipping Justin Cost Reduction for the Network Tier A device with a camera, like a drone, thing, etc that will replace the deepracer <li style=

Docker sells off its enterprise business to Mirantis. Amazon gets upset with the pentagon and launches a data exchange. Azure wins a lucrative contract and GitHub actions. Google buys cloudsimple complicating things for the VMWare on Azure offerings. Sign up for our new Newsletter! Sponsors: Foghorn Consulting &#8211; fogops.io/thecloudpod Follow Up Jonathan &#8211; Follows up on Redshift Topics General News/Topics Container shakeup: Docker sells enterprise business to Mirantis, appoints new CEO Amazon protests Pentagon’s cloud contract award, citing ‘unmistakable bias’ AWS Import Existing Resources into a CloudFormation Stack AWS Data Exchange – Find, Subscribe To, and Use Data Products Continuous delivery of container applications to AWS Fargate with GitHub Actions Reinvent Tips &amp; Suggestions Attending Sessions Reinvent Parties Replay Google Google launches new service for monitoring multicloud networks Google makes biggest gains in ThousandEyes’ report on public cloud network performance Google acquires CloudSimple to bring more VMware workloads into its cloud Multi-tenancy support in Identity Platform, now generally available Azure In a win for Microsoft, Salesforce will migrate its Marketing Cloud to Azure GitHub Actions for Azure is now generally available <a href="https://azure.microsoft.com/blog/save-more-on-azure-usage-announcing-reservation

AWS releases new RI option called the savings plan, IBM builds a financial services cloud, and @jeffbarr celebrates 15 years of blogging for AWS! Sponsors: Foghorn Consulting &#8211; fogops.io/thecloudpod Follow Up Halloween Downtime RCA &#8211; Google Topics General News/Topics Capital One replaces security chief after data breach Amazon doubles down on Boston as a robotics hub with new $40M facility IBM: Bank of America Know-How Will Differentiate Financial Services Cloud AWS 15 Years of AWS Blogging! New – Savings Plans for AWS Compute Services Cross-Account Cross-Region Dashboards with Amazon CloudWatch An outsider’s inside view on open source at AWS AWS supports Automated Draining for Spot Instance Nodes on Kubernetes Amazon QuickSight goes Mobile, launches Cross Source Join and More PostgreSQL 12.0 Now Available in Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment Reinvent Tips &amp; Suggestions Google Google releases its Skaffold tool for automating Kubernetes into general availability Opening the door to more dev tools for Cloud Spanner Azure 10 user experience updates to the Azure portal What’s new with Azure Monitor Lightning Round (Jonathan 12, Justin 17, and Guest 5): <li

This week we discuss the Microsoft Ignite conference, announcements and new features and how we did on the Azure Draft. AWS announces a new Spain region and GCP had a lengthy halloween incident. Sponsors: Foghorn Consulting &#8211; fogops.io/thecloudpod Follow Up Amazon fails to stop ex-sales staffer winging it to Google Cloud Accused Capital One hacker had as much as 30 terabytes of stolen data, feds say Senators Wyden and Warren sic trade lapdog on AWS over Capital One hack culpability Topics AWS Amazon Web Services to expand into Spain with new cloud region Post-quantum TLS now supported in AWS KMS Google GCP Halloween Outage &#8211; 10/31 6:30 PM Pacfic &#8211; 10/2 &#8211; 10:51 AM Celebrity Recognition now available to approved media &amp; entertainment customers Cloud storage data protection that fits your business Introducing TensorFlow Enterprise: Supported, scalable, and seamless TensorFlow in the cloud Exploring container security: Use your own keys to protect your data on GKE MS Ignite Draft Jonathan Digital Assistant to compete with Alexa or Google Home. 3 more Azure Regions in US More or Improved tooling for Devops Community Peter Istio for AKS 1 more region in Canada Visual Studio Online Justin Azure Portal Redesign Sagemaker/Databricks like Competitor. Oracle on Stage Azure Microsoft Azure customers reporting hitting virtual machine limits in U.S. East regions Companies of all sizes tackle real

The DOD awards the coveted Jedi contract, the MS ignite Draft, Earnings season and more this week on The Cloud Pod. Sponsors: Foghorn Consulting &#8211; fogops.io/thecloudpod Follow Up Topics Pentagon awards controversial $10 billion cloud computing deal to Microsoft, spurning Amazon Even after Microsoft wins, JEDI saga could drag on General News/Topics Earnings Season Microsoft’s cloud shines again as it easily tops earnings targets, but Azure slows Despite AWS cloud growth, Amazon shares sag on lower forecast Google Cloud fails to lift Alphabet enough to please investors AWS 200 Amazon CloudFront Points of Presence + Price Reduction Native Container Image Scanning in Amazon ECR AWS Global Accelerator Now Supports EC2 Instance Endpoints Google Updates make Cloud AI platform faster and more flexible Advancing Customer Control in the Cloud Swipe right for a new guide to PCI on GKE Bring Your Own IP addresses: the secret to Bitly’s shortened cloud migration What’s happening in BigQuery: New features bring flexibility and scale to your data warehouse Azure Preview: Server-side encryption with customer-managed keys for Azure Managed Disks New in Stream Analytics: Machine Learning, online scaling, custom code, and more &nbsp; MS Ignite Draft &nbsp; Jonathan <li style="fon

Peter goes Absent With Out Leave &#8211; AWOL. Redhat can&#8217;t save IBM&#8217;s earnings, AWS starts detecting anomalies, Google adds 100-Gbps direct connect links to their data centers, and Azure gets FHIR-Y. We also take a few somber minutes to talk about the passing of Mark Hurd, Oracle&#8217;s former Co-CEO. Plus the world famous lightning round. &nbsp; Sponsors: Foghorn Consulting &#8211; fogops.io/thecloudpod Follow Up Topics General News/Topics Oracle’s Mark Hurd, who was on medical leave, has died at 62 Despite Red Hat boost, IBM misses revenue targets ? Defense Secretary Mark Esper pulls out of JEDI cloud computing contract review AWS Amazon CloudWatch Anomaly Detection Now Available – Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) on VMware Containers and infrastructure as code, like peanut butter and jelly Amazon joins the Java Community Process (JCP) Google Improve your connectivity to Google Cloud with enhanced hybrid connectivity options Leave no database behind with Cloud SQL for SQL Server Azure Microsoft unveils two open-source projects for building cloud and edge applications Announcing the general availability of larger, more powerful standard file shares for Azure Files Azure API for FHIR® moves to general availability Lightning Round (Jonathan 11, Justin 16, and Guest 4): <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/10/aws-iot-t

Sponsors: Foghorn Consulting &#8211; fogops.io/thecloudpod Ryan Lucas (@ryron01) fills in for Peter as we review the latest batch of cloud news. AWS re:Invent 2019 is just a month away and there’s no shortage of announcements this week either. This week’s highlights AWS re:Invent 2019 session catalog is live. If you haven’t gotten into the panels you want, you&#8217;ll have to get on a waitlist. We’re also considering a podcast meetup! Please let us know if you’d be up for that. Reach out on Twitter or through the contact form. Look at migrating from Oracle. It may take some time and effort to accomplish, but the savings Amazon’s had are results that bear an attempt at repeating. You might be in luck if you have an open-source project. AWS is offering promotional credits to promote certain open-source work. Amazon completes massive migrations from Oracle After moving 75 petabytes of data involving 100+ teams, Amazon has finished migrating the last database of their first-party programs from Oracle to AWS services. The slashes in operational costs and latency may have the Amazon teams happy, but Oracle will definitely be watching to see if their other customers will be tempted to follow suit. A 90 percent reduction in cost would be an enticing prospect to switch providers of any service, and half the latency is nothing to sneeze at either. Amazon looks to be taking some of those savings and turning them right back around into more projects. Of note, they will be offering promotional credits to those working on open-source projects, especially if you are working in Rust. If you manage to get a whole year of funding through Amazon that will mean more time working on what you really care about and less trying to keep the grants coming in every quarter or, worse, every month. Rounding out AWS news, we discussed four other stories: VPC security groups come to Firewall Manager. Finally. You’d think this would be included day one, but at least it’s here now. Maybe soon it’ll be updated to include federated access? New M5n/R5n EC2 instances will offer up to 100 Gbps networking speeds. If you need to move around larger sets for machine learning, for instance, the price is reasonable. EC2 instances will also be available in Arm-based bare metal form. The bare metal probably won’t grant much of an efficiency edge anymore, but hey, maybe it will help meet especially strict compliances. AWS announced that another 18services have been FedRAMP authorized</

Justin is back from vacation and gets the podcast back on track. Justin, Peter and Jonathan talk about their guest spot on roaring elephants and Justin&#8217;s AWS lambda fireside chat video. Elasticsearch sues AWS over trademark infringement, AWS gets its IQ raised, Oracle gets fedramp certified cloud regions and Google enhances their github app for cloud build. Plus the world famous lightning round. Sponsors: Foghorn Consulting &#8211; fogops.io/thecloudpod Follow Up Topics Roaring Elephant https://roaringelephant.org/2019/10/08/episode-161-the-cloudpod-weather-report-part-1/ AWS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Aq2DIMRIIg&amp;t=1s General News/Topics Oracle Launches FedRAMP-Authorized Government Cloud Regions Oracle will add 2,000 jobs and 20 data centers in cloud infrastructure push AWS faces Elasticsearch lawsuit for trademark infringement Ansible holds the pole position for automation, but is it too good and too small? AWS Now use AWS Systems Manager to execute complex Ansible playbooks AWS DataSync News – S3 Storage Class Support and Much More AWS IQ – Get Help from AWS Certified Third Party Experts on Demand EC2 High Memory Update – New 18 TB and 24 TB Instances LR? Amazon EKS Windows Container Support now Generally Available Google Cloud Build brings advanced CI/CD capabilities to GitHub Optimize your Google Cloud environment with new AI-based recommenders <a href="https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/announcing-upd

Chef finds a bad recipe for success, AWS rolls out Step Functions, Google launches its native load balancer for Kubernetes and Microsoft confuses us further with premium tier storage offerings. Sponsors: Foghorn Consulting &#8211; fogops.io/thecloudpod Topics General News/Topics A CIO’s guide to cloud success: decouple to shift your business into high gear What’s Going on with GKE and Anthos? Chef Saga DevOps biz Chef roasted for tech contract with family-separating US immigration, forks up attempt to quash protest &#8211; 9/19 Chef’s Position on Customer Engagement in the Public and Private Sectors 9/19 An Update to the Chef Community Regarding Current Events 9/20 A Personal Message From the CTO 9/20 An Important Update from Chef 9/23 A ‘Grass Roots’ Campaign to Take Down Amazon Is Funded by Amazon’s Biggest Rivals AWS Now Available – EC2 Instances (G4) with NVIDIA T4 Tensor Core GPUs New – Step Functions Support for Dynamic Parallelism Amazon S3 introduces same region replication vCPU-based On-Demand Instance Limits are Now Available in Amazon EC2 Google Virtual display devices for Compute Engine now GA Container-native load balancing on GKE now generally available Azure Azure Files premium tier gets zone redundant storage <a href="https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/introducing-cost-effective-increment-snapshots-of-azure-managed-disks-in-preview/" target="_blank" rel

Justin goes to Oracle World and comes back with a new understanding of OCI customers. VPC Flow logs get new metadata and we get an update on AWS outposts, but no date or pricing yet. Sponsors: Foghorn Consulting &#8211; fogops.io/thecloudpod Follow Up Investors send Cloudflare’s shares soaring 20% after IPO hauls in $525M Topics AWS Learn From Your VPC Flow Logs With Additional Meta-Data Running AWS Infrastructure On Premises with AWS Outposts What is an AWS Outpost? AWS Service Catalog Announces Budget Visibility Firelens now in Preview Introducing NoSQL Workbench for Amazon DynamoDB — Now in Preview Google Google teams up with Mayo Clinic on AI-powered medical research Anthos simplifies application modernization with managed service mesh and serverless for your hybrid cloud Azure Microsoft and Disney aim to speed up movie and TV production with new ‘scene-to-screen’ cloud deal Announcing user delegation SAS tokens preview for Azure Storage Blobs Announcing Azure Private Link &nbsp; Oracle Oracle co-CEO Mark Hurd takes leave of absence for unspecified health reasons Introducing Simple, Unified Billing for Partner Solutions on Oracle Cloud Marketplace <a href="https://blogs.oracle.com/cloud-i

Episode 39: Recorded on September 10th, 2019. Show Title: The Cloud Pod goes Quantum This week AWS releases the Quantum Ledger Database, Google gets shielded GKE nodes and Microsoft gets a new shiny datacenter in Germany Sponsors: Foghorn Consulting &#8211; fogops.io/thecloudpod Follow Up Slack stock plunges on bigger-than-expected loss forecast Topics AWS Introducing Fine-Grained IAM Roles for Service Accounts Optimize Storage Cost with Reduced Pricing for Amazon EFS Infrequent Access Building Spinnaker Features for Amazon ECS Amazon EKS now supports K8 1.14 Use AWS Config Rules to Automatically Remediate Non-compliant Resources Now Available &#8211; Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB) Google Announcing the general availability of 6 and 12 TB VMs for SAP HANA instances on Google Cloud Platform Exploring container security: Bringing Shielded VMs to GKE with Shielded GKE Nodes Azure Microsoft acquires infrastructure visibility provider Movere Azure HPC Cache: Reducing latency between Azure and on-premises storage Microsoft Azure available from new cloud regions in Germany Satellite connectivity expands reach of Azure ExpressRoute across the globe Building cloud-na

US-East-1 has a hiccup in a single AZ, Lambda fixes cold start launches inside a VPC, Google gets an AD service and Microsoft goes cloud neutral in Switzerland. Plus special guest @ryron01 Sponsors: Foghorn Consulting &#8211; fogops.io/thecloudpod Follow Up In updated IPO filing, Cloudflare seeks up to $483M at $3.5B valuation Topics AWS US-Tire-Fire-1 had an outage Operational Insights for Containers and Containerized Applications Port Forwarding Using AWS System Manager Session Manager Now use Session Manager to interactively run individual commands on instances Client IP Address Preservation for AWS Global Accelerator 64 AWS services achieve HITRUST certification Take the AWS certified cloud practitioner exam in your home or office 24/7 AWS Chatbot Now Supports Notifications from AWS Systems Manager Amazon ECS now exposes runtime ContainerIds to APIs and ECS Console Announcing improved VPC networking for AWS Lambda functions Google Managed Service for Microsoft Active Directory (AD) Using Google Cloud Speech-to-Text to transcribe your Twilio calls in real-time August on GCP Azure <a href="https://www.g

VMWare acquires Pivotal and Carbon black, plus VMworld debrief. Google kills more products and AWS reduces the cost of SageMaker training. Sponsors: Foghorn Consulting &#8211; fogops.io/thecloudpod Topics General News Oracle files new appeal over Pentagon’s $10B JEDI cloud contract RFP process VMWorld VMware pays billions to acquire Pivotal Software and Carbon Black VMWorld US 2019 Monday Recap VMWorld US 2019 Tuesday Recap VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger weighs in on acquisitions, blockchain, security and more VMware Delivers a Hybrid Cloud Platform Powering Next-Generation Hybrid IT VMware Announces VMware Tanzu Portfolio to Transform the Way Enterprises Build, Run and Manage Software on Kubernetes AWS Amazon Forecast is now GA Introducing AI powered health data masking Managed Spot Training: Save Up to 90% On Your Amazon SageMaker Training Jobs AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store announces intelligent-tiering to enable automatic parameter tier selection Google Introducing Cloud Run Button: Click-to-deploy your git repos to Google Cloud Cloud Text-to-Speech expands its number of voices by nearly 70%, now covering 33 languages and variants <li style="font-w

AWS introduces new kernel panic API trigger, Azure storage gets complicated, and Google&#8217;s big query gets a terraform module. Sponsors: Foghorn Consulting &#8211; fogops.io/thecloudpod Follow Up Cloudflare files for IPO, revealing revenue of $129M in first half of 2019 Topics General News Alibaba blows past earnings estimates cloud business hits 4.5b run rate Digital Ocean launches new managed MySQL and Redis Database Services AWS New – Trigger a Kernel Panic to Diagnose Unresponsive EC2 Instances Amazon Prime Day 2019 – Powered by AWS AWS App Mesh now supports routing based on HTTP headers and specifying route priorities Easily enable AWS Systems Manager capabilities with Quick Setup Amazon ECS Now Supports Per-Container Swap Space Parameters 081319 Amazon Letter to Sen Wyden RE Consumer Data.pdf Original letter: https://www.wyden.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/080519%20Letter%20to%20Amazon%20re%20Capital%20One%20Hack.pdf Amazon Redshift now recommends distribution keys for improved query performance Google Skip the heavy lifting: Moving Redshift to BigQuery easily Shining a light on your costs: New billing features from Google Cloud

Github.com gets a CI/CD Service, Lakes are forming with lake formation and Google and Azure get EPYC this week on the show. Sponsors: Foghorn Consulting &#8211; fogops.io/thecloudpod Follow Up Amazon and Capital One face legal backlash after massive hack affects 106M customers Intersect.AWS music festival has released ticket and lineup information Topics General News GitHub gets a CI/CD service Announcing the preview of Github Actions for Azure Pentagon pushes back JEDI winner decision by weeks amid fresh review Pentagon Makes case for Return of the Jedi: There&#8217;s only one cloud biz that can do the job and its starts with an A (or rhymes with loft) https://media.defense.gov/2019/Aug/08/2002168542/-1/-1/1/UNDERSTANDING-THE-WARFIGHTING-REQUIREMENTS-FOR-DOD-ENTERPRISE-CLOUD-FINAL-08AUG2019.PDF Apple is a filthy AWS, Azure, Google Reseller, grip punters: iPhone giant accused of hiding iCloud&#8217;s real backend AWS Local Mocking and Testing support with Amplify CLI AWS Lake Formation &#8211; Now GA Amazon Aurora Multi-Master is Now GA https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/building-highly-available-mysql-applications-using-amazon-aurora-mmsr/ Preview Release of the new AWS tools for Powershell AWS step functions adds support for nested workflows <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/08/new-aws-training-courses-teach-apn-partners-to-better-help-their-customers/" tar

Special guest Josh Stella joins us to talk about the Capital One breach. AWS releases PartiQL, one query language to rule them all, Microsoft licensing changes and more. Plus we talk more about Josh&#8217;s company @Fuguehq in Cool Tools. Sponsors: Foghorn Consulting &#8211; fogops.io/thecloudpod Follow Up Capital One A Technical Analysis of the capital one cloud misconfiguration breach Topics General News Cloudflare reportedly files to go public in September AWS Amazon acquires enterprise flash storage startup E8 Storage Amazon sues former AWS exec for joining rival Google division as cloud wars escalate AWS CloudFormation Update – Public Coverage Roadmap &amp; CDK Goodies Introducing the preparing for the california consumer privacy act whitepaper Announcing PartiQL: One query language for all your data Google Google debuts migration tool for its Anthos hybrid cloud platform New protections for users, data, and apps in the cloud Azure Introducing Azure Dedicated Host Cisco and Microsoft integrate their Kubernetes container platforms Azure Archive Storage is better with new lower pricing Microsoft has updated licensing rights for dedicated cloud hosts https://twitter.com/Werner/status/1158458860790779905 <a href="https://twitter.com/RobertEnslin/status/1159225726949720064?s=20" target="_b

Sponsors: Foghorn Consulting &#8211; fogops.io/thecloudpod Follow Up AWS Reinvent Music Festival &#8211; https://intersect.aws/ Topics General News Earnings Amazon shares dip missing profit expectations tech giant posts 63.4billion in Q2 revenue Microsoft trumpets record year with $126b in Annual Revenue up 14% as quarterly profits beat estimates Google Cloud&#8217;s run rate is now over $8B Alphabet announces second quarter 2019 results Digital Ocean gets a new CEO and CFO CNN report: Inside the effort to turn trump against Amazon&#8217;s bid for a $10 billion Jedi contract Amazon Hires Lobbyist with trump ties amid contentious pentagon cloud contest Capital One hacked over 100 million customers affected AWS eksctl – the EKS CLI AWS Released resource optimization recommendations Stackery lets AWS lambda developers debug their serverless programs locally on a laptop AWS Launches a chatbot for chatops AWS client VPN now adds support for split tunneling AWS Secrets Manager now supports VPC endpoint policies Announcing the new AWS Middle East Bahrain Region Google<

Gartner releases the new magic quadrant for IaaC and PaaS Cloud providers and Amazon continues to dominate. AT&amp;T gets busy with the cloud, Google introduces spinnaker and Microsoft invests 1B in OpenAI this week on The Cloud Pod. Sponsors: Foghorn Consulting &#8211; fogops.io/thecloudpod Topics Introducing the Amazon Corretto Crypto Provider for improved Crypto Performance Advancing Microsoft Azure reliability Introducing proximity placement groups IBM inks multi-billion dollar cloud computing deal with AT&amp;T Microsoft &amp; AT&amp;T sign $2B+ cloud infrastructure and services deal The case against Amazon: Why the tech giant is facing antitrust scrutiny on two continents Arrested Development: Cops Dump Amazon&#8217;s facial-recognition API after struggling to make the thing work properly AWS named as leader in Gartner&#8217;s Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Magic Quadrant for 9th consecutive year Introducing Spinnaker for Google Cloud Platform &#8211; CD made easy Azure is making it easier to bring your linux based web apps to Azure App Service Microsoft will invest $1B for OpenAI aimed at improving Azure cloud platform Lightning Round (Jonathan 8, Justin 9, Peter 1 and Guest 3): Azure is Silo Busting with new Multi-Protocol access for the Azure Data Lake Azure Monitor

The team is back after some well deserved time off, with a busy two weeks they try to cover everything. AWS NYC event, Azure Migration Program, EC2 Instance connect and AWS budget reports. Sponsors: Foghorn Consulting &#8211; fogops.io/thecloudpod Topics Announcing the General Availability of Azure Premium Files AWS OpsCenter &#8211; A new feature for streamlining IT Operations Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Serverless &#8211; Now GA Amazon EventBridge &#8211; Event Driven AWS Integration for your SaaS applications AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) for typescript and python are now GA NYC Summit draws Protests Google Acquires Storage Startup Elastifile for reportedly 200m Production debugging comes to Google Cloud Source Repositories Google has introduced a new Jenkins GKE plugin to deploy software to K8 Google Announces new Cloud Region and Google Data Center in Nevada Introducing Equiano, a subsea cable from Portugal to South Africa Introducing the Azure Migration Program Announcing preview of Azure Data Share Session Manager launches tunneling support for SSH and SCP Introduc

We talk about AWS EKS 1.13 release, Slack IPO, GCP Workload identity and more this week on the cloud pod. Note: This episode was recorded after reinforce recap show due to vacation schedule of the hosts. We will cover the first few weeks of July for all cloud providers in Episode 31 and then back to normal schedule. Sponsors: Foghorn Consulting &#8211; fogops.io/thecloudpod Topics App Engine second generation runtimes now get double memory, plus go 1.12 support and PHP 7.3 Virtual machine scale set insights from Azure Monitor Amazon EKS now supports K8 1.13, ECR Private Link and Kubernetes Pod Security Policies The cloud goes &#8216;cloudless&#8217; AWS @ OSCON 2019 Slack stock soars 50% in direct NYSE listing, Now valued at $20 billion + dolalrs Amazon RDS now supports Storage Autoscaling GCP Workload Identity: Better Authentication for your GKE Apps Lightning Round (Jonathan 7, Justin 9, Peter 1 and Guest 3): Microsoft Positioned as a Leader in the Forester WaveTM: Database as a Service Amazon Quicksight now supports fine-grained access control over Amazon S3 and Athena Amazon API Gateway Adds Configurable Transport Layer security version for Custom Domains AWS Glue now provides workflows to orchestrate ETL workloads Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatability supports data import from

We recap the AWS Reinforce conference from Boston Massachusetts. Draft results, overall impressions of the conference and we break down each announcement. Sponsors: Foghorn Consulting &#8211; fogops.io/thecloudpod Turbonomic &#8211; turbonomic.com/cloudpod Reinforce Results Justin DLP Cloud solution on AWS SIEM for AWS Endpoint Security Tools Jonathan Redlock or Trusted Advisor for security VPC Security Group Improvements Lists of Source IP’s IP/Name matching/Tag sources for Security Groups Machine Learning around Flowlogs and Payload data Peter &#8211; Wins! L7 Egress Firewall/proxy Flowlogs with Payload data/Packet Capture &#8211; VPC Traffic Flow Mirroring Security Scanning of Container for ECR Honorable Mention Justin WAF Enhancement Client VPN based Dynamic Access/Security Groups Tagging Namespace fix Jonathan Organizations enhancements to make security easier across a set of accounts Peter Lunch will be free Reinforce Announcements AWS Certificate Manager Private CA now supports Root CA hierarchy You can now use IAM access Advisor with AWS Organizations to set permission guardrails confidently Network Load Balancer Now Supports UDP Protocol Amazon FSx for Windows File Server Now Enables you to use your File Systems Directly with Your organizations self-managed active directory Amazon FSX for WIndows File Server now enables you to use a single AWS Managed AD with file systems across VPC&#8217;s and Accounts File Gateway Adds options to enforce encryption and signing for SMB shares New Service Quotas: View and manage your quotas for AWS services from one central locatio

It is the week before AWS Re:Inforce and that means it is time for the draft! Cloud Endure migrate is now free of charge, Azure has a shared image gallery and Mongo comes to Google Cloud this week on the podcast. Sponsors: Foghorn Consulting &#8211; fogops.io/thecloudpod Turbonomic &#8211; turbonomic.com/cloudpod Topics: Cloud Endure Migration is now available at no charge Azure Shared Image Gallery now GA Microsoft FHIR server for Azure extends to SQL 15 Highlights from the 2019 AWS Public Sector Summit Keynote Amazon S3 Update &#8211; SigV2 Deprecation Period Extended &amp; Modified Github acquires Pull Panda to power up Collaboration for software teams 2 new AWS C5 instance types and 1 new C5 metal server Announcing the preview of Microsoft Azure Bastion Mongo DB Atlas comes to Google Cloud Azure launches first middle east regions Reinforce Predictions Justin DLP Cloud solution on AWS SIEM for AWS Endpoint Security Tools Jonathan Redlock or Trusted Advisor type security tool VPC Security Group Improvements Lists of Source IP’s AWS Services as source or destination Machine Learning around Flowlogs and Payload data Peter L7 Egress Firewall/proxy Flowlogs with Payload data/Packet Capture Security Scanning of Container for ECR Honorable Mentions Justin WAF Enhancement Client VPN based Dynamic Access/Security Groups Tagging Namespace fix Jonathan Organizations enhancements to make security easier across a set of accounts <li sty

Google Publishes RCA on their outage, Microsoft and Oracle enter into a cloud alliance and AWS improves incident resolution with Systems Manager Opscenter. Sponsors: Foghorn Consulting &#8211; fogops.io/thecloudpod Turbonomic &#8211; turbonomic.com/cloudpod Follow Up: Google Cloud networking incident 19009 Final RCA Topics: Google releases new Translate API Capabilities to help localization experts and global enterprises Google now allows you to save money by stopping and starting compute engine instances on a schedule Google has created more choice, less complexity in their latest Google Compute Engine Pricing updates Azure forecasting has added several new features Microsoft Azure and Oracle Partner Up Microsoft and Oracle to interconnect Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud Overview of the Interconnect between Oracle and Microsoft AWS is introducing AWS Systems Manager Opscenter to enable faster issue resolution Google continues to preach multi-cloud with the acquistion of Looker Amazon Personalize is now GA Lightning Round (Jonathan 6, Justin 9, Peter 1 and Guest 3): Amazon API Gateway now supports VPC Endpoint Policies AWS Glue now provides VPC interface endpoint Amazon Inspector adds CIS Benchmark support for Amazon Linux 2 Google has announced integrated partnership for Snowflake on Google Cloud Marketplace <a href="https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-mobility-service-for-azure-maps-sdks-updat

Peter is back after a few weeks away from the show. Azure launches new Event Grid features, Palo Alto Networks picks up Twistlock and Puresec and Google has a really bad day. Plus the amazing lightning round with Peter. Sponsors: Foghorn Consulting &#8211; https://fogops.io/thecloudpod Topics: 25th Episode Blog Post Azure has simplified event-driven architectures with new updates to Event Grid Palo Alto Networks enters into definitive agreement to purchase Twistlock and Puresec Oracle Lays off hundreds from its Seattle office as its cloud strategy remains grounded Azure Adaptive network hardening in Azure Security Center is now GA Amazon EBS adds ability to take point-in-time, crash-consistent snapshots across multiple EBS volumes Announcing Tag-Based Access Control for AWS Cloudformation New Data API for Amazon Aurora Serverless Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK) &#8211; Now Generally Available Google Cloud has Major Outage on 6/2 Google Cloud Outage resolved, but it reveals holes in cloud computing atmosphere An update on Sunday&#8217;s service disruption Lightning Round (Jonathan 6, Justin 9, Peter 1 and Guest 3): AWS is Announcing Windows Server version 1903 AMI&#8217;s for Amazon EC2 Amazon Chime now supports United States Toll-Free Numbers <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/05/aws-storage-gateway-service-adds-capability-move-virtual-tapes-from-ama

This week we talk about Cloud Center of Excellence, New Encryption options, open source update on Firecracker and more. Elise Carmichael (twitter: @uncfleece) from @tricentis joins us to talk about some of their tools. Sponsors: Foghorn Consulting &#8211; https://fogops.io/thecloudpod Topics: New &#8211; Updated Pay-Per-Use Pricing Model for AWS Config Rules Google Says some G-Suite Passwords were stored in Plaintext since 2005 Google Cloud &#8211; Optimize your organizations cloud journey with a Cloud Center of Excellence Amazon RDS for SQL Server increases database limit per database instance up to 100 AWS Opt-In to Default Encryption for New EBS Volumes AWS Ground Station &#8211; Ready to ingest &amp; process Satellite Data Firecracker Open Source Update May 2019 Application Management made easier with Kubernetes Operators on GCP Marketplace Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports Always On Availability Groups for SQL Server 2017 Github launches Sponsors, lets you pay your favorite open source contributors Manage your cross cloud spend using Azure Cost management Lightning Round (Jonathan 5, Justin 9, Peter 1 and Guest 3): AWS now allows you to enable Hibernations on EC2 instances at the same time as you launch the AMI Amazon Document DB (with MongoDB Compatibility) is now SOC 1, 2, 3 Compliant AWS Marketplace enables long term contracts for AMI products AWS Budgets now Supports Variable Budget Targets for Cost and U

Kubecon is happening in Barcelona, Spain, VMWare purchases bitnami, Apptio buys Cloudability and a ton of Kubernetes announcements out of KubeCon this week on The Cloud Pod. Sponsors: Foghorn Consulting &#8211; https://fogops.io/thecloudpod Topics: A Cosmonaut&#8217;s guide to the latest Azure Cosmos DB Announcements VMWare snaps up Bitnami to broaden its multi-cloud strategy Apptio buys Cloudability as cloud cost management market heats up Introducing Terraform Cloud Remote State Management Cloudwatch container insights for EKS and Kubernetes Preview Digital Ocean K8 service is now Generally Available Google Announces new enhancements to ease adoption of GKE In celebration of K8 5th birthday GCP is giving away a free month of learning at Coursera with the Architecting with GKE course. (valid until September 30th) Lightning Round (Jonathan 5, Justin 8, Peter 1 and Guest 3): EKS has simplifed K8 cluster authentication with new CLI Sub command for generating the authentication token for connecting You can now use custom chat bots with Amazon Chime Performance insights now supports Amazon Aurora Global Database AWS Migration hub now provides right-sized Amazon EC2 instance recommendations Amazon Sagemaker Ground Truth now supports Automated Email Notifications for Manual Data Labeling <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/05/aws-asia-mumbai-adds-third-avail

This week on The Cloud Pod, Amazon S3 deprecates path style routing, then changes their mind. Azure reliability suffers in the first part of the year, and Google summarizes their IO cloud announcements. Sponsors: Foghorn Consulting &#8211; https://fogops.io/thecloudpod Topics Amazon S3 will no longer support path-style API requests starting September 30th, 2020 https://github.com/SummitRoute/aws_breaking_changes https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-s3-path-deprecation-plan-the-rest-of-the-story/ Azure App Service update: Free Linux Tier, Python and Java support, and more New – The Next Generation (I3en) of I/O-Optimized EC2 Instances Azure SQL Data Warehouse releases new capabilities for performance and security Google Cloud at I/O: The news you need to know Steve Singh stepping down as Docker CEO AWS Secrets Manager supports more client-side caching libraries to improve secrets availability and reduce cost Microsoft may be all-in on cloud computing, but Azure Reliability is lagging the competition https://searchcloudcomputing.techtarget.com/news/252463190/Microsoft-to-reduce-Azure-outages-with-Project-Tardigrade Lightning Round (Jonathan 5, Justin 7, Peter 1 and Guest 3) Azure has improved their portal with improvements to search, change tracking, faster and more intuitive resource browsing Azure Integration Services has simplified adoption of serverless with Azure Functions including new SAP connectors, Logic Apps and API Management Az

Azure suffers an outage, AWS Snowballs drive block storage at the edge, S3 Batch Operations and Fully Managed Blockchain all this week on the cloud pod! Plus Lightning Round and Cool Tools with Jonathan. Sponsors: Foghorn Consulting &#8211; https://fogops.io/thecloudpod Follow Up VMWare CEO implies Amazon Partnership is more important than Azure Topics Use AWS Transit Gateway &amp; Direct Connect to Centralize and Streamline Your Network Connectivity AWS Snowball Edge adds block storage for edge computing workloads New — Analyze and debug distributed applications interactively using AWS X-Ray Analytics Migrate your aws site-to-site VPN connection from Virtual Private Gateway to an AWS Transit Gateway Amazon S3 introduces S3 Batch operations for Object Management 5/2 Azure Outage &amp; RCA Azure Fully Managed Blockchain Service Azure Intelligent Edge Innovation across data, IOT and Mixed Reality Azure Making AI real for every developer and every organization AWS Amplify launches an online community for fullstack serverless app developers https://amplify.aws/community A deep dive into what&#8217;s new with Azure Cognitive Services Partnering with the community to make Kubernetes easier <a href="https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/accelerating-devops-with-github-and-azure/" target="_blan

A New Cost Management blog, APAC gets a new AWS region and Docker Hub gets hacked. Plus Alphabet, Microsoft, and Amazon all release earnings and we break out the highs and lows. With special guest, Ian Mckay @iann0036 talks about his new AWS tool www.former2.com Sponsors: Foghorn Consulting &#8211; https://fogops.io/thecloudpod Follow Up Apple actually reducing dependence on Amazon Cloud services Topics Ford Partners with Amazon to build cloud service connected cars New AWS cost management blog launches New Query for AWS Regions, Endpoints, and More using AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store Earnings Season Microsoft beats Wall street expectations, posting $30.6B in revenue, powered by cloud division AWS revenue approaches $8 Billion in Q1, up 41% compared to last year Despite Cloud growth, slowing revenue at Alphabet sends investors fleeing AMD EPYC-Powered Amazon EC2 T3a instances Now Open &#8211; AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region Slack renegotiated its deal with AWS in 2018, will spend 212 million more through 2023 190,000 user accounts exposed in hack of Docker Hub Database Microsoft container registry unaffected by recent docker hub data exposure VMWare brings its virtualization software to Microsoft Azure <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/the-aws-deepracer-league-virtual-circuit-is-now-open-train-your-model-today/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AmazonWebServicesBlog+%28Amazon+Web+Services+Blog%29" target=

Google Kubernetes Engine Advanced, Jedi Contract Finalists, Cloud Migrations services and Apple’s 30 million a month spend on AWS this week on The Cloud Pod, plus the lightning round. Sponsors: Foghorn Consulting &#8211; https://fogop.io/thecloudpod Topics: Improve Enterprise IT Procurement with Private Catalog, now in Beta Introducing GKE Advanced &#8211; Enhanced reliability, simplicity and scale for enterprise https://medium.com/@tinder.engineering/tinders-move-to-kubernetes-cda2a6372f44 Amazon Cloudfront is now available in mainland China Move your data from AWS S3 to Azure Storage using AzCopy Announcing Azure to AWS Migration support in AWS Server Migration Service Rewrite HTTP headers with Azure Application Gateway Much to Oracles&#8217; chagrin, Pentagon names Microsoft and Amazon as $10B JEDI contract finalists Announcing Azure Government Secret Private preview and Expansion of DOD IL5 AWS Organizations now available in the AWS Govcloud regions for Central Governance and Management of AWS accounts Google Hires 27-year SAP veteran Robert Enslin to boost cloud sales and support Cloudbees buys Electric Cloud to strengthen Devops Platform Microsoft Open sources data accelerator an easy to configure pipeline for streaming at scale Apple spends more than 30m a month on AWS</a

We are back to our normal show after our GCP Next recap. This week the new AWS APAC region, Azure premium tiers and the AWS open letter on climate change. Plus the lightning round and cool tools. Sponsors Foghorn Consulting: fogops.io/thecloudpod (more&hellip;)

Google Next has wrapped up in San Francisco and we break down the announcements, talk about Google&#8217;s enterprise play, and more. Special guest Ryan Lucas @ryron01 #googlenext19 #thecloudpod #gcp Sponsors Foghorn Consulting: fogops.io/thecloudpod Audible: audibletrial.com/thecloudpod (more&hellip;)

Episode 17 Azure announces new data and discovery classification features, AWS APN changes go into effect, and Chef goes 100% Open Source. Jonathan, Justin and Peter draft their Google Next 2019 predictions and more on the cloud pod. #thecloudpod Sponsors Foghorn Consulting: fogops.io/thecloudpod Audible: audibletrial.com/thecloudpod Follow Up KubeCTL &#8211; Cuttle or Control or C-T-L Mitigating Risk in the hardware Supply Chain Topics Now Go Build #2 Channel 9 releases information on Global Azure Bootcamp Azure has announced preview of Data Discovery and Classification for Azure SQL Data Warehouse Azure Search has new storage optimized service tiers in preview AWS 2019 APN Changes in Effect Amazon DynamoDB drops the price of global tables by eliminating associated charges for DynamoDB Streams Scale Storage out with new Elastifile Cloud File Service for GCP Chef goes 100% Open Source Google Next Prediction Draft Jonathan Picks Blockchain as a service Collaboration Tools New languages for functions Justin Picks Major spanner enhancement Enterprise will be mentioned 4 times on stage by Thomas or his guests Google Siem Product Peter Picks Major announce around GKE in particular monitoring integration Managed Devops Deployment like Spinnaker Hybrid Service mesh. ISTIO like for hybrid cloud Honorable Mention &#8211; Jonathan &#8211; ARM processors Peter &#8211; Better Microsoft support. Justin &#8211; Major Acquisition of a large player Lightning Round AWS Firewall Manager now supports AWS Shield Advanced <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/03/amazon-c

AWS Summit Season 2019 is officially underway. Justin, Peter and special guest Chris Short @chrisshort. Plus the famous lightning round. Sponsors Foghorn Consulting: fogops.io/thecloudpod Audible: audibletrial.com/thecloudpod Topics AWS Multi-Account Support for Direct Connect Gateway Introducing AWS Deep Learning Containers AMD Processors now available on AWS Ec2 Instances AWS S3 Glacier Deep Archive GA AWS App Mesh now Generally Available Concurency Scaling for Amazon Redshift New ALB Request routing for HTTP customer headers AWS Transfer for SFTP now supports VPC&#8217;s and Private Link AWS Toolkit for IntelliJ GA and Visual Studio Code now in Preview Amazon EKS opens public preview for Windows Container Support ECS now supports local testing AWS Fargate and ECS now support external deployment control Episode #2 of Now Go Build New IAM permissions to enable accounts for new regions <a hr

Google finds a use for unused Kubernetes capacity by calculating PI, The Hyperscalers double down on gaming platforms and Azure beats Amazon to DOD certification! Plus the lightning round and cool tools with Jonathan. Sponsors Foghorn Consulting: fogops.io/thecloudpod Audible: audibletrial.com/thecloudpod Follow Up Open Distro for ES Free Software is the only Winner Elastic NV vs AWS &#8211; Adam Jacobs Cloud Open Source Powder Keg Topics AWS Re:inforce 2019 Registration now open Azure Simplifies environment setup with new blueprints for ISO27001 environments Workload Importance for Azure SQL Data Warehouse in Preview Gaming Developers Conference Microsoft Game Stack allows you to Achieve More Google Cloud makes Game Development More Open and Flexible AWS announced 190 new features for Lumberyard 1.18 Amazong Gamelift Realtime Servers in Preview Google Cloud has reached a new record computing 31.4 trillion digital of PI on Pi Day The Google Cloud Next 19 Session guide is Now available GCP Turning Data into NCAA March Madness Insights Cloudflare raises Fresh 150 million round delaying IPO AWS Joins the GraphQL Foundation Azure Government is First Cloud to Achieve DOD impact level 5 Provisional Authorization &amp; GA of DOD regions Azure Data Studio &#8211; Open Source Gui for Postgre

This week Matt Adorjan (@mda590) joins us to talk about AWS&#8217;s open distro for ElasticSearch, Breaking up big tech, and F5 acquiring Nginx. Plus the lightning round and Cool Tools with Jonathan. Thanks to our sponsors! Foghorn Consulting: fogops.io/thecloudpod Audible: audibletrial.com/thecloudpod Show Topics How does your cloud storage grow? With a scalable plan and a price drop Azure Premium Blob storage now in public preview Simply Enterprise Threat Detection and Protection with Google Cloud Security Services Elizabeth Warren bold plan to break up big tech Azure Devops Server 2019 now available AWS Announces Open Distro for Elastic Search Adrian Cockcroft publishes blog on keeping open source open Elastic.Co Response to open distros open source F5 Acquires NGINX Lightning Round AWS Performance Insights is now GA for SQL Server https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/03/performance-insights-is-generally-available-for-sql-server/ AWS SSM on-Premise now handles large hybrid environments (Previously less than 1000 instances) https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/03/AWS_Systems_Manager_on-premises_instance_management_for_large_hybrid_environments/ AWS Coretto 11 is now available as a release candidate https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/03/amazon-corretto-11-is-now-available-as-a-release-candidate/ AWS Step functions adds tag based permissions https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/03/aws-step-functions-adds-tag-based-permissions/ New AWS Direct Connect Console <a href="http

Lyft goes all in on AWS and commits big money to AWS in their IPO. Several new solutions for security from the cloud vendors at RSA this week, and Jeff Barr stops by Reddit to tell us all about cloud formation! Plus the lighting round and cool tools with Jonathan. Sponsors: Foghorn Consulting: fogops.io/thecloudpod Audible: audibletrial.com/thecloudpod Show Topics: Lyft goes all in on AWS Google Releases csp config management for k8 GCP introduces new KMS client libraries Instantly restore your machines with Azure Backup SuperMicro hardware weakness lets researches backdoor into an ibm cloud server RightScale state of the cloud reports indicates Azure gaining on AWS https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1100893328348831745 Maria DB ceo accuses hyperscalers of strip mining open source Azure announces preview of sentinel security Azure GA of Lab Services Jeff Barr stops by Reddit to drop a quick cloudformation update Original Thread Azure Security Center new Capabilities Azure announces new firewall capabilities Lightning Round: Amazon Worklink now works with Android Phones &#8211; https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/02/amazon-worklink-now-works-with-android-phones/ Aurora Serverless now publishes logs to cloudwatch &#8211; <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/about

Episode 12 This week we talk about Athena Workgroups, Spotinst AWS partnership, Spatial Anchors in Azure and Microsoft and Google handle several employee issues. Sponsors: Foghorn Consulting: fogops.io/thecloudpod Audible: audibletrial.com/thecloudpod Show Topics Athena now supports Workgroups to segment/isolated data Azure has GA’s several new features to create more reliable event driven applications in Azure Spotinst Announces partnership with AWS Google Rethinks Federated Identity with Continuous Access evaluation protocol Next 19 Qwiklabs Challenge Azure Announces Spatial anchors for collaboration and mixed reality apps Microsoft Workers protest army contract Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says company will not walk away from contract Google ends forced Arbitration for Employees &#8211; Lightning Round EFS now supports tag on create &#8211; https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/02/amazon-efs-now-supports-tag-on-create/ AWS Code commit now supports programmatic creations of commits &#8211; https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/02/aws-codecommit-supports-programmatic-creation-of-commits-contain/ Performance Insights now supports counter metrics for RDS Postgres, RDS Mysql and Aurora Mysql &#8211; https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/02/Performance-Insights-Counter-Metrics-MS-PG-AMS/ Amazon Ec2 Fleets now let you increase target capacity limits &#8211; https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/02/amazon-EC2-fleet-now-lets-you-increase-the-fleets-target-capacity-limits/ Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager adds support for shorter backup intervals &#8211; <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/02/amazon-data-lifecycle-manager-adds-support-for-shorter-backup-intervals/"

Episode 11 This week we have special guest Corey Quinn (twitter: @quinnypig). We talk about Googles Culture, Managed Database Services, Amazon HQ2. Plus the world famous lightning round and Jonathan&#8217;s cool tools. Sponsors: Foghorn Consulting: fogops.io/thecloudpod Audible: audibletrial.com/thecloudpod Follow Up Azure security center helps protect you from RunC vulnerability &#8211; https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/how-azure-security-center-helps-you-protect-your-environment-from-new-vulnerabilities/ Ballmer’s Clippers select AWS in the first round for their public cloud partner https://www.geekwire.com/2019/steve-ballmers-los-angeles-clippers-sign-cloud-deal-microsoft-rival-amazon-web-services/ News Google Cloud Security talks at RSA &#8211; https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/announcing-google-cloud-security-talks-during-rsa-conference-2019 Liz Fong-Jones posts about her decision to leave Google and the toxic culture &#8211; https://medium.com/s/story/google-workers-lost-a-leader-but-the-fight-will-continue-c487aa5fd2ba Digital Ocean launches Managed Database Service &#8211; https://siliconangle.com/2019/02/14/expanding-cloud-platform-digitalocean-launches-managed-database-service/ https://blog.digitalocean.com/announcing-managed-databases-for-postgresql/ Amazon introduces Lower cost storage class for EFS &#8211; https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/02/amazon-efs-introduces-lower-cost-storage-class/ Amazon drops plans for New York (Queens) HQ2 &#8211; https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/14/amazon-drops-plans-for-new-york-hq2/ Azure releases Monitoring at Scale Features with Multi-resource metric alerts &#8211; https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/monitor-at-scale-in-azure-monitor-with-multi-resource-metric-alerts/ IBM CEO says they will be #1 in cloud chapter 2 &#8211; https://www.forbes.com/sites/siliconangle/2019/02/14/analysis-ibm-ceo-declares-chapter-2-of-cloud-and-ai-at-ibm-think-2019/#7968ea5c648f https://www.businessinsider.com/ibm-ceo-ginni-rometty-hybrid-co

Episode 10 Peter returns from his vacation, Major Docker security vulnerability, Azure gets FHIR and the Warriors choose a public cloud partner. Plus the lightning round! Sponsors Foghorn Consulting: fogops.io/thecloudpod Audible: audibletrial.com/thecloudpod Topics CVE-2019-5736 Docker RunC vulnerability &#8211; Vulnerability &#8211; https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2019/q1/119 AWS &#8211; https://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/AWS-2019-002/ Google &#8211; https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/security-bulletins Azure &#8211; https://github.com/Azure/AKS/releases/tag/2019-02-12 Azure Account Failover now in Public preview &#8211; https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/account-failover-now-in-public-preview-for-azure-storage/ Google Cloud now provides bigquery sandbox without credit card &#8211; https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/query-without-a-credit-card-introducing-bigquery-sandbox Azure API for FHIR &#8211; https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/lighting-up-healthcare-data-with-fhir-announcing-the-azure-api-for-fhir/ MSFT Healthcare Bot brings Conversational AI to healthcare &#8211; https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-healthcare-bot-brings-conversational-ai-to-healthcare/ Azure announcing updates and GA for 3 Azure Data Services &#8211; https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/individually-great-collectively-unmatched-announcing-updates-to-3-great-azure-data-services/ Golden State Warriors Chase Center names Google Cloud as their public cloud provider- http://www.sportspromedia.com/news/golden-state-warriors-chase-center-google-cloud Build Containers faster with Cloud build with Kaniko &#8211; https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/application-development/build-containers-faster-with-cloud-build-with-kaniko Jib 1.0 released by Google Compute to simplify Java Docker Containers &#8211; https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/application-development/jib-1-0-0-is-ga-building-java-docker-images-has-never-been-easier Amazon acquires Eeero &#8211; <a href="h

Episode 9 Its earnings season and we take a look at both AWS and Googles earnings, plus recap the Azure earnings from last week. We also talk about AWS Corretto GA, Microsoft DNS outage causes data loss?, Mongo DB SSPL licensing and more. Special Guest Ryan Lucas Sponsors Foghorn Consulting: fogops.io/thecloudpod Audible: audibletrial.com/thecloudpod Topics Earnings AWS Earnings &#8211; https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/31/aws-earnings-q4-2018.html Alphabet (Google) Earnings &#8211; https://siliconangle.com/2019/02/04/alphabet-beats-earnings-forecast-costs-weigh-shares/ Google Cloud Firestore Nosql Database hits GA &#8211; https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/31/googles-cloud-firestore-nosql-database-hits-general-availability/ DNS Outage results in azure database outage &#8211; https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2019/02/01/dns-outage-turns-tables-on-azure-database-users/ MS Launches AMD powered Azure Instances &#8211; https://siliconangle.com/2019/02/01/microsoft-launches-amd-powered-azure-instances-analytics-databases/ Oracle AMD instances Outperform AWS &#8211; https://blogs.oracle.com/cloud-infrastructure/oracle-amd-instances-outperform-and-outprice-comparable-aws-instances Amazon Corretto 8 is now GA &#8211; https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/amazon-corretto-8-generally-available/ Oracle CISO: Are Audits and Certifications enough? &#8211; https://blogs.oracle.com/cloud-infrastructure/security-in-the-cloud:-are-audits-and-certifications-really-enough MongoDB SSPL Licenses rejected by RHEL &#8211; https://www.zdnet.com/article/mongodb-open-source-server-side-public-license-rejected/ Slack IPO &#8211; https://siliconangle.com/2019/02/04/months-rumors-team-chat-leader-slack-files-ipo/ Lightning Round Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports t3 instances &#8211; https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/amazon-rds-for-oracle-now-supports-t3-instance-types/ Azure announces GA for Query store for sql data warehouse &#8211; https://azur

Episode 8 &#8211; Now With Insane Magic This week we talk about TLS support for NLB, AWS Worklink, Kubernetes Metering and retailers pushing back on AWS. Plus the lightning round and cool tools with Jonathan. #thecloudpod Thanks to our Sponsors: Foghorn Consulting: fogops.io/thecloudpod Audible: audibletrial.com/thecloudpod News Microsoft Earnings &#8211; http://fortune.com/2019/01/30/microsoft-stock-down-slowdown-azure-cloud/ Idera acquires Travis CI &#8211; https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/23/idera-acquires-travis-ci/ Google Gives Wikipedia Millions &#8211; https://www.wired.com/story/google-wikipedia-machine-learning-glow-languages/ NLB now supports TLS Termination &#8211; https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-tls-termination-for-network-load-balancers Microsoft Acquires Citus Data &#8211; https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2019/01/24/microsoft-acquires-citus-data-re-affirming-its-commitment-to-open-source-and-accelerating-azure-postgresql-performance-and-scale/ AWS Worklink secures on premise website and apps &#8211; https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-worklink-secure-one-click-mobile-access-to-internal-websites-and-applications/ GKE Usage Metering https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes/gke-usage-metering-whose-line-item-is-it-anyway Albertsons picks Azure to run cloud workloads due to Amazon being a competitor &#8211; https://www.fool.com/investing/2019/01/28/amazon-fear-is-driving-retailers-to-microsofts-clo.aspx Lightning Round Python Shell for AWS Glue &#8211; https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/introducing-python-shell-jobs-in-aws-glue/ AWS Elasticsearch Service now supports maximum cluster size of 200 nodes &#8211; https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/amazon-elasticsearch-service-doubles-maximum-cluster-capacity-with-200-node-cluster-support/ AWS SSM now supports management of in guest and instance level configuration &#8211; https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/20