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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 – 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

Episode 7 &#8211; The Cloud Pod now 99.9% available Jonathan, Justin, and Peter talk about the latest news in AWS, Google and Azure. This week we talk about the AWS Backup Services, Oracle Cloud launching in Toronto and AWS Re:Mars. Plus the lightning round and Jonathan&#8217;s cool tools. Sponsors Foghorn Consulting: fogops.io/thecloudpod Last Week in AWS: lastweekinaws.com Audible: audibletrial.com/thecloudpod News Nvidia Tesla T4 GPU&#8217;s now available in beta &#8211; https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/nvidia-tesla-t4-gpus-now-available-in-beta AWS Announces AWS Backup and support for multiple services &#8211; https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-backup-automate-and-centrally-manage-your-backups/ https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/aws-storage-gateway-integrates-with-aws-backup-to-protect-volume/ https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/aws-backup-integrates-with-amazon-DynamoDB-for-centralized-and-automated-backup-management/ https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/introducing-amazon-elastic-file-system-integration-with-aws-backup/ https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/amazon-ebs-integrates-with-aws-backup-to-protect-your-volumes/ Oracle Cloud launches in Toronto region and plans Mumbai region &#8211; https://blogs.oracle.com/cloud-infrastructure/oracle-cloud-infrastructure-launches-toronto-region https://inc42.com/buzz/oracle-plans-data-centre-in-india-to-challenge-aws-google-cloud/ Oracle says open source vendors locking down licensing proves they were never really open &#8211; https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/01/17/oracle_exec_opensource_vendors_locking_down_licenses_proves_they_were_never_really_open/ AWS Announces RE:Mars event June 5/6th &#8211; https://www.geekwire.com/2019/amazon-launches-remars-event-focusing-ai-second-stage-invite-mars/ AWS Trusted Advisor announces 9 new best practices &#8211; https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/aws-trusted-advisor-expands-functionality/ Lightning Round AWS GA Party K

Episode 6 &#8211; The Cloud Pod Now Supports Resource Tagging Jonathan, Justin, Peter talk about the latest news in AWS, Google and Azure. This week we talk about the TSO Logic Acquisition, Document DB, TriggerMesh Lambda, Azure win of the DOD contract, plus much more including the lightning round and cool tools by Jonathan. Sponsors Foghorn Consulting: fogops.io/thecloudpod Last Week in AWS: lastweekinaws.com Audible: audibletrial.com/thecloudpod Show Topics Ring Privacy Story &#8211; https://bgr.com/2019/01/10/ring-camera-customer-feeds-accessed-creepy-privacy-violation Amazon Acquires TSO Logic &#8211; https://www.geekwire.com/2019/amazon-web-services-acquires-tso-logic-vancouver-startup-working-cloud-spending-analysis/ Azure Wins 1.76b DOD Contract &#8211; https://siliconangle.com/2019/01/14/microsoft-wins-1-76b-contract-supply-cloud-services-dod/ New AWS Services launch with HIPAA, PCI, ISO and SOC Certifications &#8211; https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/new-aws-services-launch-with-hipaa-pci-iso-and-soc/ GCP SpotInst Partnership &#8211; https://it.toolbox.com/blogs/technologynewsdesk/google-cloud-platform-announces-spotinst-elastigroup-011019 TriggerMesh brings AWS Lambda Serverless computing to k8 &#8211; https://www.zdnet.com/article/triggermesh-brings-aws-lambda-serverless-computing-to-kubernetes/ Lightning Round https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/aws-step-functions-now-supports-resource-tagging/ https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/aws-opsworks-stacks-now-supports-amazon-linux-2&#8211;amazon-linux-20/ https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/aws-database-migration-service-adds-support-for-amazon-documentdb/ https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/amazon-ec2-spot-now-supports-paginated-describe-for-spot-instance-requests https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/aws-iot-core-now-enables-customers-to-store-messages-for-disconnected-devices/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-the-general-availability-of-azure-data-box-disk/</p

Show Notes 1/8/18 Amazon reportedly buys cloud endure for $250 million Fargate Lowers prices by 50% Cloudera/Hortonworks merger closes, takes aim at Amazon Is this the worst S3 compromise? Google Purchases DORA (DevOps Research and Assessment) Github goes Free AWS CLI Query JMES Path reference Lightning Round Windows Server 2019 AMI’s now available on AWS Parallel Cluster now available in Sweden Alexa announces Skill Builder Beta Example/Certification WAF now includes a monitoring dashboard MSFT Project Bali EMR announces 99.9% Service Level agreement Cool Tools AWS CLI Builder AWS Console Recorder Sponsors Foghorn Consulting &#8211; https://www.fogops.io/thecloudpod Last week in AWS &#8211; https://www.lastweekinaws.com Audible &#8211; http://www.audibletrial.com/thecloudpod

Show Notes Follow Up Jedi Contract Jedi Contract/AWS Bid Riddled with Conflicts of Interest Community Licensing Issue Adam Jacobs &#8211; Sustainable Free and Open Source Communities https://sfosc.org/ Stephen O&#8217;Grady &#8211; Cycle Circle of OSS Copy Left and Community licenses are not without merit but are dead end Show Topics Introducing AWS Client VPN to Securely access AWS and On-Premises Resources Blog Post: Exploring Container Security: let Google do the patching with new managed based images 2019 Predictions from Justin, Jonathan and Peter Lightning Round https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/cloud-spanner-adds-enhanced-query-introspection-new-regions-and-new-multi-region-configurations https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-backup-can-automatically-protect-sql-databases-in-azure-vm-through-auto-protect/ https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/12/amazon-dynamodb-accelerator-adds-support-for-dynamodb-transactions/ https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/12/amazon-transcribe-now-supports-speech-to-text-in-french-italian-and-brazilian-portuguese/ https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/12/amazon-ec2-ntroduces-partition-placement-groups/ https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/12/introducing-workload-qualification-framework-to-plan-your-database-migration-projects/ https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/12/amazon-route-53-adds-alias-record-support-for-api-gateway-and-vpc-endpoints/ <a href="https://aw

The podcast has just started, but we've reached the end of 2018 already. To recap 2018 Justin, Jonathan and Peter scoured the AWS, Azure, GCP and General Cloud news to find their favorite stories, features and capabilities from 2018. Run through their top stories and see if you agree! #3Jonathan - https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-for-aws-lambda-use-any-programming-language-and-share-common-components/ Peter - https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/06/the-high-stakes-battle-for-the-pentagons-winner-take-all-cloud-contract/Justin - https://aws.amazon.com/secrets-manager/ #2Jonathan - https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-ec2-update-additional-instance-types-nitro-system-and-cpu-options/ Peter - https://www.fool.com/investing/2018/02/23/snap-barely-met-its-cloud-spending-commitment-last.aspx Justin - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-hack-how-china-used-a-tiny-chip-to-infiltrate-america-s-top-companies #1Jonathan - https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-ec2-instances-a1-powered-by-arm-based-aws-graviton-processors/ Peter - https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/30/tech/microsoft-apple-most-valuable-company/index.html Justin - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/devops/ Honorable Mentions Microsoft sponsors the Open Source Initiative - https://opensource.org/node/901Resource Based Pricing - https://cloud.google.com/compute/resource-based-pricing K8 Takes over the WorldAzure K8 - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/kubernetes-service/Amazon EKS - https://aws.amazon.com/eksGKE on Premise - https://cloud.google.com/gke-on-prem/ Sponsors Foghorn Consulting – www.fogops.io/thecloudpod – Your leading AWS premier partner helping companies move to the cloudLast Week in AWS – www.lastweekinaws.com – Your weekly dose of AWS Snark and announcements. The Cloud Pod - www.thecloudpod.net/sponsor &nbsp; Clipart: ID 126311059 © Bulat Silvia | Dreamstime.com

Show Notes AWS Homework Assignment - Now Go Build E1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a42kxHSX4Xw Show Topic AWS ECS Container Roadmaphttps://github.com/aws/containers-roadmap GCP Google Cloud Next: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/mark-your-calendar-google-cloud-next-2019?utm_source=DevOps%27ish&amp;utm_campaign=3fc0c13de2-106&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_eab566bc9f-3fc0c13de2-46450203 Save the date: April 9-11, 2019 at Moscone Center in San Francisco.Registration opened Dec 12th Security Command Centerhttps://cloud.google.com/security-command-center/?utm_source=release-notes&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=2018-december-release-notes-1-en Azure https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/automate-always-on-availability-group-deployments-with-sql-virtual-machine-resource-provider/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/a-fintech-startup-pivots-to-azure-cosmos-db/ Other https://blogs.oracle.com/cloud-infrastructure/core-to-edge-security:-the-oracle-cloud-infrastructure-edge-network https://www.confluent.io/blog/license-changes-confluent-platform?utm_source=DevOps%27ish&amp;utm_campaign=3fc0c13de2-106&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_eab566bc9f-3fc0c13de2-46450203 https://www.zdnet.com/article/oracles-ellison-no-way-a-normal-person-would-move-to-aws/ Lightning Round https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/12/aws-transit-gateway-is-now-available-in-8-additional-aws-regions/ https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/12/amazon-eks-adds-managed-cluster-updates-and-support-for-kubernetes/ https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/12/aws-storage-gateway-announces-increased-throughput-and-adds-new-/ https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20181212005251/en/Amazon-Web-Services-Launches-New-Region-Sweden https://www.infoq.com/news/2017/

Enjoy our recap of AWS Re:Invent 2018 Topics: Announcements Pre-Reinvent Monday-Tuedsay - Recap Andy Jassy - Recap Werner Vogels - Recap Sponsors: Foghorn Consulting - www.fogops.io - Your leading AWS premier partner helping companies move to the cloudLastweek in AWS - www.lastweekinaws.com - Your weekly dose of AWS Snark and announcements.