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Welcome to the newest episode of The Cloud Pod podcast! Justin, Ryan, Jonathan, Matthew and Peter are your hosts this week as we discuss all things cloud and AI, Titles we almost went with this week: The Cloud Pod is better than Bob’s Used Books The Cloud Pod sets up AWS notifications for all The Cloud Pod is non-differential about privacy in BigQuery The Cloud Pod finds Windows Bob The Cloud Pod starts preparing for its Azure Emergency today A big thanks to this week’s sponsor: Foghorn Consulting, provides top-notch cloud and DevOps engineers to the world’s most innovative companies. Initiatives stalled because you have trouble hiring? Foghorn can be burning down your DevOps and Cloud backlogs as soon as next week. News this Week: 00:40 &#8211; News this week starts out with TCP’s own news &#8211; Peter’s podcasting career is riding off into the sunset. He claims he’ll actually start listening, but we’ll see…we’re always happy for more listeners though, no matter how we get them. 02:18 &#8211; FinOps Foundation debuts new specification to ease cloud cost management Have we mentioned the FinOps User Conference? I can’t remember if we’ve mentioned that at all… In any event, join the fun June 27th through the 30th in beautiful and sunny San Diego, and be immersed in all things FinOps. It’s a dream vacation opportunity! In the meantime, the Finops foundation has announced FOCUS, an open-source initiative designed to help companies more easily track their cloud costs, which will initially launch at the conference. The goal of the initiative is to develop a standard specification for organizing cloud spending and usage data. According to FinOps, FOCUS will also provide a number of related data management capabilities, MS and Google will join the steering committee tasked with managing the project. “FOCUS will solve problems that organizations maturing their cloud adoption now face,” said Udam Dewaraja, the chair of the FinOps Foundation’s FOCUS working group. “Today, there’s no clear way to unify cost and usage data sets across different vendors.” FOCUS introduces standardized terminology for describing cloud expenses and usage metrics, provides a standardized schema, or a data format in which financial information can be organized. A schema specifies technical details such as the maximum number of expenses that should be included in each database row. AWS 04:18 New Storage-Optimized Amazon EC2 I4g Instances: Graviton Processors and AWS Nitro SSDs AWS is launching the new I4g instances powered by Graviton2 processors &#8211; delivering up to 15% better performance than their storage-optimized instances. Whoo! Shapes come in 2 VCPU, 16gb Memory and 468gb of Storage up to 64 vcpu, 512gb of ram, and 15 tb of storage. <li style="font-weight: 400;" ar

Welcome to the newest episode of The Cloud Pod podcast! Justin, Ryan, Jonathan, and Matthew are all here this week to discuss the latest news and announcements in the world of cloud and AI &#8211; including New Relic Grok, Athena Provisioned Capacity from AWS, and updates to the Azure Virtual Desktop. Titles we almost went with this week: None! This week’s title was SO GOOD we didn’t bother with any alternates. Sometimes it’s just like that, you know? A big thanks to this week’s sponsor: Foghorn Consulting, provides top-notch cloud and DevOps engineers to the world’s most innovative companies. Initiatives stalled because you have trouble hiring? Foghorn can be burning down your DevOps and Cloud backlogs as soon as next week. News this Week: 01:27 &#8211; Quick reminder &#8211; Finops X Foundation Conference is almost here! This is the annual FinOps Foundation Annual User Conference, and it is taking place June 29th through the 31st in Beautiful San Diego, California. Hundreds of your fellow practitioners will be sharing their FinOps knowledge, collaborating in chalk talks and networking together. Why should you attend? Great question. Let me tell you. 1) There’s a party on an aircraft carrier. Need more? You got it. 2) You can learn best practices when it comes to FinOps and save your company lots of money &#8211; you’ll be a hero! (Look at the economy and current interest rates. Heroic is an understatement.) Need another reason? Look no further! Justin will be there! We know you’ve always wanted to chat with him in person. No? How about free stickers? Free stuff is good. Everyone loves stickers. 02:47 New Relic is back on the pod &#8211; and they’ve got something new New Relic just launched Grok, their new AI observability assistant If you remember a few weeks ago, we had someone from New Relic on the pod, and they told us **something** was coming, but weren’t quite ready to tell us what it was &#8211; and now, it’s here! New Relic is throwing their hat into the AI ring &#8211; Grok. Grok will allow engineers to use large language models to help utilize natural language when performing many of the routine tasks in New Relic, like setting up instrumentation, building reports, or managing accounts. Engineers can sift through the data more easily and come through their unified telemetry data without having to write complex queries. From New Relic: “Observability tools exist to serve the DevOps and DevSecOps movements. Engineers use observability tools to get the data they need to operate and secure the software they build,” said New Relic Chief Product Officer Manav Khurana. “The reality, howeve r, is that it’s hard for every engineer to translate a question they have into a data model, sift through their tools to find the right data, and then translate data back to an insight in natural language. That’s why DevSecOps practices are lagging behind all the innovation in Observability tooling. Now with Generative AI, there will be an explosion of new software developed in a completely different way, creating even more complexity to operate and secure softwa

Welcome to the newest episode of The Cloud Pod podcast! Justin, Ryan and Matthew are your hosts this week as we discuss all the latest news and announcements in the world of the cloud and AI &#8211; including what’s new with Google Deepmind, as well as goings on over at the Finops X Conference. Join us! Titles we almost went with this week: The Cloud Pod DeepMinds bring you the Cloud News The Cloud Sounds Better When Tuned Properly The Cloud Pod Delegates Itself to Multiple Organizations The Cloud is Flush with Cash but Still Raining on Employees. A big thanks to this week’s sponsor: Foghorn Consulting, provides top-notch cloud and DevOps engineers to the world’s most innovative companies. Initiatives stalled because you have trouble hiring? Foghorn can be burning down your DevOps and Cloud backlogs as soon as next week. News this Week: 00:43 &#8211; Finops X Foundation Conference is just around the corner This is a great opportunity to meet with other Finops users and share knowledge, collaborate on Chalk Talk, and network in beautiful San Diego, CA. There will even be an awards ceremony on an aircraft carrier, and you KNOW you want to be there for that. Do you like stickers? Of course you do. Everyone likes stickers! Be on the lookout for Justin &#8211; he’ll be there! And if you ask nicely (or even just sort of nicely) he’ll give you a TCP sticker, so that right there is a great reason to attend. The conference is June 29th &#8211; 31st, and registration can be found on the Finops Foundation website. See you there! 02:51 It’s earning season. Listener discretion is advised. Let’s start with Microsoft At their earnings report on Tuesday, Microsoft is reporting $52.9 billion revenue, up 7% from the previous year. Expectations were set at $51 billion. Much of this is driven by AI (because what isn’t driven by AI these days.) Overall profits were up 9% from last year, coming in at $18.3 billion. Microsoft Azure helped with these numbers by recording a 22% increase, vs. a 34% increase seen last year. 03:51 Ryan- I’m surprised with some of the numbers, just because I wasn’t expecting &#8211; after so many years of growth &#8211; that it would continue to rise despite the economic dip.” Moving on to Google Earnings… Google earnings were recorded at $69.79 billion, which was higher than analysts expected, thanks partly due to Google cloud revenue and an increase in Youtube advertising (all of it aimed at my kid, apparently.) Google cloud (GCI) revenue came in at $7.45 billion, which was slightly lower than expectations, but the good news is that Google finally recorded a profit in their cloud computing sector! This means everyone using GCI won’t be left in the dust, since we all know Google loves to kill off anything that isn’t profitable. 05:30 Ryan- “I imagine there’s a l

Welcome to the newest episode of The Cloud Pod podcast! Justin, Ryan and Jonathan are your hosts this week as we discuss all the latest news and announcements in the world of the cloud and AI &#8211; including Amazon’s new AI, Bedrock, as well as new AI tools from other developers. We also address the new updates to AWS’s CodeWhisperer, and return to our Cloud Journey Series where we discuss *insert dramatic music* &#8211; Kubernetes! Titles we almost went with this week: I’m always Whispering to My Code as an Individual Azure gets an AI, Google gets an AI… and Amazon finally gets an AI You can now creep out your copilot by whispering to your code AI fails to generate an interesting show title this week A big thanks to this week’s sponsor: Foghorn Consulting, provides top-notch cloud and DevOps engineers to the world’s most innovative companies. Initiatives stalled because you have trouble hiring? Foghorn can be burning down your DevOps and Cloud backlogs as soon as next week. News this Week: AWS News @01:36 &#8211; Codewhisperer is now generally available &#8211; and includes a free tier! -Besides just the availability, this new real-time AI coding companion also includes a FREE individual tier open to all developers. This is a (good!) surprise to us. -The free tier works with many popular IDEs, including VS Code and Intellij IDEA among others. -Codewhisperer can assist in productivity by creating code for repetitive or routine tasks &#8211; Cost wise, Codewhisperer is pretty much in line with other products like GitHub Copilot. &#8211; Python, Java, Javascript, Typescript, C#, Go, Rust, PHP, Ruby, Kotlin, C, C++, Shell Scripting, SQL and Scala -The downside: security is fairly limited (Python and Java, for instance) 02:50 Jonathan: “I’m super happy that they’ve launched with so many languages supported, and so much support for different IDE’s. It’s a great launch. It’s definitely a time saver, and I’d pay the $20 a month for the service even if there wasn’t a free tier.” (But maybe we don’t say that too loudly, or the free tier will disappear…) And speaking of that free tier &#8211; 04:49 Jonathan: “I expect the reason there’s a free tier is so that they get much more data from user experiences, and can retrain the model based on people’s feedback.” 05:24 Ryan: “It’s edging us closer to code writing code.” -One of the things that is important to point out from our discussion today is that you can get a bit more for your money from Copilot, which also has a free tier for individuals. @09:10 Amazon is excited to announce the Simple Database Archival Solution -SDAS is an open source solution, available under the Apache License, and can be deployed directly from your AWS account -Do you have a problem with being able to safely archive data from your databases? According to Amazon this is a wide ranging problem for many folks, and since storing data on-premises can be extremely costly, this may be a great alternative. -It automates a lot of the logistics of archiving data and leverages Step Functions, Glue, S3 and

Welcome to the newest episode of The Cloud Pod podcast! Justin, Ryan and Matthew are your hosts this week as we discuss all the latest news and announcements in the world of the cloud and AI. Do people really love Matt’s Azure know-how? Can Google make Bard fit into literally everything they make? What’s the latest with Azure AI and their space collaborations? Let’s find out! Titles we almost went with this week: Clouds in Space, Fictional Realms of Oracles, Oh My. The cloudpod streams lambda to the cloud A big thanks to this week’s sponsor: Foghorn Consulting, provides top-notch cloud and DevOps engineers to the world’s most innovative companies. Initiatives stalled because you have trouble hiring? Foghorn can be burning down your DevOps and Cloud backlogs as soon as next week. News this Week: General News @00:57 &#8211; Interesting article &#8211; What is Open AI doing that Google Isn’t (Besides making a usable product, obviously.) -Google AI lab is separate, meaning researchers are separate from the engineers, versus Open AI where they are one combined team, which &#8211; go figure &#8211; works out better. -The article goes on to question whether Google is “losing their edge” which, as the number 3 player in the AI industry, is pretty evident. The guys discuss the two services, as well as how Bard can be crammed into every product Google makes. 02:49 Ryan: “I find it kind of fascinating that Open AI, because they were first to market, gets to dictate what AI is.” @07:01 Are you an AI developer? Are you looking to build out your own models? -Good luck. Finding the hardware to do that continues to be an issue. The Information put out an article about a shortage of servers at all the major cloud companies, including AWS, Azure, GPC, and OCI. The biggest issue is a shortage of GPUs and GPU processors, which was one of the first and main resources to have supply chain issues. Desktop computer GPUs are having less issues with supply. Some of that is thanks to the bottom falling out of the Bitcoin market (no need for mining anymore.) 07:57 Ryan &#8211; “It’s a run on a limited resource, and GPU’s &#8211; they were the first to hit supply chain issue… it’s always been sort of a scarce resource. When I first heard of GPU’s being used for machine learning and those types of workloads, there weren’t enough of them, and it wasn’t really embedded in the type of hardware you need to run in a data center. 09:07Justin &#8211; “A lot of GPU returns and GPU availability in the desktop market, which those GPU’s are better suited for doing high computational work of 3D and things that are required for getting to bitcoin… so you could use desktop GPUs but your experience won’t go as far.” Unfortunately the smart British guy isn’t here to tell us all the ins and outs of the differences between types of GPUs, so do tune in for that next week! @10:37 FinOps slack channels had some chatter in regards to the Amazon spot market pricing increases. For the past couple weeks prices have continued to grow in US East 1, US AP Southeast 1A, and European servers (which are always more expensive anyway) among others. Justin discusses his ideas for why this is the case. Surprisingly (or not surprisingly at all) most of his theoretical reasons for these prices increases are pretty cynical &#8211; but they include capacity constraints in the supply chain, Amazon limiting additional buying because they’re going into earnings, and (most

AWS Puts Up a New VPC Lattice to Ease the Growth of Your Connectivity AKA Welcome to April (how is it April already?) This week, Justin, Jonathan, and Matt are your guides through all the latest and greatest in Cloud news; including VPC Lattice from AWS, the one and only time we’ll talk about Service Catalog, and an ultra premium DDoS experience. All this week on The Cloud Pod. This week’s alternate title(s): AWS Finally makes service catalogs good with Terraform Amazon continues to believe retailers with supply chain will give all their data to them Azure copies your data from S3… AWS copies your data from Azure Blobs… or how I set money on fire with data egress charges News this Week: AWS @00:56 &#8211; Lots from AWS – Terraform and Service Catalog, Supply Chain and its crazy pricing, and VPC Lattice &#8211;Self-service provisioning of Terraform open source configured with AWS Service Catalog. This means you can define your service catalog resources with either cloud formation *or* Terraform. And yes, Service Catalog inception is potentially a viable thing. Matt: “It’s useful when you want to give people who don’t know what they’re doing very specific things; if you’re in a large organization, really just defining exactly what people can do…but to me it really starts to remove a lot of the innovation… but if you really want your teams to leverage the cloud and innovate I feel like it does start to limit some of the different aspects of the cloud.” Justin: “Don’t drink the ITSM kool-aid on Service Catalog.” @ 04:32 &#8211; AWS Supply Chain is now generally available; and yes, this is the same Supply Chain that was introduced at re:Invent. AWS says it will help mitigate risks, lower costs, increase visibility and help give actual insights on the supply chain. -Honestly, we’re talking about Supply Chain because the pricing is all over the place. For example, the first 100,000 Supply Chain insights are .40/each; the next 900,000 are .13/each, and over 900,000 its .065/each. @ 09:26 &#8211; VPC Lattice is finally here! Also announced at re:Invent, this gives you the ability to connect, secure, &amp; monitor communications between services. It also gives the ability to refine policies for both traffic management and network access. -Since the announcement, a few new capabilities have been added, including the ability to use custom domains, deploy open source AWS gateway API controllers to use Lattice with a Kubernetes-native experience, as well as giving the ability to configure SSL/TLS certificates when using HTTPS that matches the custom domain. You can also: use the Kubernetes gateway API to connect services across multiple clusters use an ALB or an NLB as a target for service support IPv6 connectivity with IP address target type -be confused by pricing Justin: “Their examples of Lattice pricing hurts my brain just a little bit.” @ 13:36 &#8211; Guard Duty now supports Amazon EKS Runtime monitoring, which lets you detect Runtime threats from over 30 security findings via an EKS add on, which gives increased visibility on individual container Runtime activity. Guard Duty can tell you which potenti

Andrew Krug from Datadog In this episode, Andrew Krug talks about Datadog as a security observability tool, shedding light on some of its applications as well as its benefits to engineers. Andrew is the lead in Datadog Security Advocacy and Datadog Security Labs. Also a Cloud Security consultant, he started the Threat Response Project, a toolkit for Amazon Web Services first responders. Andrew has also spoken at Black Hat USA, DEFCON, re:Invent, and other platforms.. DataDog Product Overview Datadog is focused on bringing security to engineering teams, not just security people. One of the biggest advantages of Datadog or other vendors is how they ingest and normalize various log sources. It can be very challenging to maintain a reasonable data structure for logs ingested from cloud providers. Vendors try to provide customers with enough signals that they feel they are getting value while trying not to flood them with unactionable alerts. Also, considering the cloud friendliness for the stack is crucial for clients evaluating a new product. Datadog is active in the open-source community and gives back to groups like the Cloud native computing foundation. One of their popular open-source security tools created is Stratus-red-team which simulates the techniques of attackers in a clean room environment. The criticality of findings is becoming a major topic. It is necessary when evaluating that criticality is based on how much risk applies to the business, and what can be done. One of the things that teams struggle with as high maturity DevOps is trying to automate incident handling or response to critical alerts as this can cause Configuration Drift which is why there is a lot of hesitation to fully automate things. Having someone to make hard choices is at the heart of incident handling processes. Datadog Cloud SIEM was created to help customers who were already customers of logs. Datadog SIEM is also very easy to use such that without being a security expert, the UI is simple. It is quite difficult to deploy a SIEM on completely unstructured logs, hence being able to extract and normalize data to a set of security attributes is highly beneficial. Interestingly, the typical boring hygienic issues that are easy to detect still cause major problems for very large companies. This is where posture management comes in to address issues on time and prevent large breaches. Generally, Datadog is inclined towards moving these detections closer to the data that they are securing, and examining the application run time in real-time to verify that there are no issues. Datadog would be helpful to solve IAM challenges through CSPM which evaluates policies. For engineering teams, the benefit is seen in how information surfaces in areas where they normally look, especially with Datadog Security products where Issues are sorted in order of importance. Security Observability Day is coming up on the 18th of April when Datadog products will be highlighted; the link to sign up is available on the Datadog Twitter page and Datadog community Slack. To find out more, reach out to Andrew on Twitter @andrewkrug and on the Datadog Security Labs w

This week on the podcast, Justin, Jonathan and Ryan are joined by Matt Kohn and can be found chatting about all things microservices and containers &#8211; including new Security Copilot features. In our cloud journeys, we discuss just what defines a microservice (spoiler: the guys actually agree for once) and whether or not those microservices require containers. Also on the agenda, IS Kubernetes the new Monolith? News this Week: @4:00 &#8211; HashiCorp has announced quite a few updates for Terraform, including a number of innovations for the cloud version. This includes: -A *new version of the UI (*not actually new if you use the cloud version) and a new cross organizational provider, which will allow users to share via a private registry across an organization. -They introduced Projects, which will give the ability to organize workspaces and ownership boundaries within Terraform. -An Auth update will give enhanced integration between Terraform and GitHub.com -But wait, there’s more from HashiCorp! Among the updates is a new and improved pipeline model called the TFE Taskworker. This will let Terraform offer features like OPA support, dynamic provider credentials, and drift detection. From Justin: “And OPA is exactly what you thought &#8211; they’re getting rid of Sentinel. No. They’re not. They’re giving you OPA AND Sentinel so you can use either/or or both of them.” Terraform Enterprise adds projects, drift detection, and more AWS @7:57 In AWS News &#8211; We discussed a few weeks ago the new app migration service from AWS; well, they’ve added three new features! -Import/Export: You can use the App Migration Service to import source environment inventory list from a CSV file (snazzy!) as well as exporting that same data for reporting purposes, offline reviews, and update integration. &#8211; New dashboard for server migration metrics and added 8 additional predefined actions, such as converting licenses to Amazon licensing. &#8211; ALB’s now support TLS 1.3 (Did anyone else realize they hadn’t already offered that update?) Matt: “I think what scares me more is the Windows update version; they have a runbook that will just do the upgrade for you. I feel like that **definitely** will never end well.” AWS Application Migration Service Major Updates: Import and Export Feature, Source Server Migration Metrics Dashboard, and Additional Post-Launch Actions GCP @14:04 &#8211; Nothing of interest from GCP this week. Still trying to get Bard to work, go figure. Google recently discussed their “shared agenda for sensible AI progress” which is essentially an “if you can’t beat ‘em &#8211; regulate ‘em” ideology. SIDENOTE: Weird Amazon returns policies SIDENOTE: AI Startup Replika &#8211; it goes where you think it does. (Hint: Where the internet ALWAYS goes.) Azure @ 20:19 &#8211; Moving on to Azure &#8211; Microsoft’s inaugural Security event says they are “bringing the power of AI to security” but *are* they? The announcement doesn’t tell us much, but it essentially marries GPT to Security Copilot. But is this really a product they need to be selling? The guys discuss what GOOD AI integration would look like for InfoSec. Ryan: “I can’t get the image out of my head of Clippy wearing a badge saying ‘Would you like to open a Sev1 incident’?” Justin: “Just because you have the big partnership with Open AI for billions of dollars doesn’t mean every one of your products has to get AI in a b

On this episode of The Cloud Pod, the team discusses the new Amazon Linux 2023, Google Bard, new features of Google Chronicle Security Operations, GPT-4 from Azure Open AI, and Oracle&#8217;s Kubernetes platform comparison. They also talk about cloud-native architecture as a way to adapt applications for a pivot to the cloud. A big thanks to this week’s sponsor, Foghorn Consulting, which provides full-stack cloud solutions with a focus on strategy, planning and execution for enterprises seeking to take advantage of the transformative capabilities of AWS, Google Cloud and Azure. This week’s highlights AWS: Amazon announces General Availability of Amazon Linux 2023. GCP: New capabilities available on Google Chronicle Security Operations Azure: Azure announces preview of GPT-4 in Azure Open AI Service. Oracle: Oracle compares its Kubernetes platform with that of Hyperscalers. Top Quotes &#8220;The goal of Cloud Native architecture is to develop scalable resilient ports of applications that you can easily deploy and manage in a modern Cloud environment&#8221; &#8220;You maximize the benefits of the platform you&#8217;re on and you minimize the weaknesses of it when you design for that platform&#8221; &#8220;There&#8217;s nothing that prevents you from going to the cloud if you&#8217;re not cloud-native, I just think you don&#8217;t get the advantages of the cloud native and what the cloud brings to you&#8221; AWS: Amazon announces General Availability of Amazon Linux 2023. Amazon Linux 2023, a Cloud-Optimized Linux Distribution with Long-Term Support This third generation of Amazon Linux Distributions includes security policies to apply the common industry guidelines. GCP: New capabilities available on Google Chronicle Security Operations. 0&#x20e3; Chronicle Security Operations Feature Roundup These New features enable a speedy response to threats. Azure: Azure announces preview of GPT-4 in Azure Open AI Service. 0&#x20e3; Introducing GPT-4 in Azure OpenAI Service As billing starts on the 1st of April, customers can begin harnessing Open AI&#8217;s most advanced model. Oracle: Oracle compares its Kubernetes platform with that of Hyperscalers. 0&#x20e3; Kubernetes cloud cost comparison: Who provides the best value? They highlight both serverless and managed K8 services and compare some specific services offered by both. The Cloud Journey Series; Cloud Native Architecture. Cloud-Native architecture is an approach to building and running applications that use Cloud computing principles and technologies. Some benefits are scalability, reduced time to market, better utilization of resources, integrated management and monitoring as well as efficiency with large or small-scale work. While it is possible to move to the cloud without being cloud-native, the benefits may be reduced and there are no provisions for the typical challenges in the cloud space. <h

On this episode of The Cloud Pod, the team discusses Amazon Pi Day, Google&#8217;s upcoming I/O conference, the agricultural data manager by Microsoft, and the downturn in net profits of Oracle. They also round up cloud migrations by highlighting tools from different cloud service providers that are useful for the process. A big thanks to this week’s sponsor, Foghorn Consulting, which provides full-stack cloud solutions with a focus on strategy, planning and execution for enterprises seeking to take advantage of the transformative capabilities of AWS, Google Cloud and Azure. This week’s highlights AWS: Amazon celebrates Pi Day with live twitch streams. GCP: Google announces their I/O conference to take place near their headquarters in Mountain View. Azure:To increase global food production, Microsoft has created an agricultural data manager. Oracle: Net income for Oracle this quarter dropped to 1.9 billion. Top Quotes &#8220;It&#8217;s been the thorn in the side of every migration I&#8217;ve been a part of… &#8216;how are we going to operate FTP securely in the cloud?&#8221; &#8220;It is not about where you are in the future to Amazon, it&#8217;s about where you are today… that&#8217;s why Google and Azure have some success seen as Amazon because they come in and they realize the true long-term value of the customer not the immediate short-term value of the Amazon approach&#8221; AWS: Amazon celebrates Pi Day with live twitch streams. Celebrate Amazon S3’s 17th birthday at AWS Pi Day 2023 They also announced 7 new capabilities across their data services. GCP: Google announces their I/O conference to take place near their headquarters in Mountain View. 0&#x20e3; Google I/O 2023 developer conference to kick off on May 10 The full agenda will be published in the next few weeks. Azure: To increase global food production, Microsoft has created an agricultural data manager. 0&#x20e3; Announcing Microsoft Azure Data Manager for Agriculture: Accelerating innovation across the agriculture value chain With the rising rate of hunger, this manager will provide solutions by maximizing agricultural data. Oracle: Net income for Oracle this quarter dropped to 1.9 billion. 0&#x20e3; Oracle’s stock heads south on revenue shortfall Despite the drop, and the gap from other cloud providers, they only slightly missed Wall Street expectations. The Cloud Journey Series; Cloud Migration Tools. The final part of Cloud Migrations Migrations; cloud tools to help with your migration. AWS has the highest amount of tools for cloud migrations; GCP and Azure also have some useful tools, but the least is OCI Foghorn Consulting can help clients with planning out their migration program. Oth

In this episode, Ravi Mayuram highlights the functionality of Couchbase as an evolutionary database platform, citing several simple day-to-day use cases and particular advantages of Couchbase. Ravi Mayuram is CTO of Couchbase. He is an accomplished engineering executive with a passion for creating and delivering game-changing products for startups as well as Fortune-500 industry-leading companies. Notes Couchbase set out to build a next-generation database. Data has evolved greatly with IT advancements. The goal was to build a database that will connect people to the newer technologies, addressing problems that relational systems did not have to solve. The fundamental shift is that earlier systems were internally focused, built for trained users but now the systems are built directly for consumers. This shift also plays out in the vast difference in the number of consumers now interacting with these systems compared to the fewer trained users previously interacting with the systems. One of the key factors that sets Couchbase apart is the No-SQL Database. It is a database that has evolved by combining five systems; a Cache and Key-value store, a Document store, a Relational document store, a Search system, and an Analytical system. Secondly, Couchbase performs well in the geo-distributed manner such that with one click, data is made available across availability zones. Lastly, all of this can be done at a large scale in seconds. Regarding the global database concept that Google talks about, a globally consistent database may not be needed by most companies. The performance will be the biggest problem as transaction speed will be considerably low. Couchbase does these transactions locally within the data center and replicates them on the other side. The main issue of relational systems is that they make you pay the price of every transaction no matter how minor, but with Couchbase, it is possible to pay only the cost only with certain crucial transactions. Edge has become a part of the enterprise architecture even such that people now have edge-based solutions. Two edges are emerging; the Network edge and the Tool edge where people are interfacing. Couchbase has built a mobile database available on devices, with sync capability. As a consumer, the primary advantage of bringing data closer to the consumer is the latency issue. Often, data has to go through firewalls and multiple steps which delays it but this is the benefit of Couchbase. The user simply continues to have access to the data while Couchbase synchronizes the data in the back. One of the applications of Couchbase in healthcare is insulin tracking. With many devices that monitor insulin which must work everywhere you go, Couchbase Lite does the insulin tracking, keeps the data even in the absence of a network, and later syncs it for review by healthcare professionals. This is also useful in operating rooms where the network is not accessible. The real benefit is seen when the data eventually gets back to the server and can be interpreted to make decisions on patient care. The Couchbase Capella Service runs in the cloud and allows clients to specify what data should be sent to the edge and what should not be. This offers privacy and security measures, such that even in the loss or damage of a device, the data is secure and can be recovered. To effectively manage edge in devices, a lot of problems must be addressed to make it easier. One of the concerns for anyone coming into Couchbase Capella is the expense of data extraction from the cloud, however, Couchbase is available on all three cloud providers. Also, with Couchbase, there is no need to keep replicating data as you can work on the data without moving it, which largely saves costs. Other use cases for Couchbase inclu

On this episode of The Cloud Pod, the team talks about the new AWS region in Malaysia, the launch of AWS App Composer, the expansion of spanner database capabilities, the release of a vision AI by Microsoft; Florence Foundation Model, and the three migration techniques to the cloud space. A big thanks to this week’s sponsor, Foghorn Consulting, which provides full-stack cloud solutions with a focus on strategy, planning and execution for enterprises seeking to take advantage of the transformative capabilities of AWS, Google Cloud and Azure. This week’s highlights AWS: AWS announces upcoming region in Malaysia. GCP: Google launches new capabilities to Spanners regional and multi-regional capabilities Azure: The Florence Foundation Model from Microsoft.. Top Quotes &#8220;I think that these migration projects end up getting sort of pigeonholed over time into things that they&#8217;re not&#8221; &#8220;The reality is like &#8216;What are you really trying to get out of your migration for the business?&#8221; &#8220;The hybrid migration model lets you realize the benefits of cloud incrementally as you go&#8221; AWS: AWS announces upcoming region in Malaysia. AWS Region in Malaysia This region is expected to have 3 AZ&#8217;s but there is no timeline for when it will come online GCP: Google launches new capabilities to Spanner’s regional and multi-regional capabilities. 0&#x20e3; Rapidly expand the reach of Spanner databases with read-only replicas and zero-downtime moves These include Configurable read-only replicas, Spanner&#8217;s zero-downtime instance, and the more affordable cost of multi-regional configurations. Azure: The Florence Foundation Model from Microsoft. 0&#x20e3; Announcing a renaissance in computer vision AI with Microsoft&#8217;s Florence foundation model This new vision AI helps customers connect their data to natural language interactions to gain insights from their image and video resources. The Cloud Journey Series; Cloud Migration Techniques There are three Migration Techniques; Hybrid, Cloud Native, and VMWare Migrations. One common mistake people make is believing they won&#8217;t get value from the migration till it is completed. Generally, it may be hard to decide which is the most successful because this depends on the definition of success as applied to individual businesses. Other Headlines Mentioned: AWS Application Composer Now Generally Available – Visually Build Serverless Applications Quickly Subscribe to AWS Daily Feature Updates via Amazon SNS Azure WAF guide

On this episode of The Cloud Pod, the team talks about the possible replacement of CEO Sundar Pichai after Alphabet stock went up by just 1.9%, the new support feature of Amazon EKS for Kubernetes, three partner specializations just released by Google, and how clients have responded to the AI Powered Bing and Microsoft Edge. A big thanks to this week’s sponsor, Foghorn Consulting, which provides full-stack cloud solutions with a focus on strategy, planning and execution for enterprises seeking to take advantage of the transformative capabilities of AWS, Google Cloud and Azure. This week’s highlights AWS: The new Amazon EKS release: the &#8220;combiner&#8221;. GCP: Google rolls out new partner specializations Azure: Microsoft releases AI-Powered Bing and Microsoft Edge. Top Quotes &#8220;It&#8217;s always going to be a race for these cloud providers to manage every software, in general, to stay up to date because it&#8217;s challenging&#8221; AWS: The new Amazon EKS release: the &#8220;combiner&#8221;.. Amazon EKS now supports Kubernetes version 1.25 The most notable change in version 1.25 is the removal of Pod Security Policies PSPs. GCP: Google rolls out new partner specializations. 0&#x20e3; Three new Specializations help partners digitally transform customers These new specializations are Datacenter modernization services, DevOps services and Contact Center AI services. Azure: Microsoft releases AI-Powered Bing and Microsoft Edge. 0&#x20e3; The new Bing preview experience arrives on Bing and Edge Mobile apps; introducing Bing now in Skype With positive feedback, they will be launching the Bing and Edge mobile apps. Other Headlines Mentioned: Alphabet Needs to Replace Sundar Pichai Announcing Amazon ECS Task Definition Deletion New – Amazon Lightsail for Research with All-in-One Research Environments Microsoft Azure innovation powers leading price-performance for SQL Server AWS Security Hub launches 7 new security best practice controls AWS App Runner introduces web application firewall (WAF) support for enhanced security <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/02/aws-sam-connectors-multiple-destinations/" target="

Revolutionizing Observability with New Relic In this episode, Daniel explains a new strategy towards observability aimed at contextualizing large volumes of data to make it easier for users to identify the root cause of problems with their systems. Daniel Kim is a Principal Developer Relations Engineer at New Relic and the founder of Bit Project, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to making tech accessible to under-served communities. His job is basically to get developers excited about Observability, and he hopes to inspire students to maximize their potential in tech through inclusive, accessible developer education. He is passionate about diversity and inclusion in tech, good food, and dad jokes. Show Notes First, it is important to differentiate between monitoring and observability. Monitoring is basically when a code is instrumented to send data to a backend, to give answers to preconceived questions. With Observability, the goal is to monitor your system so as to later ask questions that were not in mind during the instrumentation of the system. Hence, if something new comes up you can find the root cause without modifying the code. There are so many levels of things to check when troubleshooting to find the cause of a problem, and this is where observability comes in. There are different use cases for logs, metrics, and traces; Logs are files that record events, warnings, or errors however logs are ephemeral which means there is increased risk of losing a lot of data. A system needs to be in place to move logs to a central source. Another issue with logs is that it is poorly structured data. Logs are good to have as the last step of observability. Metrics and traces can however help to narrow down where to search in the logs to solve an issue. Metrics are measurements that reflect the performance or health of your applications. They give an overview of how the systems are doing but tend to not be very specific in finding the root cause of a problem; other forms of data have to be adopted to get a clear picture. This is where Traces come in. Traces are pieces of data that track a request as it goes through the system. Because of this, they can identify the root cause of an error or bottlenecks slowing down the system. However, they are very expensive and as such sampling is used when tracing but this reduces the accuracy of traces. Correlating information from logs, metrics, and traces gives a full clear picture for debugging to be carried out successfully. A lot of New Relic customers strive to get more pieces of data to get errors faster. To balance the right data at the right time with the right cost, the first step when collecting large amounts of data is to find out how your organization is leveraging the data. A quick audit of the data to identify useful data is helpful. This can be done monthly or quarterly. Unstructured logs are difficult to aggregate In the cloud native space, being able to be compatible with as many people as possible will determine the winners because there are many projects people use in production. Projects that are compatible with many other projects are the way forward. APM is still very useful to understand application performance and in the future, data from all sources will be correlated to figure out the cause of a problem. Getting value very early from the system involves having a solid infrastructure and installing APM. The real power of full stack observability is getting data from different parts of your stack so you can diagnose what part of your system is going wrong. Leveraging AI to make sense of large amounts of data for engineers is going to be a huge plus. A lot of vendors claim that their alert systems will automatically generate all alerts for you but this is not true because they would not know your

On this episode of The Cloud Pod, the team discusses the AWS systems manager default enablement option for all EC2 instances in an account, different ideas from leveraging innovators plus subscription using $500 Google credits, the Azure Open Source Day, the new theme for the Oracle OCI Console, and lastly, different ways to migrate to a cloud provider. A big thanks to this week’s sponsor, Foghorn Consulting, which provides full-stack cloud solutions with a focus on strategy, planning and execution for enterprises seeking to take advantage of the transformative capabilities of AWS, Google Cloud and Azure. This week’s highlights AWS: AWS systems manager has a new default enablement option for all EC2 instances. GCP: Leveraging the innovators plus subscription to create ideas on how to use Google cloud credits. Azure: About Azure Open Source Day Oracle: Oracle redesigns OCI Console UI Top Quotes &#8220;There&#8217;s a lot to understand about your product and the way it works before you can even think about a cloud migration&#8221; &#8220;In the cloud, we always tell to plan for failure&#8221; &#8220;If you&#8217;re selling to your business the need to innovate… and you&#8217;re going to move on a cloud journey, then you need to actually deliver on those things&#8221; AWS: AWS systems manager has a new default enablement option for all EC2 instances Announcing the ability to enable AWS Systems Manager by default across all EC2 instances in an account Using DHMC, core system manager capabilities are now available to all EC2 instances in an account. GCP: Leveraging the innovators plus subscription to create ideas on how to use Google cloud credits 0&#x20e3; What would you build with $500 in Google Cloud credits included with Innovators Plus The innovators plus subscription offers $500 in credits and vouchers for certification. Azure: About Azure Open Source Day 0&#x20e3; 7 reasons to join us at Azure Open Source Day This virtual event will take place on the 7th of March from 9 to 10:30. Join the Azure Collective on Stack Overflow Oracle: Oracle redesigns OCI Console UI 0&#x20e3; Introducing Redwood Theming for Oracle Cloud Although the changes are cosmetic, usability enhancements are expected. . The Cloud Journey Series; Cloud Migrations Cloud migration means moving your workload to a cloud provider, and the first part of this journey is the discovery phase. After inventory and assessment, the next step is to decide exactly how to move to the cloud which can be any one of five methods. It is imperative to consider your products and existing operational processes when migrating to a cloud provider.. Other Headlines Mentioned: <a href="https://awsteele.com/blog/2

EKS on Snow Devices On this episode of The Cloud Pod, the team highlights the new Graviton3-based images for users of AWS, new ways provided by Google to pay for its cloud services, the new partnership between Azure and the Finops Foundation, as well as Oracle&#8217;s new cloud banking, and the automation of CCOE. A big thanks to this week’s sponsor, Foghorn Consulting, which provides full-stack cloud solutions with a focus on strategy, planning and execution for enterprises seeking to take advantage of the transformative capabilities of AWS, Google Cloud and Azure. This week’s highlights AWS: Users now have access to the new Graviton3-based images. GCP: Google provides new ways to pay for Google Cloud Service. Azure: Microsoft becomes a premier member of the Governing board at the Finops Foundation. Oracle: Oracle introduces Oracle Banking Cloud Services Top Quotes &#8220;It&#8217;s important to sort of have that structure; even if you&#8217;re starting with a single account or project, you want to make sure you&#8217;re building something that can grow to multiples as you keep it&#8221; &#8220;There&#8217;s lots of things that you want to probably be automating; all the policies, all the governance, how you validate membership… that should all be really thought about from an automation perspective from day one&#8221; AWS: Users now have access to the new Graviton3-based images. New Graviton3-Based General Purpose (m7g) and Memory-Optimized (r7g) Amazon EC2 Instances The new M7g and R7g come in medium to 16xlarge. GCP: Google provides new ways to pay for Google Cloud Service. 0&#x20e3; Introducing new cloud services and pricing for ultimate flexibility Flex Agreements and Flexible Cuds were also announced in relation to this. Azure: Microsoft becomes a premier member of the Governing board at the Finops Foundation. 0&#x20e3; Microsoft joins the FinOps Foundation Azure hopes to define specifications and help evolve best practices globally Oracle: Oracle introduces Oracle Banking Cloud Services. 0&#x20e3; Redefining Banking SaaS—Introducing Oracle Banking Cloud Services Their approach is defined by 9 core elements related to security, resilience, reliability, cost-effectiveness, and others. . The Cloud Journey Series; The Cloud Center of Excellence (CCOE) This final installment of CCOE focuses on automating the CCOE and tracking CCOE metrics for adoption. Tagging is a crucial part of the security, access, or cost management strategy, which should be developed early, and as such cloud resources should be retrofitted for it and older ones should be tagged. One of the ways for a CCOE to demonstrate its value through automation is the metrics of adoption. Other Headlines Mentioned: <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/announcing-general-availability-of-amaz

AI Products &amp; Earnings On this episode of The Cloud Pod, the team talks about the announcement of Amazon VPC resource map, Google&#8217;s new AI product, the new Bing AI-powered search engine, and why multiple accounts are necessary for data centers to carry out work seamlessly in the cloud. A big thanks to this week’s sponsor, Foghorn Consulting, which provides full-stack cloud solutions with a focus on strategy, planning and execution for enterprises seeking to take advantage of the transformative capabilities of AWS, Google Cloud and Azure. This week’s highlights AWS: AWS announces Amazon VPC resource map GCP: Sundar introduces Google&#8217;s new AI product, Google Bard. Azure: Microsoft announces the resurgence of Bing now powered by Open AI and Edge browser. Top Quotes &#8220;How was Google the first one to start looking into AI and still be late to the market?&#8221; &#8220;That&#8217;s why you have a center of excellence; they&#8217;re positioned centrally to be able to orchestrate all the different moving parts and be able to facilitate the communication between all the different projects and parts of not only your business but also your cloud provider&#8217;s business as well&#8221; &#8220;I think it&#8217;s important to not try to answer the next ten years of problems but also to try to build in circuit breakers or flexibility into your designs so that you can quickly adapt&#8221; AWS: AWS announces Amazon VPC resource map. New – Visualize Your VPC Resources from Amazon VPC Creation Experience This feature shows users their existing VPC resources and routing on a single page in order to simplify VPC creation on AWS. GCP: Sundar introduces Google&#8217;s new AI product, Google Bard. 0&#x20e3; An important next step on our AI journey It is a conversational AI service, powered by LaMDA, being made available to trusted testers before the public. Azure: Microsoft announces the resurgence of Bing now powered by Open AI and Edge browser. 0&#x20e3; Reinventing search with a new AI-powered Microsoft Bing and Edge, your copilot for the web The new Bing search engine will include a new chat experience and better search with complete answers, as well as other features. The Cloud Journey Series; The Cloud Center of Excellence (CCOE) The complexity of the workload being managed at data centers makes multiple accounts imperative for ease of processing. Despite the evolution in projects and accounts, there are some poorly thought out aspects, for example, shared VPC. The onus is on cloud users to identify what they need to communicate intrasystem and what they can have in complete isolation. Other Headlines Mentioned: Google suffered ‘pullback’ in ad spending over holidays, Alphabet stock falls after earnings <a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/amazon-stock-falls-after-earnings-miss-shows-worst-annual-loss-on-record-least-profitable-hol

Spatial Simulations with AWS SimSpace Weaver In this episode, Peter sits with Rahul Thakkar to discuss the revolutionary AWS SimSpace Weaver, highlighting its unique function and applications across several industries. Rahul Thakkar is the Director and General Manager of Simulation Technologies at Amazon Web Services. Before AWS, he held multiple executive roles at Boeing, Brivo, PIXIA, and DreamWorks Animation. He is an inventor, and global technology executive with a background in cloud computing, distributed and high-performance computing, media and entertainment, film, television, defense and intelligence, aerospace, and access control. His film credits include Shrek, Antz, and Legend of Bagger Vance. In 2002, he was part of the team that won an Academy Award for Shrek as the Best Animated Feature. Again in 2016, at the 88th Annual Academy Awards, Thakkar received a Technical Achievement Award. Notes AWS SimSpace Weaver enables customers to run extremely large-scale spatial simulations without having to manage any of the underlying infrastructure. It also removes the complexity of state management of entities as they move about the simulation. Previously, carrying out such simulations would be done sequentially, in a cumbersome manner over years but now it can be done in parallel in weeks. Different organizations have tried out this functionality for several scenarios and the results have been amazing. This value was largely made possible due to the approach of working with customer feedback. Rahul&#8217;s interest in the cloud came much later in his career which started initially in the R&amp;D department of the Motion Picture industry where he created many of the complex graphics in movies. He later moved into a small start-up that was developing technologies for satellite imagery and mapping, and from here he moved to aerospace. Generally, he observed the problem that it is very expensive for companies to maintain their infrastructure when dealing with simulations. It also would drain resources and distract from the main focus of the company. Eventually, knew he had to use AWS, and now he works with them. All the other primitive tools within AWS are being consumed to build the service. There is also the ability to write to S3 so that customers can write the simulations out. This helps customers to remember how the simulation played out. Relating this new service to the metaverse, Rahul believes that when it comes to the metaverse, each organization has its vision of what it should be. However, AWS built the tools to empower these organizations to build their metaverses. Despite the possibility of having competition from Azure or GCP, the focus of AWS would remain on the customer and their needs, innovation on their behalf. Identifying new problems that the service would be very applicable for is a great challenge that AWS relies on customers for, to help AWS envision where they want to go with the service. There are definitely many companies running simulations but it is hard to predict how many would migrate to the AWS SimSpace Weaver because it is still a new product. Nonetheless, a lot of industries are interested in this new service. These include smart cities, organizations ranging from local to federal or international, logistics and supply chains, large-scale event planning, or any situation where there is a need to simulate a large problem with digital replicas of the real world. Top Quotes &#8220;The fact that we worked from the customer backwards is something that allowed us to deliver the kind of value that they&#8217;re getting right now with AWS SimSpace Weaver&#8221;

Applying and Maximizing Observability In this episode, Christine talks about her company, Honeycomb which runs on AWS, with the goal of promoting observability for clients interested in the performance of their code or those trying to identify problem areas that need to be corrected. Christine Yen is the Co-Founder and CEO of Honeycomb. Before founding Honeycomb, she built analytics products at Parse/Facebook and loved writing software to separate signals from noise. Christine delights in being a developer in a room full of ops folks. Outside of work, Christine is kept busy by her two dogs and wants your sci-fi &amp; fantasy book recommendations. Notes Honeycomb is an observability platform that helps customers understand why their code is behaving differently from what they expected. The inspiration behind this software came after Christine’s previous company was acquired by Facebook and they realized how software made it very easy to identify problems in large code data within a short time. This encouraged them to build the tool and make it available to all engineers. If the first wave of DevOps was Ops-people learning how to automate their working code, the second wave would be helping developers learn to operate their code. Honeycomb is designed intentionally to ensure that all types of engineers can make sense of the tool. Honeycomb has always come up with ways for customers to use AWS products and get the data reflected in Honeycomb to be manipulated. Over the last few months, they have ensured that it is possible for clients to plug into CloudWatch Log and CloudWatch metrics, and redirect data directly from AWS products into Honeycomb instead. Clients can also use Honeycomb to extract data based on what their applications are doing. This applies to performance optimization, experimentation, or any situation where a company wants to try a code to see how it performs on production. The focus remains on the application layer. Before Honeycomb, no one was using observability in this context. The pricing of Honeycomb is based on the volume of data, which makes it predictable and understandable. Unlike when the pricing scale is based on the fidelity of the data, which can be quite expensive. Challenges within the observability space: The question is how to help new engineers learn from the seasoned engineers on the team through paper trails left by the seasoned engineers. This is a problem that can only be solved by enabling teams to orient new engineers on their systems without having to create another question as part of the code. Building an AI Approach in Honeycomb may not be suitable because of the context involved, since training effective machine learning models relies on a vast amount of easily classifiable data and this does not apply in the world of software; every engineering team&#8217;s systems are different from every other engineering team&#8217;s systems. Honeycomb is interested in using Al to build these models in order to help users know what questions to ask. With Honeycomb, usage patterns are much more dependent on the curiosity and proficiency of the engineering team; while some engineers who are used to getting answers directly may just leave the software, those who have a culture of asking questions will benefit more from it. Top Quotes &#8220;Not having to predict ahead of time what matters, is making such a difference in our ability as engineers to get ahead of issues, identify them quickly, resolve them&#8221; &#8220;We&#8217;re out of a world where any individual engineer holds the entire system in their head&#8221; &#8220;Observability is the only way forward as we make our worlds ever less predictable&#8221;

On this episode of The Cloud Pod, the team discusses the upcoming 2023 in-person Google Cloud conference, the accessibility of AWS CloudTrail Lake for non-AWS activity events, the new updates from Azure Chaos studio, and the comparison between Oracle Cloud service and other Cloud providers. They also highlight the application and importance of VPCs in CCOE. A big thanks to this week’s sponsor, Foghorn Consulting, which provides full-stack cloud solutions with a focus on strategy, planning and execution for enterprises seeking to take advantage of the transformative capabilities of AWS, Google Cloud and Azure. This week’s highlights AWS: AWS CloudTrail Lake now allows users to consolidate, immutably store, and analyze activity events from non-AWS sources. GCP: Google Cloud 2023 Next conference will be in-person. Azure: New updates are available in the Azure Chaos studio. Oracle: Oracle creates a page comparing its cloud services with AWS and others. Top Quotes &#8220;A transit gateway effectively is saying we&#8217;re going to let you make multiple VPCs into one VPC, which is awesome&#8221; &#8220;When you&#8217;re designing VPC networking, make sure you&#8217;re aware of the cost involved in cross-zone communication because it&#8217;s not free and it can be quite significant&#8221; AWS: AWS CloudTrail Lake now allows users to analyze activity events from non-AWS sources. New – AWS CloudTrail Lake Supports Ingesting Activity Events From Non-AWS Sources Initially, AWS cloud lake was a service to access, analyze and store user and API activity from AWS as a source, but now users can set up custom events or integrate with other providers. GCP: Google Cloud 2023 Next conference will be in-person. 0&#x20e3; Google Cloud Next This will be the first in-person Next conference since 2019. Azure: New updates are available in the Azure Chaos studio. 0&#x20e3; Chaos studio &#8211; Public preview updates for January 2023 These updates include the availability of dynamic targeting, enabling service tags, VMSS SHutdown 2.0, and others. Oracle: Oracle creates a page comparing its cloud services with AWS and others. 0&#x20e3; Compare cloud services across OCI and other cloud providers, highlighting its equivalents to AWS, Azure and GCP The Cloud Journey Series; The Cloud Center of Excellence (CCOE) VPC means Virtual Private Cloud and is a service tied to almost every aspect of the cloud, especially in AWS. Security requirements are crucial to consider with VPCs which would include ACLs and VPC Flow Logs. Another consideration for VPCs is connectivity back to your private data center which may be through a VPN connection or a direct connect point-to-point from a third party or your data center into the cloud provider itself. Other Headlines Mentioned: Native OP

On this episode of The Cloud Pod, the team sits to talk about AWS&#8217;s new patching policies, the general availability of Azure OpenAI, and the role of addressing IM or access management challenges in ensuring the seamless transition to the Cloud. A big thanks to this week’s sponsor, Foghorn Consulting, which provides full-stack cloud solutions with a focus on strategy, planning and execution for enterprises seeking to take advantage of the transformative capabilities of AWS, Google Cloud and Azure. This week’s highlights AWS announces new patching policies, Azure OpenAI service is now generally available. IM/Access Management in CCOE&#8230; Top Quotes &#8220;I think it(access management) should be the first challenge that&#8217;s tackled, and I usually try to approach it as such but it&#8217;s also sort of hard to do when it starts off as an experiment…and you have to retrofit it in” AWS: Announcement of new patching policies AWS Systems Manager announces Patch Policies, enabling cross account and cross Region patching This allows users to deploy policies to enforce patch compliance across their AWS accounts and regions&#8230; Azure: Azure OPN AI service is now generally available. 0&#x20e3; General availability of Azure OpenAI Service expands access to large, advanced AI models with added enterprise benefits 0&#x20e3; This is Close to Jonathan&#8217;s prediction that Azure will launch a ChatGPT service, and more businesses can now access the most advanced AI models with pricing based on the mode of use.. The Cloud Journey Series; The Cloud Center of Excellence (CCOE) IM or Access management should be the first area people look at and the first challenge to be tackled, while also defining data protection boundaries. CCOE also provides the opportunity to identify activities in production that are unnecessary and should be changed. Permissions are the least important part of your IM journey; permissions change and would need to be evaluated continually. Other Headlines Mentioned: Announcing the general availability of AWS Local Zones in Perth and Santiago AWS Clean Rooms is now available in preview AWS announces changes to AWS Billing, Cost Management, and Account consoles permissions AWS CloudTrail vulnerability: Undocumented API allows CloudTrail bypass EC2 Image Builder adds Center for Internet Security (CIS) Benchmarks for security hardening of Amazon Machine Images <a href="https://aws.amazon.com

On The Cloud Pod this week, Amazon announces massive corporate and tech lay offs and S3 Encrypts New Objects By Default, BigQuery multi-statement transactions are now generally available, and Microsoft announces acquisition of Fungible to accelerate datacenter innovation. Thank you to our sponsor, Foghorn Consulting, which provides top notch cloud and DevOps engineers to the world’s most innovative companies. Initiatives stalled because you’re having trouble hiring? Foghorn can be burning down your DevOps and Cloud backlogs as soon as next week. General News: Amazon to lay off 18,000 corporate and tech workers. [1:11] Episode Highlights Amazon S3 Encrypts New Objects By Default. [3:09] Announcing the GA of BigQuery multi-statement transactions. [13:04] Microsoft announces acquisition of Fungible to accelerate datacenter innovation. [17:14] Top Quote “And it&#8217;s interesting that, you know, the way they&#8217;re phrasing this where it&#8217;s, you know, it&#8217;s it&#8217;s moving these traditional things that have been in relational databases for a long time, but it&#8217;s the it&#8217;s the, the analytical, sort of big data sort of offerings, and it&#8217;s interesting to see how that transforms over time.” [15:16] AWS Amazon S3 Encrypts New Objects By Default. [3:09] AWS App Runner now integrates with AWS Secrets Manager and AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store. [8:26] GCP Announcing the GA of BigQuery multi-statement transactions. [13:04] Azure Azure Confidential Computing on 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable Processors with Intel TDX. [15:38] Microsoft announces acquisition of Fungible to

For our New Years Resolution, we decided to change some of our show. First, we have cut the lightning round in favor of our new Cloud Journey series, where we will talk about core cloud concepts over several episodes. We are also covering only the larger stories from the cloud providers, we still want to provide you with all of the news, so you&#8217;ll find it in the show notes; if you enjoy the aggregation, subscribe to our newsletter to get the show notes to get your mailbox weekly. Share your feedback through our website or join our slack team. On this episode of The Cloud Pod, the team follows up on the news from Salesforce&#8217;s last episode, as workforce cuts ensue as a fallout of the noted decline in productivity, with more on 2023 predictions from Peter, including general expectations in the tech space, while also highlighting the new Graph-explorer tool by Amazon Neptune, GCP security trends for the coming year, the CES Conference and CCOE from the new Cloud Journey Series. A big thanks to this week’s sponsor, Foghorn Consulting, which provides full-stack cloud solutions focused on strategy, planning and execution for enterprises seeking to take advantage of the transformative capabilities of AWS, Google Cloud and Azure. This week’s highlights AWS: Amazon Neptune announces a new open-source low-code visual exploration tool, the Graph-explorer. GCP releases an article on security trends to expect in 2023. The Cloud Journey Series; The Cloud Center of Excellence (CCOE) Top Quotes &#8220;A lot of traditional security operations has been at the infrastructure level; tracking packets and using the header information of those packets for identification, and none of that really works on cloud anymore&#8221; &#8220;It&#8217;s not just how to use cloud technology, which is what the IT teams were focused on, it&#8217;s how do you provide the value of cloud into your business and succeed?&#8221; &#8220;Understanding the advantages of why you want to adopt Cloud is really important for a business, even before they start the CCOE&#8221; Follow up: After discussing Salesforce and their &#8220;less productive&#8221; employees a few weeks ago, Salesforce has followed up by laying off 10% of their workforce. After missing last week’s episode, Peter shares his 2023 prediction; The recession will be more severe than expected, resulting in significant layoffs as companies are forced to get more competitive with automated solutions. Peter’s favorite announcement for 2022; Aurora Serverless V2 5 things to look out for in tech Five Things to Watch in Tech 2023 Big Changes ahead in 2023 for big tech with poor valuations, justifying their software against slashing budgets and the next big thing; is it AI, AR, VR? AWS: Amazon Neptune announces Graph-explorer <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/01/neptune-graph-exp

On this episode of The Cloud Pod, the team wraps up 2022 so far, comparing predictions made with the events so far while projecting into 2023 as the year comes to a close. They discuss the S3 security changes coming from Amazon, the new control plane connectivity options with GCP, and Microsoft&#8217;s achievement, finally topping a list within the cloud space. A big thanks to this week’s sponsor, Foghorn Consulting, which provides full-stack cloud solutions with a focus on strategy, planning and execution for enterprises seeking to take advantage of the transformative capabilities of AWS, Google Cloud and Azure. This week’s highlights Starting in April, Amazon will change defaults around S3 security. The new control plane connectivity and isolation options are coming to GKE clusters Finally, Microsoft is Number #1 In a Cloud Thing. Salesforce Founder, Marc Benioff says employees hired during the pandemic are facing much lower productivity. Open AI&#8217;s new chat AI and AI playground create much buzz but with high compute costs, it will be monetized soon. A lookback at 2022 predictions by our hosts, none of which came true. The team gives 2023 predictions surrounding Microsoft, data Sovereignty and AI and No-code solution convergence Top Quotes &#8220;The problem with low-code No-code… is that the gap between those solutions and the bespoke development that you typically would meet is mountains of distance but with this [Open AI&#8217;s new chat AI] ..now I just have to tell the computer what I&#8217;m trying to do…and then the computer can determine what type of code to write for that&#8221; 2023 Predictions Jonathan: Microsoft will release in preview of an Azure branded Chat GPT Justin: Data Sovereignty will drive single panes of glass against multi-cloud Ryan: An influx of all of the AI and No-Code solution convergence Favorite Announcements Ryan Announcing Amazon CodeCatalyst, a Unified Software Development Service (Preview) Announcing new workflow observability features for AWS Step Functions Source Protect for Cloud Code gives developers real-time security feedback as they work in their IDEs #46 Justin Accelerate Your Lambda Functions with Lambda SnapStart Microsoft announces new collaboration with Red Button for attack simulation testing Google + Mandiant: Transforming Security Operations and Incident Response Raising the bar in Security Operations: Google Acquires Siemplify Jonathan <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/introducing-vpc-lat

On The Cloud Pod the team reviews the multi-billion-dollar DOD contract formerly known as Jedi awarded to big tech companies; Microsoft buys a stake in LSE, raising questions; Werner shares his 2023 tech predictions and posts the Distributed Computing manifesto to his blog; and lastly, at Azure, Bell hits bumps while trying to make Microsoft safer. A big thanks to this week’s sponsor, Foghorn Consulting, which provides full-stack cloud solutions with a focus on strategy, planning and execution for enterprises seeking to take advantage of the transformative capabilities of AWS, Google Cloud and Azure. This week’s highlights The Pentagon awards a cloud-computing contract that can reach up to $9 billion in total through 2028 to Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Oracle. Microsoft buys 4% stake in the London Stock Exchange AWS: Werner posts the Distributed Computing Manifesto to his blog All Things Distributed and shares his 2023 tech predictions. GCP: Break down data silos with the new cross-cloud transfer feature of BigQuery Omni Azure: Bell hits obstacles in his push to make Microsoft more secure as feedback suggests the bar is being set too high. Top Quotes &#8220;The long and the short of it is that slowly over time, the ship date when buying something on Amazon or anywhere else gets closer to real-time and the cost to get it to you gets lower&#8221; “All software has defects since it’s created and configured by humans, [But] the pattern of security incidents [and] defects in Azure reported by third parties and the related severity suggests that even Microsoft is challenged in adopting proper security controls in cloud-native development pipelines, like many enterprises.” AWS: ALL THINGS DISTRIBUTED – WERNER VOGELS’ BLOG Werner posted the Distributed Computing Manifesto to his blog “All Things Distributed”. The manifesto highlights the challenges Amazon was facing at the end of the 20th century, and hints at where it was headed. He also shared his 2023 tech predictions on the blog involving cloud technology, simulated worlds, silicone chips supply chain transformation, and smart energy.. GCP: Break down data silos with the new cross-cloud transfer feature of BigQuery Omni 0&#x20e3; GCP launched big query Omni in 2021 to help customers break down data silos. They have now added support for SQL-supported Load Statements that allowed AWS/Azure Blob data to be brought into big query as a managed table for advanced analysis. Feedback confirms improvements in usability, security, latency, and cost audibility. Azure: Bell hits obstacles in his push to make Microsoft more secure. After spending 23 years at Amazon, Charlie Bell, the most senior cybersecurity executive now at Microsoft, faces resistance to preventing and responding to software vulnerabilities believing that he was setting the bar too high. If there are flaws in the software they write that leads to vulnerabilities for downtime, developers in bell’s unit can expect to be paged and asked to fix it. This is long-standing practice at AWS but a new concept at Micr

The Cloud Pod recaps all of the positives and negatives of Amazon ReInvent 2022, the annual conference in Las Vegas, bringing together 50,000 cloud computing professionals. This year&#8217;s keynote speakers include Adam Selpisky, CEO of Amazon Web Services, Swami Sivasubramanian, Vice President of Data and Machine Learning at AWS and Werner Vogels, Amazon&#8217;s CTO. Attendees and web viewers were treated to new features and products, such as AWS Lambda Snapstart for Java Functions, New Quicksight capabilities and quality-of-life improvements to hundreds of services. Justin, Jonathan, Ryan, Peter and Special guest Joe Daly from the Finops foundation talk about the show and the announcements. Thank you to our sponsor, Foghorn Consulting, which provides top notch cloud and DevOps engineers to the world’s most innovative companies. Initiatives stalled because you’re having trouble hiring? Foghorn can be burning down your DevOps and Cloud backlogs as soon as next week. Episode Highlights AWS Pricing Calculator now supports modernization cost estimates for Microsoft workloads. AWS Re:Invent 2022 announcements and keynote updates. Top Quote “But if I&#8217;m putting my business data into another data lake, and I want to use the business data to inform my security data, I now have to cross the lakes to even make this connection to get that data set. So I agree with you on a pure security basis in the open schema for security data is really great. My issue is that you&#8217;re putting borders around these lakes, when you really want to bring the data together and be able to hydrate across. That&#8217;s why we have enterprise data, we analyze data warehouses, where we have all these things to bring this data together, add context to data. And I feel like this is just more removing context.” [37:20] AWS: Amazon Goes to India AWS Pricing Calculator now supports modernization cost estimates for Microsoft workloads. [1:39] Introducing Finch: An open source client for container development. [3:19] AWS opens its 30th region in India. [4:51] New for AWS backup: Protect and restore CloudFormation stacks. [5:57] Amazon ECS Service Connect enabling easy communication between microservices. [7:31] REINVENT RECAP DAY 1 KEYNOTE: Peter DeSantis [19:11] Compute [19:42] Announcing AWS Lambda SnapStart for Java functions. <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/11/announcing-amazon-ec2-c7gn-instances-preview/" target="_blank" rel="noo

RE:INVENT NOTICE Jonathan, Ryan and Justin will be live streaming the major keynotes starting Monday Night, followed by Adam&#8217;s keynote on Tuesday, Swami&#8217;s keynote on Wednesday and Wrap up our Re:Invent coverage with Werner&#8217;s keynote on Thursday. Tune into our live stream here on the site or via Twitch/Twitter, etc. On The Cloud Pod this week, a new AWS region is open in Spain and NBA and Microsoft team up to transform fan experiences with cloud application modernization. Thank you to our sponsor, Foghorn Consulting, which provides top notch cloud and DevOps engineers to the world’s most innovative companies. Initiatives stalled because you’re having trouble hiring? Foghorn can be burning down your DevOps and Cloud backlogs as soon as next week. General News [0:04] CDK for Terraform 0.14 Makes it Easier to Use Providers Episode Highlights New AWS region open in Spain. NBA and Microsoft team up to transform fan experiences with cloud application modernization. Top Quote “When we set this up, they still called you by voice and you had to validate when it took up to an hour to support case. And yeah, it would take forever. Like, not only did it take you to an hour, there&#8217;s like 10 things you needed to do with a root account that you couldn&#8217;t do with an im account. Yeah, it was brutal back then.” [9:27] AWS: Amazon Goes to Spain New AWS region open in Spain. [2:00] You can now assign multiple MFA devices in IAM. [2:32] Announcing AWS CDK Support and CodeBuild Provisioning for AWS Proton. [6:16] Introducing the AWS Proton dashboard. [6:16] Incident Manager from AWS Systems Manager launches incident coordination capabilities for Incident Response. [7:00] Announcing enhanced operational incident response capabilities with AWS Systems Manager and PagerDuty. [7:21] AWS announces Amazon WorkSpaces Multi-Region Resilience. [7:56] <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/11/amazon-workspaces-certificate-based-authent

RE:INVENT NOTICE Jonathan, Ryan and Justin will be live streaming the major keynotes starting Monday Night, followed by Adam&#8217;s keynote on Tuesday, Swami&#8217;s keynote on Wednesday and Wrap up our Re:Invent coverage with Werner&#8217;s keynote on Thursday. Tune into our live stream here on the site or via Twitch/Twitter, etc. On The Cloud Pod this week, Amazon Time Sync is now available over the internet as a public NTP service, Amazon announces ECS Task Scale-in protection, and Private Marketplace is now in preview. Thank you to our sponsor, Foghorn Consulting, which provides top notch cloud and DevOps engineers to the world’s most innovative companies. Initiatives stalled because you’re having trouble hiring? Foghorn can be burning down your DevOps and Cloud backlogs as soon as next week. Episode Highlights Amazon Time Sync is now available over the internet as a public NTP service. Amazon announces ECS Task Scale-in protection. Private Marketplace is now in preview. Top Quote “And then those companies say, ‘Well, I don&#8217;t have time to performance tests and regression tests and load tests.’ Or, or, ‘It&#8217;s not broken, I don&#8217;t want to fix it.’ You know, and so they just sit there paying more money because it&#8217;s not worth the risk.” [10:37] AWS: Time for Amazon Amazon announces ECS Task Scale-in protection. [2:05] Amazon Time Sync is now available over the internet as a public NTP service. [4:54] Amazon EC2 Mac instances now support Apple macOS Ventura. [6:14] Amazon RDS now supports General Purpose gp3 storage volumes. [7:49] Amazon EKS supports Kubernetes version 1.24. [10:53] New centralized Logging for Windows Containers on Amazon EKS using Fluent Bit. [15:50] Amazon EC2 announces new price and capacity-optimized allocation strategy for provisioning Amazon EC2 Spot Instances. [16:28] <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/11/aws-backup-restore-vmware-workloads-

On a slow news week, we talk about the new AWS Switzerland region, Googles 2022 State of Devops report and GCP gets those flexible committed use discounts! Thank you to our sponsor, Foghorn Consulting, which provides top notch cloud and DevOps engineers to the world’s most innovative companies. Initiatives stalled because you’re having trouble hiring? Foghorn can be burning down your DevOps and Cloud backlogs as soon as next week. General News [4:02] Announcing the 2022 Accelerate State of DevOps Report: A deep dive into security. Episode Highlights Announcing the 2022 Accelerate State of DevOps Report: A deep dive into security. AWS opens a new region–its 28th– in Switzerland GCP unveils flexible committed use discounts. Top Quote “Back when you only had the option of on demand or reserved instances, and you do the math… And if you run the thing, basically more than 40 hours a week, you might as well buy the Ri. You&#8217;re not getting any benefit of scaling anyway, at that point. So this is this is so much better, you get the benefit of committing to an aggregate use and the discount to that with the benefit of turning stuff off when you&#8217;re not using it.” [32:24] AWS: Amazon Isn’t Neutral About Switzerland AWS opens a new region–its 28th– in Switzerland. [19:29] Quickly find resources in your AWS account with new Resource Explorer. [21:55] GCP: Google Is Committed To Their Flexibility Announcing MongoDB connector for Apigee Integration. [24:40] GCP unveils flexible committed use discounts. [28:15] Azure: Azure Needs No Downtime 0&#x20e3; Zero downtime migration for Azure Front Door—now in preview. [33:57] TCP Lightning Round (Justin 8, Ryan 7, Jonathan 4, Peter 0) [35:09] AWS Certificate Manager now supports Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm TLS certificates Amazon ElastiCache adds support for Redis 7 AWS Private 5G service now includes support for multiple radio-units <a href="ht

On The Cloud Pod this week, Amazon announces Neptune Serverless, Google introduces Google Blockchain Node Engine, and we get some cost management updates from Microsoft. Thank you to our sponsor, Foghorn Consulting, which provides top notch cloud and DevOps engineers to the world’s most innovative companies. Initiatives stalled because you’re having trouble hiring? Foghorn can be burning down your DevOps and Cloud backlogs as soon as next week. General News [1:24] Microsoft surprises with first quarter results Microsoft drops 6% after revealing weak guidance on its earnings call 3&#x20e3; Alphabet announces Q3 results YouTube shrinks Alphabet; company will cut headcount growth by half in Q4 Amazon stock sinks 16% on weak Q4 guidance 3&#x20e3; Amazon announces Q3 results Amazon CFO says tech giant is preparing for ‘what could be a slower growth period’ AWS just recorded its weakest growth to date AWS named as a leader in the 2022 Gartner CIPS Magic Quadrant for the 12th consecutive year Episode Highlights Amazon announces Neptune Serverless. Google introduces Blockchain Node Engine Cost management updates from Microsoft. Top Quote “Google Cloud is an important partner to HashiCorp, and our enterprise customers use HashiCorp Terraform and Google Cloud to deploy mission critical infrastructure at scale. With 70 million downloads of the Terraform Google Provider this year and growing, we’re excited to collaborate closely with Google Cloud to offer our joint customers a seamless experience which we believe will significantly enhance their experience on Google Cloud.” &#8211; Burzin Patel, HashiCorp VP, Global Partner Alliances. [39:38] AWS: Amazon Goes to Neptune Announcing Amazon Neptune Serverless – A fully managed graph database that adjusts capacity for your workloads. [13:15]</l

On The Cloud Pod this week, Amazon EC2 Trn1 instances for high-performance model training are now available, 123 new things were announced at Google Cloud Next ‘22, Several new Azure capabilities were announced at Microsoft Ignite, and many new announcements were made at Oracle CloudWorld. Thank you to our sponsor, Foghorn Consulting, which provides top-notch cloud and DevOps engineers to the world’s most innovative companies. Initiatives stalled because you’re having trouble hiring? Foghorn can be burning down your DevOps and Cloud backlogs as soon as next week. Episode Highlights Amazon EC2 Trn1 instances for high-performance model training are now available. 123 new things were announced at Google Cloud Next ‘22. Several new Azure capabilities were announced at Microsoft Ignite. Many new announcements from Oracle CloudWorld. Top Quote “We are pleased to have co-designed the first ASIC Infrastructure Processing Unit with Google Cloud, which has now launched in the new C3 machine series. A first of its kind in any public cloud, C3 VMs will run workloads on 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors while they free up programmable packet processing to the IPUs securely at line rates of 200Gb/s. This Intel and Google collaboration enables customers through infrastructure that is more secure, flexible, and performant.” – Nick McKeown, Senior Vice President, Intel Fellow and General Manager of Network and Edge Group. [35:26] AWS: Increasing Your Large-Scale Distribution Amazon EC2 Trn1 instances for high-performance model training are now available. [1:55] AWS launches new local zones in Taipei and Delhi. [3:29] A new cost explorer console experience was just announced, and it’s Justin approved. [4:26] Amazon Connect Cases is now generally available. [6:40] GCP: What Will They Announce Next? You can now manage storage costs by automatically deleting expired data using Firestore Time-To-Live (TTL). [9:23] 123 new things were ann

Episode 185: The Cloud Pod is flush with Cache! On The Cloud Pod this week, Amazon introduces their new file cache for on premises systems, Google introduces GKE Autopilot, and Azure helps you strengthen your security even more. Thank you to our sponsor, Foghorn Consulting, which provides top notch cloud and DevOps engineers to the world’s most innovative companies. Initiatives stalled because you’re having trouble hiring? Foghorn can be burning down your DevOps and Cloud backlogs as soon as next week. &nbsp; Episode Highlights Introducing Amazon File Cache, the new AWS cache for on-premises file systems. Google introduces support for GPU workloads and more in GKE Autopilot. Strengthen your security with Policy Analytics for Azure Firewall. Top Quote “I get the feeling that the multiple tenancy, in a way is probably the selling point here. That as you acquire new companies, or as you bring on new partners dynamically, it&#8217;s easier to integrate those IDPs. Whereas previously, it&#8217;s been pretty difficult to to have multiple sources of identity, I guess it sort of abstracts those and provides a single layer to the Google identity service.” [22:07” General News: We will not be recording during the week of Google Cloud Next, so our episodes will be slightly delayed–fear not, we’re recording an episode immediately after Next so we can deliver your weekly dose of cloud news ASAP. AWS: All About the Cache &nbsp; Introducing Amazon File Cache, the new AWS cache for on-premises file systems. [1:28] Amazon WorkSpaces introduces Ubuntu Desktops, with per month or per hour pricing. [5:35] AWS announces Amazon WorkSpaces Core, their new fully managed VDI service. [11:00] &nbsp; GCP: Put Your Work on Autopilot? &nbsp; Google introduces support for GPU workloads and more in GKE Autopilot. [16:04] You can now easily manage Google Cloud workforce access with Workforce Identity Federation.. [20:37] Azure: Budget Updates on the Go! Strengthen your security with Polic

On The Cloud Pod this week, AWS announces an update to IAM role trust policy behavior, Easily Collect Vehicle Data and Send to the Cloud with new AWS IoT FleetWise, now generally available, Get a head start with no-cost learning challenges before Google Next ‘22. Thank you to our sponsor, Foghorn Consulting, which provides top notch cloud and DevOps engineers to the world’s most innovative companies. Initiatives stalled because you’re having trouble hiring? Foghorn can be burning down your DevOps and Cloud backlogs as soon as next week. &nbsp; Episode Highlights AWS announces an update to IAM role trust policy behavior. Easily Collect Vehicle Data and Send to the Cloud with new AWS IoT FleetWise, now generally available. Get a head start with no-cost learning challenges before Google Next ‘22. &nbsp; General News: Google Next is coming up in two weeks. [0:56] Next week’s show will be sans Justin. [1:02] AWS: More like “Announcement” Web Services &nbsp; Easily Collect Vehicle Data and Send to the Cloud with new AWS IoT FleetWise, now generally available. [1:48] AWS announces an update to IAM role trust policy behavior. [7:00] Sticking with the theme of granularity, Amazon Route 53 announces support for DNS resource record set permissions. [16:29] Amazon announces AWS DataSync Discovery in preview. [18:30] Cloudwatch container insights now provides lifecycle events for ECS. [21:38] &nbsp; GCP: Google Next Is Almost Here! &nbsp; <a href="https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/training-certifications/no-cost-google-cloud-learning-cha

On The Cloud Pod this week, Amazon SWF launches a new console experience, Google acquires Mandiant, and Azure Space has some new products coming your way soon. Thank you to our sponsor, Foghorn Consulting, which provides top notch cloud and DevOps engineers to the world’s most innovative companies. Initiatives stalled because you’re having trouble hiring? Foghorn can be burning down your DevOps and Cloud backlogs as soon as next week. Episode Highlights Amazon SWF just launched a new console experience for building distributed applications. The Google acquisition of Mandiant (Mandoogle!) is finished. Azure Space announced their next wave of products. Top Quote “The new certification is sort of interesting, because it&#8217;s a little bit more like the, the content isn&#8217;t new, right? But the certification is new. And so it&#8217;s an interesting metric. Like how do you, how do you ensure people are reviewing the content? You have these certifications that you measure on the completion of that? So like, it&#8217;s, I can see how it&#8217;s a little bit of like, weaponizing, you know, those metrics in order to like drive culture change, maybe within an org where there&#8217;s division over private cloud or public cloud? Or, you know, it just depends on what you want to do. But very interesting.” [17:04] General News: Hashi Corp announced that Consul Terraform Sync is generally available at the 0.7 release. [1:12] AWS: More Like Amazon SWTF? You’ve never heard of it, but Amazon SWF just launched a new console experience for building distributed applications. [4:20] Amazon SNS launches a public preview of message data protection. [6:53] Your containers will now be launching faster, thanks to Seekable OCI for lazy loading container images. [10:00] GCP: Hey Siri, What Is a Mandoogle? Google Cloud Next is less than one month away. Have you registered yet? [12:16] The Cloud Digital Leader certification is bringing Cloud training to those of us who aren’t technically inclined. [14:56] BeyondCorp Enterprise is giving you more ways to protect your corporate applications. [18:45] The <a href="https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/google-completes-acquisition-of-mandiant

On The Cloud Pod this week, AWS Enterprise Support adds incident detection and response, the announcement of Google Cloud Spanner, and Oracle expands to Spain. Thank you to our sponsor, Foghorn Consulting, which provides top notch cloud and DevOps engineers to the world’s most innovative companies. Initiatives stalled because you’re having trouble hiring? Foghorn can be burning down your DevOps and Cloud backlogs as soon as next week. Episode Highlights AWS Enterprise Support adds incident detection and response You can now get a 90-day free trial of Google Cloud Spanner Oracle opens its newest cloud infrastructure region in Spain Top Quote “A very large percentage of MySQL HeatWave customers are AWS users who are migrating off Aurora. However, there are still some AWS customers who are not able to migrate to OCI. This is a service where the data plane, control plane and console are natively running on AWS. We have taken the MySQL HeatWave code and optimized it for AWS infrastructure.” &#8211;Nipun Agarwal, senior vice president of MySQL, Database and HeatWave at Oracle. General News: Moving from Ruby to Go, Vagrant 2.3 Introduces Go Runtime. [0:58] AWS: New Proactive Monitoring from AWS AWS Enterprise Support adds incident detection and response. [2:01] Helping to vastly reduce failover times, Amazon RDS Proxy adds support for Amazon RDS for SQL Server. [3:59] Beginning October 11th, ACM public certificates will be issued by one of the Intermediate CA’s that AWS manages. [7:46] AWS has announced direct VPC routing for AWS outposts. [10:23] You can now deploy your Amazon EKS Clusters Locally on AWS Outposts. [12:12] GCP: Free Trial Here! Get Your Free Trial Here! You can now get a 90-day free trial of Google Cloud Spanner. [14:04] If you need a new way to protect your data, try Google introduced fine-grained access control for Cloud Spanner. [14:58] <a href="https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/database-migration-service-supports-migration-to-alloydb-for-postgres

On The Cloud Pod this week, Amazon announces Amazon Inspector’s new support of Windows OS for continual software vulnerability scanning of EC2 workloads, Google has several exciting announcements regarding Chronicle, Azure is announcing pretty much everything under the sun, and Oracle announces OCI Lake in beta. Thank you to our sponsor, Foghorn Consulting, which provides top notch cloud and DevOps engineers to the world’s most innovative companies. Initiatives stalled because you’re having trouble hiring? Foghorn can be burning down your DevOps and Cloud backlogs as soon as next week. Episode Highlights Amazon Inspector now supports Windows operating system (OS) for continual software vulnerability scanning of EC2 workloads. Google makes 3 announcements about Chronicle. Azure has three–yes, three–new releases this week. Oracle announces OCI Lake in beta. Top Quote “The picture is still opaque of what the real value of this is going to be. But the fact that it&#8217;s out there is good or, you know… it&#8217;s the classic. “I&#8217;m leaving Amazon and I have worked on this code for five years and I like doing open source. So I can keep using it. It can be that classic move.” General News: Gartner published an article indicating that SaaS vendors will be using sustainability as a basis to raise their prices. [0:34] The news out of VMWare this week can basically be summed up as: Tanzu, Tanzu, and more Tanzu. [2:38] AWS: Scanning, scanning, scanning…. Amazon Event Ruler is becoming open source. [10:50] Amazon Inspector now supports Windows operating system (OS) for continual software vulnerability scanning of EC2 workloads. [14:12] GCP: Dear Diary, today I… A Chronicle blog post diary, Google made several announcements [17:09]: There are new ingestion metrics coming to Chronicle. New YARA-L functionalities are coming that will allow you to apply more fine grained time based criteria into your detections. The Chronicle native-VirusTotal augment widget is now available. Azure: New Releases, New Releases Everywhere… Azure Managed Grafana is now generally available. [19:39] Enterprise-ready Azure Monitor change analysis capability released–say that five times fast. [22:03]

On The Cloud Pod this week, Amazon adds the ability to embed fine-grained visualizations directly onto web pages, Google offers pay-as-you-go pricing for Apigee customers, and Microsoft launches Arm-based Azure VMs that are powered by ampere chips. Thank you to our sponsor, Foghorn Consulting, which provides top notch cloud and DevOps engineers to the world’s most innovative companies. Initiatives stalled because you’re having trouble hiring? Foghorn can be burning down your DevOps and Cloud backlogs as soon as next week. Episode Highlights Fine-grained visualizations can now be embedded directly into your webpages and applications Google is now offering pay-as-you-go pricing for its Apigee API customers Microsoft launches Arm-based Azure VMs powered by ampere chips Top Quote “I think I feel like SimCity 2000 lied to me. By now we should have had satellites in space collecting solar power and beaming microwave energy down to us.” General News: Due to concerns about power shortages and availability of supplies, ​​Microsoft and Amazon cancel several new planned data centers in Ireland. [1:18] AWS: Adding Visuals to Your Apps Is Getting Even Easier… Fine-grained visualizations can now be embedded directly into your webpages and applications thanks to Amazon QuickSight. [4:44] Amazon’s announcement of the new AWS Support App for Slack is going to streamline management of technical, billing, and account support cases. [6:24] AWS Security Hub is now publish announcements through Amazon SNS, and anyone can submit via the console or CLI. [8:37] Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports email subscription for SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS). [10:37] Amazon CloudFront launches Origin Access Control (OAC), which helps more easily secure S3 origins. [11:08] Your account login pages are becoming even more secure, thanks to AWS WAF Fraud Control. [12:38] Amazon EKS Anywhere Curated Packages now generally available. [13:20] <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-and-vmware-announce-vmware-cloud-on-aws-integration-with-amazon-fsx-for-neta

On The Cloud Pod this week, the team weighs the merits of bitcoin mining versus hacking. Plus: AWS Trusted Advisor prioritizes Support customers, Google provides impenetrable protection from a major DDoS attack, and Oracle Linux 9 is truly unbreakable. A big thanks to this week’s sponsor, Foghorn Consulting, which provides full-stack cloud solutions with a focus on strategy, planning and execution for enterprises seeking to take advantage of the transformative capabilities of AWS, Google Cloud and Azure. This week’s highlights AWS Trusted Advisor offers a new Priority capability for Enterprise Support, offering a prioritized view of critical risks. Nothing’s touching Google, as it blocks the largest Layer 7 DDoS attack to date, with a whopping 46 million requests per second (RPS). The new Oracle Linux 9 comes with Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 7 (UEK R7) and Red Hat Compatible Kernel (RHCK). Top Quotes “This is really just institutionalizing the knowledge that the Enterprise customers are already getting from their account team. And it probably really helps — in the event that the AWS account team experiences churn for those customers — not to be negatively impacted. It probably makes it really easy for new people on that AWS account team to come in and know where the other team left off. I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s really a new feature — just a new way to access data that customers are already getting.” “Ignoring those Tor nodes — which didn&#8217;t make a whole lot of traffic — that&#8217;s 12,000 requests a second per source IP, on average. That&#8217;s enormous.” AWS: A Trusty Advisor’s Priorities Finally, AWS has found a use for Mechanical Turk, with its new Priority capability for Trust Advisor. If you&#8217;ve been curious about what&#8217;s happening during domain updates of the OpenSearch Service, you now get more visibility into validation errors during blue/green deployments. Great news for license-holders and clearly by popular demand: RDS for Oracle now supports managed Oracle Data Guard Switchover and Automated Backups for read replicas. GCP: Heavily Armored Cloud Google Cloud is saying goodbye to its IoT Core service in 2023. How about instead of turning it off, just stop selling it? You can benefit from operating system Committed Use Discounts (CUD) with workload predictability. Now, get some cuts on your SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) — with savings of up to 79%. There’s much fanfare at Google, as it blocks the largest Layer 7 DDoS attack to date. It didn’t last long though, because the attackers gave up — probably deciding there was no value in continuing. <a href="https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/introducing-curated-detections-in-chronicle-secops-suite" target="_blank" rel="noope

On The Cloud Pod this week, the team chats cloud region wars to establish the true victor. Plus: AWS Storage Day offers a blockhead badge, all the fun of the Microsoft Dev Box, and Google sends people back to sleep with its Cloud Monitoring snooze alert policy. A big thanks to this week’s sponsor, Foghorn Consulting, which provides full-stack cloud solutions with a focus on strategy, planning and execution for enterprises seeking to take advantage of the transformative capabilities of AWS, Google Cloud and Azure. This week’s highlights AWS Storage Day 2022 marks the fourth annual event streamed live on Twitch, with its File Cache service announcement and five new available learning badges. Google now offers alert policy snoozing in Cloud Monitoring for maintenance or non-business hours. Microsoft previews its Dev Box, a managed service enabling developers to create cloud workstations. Top Quotes “I found it completely shocking that this didn&#8217;t exist in AWS — that you only had enable/disable — when first moving over there. So this is a fantastic feature for Google Monitoring. I love it.” “This seems like one of those things I&#8217;d like, but half the fun of starting a new project is installing a new version of Python or something that completely hoses my local laptop. And I spend the next three or four days frantically trying to undo what I&#8217;ve done that breaks six other things.” AWS: It’s Storage Day! AWS livestreamed its fourth annual Storage Day on Twitch, and Ryan is rather excited about getting his hands on that blockhead badge for core storage competency. Plus, the new File Cache service promises to accelerate and simplify hybrid cloud workloads. Continue to be blown away by the theory of HTTP/3 (and if you’re like Ryan, dread the day you have to troubleshoot it), as Amazon CloudFront now supports it. Now available in US regions (with a likely quick extension with increased adoption and understanding of the service): AWS Private 5G. Amazon and Splunk co-announce the release of the Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework (OCSF) project with a lot of partners… but (interestingly) no Elastic. If you&#8217;ve been holding off on that move from Dockershim to the new launcher, now’s the time to do it before it’s too late: Amazon EKS and Amazon EKS Distro now support Kubernetes version 1.23. Apparently Amazon Cognito enables native support for AWS WAF, but we’re not entirely sure what they&#8217;re enabling here — it feels like something they should have already been doing. GCP: Hitting the Snooze Button Query Library offers new tools for increasing developer productivity. You should eventually be able to actually save your queries into a custom Query Library, but we’re still waiting on this. A snooze, not a pause

On The Cloud Pod this week, the team gets judicial on the Microsoft-Unity partnership. Plus: Amazon acquires iRobot, BigQuery boasts Zero-ETL for Bigtable data, and Serverless SQL for Azure Databricks is in public preview. A big thanks to this week’s sponsor, Foghorn Consulting, which provides full-stack cloud solutions with a focus on strategy, planning and execution for enterprises seeking to take advantage of the transformative capabilities of AWS, Google Cloud and Azure. This week’s highlights iRobot signs an agreement with Amazon for its acquisition. To what end remains known to Amazon and Amazon alone. Google offers a Zero-ETL approach for Bigtable data analytics using BigQuery. Serverless SQL for Azure Databricks is now in public preview. Top Quotes “Almost all of Amazon&#8217;s big acquisitions have always been about something indirect. The Whole Foods acquisition was really about the logistics supply chain behind the scenes of moving that around — they kept the brand … and they have the same footprint for stores … but now they have a lot more infrastructure for AmazonFresh. And I suspect for iRobot it&#8217;s the same thing.” “This is super handy for huge datasets where you want to track trends over a long time. It&#8217;s always really difficult and you always end up compromising somewhere — by not loading or querying your full dataset, because you can’t get it from A to B, or trying to run the query against two separate data sets and combining the results. So this is a nice thing to have for those users who have data across these multiple places.” AWS: We, Robots Those who hate working in Amazon warehouses might not have to have anything to complain about anymore, as Amazon agrees to acquire iRobot. If you need to get up to speed with Graviton, you’ve now got Graviton Fast Start, which helps move workloads over to AWS. VMware’s interesting cloud workload protection feels like a continued diversification away from virtualization as your main revenue stream. CloudWatch Evidently, Amazon&#8217;s second product to help with feature flagging, adds support for creating target customer segments for feature launches and experiments. Neat! In what seems like a cost-saving announcement, Lambda gets tiered pricing (but most enterprise customers already have this pricing experience). GCP: It’s A Big World Out There You can now benefit from a Zero-ETL approach for Bigtable data analytics using BigQuery. An on-premises Windows workload nice-to-have offers support with Certificate Authority Service. Second generation <a href="https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/serverless/cloud-functions-2nd-generation-now-generally-available" target="_bl

On The Cloud Pod this week, the team discusses why Ryan’s yelling all day (hint: he’s learning). Plus: Peter misses the all-important cloud earnings, AWS Skill Builder subscriptions are now available, and Google Eventarc connects SaaS platforms. A big thanks to this week’s sponsor, Foghorn Consulting, which provides full-stack cloud solutions with a focus on strategy, planning and execution for enterprises seeking to take advantage of the transformative capabilities of AWS, Google Cloud and Azure. This week’s highlights Earnings time is upon us once again, and it’s apparently doom and gloom all around as tears of loss are wiped away with $100 bills. AWS makes its Skill Builder subscriptions available with more than 500 courses and four new learning experiences. (The Cloud Pod is now registering signups for a virtual proctor while you take the test.) Google Eventarc for events enthusiasts unifies and integrates supported SaaS platforms. Top Quotes “Teams is a huge focus. The last two years have been companies figuring out how to remote work for the first time ever. That&#8217;s not a sustainable thing — those two years’ growth is all just pandemic.” “I do like the way that they&#8217;re presenting a lot of this training. I don&#8217;t learn well in the classroom setting — I learn by doing, so any kind of hands-on labs or the jams which I&#8217;ve done in person at re:Invent are better for me to learn the internet intricacies of different services. So I love this.” General News: Earnings, Damned Earnings, and Negative Analysts First up for reported earnings is Microsoft, where no one’s really hurting. (Wait until you see the other guys.) Sadly, Google still hasn’t figured out how to make money on GCP. Ad revenue is down. Amazon suffers slower demand amid another net loss. Rivian takes a big hit, so if you were hoping to see it turn around, it hasn’t. Of course, all of this bad news means Google and Microsoft have scaled back hiring efforts. Coupled with high inflation and bad interest rates, an economic bloodbath in the next 12 months looms. Oracle axes U.S. staff as part of a plan to lay off thousands — mainly in marketing and customer experience. This could signal a step back from opening so many new data centers. AWS: Building Skills One Course at a Time Handy new IPv6 support appears for AWS Global Accelerator. Already five years too late, CDK for Terraform is now (finally) generally available. Amazon OpenSearch Service gets a trifecta of boosts in the form of advanced log and application analytics, <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/07/amazon-opensearch-service-support

On The Cloud Pod this week, the team gets skeptical on Prime Day numbers. Plus: AWS re:Inforce brings GuardDuty, Detective and Identity Center updates and announcements; Google Cloud says hola to Mexico with a new Latin American region; and Azure introduces its new cost API for EC and MCA customers. A big thanks to this week’s sponsor, Foghorn Consulting, which provides full-stack cloud solutions with a focus on strategy, planning and execution for enterprises seeking to take advantage of the transformative capabilities of AWS, Google Cloud and Azure. This week’s highlights AWS re:Inforce brings us Amazon GuardDuty, Amazon Detective and IAM Identity Center releases, updates and name-changes for additional protection and headache. Google Cloud adds a third Latin American data region to its collection — this time, in Mexico. EA and MCA customers now benefit from Azure’s new Cost Details API for better HR and finance management. Top Quotes “This must always have been their plan. Amazon did not build that block Inspection Service just so that Orca could serve their own customers. They must have had an eye on the huge customer base of people using EBS Volumes to do this exact same thing. So it&#8217;s no surprise [as they’ve] had almost two years of sole ownership of the service to deliver this to customers. I&#8217;m not surprised at all to see an enhancement like this. And it&#8217;s awesome. Really.” “Microsoft is in a lucky position, because the Windows ecosystem has been very services heavy for a long time. … They&#8217;ve got this unique position where they can deprecate … they can pivot to new APIs more quickly than AWS, who are stuck with so many customers [and it’s] very painful for them to deprecate … It’s lucky that [Microsoft] don&#8217;t have customers that would push back against this, because they&#8217;re used to constant change.” AWS: re:Inforcing Prime Numbers #&#x20e3; There may well be some spin in Jeff Barr’s latest brag on behalf of Amazon for its Prime Day 2022. Impressive numbers nonetheless! New malware detection for EBS Volumes with GuardDuty is the first of three announcements hot out of AWS re:Inforce — very similar to Orca Security malware snapshot and restore functions. The second offering is Amazon Detective’s support for Kubernetes Workloads on EKS, for improved security investigations. There’s nothing not to like here, and it shows exactly why we use managed services. Finally, the terribly named AWS IAM Identity Center — which you may remember was previously called AWS SSO — promises to scale your workforce access management. They could’ve called it “AWS Centaur,” but instead opted for two words that mean absolutely nothing. GCP: Making US Automakers Happy One Latin American Region at a Time Google Cloud says hola to Mexico, as it adds a third Latin American data region following Santiago, Chile, and Sao Paulo, Brazil. If there are further updates within the next three to four years, Ryan has kindly volunteered to be The Cloud Po

On The Cloud Pod this week, the team discusses facial recognition avoidance tactics. Plus: Waving farewell to CentOS 7 with the rise of Rocky Linux, Amazon traverses the new Cloudscape, and the U.K. heatwave spells disaster for Oracle and Google data centers. A big thanks to this week’s sponsor, Foghorn Consulting, which provides full-stack cloud solutions with a focus on strategy, planning and execution for enterprises seeking to take advantage of the transformative capabilities of AWS, Google Cloud and Azure. This week’s highlights As CentOS is put out to pasture, say hello to Rocky Linux, named in honor of CentOS late co-founder Rocky McGaugh. Cloudscape Design System is the latest AWS open source wonder for web application building. The great British heatwave of 2022 burns Oracle and Google data centers to a crisp. Top Quotes “It answers the question of who we shout at if there&#8217;s a bug at zero day and the community doesn’t get around to fixing it. Now we can shout at Google.” “It&#8217;s probably a sign of further issues to come unless they do some productive work. Because it&#8217;s one thing to … build a data center in Utah [where] it gets up to 45 degrees C and the sun&#8217;s heating the air under some land. And that&#8217;s a completely different situation than heating up Europe, which is … much less expected to have those kinds of temperatures so far north. … So it&#8217;s going to be time to invest in HVAC business.” General News: The Best Data Lake Is the One With Your Boat on It VentureBeat offers up its top 10 data lake solution vendors this year. If you also don’t know what a data lake is, fear not (it tells you). AWS: Open Source Because They Can’t Sell It? AWS suits up for battle against Microsoft and Google with its server chip. Fire up the Graviton! Cost-saving automated and easily modifiable EBS Elastic Volumes are here. (Just watch out for a pesky potential price increase.) The very cool VPC Flow Logs for Transit Gateway will make things much more efficient. AWS announces neat new AppConfig Extensions. Step one: Enable feature. Step two: Figure it out yourself. Step three: Profit, profit, profit. AWS goes open source with Cloudscape Design System for building web applications. More epic work from Amazon as EC2 R6a Instances join the M6a and C6a club, now rolled out across all three primary node types. You&#8217;re welcome! GCP: The Rise of Rocky Stunned reactions all around here at The Cloud Pod: <a href="https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/introducing-co-hosting-models-on-the-vertex-ai-prediction-service" target="_blank

On The Cloud Pod this week, the team discusses shorting Jim Chanos amid the great cloud giant vs. colo standoff. Plus: Google prepares for a post-quantum world, Amazon EC2 M1 Mac instances are now generally available, and master of marketing Oracle introduces sovereign cloud regions for the European Union. A big thanks to this week’s sponsor, Foghorn Consulting, which provides full-stack cloud solutions with a focus on strategy, planning and execution for enterprises seeking to take advantage of the transformative capabilities of AWS, Google Cloud and Azure. This week’s highlights Future forward Google prepares for a post-quantum world, while most corporations won’t catch up for a long time. Amazon EC2 M1 Mac instances are now generally available (so the hidden Mac Mini under that developer’s desk can finally be replaced). Master of marketing Oracle introduces sovereign cloud regions for the European Union. Top Quotes “Quantum computing has been taken very seriously from a security perspective. Conservative estimates [are] 10 to 20 years before we have quantum computers large enough and reliable enough to run short algorithms to factor these large primes. But we&#8217;re starting &#8230; It’s going to take a long time for businesses to actually catch on and realize and modernize and adopt this before the bad things start to happen. If they ever do.” “The big issue is from a federal government perspective: In a world where quantum computing can actually go through those primes fast enough and decrypt all this data … it&#8217;s a huge national security risk [and] a huge problem for the world. … Does it follow into the corporate world as quickly? No. Will it become a big issue when it happens? Hell yeah. There&#8217;ll be a Y2K-level disaster that we&#8217;ll have to be dealing with.” General News: Walmart Muscles In Will cloud giants really drive colos off a financial cliff? Big leagues short-seller and Enron prophesier Jim Chanos seems to think so… or maybe that’s all part of his plan. Walmart saw that and said, Well, we&#8217;re doing it too: Their CTO claims they’re now the largest hybrid cloud in existence. Having 10,000 massive buildings at their disposal must be convenient. AWS: New York, New York EC2 M1 Mac instances are now generally available. Thanks to Apple’s licensing agreement, they have to be turned on for 24 hours minimum. Identity and Access Management gets IAM Roles Anywhere for workloads outside of AWS, removing a huge and clunky obstacle to adoption. Awesome. EC2 Auto Scaling customers can monitor their predictive scaling policy with Amazon CloudWatch, but we’re left wondering how to close the loop on having to monitor the monitoring service to make sure it’s doing what it’s supposed to be doing. If you&#8217;re a .NET developer leveraging AWS for all your compute needs, you’re in luck — there’s a streamlined deployment exp

On The Cloud Pod this week, the team discusses data sovereignty for future space-customers. Plus: There’s a global cloud shortage, Google announces Apigee advanced API security, and GKE Autopilot gets new networking features. A big thanks to this week’s sponsor, Foghorn Consulting, which provides full-stack cloud solutions with a focus on strategy, planning and execution for enterprises seeking to take advantage of the transformative capabilities of AWS, Google Cloud and Azure. This week’s highlights Microsoft is the latest victim in a global cloud shortage, spinning it as a temporary issue fueled by surging Teams demand and rapid Azure growth. Google announces Apigee Advanced API Security in a bid to defend against increased attacks and traffic volumes. GKE Autopilot gets new network features in the form of IP masquerading and eBPF, now generally available. Top Quotes “The supply chain has been huge on a lot of people. You don&#8217;t hear so much from Amazon, and I don&#8217;t know if that&#8217;s related to the commerce site Amazon.com and the overprovisioning they did … If AWS went the same route and has a bunch of stock, cluster manufacturing their own chips, maybe they have a little bit more control. But everyone else is screwed.” “In the article, it just says what you can do to detect bots. But some bots are the use case [you’re] selling to the world. &#8230; On the surface, it sounds logical, but there are some ‘gotchas’ that you need to be careful of if you&#8217;re doing B2B or doing things that look bot-ish.” General News: All the Joy of the Crypto Crash Apparently the tech talent crunch (not because we suck at running Kafka) is to blame for a 68% reliance on AWS managed services. Come on, VentureBeat, you can do better than this! Microsoft is in the yellow zone because of a global cloud shortage, which it’s attributing to rapid Azure growth and increased Teams demand. GCP: The Very Apigee of Security Google announces Apigee Advanced API Security to help protect against increased attacks and traffic volumes. Seems more like a WAF function than a misconfiguration issue, though. Go go go, Google: get more support for structured logs in the latest version of Go logging library. Monitor your cloud metrics now in Managed Service for Prometheus. Allegedly, Cloud Native community members have an 86% chance of using Prometheus (we’re not so sure about that number.) Say bonjour to the new Paris region, as the French government aims to make the nation cloud native. GKE Autopilot’s new IP masquerading and eBPF network features are now generally available. <a href="https://cloud.google.com/blog/pro

On The Cloud Pod this week, Peter finally returns with some beer-based bets about Amazon extending its TLS deadline. Plus: Terraform drift detection for managing infrastructure, chilling tales of Amazon’s CodeWhisperer ML advances, and Anthos on-premise options finally arrive for your platform of choice. Plus the cloud talks about AWS SNOWCONES in SPACE!!!!!! A big thanks to this week’s sponsor, Foghorn Consulting, which provides full-stack cloud solutions with a focus on strategy, planning and execution for enterprises seeking to take advantage of the transformative capabilities of AWS, Google Cloud and Azure. This week’s highlights Terraform Cloud finally adds drift detection to help manage infrastructure, now generally available after its 2020 preview. Amazon’s crazy “ML-powered coding companion,” CodeWhisperer, is here for our jobs. Google expands its Distributed Cloud platform with Anthos on-premises options. Top Quotes “I&#8217;m surprised it&#8217;s taken so long. Because I mean, the reality is if you&#8217;re in a plan, and the plan doesn&#8217;t require any changes, then there&#8217;s been no drift. So what was the obstacle in delivering this as a feature sooner?” “Not only they&#8217;re training their own machine learning models, but they&#8217;re also generating code. Not concerned at all.” General News: Drifting in the Right Direction While everyone’s been a little afraid to pull the trigger, HashiCorp announced drift detection in Terraform cloud, which is in a public beta. Pretty exciting! HashiCorp also announced the launch and free public beta of HCP Boundary, but what&#8217;s their long-term vision? AWS: Whispering Sweet Somethings to the Machine SageMaker Ground Truth now supports synthetic data generation, promising to reduce time and training costs for model operations. Getting enough data to actually train a model could be hard… (fake it til you make it?) Your new “ML-powered coding companion” CodeWhisperer now writes code for you. We’ve joked about it before, but Alexa really is one step away from upskilling to coding. Peter’s betting two beers at his local pub on Amazon extending the deadline on this one: TLS 1.2 is to become the minimum TLS protocol level for all AWS API endpoints. There’s currently just under a year to get yourself sorted. Good luck! Apparently, even space has (AWS) Snowcones: Amazon sends one to the International Space Station As EKS improves control plane scaling and update speed by up to 4x, get ready for a lot of step function workload. Imagine waiting 10 years for private IP VPNs… well, we did, and <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/06/aws-site-vpn-introduces-private-ip-security-privacy/" target="_bla

On The Cloud Pod this week, the team discusses Jonathan’s penance for his failures. Plus: Microsoft makes moves on non-competes, NDAs, salary disclosures, and a civil rights audit; AWS modernizes mainframe applications for cloud deployment; and AWS CEO Adam Selipsky chooses to be intentionally paranoid. A big thanks to this week’s sponsor, Foghorn Consulting, which provides full-stack cloud solutions with a focus on strategy, planning and execution for enterprises seeking to take advantage of the transformative capabilities of AWS, Google Cloud and Azure. This week’s highlights The Balmer era is officially dead: Microsoft curbs non-competes, drops NDAs from worker settlements, disclose salary ranges, and even launches a civil rights audit. AWS launches their new modernization service for mainframe applications, now deployable in fully managed AWS runtime environments. AWS CEO Adam Selipsky “choose[s] to be intentionally paranoid,” as he leads the company through turbulence. Top Quotes “We&#8217;ve talked about how garbage those [noncompetes] are, the problems they&#8217;ve had with them, executives leaving, Amazon going to Microsoft, then getting sued and all the mess of that. So I&#8217;m super glad they&#8217;re finally starting to see a tide swell change in technology where that&#8217;s no longer a thing.” “I always felt like Amazon was going to just create a mainframe as a service offering — buy a bunch of IBM mainframes that they sell out to you — because that&#8217;s been a model of mainframe for a long time: CPU slicing, rentals and that kind of thing. But it seems like now they&#8217;re going to go down this other path where the answer is [that] you convert to a more modern architecture, which is interesting.” General News: It’s a New Era The times they are a-changin’, as Microsoft revises its position on non-competes, NDAs, and salary range disclosure, while launching a civil rights audit. Take that, Amazon! Target CIO Mike McNamara jumps away from AWS with a scaled move toward multicloud architecture. Target allegedly has 4,000 engineers, which seems like a lot. Archera vents via Venturebeat about the unmanageability of cloud costs, calling for standardized billing. While it might be helpful and even valuable, this seems a road too far traveled. AWS: Modernized Mainframes and Intentional Paranoia You can now take advantage of AWS’ new modernization service for mainframe applications, deployable in fully managed AWS runtime environments. There are some nice enhancements for MGN, including DR configuration and Linux to Rocky Linux and SUSE Linux Subscription conversions. AWS CEO Adam Selipsky admits, “I choose to be intentionally paranoid,” as he leads the company into a turbulent world. A nice feature so

On The Cloud Pod this week, half the team whizzes through the news in record time. Plus: AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery, Google Distributed Cloud adds AI, ML and Database Solutions, and there’s another win for NetApp with Azure VMware Solution. A big thanks to this week’s sponsor, Foghorn Consulting, which provides full-stack cloud solutions with a focus on strategy, planning and execution for enterprises seeking to take advantage of the transformative capabilities of AWS, Google Cloud and Azure. This week’s highlights AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery now supports up to 300 staging and target accounts, which seems like a small number for some enterprises with thousands. With the power of Anthos, Google Distributed Cloud adds AI, ML and Database Solutions — continuing the trend of service monetization regardless of host location. Another win for NetApp, the home of choice for Azure VMware solutions optimization. Top Quotes “If you&#8217;re really doing auto scaling [and] traditional cloud native, you don&#8217;t use the service because you’ve already built it into your app. So this is for legacy IT operations like SAP, Oracle, and others. Three hundred or 3,000 covers small and medium business, but large enterprise has way more than that.” “When Anthos first was announced, and Outpost for AWS, we talked about how likely it was that more and more cloud-native services were going to be made available anywhere, on any cloud, in any data center. It&#8217;s definitely a pattern of monetizing the services regardless of where they&#8217;re hosted.” AWS: Bouncing Back From Disaster Amazon EMR Serverless is now generally available, a cool feature running big data applications (and Outpost too). But it’s interesting that it’s been branded “serverless” when it’s clearly a managed service. Elastic Disaster Recovery now supports 300 staging and target accounts, but we can’t help wondering how this helps the largest enterprises. Step Functions launches a workflow-based interactive application workshop, and it looks like a golden age for developer experience is close at hand. Amazon Route 53 announces IP-based routing for DNS queries, which is going to make things complicated. So preoccupied with whether or not they could integrate, they didn&#8217;t stop to think if they should. GCP: Complexity on Top of Complexity Google Chronicle offers context-aware detections, alert prioritization and risk scoring for its Security Operations. But wouldn&#8217;t you want to protect everybody from everything? A boon for customer choice and flexibility: Google Distributed Cloud adds AI, ML and database solutions. On prem, running Kubernetes and Anthos? Justin loves this. Yeehaw! Time to grab that 10-gallon hat and run you

On The Cloud Pod this week, the team discusses the new Madrid region’s midday siesta shutdown. Plus: Broadcom acquires VMWare for $61 billion, Azure gets paradigmatic with 5G, and you can now take the 2022 Google-DORA DevOps survey. A big thanks to this week’s sponsor, Foghorn Consulting, which provides full-stack cloud solutions with a focus on strategy, planning and execution for enterprises seeking to take advantage of the transformative capabilities of AWS, Google Cloud and Azure. This week’s highlights Broadcom acquires VMWare for $61 billion, in one of the largest-ever acquisitions. Google Cloud and DORA team up to bring us the 2022 Accelerate State of DevOps Survey. Azure calls 5G a “paradigm,” but is it just hype? Top Quotes “This is an interesting reverse on the large cloud providers getting into the silicon business, which makes sense to me — that they want to control their supply chain and optimize. … Is Broadcom going to start becoming like a cloud provider? That&#8217;s interesting. I wouldn&#8217;t suspect that.” “What [is Azure] trying to do? Are they trying to sell us on [5G]? Are they trying to change the way we develop? Because we&#8217;re just going to waste our time developing stuff that requires some of these things, and then the infrastructure is not going to be there to support it.” General News: Diversifying the Portfolio In one of the largest acquisitions ever (just shy of Dell’s EMC takeover at $67 billion and Microsoft’s Blizzard acquisition at $69 billion), Broadcom acquires VMware for $61 billion. This could have big implications for enterprise. AWS: Need for Speed If you need a lot of disk space to log transactions, you’re in luck: Amazon EC2 M6id and C6id instances buff up their storage by up to 7.6TB. Ryan’s usually doing whatever he can to avoid this, but if you need Elastic Volumes and Fast Snapshot Restore (FSR) support for io2 Block Express, you’ve now got it. GCP: the State of DevOps in 2022 Why do IT leaders choose Google Cloud certification for their teams? In case you were wondering, here’s a puff piece with the answer. If you need to change streams with Cloud Spanner, you can now do so. A cool feature, but it does need to be by email (there’s no homing pigeon option… yet). If you want to learn a whole bunch of irrelevant HPC jargon, this is the blog post for you. You can now take the 2022 Accelerate State of DevOps Survey, launched by Google and DORA. <a