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The Cloud Pod Gets Their Groove Back — Episode 74 Your co-hosts have cooked up a good one on this week’s episode of The Cloud Pod. 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 Your co-hosts cover DockerCon 2020. Chef announced several new features at ChefConf 2020. Google Cloud Platform (GCP) teaches you how to take an online certification exam. General News: Prince Ali Mirantis has released the first major update to Docker Enterprise since it acquired the platform in November — a loss for the startup community. Over 60,000 people registered for the online DockerCon, the first DockerCon after the loss of Enterprise. During the keynote, Docker CEO Scott Johnston announced a strategic partnership with Microsoft. Chinese cloud titan Alibaba’s revenue grew 62% in the first quarter of 2020, though it remains behind AWS, Microsoft and Google for now. With the regional advantage, it seems all Alibaba needs to do is maintain parity with AWS features to stay on top. Chef Conference: Too Many Cooks Predominant Configuration Management software platform and TCP punching-bag Chef held their virtual ChefConf where they debuted several new capabilities. Chef Compliance now features Chef Compliance Audit and Chef Compliance Remediation. Chef Desktop helps IT managers centrally deploy, manage and secure an organization’s laptops, desktops and workstations. Chef Infra and Chef Automate now integrate with ServiceNow Configuration Management Database. AWS: No Back-SaaS Upgrading contracts for SaaS and usage-based products on the AWS Marketplace is now easier. Look to this for grabbing those high-volume discounts when scaling up. AWS Single Sign-On now <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/single-sign-on-between-okta-universal-direct

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 An unusually short AWS segment this week featured new Backup customizations. Azure is bringing their HoloLens2 to a new set of countries. We celebrate BigQuery’s 10th birthday and the accompanying BigSale. AWS: Only Three Stories Somehow Jonah Jones of the AWS Open Source Blog published an article on how to use the PromCat (Prometheus Catalog) to monitor AWS services used by Kubernetes. It’s great to see Prometheus and Kubernetes continue to take over the world. You can now opt-in or opt-out of AWS Backup services at the account level. Opt-in is nice and all, but opt-out provides peace of mind to the largest user base. Information on AWS regions and servers is now available programmatically in the AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store. It’ll be nice when we see other tools pulling this data. Azure: Mixed With What? HoloLens 2, the latest in Azure’s “mixed reality” glasses technology, is now available in 10 countries and will be coming to more soon. Once the technology becomes as functional as it is in the advertisements, we’re going to be thrilled to play with it. There’s a lot of potential here for industrial applications that are already being explored. The Azure Arc preview now supports Kubernetes which was hotly requested in customer feedback. Expect to see some very interesting use cases from Azure Arc in the next 12 months. Google: Happy Birthday! After dropping out early in the JEDI contract competition citing conflicts with its AI principals, Google has signed a seven-figure contract with the Department of Defense’s Defense Innovation Unit. Google anticipates that this may lead to future business deals with branches of the DoD. Serverless VPC Access now features ingress settings. It’s really nice to see a tightening down of function access on VPCs and vice versa. This should make a lot of people happy. Google’s new open-source tool <a hr

Your co-hosts cover conferences past and yet to come on this week’s episode of The Cloud Pod. A big thanks to this week’s sponsor: &nbsp; 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. &nbsp; This week’s highlights We take a good, hard look at the ways Google Cloud has AWS beat. Microsoft Build 2020 featured the fifth most powerful computer in the world. Google Cloud Next is here to stay for a long, long time. General News: Let Me Count the Ways Peter Wayner of InfoWorld wrote an article listing the 13 ways Google Cloud beats AWS. Well…he didn’t say they were all good reasons. AWS: That’s a MTHFL AWS announced the Cloud Development Kit for Kubernetes called cdk8s is now in alpha. Rolls right off the tongue, doesn’t it? You can now use Attribute-based access control with EC2 Instance Connect to define Secure Shell access permissions based on attributes. It’s good to move away from passing around all those extra keys. State Manager features for Systems Manager now integrate with AWS CloudFormation. Assuming we’re parsing the naming conventions correctly in these press releases, that’s good news! Amazon CodeGuru Profiler added -javaagent switch, and CodeGuru Reviewer now supports Atlassian Bitbucket Cloud. Obviously, profiling and reviewing are totally different services — how could anyone get those mixed up? The AWS CloudTrail console has been redesigned. It’s just the S3 user interface again, so it’s not a very intuitive interface. Amazon Elastic Container Service now <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/05/amazon-elastic-container-service-supports-env

We crown the winner of the AWS Summit Draft Picks on this week’s episode of The Cloud Pod. A big thanks to this week’s sponsor: &nbsp; 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. &nbsp; This week’s highlights We crown the winner of this year’s AWS Summit Draft Picks! Amazon and Microsoft keep slinging blog posts over JEDI. We’re all just trying to stay sane, honestly. AWS Summit: Draft Picks While it wasn’t a particularly accurate set of predictions this year (with no honorable mentions scoring and even the tiebreaker non-functional), Justin managed to squeak out a win by correctly predicting a price cut in EC2, S3, or Networking and the Covid Crazy Growth Numbers. Jonathan scored the only other point with his prediction of improved DLP Tools for S3. Amazon Macie simplified its pricing plan and dramatically reduced costs. Is the 80% price cut the new way of announcing a product is generally available? Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud cut prices across all regions for Standard Reserved Instances and EC2 Instance Saving Plans. Inter-Region Data Transfer prices have been reduced for data coming out of São Paulo, Bahrain, Cape Town and Sydney. General News Amazon filed a second, concurrent bid protest to the Department of Defense. Microsoft and Amazon continue to snip at each other in public blog posts. COVID-19 Amazon will allow non-warehouse employees to work from home for at least five months. Microsoft updated their WFH policy, and will give employees the option to work remotely through October. AWS Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer has seen pricing changes. Now CodeGuru’s terrible payment model is much less terrible. Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service now supports Kubernetes version 1.16. It’s good to see they’re putting out these updates progressively faster. A new wizard will allow for simplified creation and management of Elastic Kubernetes Service clusters. This should clean up some of the EKS console nicely. AWS Identity and Access Management introduced basic password<a href="ht

The Three Musketeers have gained their D’Artagnan and take on the world (metaphorically and from home) on this week&#8217;s episode of The Cloud Pod. 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 Take a break with us and enjoy a music video. Oracle managed a whole two headlines this week! Jonathan called it: AWS opens the Africa (Cape Town) Region. General News: Chime After Chime Tim Leehane and Spencer Johnson released a working-from-home anthem titled Chime After Chime we just had to share with you. Security company Rapid7 will acquire SaaS platform DivvyCloud for $145 million. COVID-19 Zoom picked the dark horse of cloud platforms Oracle for their next upscaling deal. Zoom is moving around 93 years of video through Oracle servers every day. AMD revealed an anonymous customer (probably Oracle or Microsoft) deployed 10,000 new Epyc servers in just 10 days. AWS: Summit Predictions Jonathan Improved DLP Tools for S3 AI Powered submarine to explore the depths of the ocean ES service will pivot to Open Distro for ElasticSearch Ryan Docker Exec based Debugging tools/capability Remote Debug capabilities for Lambda Functions Security Code Scanning service (similar to code guru). (static and dynamic code analysis) Peter Direct Competitor to Anthos DLP for VPC, always wanted a layer 7 like proxy. Filtering/Domain Whitelisting A caricature of larry ellison will appear on the screen in the slides Justin Price Cut in EC2, S3 or Networking Covid Crazy Growth Numbers (service dig on Azure) A Diplo T-shirt will be worn by Werner Vogel Honorable Mentions: Amazon Crucible their first person shooter game, online multiplayer game Dr. Matt Wood will make a passionate attempt for people to love sagemaker 6 foot distancing robots Keyspaces will be on the HIPAA BAA list Detective Named/Sherlock named security tool In person events for 2020 will be canceled New Region coming in a few years. Tie BreakerHow many new features for year, will AWS say they: 70 &#8211; Justin 200 &#8211; Peter 150 &#8211; Ryan 157 &#8211; Jonathan AWS: Global Reach, Mediocre Branding The butt of TCP jokes at Re:Invent — Amazon Managed Apache Cassandra Services — has rebranded to Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) and became generally available. AWS Transfer for Secure File Transfer Protocol now supports File Transfer Protocol and File Transfer Protocol over SSL/TLS. Please, please don’t use File Transfer Protocol if you’re transferring data of any sensitivity. AWS published their guide to CloudWatch Synthetics in a blog post. In fact, we set it up for The Cloud Pod and it’s running cleanly. # Amazon AppFlow promises to automate the data flows between AWS services and SaaS apps. This might actually be a good piece to build onto #NoCode. AWS Chatbot is now generally available for anyone to use for ChatOps. They’ve added quite a bit since we last saw this at Re:Invent. You can cross it off your predictions bingo card: AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region and AWS Europe (Milan) Region are open for business. The promised xkcd comic: https://xkcd.com/705/ Those of you carefully budgeting your cloud spends may be interested to know that cost controls are now available for Amazon Redshift Spectrum and Concurrency Scaling. AWS Control Tower will allow you to create and manage multi-account environments. That fixes an entire half of the problem! AWS Glue promises to manage streaming data automatically. Break out the acetone because this is Super Glue now. Google: Anthos support for Multi-cloud is now generally available. All the boundless freedom of locking into Anthos! Migrate for Anthos has been updated with enhanced Virtual-Machine-to-container conversion capabilities. It’s a big deal assuming it actually works. Thomas Kurian stated that Istio will be donated to “a foundation,” but did not specify what foundation or when. Expect Istio to go to the WWF sometime in 2040? Shielded Virtual Machines are now the default for Google Compute Engine. It’s just common sense to employ robust default security settings. Rumor has it that Google is looking to purchase Kubernetes startup D2iQ. Neither company will comment, but this appears to us to be a talent hire. Azure: A Strong Third Place Query Acceleration for Azure Data Lake Storage promises yet another way to increase the efficiency of your spend. Microsoft admitted the ongoing global pandemic led to capacity constraints in some Azure regions. We anticipate a mixed response to Microsoft’s decision making&#8230;but we appreciate the transparency. If you didn’t think there were enough cloud service brand names to keep track of, then there’s good news for you: Visual Studio Online has rebranded to Visual Studio Codespaces. Microsoft is now a Kubernetes Certified Service Provider. Not much of a

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 Summit Online is on May 13. Drama brews in the developing JEDI contract story. Please welcome Ryan Lucas as our new full-fledged non-guest host! General News: This Isn’t the Evidence You’re Looking For AWS Summit Online is free to attend on May 13. Expect to hear our predictions soon! Following a partial review, the Department of Defense’s inspector general’s office announced they have found no evidence of the DoD awarding the JEDI contract unfairly. Meanwhile, Jon Palmer, Deputy General Counsel for Microsoft argued that allowing AWS a second bid would give Amazon an unfair advantage. But who inspects the inspector? COVID-19 Verizon is breaking out the big bucks to purchase video conference company BlueJeans for $400 million. It’s interesting to see BlueJeans back in the spotlight. The Information reports that AWS has been comparatively inflexible on cloud bill payments compared to Azure and Google Cloud Platform. At the same time, AWS has maintained the messaging that it is “here to help” during this “unprecedented time.” AWS: A Snowball’s Chance at the JEDI Contract The Snowball family of devices received a ton of updates. All that work on military applications and no JEDI contract to apply it to. Federated querying is now generally available on Amazon Redshift. It’s clear that Amazon is investing heavily in Redshift. AWS Security Hub launched the BatchUpdateFindings API and the Workflow Status field. Good to see some of these issues worked out. This one goes out to all the auditors: AWS Secrets Manager now integrates with AWS Config. And when the auditor’s happy, eve

This week Chris Riley DevOps Advocate for Splunk and Podcast Host of Developers Eating the World joins us. We ask the tough questions, like what is Observability exactly? We touch on the risk of robots taking my job, with AI-Ops, and if it is marketing buzzwords or a product. Plus the mad rush to SRE all the NOCs, because GOOGLE DOES IT and more on TCP-Talks. Twitter: https://twitter.com/hoardinginfo Developers Eating the World Podcast

Ryan Lucas and Ian Mckay fill in for Jonathan on this week’s free-tier episode of The Cloud Pod. 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 GitHub announced a new business model. Amazon announced a giant pile of Beanstalk updates. Google published a free book on secure and reliable systems. General News: [Upgrade to Premium for Full Segment Title] GitHub has switched to a freemium business model — core features will be free to all users, and premium features like Security Assertion Markup Language will require a paid plan. This is a great new direction, though they may lose a few paid customers tempted to downgrade to the new free tier. AWS: Amazon Golden Goose The new AWS Launch Wizard for Solutions and Pricing (SAP) service will orchestrate resource provisioning to help customers deploy or migrate SAP workloads. If you’re paying the premium for a big fancy SAP instance, you’re going to want to be invested in how your infrastructure is set up. Amazon unveiled a giant pile of Beanstalk updates this week. The AWS Elastic Beanstalk console is now generally available, and upcoming features can be followed the roadmap on GitHub. New generations of Docker, Corretto and Python platforms built on Amazon Linux 2 will all run applications on Elastic Beanstalk. Elastic Beanstalk has added API support for listing platform branches. Beanstalk is looking to be a very popular option for smaller developers, and is getting more impressive with every update. You can now preview Amazon RDS Proxy with PostgreSQL compatibility, which resolves connection pool issues. This is going to be a super helpful service and at about three cents per hour to run a proxy, it’s also extremely cost effective. <

Your hosts meet online to work on this week’s episode of The Cloud Pod. 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 Profits of The Cloud Pod’s sticker sales will be donated to charity. DeepComposer is now generally available. You can play around with March Madness simulations in BigQuery. General News: The Cloud Pod Tackles COVID-19 We’re donating profits of our sticker sales to the John Hopkins University COVID-19 Research Response Program through July 1, 2020. AWS: Staying Productive The Amazon CloudWatch Contributor Insights feature, which gives users an overview of their operational problems, is now generally available. CloudWatch Contributor Insights is also generally available for DynamoDB, though it is 50 percent more expensive per million log events than Insights not for DynamoDB. You can build some neat automation around this. Back in Episode 51, we covered the new instances with ra3.16xlarge nodes, and now Amazon is adding instances with ra3.4xlarge nodes, which lack the excess power of ra3.16xlarge. At a quarter of the price of the larger larges, that’s some considerable savings. Amazon Redshift now features elastic resize, allowing users to change node types within minutes. This will be helpful if you want to make the move to those cheaper instances. If you’re looking for something fun while sheltering in place, you may be pleased to hear that AWS DeepComposer is now generally available (and with new features!) You can buy an Amazon keyboard for $99 or a generic for $50. Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports In-Region Read Replicas on SQL Server Enterprise Edition in the Multi-AZ config with Always On Availability. Careful though, you can really rack up a bill this way if you’re careless. Amazon announced that Amazon Elastic File System has quintupled its speed for General Purpose mode file systems to 35,000 read operations per second. That leads into our next headline: Amazon Elastic

Jonathan is out with a back injury, so it’s just Justin and Peter on this week’s intranational episode of The Cloud Pod. 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 Teleconferencing services continue to boom. Amazon opens up a new avenue of attack on Microsoft’s JEDI contract. Azure UK declares it will triage who gets service if need be. General News: Cloud Provider Moves to Internet for Business Business for web conferencing applications has boomed this month. Microsoft Teams gained 12 million users in a week and Slack’s paid version gained over 7,000 customers since the start of February. Hopefully people continue to use these tools to stay more connected even after we’ve gotten through this pandemic. With AWS testing centers closed, AWS Certification is now offering all exams online with online proctoring. Considerations are being made for those who need to reschedule. AWS: Chipping Away at JEDI The price of Amazon GuardDuty use over 10,000 gigabytes (GB) was reduced from 25 cents to 15 cents per GB. The normally quiet CloudFront announced they have cut propagation times down to five. Propagation times used to average between 17 and 35 minutes. CloudFront has always been cost-effective, but now it’s as efficient as it needs to be. Amazon QuickSight launched image support on dashboards through the insight editor. Neat, but indicative of a slow news week. AWS Site-to-Site VPN now enables you to use digital certificates for all site-to-site connections. This is great for mobile devices or other cases without static IP addresses. In our developing coverage of the JEDI contract, AWS has now charged that the DoD is unfairly granting Microsoft a “do-over” on flawed portions of its bid. The UpdateShardCount API for Amazon Kinesis Data Streams upgraded from a 500 shard capacity to a 10,000 shard capacity. If you want to work with social

Your hosts join the rest of the world in phoning one in on this week’s episode of The Cloud Pod. A big thanks to this week’s sponsors: Foghorn Consulting, which provides full-stack cloud solutions with a focus on strategy, planning and execution for enterprises seeking to take advantage of the transformative capabilities of AWS, Google Cloud and Azure This week’s highlights More conference cancellations roll in due to the ongoing global pandemic. Amazon Redshift made several improvements this week. We take a look at a bug-hunt by a Site Reliability Engineer at Google. General News: Working From Home As the pandemic response ramps up across the world, teleconferencing services like Slack and Zoom have struggled to meet demand. Microsoft Teams users in Europe reported difficulty logging into the service. If you’re looking for an open-source web conferencing application, AWS recommends you use Jitsi. If you’re a startup with more AWS credits to spend than money, we recommend you check it out. In the continued wave of canceled conferences, Microsoft moved the May 19-21 Build developer conference to a virtual-only format. Even virtual conferences aren’t entirely safe bets, as Google has postponed Google Cloud Next 2020: Digital Connect. Perhaps they will try to wait until they can safely host a physical conference again, but who knows when that will be? AWS: Redshifting Into Gear Amazon Redshift now allows users to pause and remove clusters so they are not billed for their use while unneeded. In other Amazon Redshift news, the cloud data warehouse now supports materialized views functionality. We suspect that Redshift will be going serverless before long. As a part of its release, API Gateway will offer private integrations with AWS Elastic Load Balancers and AWS CloudMap. There’s a lot there, but we wish it had a Lambda

Ryan Lucas (@ryron01) fills in for Peter again as we practice social distancing on this week’s episode of The Cloud Pod. A big thanks to this week’s sponsors: Foghorn Consulting, which provides full-stack cloud solutions with a focus on strategy, planning and execution for enterprises seeking to take advantage of the transformative capabilities of AWS, Google Cloud and Azure. Blue Medora, which offers pioneering IT monitoring integration as a service to address today’s IT challenges by easily connecting system health and performance data — no matter its source — with the world’s leading monitoring and analytics platforms. This week’s highlights Details emerged from the ongoing legal battle surrounding the JEDI contract. Amazon shows off its new operating system. Powershell 7.0 brings long-awaited features to Windows. General News Due to the ongoing global pandemic, AWS Summits have been (responsibly) cancelled in Sydney, Singapore, Mumbai, Paris, San Francisco and Brussels. Hopefully we’ll see these events move online. Court documents from Amazon’s injunction have been unsealed. The documents reveal that Microsoft’s bid included “non-compliant storage” which was not counted against them. The Department of Defense responded that Amazon’s bid did not include technically compliant storage either. Our very own Justin Brodley made the news! His comments are included in an article covering a cloud alternatives panel discussion at Altitude 2020. VMware Inc. overhauled its portfolio of products to focus on Kubernetes support. Expect to see the whole host of products available by May 2020. AWS: The new CloudWatch composite alarms will allow you to combine alarms and get a clearer picture of what is happening when something goes wrong. You can now host your applications with the AWS <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/host-your-apps-with-aws-amplify-console-from-the-aws-amplify-cli/" targ

One of the most exciting cloud computing technologies of the last few years is Serverless computing, whether it be via AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, GCP functions or technologies like K-Native. This week Jonathan and Justin talk to Ben Kehoe Chief Roboticist at iRobot and AWS Serverless hero. We ask Ben the burning questions about Serverless Computing, robotics, AWS and more! Listen today. &nbsp; &nbsp;

Ryan Lucas (@ryron01) fills in for Peter as we cover all the news you can use on this week’s episode of The Cloud Pod. A big thanks to this week’s sponsors: Foghorn Consulting, which provides full-stack cloud solutions with a focus on strategy, planning and execution for enterprises seeking to take advantage of the transformative capabilities of AWS, Google Cloud and Azure. Blue Medora, which offers pioneering IT monitoring integration as a service to address today’s IT challenges by easily connecting system health and performance data — no matter its source — with the world’s leading monitoring and analytics platforms. This week’s highlights AWS restructures its sales force. Google Cloud Next ’20: Digital Connect is canceled. Who’s else is excited to re-network their printers!? General News We’re proud of the Bonus Episodes we’ve produced lately. Check out our interviews with Rob Martin and Ben Kehoe! Check out Aviatrix’s panel on Multi-Cloud architecture and networking — featuring our very own Justin Brodley. And if you’re here because you saw Justin’s panel, welcome to TCP! Global research firm Gartner has named AWS the top leader in Cloud AI developer services. Gartner categorizes industry leaders as having a complete vision and the ability to execute on it. Microsoft and Google were close behind, though unlike Microsoft, Google spread the news. AWS: Human Salesforce, AI Oversight Amazon Transcribe can now automatically redact personally identifiable information. You can rest assured when a robot collects your personal information for data analysis, it will use discretion in what it shares with humans. AWS Global Accelerator users may now use their own IP addresses and tag resources. We already had AnyCast, but the tagging is nice. Faced with tougher competition, AWS plans to double the size of its sales team. This will be the first major sales restructuring for AWS in

Peter’s returned from his trip to Asia and the band’s back together on this episode of The Cloud Pod. A big thanks to this week’s sponsors: Foghorn Consulting, which provides full-stack cloud solutions with a focus on strategy, planning and execution for enterprises seeking to take advantage of the transformative capabilities of AWS, Google Cloud and Azure. Blue Medora, which offers pioneering IT monitoring integration as a service to address today’s IT challenges by easily connecting system health and performance data — no matter its source — with the world’s leading monitoring and analytics platforms. This week’s highlights Registration for Amazon Re:Mars 2020 is now open! Academics can use code ACAD20REMARS for a discount. Google releases several new tools for building and managing data pipelines. We tried out a new format for our lightning round! Amazon Web Services: To Infinity and Beyond Registration is open for the Amazon Re:Mars 2020 robotics and technology conference running June 16-19 in Las Vegas. Tickets cost $1,999, but astronauts get in free! Academics and students registering with a .edu email address can use the discount code ACAD20REMARS if a couple grand is too pricey. AWS Sync Routes is available on the AWS Open Source blog to allow you to synchronize routes across tables. If you’ve got only a few VPCs, you might have the right use case for this. AWS CodeDeploy’s blue/green deployments for Amazon ECS now include “linear and canary deployments.” Hidden in that announcement is the implication that they seem to have invented linear deployments. You can now use a full-screen narrative editor with a preview mode thanks to enhancements to Amazon QuickSight. You can also add static and dynamic URLs within those narratives. If you’re a Well-Architected Framework practitioner, the new Serverless Lens for AWS Well-Architected Tool may improve your architecture assessments. If you (somehow) have a workload that can tolerate lost events, the Multi-Region Asynchronous Object Replication Solution may be for you. We’ll hope for a global bucket option to replace this down the line with something more elegant. Azure’s S

Your hosts are joined again by Ryan Lucas (@ryron01) who is filling in for Peter as we recap the week in cloud. A big thanks to this week’s sponsors: Foghorn Consulting, which provides full-stack cloud solutions with a focus on strategy, planning and execution for enterprises seeking to take advantage of the transformative capabilities of AWS, Google Cloud and Azure. Blue Medora, which offers pioneering IT monitoring integration as a service to address today’s IT challenges by easily connecting system health and performance data — no matter its source — with the world’s leading monitoring and analytics platforms. This week’s highlights It’s earnings season as the top dogs show their growth. Azure gets back in the headlines with a bold but contested study. Google fulfills an old TCP prediction with reports of a unified service. Certificates of Doom Update Amazon has given customers an extension until March 5, 2020 to rotate their SSL/TLS certificates. Previously, rebooting or manually changing a relational database service (RDS) instance would automatically switch to the new certificate authority, even if the customer didn’t have their application ready to do so. IBM Changes Leadership Speaking of new authorities, major changes are coming to IBM. Arvind Krishna will replace current CEO Ginni Rometty on April 6 and current Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst will become president. Hopefully the changes in leadership and the acquisition of Red Hat will be what IBM needs to turn around what’s been a rough decade for the tech giant. Earnings Season It’s that time of the year where financial analysts are breaking out the line graphs to show investors just how much their holdings are growing. Let’s see what the quarterly reports had to say this time around: Microsoft saw a rebound from slowing cloud growth last quarter with Azure up 62 percent, Surface up 6 percent, and LinkedIn up 24 percent. Google Cloud growth was strong enough for the company to brag, but still lags behind AWS, Azure and even Google’s own YouTube. <a href="https://www.geekwire.com/2020/amazon-stock-soars-tech-giant-crushes-holiday-quarter-expect

Your hosts are back at it — well some of them are. Ian Mckay (@iann0036) fills in for Peter this week as we cover all of the triumphs and troubles in cloud. A big thanks to this week’s sponsors: Foghorn Consulting, which provides full-stack cloud solutions with a focus on strategy, planning and execution for enterprises seeking to take advantage of the transformative capabilities of AWS, Google Cloud and Azure. Blue Medora, which offers pioneering IT monitoring integration as a service to address today’s IT challenges by easily connecting system health and performance data — no matter its source — with the world’s leading monitoring and analytics platforms. This week’s highlights Ian Mckay gives an Aussie perspective on the AWS outage in Sydney. Amazon streamlines permissions with the IAM policy simulator. Google competes with AWS with competitively priced services. Amazon Pressures Pentagon, Suffers in Sydney On January 22, Amazon filed a motion to halt work on the JEDI contract between Microsoft and the Department of Defense until a court rules on the protest filed by Amazon last year. Expect more news here as the story develops through February. That same day, Amazon Web Services (AWS) suffered a six hour outage across multiple services in the Sydney region “including EC2, elastic load balancing (ELB), relational database service (RDS), AppStream 2.0, ElastiCache, WorkSpaces and Lambda.” After the issue was resolved, Amazon assured customers it will use this experience to learn and improve future operational performance. AWS Adds, Updates and Improves AWS DataSync has received an update: You can now use DataSync to quickly transfer large amounts of data to and from Amazon FSx for Windows File Server. Previously, DataSync was not fully compatible with Windows applications and environments. All seven sizes of the T3 instances are now available on single-tenant hardware. It might help you meet your compliance goals by physically isolating your machine from other AWS accounts, but the unlimited bursting capability makes us wonder what use cases Amazon has in mind for these. Amazon GuardDuty has globally released a threat detection enhancement which should allow customers with common architectures to see fewer false alarms, and ultimately 50 percent fewer alerts overall. You can now export Amazon Relational Database Service or Amazon Aurora snapshots to Amazon Simple Storage Service as Apache Parquet. Compared to uncompressed text, Parquet is twice as fast to export and takes up one-sixth the storage space. The new Identity and Access Management (IAM) policy simulator will allow administrators to test new permission boundary policies without removing the old ones, heavily streamlining the process of implementing new permissions. Amazon announced that Amazon Linux Amazon Machine Image security support will be phased out over the next few years until June 2023, instead of June 2020. This should give users the time they need to move from Amazon Linux 1 to Amazon Linux 2. Google Kills and Creates Services If you’re a data scientist, you’ll be pleased to hear that Google Cloud’s Dataproc has been updated with several new features: autoscaling and notebook support, logging and monitoring enhancements for SparkR job types, accelerator support for GPUs, and scheduled cluster deletion. The NVIDIA T4 GPU AI deployments are now over 60 percent cheaper, which also makes them cheaper to run than their AWS counterpart, the g4dn.xlarge. BigQuery rolled out their January update announcement which included several new interesting features including new machine learning capabilities. Google announced it will shut down its low-code App Maker service on January 19, 2021. Google claimed the move was due to low usage, but it is likely that Google is simply shifting focus over to the recently-acquired AppSheet. Google Cloud’s new Secret Manager service offers sensitive data storage at 15 percent the price of AWS Secret Manager. Expect AWS to make a competitive price drop soon. Forrester Consulting released a study claiming four ways Anthos delivers a return on investment to customers. Well, it reads more like a paid advertisement than a study. You can check out Justin’s analysis on Twitter here. Lightning Round There are no points awarded in the Lightning Round this week, leaving the score at one for Justin and two for Jonathan. Other headlines mentioned: AWS Cloud Map supports editing custom service instance attributes in the AWS Console New AWS Public Datasets Available from Ford, NASA, and NREL AWS Elastic Beanstalk adds support for Windows Server 2019 and .NET Core 3.1 AWS Control Tower introduces lifecycle event notifications AWS Certificate Manager Private Certificate Authority Now Offers CloudFormation Resources AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate Now Supports In-Place Upgrade to Chef Automate 2 Amazon RDS for MySQL Supports Authentication with Active Directory

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The DOD awards the coveted Jedi contract, the MS ignite Draft, Earnings season and more this week on The Cloud Pod. Sponsors: Foghorn Consulting &#8211; fogops.io/thecloudpod Follow Up Topics Pentagon awards controversial $10 billion cloud computing deal to Microsoft, spurning Amazon Even after Microsoft wins, JEDI saga could drag on General News/Topics Earnings Season Microsoft’s cloud shines again as it easily tops earnings targets, but Azure slows Despite AWS cloud growth, Amazon shares sag on lower forecast Google Cloud fails to lift Alphabet enough to please investors AWS 200 Amazon CloudFront Points of Presence + Price Reduction Native Container Image Scanning in Amazon ECR AWS Global Accelerator Now Supports EC2 Instance Endpoints Google Updates make Cloud AI platform faster and more flexible Advancing Customer Control in the Cloud Swipe right for a new guide to PCI on GKE Bring Your Own IP addresses: the secret to Bitly’s shortened cloud migration What’s happening in BigQuery: New features bring flexibility and scale to your data warehouse Azure Preview: Server-side encryption with customer-managed keys for Azure Managed Disks New in Stream Analytics: Machine Learning, online scaling, custom code, and more &nbsp; MS Ignite Draft &nbsp; Jonathan Digital Assistant to compete with Alexa or Google Home. 3 more Azure Regions in US More or Improved tooling for Devops Community Peter Istio for AKS 1 more region in Canada Visual Studio Online Justin Azure Portal Redesign Sagemaker/Databricks like Competitor. Oracle on Stage Lightning Round (Jonathan 12, Justin 16, and Guest 4): AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate Now Supports Custom Domains Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) Adds Support for Change Streams AWS Managed Services (AMS) Now Offers Managed Landing Zones AWS Batch Introduces New Allocation Strategies “Alexa, I’m running late” &#8211; Alexa for Business enables Alexa users to inform their next meeting they will be late Amazon Transcribe Now Supports Australian English Speech-to-Text in Real Time AWS License Manager now helps you easily identify Windows and SQL Server License Included instances Increase AWS Single Sign-On security with multi-factor authentication using authenticator apps Amazon RDS for Oracle adds support to invoke EMCTL commands for Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Supports User Authentication with Kerberos and Microsoft Active Directory AWS Snowball Edge now supports volume sizes of up to 10 TB AWS Elastic Beanstalk Adds Support for PHP 7.3 and .NET Core 3.0 AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) Private Certificate Authority (CA) now enforces name constraints in imported CA certificates

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sponsors: Foghorn Consulting &#8211; fogops.io/thecloudpod Follow Up AWS Reinvent Music Festival &#8211; https://intersect.aws/ Topics General News Earnings Amazon shares dip missing profit expectations tech giant posts 63.4billion in Q2 revenue Microsoft trumpets record year with $126b in Annual Revenue up 14% as quarterly profits beat estimates Google Cloud&#8217;s run rate is now over $8B Alphabet announces second quarter 2019 results Digital Ocean gets a new CEO and CFO CNN report: Inside the effort to turn trump against Amazon&#8217;s bid for a $10 billion Jedi contract Amazon Hires Lobbyist with trump ties amid contentious pentagon cloud contest Capital One hacked over 100 million customers affected AWS eksctl – the EKS CLI AWS Released resource optimization recommendations Stackery lets AWS lambda developers debug their serverless programs locally on a laptop AWS Launches a chatbot for chatops AWS client VPN now adds support for split tunneling AWS Secrets Manager now supports VPC endpoint policies Announcing the new AWS Middle East Bahrain Region Google Google partners with VMWare to bring virtualized workloads to GCP Brick by Brick: Learn GCP by setting up a kid-controllable Minecraft server Azure Azure publishes guidance for secure cloud adoption by governments Microsoft owned LinkedIn moving to public cloud guess which platform their choosing Microsoft acquires data privacy and governance service BlueTalon Lightning Round (Jonathan 8, Justin 10, Peter 1 and Guest 3): AWS Backup will now automatically copy tags from resources to recovery points New AWS certification exam vouchers make certifying groups easier AWS introduces new predictive maintenance using machine learning AWS Budgets announces AWS chatbot integration New Google features for BigQuery: New persistent user-defined functions, increased concurrency limits, GIS and encryption functions, and more AWS EFS Encryption for data in transit has a new configuration update Amazon transcribe now supports websockets Amazon ECR now supports immutable image tags Amazon MSK (Managed Services for Kakfa) now PCI-DSS compliant AWS Cloudwatch logs insights adds cross log group querying AWS Spot instances now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux AWS Temporary queue client for Amazon SQS client has been released You can now use AWS systems manager maintenance windows to select resource groups as targets Azure blog post on how to use their new Azure Bastion Host New Digital Course on Coursera &#8211; AWS fundamentals of security risk Announcing GA of Azure Security Center for IOT Amazon ECS services now support multiple load balancer target groups EBS default volume type updated to gp2 Amazon EC2 on-demand capacity reservations shared across multiple AWS accounts

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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