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

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

A New Cost Management blog, APAC gets a new AWS region and Docker Hub gets hacked. Plus Alphabet, Microsoft, and Amazon all release earnings and we break out the highs and lows. With special guest, Ian Mckay @iann0036 talks about his new AWS tool www.former2.com Sponsors: Foghorn Consulting &#8211; https://fogops.io/thecloudpod Follow Up Apple actually reducing dependence on Amazon Cloud services Topics Ford Partners with Amazon to build cloud service connected cars New AWS cost management blog launches New Query for AWS Regions, Endpoints, and More using AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store Earnings Season Microsoft beats Wall street expectations, posting $30.6B in revenue, powered by cloud division AWS revenue approaches $8 Billion in Q1, up 41% compared to last year Despite Cloud growth, slowing revenue at Alphabet sends investors fleeing AMD EPYC-Powered Amazon EC2 T3a instances Now Open &#8211; AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region Slack renegotiated its deal with AWS in 2018, will spend 212 million more through 2023 190,000 user accounts exposed in hack of Docker Hub Database Microsoft container registry unaffected by recent docker hub data exposure VMWare brings its virtualization software to Microsoft Azure AWS Deep Racer League Virtual Circuit is now Open Lightning Round AWS Single Sign-On now offers certificate customization to support your corporate policies Amazon EKS supports EC2 A1 instances as public preview Announcing Azure Backup support to move recovery service vaults Optimize Performance using Azure Database for PostgreSQL recommendations Amazon RDS now supports per-second billing AWS Service Catalog announces Tag Updating AWS specifies the IP address ranges for Amazon DynamoDB endpoints Efficiently scale ML and other compute workloads on NVIDIA&#8217;s T4 GPU, now GA Serverless automation using Powershell preview in Azure Functions DynamoDBMapper now supports Amazon DynamoDB transactional API calls Now you can tag Amazon DynamoDB tables when you create them AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store Introduces Advanced Parameters AWS Systems Manager now supports use of Parameter Store at Higher API Throughput Azure Accelerate supercomputing in the cloud with Cray Clusterstor AWS Security Token Service (STS) now supports enabling the global STS endpoint to issue session tokens compatible with all AWS Regions AWS Elastic Fabric Adapter is Now Generally Available Cool Tools https://former2.com/ with guest Ian McKay

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Josh Stella (twitter: @joshstella) joins us to talk about the state of cloud security. We discuss Fugue&#8217;s new report, the complexity and challenges of IAM, and the most common cloud misconfiguration aren&#8217;t always the ones you would expect. Fugue ensures cloud infrastructure stays in continuous compliance with enterprise security policies. Our solution identifies cloud infrastructure security risks and compliance violations and ensures that they are never repeated. Fugue provides baseline drift detection and automated remediation to eliminate data breaches, and powerful visualization and reporting tools to easily demonstrate compliance.

In this TCP Talks episode, Justin Brodley and Jonathan Baker talk with Bart Castle, an AWS and cloud computing trainer and media personality. Bart works with IT training company CBT Nuggets and also does cloud-migration consulting projects. Bart shares the patterns he seems based on training demand and also advises how to decide which certification to go for next. He discusses the importance of solving business problems that will help achieve the business’ goals while retooling and transforming systems. &#8220;At this point in my career, every technical conversation that I have is always paired up with a business value conversation,&#8221; he notes. But how should a data team shift focus to better solve business problems? He suggests looking for patterns. Uncovering patterns can help determine actionable steps to maximize efficiency and enable new business opportunities. Bart also discusses cloud computing trends, CloudFormation stacking, hybrid deployments, and containers. Featured Guest Name: Bart Castle What he does: Bart is a cloud computing and AWS expert and technical trainer, as well as a consultant. Key quote: “In the end, we&#8217;re still looking for those tools that will bridge gaps. This is why, for me, being an integrations professional and getting what integration means is skill number one across all different arenas. Everywhere you look, it&#8217;s an integration problem.” Where to find him: LinkedIn | Twitter | YouTube Key Takeaways When thinking about all the different training options, Bart suggests pursuing the certification that would help you land a specific job or role. If you&#8217;re not sure what your next job might be, look at SysOps administration first since it is closest to traditional network help desk operations support roles. Based on his training background, Bart sees a rising interest in network automation. Many teams are working with various vendors to address networking and connectivity and to make the transition from command line administration to Python automation. “A lot of what I&#8217;m seeing here is the switch from real deep specialty to real broad generalization, and that can be an overwhelming bite to take when you look at how much information there is to consume,” says Bart. Learning how the tools work is the easy part, but you have to dig deeper to make it work for your specific business use case. Bart recommends looking for white papers, as well as case studies and blog posts. Communities (like TCP!) can also point you in the right direction. Bart says, “Once you get those examples of how a piece of input data with the right transformation with this pairing of reporting can solve this problem — now, you&#8217;re putting tools in your belt that are going beyond just using the tools, and how to actually solve business problems with them.” Here&#8217;s what was mentioned in the episode CBT Nuggets: provides in-demand training, primarily in IT, project management, and office productivity topics. Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3): a cloud object storage service. &#8220;What is DevOps?&#8220;: an AWS blog explaining the DevOps

Your hosts see a new cloud on the horizon and anticipate a flood 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 HashiCorp enters the ring with HashiCorp Cloud Platform. Microsoft offers free AI classes. Bayer Crop Sciences pushes cluster size to new heights. General News: A Challenger Approaches HashiCorp has launched the HashiCorp Cloud Platform featuring managed Consul as the single initial service. HashiCorp is currently soliciting feedback on the alpha version of HashiCorp Cloud Platform and is planning on releasing Vault next. AWS: Let it Snow The AWS Snow family of devices is now joined by AWS Snowcone, a four-and-a-half pound eight terabyte data storage and transfer device, both the most storage and least weight yet. Don’t lose it though — this little guy runs around $2,000. Aurora Global database now supports write request forwarding for low latency global data reads. This is fantastic news for lazy devs like us. Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Groups now support the Instance Refresh feature, eliminating the need for custom scripts and systems. This is a long-anticipated feature for TCP. We can’t believe it’s taken until 2020! The new Lambda Powertools library within the Serverless Lens for the Well Architected Framework features Tracer, Logger and Metrics as its three core utilities. Using these tools to get yourself set up will save you a lot of strife down the line. Azure: An ‘Udacious’ Plan Azure and Udacity are partnering to launch a scholarship program and the free Azure Machine Learning course to address the growing demand for AI specialists. We’ve had good experiences with Udacity so this offering appeals directly to us. Azure is catering to users new to ARM templates with new features including a template Quickstart gallery and Azure Resource Manager Tools in Visual Studio Code. How did we ever get by without this? Google: Seeds and Nodes G

Justin Brodley and Jonathan Baker kick off our new TCP Talks bonus episodes with a chat with Mike Kelly, CTO at Blue Medora. Monitoring can be hard on-premises or in the cloud. As a result, it can be downright scary with multi-cloud strategies, hybrid cloud, and legacy tools. Bring order chaos, by centralizing the management of metrics and logs. From solving out of disk space alerts to building observability techniques, Stackdriver and Bindplane can help. Adopting these practices and principals will help your Observability and SRE teams in the cloud.

Your hosts talk about AWS Lambda, Azure’s Cybersecurity of Things and Google’s loquacious AI 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 Lambda sees savings and supports Dart. Your kitchen appliances are safer with developments in the Internet of Things. It’s the last week of our trial of the new Lightning Round format. Comedy’s hard. TCP News ICYMI, check out our second episode of TCP Talks: Finops in the cloud with Rob Martin. We learned some things about financial operations, and we’re sure you will too. AWS Lambda Updates AWS Compute Savings Plans now apply to your AWS Lambda workloads. That’s nice, but even a decent percentage of such a cheap service probably won’t impact your expenses all that much. In addition, those Lambda workloads now support Dart, an open-source programming language made by Google. If you’re making mobile apps, you’ll be happy to use this. If you’re not making mobile apps, you probably didn’t need to read this paragraph. AWS Identity and Access Management now allows you to control access for requests made on your behalf by AWS services. It’s a great security feature. We’re looking forward to AWS taking this a step further at this year’s re:Inforce conference. Amazon Elastic Container Service now supports previous Secrets Manager versions and can read keys directly from JSON objects. It’s going to be much more convenient now that you can use one key instead of, say, 10. AWS Chief Evangelist Jeff Barr outlined a laundry list of updates to Amazon FSx for Lustre in this blog post. All these changes add up to SageMaker integration, to make SageMaker more attractive to customers. Spherical Things At this yea

Jacques Chester author of Knative In Action and Principal engineer at Pivotal joins us to educate us on Knative. Knative is an open-source tool to run functions as a service on top of Kubernetes and is gaining popularity in Kubernetes deployments. Learn all about Knative, Kubernetes maturity, Googles involvement in Knative, and more. If you are are interested in checking out Knative in Action, I have a coupon code for you to save today on any Manning press publication including Knative in Action! https://www.manning.com/books/knative-in-action?query=Knative%20in%20Action Code: podcloud20

This week on The Cloud Pod, Justin is away so the rest of the team has taken the opportunity to throw him under the bus. 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 The Pentagon has had enough of the kids fighting so no one gets the toy. Amazon has given developers the happy ending they’ve always wanted. Google is playing with fire and hopes no one gets burnt. JEDI: Play Nice Pentagon officials are considering pulling the plug on the star-crossed JEDI cloud-computing project. Reminds us of when we were kids and our parents took toys away when we couldn’t play nice together. Amazon Web Services: We’ve Made All the Money AWS announces a price reduction for Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus. That’s an awful lot of samples. Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) announces pricing change for VPC Peering. Just get rid of the ridiculous data transfer fees! AWS Organizations launches a new console experience. We’re excited to try this out! AWS announces IAM Access Control for Apache Kafka on Amazon MSK. This is great. AWS Systems Manager now includes Incident Manager to resolve IT incidents faster. This might initially fall short of some of the other offerings on the market. AWS Local Zones are now open in Boston, Miami and Houston. They’re continuing on the Oracle model of racks in random garages. Amazon now lets you create Microsoft SQL Server Instances of Amazon RDS on AWS Outposts. A big hooray for people using Outposts. Google Cloud Platform: Smells A Bit Google announces Agent Assist for Chat is now in Preview. Hopefully this is better than predictive

Justin and Jonathan kick off this week’s episode of The Cloud Pod by themselves, Peter joins the party late because he’s been fighting dinosaurs and Ryan is unable to attend as he can’t move from under the weight of the kitten on his lap. 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 Amazon will find any excuse to use GIFs just like the rest of us. Google has given Cardi B a headstart on a theme song for its new product. Azure sent the wedding invites out late but still expects you to show up. Amazon Web Services: Cheaper Than Healthcare Amazon RDS on VMWare no longer requires the use of a VPN tunnel back to AWS. Still cheaper than paying for healthcare. Amazon Elasticsearch Service announces support for Asynchronous Search. This is really cool! Amazon EC2 now allows you to replace the root volume for a running instance. There are some great use cases for this. Red Hat Enterprise Linux with High Availability is now available on Amazon EC2. Good to see IBM isn’t throwing up barriers. AWS is releasing the new Amazon FSx File Gateway. Hopefully this is easy to implement. AWS announces moving graphs for CloudWatch Dashboards. Also known as GIFs for CloudWatch. Google Cloud Platform: Closet Fans of Cardi B Google announces PHP, a general purpose programming language, is now on Cloud Functions. Visit thecloudpod.net to see a live example of PHP, also known as the WordPress platform we built our website on. GCP is launching Web App and API Protection (WAAP), which provides comprehensive threat protection for web apps and APIs. Do not confuse this with the Cardi B song. Google has made the Doc AI <a href="https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/get-mor

We follow continuing stories with the JEDI contract, GigaOM and our new Lightning Round format 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 makes progress contesting the JEDI contract. AWS and Azure introduce shared cloud block storage. Google shows signs of shifting priorities. Arrested Development United States judge Patricia Campbell-Smith has granted Amazon’s request to temporarily halt work on the JEDI contract by Microsoft. She also ordered Amazon to post $42 million in the event the injunction was issued wrongfully. AWS Not First to Share Blocks CloudFormation StackSets users can now manage multiple AWS accounts. We recommend you get your organizational units structured properly now so you’re ready for when that must-have feature for your organization is added. AWS customers running Linux on Ec2 can now attach provisioned IOPS (io1) EBS volumes to Multiple Ec2 instances. Be careful though: wielding fine control over your data means taking responsibility for your data losses, as well. This news comes a day after Azure announced their own Azure Shared Disks, which was, for those sweet brief hours before AWS’s announcement, the industry’s only shared cloud block storage. What’s in the Box? Azure released a new GigaOM study which backs up the findings from the GigaOM study we covered on episode 58. How incredible — Azure, which paid for the scientific (and unverifiable) study, was found to be the best at everything once again! The Azure Backup service now offers a preview of the <a href="https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-offline-backup-with-azure-data-box-now-in-preview/" target="_blank" rel=

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

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

The most terrifying part of moving to the cloud isn&#8217;t security, migration techniques or learning new infrastructure as code tools, it is managing that pesky cloud bill. To some CFO&#8217;s it might even be downright terrifying. Join Jonathan and Justin as they talk about all things FinOps with Rob Martin from Apptio (formerly Cloudability) where they discuss cost management techniques, getting help via the Finops Foundation and more. A big thanks to TCP-Talks 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. &nbsp;