About this episode
On The Cloud Pod this week, the team discusses data sovereignty for future space-customers. Plus: There’s a global cloud shortage, Google announces Apigee advanced API security, and GKE Autopilot gets new networking features. A big thanks to this week’s sponsor, Foghorn Consulting , which provides full-stack cloud solutions with a focus on strategy, planning and execution for enterprises seeking to take advantage of the transformative capabilities of AWS, Google Cloud and Azure. This week’s highlights Microsoft is the latest victim in a global cloud shortage, spinning it as a temporary issue fueled by surging Teams demand and rapid Azure growth. Google announces Apigee Advanced API Security in a bid to defend against increased attacks and traffic volumes. GKE Autopilot gets new network features in the form of IP masquerading and eBPF, now generally available. Top Quotes “The supply chain has been huge on a lot of people. You don’t hear so much from Amazon, and I don’t know if that’s related to the commerce site Amazon.com and the overprovisioning they did … If AWS went the same route and has a bunch of stock, cluster manufacturing their own chips, maybe they have a little bit more control. But everyone else is screwed.” “In the article, it just says what you can do to detect bots. But some bots are the use case [you’re] selling to the world. … On the surface, it sounds logical, but there are some ‘gotchas’ that you need to be careful of if you’re doing B2B or doing things that look bot-ish.” General News: All the Joy of the Crypto Crash Apparently the tech talent crunch (not because we suck at running Kafka) is to blame for a 68% reliance on AWS managed services . Come on, VentureBeat, you can do better than this! ️ Microsoft is in the yellow zone because of a global cloud shortage , which it’s attributing to rapid Azure growth and increased Teams demand. GCP: The Very Apigee of Security ️ Google announces Apigee Advanced API Security to help protect against increased attacks and traffic volumes. Seems more like a WAF function than a misconfiguration issue, though. Go go go, Google: get more support for structured logs in the latest version of Go logging library . ☁️ Monitor your cloud metrics now in Managed Service for Prometheus. Allegedly, Cloud Native community members have an 86% chance of using Prometheus (we’re not so sure about that number.) Say bonjour to the new Paris region , as the French government aims to make the nation cloud native. GKE Autopilot’s new IP masquerading and eBPF network features are now generally available . ️ Query Insights for Cloud Spanner promises to troubleshoot performance issues with pre-built dashboards. When latency is high, it’s your fault. When it’s low, it’s because we’re awesome . Azure: Head in the Clouds Get ready to cringe hard: Which Azure service should you use to run your applications? Op sides are very angry about how this article is written. NVads A10 v5 virtual machines are now generally available , offering to help choose the right size for your workload. Why choose one when you can have both? TCP Lightning Round ⚡ With a full house this week, Jonathan (3) edges closer to Justin (5), with Ryan (2) and Peter (1) tailing slightly behind. Other Headlines Mentioned: Public preview: Azure Ephemeral OS disk support for confidential virtual machines Announcing availability of AWS Outposts rack in Panama AWS Database Migration Service now supports IBM Db2 z/OS as a source AWS Database Migration Service now supports Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL as a target Things Coming Up: AWS re:Inforce – July 26th-27th → Now Moved to Boston DevOps Enterprise Summit Virtual – US – August 2nd-4th Blackhat USA – August 6th-11th VMWorld – US – August 29th-September 1st DevOps Enterprise Summit US Flagship Event The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas – October 18th-20th Google Cloud Next – October 11th-13th Oracle Cloud World – October 16th-20th Kubecon US – October 24th-28th MS Ignite – November 2nd-4th AWS Reinvent – November 28th-Dec 2nd (assumed) Oracle OpenWorld – TBC