About this episode
This week on The Cloud Pod, the team used their slightly cloudy crystal balls to share their predictions for Re:Invent 2020. They hope Amazon doesn’t ruin them before the event. 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. Cloud Academy , which provides an intuitive and scalable training platform to meet teams wherever they are along the cloud maturity curve. Use the code THECLOUDPOD for 50% off its training platform. This week’s highlights Amazon spoils the prediction party by revealing a new product just before Re:Invent. Google is making sandcastles by itself in the sandbox . Azure is smart enough not to announce anything exciting right before Amazon’s big day. Amazon Web Services: Crushing Hopes and Dreams Amazon Lightsail lets developers easily deploy containers in the cloud . This is like the cloud version of candy-flavored tobacco — somebody out there will be excited. Amazon announces visual data preparation tool AWS Glue DataBrew . Really cool — we wish they’d created this sooner! AWS Key Management Service now supports three new hybrid post-quantum key exchange algorithms . We’re just happy that the defense is ahead of the offense this time. Amazon launches AWS Network Firewall, a highly available, managed network firewall service for VPC . Peter is angry that Amazon killed one of his Re:Invent predictions. Introducing Amazon S3 Storage Lens for organization-wide visibility into object storage . We think the dashboard is built on years of customer complaints, not experience. Re:Invent Predictions Prediction rule: If it’s already been officially announced by Amazon, then it doesn’t count. It needs to be in the rumor mill and somewhat specific. Peter Integration between Sumerian and Chime/Slack (messaging service) for virtual in-person meetings Major upgrade to CloudWatch/Logs/GuardDuty/CloudWatch Events (SIEM) but an actual SIEM product. Will have its own name or does something to GuardDuty Robot SDK for tight integrations into AWS Cloud Jonathan Serverless graph database Live migration for some instance types between EC2 hosts so maintenance events don’t cause the same level of damage Detailed discussion of their use of IOT and AWS services for COVID-19 Justin Snowflake report generation and capabilities in Redshift or new tool Cut in Bandwidth or C, M and R Instances by 10% minimum A Cloud Shell Ryan Control plane for managing Kubernetes on premise or in other clouds An AI/machine learning-based observability tool COVID-19 response highlights the adoption rate of cloud computing because of the pandemic. Google Cloud Platform: Trying to Outshine Amazon Google launches Anthos Developer Sandbox to make it easy to learn how to develop on Anthos . We like Anthos; we just don’t want to pay for Anthos. Google announces Artifact Registry is now generally available . This makes a lot of sense but we wonder why this wasn’t prioritized very early on when people were just doing development? Google introduces Voucher, a service to help secure the container supply chain . We’re curious to see how this works. Vouchers can be photocopied, can’t they? ❄️ Google adds several new capabilities in the security space for Google Cloud . Very cool! The 10 most popular sessions from Google Cloud Next ‘20: OnAir . Some interesting takeaways here. Azure: Not Trying to Compete With Re:Invent Azure announces the preview of Azure Files SMB Multi-channel on premium tier. Great if you can figure out how to enable it. Azure Firewall Premium is now in public preview. This makes us mad. TCP Lightning Round ⚡Jonathan wasn’t distracted by Re:Invent so he takes this week’s point, leaving scores at Justin (16 points), Jonathan (10 points), Ryan (six points) and Jacques (one point). Other headlines mentioned: .NET 5 now available in Azure App Service AWS Step Functions now supports Amazon EKS service integration Amazon Kendra adds user tokens for secure search Amazon Athena announces the availability of engine version 2 AWS Lambda now makes it easier to send logs to custom destinations AWS Systems Manager Explorer now provides a multi-account, multi-region summary of AWS Config compliance New Amazon S3 console improves upload speed, simplifies common tasks, and makes it even easier to manage storage AWS Step Functions now supports Amazon API Gateway service integration Amazon Elasticsearch Service adds support for hot reload of dictionary files Amazon MSK customers can now use Cruise Control to more easily scale and balance resource utilization within clusters Amazon Textract adds handwriting recognition and support for new languages