About this episode
It’s Peter’s washing night so please enjoy the soothing sounds of the odd spin cycle as we dive into the huge news coming out of Amazon on The Cloud Pod this week. 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. Open Raven , the cloud native data protection platform that automates policy monitoring and enforcement. Auto-discover, classify, monitor and protect your sensitive data. This week’s highlights America’s version of Queen Elizabeth has stepped down . Google is a bit late to the party but brings the ice so we forgive its team . Azure is trying to claim it came first but the chicken says otherwise . Follow Up: A Bit Slack Slack explains how the January 4th outage occurred . It was all Amazon’s fault. FogOps for Linux is now available via the AWS Marketplace . Congratulations on getting FogOps on the marketplace, Peter! General News: It’s Earnings Season! Microsoft releases its earnings . This is nuts. Alphabet also released its earnings . We hope all the money it’s investing in infrastructure and data centers pays off in the long run, because that’s a big loss. Amazon announces financial results and CEO transition . That’s some crazy profit. ♀️ Outgoing Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos addresses employees . But who will head AWS now? Amazon Web Services: Bon Voyage, Bezos AWS launches multiple private marketplace catalogs for AWS organizations. Not a problem any of us have so not wowed by this. AWS PrivateLink for Amazon S3 is now generally available. We like it but don’t like the pricing. Amazon Macie announces a slew of new capabilities . Check out our sponsor OpenRaven, which is much better at solving the same issue and is much cheaper. Google Cloud Platform: Stop Blaming Our Database Google announces a CentOS 7-based Virtual Machine image to achieve optimal Central Processing Unit and network performance on Google Cloud. We had to look a few of these terms up. Google introduces Cloud SQL Insights , a simple tool that helps developers understand database performance issues. Much better than the Amazon offering! Google launches SQLCommenter to help developers write queries using an object-oriented paradigm. This is super cool and we love it. Google introduces VM Manager to operate large Compute Engine fleets with ease. We’re shocked this has taken so long to be introduced. Eventarc brings eventing to Cloud Run and is now generally available. Not much to say about this except it’s great to see this available. ⛔ New Cloud DNS response policies simplify access to Google APIs. And we thought the Google Doc APIs were hard to use before… Azure: The Great Pretender Azure Resource Graph unlocks enhanced discovery for ServiceNow. Really cool. Automate application life cycle management with GitHub Actions . Low code app development, just rolls off the tongue… Microsoft’s Azure Quantum is now in preview. Not the world’s first, just so you know. TCP Lightning Round ⚡ Justin takes the lead as he wins this week’s point, leaving scores at Justin (2), Ryan (1), Jonathan (1). Other headlines mentioned: Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics supports Amazon API Gateway in API blueprint Amazon Transcribe Medical now provides automatic Protected Health Information (PHI) identification Amazon GuardDuty introduces machine learning domain reputation model to expand threat detection and improve accuracy Amazon Elastic File System triples read throughput AWS Control Tower now provides bulk account update AWS Control Tower now extends governance to existing OUs in your AWS Organizations Amazon SES now lets you assign a configuration set to an email identity Discover, review, and remediate unintended access to Secrets Manager secrets using IAM Access Analyzer Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports tempdb on local instance store with R5d and M5d instance types Amazon S3 Batch Operations adds support for Delete Object Tagging