About this episode
Disappointed not to see Amazon take the opportunity to increase its executive diversity with its new CEO. 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 If Amazon was the royal family , this would be like Harry becoming King . Google found slugs in its lettuce and is not happy about it . Azure wants to shut The Cloud Pod up for good this time . General News: Nothing Spicy ☁️ Sysdig is releasing unified cloud and container security with the launch of Unified Threat detection across AWS cloud and containers . Interesting that it uses Cloud Custodian. Amazon Web Services: No Longer Hiring Tableau CEO Adam Selipsky will return to Amazon Web Services as CEO . We did not see this coming. Introducing Amazon S3 Object Lambda. They listened to us! Google Cloud Platform: Slurm It Up Google Cloud caps sales commissions as losses mount. This will remove the motivation to go after smaller deals. Google announces a new method of obtaining Compute Engine instances for batch processing . We thought it was attacking our workloads but it actually wasn’t — our bad. Google is announcing the preview of its Network Connectivity Center . No potatoes, thankfully. Announcing the newest set of features for Slurm running on Google Cloud . Worst name ever. ♀️ Google announces A2 VMs are now generally available with the largest GPU cloud instances with NVIDIA A100 GPUs . Is this the computer version of scalping tickets? Google announces high-bandwidth network configurations for General Purpose N2 and Compute Optimized C2 Compute Engine VM families . We’d love to know what the technology is behind this. Azure: Not Happy With The Cloud Pod Azure announces plans to expand the Azure Availability Zones to more regions . We’ll take credit for this one. TCP Lightning Round ⚡ After a large amount of debate about who should win, Jonathan takes this week’s point, leaving scores at Justin (3), Ryan (3), Jonathan (5). Other headlines mentioned: General availability: Enhanced Azure Dashboards experience for pinned Log Analytics parts Azure Monitor SQL insights for Azure SQL in public preview Announcing AWS Media Intelligence solutions ’ Amazon EC2 now supports UEFI boot when migrating virtual machines to EC2 Amazon EKS reduces cluster creation time by 40% Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Instance Refresh now supports phased deployments Amazon RDS for MySQL now supports rollback protection for database major version upgrades Amazon QLDB Increases Verification APIs Throughput by an Order of Magnitude AWS announces Developer Preview release of opinionated deployment tool for .NET CLI Leverage state of the art Natural Language Processing with Hugging Face and Amazon SageMaker Amazon QuickSight launches Custom Tooltips, Updates to Anomaly Detection, and More AWS Cost Categories now supports inherited and default values AWS Glue Studio now supports transforms defined in SQL Cloud Spanner launches point-in-time-recovery capability Things Coming Up Microsoft Build — May 19–21 (Digital) Google Cloud Next — Not announced yet (one site says Moscone is reserved June 28–30) Google Cloud Next 2021 — October 12–14, 2021 AWS re:Invent — November 29–December 3 — Las Vegas Oracle Open World