About this episode
Ryan Lucas ( @ryron01 ) fills in for Peter again as we practice social distancing 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 Details emerged from the ongoing legal battle surrounding the JEDI contract. Amazon shows off its new operating system . Powershell 7.0 brings long-awaited features to Windows. General News ❌ Due to the ongoing global pandemic, AWS Summits have been (responsibly) cancelled in Sydney , Singapore , Mumbai , Paris , San Francisco and Brussels . Hopefully we’ll see these events move online. ⚖️ Court documents from Amazon’s injunction have been unsealed . The documents reveal that Microsoft’s bid included “non-compliant storage” which was not counted against them. The Department of Defense responded that Amazon’s bid did not include technically compliant storage either. Our very own Justin Brodley made the news ! His comments are included in an article covering a cloud alternatives panel discussion at Altitude 2020. ️ VMware Inc. overhauled its portfolio of products to focus on Kubernetes support. Expect to see the whole host of products available by May 2020. AWS: ⏰ The new CloudWatch composite alarms will allow you to combine alarms and get a clearer picture of what is happening when something goes wrong. You can now host your applications with the AWS Amplify Console via S3 and CloudFront. If you checked out Amplify last year, it’s changed a lot since then so it might be worth another look. ️ AWS Serverless Application Repository now allows you to share applications with Organizations. Anything you can manage at an organizational level is a huge benefit. If you’re looking to build your resumé, AWS Certified is offering the new “Database – Specialty” certification . A practice exam costs $40 and the specialty exam at testing centers worldwide costs $300. Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service has updated to support Kubernetes version 1.15, just in time for Kubernetes version 1.16 to make it outdated in a few weeks. Amazon announced the public preview of the new Bottlerocket operating system . The OS is open-sourced, Linux-based and purpose-built to run containers. Google: Google Cloud announced its strategy to support the telecommunications industry in three areas: 5G monetization, data-driven experiences and operational efficiency. With AWS and Google partnering with telecommunication companies, will we see Azure or Oracle follow suit? Google announced it will launch new cloud regions in Deli, Doha, Melbourne and Toronto. Google has emphasized that they are committed to building their datacenters sustainably. Compute Engine now features the machine images resource , which streamlines instance creation by capturing all the information you need during image creation. If you spend a lot of time creating custom images in Google Cloud, this may be a great time-saver for you. Azure: Azure announced that Backup Explorer will now feature a preview of Backup Reports , allowing you to analyze your backup solutions. Nobody likes paying attention to backups, so the ability to take a quicker look is welcome. But the day when we won’t have to manage our backups at all can’t come soon enough! Powershell 7.0 is now generally available, finally implementing features other languages have had for decades. Lightning Round ⚡ No score this week while Peter’s away, but tune in for another edition of hand-crafted cloud computing industry humor! Stay healthy out there. Other headlines mentioned: Web Application Firewall with Azure Front Door service now supports exclusion lists Vulnerability scanning for images in Azure Container Registry is now generally available Azure Security Center supports integration with Azure Monitor alerts Improved resource governance for Azure Analysis Services Provision AWS Chatbot configurations with AWS CloudFormation AWS RoboMaker simulation now supports GUI streaming for robot and simulation applications AWS WAF adds Anonymous IP List for AWS Managed Rules New features in Azure Cosmos DB Jupyter notebooks are now in preview Amazon EKS adds envelope encryption for secrets with AWS KMS Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility supports in-place upgrade from PostgreSQL 9.6 to 10 Announcing column-level access control for Amazon Redshift AWS CodeCommit Introduces an Open Source Remote Helper AWS adds the ability for customers to enable AWS Local Zones themselves Preparing for TLS 1.2 in Microsoft Azure Export Power BI reports to PDF, PPTX, or PNG files using REST API