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Sponsors: Foghorn Consulting – fogops.io/thecloudpod Follow Up AWS Reinvent Music Festival – https://intersect.aws/ Topics General News Earnings Amazon shares dip missing profit expectations tech giant posts 63.4billion in Q2 revenue Microsoft trumpets record year with $126b in Annual Revenue up 14% as quarterly profits beat estimates Google Cloud’s run rate is now over $8B Alphabet announces second quarter 2019 results Digital Ocean gets a new CEO and CFO CNN report: Inside the effort to turn trump against Amazon’s bid for a $10 billion Jedi contract Amazon Hires Lobbyist with trump ties amid contentious pentagon cloud contest Capital One hacked over 100 million customers affected AWS eksctl – the EKS CLI AWS Released resource optimization recommendations Stackery lets AWS lambda developers debug their serverless programs locally on a laptop AWS Launches a chatbot for chatops AWS client VPN now adds support for split tunneling AWS Secrets Manager now supports VPC endpoint policies Announcing the new AWS Middle East Bahrain Region Google Google partners with VMWare to bring virtualized workloads to GCP Brick by Brick: Learn GCP by setting up a kid-controllable Minecraft server Azure Azure publishes guidance for secure cloud adoption by governments Microsoft owned LinkedIn moving to public cloud guess which platform their choosing Microsoft acquires data privacy and governance service BlueTalon Lightning Round (Jonathan 8, Justin 10, Peter 1 and Guest 3): AWS Backup will now automatically copy tags from resources to recovery points New AWS certification exam vouchers make certifying groups easier AWS introduces new predictive maintenance using machine learning AWS Budgets announces AWS chatbot integration New Google features for BigQuery: New persistent user-defined functions, increased concurrency limits, GIS and encryption functions, and more AWS EFS Encryption for data in transit has a new configuration update Amazon transcribe now supports websockets Amazon ECR now supports immutable image tags Amazon MSK (Managed Services for Kakfa) now PCI-DSS compliant AWS Cloudwatch logs insights adds cross log group querying AWS Spot instances now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux AWS Temporary queue client for Amazon SQS client has been released You can now use AWS systems manager maintenance windows to select resource groups as targets Azure blog post on how to use their new Azure Bastion Host New Digital Course on Coursera – AWS fundamentals of security risk Announcing GA of Azure Security Center for IOT Amazon ECS services now support multiple load balancer target groups EBS default volume type updated to gp2 Amazon EC2 on-demand capacity reservations shared across multiple AWS accounts