About this episode
A New Cost Management blog, APAC gets a new AWS region and Docker Hub gets hacked. Plus Alphabet, Microsoft, and Amazon all release earnings and we break out the highs and lows. With special guest, Ian Mckay @iann0036 talks about his new AWS tool www.former2.com Sponsors: Foghorn Consulting – https://fogops.io/thecloudpod Follow Up Apple actually reducing dependence on Amazon Cloud services Topics Ford Partners with Amazon to build cloud service connected cars New AWS cost management blog launches New Query for AWS Regions, Endpoints, and More using AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store Earnings Season Microsoft beats Wall street expectations, posting $30.6B in revenue, powered by cloud division AWS revenue approaches $8 Billion in Q1, up 41% compared to last year Despite Cloud growth, slowing revenue at Alphabet sends investors fleeing AMD EPYC-Powered Amazon EC2 T3a instances Now Open – AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region Slack renegotiated its deal with AWS in 2018, will spend 212 million more through 2023 190,000 user accounts exposed in hack of Docker Hub Database Microsoft container registry unaffected by recent docker hub data exposure VMWare brings its virtualization software to Microsoft Azure AWS Deep Racer League Virtual Circuit is now Open Lightning Round AWS Single Sign-On now offers certificate customization to support your corporate policies Amazon EKS supports EC2 A1 instances as public preview Announcing Azure Backup support to move recovery service vaults Optimize Performance using Azure Database for PostgreSQL recommendations Amazon RDS now supports per-second billing AWS Service Catalog announces Tag Updating AWS specifies the IP address ranges for Amazon DynamoDB endpoints Efficiently scale ML and other compute workloads on NVIDIA’s T4 GPU, now GA Serverless automation using Powershell preview in Azure Functions DynamoDBMapper now supports Amazon DynamoDB transactional API calls Now you can tag Amazon DynamoDB tables when you create them AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store Introduces Advanced Parameters AWS Systems Manager now supports use of Parameter Store at Higher API Throughput Azure Accelerate supercomputing in the cloud with Cray Clusterstor AWS Security Token Service (STS) now supports enabling the global STS endpoint to issue session tokens compatible with all AWS Regions AWS Elastic Fabric Adapter is Now Generally Available Cool Tools https://former2.com/ with guest Ian McKay