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Kubecon is happening in Barcelona, Spain, VMWare purchases bitnami, Apptio buys Cloudability and a ton of Kubernetes announcements out of KubeCon this week on The Cloud Pod. Sponsors: Foghorn Consulting – https://fogops.io/thecloudpod Topics: A Cosmonaut’s guide to the latest Azure Cosmos DB Announcements VMWare snaps up Bitnami to broaden its multi-cloud strategy Apptio buys Cloudability as cloud cost management market heats up Introducing Terraform Cloud Remote State Management Cloudwatch container insights for EKS and Kubernetes Preview Digital Ocean K8 service is now Generally Available Google Announces new enhancements to ease adoption of GKE In celebration of K8 5th birthday GCP is giving away a free month of learning at Coursera with the Architecting with GKE course. (valid until September 30th) Lightning Round (Jonathan 5, Justin 8, Peter 1 and Guest 3): EKS has simplifed K8 cluster authentication with new CLI Sub command for generating the authentication token for connecting You can now use custom chat bots with Amazon Chime Performance insights now supports Amazon Aurora Global Database AWS Migration hub now provides right-sized Amazon EC2 instance recommendations Amazon Sagemaker Ground Truth now supports Automated Email Notifications for Manual Data Labeling AWS APAC Mumbai region adds third availability zone AWS APAC Seoul Regions adds third availability zone AWS IOT Device Defender now supports monitoring behavior of unregistered devices Amazon SNS adds support for cost allocation tags Amazon RDS for MySQL now supports password validation Amazon Guarduty has added two new threat detections Spring 2019 SOC reports are now available for AWS with over 104 services in scope AWS has announced Elemental MediaPackage Price Reductions in all regions