About this episode
Peter is back after a few weeks away from the show. Azure launches new Event Grid features, Palo Alto Networks picks up Twistlock and Puresec and Google has a really bad day. Plus the amazing lightning round with Peter. Sponsors: Foghorn Consulting – https://fogops.io/thecloudpod Topics: 25th Episode Blog Post Azure has simplified event-driven architectures with new updates to Event Grid Palo Alto Networks enters into definitive agreement to purchase Twistlock and Puresec Oracle Lays off hundreds from its Seattle office as its cloud strategy remains grounded Azure Adaptive network hardening in Azure Security Center is now GA Amazon EBS adds ability to take point-in-time, crash-consistent snapshots across multiple EBS volumes Announcing Tag-Based Access Control for AWS Cloudformation New Data API for Amazon Aurora Serverless Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK) – Now Generally Available Google Cloud has Major Outage on 6/2 Google Cloud Outage resolved, but it reveals holes in cloud computing atmosphere An update on Sunday’s service disruption Lightning Round (Jonathan 6, Justin 9, Peter 1 and Guest 3): AWS is Announcing Windows Server version 1903 AMI’s for Amazon EC2 Amazon Chime now supports United States Toll-Free Numbers AWS Storage Gateway Service adds capability to move Virtual Tapes from S3 Glacier to Glacier Deep Archive AWS has introduced Fraud Detection capabilities using Machine Learning Google has announced a new open source load testing framework for pub/sub at scale testing Azure has several new enhancements for Azure App Configuration to increase release velocity via feature flags and simplifying troubleshooting across distributed apps AWS Textract is now Generally Available in Northern Virginia, Ohio, Oregon and Ireland regions AWS DataSync Now supports EFS-to-EFS Transfers AWS IOT Events and Things Graph is now Generally Available AWS IOT Things graph now Generally Available Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports SQL Querying New AWS Certification Readiness course are available for Alexa Skill Builder and Certified Security Specialty AWS Now allows EC2 Hibernation without specifying Encryption Intent at Instance Launch Amazon Elasticache for Redis improves Cluster availability during planned maintenance Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility supports Database Activity Streams for real-time monitoring After show Tequila being discussed: https://www.compoveda.com/