Episode 7 – The Cloud Pod now 99.9% available

Episode 7 – The Cloud Pod now 99.9% available Jonathan, Justin, and Peter talk about the latest news in AWS, Google and Azure. This week we talk about the AWS Backup Services, Oracle Cloud launching in Toronto and AWS Re:Mars. Plus the lightning round and Jonathan’s cool tools. Sponsors Foghorn Consulting: fogops.io/thecloudpod Last Week in AWS: lastweekinaws.com Audible: audibletrial.com/thecloudpod News Nvidia Tesla T4 GPU’s now available in beta – https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/nvidia-tesla-t4-gpus-now-available-in-beta AWS Announces AWS Backup and support for multiple services – https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-backup-automate-and-centrally-manage-your-backups/ https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/aws-storage-gateway-integrates-with-aws-backup-to-protect-volume/ https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/aws-backup-integrates-with-amazon-DynamoDB-for-centralized-and-automated-backup-management/ https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/introducing-amazon-elastic-file-system-integration-with-aws-backup/ https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/amazon-ebs-integrates-with-aws-backup-to-protect-your-volumes/ Oracle Cloud launches in Toronto region and plans Mumbai region – https://blogs.oracle.com/cloud-infrastructure/oracle-cloud-infrastructure-launches-toronto-region https://inc42.com/buzz/oracle-plans-data-centre-in-india-to-challenge-aws-google-cloud/ Oracle says open source vendors locking down licensing proves they were never really open – https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/01/17/oracle_exec_opensource_vendors_locking_down_licenses_proves_they_were_never_really_open/ AWS Announces RE:Mars event June 5/6th – https://www.geekwire.com/2019/amazon-launches-remars-event-focusing-ai-second-stage-invite-mars/ AWS Trusted Advisor announces 9 new best practices – https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/aws-trusted-advisor-expands-functionality/ Lightning Round AWS GA Party Kinesis Data Streams https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/amazon-kinesis-data-streams-announces-99-9-service-level-agreement/ Kinesis Data Firehose https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/amazon-kinesis-data-firehose-announces-99-9-service-level-agreement/ Kinesis Data Streams https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/amazon-kinesis-data-streams-announces-99-9-service-level-agreement/ EKS https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/-amazon-eks-announces-99-9–service-level-agreement-/ ECR https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/amazon-ecr-announces-99-9–service-level-agreement/ Secrets Manager https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/AWS-Secrets-Manager-announces-service-level-agreement/ Amazon MQ https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/amazon-mq-announces-service-level-agreement/ AWS CodePipeline now supports deployment to S3 https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/aws-codepipeline-now-supports-deploying-to-amazon-s3/ Alexa for business now offers IT Admins simplified workflows to setup multiple devices https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/alexa-for-business-now-offers-it-admins-simplified-workflow-to-s/ CloudTrail Integrations Comprehend is now integrated into cloudtrail https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/amazon-comprehend-is-now-integrated-with-aws-cloudtrail/ Aws cloud9 now integrated to cloudtrail https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/aws-cloud9-supports-aws-cloudtrail-logging/ Rekognition video now supports object bounding boxes and more accurate object and scene detection https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/object-bounding-boxes-and-more-accurate-object-and-scene-detection-are-now-available-for-amazon-rekognition-video/ AWS Migration Hub now imports on-premise data sources like CMDB, IT Asset Management and AWS Migration Partner Discovery tool https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/AWSMigrationHubImport Azure Monitor logs in Grafana now in Public Preview https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-monitor-logs-in-grafana-now-in-public-preview/ Amazon redshift now auto-analyzes your data in background to improve query performance https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/amazon-redshift-auto-analyze/ Amazon EK S achieves ISO and PCI Compliance https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/amazon-eks-achieves-iso-and-pci-compliance/ Cool Tools https://github.com/awslabs/aws-lambda-container-image-converter/