About this episode
Episode 9 Its earnings season and we take a look at both AWS and Googles earnings, plus recap the Azure earnings from last week. We also talk about AWS Corretto GA, Microsoft DNS outage causes data loss?, Mongo DB SSPL licensing and more. Special Guest Ryan Lucas Sponsors Foghorn Consulting: fogops.io/thecloudpod Audible: audibletrial.com/thecloudpod Topics Earnings AWS Earnings – https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/31/aws-earnings-q4-2018.html Alphabet (Google) Earnings – https://siliconangle.com/2019/02/04/alphabet-beats-earnings-forecast-costs-weigh-shares/ Google Cloud Firestore Nosql Database hits GA – https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/31/googles-cloud-firestore-nosql-database-hits-general-availability/ DNS Outage results in azure database outage – https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2019/02/01/dns-outage-turns-tables-on-azure-database-users/ MS Launches AMD powered Azure Instances – https://siliconangle.com/2019/02/01/microsoft-launches-amd-powered-azure-instances-analytics-databases/ Oracle AMD instances Outperform AWS – https://blogs.oracle.com/cloud-infrastructure/oracle-amd-instances-outperform-and-outprice-comparable-aws-instances Amazon Corretto 8 is now GA – https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/amazon-corretto-8-generally-available/ Oracle CISO: Are Audits and Certifications enough? – https://blogs.oracle.com/cloud-infrastructure/security-in-the-cloud:-are-audits-and-certifications-really-enough MongoDB SSPL Licenses rejected by RHEL – https://www.zdnet.com/article/mongodb-open-source-server-side-public-license-rejected/ Slack IPO – https://siliconangle.com/2019/02/04/months-rumors-team-chat-leader-slack-files-ipo/ Lightning Round Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports t3 instances – https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/amazon-rds-for-oracle-now-supports-t3-instance-types/ Azure announces GA for Query store for sql data warehouse – https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-the-general-availability-of-query-store-for-azure-sql-data-warehouse/ Google Cloud now supports websockets for app engine flexible environment – https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/application-development/introducing-websockets-support-for-app-engine-flexible-environment Azure now tells you when your hardware is degraded with scheduled events – https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/find-out-when-your-virtual-machine-hardware-is-degraded-with-scheduled-events/ Azure stream analytics now support Azure SQL databases as references – https://azure.microsoft.com /en-us/blog/azure-stream-analytics-now-supports-azure-sql-database-as-reference-data-input/ Tom Tom and Microsoft partner to get users bad directions – https://www.businessinsider.com/mapping-company-tomtom-explains-why-betting-microsoft-azure-2019-2 Dynamodb Local adds support for Dynamo Transactions, On Demand Capacity and 20 GSI’s (Global Secondary Indexes) – https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/02/amazon-dynamodb-local-adds-support-for-transactional-apis-on-demand-capacity-mode-and-20-gsis/ Develop and test step functions locally – https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/02/develop-and-test-aws-step-functions-workflows-locally/ APIGEE portal enhancments – https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/api-management/improving-developer-experience-with-enhanced-apigee-developer-portal MS acquires data sense management from brightbytes – https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/04/microsoft-acquires-datasense-management-from-brightbytes-to-step-up-its-education-play-in-azure/ Cool Tools https://github.com/gruntwork-io/terratest https://aws.amazon.com/architecture/icons