About this episode
On The Cloud Pod this week, Peter turns into an old man in his yard, yelling at cloud providers. A big thanks to this week’s sponsors: Foghorn Consulting , which provides full-stack cloud solutions with a focus on strategy, planning and execution for enterprises seeking to take advantage of the transformative capabilities of AWS, Google Cloud and Azure. Cloud Academy , which provides an intuitive and scalable training platform to meet teams wherever they are along the cloud maturity curve. Use the code THECLOUDPOD for 50% off its training platform. This week’s highlights The big cloud providers must not tell lies about their cloud customers . Google keeps us guessing if features will survive after the Preview . Microsoft launches the world’s smallest Machine Learning degree . General News: An Expensive Gimmick Microsoft, AWS and others boast of exclusive cloud customers that aren’t actually exclusive to them. At the end of the day, being “all in” is a gimmick. Palo Alto Networks, Inc. announced it’s adding four new cloud security modules to Prisma Cloud. All for the low, low price of a lot of money. ❓ Red Hat, Inc. ties Ansible automation to Kubernetes cluster management to improve automation in cloud-native infrastructure. The only thing that’s going to make Kubernetes easier to manage is a whole bunch of Ansible catalogues and code that you don’t understand. Spinnaker-as-a-service startup Armory raises $40M in new funding . This makes us all cranky — these giant one-stop solutions are not the answer. Amazon Web Services: Strangely Quiet Amazon EventBridge now supports Dead Letter Queues , making event-driven applications more resilient. We love this! Amazon EKS now officially supports Kubernetes version 1.18 . We’re taking bets on when version 1.19 comes out. Google Cloud Platform: Apply Sunscreen Google announces that all new GCP products will launch in Preview or General Availability . Tread carefully here — we’ve been burned by previews before where features don’t make it into General Availability. Google launches support across Google Cloud for buildpacks to easily create container images. Don’t be fooled: Problems you had with Docker files are still there, you’ll just be further away from understanding them. Open access is now available for the Genome Aggregation Database (gnomAD) on Google Cloud. This sort of data aggregation could be phenomenal for medical research. Google Cloud is offering no-cost data analytics training . We think this should be free all the time. Azure: What Is This, A Degree For Ants Microsoft announces an advanced Azure Machine Learning Nanodegree program with Udacity. Are they calling it a nanodegree because it’s teeny tiny? Azure launches new alert query examples topic in Log Analytics. No comment, this just makes us laugh. ♀️ Azure and Intel commit to delivering next generation confidential computing . We struggled to comprehend all the details of this one. TCP Lightning Round ⚡ Justin takes the cake and this week’s point, leaving scores at Justin (15 points), Jonathan (eight points) and Ryan (four points). Other headlines mentioned: Azure Files premium tier is now available in more regions with LRS, ZRS and NFS support AWS Glue supports reading from self-managed Apache Kafka AWS Cloud Map simplifies service discovery with optional parameters AWS Lake Formation now supports cross-account database sharing CloudWatch Application Insights offers new, improved user interface Azure Data Lake Storage immutable storage is now in preview