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VMWare acquires Pivotal and Carbon black, plus VMworld debrief. Google kills more products and AWS reduces the cost of SageMaker training. Sponsors: Foghorn Consulting – fogops.io/thecloudpod Topics General News Oracle files new appeal over Pentagon’s $10B JEDI cloud contract RFP process VMWorld VMware pays billions to acquire Pivotal Software and Carbon Black VMWorld US 2019 Monday Recap VMWorld US 2019 Tuesday Recap VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger weighs in on acquisitions, blockchain, security and more VMware Delivers a Hybrid Cloud Platform Powering Next-Generation Hybrid IT VMware Announces VMware Tanzu Portfolio to Transform the Way Enterprises Build, Run and Manage Software on Kubernetes AWS Amazon Forecast is now GA Introducing AI powered health data masking Managed Spot Training: Save Up to 90% On Your Amazon SageMaker Training Jobs AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store announces intelligent-tiering to enable automatic parameter tier selection Google Introducing Cloud Run Button: Click-to-deploy your git repos to Google Cloud Cloud Text-to-Speech expands its number of voices by nearly 70%, now covering 33 languages and variants Google will shut down Google Hire in 2020 Azure Preview of custom content in Azure Policy guest configuration Latency is the new currency of the Cloud: Announcing 31 new Azure edge sites Lightning Round (Jonathan 8, Justin 14, and Guest 3): Amazon Transcribe now supports Mandarin and Russian Support for Windows Shadow Copies is Now Extended to All Amazon FSx File Systems Amazon SQS now supports tag on create AWS DataSync can now transfer data to and from SMB file shares Amazon ElastiCache now supports up to 50 characters in cluster name Amazon SageMaker Now Works With Amazon FSx For Lustre and Amazon EFS, Accelerating And Simplifying Model Training