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Gartner releases the new magic quadrant for IaaC and PaaS Cloud providers and Amazon continues to dominate. AT&T gets busy with the cloud, Google introduces spinnaker and Microsoft invests 1B in OpenAI this week on The Cloud Pod. Sponsors: Foghorn Consulting – fogops.io/thecloudpod Topics Introducing the Amazon Corretto Crypto Provider for improved Crypto Performance Advancing Microsoft Azure reliability Introducing proximity placement groups IBM inks multi-billion dollar cloud computing deal with AT&T Microsoft & AT&T sign $2B+ cloud infrastructure and services deal The case against Amazon: Why the tech giant is facing antitrust scrutiny on two continents Arrested Development: Cops Dump Amazon’s facial-recognition API after struggling to make the thing work properly AWS named as leader in Gartner’s Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Magic Quadrant for 9th consecutive year Introducing Spinnaker for Google Cloud Platform – CD made easy Azure is making it easier to bring your linux based web apps to Azure App Service Microsoft will invest $1B for OpenAI aimed at improving Azure cloud platform Lightning Round (Jonathan 8, Justin 9, Peter 1 and Guest 3): Azure is Silo Busting with new Multi-Protocol access for the Azure Data Lake Azure Monitor for containers with Prometheus now in preview Amazon ECR now supports increased repository and image limits AWS Cost Explorer now supports Usage Based Forecasts AWS Systems Manager Automation now makes it easier for discovering documents AWS Device Farm improves device start up time to enable instant access to devices AWS Systems Manager Distributor makes it easier to create distributable software packages Amazon ECS Console now enables simplified AWS app mesh integration Amazon has released a new Quick Solution to create AI-Driven Social Media Dashboards Amazon Reportedly will hold music festival during re:Invent cloud conference Google introduces the What-If tool for Cloud AI platform models