The Cloud Pod

107: The Cloud Meshes with Microsoft

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On The Cloud Pod this week, Peter is spending the next 12 hours in a rejuvenation chamber like a regular villain straight out of a James Bond film.   

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.
    • This week’s highlights
    • Amazon is on a mission to replace humans so we can go on holiday permanently. 
    • Google is a bit early with the April Fools’ joke.
    • Azure is, much to our surprise, ahead of everyone else for once.
      • Amazon Web Services: Battle Bots
      • Amazon announces Alexa Conversations is now generally available for voice app development. We’re still a bit disappointed in her voice — it would be nice to hear something a bit more natural.   
      • Amazon launches computer vision service to detect defects in manufactured products. Soon we’ll just be sitting around eating bon bons — we can’t wait!
      • AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) region now open to all, with three availability zones and more services. We think this is a reaction to the huge cloud growth in Japan. 
      • AWS DeepRacer League’s 2021 season launches with new Open and Pro divisions. Apparently it’s gone virtual and is being dominated by experts.
        • Google Cloud Platform: A Bit Jealous
        • Google introduces GKE Autopilot, a revolutionary mode of operations for managed Kubernetes. Autopilot makes it sound like an Oracle product. 
        • Google announces the Risk Protection Program to enhance trust in cloud ecosystems. Google wants you to pay insurance in case its cloud goes down… 
        • Google extends BigQuery BI engine for faster insights across popular BI tools. Pretty cool! 
        • New enhancements for Google Cloud Marketplace Private Catalog including Terraform support. This is pretty good for internal teams managing private catalogs.  
          • Azure: Killing It
          • Microsoft has announced a trio of
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