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On The Cloud Pod this week, the team is feeling nostalgic and a little nerdy, as you can see from the show title — a throwback to Serial Console and its ability to add a ton of characters when you didn’t want it to. 

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 should be singing a different tune.
    • Google has astonished us all by actually sharing something interesting.
    • Azure is the strict school principal that just canceled lunch. 
      • General News: Justin Said It First 
      • VentureBeat predicts industry clouds could be the next big thing. Justin will take the royalties check anytime, VentureBeat.
        • Amazon Web Services: Please Don’t Keep It To Yourself
        • Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS is now generally available. Surprising because we don’t remember it going into beta.
        • AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry adds StatsD and Java support. We’re glad to see the continued investment in OpenTelemetry. 
        • AWS DevOps Monitoring Dashboard solution is now generally available. The solutions library is a Rube Goldberg machine. 
        • Amazon Lookout for Metrics is now generally available — perfect for Ryan, who has no machine learning experience. 
        • Amazon Elasticsearch Service announces a new Auto-Tune feature for improved performance and application availability. We wish Amazon would open source this.
        • AWS SSO credential profile support is now available in the AWS Toolkit for VS Code. Thank you, Jesus.
        • Amazon is developing a chip to power the hardware switches that shuttle data around networks. Apparently Google and Apple are also doing this.
        • Troubleshoot boot and networking issues with new EC2 Serial Console. Must be useful for someone,
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          tcp.fmBy Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas and Matt Kohn