On The Cloud Pod this week, the team admits to using the podcast as a way to figure out what day it is. Justin also relents and includes Azure news because he couldn’t handle any more Oracle mobile apps announcements.
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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
Social media influencers can breathe a sigh of relief. Amazon is dangling a carrot in front of one of its partners. Azure is throwing a spanner in the works.General News: Not Cool News
The FBI arrests a man for his plan to kill “70% of the internet” in an AWS bomb attack. 70% is quite a stretch but we’re sure it would have caused a crappy day for a lot of people. Hashicorp has released its Boundary 0.2 release with several new features. We’re really excited about this. Announcing HashiCorp Terraform 0.15 General Availability. If you believe it, this is really great news. Amazon Web Services: Good At Compromising
AWS announces AQUA is now generally available. Justin should have gotten a prediction point for this one. Amazon Managed Service for Grafana now offers more support. We’ll see if Grafana can actually make money out of its partnership with Amazon. Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now integrates with AWS Lambda. This is really cool! Decrease machine learning costs with instance price reductions and savings plans for Amazon SageMaker. Some pretty significant savings here. Google Cloud Platform: Colossal
Google takes a deep dive into its scalable storage solution, Colossus. Nothing new here. Google announces tracking index backf