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This week on The Cloud Pod, Yahoo is back and cheaper than ever. Just kidding, it’s Ryan who is back and the team is curious as to how he managed to extricate himself out from under that kitten.  

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 has been doing yoga and the results are paying off.
    • Google bought a hard hat and is getting into the construction business.
    • If you need to get your kid to sleep, let them read this from Azure.
      • General News: Yahoo’s Renaissance
      • Verizon dumps Yahoo-AOL for rock-bottom price. But they’re not dead yet!
      • Amazon posts record profits as AWS hits $54B annual run rate. That’s pretty good!
      • Microsoft beats Q3 revenue expectations, spurred by strong cloud sales. Get on the bandwagon, Azure.
      • Alphabet announces first quarter results for 2021. It does include GCP and G-Suite revenue.   
      • Cloud infrastructure spending grew 35% to $41.8B in Q1 2021. These numbers boggle our minds.

        • JEDI: Just Keeps Getting Better

        • Court snubs Microsoft and the U.S. government’s request to throw out Amazon’s complaint against JEDI cloud contract decision. We can’t wait to hear what Trump says under oath. 
          • Amazon Web Services: Bring Your Own Talent
          • AWS is launching Amazon FinSpace, a data management and analytics solution. Step one, invent the universe. 
          • AWS Proton introduces customer-managed environments. We had to look up what Proton actually is. 
          • AWS Proton allows adding and removing instances from an existing service. We’re looking forward to some re:Invent sessions on this.   
          • Amazon launches CloudFront Functions for the lowest
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