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This week on The Cloud Pod, Ryan is stuck somewhere in a tent under a broken-down motorcycle but is apparently still having fun.        

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 went back to school to become a detective.
    • Google was voted prom queen at the virtual homecoming.
    • Oracle shocks everyone with its new look.
      • General News: Great Partners
      • Hashicorp has partnered with AWS to launch support for predictive scaling policy in the Terraform AWS provider. This will be hugely popular for people new to the cloud.    
        • Amazon Web Services: Dropping Stories For No Reason
        • AWS Lambda Extensions are now generally available with new performance improvements. This has pretty limited regional availability, though.   
        • Amazon releases the AWS Shield threat landscape 2020 year in review. One of our favourite blogs.
        • AWS EKS Add-Ons now supports CoreDNS and kube-proxy. This is neat!
        • Introducing the AWS Application Cost Profiler — there have been a few complaints about this on Twitter.
        • AWS Compute Optimizer launches updates to its EC2 instance type recommendations. This is awesome.
        • AWS Outposts launches support for EC2 Capacity Reservations. Being able to use the same tool regardless of where you are is a good thing!  
        • An AWS Region in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is in the works. Great!      
          • Google Cloud Platform: Prom Queen 2021
          • Google VM Manager with OS configuration management is now in Preview. This is basically patch and agent management.  
          • Forrester names Google Cloud a leader in
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