The Cloud Pod

121: Blue Origin finds new “dummy” to go to space

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Is sending the former CEO of one of the biggest technology companies in the world to space a good idea? On The Cloud Pod this week, the team discusses the potential economic catastrophe that could follow if Jeff Bezos becomes space junk. 

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.
  • Jumpcloud, which provides cloud directory services, enables remote access, eases onboarding and offboarding of users and enables zero trust access models.
    • This week’s highlights
    • Amazon is sending the old junk it found in the attic into space.
    • Google is now fully qualified to direct traffic.
    • Azure turned its out-of-office message on and hoped no one would notice.
      • General News: Frenemies 
      • Snowflake had its annual user conference and announced some new tools and features. Pretty good! 
      • Jeff Bezos is joining the first human flight to space with his company Blue Origin. This is super risky, even if he’s no longer CEO. 
      • Fastly blames global internet outage on a software bug. This is the right way to address outages — nice one, Fastly! 
        • Amazon Web Services: Watch This Space
        • Amazon announces auditing feature for FSx for Windows File Server. This needs an acronym. 
        • AWS has added a third availability zone to the China (Beijing) region operated by Sinnet. Nice to see. 
        • AWS Sagemaker Data Wrangler now supports Snowflake as a data source. Smart move.       
          • Google Cloud Platform: Sneaky Sales Tactics
          • Google announces the release of container-native Cloud DNS for Kubernetes. Powerful building block or Achilles heel? 
          • Google announces new capabilities for Cloud Asset Inventory. Makes so much sense to come from the provider because they know what you have.   
          • Google rele
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