July 14, 2021

126: The Cloud Pod Gives Amazon Money in Advance

51 minutes

On The Cloud Pod this week, with a couple of no-shows, Justin and Ryan’s Happy Hour includes returning guests Matthew Kohn and Sara Tumberella. Also, the team is curious to see what’s going to change at AWS with its new CEO.

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 offers a complete platform for identity, access, and device management — no matter where your users and devices are located.

This week’s highlights

Amazon has finally launched OpenSearch 1.0. They’re hoping to make the transition to as simple as possible for open-source Elasticsearch users.

AWS customers can now pre-pay for their usage. This will allow customers to pay future invoices automatically.

Google announced the general availability of its new Google Cloud Certificate Authority Service (CAS). It hopes the service will help address the increased need for digital certificates.

Top Quotes

“I’m curious to see if you can do things like optimization, where you can reference a security group rule many times across multiple security groups. [You could] simplify a lot of your ecosystem by having maybe a catalog of rules that you apply selectively.”

“I still haven’t seen much talk about what they’re doing with Beats, and if they’re going to fork Beats as well. Initially, they weren’t going to, but then it sounded like Elasticsearch basically pulled the rug out from under them on that too. I wouldn’t be surprised to see that also get forked at some point in the future as well.”

General News: Red Tape

New AWS CEO Adam Selipsky faces bureaucracy challenges. It will be interesting to see what he keeps and what he changes.

Security: Ryan’s Going to Space

Research suggests security tools are fighting for attention, and there’s a rise in false-positive alerts. When companies want the latest and greatest security applications, they often end up competing with each other, and it makes troubleshooting difficult.

Amazon Web Services: Setting Fire to Dumpsters

AWS announces new VPC security group rule IDs. We’re curious to dig into the details: for example, will it allow users to reference one security group rule across multiple security groups?

AWS launches OpenSearch 1.0. We get the impression AWS is handling this project differently, by really investing in the community.

AWS now allows customers

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By Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas and Matt Kohn

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