The Cloud Pod

129: The Cloud Pod ditches our m1.small instances

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On The Cloud Pod this week, the team is back in full force and some are sporting fresh tan lines. Also, it’s earnings season, so get ready for some big numbers — as well as some losses.               

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
      • AWS is finally killing off EC2-Classic. EC2 was launched in 2006, with one instance type (m1.small), security groups, and the US-EAST-1 Region. 
      • The 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Services is out, and AWS, Google, Microsoft and Oracle have all made it. Although some scraped in by the skin of their teeth.
      • Get consistent Kubernetes definitions with the new Anthos Config Management feature. The Kubernetes Resource Model (KRM) helps users define and update resources with minimal effort on their part.

        • Top Quotes  

        • “I would say Google’s getting market share because they are able to leapfrog everyone else on Kubernetes, big data, and machine learning.”
        • “Considering all the different vendors that are involved in a hospital, just being able to have a standard data format with FHIR is huge. And they also now power that with the cloud. There are lots of really interesting use cases that get unlocked with this [Azure Healthcare APIs] solution.”
          • General News: Earn Baby Earn
          • Google’s parent company, Alphabet, crushed earnings expectations. It still lost a lot, though. Increasing the price of YouTube TV could have limited the damage.
          • Microsoft’s revenue is up 21% overall. Azure’s revenue doubled, which is nuts. 
          • Amazon’s revenue is up 27% overall — but that’s down from the 41% year-on-year increase the company saw in Q2 of 2020. It’s starting to see post-COVID-19 corrections.
            • Amazon Web Services: Not Fit for Consumption
            • AWS named as a Leader for the 11th consecutive year in the
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