March 09, 2022

156: The Cloud Pod Takes Back Everything It Said About Windows vs Linux Security

52 minutes

On The Cloud Pod this week, the team reminisces about dealing with awful database technologies, which Ryan luckily managed to avoid. Plus all things cybersecurity as Linux gets hit with a huge security emergency, Google acquires Mandiant for $5.4 billion, and Orca Security catches a major Azure cross-tenant vulnerability.

A big thanks to this week’s sponsor, 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

Linux is on the backfoot as it’s hit by the most severe vulnerability in years.

Google has acquired the cybersecurity giant Mandiant for a cool $5.4 billion.

Orca Security catches a huge Azure cross-tenant vulnerability.

Top Quotes

”But is Mandiant now going to be suddenly finding the vulnerabilities and publishing the vulnerabilities that they’re finding in Azure and AWS, and happen to maybe not mention the ones externally that are happening in GCP? They’re no longer an independent third party.”

“Even with these things happening, you’re still safer running in the cloud. Even though there are outages, you’re still more highly available in the cloud. I hate to see these things in the news.”

General News: Linux Is Feeling the Pain

Knative is now officially a CNCF incubating project — any competitors in the market?

As Linux is bitten by its most high-severity vulnerability in years, we take back everything we said about Windows vs Linux security.

AWS: Solving Very Cloudy Problems

Faster failover is the name of the game with AWS this week: its RDS for MySQL & PostgreSQL Multi-AZ deployment option comes with improved write performance. Jonathan is also very, very excited about their JDBC driver for MySQL.

AWS customers can now request their CyberGRX report for due diligence on third-party suppliers. But who watches the watchmen?

Ryan’s always suffered from slow performance, but now he can now get specific about how his bad code is affecting it, thanks to Amazon DevOps Guru’s extended support for Lambda with CodeGuru Profiler integration.

GCP: Getting Out the Wallet

Google pays $5.4 billion in hush money to Mandiant in a move that’s sure to massively boost their credibility in the cybersecurity arms race. Mandiant’s biggest customer? GCP itself.

You can now leverage OpenTelemetry to democratize Cloud Spanner observability — which of course they w

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

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