April 14, 2022

161: The Cloud Pod Observes Its Databases With Google Cloud SQL Insights

23 minutes

On The Cloud Pod this week and with half the team gone fishin’, Justin and Peter hash it out short and sweet. Plus Google Cloud SQL Insights, Atlassian suffers an outage, and AWS finally offers accessible Lambda Function URLs.

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

Atlassian suffers an outage, sparking fears of data loss.

AWS offers some very welcome accessibility for Lambda Functions.

Google announces Cloud SQL Insights for MySQL.

Top Quotes

“When Lambda first came out, before I even used it, this is how I thought it would work … then it didn’t. So it’s cool that it’s now available. I’m surprised it wasn’t the default — the starting point — before getting more complex, like API gateways.”

“It’s almost required: These tools are so important when it’s a managed service and you can’t get under the covers yourself. So it’s cool, for sure. Especially when you get into how these things work with your cloud and how they interact with each other, it becomes even more important.”

General News: Atlassian Made a DevOops

While only 0.25% of their customer base was affected, Atlassian’s outage is not a good look. The company continues to be haunted by it, with data loss fears.

Sungard is doomed. A Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing confines them to history’s unmarked grave of discarded cloud victims.

AWS: Lambda Finally Does What It Was Always Meant To

Accessible Lambda Function URLs are now yours — something that would’ve been nice when it first came out.

Security Hub launches five controls and one new integration partner, in a move that seems to open the door to start using it for all sorts of non-security checks.

Amazon ECS now allows you to run commands in a Windows container running on AWS Fargate. Peter doesn’t want to do this at all, but maybe someone does.

Something you always thought would have been there but didn’t know actually existed: Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports SQL Server Agent job replication.

Ooooooh: PrivateLink, Transit Gateway and Client VPN services all get a data transfer price reduction — a good first step!

In case you’re looking (Peter’s not), there are two new Amazon EC2 bare metal instances.<

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