May 25, 2022

167: The Cloud Pod Gets Sucked In by the Graviton3

1 hour 2 minutes

On The Cloud Pod this week, the team talks tactics for infiltrating the new Google Cloud center in Ohio. Plus: AWS goes sci-fi with the new Graviton3 processors, the new GKE cost estimator calculates the value of your soul, and Microsoft builds the metaverse.

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

AWS fires up the Graviton3 processors for some big energy savings.

Google develops the new GKE cost estimator for people who aren’t curious about cost.

Microsoft Build comes out of nowhere to deliver awesome, scary AI-driven tools with much mention of metaverse (yuck).

Top Quotes

“This feature isn’t developed for you because you’re curious about the cost. This is developed specifically for the people who are not curious about the cost. It’s a big red number. When they’re doing the deployment, it’s like, oh, I should probably not do that.”

“I cannot wait for the robot overlords to completely school me at code. This is gonna be hilarious… and frightening.”

General News: HashiCorp Extends Its Reach

Ryan is slightly embarrassed by how much he’s excited about the new HCL Extension for Visual Studio Code 0.1 announcement.

AWS: Abiding by the Laws of Graviton3

Storage company NetApp continues to buck industry trends with Backup and FSx support for ONTAP. Don’t forget to check out the TCP Talks interview with Anthony Lye, Executive VP and General Manager of NetApp.

New AWS-designed Graviton3 Processors power Amazon EC2 C7g Instances, now generally available.

Control Tower now supports concurrent operations for preventive guardrails. Awesome if you’re just starting, tougher if you’ve been at it for a while.

If you’ve been waiting for Kendra to give you something you actually cared about in dev, here you go: Jira connector enables document search on Jira repository.

Great news: Incident Manager expands support for runbook automation. We love announcements like these.

Ryan now has even less excuse for not trying Resilience Hub, after it adds support for Terraform, Amazon ECS and more.

Once again, AWS admits that multicloud is a real thing, with

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

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