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174: The Cloud Pod Goes the Distance With Rocky Linux


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On The Cloud Pod this week, the team discusses facial recognition avoidance tactics. Plus: Waving farewell to CentOS 7 with the rise of Rocky Linux, Amazon traverses the new Cloudscape, and the U.K. heatwave spells disaster for Oracle and Google data centers.

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
  • As CentOS is put out to pasture, say hello to Rocky Linux, named in honor of CentOS late co-founder Rocky McGaugh.
  • Cloudscape Design System is the latest AWS open source wonder for web application building.
  • The great British heatwave of 2022 burns Oracle and Google data centers to a crisp.
  • Top Quotes  

    • “It answers the question of who we shout at if there’s a bug at zero day and the community doesn’t get around to fixing it. Now we can shout at Google.”
    • “It’s probably a sign of further issues to come unless they do some productive work. Because it’s one thing to … build a data center in Utah [where] it gets up to 45 degrees C and the sun’s heating the air under some land. And that’s a completely different situation than heating up Europe, which is … much less expected to have those kinds of temperatures so far north. … So it’s going to be time to invest in HVAC business.”
    • General News: The Best Data Lake Is the One With Your Boat on It
      • VentureBeat offers up its top 10 data lake solution vendors this year. If you also don’t know what a data lake is, fear not (it tells you).
      • AWS: Open Source Because They Can’t Sell It?
        • AWS suits up for battle against Microsoft and Google with its server chip. Fire up the Graviton!
        • Cost-saving automated and easily modifiable EBS Elastic Volumes are here. (Just watch out for a pesky potential price increase.)
        • The very cool VPC Flow Logs for Transit Gateway will make things much more efficient.
        • AWS announces neat new AppConfig Extensions. Step one: Enable feature. Step two: Figure it out yourself. Step three: Profit, profit, profit.
        • AWS goes open source with Cloudscape Design System for building web applications.
        • More epic work from Amazon as EC2 R6a Instances join the M6a and C6a club, now rolled out across all three primary node types. You’re welcome!
        • GCP: The Rise of Rocky
          • Stunned reactions all around here at The Cloud Pod:
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            tcp.fmBy Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas and Matt Kohn