November 10, 2022

187: Google Blockchain Engine – A Day Late and a Bitcoin Short

1 hour 14 minutes

On The Cloud Pod this week, Amazon announces Neptune Serverless, Google introduces Google Blockchain Node Engine, and we get some cost management updates from Microsoft.

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General News [1:24]

Microsoft surprises with first quarter results

Microsoft drops 6% after revealing weak guidance on its earnings call

3⃣ Alphabet announces Q3 results

YouTube shrinks Alphabet; company will cut headcount growth by half in Q4

Amazon stock sinks 16% on weak Q4 guidance

3⃣ Amazon announces Q3 results

Amazon CFO says tech giant is preparing for ‘what could be a slower growth period’

AWS just recorded its weakest growth to date

AWS named as a leader in the 2022 Gartner CIPS Magic Quadrant for the 12th consecutive year

Episode Highlights

Amazon announces Neptune Serverless.

Google introduces Blockchain Node Engine

Cost management updates from Microsoft.

Top Quote

“Google Cloud is an important partner to HashiCorp, and our enterprise customers use HashiCorp Terraform and Google Cloud to deploy mission critical infrastructure at scale. With 70 million downloads of the Terraform Google Provider this year and growing, we’re excited to collaborate closely with Google Cloud to offer our joint customers a seamless experience which we believe will significantly enhance their experience on Google Cloud.” – Burzin Patel, HashiCorp VP, Global Partner Alliances. [39:38]

AWS: Amazon Goes to Neptune

Announcing Amazon Neptune Serverless – A fully managed graph database that adjusts capacity for your workloads. [13:15]

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

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