February 09, 2023

198: Cloudtrail ingests activity events, CloudPod ingests Pizza

59 minutes

On this episode of The Cloud Pod, the team discusses the upcoming 2023 in-person Google Cloud conference, the accessibility of AWS CloudTrail Lake for non-AWS activity events, the new updates from Azure Chaos studio, and the comparison between Oracle Cloud service and other Cloud providers. They also highlight the application and importance of VPCs in CCOE.

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: AWS CloudTrail Lake now allows users to consolidate, immutably store, and analyze activity events from non-AWS sources.

GCP: Google Cloud 2023 Next conference will be in-person.

Azure: New updates are available in the Azure Chaos studio.

Oracle: Oracle creates a page comparing its cloud services with AWS and others.

Top Quotes

“A transit gateway effectively is saying we’re going to let you make multiple VPCs into one VPC, which is awesome”

“When you’re designing VPC networking, make sure you’re aware of the cost involved in cross-zone communication because it’s not free and it can be quite significant”

AWS: AWS CloudTrail Lake now allows users to analyze activity events from non-AWS sources.

New – AWS CloudTrail Lake Supports Ingesting Activity Events From Non-AWS Sources

Initially, AWS cloud lake was a service to access, analyze and store user and API activity from AWS as a source, but now users can set up custom events or integrate with other providers.

GCP: Google Cloud 2023 Next conference will be in-person.

0⃣ Google Cloud Next

This will be the first in-person Next conference since 2019.

Azure: New updates are available in the Azure Chaos studio.

0⃣ Chaos studio – Public preview updates for January 2023 

These updates include the availability of dynamic targeting, enabling service tags, VMSS SHutdown 2.0, and others.

Oracle: Oracle creates a page comparing its cloud services with AWS and others.

0⃣ Compare cloud services across OCI and other cloud providers, highlighting its equivalents to AWS, Azure and GCP

The Cloud Journey Series; The Cloud Center of Excellence (CCOE)

VPC means Virtual Private Cloud and is a service tied to almost every aspect of the cloud, especially in AWS.

Security requirements are crucial to consider with VPCs which would include ACLs and VPC Flow Logs.

Another consideration for VPCs is connectivity back to your private data center which may be through a VPN connection or a direct connect point-to-point from a third party or your data center into the cloud provider itself.

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

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