The Cloud Pod

204: Amazon eats Pi with their own version of S3FS


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On this episode of The Cloud Pod, the team discusses Amazon Pi Day, Google’s upcoming I/O conference, the agricultural data manager by Microsoft, and the downturn in net profits of Oracle. They also round up cloud migrations by highlighting tools from different cloud service providers that are useful for the process.

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: Amazon celebrates Pi Day with live twitch streams.
  • GCP: Google announces their I/O conference to take place near their headquarters in Mountain View.
  • Azure:To increase global food production, Microsoft has created an agricultural data manager.
  • Oracle: Net income for Oracle this quarter dropped to 1.9 billion.
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    Top Quotes

    • “It’s been the thorn in the side of every migration I’ve been a part of… ‘how are we going to operate FTP securely in the cloud?”
    • “It is not about where you are in the future to Amazon, it’s about where you are today… that’s why Google and Azure have some success seen as Amazon because they come in and they realize the true long-term value of the customer not the immediate short-term value of the Amazon approach”
    • AWS: Amazon celebrates Pi Day with live twitch streams.
      • Celebrate Amazon S3’s 17th birthday at AWS Pi Day 2023
      • They also announced 7 new capabilities across their data services.
      • GCP: Google announces their I/O conference to take place near their headquarters in Mountain View.
        • 0⃣ Google I/O 2023 developer conference to kick off on May 10
        • The full agenda will be published in the next few weeks.
        • Azure: To increase global food production, Microsoft has created an agricultural data manager.
          • 0⃣ Announcing Microsoft Azure Data Manager for Agriculture: Accelerating innovation across the agriculture value chain
          • With the rising rate of hunger, this manager will provide solutions by maximizing agricultural data.
          • Oracle: Net income for Oracle this quarter dropped to 1.9 billion.
            • 0⃣ Oracle’s stock heads south on revenue shortfall
            • Despite the drop, and the gap from other cloud providers, they only slightly missed Wall Street expectations.
            •  The Cloud Journey Series; Cloud Migration Tools.
              • The final part of Cloud Migrations Migrations; cloud tools to help with your migration.
              • AWS has the highest amount of tools for cloud migrations; GCP and Azure also have some useful tools, but the least is OCI
              • Foghorn Consulting can help clients with planning out their migration program.
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