June 29, 2023

216: The Cloud Pod is Feeling Elevated Enough to Record the Podcast

30 minutes

Welcome to the newest episode of The Cloud Pod podcast – where the forecast is always cloudy! Today your hosts are Jonathan and Matt as we discuss all things cloud and AI, including Temporary Elevated Access Management (or TEAM, since we REALLY like acronyms today) FTP servers, SQL servers and all the other servers, as well as pipelines, whether or not the government should regulate AI (spoiler alert: the AI companies don’t think so) and some updates to security at Amazon and Google.

Titles we almost went with this week:

The Cloud Pod’s FTP server now with post-quantum keys support

The CloudPod can now Team into your account, but only temporarily

The CloudPod dusts off their old floppy drive

The CloudPod dusts off their old SQL server disks

The CloudPod is feeling temporarily elevated to do a podcast

The CloudPod promise that AI will not take over the world

The CloudPod duals with keys

The CloudPod is feeling temporarily elevated.

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News this Week:

No general news this week! Probably because no one wanted to talk to us.

AWS

00:49 Amazon EC2 Instance Connect supports SSH and RDP connectivity without public IP address

You can now connect via SSH and RDP to EC2 instances without using public IP addresses. With EIC endpoints, customers have remote connectivity to their instances in private subnets, eliminating the need to use public IPv4 addresses for connectivity.

Previously you would have needed to create bastion hosts to tunnel SSH/RDP connections to instances with private IP addresses, but that created its own set of problems because bastion hosts would have to be patched, managed and audited as well as incur additional costs.

EIC endpoint combines AWS IAM-based access controls to restrict access to trusted principles with network-based controls such as security group rules.

It provides an audit of all connections via AWS cloud trail, helping customers improve their security posture.

01:31 Matt- “It’s nice to see Amazon still coming up with more solutions to not have things be public; and really try to get their customers to not use all the older-school technology.”

03:02 RDS Custom for SQL Server Lets you Bring Your Own Media

RDS Custom for SQL Server now allows customers to use their own SQL server installation media when creating an instance. By using BYOM, customers may leverage their existing SQL server licenses with Amazon RDS for SQL Server. Amazon RDS custom is a managed database service that allows customization of the underlying operating system and database environment. Managed features include Multi-AZ, point in time recovery, and more.

Previously when using RDS custom for SQL Server, customers used a license that

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

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