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263: Ticketmaster Gets a Snow Job – MFA Matters Folks!

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Welcome to episode 263 of the Cloud Pod Podcast – where the forecast is always cloudy! This week we’re diving into the world of Snowflake, including announcements from their latest conference and details about their recent breach. Seriously – MFA is important! Plus we look at updates to Terraform, Claude 3, and OCI pushing the IOPS limits and much more. Join us! 

Titles we almost went with this week:
  • Snowflake Announces State-of-the-Art way for hackers to Talk to your Data
  • Ticketmaster gets a snow job – MFA matters! 
  • The CloudPod wouldn’t use Oracle even for a million IOPS
  • Azure finally wakes up to hibernation support JJB
  • No one ever called a Bastion Host Premium until Today – JPB MK
  • I look forward to connecting Kinesis to Pub Sub to Event Hub in the most rube   
  •     goldberg eventing architecture ever
  • Hashicorp shows you the way
  • 10 ways to say I want you Matt (I’m not bias with the name)
  • Can we just hibernate ourselves on AI announcements
  • Sus is how i feel about the new Susscanner from AWS
  • OCI has enough power to run Oracle databases with 1 MIllion IOPS
  • OCI wants 1 Million IOPS (dr evil voice)
  • Monday, Tuesday, Hashidays…
    • General News 

    Terraform AWS Cloud Control API provider is now generally available 

    • The AWS Cloud Control Provider (AWSCC), built around the AWS Cloud Control API and designed to bring new services to Terraform faster, is now generally available. 
      • The 1.0 release represents a step in their effort to provide launch-day support of AWS services.  
      • This service was put into tech preview in 2021. 
      • Glad it’s finally here; although we thought this effort was abandoned, honestly. 
      • Interesting that you can mix HCL Terraform and AWSCC, but specify the different resource types in the configurations.  

        • 00:53 New Vault and Boundary offerings advance Security Lifecycle Management at HashiDays 2024  

        • Hashicorp held their “Hashidays” event in London this last week, and announced improvements to their Security Lifecycle Management (SLM) products: Vault and Boundary
        • Vault will be getting Workload Identify Federation, coming soon to Vault Enterprise which enables secretless configuration for vault plugins that integrate with external systems supporting WIF, such as AWS, Azure and Google Cloud. 
          • By enabling secretless configuration, organizations reduce security concerns that can come with using long-lived and highly privileged security credentials. 
          • With WIF, Vault no longer needs access to highly sensitive roo
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            tcp.fmBy Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas and Matt Kohn