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271: AWS Deprioritizes 7 Services, Cloud Pod Hosts Prioritize Therapy

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Welcome to episode 271 of the Cloud Pod Podcast – where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Jonathan and Matthew are your hosts today as we discuss the latest news in cloud and AI, including earnings reports, Google’s legal trouble, and SQL updates. We even take a minute to give some side eye to AWS’s deprioritization techniques. Spoiler alert: 0 out of 5 stars for keeping customers informed. 

Titles we almost went with this week:
  • No Google, you can’t own Park Place, Boardwalk, the railroads and the utilities 
  • Amazons Titan Image Generator is no titan of photography
  • BigTable graduates to SQL support
  • TikTok/Instagram, Azure Reliability and Temu bring down the big three clouds’ earnings
  • Span your Mind to Graphs & Vectors
  • DOJ rules The Cloud Pod should be your default news source
  • The CloudPod – now with SQL support
  • AWS Deprioritizes 7 Services, Cloud Pod Hosts Prioritize Therapy
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    Follow Up

    00:45 Amazon decision to deprioritize 7 cloud services caught customers and 

    even some salespeople by surprise 

    • Jeff Barr confirmed on Twitter (Yes will always call it Twitter) after recording last week’s episode that they had made the tough decision to deprioritize 7 cloud services.  
    • There is still no official blog post announcing this, beyond the confirmation from Jeff Barr. 
    • Amazon is discontinuing new access to a small number of services in the tweet – but would continue to run them in a secure environment. 
    • Jeff Bar confirmed the list of services to be S3 Select, CloudSearch, Cloud9, SimpleDB, Forecast, Data Pipeline and CodeCommit. 
    • An AWS Spokesperson claimed to Business Insider that the changes were communicated through multiple channels within and outside the company. 
      • But were they REALLY though? 

        • 01:33 Justin – “Yeah, they kind of took a leap out of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy book and put the planning commission in the filing cabinet downstairs with the broken light.”

        General News 

        It’s Earnings Time!

        07:35  Alphabet meets earnings expectations but misses on YouTube ad revenue 

        • Alphabet revenue was up 14% YOY, driven by search and cloud, GCP surpassed $10B in quarterly revenues and
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