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AWS Summit Online is on May 13. Drama brews in the developing JEDI contract story. Please welcome Ryan Lucas as our new full-fledged non-guest host!General News: This Isn’t the Evidence You’re Looking For
AWS Summit Online is free to attend on May 13. Expect to hear our predictions soon! Following a partial review, the Department of Defense’s inspector general’s office announced they have found no evidence of the DoD awarding the JEDI contract unfairly. Meanwhile, Jon Palmer, Deputy General Counsel for Microsoft argued that allowing AWS a second bid would give Amazon an unfair advantage. But who inspects the inspector?COVID-19
Verizon is breaking out the big bucks to purchase video conference company BlueJeans for $400 million. It’s interesting to see BlueJeans back in the spotlight. The Information reports that AWS has been comparatively inflexible on cloud bill payments compared to Azure and Google Cloud Platform. At the same time, AWS has maintained the messaging that it is “here to help” during this “unprecedented time.” AWS: A Snowball’s Chance at the JEDI Contract
The Snowball family of devices received a ton of updates. All that work on military applications and no JEDI contract to apply it to. Federated querying is now generally available on Amazon Redshift. It’s clear that Amazon is investing heavily in Redshift. AWS Security Hub launched the BatchUpdateFindings API and the Workflow Status field. Good to see some of these issues worked out. This one goes out to all the auditors: AWS Secrets Manager now integrates with AWS Config. And when the auditor’s happy, eve
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