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General News

Earnings

Amazon shares dip missing profit expectations tech giant posts 63.4billion in Q2 revenue

Microsoft trumpets record year with $126b in Annual Revenue up 14% as quarterly profits beat estimates

Google Cloud’s run rate is now over $8B

Alphabet announces second quarter 2019 results

Digital Ocean gets a new CEO and CFO

CNN report: Inside the effort to turn trump against Amazon’s bid for a $10 billion Jedi contract

Amazon Hires Lobbyist with trump ties amid contentious pentagon cloud contest 

Capital One hacked over 100 million customers affected

AWS

eksctl – the EKS CLI

AWS Released resource optimization recommendations

Stackery lets AWS lambda developers debug their serverless programs locally on a laptop

AWS Launches a chatbot for chatops

AWS client VPN now adds support for split tunneling

AWS Secrets Manager now supports VPC endpoint policies

Announcing the new AWS Middle East Bahrain Region

Google

Google partners with VMWare to bring virtualized workloads to GCP

Brick by Brick: Learn GCP by setting up a kid-controllable Minecraft server

Azure

Azure publishes guidance for secure cloud adoption by governments

Microsoft owned LinkedIn moving to public cloud guess which platform their choosing

Microsoft acquires data privacy and governance service BlueTalon

Lightning Round (Jonathan 8, Justin 10, Peter 1 and Guest 3): 

AWS Backup will now automatically copy tags from resources to recovery points

New AWS certification exam vouchers make certifying groups easier

AWS introduces new predictive maintenance using machine learning

AWS Budgets announces AWS chatbot integration

New Google features for BigQuery: New persistent user-defined functions, increased concurrency limits, GIS and encryption functions, and more

AWS EFS Encryption for data in transit has a new configuration update

Amazon transcribe now supports websockets

Amazon ECR now supports immutable image tags

Amazon MSK (Managed Services for Kakfa) now PCI-DSS compliant

AWS Cloudwatch logs insights adds cross log group querying

AWS Spot instances now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux

AWS Temporary queue client for Amazon SQS client has been released

You can now use AWS systems manager maintenance windows to select resource groups as targets

Azure blog post on how to use their new Azure Bastion Host

New Digital Course on Coursera – AWS fundamentals of security risk

Announcing GA of Azure Security Center for IOT

Amazon ECS services now support multiple load balancer target groups

EBS default volume type updated to gp2

Amazon EC2 on-demand capacity reservations shared across multiple AWS accounts