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Episode 101: AWS plays the Parler games


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On The Cloud Pod this week, news has been a bit slow coming out of the Cloud Providers; the team suspects they might be curled up on the floor in fetal position after the events of last year.

A big thanks to this week’s sponsors:

  • Foghorn Consulting, which provides full-stack cloud solutions with a focus on strategy, planning and execution for enterprises seeking to take advantage of the transformative capabilities of AWS, Google Cloud and Azure.
    • Open Raven, the cloud native data protection platform that automates policy monitoring and enforcement. Auto-discover, classify, monitor and protect your sensitive data.
    • This week’s highlights
      • Amazon has gone to the gym over the holidays and is now kicking butt.
      • Helping teach us the ways of the cloud, Google is.
      • There’s nothing remotely funny about Azure this week
      • General News: Ryan Doesn’t Want to Wear Pants
        • Amazon has kicked controversial social media platform Parler off AWS. The multi-cloud people are going to be unbearable now.    
        • Amazon defends its decision to suspend in response to Parler’s lawsuit. Most people don’t know Amazon sent Parler notices for months — it’s not like they weren’t warned.   
        • F5 Networks to acquire edge-as-a-service startup Volterra for $500M. There’s so much buzzword lingo in this announcement, we suspect this service will lack substance.
        • Red Hat buys Kubernetes security startup StackRox. We’re surprised Google didn’t buy it.
        • Pat Gelsinger is stepping down as VMWare CEO to replace Bob Swan at Intel. We think he has a very long road ahead to get Intel back on track.
        • Amazon Web Services: Family Time
          • AWS announces Transfer Family now provides support for EFS file systems as well as S3. Would be nice if this would tie into Incognito or Simple Directory Service.    
          • Amazon EMR now supports Apache Ranger for fine-grained data access control. Neat. 
          • Achieve faster database failover with Amazon Web Serv
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            tcp.fmBy Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas and Matt Kohn