This week Matt Adorjan (@mda590) joins us to talk about AWS’s open distro for ElasticSearch, Breaking up big tech, and F5 acquiring Nginx. Plus the lightning round and Cool Tools with Jonathan.

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How does your cloud storage grow? With a scalable plan and a price drop

Azure Premium Blob storage now in public preview

Simply Enterprise Threat Detection and Protection with Google Cloud Security Services

Elizabeth Warren bold plan to break up big tech

Azure Devops Server 2019 now available

AWS Announces Open Distro for Elastic Search

Adrian Cockcroft publishes blog on keeping open source open

Elastic.Co Response to open distros open source

F5 Acquires NGINX

AWS Performance Insights is now GA for SQL Server

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/03/performance-insights-is-generally-available-for-sql-server/

AWS SSM on-Premise now handles large hybrid environments (Previously less than 1000 instances)

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/03/AWS_Systems_Manager_on-premises_instance_management_for_large_hybrid_environments/

AWS Coretto 11 is now available as a release candidate

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/03/amazon-corretto-11-is-now-available-as-a-release-candidate/

AWS Step functions adds tag based permissions

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/03/aws-step-functions-adds-tag-based-permissions/

New AWS Direct Connect Console