Google Kubernetes Engine Advanced, Jedi Contract Finalists, Cloud Migrations services and Apple’s 30 million a month spend on AWS this week on The Cloud Pod, plus the lightning round.

Sponsors:

Foghorn Consulting – https://fogop.io/thecloudpod

Topics:

Improve Enterprise IT Procurement with Private Catalog, now in Beta

Introducing GKE Advanced – Enhanced reliability, simplicity and scale for enterprise

https://medium.com/@tinder.engineering/tinders-move-to-kubernetes-cda2a6372f44 

Amazon Cloudfront is now available in mainland China

Move your data from AWS S3 to Azure Storage using AzCopy

Announcing Azure to AWS Migration support in AWS Server Migration Service

Rewrite HTTP headers with Azure Application Gateway

Much to Oracles’ chagrin, Pentagon names Microsoft and Amazon as $10B JEDI contract finalists

Announcing Azure Government Secret Private preview and Expansion of DOD IL5

AWS Organizations now available in the AWS Govcloud regions for Central Governance and Management of AWS accounts

Google Hires 27-year SAP veteran Robert Enslin to boost cloud sales and support

Cloudbees buys Electric Cloud to strengthen Devops Platform

Microsoft Open sources data accelerator an easy to configure pipeline for streaming at scale

Apple spends more than 30m a month on AWS

AWS Cloudformation coverage updates for EC2, ECS and ELB

Lightning Round

Announcing the new AWS certified Alexa Skill Builder Specialty Exam

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now supports Muti Major version upgrades to PostgreSQL 11

Azure Container Registry now supports Singularity Image Format containers

Amazon WorkDocs introduces document approvals

Amazon Workdocs Migration Services is now available

AWS has expanded Privatelink to now support Kinesis Data Firehose

Amazon polly adds arabic language support with new female Arabic Voice called Zeina

You can now managed Azure HDInsight using .Net, Python or Java SDK’s

Amazon Comprehend now supports confusion matrices for Custom Classification

AWS ParallelCluster 2.3.1 with new enhanced support for Slurm workload manager

Amazon Aurora Serverless now supports sharing and cross-region copying of snapshots

Azure Cost Management now generally available for peter as you go customers