A New Cost Management blog, APAC gets a new AWS region and Docker Hub gets hacked. Plus Alphabet, Microsoft, and Amazon all release earnings and we break out the highs and lows. With special guest, Ian Mckay @iann0036 talks about his new AWS tool www.former2.com

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Follow Up

Apple actually reducing dependence on Amazon Cloud services

Topics

Ford Partners with Amazon to build cloud service connected cars

New AWS cost management blog launches

New Query for AWS Regions, Endpoints, and More using AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store

Earnings Season

Microsoft beats Wall street expectations, posting $30.6B in revenue, powered by cloud division

AWS revenue approaches $8 Billion in Q1, up 41% compared to last year

Despite Cloud growth, slowing revenue at Alphabet sends investors fleeing

AMD EPYC-Powered Amazon EC2 T3a instances

Now Open – AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region

Slack renegotiated its deal with AWS in 2018, will spend 212 million more through 2023

190,000 user accounts exposed in hack of Docker Hub Database

Microsoft container registry unaffected by recent docker hub data exposure

VMWare brings its virtualization software to Microsoft Azure

AWS Deep Racer League Virtual Circuit is now Open

Lightning Round

AWS Single Sign-On now offers certificate customization to support your corporate policies

Amazon EKS supports EC2 A1 instances as public preview

Announcing Azure Backup support to move recovery service vaults

Optimize Performance using Azure Database for PostgreSQL recommendations

Amazon RDS now supports per-second billing

AWS Service Catalog announces Tag Updating

AWS specifies the IP address ranges for Amazon DynamoDB endpoints

Efficiently scale ML and other compute workloads on NVIDIA’s T4 GPU, now GA

Serverless automation using Powershell preview in Azure Functions

DynamoDBMapper now supports Amazon DynamoDB transactional API calls

Now you can tag Amazon DynamoDB tables when you create them

AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store Introduces Advanced Parameters

AWS Systems Manager now supports use of Parameter Store at Higher API Throughput

Azure Accelerate supercomputing in the cloud with Cray Clusterstor

AWS Security Token Service (STS) now supports enabling the global STS endpoint to issue session tokens compatible with all AWS Regions

AWS Elastic Fabric Adapter is Now Generally Available

Cool Tools

https://former2.com/ with guest Ian McKay