Azure suffers an outage, AWS Snowballs drive block storage at the edge, S3 Batch Operations and Fully Managed Blockchain all this week on the cloud pod! Plus Lightning Round and Cool Tools with Jonathan.

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Follow Up

VMWare CEO implies Amazon Partnership is more important than Azure

Topics

Use AWS Transit Gateway & Direct Connect to Centralize and Streamline Your Network Connectivity

AWS Snowball Edge adds block storage for edge computing workloads

New — Analyze and debug distributed applications interactively using AWS X-Ray Analytics

Migrate your aws site-to-site VPN connection from Virtual Private Gateway to an AWS Transit Gateway

Amazon S3 introduces S3 Batch operations for Object Management

5/2 Azure Outage & RCA

Azure Fully Managed Blockchain Service

Azure Intelligent Edge Innovation across data, IOT and Mixed Reality

Azure Making AI real for every developer and every organization

AWS Amplify launches an online community for fullstack serverless app developers

https://amplify.aws/community

A deep dive into what’s new with Azure Cognitive Services

Partnering with the community to make Kubernetes easier

Accelerating DevOps with GitHub and Azure

Google Cloud and Service Now announce strategic partnership to enable intelligent digital workflows

Lightning Round (Jonathan 4, Justin 7, Peter 1 and Guest 3)

New – Amazon Managed Blockchain – Now Generally Available in US East Region

AWS WAF Security Automations Now Support Log Analysis

AWS Certificate Manager Private Certificate Authority Increases Certification Limit to One Million

AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) supports IAM permissions and custom responses for Amazon API Gateway

Redhat intros new logo ahead ibm acquisition

Amazon FSX for windows file server adds support for cloudwatch metrics

AWS Fargate PV1.3 now supports the splunk log driver

Amazon EMR announces support for reconfiguring applications on running clusters

Amazon ECS Console support for ECS-optimized Amazon Linux 2 AMI and Amazon EC2 A1 instance family now available

Cool Tools

https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2019/05/02/remote-development