Kubecon is happening in Barcelona, Spain, VMWare purchases bitnami, Apptio buys Cloudability and a ton of Kubernetes announcements out of KubeCon this week on The Cloud Pod.

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Topics:

A Cosmonaut’s guide to the latest Azure Cosmos DB Announcements

VMWare snaps up Bitnami to broaden its multi-cloud strategy

Apptio buys Cloudability as cloud cost management market heats up

Introducing Terraform Cloud Remote State Management

Cloudwatch container insights for EKS and Kubernetes Preview

Digital Ocean K8 service is now Generally Available

Google Announces new enhancements to ease adoption of GKE

In celebration of K8 5th birthday GCP is giving away a free month of learning at Coursera with the Architecting with GKE course. (valid until September 30th)

Lightning Round (Jonathan 5, Justin 8, Peter 1 and Guest 3):

EKS has simplifed K8 cluster authentication with new CLI Sub command for generating the authentication token for connecting

You can now use custom chat bots with Amazon Chime

Performance insights now supports Amazon Aurora Global Database

AWS Migration hub now provides right-sized Amazon EC2 instance recommendations

Amazon Sagemaker Ground Truth now supports Automated Email Notifications for Manual Data Labeling

AWS APAC Mumbai region adds third availability zone

AWS APAC Seoul Regions adds third availability zone

AWS IOT Device Defender now supports monitoring behavior of unregistered devices

Amazon SNS adds support for cost allocation tags

Amazon RDS for MySQL now supports password validation

Amazon Guarduty has added two new threat detections

Spring 2019 SOC reports are now available for AWS with over 104 services in scope

AWS has announced Elemental MediaPackage Price Reductions in all regions