This week we talk about Cloud Center of Excellence, New Encryption options, open source update on Firecracker and more.  Elise Carmichael (twitter: @uncfleece) from @tricentis joins us to talk about some of their tools.

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Topics:

New – Updated Pay-Per-Use Pricing Model for AWS Config Rules

Google Says some G-Suite Passwords were stored in Plaintext since 2005

Google Cloud – Optimize your organizations cloud journey with a Cloud Center of Excellence

Amazon RDS for SQL Server increases database limit per database instance up to 100

AWS Opt-In to Default Encryption for New EBS Volumes

AWS Ground Station – Ready to ingest & process Satellite Data

Firecracker Open Source Update May 2019

Application Management made easier with Kubernetes Operators on GCP Marketplace

Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports Always On Availability Groups for SQL Server 2017

Github launches Sponsors, lets you pay your favorite open source contributors

Manage your cross cloud spend using Azure Cost management

Lightning Round (Jonathan 5, Justin 9, Peter 1 and Guest 3):

AWS now allows you to enable Hibernations on EC2 instances at the same time as you launch the AMI

Amazon Document DB (with MongoDB Compatibility) is now SOC 1, 2, 3 Compliant

AWS Marketplace enables long term contracts for AMI products

AWS Budgets now Supports Variable Budget Targets for Cost and Usage Budgets

Amazon RDS Recommendations Provide Best Practice Guidance for Amazon Aurora

All US Azure regions now approved for FedRAMP High impact level

AWS Backup Now Supports AWS CloudFormation

AWS Step Functions Adds Support for Callback Patterns in Workflows

Amazon API Gateway Now Supports Tag-Based Access Control and Tags on Additional Resources

AWS CodeCommit Now Supports Including Application Code When Creating a Repository with AWS CloudFormation

CloudWatch Logs adds support for percentiles in metric filters

Amazon DynamoDB adaptive capacity is now instant

Amazon Connect Decreases US Telephony Pricing by 26% in the US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon) regions

AWS Transfer for SFTP now supports AWS CloudFormation and host key import

Amazon RDS for SQL Server now Supports SQL Server Audit

Azure NetApp Files is now generally available

Cool Tools

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