Peter is back after a few weeks away from the show. Azure launches new Event Grid features, Palo Alto Networks picks up Twistlock and Puresec and Google has a really bad day. Plus the amazing lightning round with Peter.

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Topics:

25th Episode Blog Post

Azure has simplified event-driven architectures with new updates to Event Grid

Palo Alto Networks enters into definitive agreement to purchase Twistlock and Puresec

Oracle Lays off hundreds from its Seattle office as its cloud strategy remains grounded

Azure Adaptive network hardening in Azure Security Center is now GA

Amazon EBS adds ability to take point-in-time, crash-consistent snapshots across multiple EBS volumes

Announcing Tag-Based Access Control for AWS Cloudformation

New Data API for Amazon Aurora Serverless

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK) – Now Generally Available

Google Cloud has Major Outage on 6/2

Google Cloud Outage resolved, but it reveals holes in cloud computing atmosphere

An update on Sunday’s service disruption

Lightning Round (Jonathan 6, Justin 9, Peter 1 and Guest 3):

AWS is Announcing Windows Server version 1903 AMI’s for Amazon EC2

Amazon Chime now supports United States Toll-Free Numbers

AWS Storage Gateway Service adds capability to move Virtual Tapes from S3 Glacier to Glacier Deep Archive

AWS has introduced Fraud Detection capabilities using Machine Learning

Google has announced a new open source load testing framework for pub/sub at scale testing

Azure has several new enhancements for Azure App Configuration to increase release velocity via feature flags and simplifying troubleshooting across distributed apps

AWS Textract is now Generally Available in Northern Virginia, Ohio, Oregon and Ireland regions

AWS DataSync Now supports EFS-to-EFS Transfers

AWS IOT Events and Things Graph is now Generally Available

AWS IOT Things graph now Generally Available

Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports SQL Querying

New AWS Certification Readiness course are available for Alexa Skill Builder and Certified Security Specialty

AWS Now allows EC2 Hibernation without specifying Encryption Intent at Instance Launch

Amazon Elasticache for Redis improves Cluster availability during planned maintenance

Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility supports Database Activity Streams for real-time monitoring

After show

Tequila being discussed: https://www.compoveda.com/