Episode 7 – The Cloud Pod now 99.9% available

Jonathan, Justin, and Peter talk about the latest news in AWS, Google and Azure.  This week we talk about the AWS Backup Services, Oracle Cloud launching in Toronto and AWS Re:Mars.  Plus the lightning round and Jonathan’s cool tools.

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News

Nvidia Tesla T4 GPU’s now available in beta – https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/nvidia-tesla-t4-gpus-now-available-in-beta

AWS Announces AWS Backup and support for multiple services – https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-backup-automate-and-centrally-manage-your-backups/

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/aws-storage-gateway-integrates-with-aws-backup-to-protect-volume/

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/aws-backup-integrates-with-amazon-DynamoDB-for-centralized-and-automated-backup-management/

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/introducing-amazon-elastic-file-system-integration-with-aws-backup/

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/amazon-ebs-integrates-with-aws-backup-to-protect-your-volumes/

Oracle Cloud launches in Toronto region and plans Mumbai region – https://blogs.oracle.com/cloud-infrastructure/oracle-cloud-infrastructure-launches-toronto-region

https://inc42.com/buzz/oracle-plans-data-centre-in-india-to-challenge-aws-google-cloud/

Oracle says open source vendors locking down licensing proves they were never really open – https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/01/17/oracle_exec_opensource_vendors_locking_down_licenses_proves_they_were_never_really_open/

AWS Announces RE:Mars event June 5/6th – https://www.geekwire.com/2019/amazon-launches-remars-event-focusing-ai-second-stage-invite-mars/ 

AWS Trusted Advisor announces 9 new best practices – https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/aws-trusted-advisor-expands-functionality/

Lightning Round

AWS GA Party

Kinesis Data Streams

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/amazon-kinesis-data-streams-announces-99-9-service-level-agreement/

Kinesis Data Firehose

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/amazon-kinesis-data-firehose-announces-99-9-service-level-agreement/

Kinesis Data Streams

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/amazon-kinesis-data-streams-announces-99-9-service-level-agreement/

EKS

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/-amazon-eks-announces-99-9–service-level-agreement-/

ECR

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/amazon-ecr-announces-99-9–service-level-agreement/

Secrets Manager

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/AWS-Secrets-Manager-announces-service-level-agreement/

Amazon MQ

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/amazon-mq-announces-service-level-agreement/

AWS CodePipeline now supports deployment to S3

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/aws-codepipeline-now-supports-deploying-to-amazon-s3/

Alexa for business now offers IT Admins simplified workflows to setup multiple devices

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/alexa-for-business-now-offers-it-admins-simplified-workflow-to-s/

CloudTrail Integrations

Comprehend is now integrated into cloudtrail

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/amazon-comprehend-is-now-integrated-with-aws-cloudtrail/

Aws cloud9 now integrated to cloudtrail

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/aws-cloud9-supports-aws-cloudtrail-logging/

Rekognition video now supports object bounding boxes and more accurate object and scene detection

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/object-bounding-boxes-and-more-accurate-object-and-scene-detection-are-now-available-for-amazon-rekognition-video/

AWS Migration Hub now imports on-premise data sources like CMDB, IT Asset Management and AWS Migration Partner Discove