Episode 8  – Now With Insane Magic

This week we talk about TLS support for NLB, AWS Worklink, Kubernetes Metering and retailers pushing back on AWS. Plus the lightning round and cool tools with Jonathan. #thecloudpod

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News

Microsoft Earnings – http://fortune.com/2019/01/30/microsoft-stock-down-slowdown-azure-cloud/

Idera acquires Travis CI – https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/23/idera-acquires-travis-ci/

Google Gives Wikipedia Millions – https://www.wired.com/story/google-wikipedia-machine-learning-glow-languages/

NLB now supports TLS Termination – https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-tls-termination-for-network-load-balancers

Microsoft Acquires Citus Data – https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2019/01/24/microsoft-acquires-citus-data-re-affirming-its-commitment-to-open-source-and-accelerating-azure-postgresql-performance-and-scale/

AWS Worklink secures on premise website and apps – https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-worklink-secure-one-click-mobile-access-to-internal-websites-and-applications/

GKE Usage Metering

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes/gke-usage-metering-whose-line-item-is-it-anyway

Albertsons picks Azure to run cloud workloads due to Amazon being a competitor – https://www.fool.com/investing/2019/01/28/amazon-fear-is-driving-retailers-to-microsofts-clo.aspx

Lightning Round

Python Shell for AWS Glue – https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/introducing-python-shell-jobs-in-aws-glue/

AWS Elasticsearch Service now supports maximum cluster size of 200 nodes – https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/amazon-elasticsearch-service-doubles-maximum-cluster-capacity-with-200-node-cluster-support/

AWS SSM now supports management of in guest and instance level configuration – https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/aws-systems-manager-state-manager-now-supports-management-of-in-guest-and-instance-level-configuration/

AWS Public Datasets now available from UK meteorological office, queensland government, university of Penn, buildzero and others – https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/aws-public-datasets-now-available/

Amazon ECS and ECR now support AWS Private Link – https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/aws-fargate–amazon-ecs–and-amazon-ecr-now-have-support-for-aws/

SLA for step functions – https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/aws-step-functions-announces-service-level-agreement/

Beanstalk now supports .netcore 2.2 – https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/aws-elastic-beanstalk-adds-support-for-net-core-22/

AWS releases new My Security Credentials feature – https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/my-security-credentials/

AWS Codebuild now lets you select images from private docker registry – https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/aws-codebuild-now-supports-accessing-images-from-private-docker-registry/

AWS Opensources code behind sagemaker-neo – https://www.geekwire.com/2019/amazon-web-services-continues-open-source-push-code-behind-sagemaker-neo/

Read replicas for Azure database for postgresql now in preview – https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/read-replicas-for-azure-database-for-postgresql-now-in-preview

Azure Backup now supports Powershell and ACL’s for azure files https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-backup-now-supports-powershell-and-acls-for-azure-files/

Regulatory compliance dashboard in Azure Security Center now available – https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/regulatory-compliance-dashboard-in-azure-security-center-now-available/

Cool Tools

https://opensource.com/article/19/1/wtf-information-dashboard

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