August 26, 2020

Episode 84: We knew Ian was a hero before AWS

1 hour 23 minutes

Your hosts kick off this week’s episode of The Cloud Pod by discussing the elephant in the room… the great Google outage.

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This week’s highlights

Amazon gives customers the opportunity to spend lots of money with them.

Your hosts sit on the fence discussing Google’s new platform.

Azure gets features everybody else already has.

General: The Great Google Outage

Google explained how and why big chunks of its cloud crashed last week — turns out it broke itself. Google didn’t tell us who broke it because developers shouldn’t be publicly shamed… although they did break Google. That’s pretty bad.

Amazon Web Services: Dollar Bills

Amazon introduced the newest AWS Heroes who go above and beyond to share AWS knowledge and teach others. It’s great to see friend of the show, Ian McKay, recognized for his awesomeness.

AWS Firewall Manager now supports security groups on Application Load Balancers and Classic Load Balancers. Slowly but surely, it’s becoming the tool we’ve always wanted.

Amazon launches new API Gateway to manage business rules around how data is created, stored and changed in AWS services. We think this is a complete rewrite due to the fact they’re having to reimplement integrations.

AWS Controllers for Kubernetes is a new tool that makes it simple to build scalable and highly-available Kubernetes applications. We’re pretty impressed by the controller which centralizes your deployment.

AWS releases the latest update to Provisioned Input/output Operations Per Second (IOPS) allowing users to dial in the level of performance that they need. Amazon now gives you the opportunity to give them more money. How nice!

Google Cloud Platform: To Be or Not To Be

Google announces a number of improvements to log storage and management for Cloud

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By Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas and Matthew Kohn

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