On The Cloud Pod this week, your hosts just want to be wowed and Ryan is off motorcycling somewhere in the desert.
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This week’s highlights
Fighting words from Amazon over JEDI loss. Microsoft has gone to crazy town with their AWS connector pricing. Oracle taps their inner millennial to win the Tik Tok U.S bid.General: A Bit Picky
Business App Platform Progress will acquire automation technology company Chef for $220 million. That’s a bargain price when you look at their recurring revenue. Pentagon reaffirms Microsoft as winner of $10B JEDI cloud contract. Nobody says the government is the most efficient at doing anything so picking the second best cloud vendor is unsurprising. AWS has responded to the Pentagon reaffirmation of Azure with a harshly worded blog post. Well, life’s just not fair. Foghorn Consulting (sponsor alert!) are teaming up with Hashicorp and sponsoring a virtual Q&A with Kelsey Hightower on September 24. Head to The Cloud Pod Slack page after to discuss!Amazon Web Services: You’ll Need Some Pain Relief
AWS named Cloud Leader in Gartner’s Infrastructure & Platform Services Magic Quadrant. Gartner, are you listening to The Cloud Pod? Amazon CloudFront now supports Transport Layer Security v1.3 for improved performance and security. Good move for privacy, but will cause a lot of pain. Amazon CloudWatch now monitors Prometheus metrics to reduce monitoring tools needed for application performance degradation and failures. Might be worth the money —
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