Your hosts have an action-packed episode in store for you on The Cloud Pod this week, and Ryan is back after surviving the wild Oregon forest.
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Amazon is helping you figure out where your money is going. Google isn’t wowing anyone with its AI Platform Prediction improved reliability. Azure has some underwhelming improvements you should read about.General News: This Is What Happens When You Go On Vacation
VMware, Inc. is acquiring SaltStack, Inc. to enhance its vRealize cloud management software suite. It’s interesting that this comes only a few weeks after Chef was acquired. Amazon Web Services: Always Comes Through For Us
AWS launches Glue Studio, which provides a simple visual interface to compose jobs that move and transform data and run them on AWS Glue. Surprised it wasn’t just an integration with Visual Studio Code. AWS Backup now supports application-consistent backups of Microsoft workloads. This is not the cloud way to do it. AWS Security Hub has released 14 new automated security controls for the AWS Foundational Security Best Practices standard. Typical Amazon — gives you a control that costs you more money. Preview the Anomaly Detection and alerting now available in AWS Cost Management. It’s great to have these features for those weird quirky things that can happen when you’re spending money. Usability improvements for AWS Management Console are now available. Some of us are super grumpy with this and others super happy, so up to you to decide! AWS backtracks on plans to block old-style S3 paths. You now have some unknown