tcp.fm

Episode 88: The Chronicles of The Cloud Pod


Listen Later

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.  

A big thanks to this week’s sponsors:

  •   Foghorn Consulting, which provides full-stack cloud solutions with a focus on strategy, planning and execution for enterprises seeking to take advantage of the transformative capabilities of AWS, Google Cloud and Azure.
    • Cloud Academy, which provides an intuitive and scalable training platform to meet teams wherever they are along the cloud maturity curve. Use the code THECLOUDPOD for 50% off its training platform. 
    •  This week’s highlights
      • 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
          • ...more
            View all episodesView all episodes
            Download on the App Store

            tcp.fmBy Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas and Matt Kohn