The Cloud Pod

Episode 89: Azure gives The Cloud Pod an advisor score of 100

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On The Cloud Pod this week, Ryan is shocked the rest of the team managed so well without him while he was on vacation.

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  •  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.
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      •  This week’s highlights
      • Progress is tapping its inner Freddy Kruger after acquiring Chef.
      • AWS is soothing the burns of many with its Compute Optimizer.
      • Google is behind the eight ball with the launch of its healthcare API. 
        • General News: On The Chopping Block
        • IBM is splitting itself into two public companies to focus on high-margin cloud computing. We’re not sure about this strategy so we’ll keep an eye on this one.
        • Google will give up direct control of the Knative cloud open-source project. We’re glad to see this is getting closer to a resolution.
        • Business application platform Progress is making job cuts at recently acquired enterprise automation technology company Chef. The cuts included part of the Chef engineering team — when you’re buying a product company, that doesn’t seem like a good play. 
          • Amazon Web Services: In Happier News
          • Amazon S3 on Outposts expands object storage to on-premises environments. If only this had existed a year ago!   
          • AWS Systems Manager now enables developers to view, author and publish Automation runbooks directly from Visual Studio Code. We like this!
          • Amazon launches several new features with Redis 6 compatibility to Amazon ElastiCache for Redis. These enhancements are making it well on its way to being useful on a big project.
          • Amazon SageMaker leads the way in machine learning and announces up to 18% lower prices on GPU instances. That’s a huge price cut that we think is great!
          • Three new securit
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