On The Cloud Pod this week, the team acknowledges the very real issue of canine confusion as a result of everyone wearing face masks.
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Amazon is in the Halloween spirit with its tricky new feature. Google is solving a potentially nonexistent problem for retailers. Microsoft is sending Azure into spaaaaaaaaaaace to power satellite projects. General News: All About Hash(iconf)
HashiCorp Consul is now available in public beta while Vault is available in private beta. We’re hesitant to trust anything from HashiCorp. Terraform 0.14 is now available in beta and includes feature improvements in security, visibility and stability. Justin looks forward to the upgrade that breaks everything later this year. HashiCorp Consul 1.9 introduces new service mesh visualization tools. Pretty minor but cool! HashiCorp launches Boundary for simple and secure remote access based on trusted identity. We see huge potential in this. HashiCorp launches Waypoint, a new open source project that provides developers a consistent workflow. These types of announcements are a dagger through Ryan’s heart. HashiCorp introduces Consul Terraform Sync, a new tool for automating network infrastructure. Really powerful but really packed in a way we don’t understand. Amazon Web Services: Handy
Amazon launches Cloudwatch Synthetics Recorder, a Chrome browser extension, to help monitor endpoints and APIs. We hope this does better than others we’ve tried in the past. Amazon announces better cost-performance for Amazon Relational Database Service databases. Has some rough edges but once you overcome them, this is rock solid. Amazon Aurora now enables dynamic resizing