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Episode 97: S3 Buckets land the key to success

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This week on The Cloud Pod, the team admits defeat and acknowledges they are not experts in machine learning. Joining them in that club is the rest of us.  

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.
  • Open Raven, the cloud native data protection platform that automates policy monitoring and enforcement. Auto discover, classify, monitor and protect your sensitive data.
    • This week’s highlights
    • Amazon is helpfully pointing out all your mistakes. 
    • Google knows you have deep pockets and wants a piece. 
    • Microsoft is really bad at keeping secrets.
      • General News: Jonathan Called It
      • Salesforce has acquired Slack for $27.7 billion. We’re hoping Chatter will die a horrible death now. 
        • Amazon Web Services: Error 404 

        Amazon explains the Thanksgiving Kinesis outage that occurred in North East Virginia. We feel bad for the Ops team that had to support this. 

        re:Invent Continued
        • Amazon adds stronger Read-After-Write consistency to S3. A really fantastic technical feat.   
        • Amazon announces S3 Replication support for multiple destination buckets. Nice and simple!
        • Amazon S3 Replication now has the ability to replicate data from one source bucket to multiple destination buckets. Super excited about this!
        • Integrate Amazon Honeycode with popular SaaS applications, AWS services and more. It’s finally usable now. 
        • Amazon announces new AWS Region is in the works for Melbourne, Australia. It will also use 100% renewable energy, which is cool.
        • Fully serverless batch computing with AWS Batch Support for AWS Fargate. Batch is a weird service to begin with. 
        • Amazon debuts Trainium, a custom chip for machine learning training in the cloud. We’re confused by this one.
        • Amazon HealthLake stores, transforms and analyzes
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          tcp.fmBy Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas and Matt Kohn