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Episode 98: AWS tries the JEDI mind trick again

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In its final week, re:Invent continues to deliver a slew of announcements, which are captured on The Cloud Pod this week. It came and went quickly for the team unlike Google Cloud Next, which seemed to go on forever.

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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.
  • 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 and Microsoft are acting like children that need to be separated. 
    • Infrastructure nerds are rejoicing at re:Invent.
    • You can spend while you sleep with Google.
      • General News: Everyone’s Favorite Topic
      • A heavily redacted version of AWS’s latest protest against Microsoft and the JEDI contract has been unsealed. Trump made them do it.
      • U.S. Treasury and Commerce Department communications were reportedly compromised by a supply chain attack on security vendor SolarWinds. Go hug a security team this week. 
        • Amazon Web Services: The Presents Keep On Coming
        re:Invent Continued
        • AWS launches the VPC Reachability Analyzer to measure reachability between two endpoints without sending any packets. Anything that makes life easier is a win. 
        • The re:Invent infrastructure keynote lacked announcements but gives insight into how AWS thinks about data centers. Old school infrastructure nerds, take note of this one.
        • AWS announces the general availability of Amazon EMR on Elastic Kubernetes Service. EMR fans will be super happy about this. 
        • AWS has released an Infrastructure Code Template generator to make it easy to start using Spot Instances. You can go straight to production now, no testing! Just kidding… Please test. 
        • Amazon EBS reduces the minimum volume size of Throughput Optimized HDD and Cold HDD Volumes by 75%. This is kind of nice!
        • Amazon EC2 announces new network performance metrics for EC2 instances. Troubleshooting
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          tcp.fmBy Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas and Matt Kohn