VMWare acquires Pivotal and Carbon black, plus VMworld debrief. Google kills more products and AWS reduces the cost of SageMaker training.
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General News
Oracle files new appeal over Pentagon’s $10B JEDI cloud contract RFP process
VMWorld
VMware pays billions to acquire Pivotal Software and Carbon Black
VMWorld US 2019 Monday Recap
VMWorld US 2019 Tuesday Recap
VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger weighs in on acquisitions, blockchain, security and more
VMware Delivers a Hybrid Cloud Platform Powering Next-Generation Hybrid IT
VMware Announces VMware Tanzu Portfolio to Transform the Way Enterprises Build, Run and Manage Software on Kubernetes
AWS
Amazon Forecast is now GA
Introducing AI powered health data masking
Managed Spot Training: Save Up to 90% On Your Amazon SageMaker Training Jobs
AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store announces intelligent-tiering to enable automatic parameter tier selection
Google
Introducing Cloud Run Button: Click-to-deploy your git repos to Google Cloud
Cloud Text-to-Speech expands its number of voices by nearly 70%, now covering 33 languages and variants
Google will shut down Google Hire in 2020
Azure
Preview of custom content in Azure Policy guest configuration
Latency is the new currency of the Cloud: Announcing 31 new Azure edge sites
Lightning Round (Jonathan 8, Justin 14, and Guest 3):
Amazon Transcribe now supports Mandarin and Russian
Support for Windows Shadow Copies is Now Extended to All Amazon FSx File Systems
Amazon SQS now supports tag on create
AWS DataSync can now transfer data to and from SMB file shares
Amazon ElastiCache now supports up to 50 characters in cluster name
Amazon SageMaker Now Works With Amazon FSx For Lustre and Amazon EFS, Accelerating And Simplifying Model Training