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January 27, 2021Episode 101: AWS plays the Parler games
On The Cloud Pod this week, news has been a bit slow coming out of the Cloud Providers; the team suspects they might be curled up on the floor in fetal position after the events of last year.
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 has gone to the gym over the holidays and is now kicking butt.
Helping teach us the ways of the cloud, Google is.
There’s nothing remotely funny about Azure this week.
General News: Ryan Doesn’t Want to Wear Pants
Amazon has kicked controversial social media platform Parler off AWS. The multi-cloud people are going to be unbearable now.
Amazon defends its decision to suspend in response to Parler’s lawsuit. Most people don’t know Amazon sent Parler notices for months — it’s not like they weren’t warned.
F5 Networks to acquire edge-as-a-service startup Volterra for $500M. There’s so much buzzword lingo in this announcement, we suspect this service will lack substance.
Red Hat buys Kubernetes security startup StackRox. We’re surprised Google didn’t buy it.
Pat Gelsinger is stepping down as VMWare CEO to replace Bob Swan at Intel. We think he has a very long road ahead to get Intel back on track.
Amazon Web Services: Family Time
AWS announces Transfer Family now provides support for EFS file systems as well as S3. Would be nice if this would tie into Incognito or Simple Directory Service.
Amazon EMR now supports Apache Ranger for fine-grained data access control. Neat.
Achieve faster database failover with Amazon Web Serv
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January 18, 2021Episode 100: The Cloud Pod tail -f’s the news
On The Cloud Pod this week, it appears 2020 is not done with us yet and Ryan receives a mystery emergency alert to kick the show off.
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.
Due to the pandemic and the cancellation of just about every in-person event, Justin has hundreds of stickers at his house that (his wife says) need to go. Head to The Cloud Pod store and use codes 100EPISODE or 2020SUCKS for 75% off.
This week’s highlights
Amazon won’t be taking a holiday to China anytime soon.
Google is tapping Linux users for new ideas.
Azure is being annoyingly helpful to the healthcare industry.
Amazon Web Services: Ready For Battle
AWS Certificate Manager is now compliant with FedRAMP, the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. What exactly makes up the compliance requirement? We’re not sure.
Amazon Web Services launches appeal after losing $12-million AWS trademark war in China to local biz Actionsoft. You know who should be suing everyone? The American Welding Society, which has been around since the 1800s.
Amazon SQS announces tiered pricing for monthly API requests. Discounts are good but we’re surprised they’re using tiered pricing.
Amazon Elastic Container Service launches new management console. We want to like this but it sort of just aggravates us.
Google Cloud Platform: Bowing to Demands
Google announces a new tool to mimic the behavior of tail -f which displays the contents of a log file to the console in real time. Thank you Linux users for demanding this!
Azure: Opt-in
Introducing the Azure Health Bot, an evolution of Microsoft Healthcare Bot with new functionality. On the one hand, this is super helpful. On the other, it’s Clippy (the annoying paper clip assistant) and dear God, go away!
Microsoft promises 9
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January 05, 2021Episode 99: 2020 overstays its welcome
On The Cloud Pod this week, the team looks back on the incredibly weird year that was 2020 and how all we want is to give each other a hug (but we don’t because social distancing is important).
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 hurts Google’s feelings with its harshly worded message.
Google is tapping into its inner dictator by vying for world domination.
Azure wants you to know it made something cheaper.
Recapping the Shit Year That Was 2020
The Predictions That Were Made for 2020
Justin: Amazon and Microsoft will work hard to compete with GKE.
Peter: Kubernetes workloads will double in the next year.
Jonathan: Amazon will open data centers across growing African economies, RISC-V based RISC instances will release (and Slack will be acquired this year for sure).
No One: A global pandemic and Ryan would join the podcast (coincidence?).
Favorite Announcements of 2020
Ryan:
AWS Serverless host and run applications, bringing it closer to what developers need. Tooling, savings plan
Covid-19 response, from each vendor, from public data lakes, responding to capacity needs, database of research and overall support of WFH
A big shift for Container Ecosystems, Split from enterprise/developer, Docker.com on downward trend, download limits
Peter:
Google’s creation of the Open Usage Commons for trademarks
Amazon Braket
WFH trend — which may be permanent
Jonathan:
Solarwinds Hack, and the risk of a supply chain hack occurs
Confidential Computing and the enclave needs
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December 23, 2020Episode 98: AWS tries the JEDI mind trick again
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.
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 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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December 18, 2020Episode 97: S3 Buckets land the key to success
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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1h 20min
December 08, 2020Episode 96 – re:Invent is here with presents for everyone!
Santa arrived early and he brought all the goods with him to The Cloud Pod this week. The team dives into all the big announcements from AWS re:invent 2020.
A big thanks to this week’s sponsor:
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.
This week’s highlights
Amazon flips the bird at Microsoft with its Babelfish announcement.
AWS is angling for a free Jeep Wrangler with its new service.
AWS is helping customers get out of the sticky situation they’re in and don’t know it.
Amazon Web Services: Thankfully They Didn’t Ruin Our Predictions
Amazon launches managed workflows for Apache Airflow to simplify data processing pipelines. Interesting to see it giving some alternative options.
AWS Lambda now has Code Signing, a trust and integrity control to confirm code is unaltered and from a trusted publisher. Not a nice way to start Thanksgiving if you are Palo Alto.
Amazon announces centralized account access management of AWS Single Sign-On and Attribute-based access control. Has a few rough edges.
Multi-Region Replication is now enabled for AWS Managed Microsoft Active Directory. We’re so glad this is finally here.
Amazon announces reusable building blocks called modules to define infrastructure and applications in AWS CloudFormation. Amazon is jumping on the reusable elements bandwagon with this one.
AWS Security Hub integrates with AWS Organizations for simplified security posture management. Basically a centralized security hub.
AWS Elasticsearch Announcements:
Amazon Elasticsearch Service announces support for Elasticsearch version 7.9
Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports anomaly detection for high cardinality datasets
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1h 10min
November 25, 2020Episode 95 – THE BEST IS YET TO COME!!!
This week on The Cloud Pod, the team used their slightly cloudy crystal balls to share their predictions for Re:Invent 2020. They hope Amazon doesn’t ruin them before the event.
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.
Cloud Academy, which provides an intuitive and scalable training platform to meet teams wherever they are along the cloud maturity curve. Use the code THECLOUDPOD for 50% off its training platform.
This week’s highlights
Amazon spoils the prediction party by revealing a new product just before Re:Invent.
Google is making sandcastles by itself in the sandbox.
Azure is smart enough not to announce anything exciting right before Amazon’s big day.
Amazon Web Services: Crushing Hopes and Dreams
Amazon Lightsail lets developers easily deploy containers in the cloud. This is like the cloud version of candy-flavored tobacco — somebody out there will be excited.
Amazon announces visual data preparation tool AWS Glue DataBrew. Really cool — we wish they’d created this sooner!
AWS Key Management Service now supports three new hybrid post-quantum key exchange algorithms. We’re just happy that the defense is ahead of the offense this time.
Amazon launches AWS Network Firewall, a highly available, managed network firewall service for VPC. Peter is angry that Amazon killed one of his Re:Invent predictions.
Introducing Amazon S3 Storage Lens for organization-wide visibility into object storage. We think the dashboard is built on years of customer complaints, not experience.
Re:Invent Predictions
Prediction rule: If it’s already been officially announced by Amazon, then it doesn’t count. It needs to be in the rumor mill and somewhat specific.
Peter
Integration between Sumerian and Chime/Slack (messaging service) for virtual in-person meetings
Major upgrade to CloudWatch/Logs/GuardDuty/CloudWatch Events (SIEM) but an actual SIEM product. Will have its own name or does something to GuardDuty
Robot SDK for tight integrations into AWS Cloud
Jonathan
Serverless graph database
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1h 7min
November 23, 2020Episode 94: The Cloud Pod No Code Required
This week on The Cloud Pod, the team is getting ready to share their predictions for re:Invent, and that may or may not involve greasing the palms of some Amazon employees.
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.
Cloud Academy, which provides an intuitive and scalable training platform to meet teams wherever they are along the cloud maturity curve. Use the code THECLOUDPOD for 50% off its training platform.
This week’s highlights
Amazon is becoming a connoisseur of international cuisine with its new region.
Google is borderline nefarious in the scientific community.
Azure adds a long overdue feature.
Amazon Web Services: Spicing Things Up
AWS announces the new Hyderabad region in India will open in mid-2022. We’re surprised at how long this took to happen.
AWS launches managed messaging service Amazon MQ for Rabbit MQ. Only took three years of Justin whinging.
Amazon now allows customers to proactively manage the EC2 Spot instance lifecycle using the new capacity rebalancing feature. Not sure this needed a whole blog about it.
AWS announces AWS Gateway Load Balancing for easy deployment, scalability and high availability for Partner Appliances in the cloud. Thanks for helping us out, Amazon!
AWS makes it easier to export DynamoDB table data to S3 with no code writing required. At lots less Lamda spackle, we like it.
AWS announces a full set of features across the storage family as part of AWS Storage Day 2020. Buckets, buckets and more buckets.
Google Cloud Platform: Doing What It Does Best
Google Cloud SQL now supports Postgres 13. Next up, Google announces deprecation of Postgres 13… Just kidding.
GCP launches a unified console for document processing with Document AI platform. For anyone who hates data en
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November 18, 2020Episode 93: Docker Hub rate limits The Cloud Pod
While waiting on tenterhooks to find out who will win the U.S. presidential race, the team welcomed guest Jacques Chester to The Cloud Pod this week.
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.
Cloud Academy, which provides an intuitive and scalable training platform to meet teams wherever they are along the cloud maturity curve. Use the code THECLOUDPOD for 50% off its training platform.
Manning Press is offering a 40% discount on any Manning Publication, and we highly recommend Knative in Action by guest Jacques Chester. Use the code PODCLOUD20 to receive 40% off; additionally, the first five people who retweet this episode from the official @thecloudpod1 twitter account will get a free copy.
This week’s highlights
AWS will be enjoying fondue in Switzerland.
Google is clearing out the old junk in the attic.
Dr. Microsoft is now taking appointments.
General News: Money, Money, Money
Microsoft has reported its earnings for the first fiscal quarter of 2021. Microsoft is over 2020 already.
Google’s parent company Alphabet crushed expectations for both earnings and revenue in its third-quarter earnings results. This could be a good sign it’s not planning on killing Google Cloud just yet.
Amazon reports $96.1 billion in Q3 2020 revenue. Overall a pretty strong quarter!
Amazon Web Services: Spend Or Save?
Amazon launches AWS Nitro Enclaves to carve out isolated environments on any EC2 instance that is powered by the Nitro System. A great increase in security for no additional cost.
Customers can now use Jira Service Desk to track operational items related to AWS resources. This is great for the start-ups and smaller organizations that are using Jira!
Amazon announces new Application Load Balancer Support to make it easier to use gRPC with your applications. Another great feature!
New AWS Europe region will allow customers to run their applications and serve end-users from
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1h 24min
November 12, 2020Episode 92: The Cloud Pod is first in, first out
On The Cloud Pod this week, the team discusses the conspiracy theory surrounding media coverage of daylight savings and continues counting down to re:Invent.
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.
Cloud Academy, which provides an intuitive and scalable training platform to meet teams wherever they are along the cloud maturity curve. Use the code THECLOUDPOD for 50% off its training platform.
This week’s highlights
Amazon sells a whole bunch of stuff on its website.
Google is nosy and wants people to know what files you’ve been looking at.
Azure wants people to think more with its new knowledge center.
Amazon Web Services: Getting Excited for re:Invent
Jeff Barr shares how AWS helped to make Prime Day a reality for its customers. Congratulations to the Amazon Ops and Dev teams for this amazing feat.
AWS Global Accelerator announces the ability to override destination ports used to route traffic to an application endpoint. Pretty neat!
AWS is launching AWS Distro for Open Telemetry in preview. We’re excited to see what this builds out to become.
AWS launches fully managed publishing/subscribing messaging service enabling message delivery to a large number of subscribers. This is great and we already have use cases for this.
Amazon introduces the AWS Load Balancer Controller to simplify operations and save costs — a huge win for anyone using EKS today.
AWS CloudFormation now supports increased limits on five service quotas. Sounds good unless you’re trying to make smaller CloudFormation templates.
Google Cloud Platform: A Bit Confused
GCP is introducing new Scale-in controls for Compute Engine, to prevent the autoscaler from reducing a managed instance group size too far. We’re a bit confused by the term “Scale-in.”
GCP improves security and governance in PostgreSQL with Cloud SQL. Great for companies that are highly audited.
Google updates Firebase with
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