AWS releases new RI option called the savings plan, IBM builds a financial services cloud, and @jeffbarr celebrates 15 years of blogging for AWS!

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General News/Topics

Capital One replaces security chief after data breach

Amazon doubles down on Boston as a robotics hub with new $40M facility

IBM: Bank of America Know-How Will Differentiate Financial Services Cloud

AWS

15 Years of AWS Blogging!

New – Savings Plans for AWS Compute Services

Cross-Account Cross-Region Dashboards with Amazon CloudWatch

An outsider’s inside view on open source at AWS

AWS supports Automated Draining for Spot Instance Nodes on Kubernetes

Amazon QuickSight goes Mobile, launches Cross Source Join and More

PostgreSQL 12.0 Now Available in Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment

Reinvent Tips & Suggestions

Google

Google releases its Skaffold tool for automating Kubernetes into general availability

Opening the door to more dev tools for Cloud Spanner

Azure

10 user experience updates to the Azure portal

What’s new with Azure Monitor

Lightning Round (Jonathan 12, Justin 17, and Guest 5): 

Updating Google App Engine with more new runtimes: Nodejs 12, Go 1.13, PHP 7.3 and Python 3.8

Amazon EC2 now supports Microsoft SQL Server 2019

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Supports Customer Initiated Snapshot Upgrades

Introducing the AWS Step Functions Data Science SDK for Amazon SageMaker

AWS App Mesh now supports HTTP2 and gRPC services

Amazon RDS for Oracle now Supports Oracle Database 19c

Introducing notifications for AWS CodeCommit, AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodeDeploy, and AWS CodePipeline

AWS CodeBuild Adds Support for AWS Secrets Manager

Now use single-click setup to keep AWS Systems Manager Agents automatically updated

Amazon Elastic File System Infrequent Access Now Supports a 7-day Lifecycle Management Policy

Use the AWS CLI v2 preview with AWS Single Sign-on to increase developer productivity  

NoSQL Workbench for Amazon DynamoDB adds support for DynamoDB local

Amazon Redshift now supports changing table sort keys dynamically