Chef finds a bad recipe for success, AWS rolls out Step Functions, Google launches its native load balancer for Kubernetes and Microsoft confuses us further with premium tier storage offerings.

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General News/Topics

A CIO’s guide to cloud success: decouple to shift your business into high gear

What’s Going on with GKE and Anthos?

Chef Saga

DevOps biz Chef roasted for tech contract with family-separating US immigration, forks up attempt to quash protest – 9/19

Chef’s Position on Customer Engagement in the Public and Private Sectors 9/19

An Update to the Chef Community Regarding Current Events 9/20

A Personal Message From the CTO 9/20

An Important Update from Chef 9/23

A ‘Grass Roots’ Campaign to Take Down Amazon Is Funded by Amazon’s Biggest Rivals  

AWS

Now Available – EC2 Instances (G4) with NVIDIA T4 Tensor Core GPUs

New – Step Functions Support for Dynamic Parallelism

Amazon S3 introduces same region replication

vCPU-based On-Demand Instance Limits are Now Available in Amazon EC2

Google

Virtual display devices for Compute Engine now GA

Container-native load balancing on GKE now generally available

Azure

Azure Files premium tier gets zone redundant storage

Introducing cost-effective increment snapshots of Azure managed disks in preview

Lightning Round (Jonathan 10, Justin 15, and Guest 4): 

Introducing new Amazon EC2 Windows Server AMIs for DISA STIG compliance

Amazon EKS Announces Beta Release of Amazon EFS CSI Driver

Amazon API Gateway Simplifies Invoking Private APIs

Amazon WorkSpaces Introduces WorkSpaces Restore to the Last Known Healthy State

Amazon Aurora Serverless PostgreSQL Now Supports Data API

AWS Lambda Now Supports Custom Batch Window for Kinesis and DynamoDB Event Sources

AWS joins the .Net Foundation

At OpenWorld, Oracle struggles to move the cloud needle its way

Amazon Redshift announces automatic workload management and query priorities

Amazon Athena adds support for inserting data into a table using the results of a SELECT query or using a provided set of values