The Cloud Pod

By Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas and Matthew Kohn

Drowning in a sea of cloud innovations, AI breakthroughs, and shifting tooling ecosystems? The Cloud Pod is your lifeline! Join cloud veterans Justin, Jonathan, Ryan, and Matt as they decode the rapid... more

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October 31, 2022186: Google Cloud Next, More Like Google Cloud Passed
On The Cloud Pod this week, Amazon EC2 Trn1 instances for high-performance model training are now available, 123 new things were announced at Google Cloud Next ‘22, Several new Azure capabilities were announced at Microsoft Ignite, and many new announcements were made at Oracle CloudWorld.
Thank you to our sponsor, Foghorn Consulting, which provides top-notch cloud and DevOps engineers to the world’s most innovative companies. Initiatives stalled because you’re having trouble hiring? Foghorn can be burning down your DevOps and Cloud backlogs as soon as next week.
Episode Highlights
Amazon EC2 Trn1 instances for high-performance model training are now available.
123 new things were announced at Google Cloud Next ‘22.
Several new Azure capabilities were announced at Microsoft Ignite.
Many new announcements from Oracle CloudWorld.
Top Quote
“We are pleased to have co-designed the first ASIC Infrastructure Processing Unit with Google Cloud, which has now launched in the new C3 machine series. A first of its kind in any public cloud, C3 VMs will run workloads on 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors while they free up programmable packet processing to the IPUs securely at line rates of 200Gb/s. This Intel and Google collaboration enables customers through infrastructure that is more secure, flexible, and performant.” – Nick McKeown, Senior Vice President, Intel Fellow and General Manager of Network and Edge Group. [35:26]
AWS: Increasing Your Large-Scale Distribution
Amazon EC2 Trn1 instances for high-performance model training are now available. [1:55]
AWS launches new local zones in Taipei and Delhi. [3:29]
A new cost explorer console experience was just announced, and it’s Justin approved. [4:26]
Amazon Connect Cases is now generally available. [6:40]
GCP: What Will They Announce Next?
You can now manage storage costs by automatically deleting expired data using Firestore Time-To-Live (TTL). [9:23]
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October 14, 2022185: The Cloud Pod is flush with cache!
Episode 185: The Cloud Pod is flush with Cache!

On The Cloud Pod this week, Amazon introduces their new file cache for on premises systems, Google introduces GKE Autopilot, and Azure helps you strengthen your security even more.
Thank you to our sponsor, Foghorn Consulting, which provides top notch cloud and DevOps engineers to the world’s most innovative companies. Initiatives stalled because you’re having trouble hiring? Foghorn can be burning down your DevOps and Cloud backlogs as soon as next week.

Episode Highlights
Introducing Amazon File Cache, the new AWS cache for on-premises file systems.
Google introduces support for GPU workloads and more in GKE Autopilot.
Strengthen your security with Policy Analytics for Azure Firewall.
Top Quote
“I get the feeling that the multiple tenancy, in a way is probably the selling point here. That as you acquire new companies, or as you bring on new partners dynamically, it’s easier to integrate those IDPs. Whereas previously, it’s been pretty difficult to to have multiple sources of identity, I guess it sort of abstracts those and provides a single layer to the Google identity service.” [22:07”
General News:
We will not be recording during the week of Google Cloud Next, so our episodes will be slightly delayed–fear not, we’re recording an episode immediately after Next so we can deliver your weekly dose of cloud news ASAP.
AWS: All About the Cache
Introducing Amazon File Cache, the new AWS cache for on-premises file systems. [1:28]
Amazon WorkSpaces introduces Ubuntu Desktops, with per month or per hour pricing. [5:35]
AWS announces Amazon WorkSpaces Core, their new fully managed VDI service. [11:00]

GCP: Put Your Work on Autopilot?
Google introduces support for GPU workloads and more in GKE Autopilot. [16:04]
You can now easily manage Google Cloud workforce access with Workforce Identity Federation.. [20:37]
Azure: Budget Updates on the Go!
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44min
September 28, 2022184: The CloudPod Explicitly trusts itself
On The Cloud Pod this week, AWS announces an update to IAM role trust policy behavior, Easily Collect Vehicle Data and Send to the Cloud with new AWS IoT FleetWise, now generally available, Get a head start with no-cost learning challenges before Google Next ‘22.
Thank you to our sponsor, Foghorn Consulting, which provides top notch cloud and DevOps engineers to the world’s most innovative companies. Initiatives stalled because you’re having trouble hiring? Foghorn can be burning down your DevOps and Cloud backlogs as soon as next week.

Episode Highlights
AWS announces an update to IAM role trust policy behavior.
Easily Collect Vehicle Data and Send to the Cloud with new AWS IoT FleetWise, now generally available.
Get a head start with no-cost learning challenges before Google Next ‘22.

General News:
Google Next is coming up in two weeks. [0:56]
Next week’s show will be sans Justin. [1:02]
AWS: More like “Announcement” Web Services
Easily Collect Vehicle Data and Send to the Cloud with new AWS IoT FleetWise, now generally available. [1:48]
AWS announces an update to IAM role trust policy behavior. [7:00]
Sticking with the theme of granularity, Amazon Route 53 announces support for DNS resource record set permissions. [16:29]
Amazon announces AWS DataSync Discovery in preview. [18:30]
Cloudwatch container insights now provides lifecycle events for ECS. [21:38]

GCP: Google Next Is Almost Here!
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53min
September 23, 2022182: There Is a Wild Mandoogle Loose In the Theater
On The Cloud Pod this week, Amazon SWF launches a new console experience, Google acquires Mandiant, and Azure Space has some new products coming your way soon.
Thank you to our sponsor, Foghorn Consulting, which provides top notch cloud and DevOps engineers to the world’s most innovative companies. Initiatives stalled because you’re having trouble hiring? Foghorn can be burning down your DevOps and Cloud backlogs as soon as next week.
Episode Highlights
Amazon SWF just launched a new console experience for building distributed applications.
The Google acquisition of Mandiant (Mandoogle!) is finished.
Azure Space announced their next wave of products.
Top Quote
“The new certification is sort of interesting, because it’s a little bit more like the, the content isn’t new, right? But the certification is new. And so it’s an interesting metric. Like how do you, how do you ensure people are reviewing the content? You have these certifications that you measure on the completion of that? So like, it’s, I can see how it’s a little bit of like, weaponizing, you know, those metrics in order to like drive culture change, maybe within an org where there’s division over private cloud or public cloud? Or, you know, it just depends on what you want to do. But very interesting.” [17:04]
General News:
Hashi Corp announced that Consul Terraform Sync is generally available at the 0.7 release. [1:12]
AWS: More Like Amazon SWTF?
You’ve never heard of it, but Amazon SWF just launched a new console experience for building distributed applications. [4:20]
Amazon SNS launches a public preview of message data protection. [6:53]
Your containers will now be launching faster, thanks to Seekable OCI for lazy loading container images. [10:00]
GCP: Hey Siri, What Is a Mandoogle?
Google Cloud Next is less than one month away. Have you registered yet? [12:16]
The Cloud Digital Leader certification is bringing Cloud training to those of us who aren’t technically inclined. [14:56]
BeyondCorp Enterprise is giving you more ways to protect your corporate applications. [18:45]
The
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46min
September 22, 2022183: The Cloud Pod competes for the Google Cloud Fly Cup
On The Cloud Pod this week, AWS Enterprise Support adds incident detection and response, the announcement of Google Cloud Spanner, and Oracle expands to Spain.
Thank you to our sponsor, Foghorn Consulting, which provides top notch cloud and DevOps engineers to the world’s most innovative companies. Initiatives stalled because you’re having trouble hiring? Foghorn can be burning down your DevOps and Cloud backlogs as soon as next week.
Episode Highlights
AWS Enterprise Support adds incident detection and response
You can now get a 90-day free trial of Google Cloud Spanner
Oracle opens its newest cloud infrastructure region in Spain
Top Quote
“A very large percentage of MySQL HeatWave customers are AWS users who are migrating off Aurora. However, there are still some AWS customers who are not able to migrate to OCI. This is a service where the data plane, control plane and console are natively running on AWS. We have taken the MySQL HeatWave code and optimized it for AWS infrastructure.”
–Nipun Agarwal, senior vice president of MySQL, Database and HeatWave at Oracle.
General News:
Moving from Ruby to Go, Vagrant 2.3 Introduces Go Runtime. [0:58]
AWS: New Proactive Monitoring from AWS
AWS Enterprise Support adds incident detection and response. [2:01]
Helping to vastly reduce failover times, Amazon RDS Proxy adds support for Amazon RDS for SQL Server. [3:59]
Beginning October 11th, ACM public certificates will be issued by one of the Intermediate CA’s that AWS manages. [7:46]
AWS has announced direct VPC routing for AWS outposts. [10:23]
You can now deploy your Amazon EKS Clusters Locally on AWS Outposts. [12:12]
GCP: Free Trial Here! Get Your Free Trial Here!
You can now get a 90-day free trial of Google Cloud Spanner. [14:04]
If you need a new way to protect your data, try Google introduced fine-grained access control for Cloud Spanner. [14:58]
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46min
September 07, 2022181: You get a Tanzu, I get a Tanzu, EVERYONE GETS A TANZU
On The Cloud Pod this week, Amazon announces Amazon Inspector’s new support of Windows OS for continual software vulnerability scanning of EC2 workloads, Google has several exciting announcements regarding Chronicle, Azure is announcing pretty much everything under the sun, and Oracle announces OCI Lake in beta.
Thank you to our sponsor, Foghorn Consulting, which provides top notch cloud and DevOps engineers to the world’s most innovative companies. Initiatives stalled because you’re having trouble hiring? Foghorn can be burning down your DevOps and Cloud backlogs as soon as next week.
Episode Highlights
Amazon Inspector now supports Windows operating system (OS) for continual software vulnerability scanning of EC2 workloads.
Google makes 3 announcements about Chronicle.
Azure has three–yes, three–new releases this week.
Oracle announces OCI Lake in beta.
Top Quote
“The picture is still opaque of what the real value of this is going to be. But the fact that it’s out there is good or, you know… it’s the classic. “I’m leaving Amazon and I have worked on this code for five years and I like doing open source. So I can keep using it. It can be that classic move.”
General News:
Gartner published an article indicating that SaaS vendors will be using sustainability as a basis to raise their prices. [0:34]
The news out of VMWare this week can basically be summed up as: Tanzu, Tanzu, and more Tanzu. [2:38]
AWS: Scanning, scanning, scanning….
Amazon Event Ruler is becoming open source. [10:50]
Amazon Inspector now supports Windows operating system (OS) for continual software vulnerability scanning of EC2 workloads. [14:12]
GCP: Dear Diary, today I…
A Chronicle blog post diary, Google made several announcements [17:09]:
There are new ingestion metrics coming to Chronicle.
New YARA-L functionalities are coming that will allow you to apply more fine grained time based criteria into your detections.
The Chronicle native-VirusTotal augment widget is now available.
Azure: New Releases, New Releases Everywhere…
Azure Managed Grafana is now generally available. [19:39]
Enterprise-ready Azure Monitor change anal
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49min
August 31, 2022180: Azure Data Explorer Says ‘All Your S3 Data are Belong to Us’
On The Cloud Pod this week, Amazon adds the ability to embed fine-grained visualizations directly onto web pages, Google offers pay-as-you-go pricing for Apigee customers, and Microsoft launches Arm-based Azure VMs that are powered by ampere chips.
Thank you to our sponsor, Foghorn Consulting, which provides top notch cloud and DevOps engineers to the world’s most innovative companies. Initiatives stalled because you’re having trouble hiring? Foghorn can be burning down your DevOps and Cloud backlogs as soon as next week.
Episode Highlights
Fine-grained visualizations can now be embedded directly into your webpages and applications
Google is now offering pay-as-you-go pricing for its Apigee API customers
Microsoft launches Arm-based Azure VMs powered by ampere chips
Top Quote
“I think I feel like SimCity 2000 lied to me. By now we should have had satellites in space collecting solar power and beaming microwave energy down to us.”
General News:
Due to concerns about power shortages and availability of supplies, Microsoft and Amazon cancel several new planned data centers in Ireland. [1:18]
AWS: Adding Visuals to Your Apps Is Getting Even Easier…
Fine-grained visualizations can now be embedded directly into your webpages and applications thanks to Amazon QuickSight. [4:44]
Amazon’s announcement of the new AWS Support App for Slack is going to streamline management of technical, billing, and account support cases. [6:24]
AWS Security Hub is now publish announcements through Amazon SNS, and anyone can submit via the console or CLI. [8:37]
Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports email subscription for SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS). [10:37]
Amazon CloudFront launches Origin Access Control (OAC), which helps more easily secure S3 origins. [11:08]
Your account login pages are becoming even more secure, thanks to AWS WAF Fraud Control. [12:38]
Amazon EKS Anywhere Curated Packages now generally available. [13:20]
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46min
August 24, 2022179: Google Cloud Can’t Be DDoS’d
On The Cloud Pod this week, the team weighs the merits of bitcoin mining versus hacking. Plus: AWS Trusted Advisor prioritizes Support customers, Google provides impenetrable protection from a major DDoS attack, and Oracle Linux 9 is truly unbreakable.
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
AWS Trusted Advisor offers a new Priority capability for Enterprise Support, offering a prioritized view of critical risks.
Nothing’s touching Google, as it blocks the largest Layer 7 DDoS attack to date, with a whopping 46 million requests per second (RPS).
The new Oracle Linux 9 comes with Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 7 (UEK R7) and Red Hat Compatible Kernel (RHCK).
Top Quotes
“This is really just institutionalizing the knowledge that the Enterprise customers are already getting from their account team. And it probably really helps — in the event that the AWS account team experiences churn for those customers — not to be negatively impacted. It probably makes it really easy for new people on that AWS account team to come in and know where the other team left off. I don’t think it’s really a new feature — just a new way to access data that customers are already getting.”
“Ignoring those Tor nodes — which didn’t make a whole lot of traffic — that’s 12,000 requests a second per source IP, on average. That’s enormous.”
AWS: A Trusty Advisor’s Priorities
Finally, AWS has found a use for Mechanical Turk, with its new Priority capability for Trust Advisor.
If you’ve been curious about what’s happening during domain updates of the OpenSearch Service, you now get more visibility into validation errors during blue/green deployments.
Great news for license-holders and clearly by popular demand: RDS for Oracle now supports managed Oracle Data Guard Switchover and Automated Backups for read replicas.
GCP: Heavily Armored Cloud
Google Cloud is saying goodbye to its IoT Core service in 2023. How about instead of turning it off, just stop selling it?
You can benefit from operating system Committed Use Discounts (CUD) with workload predictability. Now, get some cuts on your SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) — with savings of up to 79%.
There’s much fanfare at Google, as it blocks the largest Layer 7 DDoS attack to date. It didn’t last long though, because the attackers gave up — probably deciding there was no value in continuing.
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45min
August 18, 2022178: What’s in the Microsoft Dev Box?
On The Cloud Pod this week, the team chats cloud region wars to establish the true victor. Plus: AWS Storage Day offers a blockhead badge, all the fun of the Microsoft Dev Box, and Google sends people back to sleep with its Cloud Monitoring snooze alert policy.
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
AWS Storage Day 2022 marks the fourth annual event streamed live on Twitch, with its File Cache service announcement and five new available learning badges.
Google now offers alert policy snoozing in Cloud Monitoring for maintenance or non-business hours.
Microsoft previews its Dev Box, a managed service enabling developers to create cloud workstations.
Top Quotes
“I found it completely shocking that this didn’t exist in AWS — that you only had enable/disable — when first moving over there. So this is a fantastic feature for Google Monitoring. I love it.”
“This seems like one of those things I’d like, but half the fun of starting a new project is installing a new version of Python or something that completely hoses my local laptop. And I spend the next three or four days frantically trying to undo what I’ve done that breaks six other things.”
AWS: It’s Storage Day!
AWS livestreamed its fourth annual Storage Day on Twitch, and Ryan is rather excited about getting his hands on that blockhead badge for core storage competency. Plus, the new File Cache service promises to accelerate and simplify hybrid cloud workloads.
Continue to be blown away by the theory of HTTP/3 (and if you’re like Ryan, dread the day you have to troubleshoot it), as Amazon CloudFront now supports it.
Now available in US regions (with a likely quick extension with increased adoption and understanding of the service): AWS Private 5G.
Amazon and Splunk co-announce the release of the Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework (OCSF) project with a lot of partners… but (interestingly) no Elastic.
If you’ve been holding off on that move from Dockershim to the new launcher, now’s the time to do it before it’s too late: Amazon EKS and Amazon EKS Distro now support Kubernetes version 1.23.
Apparently Amazon Cognito enables native support for AWS WAF, but we’re not entirely sure what they’re enabling here — it feels like something they should have already been doing.
GCP: Hitting the Snooze Button
Query Library offers new tools for increasing developer productivity. You should eventually be able to actually save your queries into a custom Query Library, but we’re
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47min
August 11, 2022177: The Cloud Pod Hopes That Amazon Knows the Three Laws of iRobots
On The Cloud Pod this week, the team gets judicial on the Microsoft-Unity partnership. Plus: Amazon acquires iRobot, BigQuery boasts Zero-ETL for Bigtable data, and Serverless SQL for Azure Databricks is in public preview.
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
iRobot signs an agreement with Amazon for its acquisition. To what end remains known to Amazon and Amazon alone.
Google offers a Zero-ETL approach for Bigtable data analytics using BigQuery.
Serverless SQL for Azure Databricks is now in public preview.
Top Quotes
“Almost all of Amazon’s big acquisitions have always been about something indirect. The Whole Foods acquisition was really about the logistics supply chain behind the scenes of moving that around — they kept the brand … and they have the same footprint for stores … but now they have a lot more infrastructure for AmazonFresh. And I suspect for iRobot it’s the same thing.”
“This is super handy for huge datasets where you want to track trends over a long time. It’s always really difficult and you always end up compromising somewhere — by not loading or querying your full dataset, because you can’t get it from A to B, or trying to run the query against two separate data sets and combining the results. So this is a nice thing to have for those users who have data across these multiple places.”
AWS: We, Robots
Those who hate working in Amazon warehouses might not have to have anything to complain about anymore, as Amazon agrees to acquire iRobot.
If you need to get up to speed with Graviton, you’ve now got Graviton Fast Start, which helps move workloads over to AWS.
VMware’s interesting cloud workload protection feels like a continued diversification away from virtualization as your main revenue stream.
CloudWatch Evidently, Amazon’s second product to help with feature flagging, adds support for creating target customer segments for feature launches and experiments. Neat!
In what seems like a cost-saving announcement, Lambda gets tiered pricing (but most enterprise customers already have this pricing experience).
GCP: It’s A Big World Out There
You can now benefit from a Zero-ETL approach for Bigtable data analytics using BigQuery.
An on-premises Windows workload nice-to-have offers support with Certificate Authority Service.
Second generation
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57min

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