Justin is back from vacation and gets the podcast back on track. Justin, Peter and Jonathan talk about their guest spot on roaring elephants and Justin’s AWS lambda fireside chat video. Elasticsearch sues AWS over trademark infringement, AWS gets its IQ raised, Oracle gets fedramp certified cloud regions and Google enhances their github app for cloud build. Plus the world famous lightning round.
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Follow Up
Topics
Roaring Elephant https://roaringelephant.org/2019/10/08/episode-161-the-cloudpod-weather-report-part-1/
AWS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Aq2DIMRIIg&t=1s
General News/Topics
Oracle Launches FedRAMP-Authorized Government Cloud Regions
Oracle will add 2,000 jobs and 20 data centers in cloud infrastructure push
AWS faces Elasticsearch lawsuit for trademark infringement
Ansible holds the pole position for automation, but is it too good and too small?
AWS
Now use AWS Systems Manager to execute complex Ansible playbooks
AWS DataSync News – S3 Storage Class Support and Much More
AWS IQ – Get Help from AWS Certified Third Party Experts on Demand
EC2 High Memory Update – New 18 TB and 24 TB Instances LR?
Amazon EKS Windows Container Support now Generally Available
Google
Cloud Build brings advanced CI/CD capabilities to GitHub
Optimize your Google Cloud environment with new AI-based recommenders
Announcing updates to AutoML Vision Edge, AutoML Video, and Video Intelligence API
Extending Stackdriver Logging across clouds and providers with new BindPlane integration
Azure
Announcing Azure Storage Explorer 1.10.0
Azure Sentinel general availability: A modern SIEM reimagined in the cloud
Windows Virtual Desktops is now available worldwide
Microsoft and Pivotal launch Azure Spring Cloud service in preview
Introducing the preview of direct-upload to Azure managed disks
Lightning Round (Jonathan 11, Justin 15, and Guest 4):
AWS Marketplace now supports Paid Container Software on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
Amazon ElastiCache announces online configuration changes for all planned operations with the latest Redis 5.0.5
Amazon ECS supports Automated Draining for Spot Instances running ECS Services
Amazon Linux 2 AMI with .NET Core now includes Mono
Azure Data Factory Mapping Data Flows are now generally available
Customers can now provided keys with Azure Storage Service Encryption
Now use PrivateLink Endpoint Policies to better control Amazon ECR access
AWS Client VPN now supports Multi Factor Authentication for Active Directory
Amazon RDS for Oracle Supports User Authentication with Kerberos and Microsoft Active Directory
DynamoDBMapper now supports optimistic locking for Amazon DynamoDB transactional API calls
AWS Certificate Manager Private Certificate Authority now includes 9 new certificate templates
Announcing the latest release of AWS Thinkbox Deadline 10.1 with performance enhancements and ease of use improvements
Amazon Elastic Container Service now supports IntelliSense in Visual Studio Code
You can now Queue Purchases of EC2 RIs
AWS Backup Enhances SNS Notifications to filter on job status
AWS Direct Connect Announces Resiliency Toolkit to Help Customers Order Resilient Connectivity to AWS
AWS Snowball Edge now supports offline software updates for Snowball Edge devices in air-gapped environments
Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose adds cross-account delivery to Amazon Elasticsearch Service
Application Load Balancer and Network Load Balancer Add New Security Policies for Forward Secrecy with More Stringent Protocols and Ciphers