A New Cost Management blog, APAC gets a new AWS region and Docker Hub gets hacked. Plus Alphabet, Microsoft, and Amazon all release earnings and we break out the highs and lows. With special guest, Ian Mckay @iann0036 talks about his new AWS tool www.former2.com
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Follow Up
Apple actually reducing dependence on Amazon Cloud services
Topics
Ford Partners with Amazon to build cloud service connected cars
New AWS cost management blog launches
New Query for AWS Regions, Endpoints, and More using AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store
Earnings Season
Microsoft beats Wall street expectations, posting $30.6B in revenue, powered by cloud division
AWS revenue approaches $8 Billion in Q1, up 41% compared to last year
Despite Cloud growth, slowing revenue at Alphabet sends investors fleeing
AMD EPYC-Powered Amazon EC2 T3a instances
Now Open – AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region
Slack renegotiated its deal with AWS in 2018, will spend 212 million more through 2023
190,000 user accounts exposed in hack of Docker Hub Database
Microsoft container registry unaffected by recent docker hub data exposure
VMWare brings its virtualization software to Microsoft Azure
AWS Deep Racer League Virtual Circuit is now Open
Lightning Round
AWS Single Sign-On now offers certificate customization to support your corporate policies
Amazon EKS supports EC2 A1 instances as public preview
Announcing Azure Backup support to move recovery service vaults
Optimize Performance using Azure Database for PostgreSQL recommendations
Amazon RDS now supports per-second billing
AWS Service Catalog announces Tag Updating
AWS specifies the IP address ranges for Amazon DynamoDB endpoints
Efficiently scale ML and other compute workloads on NVIDIA’s T4 GPU, now GA
Serverless automation using Powershell preview in Azure Functions
DynamoDBMapper now supports Amazon DynamoDB transactional API calls
Now you can tag Amazon DynamoDB tables when you create them
AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store Introduces Advanced Parameters
AWS Systems Manager now supports use of Parameter Store at Higher API Throughput
Azure Accelerate supercomputing in the cloud with Cray Clusterstor
AWS Security Token Service (STS) now supports enabling the global STS endpoint to issue session tokens compatible with all AWS Regions
AWS Elastic Fabric Adapter is Now Generally Available
Cool Tools
https://former2.com/ with guest Ian McKay