Gartner releases the new magic quadrant for IaaC and PaaS Cloud providers and Amazon continues to dominate.  AT&T gets busy with the cloud, Google introduces spinnaker and Microsoft invests 1B in OpenAI this week on The Cloud Pod.

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Topics

Introducing the Amazon Corretto Crypto Provider for improved Crypto Performance

Advancing Microsoft Azure reliability

Introducing proximity placement groups

IBM inks multi-billion dollar cloud computing deal with AT&T

Microsoft & AT&T sign $2B+ cloud infrastructure and services deal

The case against Amazon: Why the tech giant is facing antitrust scrutiny on two continents

Arrested Development: Cops Dump Amazon’s facial-recognition API after struggling to make the thing work properly

AWS named as leader in Gartner’s Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Magic Quadrant for 9th consecutive year

Introducing Spinnaker for Google Cloud Platform – CD made easy

Azure is making it easier to bring your linux based web apps to Azure App Service

Microsoft will invest $1B for OpenAI aimed at improving Azure cloud platform

Lightning Round (Jonathan 8, Justin 9, Peter 1 and Guest 3): 

Azure is Silo Busting with new Multi-Protocol access for the Azure Data Lake

Azure Monitor for containers with Prometheus now in preview

Amazon ECR now supports increased repository and image limits

AWS Cost Explorer now supports Usage Based Forecasts

AWS Systems Manager Automation now makes it easier for discovering documents

AWS Device Farm improves device start up time to enable instant access to devices

AWS Systems Manager Distributor makes it easier to create distributable software packages

Amazon ECS Console now enables simplified AWS app mesh integration

Amazon has released a new Quick Solution to create AI-Driven Social Media Dashboards

Amazon Reportedly will hold music festival during re:Invent cloud conference

Google introduces the What-If tool for Cloud AI platform models