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 Bus