Github.com gets a CI/CD Service, Lakes are forming with lake formation and Google and Azure get EPYC this week on the show.

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Follow Up

Amazon and Capital One face legal backlash after massive hack affects 106M customers

Intersect.AWS music festival has released ticket and lineup information

Topics

General News

GitHub gets a CI/CD service

Announcing the preview of Github Actions for Azure

Pentagon pushes back JEDI winner decision by weeks amid fresh review

Pentagon Makes case for Return of the Jedi: There’s only one cloud biz that can do the job and its starts with an A (or rhymes with loft)

https://media.defense.gov/2019/Aug/08/2002168542/-1/-1/1/UNDERSTANDING-THE-WARFIGHTING-REQUIREMENTS-FOR-DOD-ENTERPRISE-CLOUD-FINAL-08AUG2019.PDF

Apple is a filthy AWS, Azure, Google Reseller, grip punters: iPhone giant accused of hiding iCloud’s real backend

AWS

Local Mocking and Testing support with Amplify CLI

AWS Lake Formation – Now GA

Amazon Aurora Multi-Master is Now GA

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/building-highly-available-mysql-applications-using-amazon-aurora-mmsr/

Preview Release of the new AWS tools for Powershell

AWS step functions adds support for nested workflows

New AWS Training Courses teach APN partners to better help their customers

Amazon Rekognition now detects violence, weapons and self-injury in images and videos; improves accuracy for nudity detection

Introducing Amazon EC2 I3en and C5n Bare Metal Instances

Use AWS Systems Manager to resolve operational issues with your .NET and Microsoft SQL Server Applications

New Capacity-Optimized Allocation Strategy for Provisioning Amazon EC2 Spot Instances 

Google

Cloud IAP enables context-aware access to VMs via SSH and RDP without bastion host

Expanding virtual machine types to drive performance and efficiency

AMD EPYC processors come to Google and to Google Cloud

Azure

Announcing new AMD EPYC based Azure Virtual Machines

Better Security with enhanced access control experience in Azure Files

Disaster recovery of Azure disk encryption (V2) enabled virtual machines

Lightning Round (Jonathan 8, Justin 12, and Guest 3): 

Amazon RDS SQL Server now supports changing the SeRvEr-LeVeL Collation

Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports new instance sizes.

Amazon EC2 Fleet now lets you set a maximum price for a fleet of instances

Amazon EC2 Fleet Now lets you modify on-demand target capacity

Amazon SNS message filtering adds support for attribute key matching

Amazon EMR now supports native EBS encryption

Amazon Rekognition improves Face Analysis (Improved Gender Identity, and  emotions Happy, Sad, Angry, Surprised, Disgusted, Calm and Confused) and new emotion Fear and improved age range estimation accuracy

Amazon WorkDocs Migration Service now makes it easy to migrate your data to Workdocs

Amazon EMR integration with Lake Formation is now in Beta, supporting Database, Table and Column level access controls for Apache Spark

Amazon Athena adds support for AWS Lake Formation enabling fine-grained access control for databases, tables and columns

Amazon Redshift now supports column level access control with AWS Lake Formation

AWS has relaunched their developer series on edX

Amazon RDS has released PostgreSQL 12 Beta 2 to the Database Preview Environment

Amazon DynamoDB now helps you monitor as you approach your account limits

Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility supports Publishing PostgreSQL log files to Cloudwatch Logs

You can now purchase Redhat Enterprise Linux with HA Add-On via Azure Marketplace

Azure has released new Azure Cosmos DB .Net SDK V3

Introducing the new AWS Co-Branding Guide