Episode 7 – The Cloud Pod now 99.9% available
Jonathan, Justin, and Peter talk about the latest news in AWS, Google and Azure. This week we talk about the AWS Backup Services, Oracle Cloud launching in Toronto and AWS Re:Mars. Plus the lightning round and Jonathan’s cool tools.
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News
Nvidia Tesla T4 GPU’s now available in beta – https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/nvidia-tesla-t4-gpus-now-available-in-betaAWS Announces AWS Backup and support for multiple services – https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-backup-automate-and-centrally-manage-your-backups/https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/aws-storage-gateway-integrates-with-aws-backup-to-protect-volume/ https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/aws-backup-integrates-with-amazon-DynamoDB-for-centralized-and-automated-backup-management/https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/introducing-amazon-elastic-file-system-integration-with-aws-backup/https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/amazon-ebs-integrates-with-aws-backup-to-protect-your-volumes/Oracle Cloud launches in Toronto region and plans Mumbai region – https://blogs.oracle.com/cloud-infrastructure/oracle-cloud-infrastructure-launches-toronto-regionhttps://inc42.com/buzz/oracle-plans-data-centre-in-india-to-challenge-aws-google-cloud/Oracle says open source vendors locking down licensing proves they were never really open – https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/01/17/oracle_exec_opensource_vendors_locking_down_licenses_proves_they_were_never_really_open/AWS Announces RE:Mars event June 5/6th – https://www.geekwire.com/2019/amazon-launches-remars-event-focusing-ai-second-stage-invite-mars/ AWS Trusted Advisor announces 9 new best practices – https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/aws-trusted-advisor-expands-functionality/Lightning Round
AWS GA PartyKinesis Data Streamshttps://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/amazon-kinesis-data-streams-announces-99-9-service-level-agreement/Kinesis Data Firehosehttps://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/amazon-kinesis-data-firehose-announces-99-9-service-level-agreement/Kinesis Data Streamshttps://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/amazon-kinesis-data-streams-announces-99-9-service-level-agreement/EKShttps://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/-amazon-eks-announces-99-9–service-level-agreement-/ECRhttps://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/amazon-ecr-announces-99-9–service-level-agreement/Secrets Managerhttps://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/AWS-Secrets-Manager-announces-service-level-agreement/Amazon MQhttps://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/amazon-mq-announces-service-level-agreement/AWS CodePipeline now supports deployment to S3https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/aws-codepipeline-now-supports-deploying-to-amazon-s3/Alexa for business now offers IT Admins simplified workflows to setup multiple deviceshttps://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/alexa-for-business-now-offers-it-admins-simplified-workflow-to-s/CloudTrail IntegrationsComprehend is now integrated into cloudtrailhttps://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/amazon-comprehend-is-now-integrated-with-aws-cloudtrail/Aws cloud9 now integrated to cloudtrailhttps://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/aws-cloud9-supports-aws-cloudtrail-logging/Rekognition video now supports object bounding boxes and more accurate object and scene detectionhttps://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/object-bounding-boxes-and-more-accurate-object-and-scene-detection-are-now-available-for-amazon-rekognition-video/AWS Migration Hub now imports on-premise data sources like CMDB, IT Asset Management and AWS Migration Partner Discovery tool https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/AWSMigrationHubImportAzure Monitor logs in Grafana now in Public Previewhttps://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-monitor-logs-in-grafana-now-in-public-preview/Amazon redshift now auto-analyzes your data in background to improve query performancehttps://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/amazon-redshift-auto-analyze/Amazon EK S achieves ISO and PCI Compliancehttps://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/amazon-eks-achieves-iso-and-pci-compliance/Cool Tools
https://github.com/awslabs/aws-lambda-container-image-converter/