The DOD awards the coveted Jedi contract, the MS ignite Draft, Earnings season and more this week on The Cloud Pod.

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Follow Up

Topics

Pentagon awards controversial $10 billion cloud computing deal to Microsoft, spurning Amazon

Even after Microsoft wins, JEDI saga could drag on

General News/Topics

Earnings Season

Microsoft’s cloud shines again as it easily tops earnings targets, but Azure slows

Despite AWS cloud growth, Amazon shares sag on lower forecast

Google Cloud fails to lift Alphabet enough to please investors

AWS

200 Amazon CloudFront Points of Presence + Price Reduction

Native Container Image Scanning in Amazon ECR

AWS Global Accelerator Now Supports EC2 Instance Endpoints

Google

Updates make Cloud AI platform faster and more flexible

Advancing Customer Control in the Cloud

Swipe right for a new guide to PCI on GKE

Bring Your Own IP addresses: the secret to Bitly’s shortened cloud migration

What’s happening in BigQuery: New features bring flexibility and scale to your data warehouse

Azure

Preview: Server-side encryption with customer-managed keys for Azure Managed Disks

New in Stream Analytics: Machine Learning, online scaling, custom code, and more

 

MS Ignite Draft

 

Jonathan

Digital Assistant to compete with Alexa or Google Home.  

3 more Azure Regions in US

More or Improved tooling for Devops Community

Peter

Istio for AKS

1 more region in Canada

Visual Studio Online 

Justin

Azure Portal Redesign

Sagemaker/Databricks like Competitor. 

Oracle on Stage

Lightning Round (Jonathan 12, Justin 16, and Guest 4): 

AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate Now Supports Custom Domains

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) Adds Support for Change Streams

AWS Managed Services (AMS) Now Offers Managed Landing Zones

AWS Batch Introduces New Allocation Strategies

“Alexa, I’m running late” – Alexa for Business enables Alexa users to inform their next meeting they will be late

Amazon Transcribe Now Supports Australian English Speech-to-Text in Real Time

AWS License Manager now helps you easily identify Windows and SQL Server License Included instances

Increase AWS Single Sign-On security with multi-factor authentication using authenticator apps

Amazon RDS for Oracle adds support to invoke EMCTL commands for Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Supports User Authentication with Kerberos and Microsoft Active Directory

AWS Snowball Edge now supports volume sizes of up to 10 TB

AWS Elastic Beanstalk Adds Support for PHP 7.3 and .NET Core 3.0

AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) Private Certificate Authority (CA) now enforces name constraints in imported CA certificates