US-East-1 has a hiccup in a single AZ, Lambda fixes cold start launches inside a VPC, Google gets an AD service and Microsoft goes cloud neutral in Switzerland. Plus special guest @ryron01

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Topics

AWS

US-Tire-Fire-1 had an outage

Operational Insights for Containers and Containerized Applications

Port Forwarding Using AWS System Manager Session Manager

Now use Session Manager to interactively run individual commands on instances

Client IP Address Preservation for AWS Global Accelerator

64 AWS services achieve HITRUST certification

Take the AWS certified cloud practitioner exam in your home or office 24/7

AWS Chatbot Now Supports Notifications from AWS Systems Manager

Amazon ECS now exposes runtime ContainerIds to APIs and ECS Console

Announcing improved VPC networking for AWS Lambda functions

Google

Managed Service for Microsoft Active Directory (AD)

Using Google Cloud Speech-to-Text to transcribe your Twilio calls in real-time

August on GCP

Azure

How Microsoft and Oracle became cloud buddies, and what’s next for their improbable partnership

Microsoft Azure’s cloud regions in Switzerland are now open for business

Track the health of your disaster recovery with Log Analytics

Beyond the printed form: Unlocking insights from documents with Form Recognizer

Azure Cost Management Updates – August 2019

Lightning Round (Jonathan 8, Justin 14, and Guest 4): 

AWS Site-to-Site VPN Adds Configurability of Security Algorithms and Timer Settings for VPN Tunnels

AWS x-ray now supports Amazon SQS

Lower Threshold for AWS WAF Rate-based Rules

Now select resource groups as targets for AWS Systems Manager Run Command

Amazon Route 53 Now Publishes Query Volume Metrics for Public Hosted Zones

Amazon ElastiCache for Redis adds support for customer managed keys in AWS Key Management Service for encryption at rest

Suspend/Resume Scaling now Available in AWS Application Auto Scaling

Amazon SageMaker Notebooks now export Jupyter logs to Amazon Cloudwatch

PyTorch on Azure: Full support for PyTorch 1.2

Google New release of Cloud Storage Connector for Hadoop: Improving performance, throughput and more

Amazon FSx for Lustre Reduces Minimum File System Size to 1.2 TBs

Amazon SageMaker now supports accelerated training with new, smaller, Amazon FSx for Lustre file systems