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In this episode, Frank and Steve discuss various news and updates in the cloud industry. 

They cover topics such as 

• New AMD instances in Azure
• Holographic stickers <- most important news :)
• Azure cache for Redis, 
• BigQuery cost savings
• Amazon RDS custom for SQL Server
• Azure SQL managed instance improvements
• Changes in AWS cost management
• AWS Cost Category
• Retroactive application of cost allocation tags
• AWS billing and cost management data export with CloudFormation
• Reserved instances for Amazon Aurora Postgres Optimized Read
• Dataflow streaming commits use discounts
• Azure updates for enterprise customers 
• Azure AI speech
• Amazon SageMaker Canvas pricing
• AWS Compute Optimizer supporting more EC2 instance types
• Free data transfer out of AWS and Azure
• Tagging with registering or copying AMIs in Amazon EC2
• Updates to the FinOps framework, 
• Azure carbon optimization tool for tracking emissions 
• Increased default quota for CloudWatch log APIs 
• AWS extending the lifespan of servers. 
• They also briefly discuss Intel's losses and changes in the chip industry.