Apr 05 2024 40 mins 4
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.
