Oct 29 2019
The DOD awards the coveted Jedi contract, the MS ignite Draft, Earnings season and more this week on The Cloud Pod.
Sponsors:
- Foghorn Consulting – fogops.io/thecloudpod
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
- 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