This week on The Cloud Pod, Justin is away so the rest of the team has taken the opportunity to throw him under the bus.

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Foghorn Consulting, which provides full-stack cloud solutions with a focus on strategy, planning and execution for enterprises seeking to take advantage of the transformative capabilities of AWS, Google Cloud and Azure.

This week’s highlights

Pentagon officials are considering pulling the plug on the star-crossed JEDI cloud-computing project. Reminds us of when we were kids and our parents took toys away when we couldn’t play nice together.

AWS announces a price reduction for Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus. That’s an awful lot of samples.
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) announces pricing change for VPC Peering. Just get rid of the ridiculous data transfer fees!
AWS Organizations launches a new console experience. We’re excited to try this out!
AWS announces IAM Access Control for Apache Kafka on Amazon MSK. This is great.
AWS Systems Manager now includes Incident Manager to resolve IT incidents faster. This might initially fall short of some of the other offerings on the market.
AWS Local Zones are now open in Boston, Miami and Houston. They’re continuing on the Oracle model of racks in random garages.
Amazon now lets you create Microsoft SQL Server Instances of Amazon RDS on AWS Outposts. A big hooray for people using Outposts.

Google announces Agent Assist for Chat is now in Preview. Hopefully this is better than predictive text, which is often highly inappropriate.
Google releases a handy new Google Cloud, AWS and Azure product map. This press release has an Oracle smell about it.
Browse and query Google Cloud Spanner databases from Visual Studio Code. We can see this being welcomed by developers.

Azure releases a new logo. We think it kind of looks like a Google icon.
Multiple new features for Azure VPN Gateway are now generally available. Really great features!
Enabling Azure Site Recovery while creating Azure Virtual Machines is now generally available. Something about this feels clunky.
The next installment of the low code development series is now available. Spoiler alert: it’s not that riveting.

TCP Lightning Round

⚡ Ryan blatantly stole Justin’s jokes but still takes this week’s point, leaving scores at Justin (7), Ryan (4), Jonathan (7).

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