174: The Cloud Pod Goes the Distance With Rocky Linux

Episode 174 July 27, 2022 01:24:45
174: The Cloud Pod Goes the Distance With Rocky Linux
The Cloud Pod | Weekly AI & Cloud News on AWS, Azure & GCP
174: The Cloud Pod Goes the Distance With Rocky Linux

Jul 27 2022 | 01:24:45

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Jonathan Baker Justin Brodley Matthew Kohn Ryan Lucas

Show Notes

On The Cloud Pod this week, the team discusses facial recognition avoidance tactics. Plus: Waving farewell to CentOS 7 with the rise of Rocky Linux, Amazon traverses the new Cloudscape, and the U.K. heatwave spells disaster for Oracle and Google data centers.

A big thanks to this week’s sponsor, 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

Top Quotes  

General News: The Best Data Lake Is the One With Your Boat on It

AWS: Open Source Because They Can’t Sell It?

GCP: The Rise of Rocky

Azure: Sovereignty Is the Buzzword

Oracle: The Data Centers Are Burning

TCP Lightning Round

⚡ Ryan snags the point this week, creeping up to equalize with Jonathan and making the scores Justin (5), Jonathan (3), Ryan (3), Peter (1).

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