184: The CloudPod Explicitly trusts itself

On The Cloud Pod this week, AWS announces an update to IAM role trust policy behavior, Easily Collect Vehicle Data and Send to the Cloud with new AWS IoT FleetWise, now generally available, Get a head start with no-cost learning challenges before Google Next ‘22.

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Episode Highlights

• ⏰ AWS announces an update to IAM role trust policy behavior.
• ⏰ Easily Collect Vehicle Data and Send to the Cloud with new AWS IoT FleetWise, now generally available.
• ⏰ Get a head start with no-cost learning challenges before Google Next ‘22.

General News:

• Google Next is coming up in two weeks. [0:56]
• Next week’s show will be sans Justin. [1:02]

AWS: More like “Announcement” Web Services

• Easily Collect Vehicle Data and Send to the Cloud with new AWS IoT FleetWise, now generally available. [1:48]
• AWS announces an update to IAM role trust policy behavior. [7:00]
• Sticking with the theme of granularity, Amazon Route 53 announces support for DNS resource record set permissions. [16:29]
• Amazon announces AWS DataSync Discovery in preview. [18:30]
• ️ Cloudwatch container insights now provides lifecycle events for ECS. [21:38]

GCP: Google Next Is Almost Here!

• Get a head start with no-cost learning challenges before Google Next ‘22. [23:17]
• Google Cloud Deploy adds Cloud Run and deployment verification support. [25:15]
• FitBit and Google have partnered to help you live your best life with their new Device Connect for FitBit. [26:29]
• The new, terribly named startup CPU boost improves cold starts in Cloud Run, Cloud Functions. [31:52]
• Container analysis now supports Maven and Go containers in preview. [34:53]
• 3️⃣ Three new Google Firewall features are generally available.. [36:06]
• Google announces Log Analytics, powered by BigQuery. [40:03]

Azure: Read This if You’re Running PostgreSQL 11?

• Azure announces the end of support for PosgreSQL 11, as of November 2023. [42:08]
• Azure wants you to know their IoT is future-ready.. [43:57]

TCP Lightning Round [30:06]

⚡️ Ryan, Jonathan, and Peter are making it a little too easy at this point:

Justin (8), Ryan (5), Jonathan (4), Peter (1).

Azure unmanaged disks will be retired on 30 September 2025

Continuous delivery setting of Azure VM will be retired on 31 March 2023 – Use Azure DevOps to create pipelines

Deployment Center setting of Azure Kubernetes service (AKS) will be retired on 31 March 2023 – Use Automated Deployments to create pipelines

Announcing availability of AWS Outposts rack in Kazakhstan and Serbia

Amazon Kendra releases Dropbox connector

AWS Cost Categories now support retroactive rules application

AWS Copilot, a CLI for the containerized apps, adds IAM permission boundaries and more

Things Coming Up:

Google Cloud Next – October 11th – 13th

Oracle Cloud World – October 17-20th

Devops Enterprise Summit US Flagship – October 18th-20th – Las Vegas

Kubecon US – October 24-28th

AWS Reinvent – November 28th-Dec-2 (assumed)

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