188: The CloudPod thinks the AWS Switzerland region is a big plus

On a slow news week, we talk about the new AWS Switzerland region, Googles 2022 State of Devops report and GCP gets those flexible committed use discounts! 

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General News [4:02]

• Announcing the 2022 Accelerate State of DevOps Report: A deep dive into security.

Episode Highlights

• ⏰ Announcing the 2022 Accelerate State of DevOps Report: A deep dive into security.
• ⏰ AWS opens a new region–its 28th– in Switzerland
• ⏰ GCP unveils flexible committed use discounts.

Top Quote

“Back when you only had the option of on demand or reserved instances, and you do the math… And if you run the thing, basically more than 40 hours a week, you might as well buy the Ri. You’re not getting any benefit of scaling anyway, at that point. So this is this is so much better, you get the benefit of committing to an aggregate use and the discount to that with the benefit of turning stuff off when you’re not using it.” [32:24]

AWS: Amazon Isn’t Neutral About Switzerland

• AWS opens a new region–its 28th– in Switzerland. [19:29]
• Quickly find resources in your AWS account with new Resource Explorer. [21:55]

GCP: Google Is Committed To Their Flexibility

• Announcing MongoDB connector for Apigee Integration. [24:40]
• GCP unveils flexible committed use discounts. [28:15]

Azure: Azure Needs No Downtime

• 0️⃣ Zero downtime migration for Azure Front Door—now in preview. [33:57]

⚡ TCP Lightning Round (Justin 8, Ryan 7, Jonathan 4, Peter 0) [35:09]

• AWS Certificate Manager now supports Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm TLS certificates
• Amazon ElastiCache adds support for Redis 7
• AWS Private 5G service now includes support for multiple radio-units
• Amazon ElastiCache now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)
• GA: Encrypt Azure storage account with cross-tenant customer-managed keys

After Show:

• Amazon is tightening its belt and Alexa could face cutbacks.

Things Coming Up:

AWS Reinvent – November 28th-Dec-2

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