198: Cloudtrail ingests activity events, CloudPod ingests Pizza

This week’s highlights

• AWS: AWS CloudTrail Lake now allows users to consolidate, immutably store, and analyze activity events from non-AWS sources.
• GCP: Google Cloud 2023 Next conference will be in-person.
• Azure: New updates are available in the Azure Chaos studio.
• Oracle: Oracle creates a page comparing its cloud services with AWS and others.

• "A transit gateway effectively is saying we're going to let you make multiple VPCs into one VPC, which is awesome"
• "When you're designing VPC networking, make sure you're aware of the cost involved in cross-zone communication because it's not free and it can be quite significant"

AWS: AWS CloudTrail Lake now allows users to analyze activity events from non-AWS sources.

• New – AWS CloudTrail Lake Supports Ingesting Activity Events From Non-AWS Sources
• ️️ Initially, AWS cloud lake was a service to access, analyze and store user and API activity from AWS as a source, but now users can set up custom events or integrate with other providers.

GCP: Google Cloud 2023 Next conference will be in-person.

• 0️⃣ Google Cloud Next
• This will be the first in-person Next conference since 2019.

Azure: New updates are available in the Azure Chaos studio.

• 0️⃣ Chaos studio - Public preview updates for January 2023 
• These updates include the availability of dynamic targeting, enabling service tags, VMSS SHutdown 2.0, and others.

Oracle: Oracle creates a page comparing its cloud services with AWS and others.

• 0️⃣ Compare cloud services across OCI and other cloud providers, highlighting its equivalents to AWS, Azure and GCP

The Cloud Journey Series; The Cloud Center of Excellence (CCOE)

• VPC means Virtual Private Cloud and is a service tied to almost every aspect of the cloud, especially in AWS.
• Security requirements are crucial to consider with VPCs which would include ACLs and VPC Flow Logs.
• Another consideration for VPCs is connectivity back to your private data center which may be through a VPN connection or a direct connect point-to-point from a third party or your data center into the cloud provider itself.

Other Headlines Mentioned:

• Native OPA Support in Terraform Cloud Is Now Generally Available
• Introducing Hermes, An Open Source Document Management System
• New – Deployment Pipelines Reference Architecture and Reference Implementations
• AWS announces Amazon-provided contiguous IPv6 CIDR blocks
• Lessons learned optimizing Microsoft’s internal use of Azure
• Latest OCI Blockchain Platform update enables blockchain interoperability and brings Web3 capabilities to OCI
• OpenAI-backed motion to dismiss
• AWS achieves ISO 20000-1:2018 certification for 109 services
• Visualize AWS WAF logs with an Amazon CloudWatch dashboard
• SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning now adds three new completion criteria for tuning jobs
• Amazon OpenSearch Service simplifies remote reindex for VPC domains
• Amazon CloudWatch now simplifies metric extraction from structured logs
• Amazon Athena releases data source connector for Google Cloud Storage
• AWS CloudTrail Lake now supports ingestion of activity events from non-AWS sources
• AWS Systems Manager announces integration of Automation with Change Calendar
• Amazon AppFlow announces 4 new data connectors
• AWS announces Credential Guard support for Windows instances on Amazon EC2
• Amazon QuickSight launches Radar chart
• AWS Snow Family now supports Ubuntu 20 and 22 operating systems
• AWS Outposts rack local gateway now supports VPC prefix lists to simplify routing policy management
• AWS Snow Family now supports software updates on AWS Snowcone
• Amazon Kendra Expanded Data Formats Support
• Bottlerocket now supports network bonding and VLAN tagging
• Amazon RDS now supports increasing storage size when creating read replicas and restoring databases from snapshots
• AWS Glue Studio Visual ETL now supports 5 new transforms
• AWS announces access of Simple Monthly Calculator estimates in the AWS Pricing Calculator
• AWS Fault Injection Simulator announces Pause I/O action for Amazon Elastic Block Store volumes
• AWS announces three new AWS Direct Connect locations
• AWS Conversational AI Competency Partner's implement high-quality chatbot solutions
• Amazon Personalize simplifies onboarding with data insights
• Generally available: Apply Azure storage access tiers to append blobs and page blobs with blob type conversion
• General Availability: 5 GB Put Blob
• Microsoft Cost Management updates—January 2023

After show

• 0️⃣ Microsoft, GitHub, OpenAI urge judge to bin Copilot code rip-off case.
• This request is based on grounds that the case lacks standing as there is no evidence that the plaintiff suffered harm that can be addressed by the court.