201: The CloudPod is assimilated and joins the Azure Collective

This week’s highlights

• AWS: AWS systems manager has a new default enablement option for all EC2 instances.
• GCP: Leveraging the innovators plus subscription to create ideas on how to use Google cloud credits.
• Azure: About Azure Open Source Day
• Oracle: Oracle redesigns OCI Console UI

• "There's a lot to understand about your product and the way it works before you can even think about a cloud migration"
• "In the cloud, we always tell to plan for failure"
• "If you're selling to your business the need to innovate… and you're going to move on a cloud journey, then you need to actually deliver on those things"

AWS: AWS systems manager has a new default enablement option for all EC2 instances

• Announcing the ability to enable AWS Systems Manager by default across all EC2 instances in an account
• ️️ Using DHMC, core system manager capabilities are now available to all EC2 instances in an account.

GCP: Leveraging the innovators plus subscription to create ideas on how to use Google cloud credits

• 0️⃣ What would you build with $500 in Google Cloud credits included with Innovators Plus
• The innovators plus subscription offers $500 in credits and vouchers for certification.

Azure: About Azure Open Source Day

• 0️⃣ 7 reasons to join us at Azure Open Source Day
• This virtual event will take place on the 7th of March from 9 to 10:30.
• Join the Azure Collective on Stack Overflow

Oracle: Oracle redesigns OCI Console UI

• 0️⃣ Introducing Redwood Theming for Oracle Cloud
• Although the changes are cosmetic, usability enhancements are expected. .

The Cloud Journey Series; Cloud Migrations

• Cloud migration means moving your workload to a cloud provider, and the first part of this journey is the discovery phase.
• After inventory and assessment, the next step is to decide exactly how to move to the cloud which can be any one of five methods.
• It is imperative to consider your products and existing operational processes when migrating to a cloud provider..

Other Headlines Mentioned:

• https://awsteele.com/blog/2023/02/20/a-role-for-all-your-ec2-instances.html
• New: AWS Telco Network Builder – Deploy and Manage Telco Networks
• Announcing AWS ParallelCluster 3.5 with a new UI for AWS ParallelCluster
• Amazon Connect Cases now supports AWS PrivateLink
• Amazon Detective launches an interactive workshop for investigating potential security issues
• Amazon OpenSearch Service now lets you schedule service software updates during off-peak hours
• AWS App Runner adds service level concurrency, CPU and Memory utilization metrics
• Amazon Connect launches granular access controls for real-time metrics
• AWS Incident Detection and Response now supports New Relic integration
• AWS Step Functions adds integration for 35 services including EMR Serverless
• Amazon CloudWatch announces increased quotas for Logs Insights
• Amazon MQ adds AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) support for RabbitMQ brokers
• Request tracing for customizations now available for AWS Control Tower Account Factory for Terraform
• Amazon Managed Grafana now supports network access control
• Amazon Kinesis Data Streams for Amazon DynamoDB now supports AWS CloudFormation for Global Tables
• Amazon Cognito identity pool data events are now available in AWS CloudTrail
• Amazon Pinpoint now supports SMS and voice spending metrics in Amazon CloudWatch
• AWS WAF Captcha adds support for ten additional languages
• AWS WAF Fraud Control - Account Takeover Protection now allows inspection of origin responses
• Amazon Fraud Detector(AFD) launched AFD-Lists to optimize fraud prevention strategies
• Amazon EC2 Dedicated Hosts now support automated maintenance on rare degradation
• AWS Expands Torn Write Prevention to EC2 Im4gn, Is4gen instances and additional EBS regions
• Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports early notifications of Auto minor Version Upgrades (AmVU)
• Behind the Scenes at AWS – DynamoDB UpdateTable Speedup
• Building your own private knowledge graph on Google Cloud
• Read-write premium caching now in public preview
• Public preview: Serverless Hyperscale in Azure SQL Database
• Generally Available: Azure Functions Linux Elastic Premium plan increased maximum scale-out limits
• Generally Available: Availability zones support for Azure Functions in new regions
• Generally Available: Durable Functions support for .NET isolated model
• Public Preview: Azure Communication Services Chat for Bot Framework
• Public preview: Major version upgrade in Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server
• General availability: Encryption using CMK for Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server
• GA: 50K relationships per twin support in Azure Digital Twins
• Public preview: VBS enclaves for Always Encrypted in Azure SQL Database
• Public Preview: Jobs API to support bulk import in Azure Digital Twins
• Public preview: Cluster key index in Azure Cosmos DB for Apache Cassandra
• Azure SQL—General availability updates for mid-February 2023
• General availability: Azure Active Directory for Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server
• General availability: Improved geo-replication for Azure Cache for Redis
• Public Preview: SDK type bindings
• Generally available: Azure Functions support for Python 3.10
• Public preview: Python 3.10 Support
• Public preview: Upgrade scheduler
• Public preview: New General-Purpose VMs - Dlsv5 and Dldsv5
• Public Preview: Import Jobs API Support in Azure Digital Twins
• General availability: Azure IoT Edge supports Ubuntu 22.04
• General availability: Azure Data Explorer Dashboards
• Now Available: Azure Monitor Query client module for Go
• Public Preview: Customer-managed keys for Azure NetApp Files volume encryption
• Azure Backup: Enhanced experience for creating and managing private endpoints for Recovery Services vaults is now available
• 6 ways to improve accessibility with Azure AI
• DDoS Mitigation with Microsoft Azure Front Door
• Deploy Oracle FLEXCUBE with Oracle Kubernetes Engine
• Boost profitability with full flexibility: Automated DevOps on Oracle Cloud A1 compute
• Announcing native OCI Object Storage provider backend support in rclone
• Behind the scenes: Too slow, workflow! How OCI services use controllers to coordinate background processes

After show

• 0️⃣ Northern Va. is the heart of the internet. Not everyone is happy about that.
• This is due to the constant humming noise from the machines particularly disturbing those living close to it.