203: From vaporware to visual apps - AWS App Composer Generally Available

This week’s highlights

• AWS: AWS announces upcoming region in Malaysia.
• GCP: Google launches new capabilities to Spanners regional and multi-regional capabilities
• Azure: The Florence Foundation Model from Microsoft..

• "I think that these migration projects end up getting sort of pigeonholed over time into things that they're not"
• "The reality is like 'What are you really trying to get out of your migration for the business?"
• "The hybrid migration model lets you realize the benefits of cloud incrementally as you go"

AWS: AWS announces upcoming region in Malaysia.

• AWS Region in Malaysia
• ️️ This region is expected to have 3 AZ's but there is no timeline for when it will come online

GCP: Google launches new capabilities to Spanner’s regional and multi-regional capabilities.

• 0️⃣ Rapidly expand the reach of Spanner databases with read-only replicas and zero-downtime moves
• These include Configurable read-only replicas, Spanner's zero-downtime instance, and the more affordable cost of multi-regional configurations. 

Azure: The Florence Foundation Model from Microsoft.

• 0️⃣ Announcing a renaissance in computer vision AI with Microsoft's Florence foundation model
• This new vision AI helps customers connect their data to natural language interactions to gain insights from their image and video resources.

The Cloud Journey Series; Cloud Migration Techniques

• There are three Migration Techniques; Hybrid, Cloud Native, and VMWare Migrations.
• One common mistake people make is believing they won't get value from the migration till it is completed.
• Generally, it may be hard to decide which is the most successful because this depends on the definition of success as applied to individual businesses.

Other Headlines Mentioned:

• AWS Application Composer Now Generally Available – Visually Build Serverless Applications Quickly
• Subscribe to AWS Daily Feature Updates via Amazon SNS
• Azure WAF guided investigation Notebook using Microsoft Sentinel for automated false positive tuning
• https://services.google.com/fh/files/misc/google_data_center_transformation.pdf
• AWS Comprehend simplifies custom model retraining and management
• Amazon Managed Blockchain (AMB) announces general availability of Ethereum Token-Based Access
• Amazon Kinesis Data Streams increases On-Demand write throughput limit to 1 GB/s
• Amazon DevOps Guru for RDS supports Proactive Insights
• Amazon Detective adds graph visualization for interactive security investigations
• Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) adds support for MongoDB 5.0 wire protocol and client-side field level encryption
• AWS Control Tower announces a progress tracker for landing zone setup and upgrades
• Amazon Timestream now supports batch loading data
• AWS Step Functions Distributed Map is now available in more Regions
• AWS CloudShell now supports the modular variant of AWS Tools for PowerShell
• Introducing maintenance window feature for AWS IoT Device Management Jobs
• Amazon EC2 announces the ability to create Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) that can boot on UEFI and Legacy BIOS
• IAM Roles for Amazon EC2 Now Provide Credential Control Properties
• AWS Migration Hub Refactor Spaces now supports environments without a network bridge
• AWS Application Composer is now generally available
• AWS Glue 4.0 now supports Streaming ETL
• AWS announces new competition structure for the 2023 Season
• Announcing Open Data Maps for Amazon Location Service
• Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose now supports data delivery to Elastic
• AWS Database Migration Service Fleet Advisor now supports target recommendations
• AWS Glue introduces faster and simpler permissions setup
• AWS Glue now provides continuous logs in AWS Glue Job Monitoring
• Amazon RDS for MariaDB now supports RDS Optimized Writes
• Amazon Redshift now supports 200K tables in a single cluster
• Amazon DynamoDB now supports table deletion protection
• Node hosting on Google Cloud: a pillar of Web3 infrastructure
• Monitor Azure Virtual Network Manager changes with event logging
• Azure VMware Solution in Microsoft Azure Government streamlines migration efforts
• Microsoft Cost Management updates—February 2023
• Public Preview: Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus now supports querying PromQL
• Generally available: App Insights Extension for Azure Virtual Machines and VM Scale Sets
• Generally Available: Model Serving on Azure Databricks
• More transactions at no additional cost for Azure Standard SSD
• Azure SQL—General availability updates for early March 2023
• Disclosure: In-tree disk and file drivers will no longer be supported starting in Kubernetes v1.26
• Azure Virtual Network Manager Event Logging now in public preview
• New Azure for Operators products and partner programs released
• General availability: Power BI with Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server
• Generally available: Burstable compute for single node configurations for Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL
• Now Available: Azure Monitor Ingestion client libraries
• General availability: Azure Private Link support for Azure Databricks
• General Availability: Customer Initiated Storage Account Conversion
• Public preview: AKS NodeOSUpgrade channel
• Public Preview: Auto vacuum metrics for Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server
• Public preview: Caching in ACR
• Public preview: Pod sandboxing in AKS
• GA: Online live resize of persistent volumes
• Public preview: Confidential containers on ACI
• Generally available: 4 TiB, 8 TiB, and 16 TiB storage per node for Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL
• Public preview: Login and TDE-enabled database migrations with Azure Database Migration Service
• General availability: New enhanced connection troubleshoot
• General availability: Azure Archive Storage now available in West US 3
• Discover what's new in OpenSearch 2.3 and upgrade today!
• Oracle sovereign cloud solutions: Choose where your data is located
• OpenVPN DNS settings with OCI
• Free MySQL HeatWave foundations course
• Introducing Enterprise Scale Baseline Landing Zone Version 2.0
• Self-patching Autonomous Linux 8 can help increase security, availability, and performance

After show

• 0️⃣ I'm a Stanford professor who's studied organizational behavior for decades. The widespread layoffs in tech are more because of copycat behavior than necessary cost-cutting.
• Sadly, many of these lay-offs are due to under-utilization of these workers rather than underperformance.