210: The Cloud Pod Deep Inspects Itself

Episode 210 May 04, 2023 00:59:35
210: The Cloud Pod Deep Inspects Itself
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210: The Cloud Pod Deep Inspects Itself

May 04 2023 | 00:59:35

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Show Notes

Welcome to the newest episode of The Cloud Pod podcast! Justin, Ryan and Matthew are your hosts this week as we discuss all the latest news and announcements in the world of the cloud and AI - including what’s new with Google Deepmind, as well as goings on over at the Finops X Conference. Join us! 

Titles we almost went with this week:

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News this Week:

00:43 - Finops X Foundation Conference is just around the corner  02:51 It’s earning season. Listener discretion is advised.  03:51 Ryan- I’m surprised with some of the numbers, just because I wasn’t expecting - after so many years of growth - that it would continue to rise despite the economic dip.” 05:30 Ryan- “I imagine there’s a lot of people who have worked really hard to turn this profitable; it’s been up and down the last couple of years.” 05:45 Matt- “I’m wondering if now they’ve kind of stabilized some of the capital expenditures, that they've kind of done with all the data center build outs and stuff like that. So now it's a little bit more maintenance and more incremental improvements, but I guess it also depends on how many new regions they open every year.” 06:15 **Side Note in regards to those data center maintenance issues *** - Have you heard about the shutdown of Europe West 9 in Paris? Starting on April 25th at 7pm PST, water damage from the fire suppression system caused a multi cluster failure, leading to the shutdown of multiple zones. Thankfully the shutdown is now limited to West 9a, which is good news for everyone - except those using West 9a. As of this morning, May 2nd, the outage is still being reported, and there’s no ETA for recovery. Our final thoughts on this… maybe just avoid France?  09:20 - Ok - back into earnings with *Amazon* 11:08Matt - “I was about to say BINGO! At the end of that because I feel like I just heard 17 buzzwords all in a row.” 11:08Justin - “It's a tough market, and it's tough for everybody - it's not just the cloud providers. But does that mean the gravy train of AWS is over? I don't think so… I did see some posts recently on sysadmin forums, such about moving workloads from cloud back to on-prem; and there are workloads that should never have been moved to cloud that are very static and they don't have economical advantages of using the cloud. So those decisions will be made - and those decisions should be made all the time - when you look at your workloads. But is it a big trend? I don't think it's a trend yet.” 

AWS

15:27 There’s already a new feature for CodeCatalyst! 17:17 - Amazon announced that S3 Compatible Storage on AWS Snowball Edge Compute Optimized Device is now generally available 20:13 Justin - “I do hope someday in my career I get to do a very massive storage migration, not to the point that I need the truck, but … where the point is that you have to order like a hundred of these things. Then I can build like mazes in my data center of snowball edge devices. I think it would be fun.” 20:25 Matt - “I kinda want the truck - and get the two armored police cars to drive with it.” 21:05 Amazon Inspector now supports deep inspection of EC2 instances 22:43 AWS Firewall Manager adds support for multiple administrators 22:32 Matt “Yeah, and the reason why I kind of thought this was interesting was lot of the stuff you could always only delegate to a single account. So things like config admin, the firewall manager, which also includes WAF, and a lot of the other ones, you can only go to one location. So this is kind of nice that you can start to subdivide stuff out, especially if you're an organization that has potentially multiple acquisitions that you're merging in; you still have your own security teams. You can kind of let them kind of manage their own aspects of it. So it's kind of just interesting to see that they are doing this. I'm curious to see if they expand it to all the other services that have delegated administrators.”

Google

25:17 - Google DeepMind: Bringing Together Two World Class AI Teams  27:30 - Bard can now help you learn to code!   28:45Ryan - “It is at this point that I want to remind our listeners that I am also capable of providing inaccurate misleading or false information and definitely provide code that's not optimal or non-functional.”  30:52 Next Gen Confidential VM is now available in private preview  33:29Justin - “I think the other big lift is that most dev teams are already buried trying to get features out and then say, oh, you had to go modify your code to use this confidential computing thing. I think that's also becomes a problem for a lot of companies. And again, it goes back to the business driver. If you have the driver to do it, then you're gonna make the investment. But if you don't, it's sort of like, I'll get to it eventually. And you never, just never do.”

Azure

34:20 Preview: Introducing DCesv5 and ECesv5-series Confidential VMs with Intel TDX  35:26Ryan - “I like that the add test station service that I mean, I want to see that pattern grow across cloud as well. Like that's, I love the idea of being able to attest your state and verify compliance by API request. Fantastic.” 35:43Justin - “As a person who has had to collect evidence for many audits, anything to automate that stuff and and to get confidence is always a big deal.” 35:57 A little more on Project Amber  37:34  Cloud Cost optimization strategies with Microsoft Azure  39:33Matt - “I always feel like #2 I really feel like number two here, clean up, is always ridiculously hard because everyone's like, oh, it's in the cloud. It's only like two cents a gigabyte or three cents a gigabyte. Who cares? But people forget that if you're doing two, 200, 2000, gigabytes approaching terabytes per day, and all you're doing is aggregating and you're never cleaning up, that starts to add up to real money real fast.”

Oracle

40:02 Build your skills with the OCI Multicloud Architect Certification and Course  

Continuing our Cloud Journey Series Talks

42:44 Episode 4: All About State

43:30 Ryan - “I would argue that we've always built state. We've been building towards stateless to understand how to manage our state and not rely and make assumptions about our state. But very little that I've worked on doesn't have a state somewhere.” 44:00 Matt - There's always state somewhere. Whether it's in your SQL or your caching layer or somewhere, like if you're using session caches or anything like that, there's still always state.” 28:35 Justin - “And so this is again, thinking differently about your apps as you think about cloud native, is that where does eventing make sense? And then how do you think about state with that regard to that eventing?” 50:01 Ryan - “the argument we always have is just, is it the tool or is it how the tool is used, right? And so my argument is that if you cram too much into EtcD, you're gonna have the same problems as you do in ZooKeeper.” 51:41 Justin - “At the end of the day, anytime you're dealing with a distributed state management system that has to get to quorum, you know, you can't overload it. And that's probably the biggest mistake people make with using EtcD and Zookeeper is they try to shove everything into it.”

Spotted on the Horizon

Next week on the Cloud Pod Podcast…

News From the Clouds That Didn’t Make the Main Show

AWS

GCP

Azure

Oracle 

Closing

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