227: The Cloud Pod Peeps at Azure’s Explicit Proxy

Episode 227 • September 14, 2023 • 00:51:58
227: The Cloud Pod Peeps at Azure’s Explicit Proxy
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227: The Cloud Pod Peeps at Azure’s Explicit Proxy

Sep 14 2023 | 00:51:58

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Show Notes

Welcome episode 227 of the Cloud Pod podcast - where the forecast is always cloudy! This week your hosts are Justin, Jonathan, Matthew and Ryan - and they're REALLY excited to tell you all about the 161 one things announced at Google Next. Literally, all the things. We’re also saying farewell to EC2 Classic, Amazon SES, and Azure’s Explicit Proxy - which probably isn’t what you think it is. 

Titles we almost went with this week:

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General News this Week:

AWS

00:36 Farewell EC2-Classic, it’s been swell 02:08 Ryan - “I think most people know who he was referring to there. But it is cool. I mean, the fact that they were able to actually retire a thing and not just turn it off on people is pretty amazing.” 03:38 Amazon SES now offers email delivery and engagement history for every email   04:42 Jonathan - “I can't wait for them to start analyzing all the messages that you send and then give you some kind of metric based on engagement and the content. You know, I could use AI to advise on which style of messages were to what kind of language words and that kind of thing. Give you some useful feedback for marketing.” 05:13 Ryan - “And then the next emails will write themselves!”

GCP

06:59  Hold onto your butts - ​All 161 things we announced at Google Cloud Next ‘23 – a recap  Again you don’t seem to understand what a feature is; and that goes for 129-147 on this list. And 148-152- it’s just the same thing but with startups. Padding the numbers, much? 

Azure

19:59 Generally Available: Azure Monitor VM Insights using Azure Monitor Agent 20:24 Justin - “It did note in the article that if you're using the old legacy Azure log agent, that's a bit deprecated and you should move to this, which is not clear in the title of this at all. It's about logs. So I appreciate that.” 20:38 Azure Firewall: Explicit Proxy is now in public preview   21:19 Justin - “Basically what it is, instead of setting the proxy at the server level, so all traffic routes through the firewall as your outbound proxy, you can now tell the web browser or the application using web browser settings to now use the proxy that you specified in the browser to access the internet. So you don't have to set that as all default traffic out through the firewall.” 22:19 Jonathan - “I mean, I guess the cool feature is that Azure Firewall now supports being a proxy for applications which have supported having proxy settings for 30 years.” 23:41 PIR - Services Impacted after power/cooling issue - Australia East 25:11 Matthew - “It was tied to one availability zone in Azure terms, but it did affect other zones, which still confuses me. I'm still trying to get to the bottom of that, but they did do a good job communicating along the way, so I will give them that. Like the alerts across the way were really good. But a lot of times it was just like, we have no update, which I get, they don't necessarily have a full update. Things did recover pretty quickly. So I think really by about four or five hours, things were back up. If I remember correctly, but they're the long tail of getting the last couple services, and I think even at the end of this, where they called the end of the outage at like six 40 UTC. There were still like over 99% of storage accounts and 99% of CosmoDB are up and then they kind of just said, ‘we're stable and we're working on fixing the last couple of customers’.”

Oracle

30:05 Oracle Roving Edge Infrastructure now available in UK  30:48 Ryan - “Since we all know that Oracle sites are just riding around the back of trucks, I find it very cute that they just productize this feature of their data centers.”

Continuing our Cloud Journey Series Talks

31:43 Tech Works: How to Fill the 27 Million AI Engineer Gap 

After Show

38:42 Meta’s Next AI Attack on OpenAI: Free Code-Generating Software Microsoft Plans AI Service With Databricks That Could Hurt OpenAI   46:47 Sad State of Podcast Advertising

Closing

And that is the week in the cloud! We would like to thank our sponsors Foghorn Consulting. Check out our website, the home of the cloud pod where you can join our newsletter, slack team, send feedback or ask questions at thecloudpod.net or tweet at us with hashtag #thecloudpod
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