Welcome to episode 243 of the Cloud Pod podcast – where the forecast is always cloudy! It’s a bit of a slow new week, but we’re not hitting the snooze button! This week Justin, Matthew and Ryan are discussing more changes over at Broadcom after VMware buyout last year, HPE buying out Juniper Networks, why all the venture capital money seems to be going into trying to take down Nvidia, and changes to WHOIS lookup over at AWS certificate manager. Plus we’ll find out exactly what that special something is that makes Justin the perfect executive.
01:48 More news from Broadcom – and this time they’re coming after the cloud. Broadcom ditches VMware Cloud Service Providers
03:29 Ryan – “I wonder if this is just going to be like new sales or something. Cause that seems very short notice if you’re on VMware as on one of these smaller cloud providers, that seems incredibly risky.”
03:45 Matthew – “I feel like they have to have something lined up. Or let me rephrase that. I would assume slash hope they have something lined up because otherwise they’re gonna really piss off a lot of people.”
04:40 Hewlett Packard Enterprise buying Juniper Networks in deal valued at about $14 billion
06:47 Ryan – “I will say, I hope HPE doesn’t sort of like torch Juniper. I do like their access system. They were the first sort of big network provider to offer API-driven interactions with their network gear. And overall, they’ve been sort of at the forefront in automation space.”
11:21 The Twelve Startups Battling For a Slice of Nvidia’s Pie
13:16 AWS Accounts discontinues the use of security challenge questions
14:03 Ryan – “Because of their risk of exploitation by phishing and just internet research, I don’t answer those sensibly. And so I have algorithms that I apply for different types of questions, so I can sort of figure out what I would have answered based off of criteria, but it’s not relevant to the actual questions. Good luck with that.”
16:48 AWS Certificate Manager will discontinue WHOIS lookup for email-validated certificates
19:39 Matthew – “It still baffles me that Azure doesn’t have nearly as good of a comparable service to ACM. Like they have it, but it doesn’t work as well. Like you can’t use it for all the managed services.”
22:11 AWS Cancels Serverless Postgres Service That Scales to Zero
23:20 Ryan – “I can attest to the notifications because for all of my like sort of internal development that I’ve done, I usually, this is where I start for any kind of database that’s, you know, gonna be Postgres or related. And so like, there’s several of mine that are like this. And I kind of really wish they were sort of keeping this as their own thing, versus sort of spinning it off into V2 with all the replication because I don’t really want any of those features. I just want the scale to zero so that I can continue to use this for development purposes.”
25:22 Justin – “Yeah. And it’s, I just don’t think it’s, I think, cause they think it’s network magic. And it’s like, no, DNS is not that magical. Like it’s a very simple directory service. You have to think about it as a directory service. Like if you were moving to a new phone, would you move the number, or would you get a new one every time? It’s like, oh, I moved the number. Then why aren’t you moving the number? That’s the DNS entry.”
26:15 Azure Spring Apps Enterprise is now eligible for Azure savings plan for compute
This can save you 20% for one year, or 47% for three years compared to pay as you go pricing. Woohoo!
26:57 Ryan – “If you have to have a spring app and which if you do, you’re probably already invested in the entire framework and then all the patterns that come along with it, so kind of neat. And then, uh, yeah, you never want to touch that code again, which you have already basically said by it still being a spring in the spring framework. So savings plans. Perfect. I like it.”
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