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Ryan Lucas (@ryron01) fills in for Peter again as we practice social distancing on this week’s episode of The Cloud Pod.
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❌ Due to the ongoing global pandemic, AWS Summits have been (responsibly) cancelled in Sydney, Singapore, Mumbai, Paris, San Francisco and Brussels. Hopefully we’ll see these events move online.
⚖️ Court documents from Amazon’s injunction have been unsealed. The documents reveal that Microsoft’s bid included “non-compliant storage” which was not counted against them. The Department of Defense responded that Amazon’s bid did not include technically compliant storage either.
Our very own Justin Brodley made the news! His comments are included in an article covering a cloud alternatives panel discussion at Altitude 2020.
️ VMware Inc. overhauled its portfolio of products to focus on Kubernetes support. Expect to see the whole host of products available by May 2020.
⏰ The new CloudWatch composite alarms will allow you to combine alarms and get a clearer picture of what is happening when something goes wrong.
You can now host your applications with the AWS Amplify Console via S3 and CloudFront. If you checked out Amplify last year, it’s changed a lot since then so it might be worth another look.
️ AWS Serverless Application Repository now allows you to share applications with Organizations. Anything you can manage at an organizational level is a huge benefit.
If you’re looking to build your resumé, AWS Certified is offering the new “Database – Specialty” certification. A practice exam costs $40 and the specialty exam at testing centers worldwide costs $300.
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service has updated to support Kubernetes version 1.15, just in time for Kubernetes version 1.16 to make it outdated in a few weeks.
Amazon announced the public preview of the new Bottlerocket operating system. The OS is open-sourced, Linux-based and purpose-built to run containers.
Google Cloud announced its strategy to support the telecommunications industry in three areas: 5G monetization, data-driven experiences and operational efficiency. With AWS and Google partnering with telecommunication companies, will we see Azure or Oracle follow suit?
Google announced it will launch new cloud regions in Deli, Doha, Melbourne and Toronto. Google has emphasized that they are committed to building their datacenters sustainably.
Compute Engine now features the machine images resource, which streamlines instance creation by capturing all the information you need during image creation. If you spend a lot of time creating custom images in Google Cloud, this may be a great time-saver for you.
Azure announced that Backup Explorer will now feature a preview of Backup Reports, allowing you to analyze your backup solutions. Nobody likes paying attention to backups, so the ability to take a quicker look is welcome. But the day when we won’t have to manage our backups at all can’t come soon enough!
Powershell 7.0 is now generally available, finally implementing features other languages have had for decades.
⚡ No score this week while Peter’s away, but tune in for another edition of hand-crafted cloud computing industry humor! Stay healthy out there.
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