It’s a Wednesday so things could be better, but spare a thought for the team as they battle Mother Nature on The Cloud Pod this week.

A big thanks to this week’s sponsors:

Foghorn Consulting, which provides full-stack cloud solutions with a focus on strategy, planning and execution for enterprises seeking to take advantage of the transformative capabilities of AWS, Google Cloud and Azure.

Open Raven, the cloud native data protection platform that automates policy monitoring and enforcement. Auto-discover, classify, monitor and protect your sensitive data.

This week’s highlights

Elastic blames Amazon for forcing it to change its licensing. One of the most ridiculous blog posts ever.
️ Logz.io looks to launch a true open-source distribution for Elasticsearch and Kibana. Everybody’s forking now.
AWS has also announced that it will also fork its project for a truly open source Elasticsearch. The beginning of the end for Elasticsearch.
Logz.io followed up its previous announcement by announcing it’s combining its efforts with Amazon. This is great news for the open-source community.

AWS Lex has released a new console experience and new V2 APIs to make it easier to build, deploy and manage conversational experiences. We’ve played with it and it’s very nice.
Amazon CloudWatch Agent now supports OpenTelemetry APIs and Software Development Kits. Could be a sign it’s about to make a lot of investments in OpenTelemetry and is moving away from CloudWatch.
Amazon GuardDuty enhances security incident investigation workflows through new integration with Amazon Detective. Integrated security — we like it!
Amazon Chime SDKs for iOS and Android now support screen share. It’s great it has functionality that other apps have had from the start.
Amazon ECS Agent v1.50.0 allows customers to execute interactive commands inside containers. This makes Justin’s life complete.

Google announces the general availability of its comprehensive zero trust product offering, BeyondCorp Enterprise. An amazing name for a product.
Google launches Cloud Operations Sandbox to bring Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) culture to its customers. A really good way to learn about something that’s been around forever.
Introducing WebSockets, HTTP/2 and gRPC bidirectional streams for Cloud Run. But then the security team tells you it’s not supported and you have to rip it out.
‍♀️ Build your own workout app in five steps, without coding, on AppSheet. Peter’s app won’t count past one step or one ounce.
Google wants to help you work at warp-speed in the BigQuery UI. We don’t know if this is radical but it’s nice.

Azure continues to drop monthly updates for Cost Management and Billing. Because apparently it’s still a problem.
Azure Availability Zones in the South Central U.S. datacenter region add resiliency. Woohoo!
⚔️ Introducing seamless integration between Microsoft Azure and Confluent Cloud. The partnership battle continues.

TCP Lightning Round

⚡ Scores are tied as Justin wins this week’s point, leaving scores at Justin (1), Ryan (1), Jonathan (1).