Episode 12: Spotinst has yet to announce partnership with the cloud pod

March 05, 2019 35m13
Episode 12: Spotinst has yet to announce partnership with the cloud pod
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Episode 12: Spotinst has yet to announce partnership with the cloud pod

Mar 05 2019 | 35m13

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Jonathan Baker Justin Brodley Matthew Kohn Ryan Lucas

Show Notes

Episode 12

This week we talk about Athena Workgroups,  Spotinst AWS partnership, Spatial Anchors in Azure and Microsoft and Google handle several employee issues.

Sponsors:

Foghorn Consulting: fogops.io/thecloudpod
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Show Topics

Athena now supports Workgroups to segment/isolated data

Azure has GA’s several new features to create more reliable event driven applications in Azure

Spotinst Announces partnership with AWS

Google Rethinks Federated Identity with Continuous Access evaluation protocol

Next 19 Qwiklabs Challenge

Azure Announces Spatial anchors for collaboration and mixed reality apps

Microsoft Workers protest army contract

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says company will not walk away from contract

Google ends forced Arbitration for Employees –

Lightning Round

EFS now supports tag on create – https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/02/amazon-efs-now-supports-tag-on-create/

AWS Code commit now supports programmatic creations of commits – https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/02/aws-codecommit-supports-programmatic-creation-of-commits-contain/

Performance Insights now supports counter metrics for RDS Postgres, RDS Mysql and Aurora Mysql – https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/02/Performance-Insights-Counter-Metrics-MS-PG-AMS/

Amazon Ec2 Fleets now let you increase target capacity limits – https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/02/amazon-EC2-fleet-now-lets-you-increase-the-fleets-target-capacity-limits/

Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager adds support for shorter backup intervals – https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/02/amazon-data-lifecycle-manager-adds-support-for-shorter-backup-intervals/

Azure Monitor aiops now supports alerts with dynamic thresholds- https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-azure-monitor-aiops-alerts-with-dynamic-thresholds/

Mysql and Maria RDS instances now support T3 and r5 instances

Amazon FSX for windows now supports on-premise access – https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/02/amazon-fsx-for-windows-file-server-now-supports-on-premises-access/

Robomaker now supports  multiple languages, tagging and cloudformation – https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/02/robomaker-now-supports-new-languages-tagging-and-cloudformation/

Azure now supports typescript in Functions – https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/improving-the-typescript-support-in-azure-functions/

Azure announces GA of Java support in Azure functions –

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-the-general-availability-of-java-support-in-azure-functions/

AWS Well Architected tool now supports on-prem well architected architecture reviews – https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/02/aws-well-architected-tool-now-supports-architecture-reviews-for-/

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