Episode 19: Announcing the new Cloud Pod Premium Tier

We are back to our normal show after our GCP Next recap. This week the new AWS APAC region, Azure premium tiers and the AWS open letter on climate change. Plus the lightning round and cool tools.

Topics

Alerts in Azure are now all the more consistent
Self-Service exchange and refund for Azure Reservations
Unlock Dedicated resources and enterprise features with Service Bus Premium
Extending Azure Security Capabilities
AWS Boosts presence in Asia with new Indonesia cloud region
Spinnaker continuous delivery platform now with support for Azure
Azure Front Door service is now GA
Amplify Framework simplifies configuring Oauth 2.0 flows, hosted UI and AR/VR scenes for Mobile and Web
Introducing the App Service Migration Assistant for ASP.NET applications
Azure security center exposes crypto miner campaign
Gizmodo reports that Amazon is Aggressively pursuing big oil as its clean energy initiative stalls
6562 Amazon employees have signed letter
AWS simplifies replatforming of MS SQL databases from Windows to Linux
New Release for Open Distro for ES 0.8.0

Lightning Round (Jonathan 4, Justin 4, Peter 1 and Guest 3)

AWS Cloudwatch launches search expressions
AWS Cloud 9 announces support for ubuntu development environments
Announcing the Azure Functions Premium plan for enterprise serverless workloads
Windows Server 2019 support now available for Windows Containers on Azure App Service
Amazon EKS now delivers kubernetes control plane logs to Amazon Cloudwatch
Amazon workspaces add tagging support for directories, images, custom bundles and IP access control groups
AWS Systems Manager session manager enables session encryption using customer keys
Amazon DocumentDB adds aggregation pipeline capabilities for strings, dates and sampling
AWS Elastic Beanstalk adds support Go 1.12
AWS Fargate PV1.3 adds secrets and enhanced container dependency management
AWS introduces CSI Drivers for Amazon EFS and Amazon FSx for Lustre
AWS Deeplens introduces new bird classification project
AWS Certification triples its testing locations, making it even more convenient to get AWS Certified
Amazon Transcribe now supports real-time speech-to-text in British English, French and Canadian French
Amazon Elasticsearch adds event monitoring and alerting support
Amazon Cloudfront enhances the security for adding alternate domains name to a distribution
Amazon QuickSight now supports localization, percentile calculations and more.
Amazon SageMaker now supports greater control of root access to Notebook Instances
Amazon RDS Enhanced Monitoring adds new storage and host metrics

Cool Tool

EC2 Metadata Filter – https://github.com/stefansundin/ec2-metadata-filter

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Lightning Round (Jonathan 4, Justin 4, Peter 1 and Guest 3)

Cool Tool

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