Episode 20: The Cloud Pod spends 30 dollars a month on AWS

Google Kubernetes Engine Advanced, Jedi Contract Finalists, Cloud Migrations services and Apple’s 30 million a month spend on AWS this week on The Cloud Pod, plus the lightning round.

Sponsors:

Foghorn Consulting – https://fogop.io/thecloudpod

Topics:

Improve Enterprise IT Procurement with Private Catalog, now in Beta
Introducing GKE Advanced – Enhanced reliability, simplicity and scale for enterprise
- https://medium.com/@tinder.engineering/tinders-move-to-kubernetes-cda2a6372f44
Amazon Cloudfront is now available in mainland China
Move your data from AWS S3 to Azure Storage using AzCopy
Announcing Azure to AWS Migration support in AWS Server Migration Service
Rewrite HTTP headers with Azure Application Gateway
Much to Oracles’ chagrin, Pentagon names Microsoft and Amazon as $10B JEDI contract finalists
Announcing Azure Government Secret Private preview and Expansion of DOD IL5
AWS Organizations now available in the AWS Govcloud regions for Central Governance and Management of AWS accounts
Google Hires 27-year SAP veteran Robert Enslin to boost cloud sales and support
Cloudbees buys Electric Cloud to strengthen Devops Platform
Microsoft Open sources data accelerator an easy to configure pipeline for streaming at scale
Apple spends more than 30m a month on AWS
AWS Cloudformation coverage updates for EC2, ECS and ELB

Lightning Round

Announcing the new AWS certified Alexa Skill Builder Specialty Exam
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now supports Muti Major version upgrades to PostgreSQL 11
Azure Container Registry now supports Singularity Image Format containers
Amazon WorkDocs introduces document approvals
Amazon Workdocs Migration Services is now available
AWS has expanded Privatelink to now support Kinesis Data Firehose
Amazon polly adds arabic language support with new female Arabic Voice called Zeina
You can now managed Azure HDInsight using .Net, Python or Java SDK’s
Amazon Comprehend now supports confusion matrices for Custom Classification
AWS ParallelCluster 2.3.1 with new enhanced support for Slurm workload manager
Amazon Aurora Serverless now supports sharing and cross-region copying of snapshots
Azure Cost Management now generally available for peter as you go customers

Show Notes

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Topics:

Lightning Round

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