Episode 25: Optimize your Journey with The Cloud Pod Center of Excellence

This week we talk about Cloud Center of Excellence, New Encryption options, open source update on Firecracker and more. Elise Carmichael (twitter: @uncfleece) from @tricentis joins us to talk about some of their tools.

Sponsors:

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

Topics:

New – Updated Pay-Per-Use Pricing Model for AWS Config Rules
Google Says some G-Suite Passwords were stored in Plaintext since 2005
Google Cloud – Optimize your organizations cloud journey with a Cloud Center of Excellence
Amazon RDS for SQL Server increases database limit per database instance up to 100
AWS Opt-In to Default Encryption for New EBS Volumes
AWS Ground Station – Ready to ingest & process Satellite Data
Firecracker Open Source Update May 2019
Application Management made easier with Kubernetes Operators on GCP Marketplace
Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports Always On Availability Groups for SQL Server 2017
Github launches Sponsors, lets you pay your favorite open source contributors
Manage your cross cloud spend using Azure Cost management

Lightning Round (Jonathan 5, Justin 9, Peter 1 and Guest 3):

AWS now allows you to enable Hibernations on EC2 instances at the same time as you launch the AMI
Amazon Document DB (with MongoDB Compatibility) is now SOC 1, 2, 3 Compliant
AWS Marketplace enables long term contracts for AMI products
AWS Budgets now Supports Variable Budget Targets for Cost and Usage Budgets
Amazon RDS Recommendations Provide Best Practice Guidance for Amazon Aurora
All US Azure regions now approved for FedRAMP High impact level
AWS Backup Now Supports AWS CloudFormation
AWS Step Functions Adds Support for Callback Patterns in Workflows
Amazon API Gateway Now Supports Tag-Based Access Control and Tags on Additional Resources
AWS CodeCommit Now Supports Including Application Code When Creating a Repository with AWS CloudFormation
CloudWatch Logs adds support for percentiles in metric filters
Amazon DynamoDB adaptive capacity is now instant
Amazon Connect Decreases US Telephony Pricing by 26% in the US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon) regions
AWS Transfer for SFTP now supports AWS CloudFormation and host key import
Amazon RDS for SQL Server now Supports SQL Server Audit
Azure NetApp Files is now generally available

Show Notes

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Lightning Round (Jonathan 5, Justin 9, Peter 1 and Guest 3):

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