Episode 26: The Cloud Pod Goes Event Driven

Peter is back after a few weeks away from the show. Azure launches new Event Grid features, Palo Alto Networks picks up Twistlock and Puresec and Google has a really bad day. Plus the amazing lightning round with Peter.

Sponsors:

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

Topics:

Lightning Round (Jonathan 6, Justin 9, Peter 1 and Guest 3):

AWS is Announcing Windows Server version 1903 AMI’s for Amazon EC2
Amazon Chime now supports United States Toll-Free Numbers
AWS Storage Gateway Service adds capability to move Virtual Tapes from S3 Glacier to Glacier Deep Archive
AWS has introduced Fraud Detection capabilities using Machine Learning
Google has announced a new open source load testing framework for pub/sub at scale testing
Azure has several new enhancements for Azure App Configuration to increase release velocity via feature flags and simplifying troubleshooting across distributed apps
AWS Textract is now Generally Available in Northern Virginia, Ohio, Oregon and Ireland regions
AWS DataSync Now supports EFS-to-EFS Transfers
AWS IOT Events and Things Graph is now Generally Available
- AWS IOT Things graph now Generally Available
Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports SQL Querying
New AWS Certification Readiness course are available for Alexa Skill Builder and Certified Security Specialty
AWS Now allows EC2 Hibernation without specifying Encryption Intent at Instance Launch
Amazon Elasticache for Redis improves Cluster availability during planned maintenance
Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility supports Database Activity Streams for real-time monitoring

After show

Tequila being discussed: https://www.compoveda.com/

Show Notes

Topics:

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Lightning Round (Jonathan 6, Justin 9, Peter 1 and Guest 3):

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