Episode 7 – The Cloud Pod now 99.9% available

Jonathan, Justin, and Peter talk about the latest news in AWS, Google and Azure.  This week we talk about the AWS Backup Services, Oracle Cloud launching in Toronto and AWS Re:Mars.  Plus the lightning round and Jonathan’s cool tools.

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News

• Nvidia Tesla T4 GPU’s now available in beta – https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/nvidia-tesla-t4-gpus-now-available-in-beta
• AWS Announces AWS Backup and support for multiple services – https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-backup-automate-and-centrally-manage-your-backups/
  • https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/aws-storage-gateway-integrates-with-aws-backup-to-protect-volume/
  • https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/aws-backup-integrates-with-amazon-DynamoDB-for-centralized-and-automated-backup-management/
  • https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/introducing-amazon-elastic-file-system-integration-with-aws-backup/
  • https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/amazon-ebs-integrates-with-aws-backup-to-protect-your-volumes/
• Oracle Cloud launches in Toronto region and plans Mumbai region – https://blogs.oracle.com/cloud-infrastructure/oracle-cloud-infrastructure-launches-toronto-region
  • https://inc42.com/buzz/oracle-plans-data-centre-in-india-to-challenge-aws-google-cloud/
• Oracle says open source vendors locking down licensing proves they were never really open – https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/01/17/oracle_exec_opensource_vendors_locking_down_licenses_proves_they_were_never_really_open/
• AWS Announces RE:Mars event June 5/6th – https://www.geekwire.com/2019/amazon-launches-remars-event-focusing-ai-second-stage-invite-mars/ 
• AWS Trusted Advisor announces 9 new best practices – https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/aws-trusted-advisor-expands-functionality/

Lightning Round

• AWS GA Party
  • Kinesis Data Streams
  • https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/amazon-kinesis-data-streams-announces-99-9-service-level-agreement/
  • Kinesis Data Firehose
  • https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/amazon-kinesis-data-firehose-announces-99-9-service-level-agreement/
  • Kinesis Data Streams
  • https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/amazon-kinesis-data-streams-announces-99-9-service-level-agreement/
  • EKS
  • https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/-amazon-eks-announces-99-9–service-level-agreement-/
  • ECR
  • https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/amazon-ecr-announces-99-9–service-level-agreement/
  • Secrets Manager
  • https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/AWS-Secrets-Manager-announces-service-level-agreement/
  • Amazon MQ
  • https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/amazon-mq-announces-service-level-agreement/
• AWS CodePipeline now supports deployment to S3
  • https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/aws-codepipeline-now-supports-deploying-to-amazon-s3/
• Alexa for business now offers IT Admins simplified workflows to setup multiple devices
  • https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/alexa-for-business-now-offers-it-admins-simplified-workflow-to-s/
• CloudTrail Integrations
  • • Comprehend is now integrated into cloudtrail
    • https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/amazon-comprehend-is-now-integrated-with-aws-cloudtrail/
    • Aws cloud9 now integrated to cloudtrail
    • https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/aws-cloud9-supports-aws-cloudtrail-logging/
• Rekognition video now supports object bounding boxes and more accurate object and scene detection
  • https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/object-bounding-boxes-and-more-accurate-object-and-scene-detection-are-now-available-for-amazon-rekognition-video/
• AWS Migration Hub now imports on-premise data sources like CMDB, IT Asset Management and AWS Migration Partner Discovery tool
  • https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/AWSMigrationHubImport
• Azure Monitor logs in Grafana now in Public Preview
  • https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-monitor-logs-in-grafana-now-in-public-preview/
• Amazon redshift now auto-analyzes your data in background to improve query performance
  • https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/amazon-redshift-auto-analyze/
• Amazon EK S achieves ISO and PCI Compliance
  • https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/amazon-eks-achieves-iso-and-pci-compliance/

Cool Tools

https://github.com/awslabs/aws-lambda-container-image-converter/