Episode 86 &#8211; Google Cloud Next Digital Finally Ends

On The Cloud Pod this week, your hosts just want to be wowed and Ryan is off motorcycling somewhere in the desert.

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Business App Platform Progress will acquire automation technology company Chef for $220 million. That’s a bargain price when you look at their recurring revenue.
Pentagon reaffirms Microsoft as winner of $10B JEDI cloud contract. Nobody says the government is the most efficient at doing anything so picking the second best cloud vendor is unsurprising.
⚔️ AWS has responded to the Pentagon reaffirmation of Azure with a harshly worded blog post. Well, life’s just not fair.
Foghorn Consulting (sponsor alert!) are teaming up with Hashicorp and sponsoring a virtual Q&A with Kelsey Hightower on September 24. Head to The Cloud Pod Slack page after to discuss!

☁️ AWS named Cloud Leader in Gartner’s Infrastructure & Platform Services Magic Quadrant. Gartner, are you listening to The Cloud Pod?
Amazon CloudFront now supports Transport Layer Security v1.3 for improved performance and security. Good move for privacy, but will cause a lot of pain.
Amazon CloudWatch now monitors Prometheus metrics to reduce monitoring tools needed for application performance degradation and failures. Might be worth the money — we’ll see.
Bezos’s likely Amazon successor is an executive made in Bezos’s image. Considering the source, are they floating this idea to see how people react?
AWS turns its focus to the space sector with appointment of director of space policy. We can’t get over the fact Amazon has a space division…
AWS Single Sign-On (SSO) adds support to automate access across AWS Organizations accounts. This is super helpful AWS!
Enjoy a performance benefit of up to 40% at a 20% lower cost with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud T4g. Why would you deal with the complexity of event driven infrastructure?!
AWS and Docker extend collaboration to launch new features in Docker Desktop. This is a great way to have your developers break production.
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service now supports assigning EC2 security groups to Kubernetes pods. We think this is great!

‍♀️ New Google Cloud documentation feature makes it easier to run code samples. Pretty cool, but clearly a slow week for Google Cloud Next.
‍‍ Google Cloud API Gateway is now available in public beta. Surprised this isn’t just Apigee?
️ Google Cloud’s Confidential Computing portfolio is expanding. This news was met with an unimpressed silence.
️ Suggested queries beta launches for Cloud Logging to analyze logs quickly. This is really scraping the bottom of the “announcements” barrel.

A fully managed service for Spring Boot apps is now generally available with Azure Spring Cloud. A pricing model only VMWare and Microsoft could love.
Connector for AWS in Azure Cost Management + Billing is now generally available. Free for the first 90 days, then turn it off.
️ Visual Studio Code extension for Azure Cache for Redis enables access to caches under an Azure subscription and view data. We had a hard time figuring out what the use case is for this.
Nutanix and Microsoft will swap license credits under the new Azure deal. Hardware vendors are having to find new ways to make money these days.
Azure Cost Management + Billing’s cost allocation preview for Enterprise and Microsoft Customer agreement accounts are now available. Not huge news, really just a “you’re welcome” from Microsoft.

Oracle: Welcome Back Larry

Oracle beats Microsoft and wins bid for video sharing platform TikTok in U.S. We expect AWS to sue.

TCP Lightning Round

⚡Justin increases his lead again by taking this week’s point, leaving scores at Justin (12 points), Jonathan (seven points) and Ryan (four points).

Show Notes