Episode 87 &#8211; The Cloud Pod gets the AWS Perspective

On The Cloud Pod this week, your hosts eagerly await next week’s Google product announcements so they can update their old phones.

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Amazon API Gateway enhances the security of APIs to protect data from client spoofing and man-in-the-middle attacks with mutual TLS support. Twice as nice and great for the financial industry!
️‍♀️ Amazon Detective now analyzes IAM role sessions to assist security analysts in diagnosing issues and understanding their root cause. The Detective is on the case!
Amazon CloudWatch Agent is now Open Source and included with Amazon Linux 2. Not really a fan of doing a multi-billion dollar company’s job…
AWS Security Hub now supports viewing patch compliance findings across AWS accounts. Now the question is, do people shadow patch so no one knows they’re out of date?
️ AWS Perspective is a new AWS Solutions Implementation that helps customers build detailed architecture diagrams of workloads. Be wary of how much this will cost to run.
Three new AWS Wavelength Zones on Verizon’s 5G Ultra Wideband network are now available in Atlanta, New York City and Washington, D.C. With COVID shutting everything down and more things going online, this tech could be amazing.

⚰️ Google Cloud makes it easier to manage Windows Server VMs. Nice — it’s a tool that gives you a picture of the blue screen of death.
Export data from Cloud SQL without impacting performance. Seems relatively simple to implement and so much added value.

New disaster recovery capability with the preview of Azure NetApp Files cross region replication. NetApp should see the writing on the wall.
️ Microsoft’s newest sustainable datacenter region coming to Arizona in 2021. Not sure Arizona is the place we would choose for a data center that relies on outside air to cool.
☎️ Microsoft announces the “first” fully managed communication platform from a major cloud provider. Not sure they’re the first?
Introducing new Azure AI capabilities to meet the challenges of safely reopening during COVID-19. Time to hire a couple of brutes to kick out the people who break the rules.
️ Introducing Azure Orbital to process satellite data at cloud-scale. This is an interesting one!
AT&T-powered guardian device with Azure Sphere enables highly secured, simple and scalable connectivity from anywhere. They’re basically saying cellphones are better than Wi-Fi.
Azure’s multi-cloud, multi-edge hybrid capabilities provide a holistic and seamless approach to run and manage apps anywhere. Good luck figuring out how much this will cost you.
Protect multi-cloud workloads with new Azure security innovations. We really like the name “Defender” for the product suite.

TCP Lightning Round

⚡ Justin races ahead by taking this week’s point, leaving scores at Justin (13 points), Jonathan (seven points) and Ryan (four points).

Show Notes