Your co-hosts settle into the winter holidays by unwinding from Re:Invent and recording the last episode of The Cloud Pod of 2019.
A big thanks to this week’s sponsors:
It’s official: the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) contract has been awarded to Microsoft to modernize the Department of Defense’s IT systems to the tune of $10 billion. Amazon, which anticipated that it would be awarded the JEDI contract, believes the decision was politically motivated, and that Microsoft is under-equipped to deliver on their promises, highlighting the dangers of a vulnerability in such a sensitive system.
In case you missed it, Sundar Pichai will be taking over as the new CEO of Google. Since he was already the CEO of Google’s parent company Alphabet, don’t expect any drastic changes.
And speaking of CEOs, Safra Catz is now officially the sole CEO of Oracle following the death of her co-CEO Mark Hurd. After Amazon’s migration, she’ll have to deal with the company’s revenue challenges and falling stock prices. It’s not a great time for Oracle as the company continues to lose face with CIOs after years of licensing audits and exorbitant penalties.
Amazon may have lost the contract with the DoD, but it can proudly claim to be the cloud computation provider for the Seattle Seahawks. Not only that, but Amazon will be partnering with the entire NFL for a new safety initiative analyzing impact data with a “digital athlete.
AWS CEO Andy Jassy gave an interview in his basement and explained why AWS is in a better position to pick up large enterprise clients. As for the competition, AWS is going after Microsoft hard. Amidst all this, The New York Times put out a critical piece about Amazon or A.W.S (note the periods to comply with New York Times style). It has met heavy criticism of its own.
More personally, our own Jonathan Baker gave us a first-hand account on how he won the Re:Invent 2018 hackathon, and his hack which recently went live to benefit GameChanger Charity.
Azure dropped a few stories during re:Invent. But don’t get too excited — there’s nothing big to see here. Regardless, here are the “new” services Azure announced:
Google released three new upgrades and two new services this week.
New Services:
Improved Services:
But the biggest news for Google might be from reports that management wants to beat Amazon (or at least Microsoft) in market share in the next three years. They deny plan B is to quit the cloud business entirely. With Google’s track record of axing products that don’t succeed, they’d better do a good job of denying it — nobody wants to hitch their wagon to a platform that might get canned.
Jonathan may have taken the last point of the year, but Justin still wins the war with a total of 18 points to Jonathan’s 14. Better luck next year, Jonathan.
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