The Cloud Pod Bug Affects Millions! – Episode 55

January 22, 2020 48:13
The Cloud Pod Bug Affects Millions! – Episode 55
The Cloud Pod
The Cloud Pod Bug Affects Millions! – Episode 55

Jan 22 2020 | 48:13

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Hosted By

Jonathan Baker Justin Brodley Matthew Kohn Ryan Lucas

Show Notes

Your co-hosts discuss the National Security Agency, the Department of Defense, the UK Home Office and more on this week’s episode of The Cloud Pod.

A big thanks to this week’s sponsors:

This week’s highlights

  1. Amazon seeks a restraining order in a move to contest the JEDI contract.
  2. Our first 2020 prediction comes true in a Microsoft/IBM team-up.
  3. Jonathan takes a 200 percent lead in the Lightning Round with Amazon Cognito.

Matters of National Security

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is going to court over allegations that the $10 billion JEDI contract was awarded to Microsoft due to improper pressure from the president as part of his personal issues with Amazon CEO Jeffrey Bezos. Expect the temporary restraining order to be granted or denied on February 11. Amazon may try to drag out proceedings until after the election — and a more favorable administration.

For those of you running Windows 10 or Windows Server 2016, be sure to grab the new patch advised by Microsoft and the National Security Agency. The patch solves a vulnerability that was found in a decades-old component called CryptoAPI, and would allow an attacker to copy the digital signature of legitimate software.

Amazon Web Services — Seven Short Sweet Stories

Though AWS may be hoping to stall the JEDI contract, business as usual shows no sign of slowing. Here are the seven AWS stories we talked about this week:

Azure’s Privacy Up to Snuff

Azure is the first major cloud provider to achieve the new ISO/IEC 27701 privacy standard Privacy Information Management System certification, the new international standard. 27701 is an extension of the existing 27001 standard. This is the latest development in a continuing trend of Azure leading the pack in matters of privacy.

Google’s RISC-y Moves

Google Cloud now offers IBM Power Systems as part of their cloud solutions. It’s not RISC-V, but we’ll still count these RISC-based instances as a point for Jonathan in the 2020 predictions we made in Episode 53.

Google Cloud has released new cloud network benchmarking tools as a part of their Perfkit benchmarker. It’ll be a good thing for Google to point to and say “Hey, our network’s running fine.”

Google is expanding its Retail Acceleration Program to serve more customers in 2020. This may be a hit among the many retailers who don’t want to go to AWS (and therefore their competing retailer Amazon) for their cloud services.

On January 14, Google announced that they’ve acquired AppSheet, a leading no-code application development platform. AppSheet’s nothing nice to look at (sometimes you might as well just learn how to code), but we’ll see if this lets Google take advantage of the #NoCode buzz.

Lightning Round

Jonathan doubled his score and his lead by positing that the new Amazon Cognito has been around for a while, unnoticed, incognito.

Other headlines mentioned:

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