The Cloud Pod wins second place for the Jedi contract – Ep 45

The DOD awards the coveted Jedi contract, the MS ignite Draft, Earnings season and more this week on The Cloud Pod.

Sponsors:

• Foghorn Consulting – fogops.io/thecloudpod

Follow Up

Topics

• Pentagon awards controversial $10 billion cloud computing deal to Microsoft, spurning Amazon
• Even after Microsoft wins, JEDI saga could drag on

General News/Topics

Earnings Season

• Microsoft’s cloud shines again as it easily tops earnings targets, but Azure slows
• Despite AWS cloud growth, Amazon shares sag on lower forecast
• Google Cloud fails to lift Alphabet enough to please investors

AWS

• 200 Amazon CloudFront Points of Presence + Price Reduction
• Native Container Image Scanning in Amazon ECR
• AWS Global Accelerator Now Supports EC2 Instance Endpoints

Google

• Updates make Cloud AI platform faster and more flexible
• Advancing Customer Control in the Cloud
• Swipe right for a new guide to PCI on GKE
• Bring Your Own IP addresses: the secret to Bitly’s shortened cloud migration
• What’s happening in BigQuery: New features bring flexibility and scale to your data warehouse

Azure

• Preview: Server-side encryption with customer-managed keys for Azure Managed Disks
• New in Stream Analytics: Machine Learning, online scaling, custom code, and more

MS Ignite Draft

Jonathan

1. Digital Assistant to compete with Alexa or Google Home.  
2. 3 more Azure Regions in US
3. More or Improved tooling for Devops Community

Peter

1. Istio for AKS
2. 1 more region in Canada
3. Visual Studio Online 

Justin

1. Azure Portal Redesign
2. Sagemaker/Databricks like Competitor. 
3. Oracle on Stage

Lightning Round (Jonathan 12, Justin 16, and Guest 4): 

• AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate Now Supports Custom Domains
• Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) Adds Support for Change Streams
• AWS Managed Services (AMS) Now Offers Managed Landing Zones
• AWS Batch Introduces New Allocation Strategies
• “Alexa, I’m running late” – Alexa for Business enables Alexa users to inform their next meeting they will be late
• Amazon Transcribe Now Supports Australian English Speech-to-Text in Real Time
• AWS License Manager now helps you easily identify Windows and SQL Server License Included instances
• Increase AWS Single Sign-On security with multi-factor authentication using authenticator apps
• Amazon RDS for Oracle adds support to invoke EMCTL commands for Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
• Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Supports User Authentication with Kerberos and Microsoft Active Directory
• AWS Snowball Edge now supports volume sizes of up to 10 TB
• AWS Elastic Beanstalk Adds Support for PHP 7.3 and .NET Core 3.0
• AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) Private Certificate Authority (CA) now enforces name constraints in imported CA certificates