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Follow Up

AWS Reinvent Music Festival – https://intersect.aws/ 

Topics

General News

• Earnings
  • Amazon shares dip missing profit expectations tech giant posts 63.4billion in Q2 revenue
  • Microsoft trumpets record year with $126b in Annual Revenue up 14% as quarterly profits beat estimates
  • Google Cloud’s run rate is now over $8B
  • Alphabet announces second quarter 2019 results

• Digital Ocean gets a new CEO and CFO
• CNN report: Inside the effort to turn trump against Amazon’s bid for a $10 billion Jedi contract
• Amazon Hires Lobbyist with trump ties amid contentious pentagon cloud contest 
• Capital One hacked over 100 million customers affected

AWS

• eksctl – the EKS CLI
• AWS Released resource optimization recommendations
• Stackery lets AWS lambda developers debug their serverless programs locally on a laptop
• AWS Launches a chatbot for chatops
• AWS client VPN now adds support for split tunneling
• AWS Secrets Manager now supports VPC endpoint policies
• Announcing the new AWS Middle East Bahrain Region

Google

• Google partners with VMWare to bring virtualized workloads to GCP
• Brick by Brick: Learn GCP by setting up a kid-controllable Minecraft server

Azure

• Azure publishes guidance for secure cloud adoption by governments
• Microsoft owned LinkedIn moving to public cloud guess which platform their choosing
• Microsoft acquires data privacy and governance service BlueTalon

Lightning Round (Jonathan 8, Justin 10, Peter 1 and Guest 3): 

• AWS Backup will now automatically copy tags from resources to recovery points
• New AWS certification exam vouchers make certifying groups easier
• AWS introduces new predictive maintenance using machine learning
• AWS Budgets announces AWS chatbot integration
• New Google features for BigQuery: New persistent user-defined functions, increased concurrency limits, GIS and encryption functions, and more
• AWS EFS Encryption for data in transit has a new configuration update
• Amazon transcribe now supports websockets
• Amazon ECR now supports immutable image tags
• Amazon MSK (Managed Services for Kakfa) now PCI-DSS compliant
• AWS Cloudwatch logs insights adds cross log group querying
• AWS Spot instances now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• AWS Temporary queue client for Amazon SQS client has been released
• You can now use AWS systems manager maintenance windows to select resource groups as targets
• Azure blog post on how to use their new Azure Bastion Host
• New Digital Course on Coursera – AWS fundamentals of security risk
• Announcing GA of Azure Security Center for IOT
• Amazon ECS services now support multiple load balancer target groups
• EBS default volume type updated to gp2
• Amazon EC2 on-demand capacity reservations shared across multiple AWS accounts