Episode 12
This week we talk about Athena Workgroups, Spotinst AWS partnership, Spatial Anchors in Azure and Microsoft and Google handle several employee issues.
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Show Topics
Athena now supports Workgroups to segment/isolated data
Azure has GA’s several new features to create more reliable event driven applications in Azure
Spotinst Announces partnership with AWS
Google Rethinks Federated Identity with Continuous Access evaluation protocol
Azure Announces Spatial anchors for collaboration and mixed reality apps
Microsoft Workers protest army contract
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says company will not walk away from contract
Google ends forced Arbitration for Employees –
Lightning Round
EFS now supports tag on create – https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/02/amazon-efs-now-supports-tag-on-create/
AWS Code commit now supports programmatic creations of commits – https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/02/aws-codecommit-supports-programmatic-creation-of-commits-contain/
Performance Insights now supports counter metrics for RDS Postgres, RDS Mysql and Aurora Mysql – https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/02/Performance-Insights-Counter-Metrics-MS-PG-AMS/
Amazon Ec2 Fleets now let you increase target capacity limits – https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/02/amazon-EC2-fleet-now-lets-you-increase-the-fleets-target-capacity-limits/
Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager adds support for shorter backup intervals – https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/02/amazon-data-lifecycle-manager-adds-support-for-shorter-backup-intervals/
Azure Monitor aiops now supports alerts with dynamic thresholds- https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-azure-monitor-aiops-alerts-with-dynamic-thresholds/
Mysql and Maria RDS instances now support T3 and r5 instances
- https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/02/amazon-rds-for-mysql-and-mariadb-now-support-t3-instance-types/
- https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/02/amazon-rds-for-mysql-and-mariadb-now-support-r5-instance-types/
Amazon FSX for windows now supports on-premise access – https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/02/amazon-fsx-for-windows-file-server-now-supports-on-premises-access/
Robomaker now supports multiple languages, tagging and cloudformation – https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/02/robomaker-now-supports-new-languages-tagging-and-cloudformation/
Azure now supports typescript in Functions – https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/improving-the-typescript-support-in-azure-functions/
Azure announces GA of Java support in Azure functions –
AWS Well Architected tool now supports on-prem well architected architecture reviews – https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/02/aws-well-architected-tool-now-supports-architecture-reviews-for-/
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