Episode 21: The Cloud Pod exceeds quarterly listener expectations

A New Cost Management blog, APAC gets a new AWS region and Docker Hub gets hacked. Plus Alphabet, Microsoft, and Amazon all release earnings and we break out the highs and lows. With special guest, Ian Mckay @iann0036 talks about his new AWS tool www.former2.com

Sponsors:

Foghorn Consulting – https://fogops.io/thecloudpod

Follow Up

• Apple actually reducing dependence on Amazon Cloud services

Topics

• Ford Partners with Amazon to build cloud service connected cars
• New AWS cost management blog launches
• New Query for AWS Regions, Endpoints, and More using AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store
• Earnings Season
  • Microsoft beats Wall street expectations, posting $30.6B in revenue, powered by cloud division
  • AWS revenue approaches $8 Billion in Q1, up 41% compared to last year
  • Despite Cloud growth, slowing revenue at Alphabet sends investors fleeing
• AMD EPYC-Powered Amazon EC2 T3a instances
• Now Open – AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region
• Slack renegotiated its deal with AWS in 2018, will spend 212 million more through 2023
• 190,000 user accounts exposed in hack of Docker Hub Database
• Microsoft container registry unaffected by recent docker hub data exposure
• VMWare brings its virtualization software to Microsoft Azure
• AWS Deep Racer League Virtual Circuit is now Open

Lightning Round

• AWS Single Sign-On now offers certificate customization to support your corporate policies
• Amazon EKS supports EC2 A1 instances as public preview
• Announcing Azure Backup support to move recovery service vaults
• Optimize Performance using Azure Database for PostgreSQL recommendations
• Amazon RDS now supports per-second billing
• AWS Service Catalog announces Tag Updating
• AWS specifies the IP address ranges for Amazon DynamoDB endpoints
• Efficiently scale ML and other compute workloads on NVIDIA’s T4 GPU, now GA
• Serverless automation using Powershell preview in Azure Functions
• DynamoDBMapper now supports Amazon DynamoDB transactional API calls
• Now you can tag Amazon DynamoDB tables when you create them
• AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store Introduces Advanced Parameters
• AWS Systems Manager now supports use of Parameter Store at Higher API Throughput
• Azure Accelerate supercomputing in the cloud with Cray Clusterstor
• AWS Security Token Service (STS) now supports enabling the global STS endpoint to issue session tokens compatible with all AWS Regions
• AWS Elastic Fabric Adapter is Now Generally Available

Cool Tools

https://former2.com/ with guest Ian McKay