This week on The Cloud Pod, Amazon S3 deprecates path style routing, then changes their mind.  Azure reliability suffers in the first part of the year, and Google summarizes their IO cloud announcements.

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Topics

• Amazon S3 will no longer support path-style API requests starting September 30th, 2020
  • https://github.com/SummitRoute/aws_breaking_changes
  • https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-s3-path-deprecation-plan-the-rest-of-the-story/
• Azure App Service update: Free Linux Tier, Python and Java support, and more
• New – The Next Generation (I3en) of I/O-Optimized EC2 Instances
• Azure SQL Data Warehouse releases new capabilities for performance and security
• Google Cloud at I/O: The news you need to know
• Steve Singh stepping down as Docker CEO
• AWS Secrets Manager supports more client-side caching libraries to improve secrets availability and reduce cost
• Microsoft may be all-in on cloud computing, but Azure Reliability is lagging the competition
  • https://searchcloudcomputing.techtarget.com/news/252463190/Microsoft-to-reduce-Azure-outages-with-Project-Tardigrade

Lightning Round (Jonathan 5, Justin 7, Peter 1 and Guest 3)

• Azure has improved their portal with improvements to search, change tracking, faster and more intuitive resource browsing
• Azure Integration Services has simplified adoption of serverless with Azure Functions including new SAP connectors, Logic Apps and API Management
• Azure now introduces health to azure deployment manager to detect problems with your deployment and automate rollback processes
• Amazon and its Partners can now resell VMWare on AWS
• AWS Opsworks for Chef Automate now supports Chef Automate 2
• AWS Storage Gateway enhances Access controls for SMB Shares to Store and access objects in S3 Buckets
• AWS Systems Manager Patch Manager supports Microsoft Application Patching now
• Reservation Expiration Alerts now available in AWS Cost Explorer
• Amazon Cognito launches enhanced user password reset API for administrators. This allows an icognito Admin to reset temporary or permanent passwords for their end users.
• You can now Share Encrypted AMI’s across accounts to launch instances in a single step on projectAWS
• Oracle has launched new Tokyo Region
• Google has released Global Replication for Cloud Bigtable as GA
• Amazon EKS adds support for Public IP addresses within Cluster VPC’s
• You can now create fine-grained session permissions using AWS identity and access management (IAM) managed policies
• AWS Releases additional Preconfigured examples for FreeRTOS on Armv8-M
• You can now monitor emails in your Workmail Organization using cloudwatch metrics and logs
• Launch encrypted EBS backed EC2 instances from unencrypted AMI’s in a single step