This week we talk about Cloud Center of Excellence, New Encryption options, open source update on Firecracker and more.  Elise Carmichael (twitter: @uncfleece) from @tricentis joins us to talk about some of their tools.

Sponsors:

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

Topics:

• New – Updated Pay-Per-Use Pricing Model for AWS Config Rules
• Google Says some G-Suite Passwords were stored in Plaintext since 2005
• Google Cloud – Optimize your organizations cloud journey with a Cloud Center of Excellence
• Amazon RDS for SQL Server increases database limit per database instance up to 100
• AWS Opt-In to Default Encryption for New EBS Volumes
• AWS Ground Station – Ready to ingest & process Satellite Data
• Firecracker Open Source Update May 2019
• Application Management made easier with Kubernetes Operators on GCP Marketplace
• Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports Always On Availability Groups for SQL Server 2017
• Github launches Sponsors, lets you pay your favorite open source contributors
• Manage your cross cloud spend using Azure Cost management

Lightning Round (Jonathan 5, Justin 9, Peter 1 and Guest 3):

• AWS now allows you to enable Hibernations on EC2 instances at the same time as you launch the AMI
• Amazon Document DB (with MongoDB Compatibility) is now SOC 1, 2, 3 Compliant
• AWS Marketplace enables long term contracts for AMI products
• AWS Budgets now Supports Variable Budget Targets for Cost and Usage Budgets
• Amazon RDS Recommendations Provide Best Practice Guidance for Amazon Aurora
• All US Azure regions now approved for FedRAMP High impact level
• AWS Backup Now Supports AWS CloudFormation
• AWS Step Functions Adds Support for Callback Patterns in Workflows
• Amazon API Gateway Now Supports Tag-Based Access Control and Tags on Additional Resources
• AWS CodeCommit Now Supports Including Application Code When Creating a Repository with AWS CloudFormation
• CloudWatch Logs adds support for percentiles in metric filters
• Amazon DynamoDB adaptive capacity is now instant
• Amazon Connect Decreases US Telephony Pricing by 26% in the US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon) regions
• AWS Transfer for SFTP now supports AWS CloudFormation and host key import
• Amazon RDS for SQL Server now Supports SQL Server Audit
• Azure NetApp Files is now generally available

Cool Tools

www.tricentis.com