
On The Cloud Pod this week, your hosts eagerly await next week’s Google product announcements so they can update their old phones.
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- Foghorn Consulting, which provides full-stack cloud solutions with a focus on strategy, planning and execution for enterprises seeking to take advantage of the transformative capabilities of AWS, Google Cloud and Azure.
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This week’s highlights
- 🚨 Amazon is helpingstop the insanity with patching.
- 🚨Google is tiredafter its event but has still managed togive us new tools.
- 🚨 Microsoft’snew data centeris anigloo in the desert.
Amazon Web Services: Do the Work For Us
- 🦝 Amazon API Gatewayenhances the security of APIsto protect data from client spoofing and man-in-the-middle attacks with mutual TLS support. Twice as nice and great for the financial industry!
- 🕵️♀️ Amazon Detectivenow analyzes IAM role sessionsto assist security analysts in diagnosing issues and understanding their root cause. The Detective is on the case!
- 🦥 Amazon CloudWatch Agent isnow Open Sourceand included with Amazon Linux 2. Not really a fan of doing a multi-billion dollar company’s job…
- 🧩 AWS Security Hub now supportsviewing patch compliance findingsacross AWS accounts. Now the question is, do people shadow patch so no one knows they’re out of date?
- 🏛️ AWS Perspective is anew AWS Solutions Implementationthat helps customers build detailed architecture diagrams of workloads. Be wary of how much this will cost to run.
- 🌊 Threenew AWS Wavelength Zoneson Verizon’s 5G Ultra Wideband network are now available in Atlanta, New York City and Washington, D.C. With COVID shutting everything down and more things going online, this tech could be amazing.
Google Cloud Platform: Blue Screen Of Death
- ⚰️ Google Cloud makes it easier tomanage Windows Server VMs. Nice — it’s a tool that gives you a picture of the blue screen of death.
- 😀 Exportdata from Cloud SQLwithout impacting performance. Seems relatively simple to implement and so much added value.
Azure: We Forgot About Ignite
- 🌀 New disaster recovery capability with thepreview of Azure NetApp Filescross region replication. NetApp should see the writing on the wall.
- 🌶️ Microsoft’snewest sustainable datacenterregion coming to Arizona in 2021. Not sure Arizona is the place we would choose for a data center that relies on outside air to cool.
- ☎️ Microsoft announces the“first” fully managed communication platformfrom a major cloud provider. Not sure they’re the first?
- 😷 Introducingnew Azure AI capabilitiesto meet the challenges of safely reopening during COVID-19. Time to hire a couple of brutes to kick out the people who break the rules.
- 🛰️ IntroducingAzure Orbitalto process satellite data at cloud-scale. This is an interesting one!
- 👼 AT&T-powered guardian device withAzure Sphereenables highly secured, simple and scalable connectivity from anywhere. They’re basically saying cellphones are better than Wi-Fi.
- 🤑 Azure’s multi-cloud, multi-edge hybrid capabilities provide a holistic and seamless approach torun and manage apps anywhere. Good luck figuring out how much this will cost you.
- 👮 Protectmulti-cloud workloadswith new Azure security innovations. We really like the name “Defender” for the product suite.
TCP Lightning Round
⚡ Justin races ahead by taking this week’s point, leaving scores at Justin (13 points), Jonathan (seven points) and Ryan (four points).
Other headlines mentioned:
- New 4-course series on Coursera teaches vital product-management skills
- AWS Systems Manager Explorer now supports grouping and customization of operational data sources
- Amazon Redshift announces spatial functionality enhancements
- Amazon Transcribe adds support for automatic language identification
- Enforce encryption for Amazon Elastic File System resources using AWS IAM
- Announcing event logging and self-upgrade capabilities in SSM Agent, with new version 3.0
- Amazon MSK now supports SASL/SCRAM authentication with usernames and passwords secured by AWS Secrets Manager
- Accelerate analytics and AI workloads with Photon powered Delta Engine on Azure Databricks
- Amazon CloudFront announces support for Brotli compression
- AWS Budgets now offers Daily Granularity for Cost & Usage Budgets
- Amazon RDS for SQL Server Now Supports Native Backup/Restore on DB Instances with Read Replicas
- Elasticsearch Audit Logs now available on Amazon Elasticsearch Service
- AWS Lambda adds console support for visualizing AWS Step Functions workflows
- Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server now in preview