Episode 89: Azure gives The Cloud Pod an advisor score of 100

October 25, 2020tcp.fm01:01:5455.7 mb0 Comments
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On The Cloud Pod this week, Ryan is shocked the rest of the team managed so well without him while he was on vacation.

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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.
  • Cloud Academy, which provides an intuitive and scalable training platform to meet teams wherever they are along the cloud maturity curve. Use the code THECLOUDPOD for 50% off its training platform. 

 This week’s highlights

General News: On The Chopping Block

  • 💔 IBM is splitting itself into two public companies to focus onhigh-margin cloud computing. We’re not sure about this strategy so we’ll keep an eye on this one.
  • 😃 Google willgive up direct controlof the Knative cloud open-source project. We’re glad to see this is getting closer to a resolution.
  • 👩‍🍳 Business application platformProgress is making job cutsat recently acquired enterprise automation technology company Chef. The cuts included part of the Chef engineering team — when you’re buying a product company, that doesn’t seem like a good play. 

Amazon Web Services: In Happier News

  • 👍 Amazon S3 on Outpostsexpands object storageto on-premises environments. If only this had existed a year ago!   
  • 🥳 AWS Systems Manager now enables developers to view, author and publish Automation runbooksdirectly from Visual Studio Code. We like this!
  • 🥂 Amazon launches several new features withRedis 6 compatibilityto Amazon ElastiCache for Redis. These enhancements are making it well on its way to being useful on a big project.
  • 💲 Amazon SageMaker leads the way in machine learning andannounces up to 18% lower priceson GPU instances. That’s a huge price cut that we think is great!
  • 🚔 Three new security and accesscontrol featuresare now available in the Amazon S3 update. This is a big improvement for customer experience.  
  • 🤓 AWS launches a new Identity and Access Management (IAM)tool called IAMCTL. Ryan is nerding out about this. 
  • 🔥 AWS Compute Optimizer now analyzes additionalAmazon Elastic Block Store metricsto generate enhanced Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance type recommendations. A great solution to a problem that has burned us all at some point.  
  • 🤷‍♂️ Preview AWSLambda with extensionsfor operational tools for monitoring, observability, security and governance. We thought for sure that PureSec would be on this list.     
  • 💀 Amazon CloudWatch Lambda Insights,now available in preview, to monitor, troubleshoot and optimize the performance of AWS Lambda functions. This is what we wanted AWS X-Ray to do but it never did.   
  • 😺 ManageEC2 Spot limitsfrom the Amazon EC2 console and the Service Quotas console. This is pretty great!
  • 🚒 AWS makes the open-sourceCloudFormation Guardcompliance tool generally available. Good to have a rules-based engine! 

Google Cloud Platform: Missing Parts

  • 🦀 Google launchesHealthcare Consent Management APIto give healthcare application developers and clinical researchers a simple way to manage health data. A nice appetizer but where’s the rest?  
  • 🏃‍♀️ Google introducesHTTP/gRPC server streamingfor Cloud Run, enabling faster server response times for applications. More features for Cloud Run is great but then you get the next announcement…  
  • ❓ Googleextends Cloud Functionsto build end-to-end solutions for several key use cases. Who is even running Ruby on Rails in production these days?
  • 👨‍🚀 Understand production performance with the newGoogle Cloud Profilerhistory view. The application performance measurement space is hard and crowded.  

Azure: They’ve Got The Goods

  • 💉 Optimize Azure workloads with the newAzure Advisor Score. This is a great place to find out what’s broken in your Azure account.  
  • 🍹 NewGitHub Actions for Azureenables deployments to multiple Azure services. Drink the GitHub Actions Kool-Aid with us. 
  • 💳 Azure Machine Learninghelps customers stay aheadof challenges with new features announced at Microsoft Ignite. To code or not to code?  

TCP Lightning Round

⚡ Justin is back with a bang and takes this week’s point, leaving scores at Justin (14 points), Jonathan (eight points) and Ryan (four points). 

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