Special guest Josh Stella joins us to talk about the Capital One breach.  AWS releases PartiQL, one query language to rule them all, Microsoft licensing changes and more. Plus we talk more about Josh’s company @Fuguehq in Cool Tools.

Sponsors:

• Foghorn Consulting – fogops.io/thecloudpod

Follow Up

Capital One

• A Technical Analysis of the capital one cloud misconfiguration breach

Topics

General News

• Cloudflare reportedly files to go public in September

AWS

• Amazon acquires enterprise flash storage startup E8 Storage
• Amazon sues former AWS exec for joining rival Google division as cloud wars escalate
• AWS CloudFormation Update – Public Coverage Roadmap & CDK Goodies 
• Introducing the preparing for the california consumer privacy act whitepaper
• Announcing PartiQL: One query language for all your data

Google

• Google debuts migration tool for its Anthos hybrid cloud platform
• New protections for users, data, and apps in the cloud

Azure

• Introducing Azure Dedicated Host
• Cisco and Microsoft integrate their Kubernetes container platforms
• Azure Archive Storage is better with new lower pricing
• Microsoft has updated licensing rights for dedicated cloud hosts
  • https://twitter.com/Werner/status/1158458860790779905 
  • https://twitter.com/RobertEnslin/status/1159225726949720064?s=20 
• Microsoft launches new Azure Security Lab, offering up to $300k to anyone who can hack its public cloud

Lightning Round (Jonathan 8, Justin 11, and Guest 3): 

• AWS Blog: Towards a Bastion-less world
• AWS ParallelCluster with AWS Directory Services Authentication
• AWS Amplify framework adds predictions categories
• AWS CodePipeline Adds Pipeline Status to Pipeline Listing
• AWS CloudFormation now supports higher StackSets limits
• Amazon FSx Now Supports Windows Shadow Copies for Restoring Files to Previous Versions
• Amazon MSK adds support for Apache Kafka version 2.2.1 and expands regions
• Amazon QuickSight adds support for custom colors, embedding for all user types and new regions
• Amazon API Gateway supports secured connectivity between REST APIs & Amazon Virtual Private Clouds in additional regions
• Azure has released new Azure Databricks pre-purchase plans and new regional availability
• Google made Web application vulnerability scans for GKE and Compute Engine now Generally Available
• AWS EMR can now achieve 3x better Spark performance with the release of EMR 5.25.0

Cool Tools

• https://Fugue.co