Gartner releases the new magic quadrant for IaaC and PaaS Cloud providers and Amazon continues to dominate.  AT&T gets busy with the cloud, Google introduces spinnaker and Microsoft invests 1B in OpenAI this week on The Cloud Pod.

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Topics

• Introducing the Amazon Corretto Crypto Provider for improved Crypto Performance
• Advancing Microsoft Azure reliability
• Introducing proximity placement groups
• IBM inks multi-billion dollar cloud computing deal with AT&T
• Microsoft & AT&T sign $2B+ cloud infrastructure and services deal
• The case against Amazon: Why the tech giant is facing antitrust scrutiny on two continents
• Arrested Development: Cops Dump Amazon’s facial-recognition API after struggling to make the thing work properly
• AWS named as leader in Gartner’s Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Magic Quadrant for 9th consecutive year
• Introducing Spinnaker for Google Cloud Platform – CD made easy
• Azure is making it easier to bring your linux based web apps to Azure App Service
• Microsoft will invest $1B for OpenAI aimed at improving Azure cloud platform

Lightning Round (Jonathan 8, Justin 9, Peter 1 and Guest 3): 

• Azure is Silo Busting with new Multi-Protocol access for the Azure Data Lake
• Azure Monitor for containers with Prometheus now in preview
• Amazon ECR now supports increased repository and image limits
• AWS Cost Explorer now supports Usage Based Forecasts
• AWS Systems Manager Automation now makes it easier for discovering documents
• AWS Device Farm improves device start up time to enable instant access to devices
• AWS Systems Manager Distributor makes it easier to create distributable software packages
• Amazon ECS Console now enables simplified AWS app mesh integration
• Amazon has released a new Quick Solution to create AI-Driven Social Media Dashboards
• Amazon Reportedly will hold music festival during re:Invent cloud conference
• Google introduces the What-If tool for Cloud AI platform models