Justin is back from vacation and gets the podcast back on track. Justin, Peter and Jonathan talk about their guest spot on roaring elephants and Justin’s AWS lambda fireside chat video. Elasticsearch sues AWS over trademark infringement, AWS gets its IQ raised, Oracle gets fedramp certified cloud regions and Google enhances their github app for cloud build.  Plus the world famous lightning round.

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• Foghorn Consulting – fogops.io/thecloudpod

Follow Up

Topics

Roaring Elephant https://roaringelephant.org/2019/10/08/episode-161-the-cloudpod-weather-report-part-1/

AWS 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Aq2DIMRIIg&t=1s 

General News/Topics

• Oracle Launches FedRAMP-Authorized Government Cloud Regions
• Oracle will add 2,000 jobs and 20 data centers in cloud infrastructure push
• AWS faces Elasticsearch lawsuit for trademark infringement
• Ansible holds the pole position for automation, but is it too good and too small?

AWS

• Now use AWS Systems Manager to execute complex Ansible playbooks
• AWS DataSync News – S3 Storage Class Support and Much More
• AWS IQ – Get Help from AWS Certified Third Party Experts on Demand
• EC2 High Memory Update – New 18 TB and 24 TB Instances LR?
• Amazon EKS Windows Container Support now Generally Available

Google

• Cloud Build brings advanced CI/CD capabilities to GitHub
• Optimize your Google Cloud environment with new AI-based recommenders
• Announcing updates to AutoML Vision Edge, AutoML Video, and Video Intelligence API
• Extending Stackdriver Logging across clouds and providers with new BindPlane integration

Azure

• Announcing Azure Storage Explorer 1.10.0
• Azure Sentinel general availability: A modern SIEM reimagined in the cloud
• Windows Virtual Desktops is now available worldwide
• Microsoft and Pivotal launch Azure Spring Cloud service in preview
• Introducing the preview of direct-upload to Azure managed disks

Lightning Round (Jonathan 11, Justin 15, and Guest 4): 

• AWS Marketplace now supports Paid Container Software on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
• Amazon ElastiCache announces online configuration changes for all planned operations with the latest Redis 5.0.5
• Amazon ECS supports Automated Draining for Spot Instances running ECS Services
• Amazon Linux 2 AMI with .NET Core now includes Mono
• Azure Data Factory Mapping Data Flows are now generally available
• Customers can now provided keys with Azure Storage Service Encryption
• Now use PrivateLink Endpoint Policies to better control Amazon ECR access 
• AWS Client VPN now supports Multi Factor Authentication for Active Directory
• Amazon RDS for Oracle Supports User Authentication with Kerberos and Microsoft Active Directory
• DynamoDBMapper now supports optimistic locking for Amazon DynamoDB transactional API calls
• AWS Certificate Manager Private Certificate Authority now includes 9 new certificate templates
• Announcing the latest release of AWS Thinkbox Deadline 10.1 with performance enhancements and ease of use improvements
• Amazon Elastic Container Service now supports IntelliSense in Visual Studio Code
• You can now Queue Purchases of EC2 RIs
• AWS Backup Enhances SNS Notifications to filter on job status
• AWS Direct Connect Announces Resiliency Toolkit to Help Customers Order Resilient Connectivity to AWS
• AWS Snowball Edge now supports offline software updates for Snowball Edge devices in air-gapped environments
• Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose adds cross-account delivery to Amazon Elasticsearch Service
• Application Load Balancer and Network Load Balancer Add New Security Policies for Forward Secrecy with More Stringent Protocols and Ciphers