Episodes

  • TCP Talks: SAP Cloud Migrations with Protera CTO, Patrick Osterhaus

    TCP Talks: SAP Cloud Migrations with Protera CTO, Patrick Osterhaus
    Aug 31 2020
    Note: This interview is part of a paid sponsorship between Protera and The Cloud Pod. In this TCP Talks episode, Justin Brodley and Jonathan Baker talk with Patrick Osterhaus, CTO and Founder of Protera Technologies, a preeminent provider for SAP and cloud managed services. Patrick discusses how the cloud, COVID-19, and work-from-home are influencing SAP and legacy enterprise software packages today, and Protera’s goal to provide the very best SAP services available on the cloud. Covering issues around migration to SAP, Patrick takes the opportunity to reflect on Protera’s history, while also addressing corporate IT integration. “We call this the transformation journey-site assessment, specific to each client’s needs, looking beyond SAP to the SAP systems, we use a tool we call [Protera] FlexBridgeSM,” notes Patrick. Featured Guest Name: Patrick Osterhaus What he does: Patrick is CTO and Founder of Protera Technologies. Key quote: “The complexity of moving to public cloud is getting those non-cloud native applications into the cloud, and then looking at the transformation of those applications once they’re in the cloud.” Where to find him: LinkedIn | Twitter Key Takeaways The best way to prepare for cloud migration is what Patrick calls “the journey,” which involves a site assessment of the customer environment and understanding how everything on-premise, or in a hybrid environment, is working together. COVID-19 has accelerated migration to the cloud and has forced companies to plan their disaster recovery systems. Patrick says businesses aren’t just thinking about their earpiece systems — the thinking extends to ancillary systems like CRMs and web access systems — “all these systems to be connected and have it fully available in the cloud as a backup.” He adds, “We’ve seen a natural interest in what is good practice,” which is to have a protection plan for critical SAP applications. Working with many compliance-heavy industries, such as financial or military and defense clients, Protera stresses has learned the importance of not only application security, but also the physical security necessary around data centers. He says the discussing the real-world protection of data centers — “who owns the data, how it’s governed, how it’s protected” — is important to raise with the client. Resources Here’s what was mentioned in the episode SAP: Systems in Application Products and Data Processing “What is DevOps?“: An AWS blog post explaining the DevOps model Microsoft Azure: Cloud Computing Services Amazon Redshift: Cloud Computing Services Google Cloud Platform: Cloud Computing Services DR system: Multi-cloud disaster recovery system “What is SAP HANA?”: A Protera blog post SAP GUI: Used to initiate a session in a SAP server “VDI Solutions“: Virtual Desktop Infrastructure AWS: Amazon Web Services AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK): An open-source development framework to model and provision cloud application resources FlexBridgeSM: Protera FlexBridgeSM migration software “Infrastructure as Code” (IaC): A Microsoft blog post describing the IaC managing model “What is Hybrid Cloud?”: A Microsoft blog post defining what a hybrid cloud is “What is the Public Cloud?“: A Microsoft blog post defining the terms of the public cloud Top quotes in this episode [6:14] “And the big challenge with SAP, in my opinion, is they have such a tremendous customer base that is already running in their own data centers … and the challenges to make that transition. And being that they’re not just the number of customers and the number of SAP systems each of those customers has, but just the tremendous volumes of data. And the dependency that their whole business has on SAP as the lifeblood of the organization, not just as the data itself, which is obviously very important.” [13:29] “I joke, [making the cloud decision is like] the Coke versus Pepsi. It’s the two challengers and people certainly have biases … people have very strong opinions on each side, and we try to satisfy [customers] as best we can. So we keep our certifications up on the providers, try to keep our team up [to date] with all the new developments, which in and of itself is always a challenge.” [16:38:] “You know, [competition between cloud providers] reminds me of the 90’s when we had the browser wars in that it’s every single week, there’s a new feature. And, it’s a very exciting time.”
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    38 mins
  • Episode 92: The Cloud Pod is first in, first out

    Episode 92: The Cloud Pod is first in, first out
    Oct 30 2020
    On The Cloud Pod this week, the team discusses the conspiracy theory surrounding media coverage of daylight savings and continues counting down to re:Invent. A big thanks to this week’s sponsors: 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 Amazon sells a whole bunch of stuff on its website. Google is nosy and wants people to know what files you’ve been looking at. Azure wants people to think more with its new knowledge center. Amazon Web Services: Getting Excited for re:Invent Jeff Barr shares how AWS helped to make Prime Day a reality for its customers. Congratulations to the Amazon Ops and Dev teams for this amazing feat. AWS Global Accelerator announces the ability to override destination ports used to route traffic to an application endpoint. Pretty neat! AWS is launching AWS Distro for Open Telemetry in preview. We’re excited to see what this builds out to become. AWS launches fully managed publishing/subscribing messaging service enabling message delivery to a large number of subscribers. This is great and we already have use cases for this. Amazon introduces the AWS Load Balancer Controller to simplify operations and save costs — a huge win for anyone using EKS today. AWS CloudFormation now supports increased limits on five service quotas. Sounds good unless you’re trying to make smaller CloudFormation templates. Google Cloud Platform: A Bit Confused GCP is introducing new Scale-in controls for Compute Engine, to prevent the autoscaler from reducing a managed instance group size too far. We’re a bit confused by the term “Scale-in.” GCP improves security and governance in PostgreSQL with Cloud SQL. Great for companies that are highly audited. Google updates Firebase with new emulator and data analysis tools. Really great stuff! Azure: Busy Building Services It Promised For JEDI Microsoft announces multiple new features for Azure VPN Gateway in public preview. Some of these are amazing! Azure introduces the Knowledge center to simplify access to pre-loaded sample data. That electrical smell is the Team’s synapses firing on this one. Azure has announced that it will establish its first cloud datacenter region in Taiwan. It feels a bit like they’re trying to sell this as a good idea. TCP Lightning Round Jonathan was on his game and took this week’s point, leaving scores at Justin (15 points), Jonathan (nine points) and Ryan (five points). Other headlines mentioned: Amazon Redshift announces support for Lambda UDFs and enables tokenizationAmazon AppFlow supports importing custom dimensions and metrics from Google Analytics to Amazon S3AWS Shield now provides global and per-account event summaries to all AWS customersAmazon SNS now supports selecting the origination number when sending SMS messagesAWS App Mesh supports cross account sharing of ACM Private Certificate AuthorityAmazon RDS for Oracle supports managed disaster recovery (DR) with Oracle Data Guard physical standby databaseAWS Step Functions now supports Amazon Athena service integrationAmazon Kendra now supports custom data sourcesAnnouncing two new on-demand digital courses for Game TechNew digital course: Advanced Testing Practices using AWS DevOps Tools Pause and Resume Workloads on I3, M5ad, and R5ad Instances with Amazon EC2 HibernationNow customize your Session Manager shell environment with configurable shell profiles
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    48 mins
  • The Cloud Pod wins second place for the Jedi contract – Ep 45

    The Cloud Pod wins second place for the Jedi contract – Ep 45
    Oct 30 2019
    The DOD awards the coveted Jedi contract, the MS ignite Draft, Earnings season and more this week on The Cloud Pod. Sponsors: Foghorn Consulting – fogops.io/thecloudpod Follow Up Topics Pentagon awards controversial $10 billion cloud computing deal to Microsoft, spurning AmazonEven after Microsoft wins, JEDI saga could drag on General News/Topics Earnings Season Microsoft’s cloud shines again as it easily tops earnings targets, but Azure slowsDespite AWS cloud growth, Amazon shares sag on lower forecastGoogle Cloud fails to lift Alphabet enough to please investors AWS 200 Amazon CloudFront Points of Presence + Price ReductionNative Container Image Scanning in Amazon ECRAWS Global Accelerator Now Supports EC2 Instance Endpoints Google Updates make Cloud AI platform faster and more flexibleAdvancing Customer Control in the CloudSwipe right for a new guide to PCI on GKEBring Your Own IP addresses: the secret to Bitly’s shortened cloud migrationWhat’s happening in BigQuery: New features bring flexibility and scale to your data warehouse Azure Preview: Server-side encryption with customer-managed keys for Azure Managed DisksNew in Stream Analytics: Machine Learning, online scaling, custom code, and more MS Ignite Draft Jonathan Digital Assistant to compete with Alexa or Google Home. 3 more Azure Regions in USMore or Improved tooling for Devops Community Peter Istio for AKS1 more region in CanadaVisual Studio Online Justin Azure Portal RedesignSagemaker/Databricks like Competitor. Oracle on Stage Lightning Round (Jonathan 12, Justin 16, and Guest 4): AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate Now Supports Custom DomainsAmazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) Adds Support for Change StreamsAWS Managed Services (AMS) Now Offers Managed Landing ZonesAWS Batch Introduces New Allocation Strategies“Alexa, I’m running late” – Alexa for Business enables Alexa users to inform their next meeting they will be lateAmazon Transcribe Now Supports Australian English Speech-to-Text in Real TimeAWS License Manager now helps you easily identify Windows and SQL Server License Included instancesIncrease AWS Single Sign-On security with multi-factor authentication using authenticator appsAmazon RDS for Oracle adds support to invoke EMCTL commands for Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud ControlAmazon RDS for PostgreSQL Supports User Authentication with Kerberos and Microsoft Active DirectoryAWS Snowball Edge now supports volume sizes of up to 10 TBAWS Elastic Beanstalk Adds Support for PHP 7.3 and .NET Core 3.0AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) Private Certificate Authority (CA) now enforces name constraints in imported CA certificates
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  • 137: Now Serving Clients in the Shire

    137: Now Serving Clients in the Shire
    Sep 30 2021
    On The Cloud Pod this week, Justin may be out but the cloud stops for no one. Also, AWS announces a New Zealand region, GCP releases GKE Backup, and Azure Functions 4.0 is now in public preview. A big thanks to this week’s sponsors: 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. JumpCloud, which offers a complete platform for identity, access, and device management — no matter where your users and devices are located. This week’s highlights Grab your togs and sunnies! AWS is opening a New Zealand region to serve Asia Pacific. The move is expected to create more than 1,000 jobs in the next 15 years. GCP users can now protect their GKE workloads with GKE Backup, which helps automate recovery tasks and shows reporting for compliance and audit purposes. Azure Functions 4.0 has arrived — in public preview, that is. It’s expected to be generally available by November 2021, just in time for the .NET 6.0 release. Top Quotes “Microsoft Excel is still the most powerful tool for making business decisions. And [Amazon QuickSight] is the same thing: It’s a way to visualize the raw data you have. Being able to ask a service a question in normal words is gonna be super powerful.” “It’s funny because for at least the last 18 months, this has been my daily life: Thinking hard about how software makes it from environment to environment and into production. And no matter where you’re hosting this workload — what cloud provider, what technology — there are trials and tribulations and hurdles that have to be overcome … So I’d like to see more of these bespoke deployment technologies that are really focused on doing one thing really well, rather than doing all things.” AWS: AWS says ‘Kia Ora’ to its Newest Region: New Zealand With the newly available Amazon QuickSight, business users can use natural language (read: normal words) to quickly create interactive BI dashboards and receive accurate insights and data visualizations. Look out, Kiwis and hobbits: Amazon is set to open new data centers in New Zealand by 2024, adding the AWS Asia Pacific (Auckland) Region to its 81 existing availability zones. It’s estimated that the new region will create 1,000 jobs in the next 15 years, but we believe it will have an even bigger impact. Tracing support is now generally available in AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry. Users can now send telemetry data to various AWS applications as well as partner destinations. Telemetry, dear Watson. AWS releases AQ UA (Advanced Query Accelerator) for Amazon Redshift RA3.xlplus nodes. This new distributed and hardware-accelerated cache enables Redshift to run up to 10X faster than AWS competitors by boosting certain query types. Magic! AWS users can now easily select, detect and manage sensitive data with Amazon Macie. Using machine learning and pattern matching, users can create custom alerts based on the specific data governance and privacy needs of their organizations. You can now (finally) replicate individual repositories to other regions and accounts with Amazon ECR — instead of all images in the registry. Christmas has come early this year for Amazon EC2 users. Windows Server 2022 AMIs are now officially available on AWS, meaning you can now enjoy the latest Windows features. GCP: Making Stateless Stateful with GKE Backup Google expands its cloud storage capabilities, allowing users to choose from a larger selection of regions for their data replication, rather than the previous dual-region buckets. Google releases GKE Backup to help users protect, manage and restore stateful application data — or basically make your containers VMs. Google announces the release of Google Cloud Deploy, which allows users to define delivery pipelines and targets for each release, making continuous delivery to GKE faster and more reliable. Azure: Welcome to the Azure Peep Show 4⃣ Azure Functions 4.0 is now in public preview and is expected to be released in November 2021 to coincide with the planned release of .NET 6.0. (How are we only on version 6?) Functions 4.0 will also support the following versions: Node.js 14; Python 3.7 and 3.8; Java 8 and 11; PowerShell 7.0; and Custom Handler Java apps users can soon view richer data from their functions applications — i.e. requests, logs, metrics — with Azure Monitor’s application insights integration with Azure Functions on Linux. Currently in public preview, the integration will feature monitoring for the application insights Java 3.x agent. A twofer! Azure Database for MySQL and PostgreSQL Pipeline Support are now in public preview. Users will be able to fully automate testing and delivery in multiple services, and craft DB update commands against the database. Just make sure you have a tested rollback process first. ...
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    47 mins
  • Announcing the new cloud pod CTL for Kubernetes – Ep 33

    Announcing the new cloud pod CTL for Kubernetes – Ep 33
    Jul 30 2019
    Sponsors: Foghorn Consulting – fogops.io/thecloudpod Follow Up AWS Reinvent Music Festival – https://intersect.aws/ Topics General News Earnings Amazon shares dip missing profit expectations tech giant posts 63.4billion in Q2 revenueMicrosoft trumpets record year with $126b in Annual Revenue up 14% as quarterly profits beat estimatesGoogle Cloud’s run rate is now over $8BAlphabet announces second quarter 2019 results Digital Ocean gets a new CEO and CFOCNN report: Inside the effort to turn trump against Amazon’s bid for a $10 billion Jedi contractAmazon Hires Lobbyist with trump ties amid contentious pentagon cloud contest Capital One hacked over 100 million customers affected AWS eksctl – the EKS CLIAWS Released resource optimization recommendationsStackery lets AWS lambda developers debug their serverless programs locally on a laptopAWS Launches a chatbot for chatops AWS client VPN now adds support for split tunnelingAWS Secrets Manager now supports VPC endpoint policiesAnnouncing the new AWS Middle East Bahrain Region Google Google partners with VMWare to bring virtualized workloads to GCPBrick by Brick: Learn GCP by setting up a kid-controllable Minecraft server Azure Azure publishes guidance for secure cloud adoption by governmentsMicrosoft owned LinkedIn moving to public cloud guess which platform their choosingMicrosoft acquires data privacy and governance service BlueTalon Lightning Round (Jonathan 8, Justin 10, Peter 1 and Guest 3): AWS Backup will now automatically copy tags from resources to recovery pointsNew AWS certification exam vouchers make certifying groups easierAWS introduces new predictive maintenance using machine learningAWS Budgets announces AWS chatbot integrationNew Google features for BigQuery: New persistent user-defined functions, increased concurrency limits, GIS and encryption functions, and moreAWS EFS Encryption for data in transit has a new configuration updateAmazon transcribe now supports websocketsAmazon ECR now supports immutable image tagsAmazon MSK (Managed Services for Kakfa) now PCI-DSS compliantAWS Cloudwatch logs insights adds cross log group queryingAWS Spot instances now available for Red Hat Enterprise LinuxAWS Temporary queue client for Amazon SQS client has been releasedYou can now use AWS systems manager maintenance windows to select resource groups as targetsAzure blog post on how to use their new Azure Bastion HostNew Digital Course on Coursera – AWS fundamentals of security riskAnnouncing GA of Azure Security Center for IOTAmazon ECS services now support multiple load balancer target groupsEBS default volume type updated to gp2Amazon EC2 on-demand capacity reservations shared across multiple AWS accounts
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  • EP 70: The Cloud Pod is now fully ‘Synthetic’

    EP 70: The Cloud Pod is now fully ‘Synthetic’
    Apr 30 2020
    The Three Musketeers have gained their D’Artagnan and take on the world (metaphorically and from home) on this week’s episode of The Cloud Pod. A big thanks to this week’s sponsor: 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. This week’s highlights Take a break with us and enjoy a music video. Oracle managed a whole two headlines this week! Jonathan called it: AWS opens the Africa (Cape Town) Region. General News: Chime After Chime Tim Leehane and Spencer Johnson released a working-from-home anthem titled Chime After Chime we just had to share with you. Security company Rapid7 will acquire SaaS platform DivvyCloud for $145 million. COVID-19 Zoom picked the dark horse of cloud platforms Oracle for their next upscaling deal. Zoom is moving around 93 years of video through Oracle servers every day. AMD revealed an anonymous customer (probably Oracle or Microsoft) deployed 10,000 new Epyc servers in just 10 days. AWS: Summit Predictions Jonathan Improved DLP Tools for S3AI Powered submarine to explore the depths of the oceanES service will pivot to Open Distro for ElasticSearch Ryan Docker Exec based Debugging tools/capabilityRemote Debug capabilities for Lambda FunctionsSecurity Code Scanning service (similar to code guru). (static and dynamic code analysis) Peter Direct Competitor to AnthosDLP for VPC, always wanted a layer 7 like proxy. Filtering/Domain WhitelistingA caricature of larry ellison will appear on the screen in the slides Justin Price Cut in EC2, S3 or NetworkingCovid Crazy Growth Numbers (service dig on Azure)A Diplo T-shirt will be worn by Werner Vogel Honorable Mentions: Amazon Crucible their first person shooter game, online multiplayer gameDr. Matt Wood will make a passionate attempt for people to love sagemaker6 foot distancing robotsKeyspaces will be on the HIPAA BAA list Detective Named/Sherlock named security toolIn person events for 2020 will be canceledNew Region coming in a few years. Tie BreakerHow many new features for year, will AWS say they: 70 – Justin200 – Peter150 – Ryan157 – Jonathan AWS: Global Reach, Mediocre Branding The butt of TCP jokes at Re:Invent — Amazon Managed Apache Cassandra Services — has rebranded to Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) and became generally available. AWS Transfer for Secure File Transfer Protocol now supports File Transfer Protocol and File Transfer Protocol over SSL/TLS. Please, please don’t use File Transfer Protocol if you’re transferring data of any sensitivity. AWS published their guide to CloudWatch Synthetics in a blog post. In fact, we set it up for The Cloud Pod and it’s running cleanly.# Amazon AppFlow promises to automate the data flows between AWS services and SaaS apps. This might actually be a good piece to build onto #NoCode. AWS Chatbot is now generally available for anyone to use for ChatOps. They’ve added quite a bit since we last saw this at Re:Invent. You can cross it off your predictions bingo card: AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region and AWS Europe (Milan) Region are open for business. The promised xkcd comic: https://xkcd.com/705/ Those of you carefully budgeting your cloud spends may be interested to know that cost controls are now available for Amazon Redshift Spectrum and Concurrency Scaling. AWS Control Tower will allow you to create and manage multi-account environments. That fixes an entire half of the problem! AWS Glue promises to manage streaming data automatically. Break out the acetone because this is Super Glue now. Google: Anthos support for Multi-cloud is now generally available. All the boundless freedom of locking into Anthos! Migrate for Anthos has been updated with enhanced Virtual-Machine-to-container conversion capabilities. It’s a big deal assuming it actually works. Thomas Kurian stated that Istio will be donated to “a foundation,” but did not specify what foundation or when. Expect Istio to go to the WWF sometime in 2040? Shielded Virtual Machines are now the default for Google Compute Engine. It’s just common sense to employ robust default security settings. Rumor has it that Google is looking to purchase Kubernetes startup D2iQ. Neither company will comment, but this appears to us to be a talent hire. Azure: A Strong Third Place Query Acceleration for Azure Data Lake Storage promises yet another way to increase the efficiency of your spend. Microsoft admitted the ongoing global pandemic led to capacity constraints in some Azure regions. We anticipate a mixed response to Microsoft’s decision making…but we appreciate the transparency. If you didn’t think there were enough cloud service brand names to keep track of, then there’s good news for you: Visual Studio Online has rebranded to Visual Studio Codespaces. Microsoft is now a Kubernetes Certified Service ...
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    1 hr and 16 mins
  • Episode 21: The Cloud Pod exceeds quarterly listener expectations

    Episode 21: The Cloud Pod exceeds quarterly listener expectations
    Apr 30 2019
    A New Cost Management blog, APAC gets a new AWS region and Docker Hub gets hacked. Plus Alphabet, Microsoft, and Amazon all release earnings and we break out the highs and lows. With special guest, Ian Mckay @iann0036 talks about his new AWS tool www.former2.com Sponsors: Foghorn Consulting – https://fogops.io/thecloudpod Follow Up Apple actually reducing dependence on Amazon Cloud services Topics Ford Partners with Amazon to build cloud service connected carsNew AWS cost management blog launchesNew Query for AWS Regions, Endpoints, and More using AWS Systems Manager Parameter StoreEarnings Season Microsoft beats Wall street expectations, posting $30.6B in revenue, powered by cloud divisionAWS revenue approaches $8 Billion in Q1, up 41% compared to last yearDespite Cloud growth, slowing revenue at Alphabet sends investors fleeing AMD EPYC-Powered Amazon EC2 T3a instancesNow Open – AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) RegionSlack renegotiated its deal with AWS in 2018, will spend 212 million more through 2023190,000 user accounts exposed in hack of Docker Hub DatabaseMicrosoft container registry unaffected by recent docker hub data exposureVMWare brings its virtualization software to Microsoft AzureAWS Deep Racer League Virtual Circuit is now Open Lightning Round AWS Single Sign-On now offers certificate customization to support your corporate policiesAmazon EKS supports EC2 A1 instances as public previewAnnouncing Azure Backup support to move recovery service vaultsOptimize Performance using Azure Database for PostgreSQL recommendationsAmazon RDS now supports per-second billingAWS Service Catalog announces Tag UpdatingAWS specifies the IP address ranges for Amazon DynamoDB endpointsEfficiently scale ML and other compute workloads on NVIDIA’s T4 GPU, now GAServerless automation using Powershell preview in Azure FunctionsDynamoDBMapper now supports Amazon DynamoDB transactional API callsNow you can tag Amazon DynamoDB tables when you create themAWS Systems Manager Parameter Store Introduces Advanced ParametersAWS Systems Manager now supports use of Parameter Store at Higher API ThroughputAzure Accelerate supercomputing in the cloud with Cray ClusterstorAWS Security Token Service (STS) now supports enabling the global STS endpoint to issue session tokens compatible with all AWS RegionsAWS Elastic Fabric Adapter is Now Generally Available Cool Tools https://former2.com/ with guest Ian McKay
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  • Episode 88: The Chronicles of The Cloud Pod

    Episode 88: The Chronicles of The Cloud Pod
    Sep 29 2020
    Your hosts have an action-packed episode in store for you on The Cloud Pod this week, and Ryan is back after surviving the wild Oregon forest. A big thanks to this week’s sponsors: 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 Amazon is helping you figure out where your money is going. Google isn’t wowing anyone with its AI Platform Prediction improved reliability. Azure has some underwhelming improvements you should read about. General News: This Is What Happens When You Go On Vacation VMware, Inc. is acquiring SaltStack, Inc. to enhance its vRealize cloud management software suite. It’s interesting that this comes only a few weeks after Chef was acquired. Amazon Web Services: Always Comes Through For Us AWS launches Glue Studio, which provides a simple visual interface to compose jobs that move and transform data and run them on AWS Glue. Surprised it wasn’t just an integration with Visual Studio Code. AWS Backup now supports application-consistent backups of Microsoft workloads. This is not the cloud way to do it. AWS Security Hub has released 14 new automated security controls for the AWS Foundational Security Best Practices standard. Typical Amazon — gives you a control that costs you more money. Preview the Anomaly Detection and alerting now available in AWS Cost Management. It’s great to have these features for those weird quirky things that can happen when you’re spending money. Usability improvements for AWS Management Console are now available. Some of us are super grumpy with this and others super happy, so up to you to decide! AWS backtracks on plans to block old-style S3 paths. You now have some unknown time period plus a year to sort this out. You’re welcome? Google Cloud Platform: The Detectives On The Case Cloud Run for Anthos now includes an events feature allowing customers to easily build event-driven systems on Google Cloud. We’re a bit on the fence about this one. GCP launches Chronicle Detect, a threat detection solution to help enterprises identify threats at speed and scale. Really interesting that Azure and Google are heavily into threat intelligence so we’re curious to see if Amazon steps up as well. Google releases new enhancements for better monitoring and logging for Compute Engine VMs. If these enhancements were the default, then this would be awesome. Cloud Monitoring now gives zero-config, out-of-the-box visibility into Compute Engine VM fleets. AI Platform Prediction with improved reliability & ML workflow integration is now generally available. We were not wowed by this. Azure: Welcome To Snoozeville Azure has announced several new Azure Infrastructure capabilities. None of us were particularly excited about this one. TCP Lightning Round Justin and Ryan have joined the queue with Jonathan taking this week’s point, leaving scores at Justin (13 points), Jonathan (eight points) and Ryan (four points). Other headlines mentioned: Azure Blob storage point-in-time restore now generally availableNew MERGE command for Azure Synapse AnalyticsCOPY command now generally available in Azure Synapse AnalyticsColumn-level encryption for Azure Synapse Analytics Announcing the General Availability of Amazon Corretto 15Amazon Connect decreases outbound telephony rates for the second time this year in Europe Amazon Aurora Increases Maximum Storage Size to 128TBAmazon Aurora PostgreSQL Supports pglogical Extension AWS Launch Wizard now supports SQL Server Always On deployments on Linux Amazon Textract has improved accuracy of detecting currency symbols, key value pairs and checkboxesAmazon CloudWatch Synthetics strengthens end-to-end canary run debugging with X-Ray tracesYou can now queue purchases of AWS Savings PlansAmazon Redshift Spectrum adds support for querying open source Apache Hudi and Delta Lake
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    42 mins