On The Cloud Pod this week, the team is feeling nostalgic and a little nerdy, as you can see from the show title — a throwback to Serial Console and its ability to add a ton of characters when you didn’t want it to.

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.

This week’s highlights

Amazon should be singing a different tune.
Google has astonished us all by actually sharing something interesting.
Azure is the strict school principal that just canceled lunch.

General News: Justin Said It First

VentureBeat predicts industry clouds could be the next big thing. Justin will take the royalties check anytime, VentureBeat.

Amazon Web Services: Please Don’t Keep It To Yourself

Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS is now generally available. Surprising because we don’t remember it going into beta.
AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry adds StatsD and Java support. We’re glad to see the continued investment in OpenTelemetry.
AWS DevOps Monitoring Dashboard solution is now generally available. The solutions library is a Rube Goldberg machine.
Amazon Lookout for Metrics is now generally available — perfect for Ryan, who has no machine learning experience.
Amazon Elasticsearch Service announces a new Auto-Tune feature for improved performance and application availability. We wish Amazon would open source this.
AWS SSO credential profile support is now available in the AWS Toolkit for VS Code. Thank you, Jesus.
Amazon is developing a chip to power the hardware switches that shuttle data around networks. Apparently Google and Apple are also doing this.
Troubleshoot boot and networking issues with new EC2 Serial Console. Must be useful for someone, maybe the people using enclaves?

Google Cloud Platform: Blame Active Directory

Google wants customers to rethink their cloud migration strategy. Actually quite an interesting blog post — no, this is not sarcasm!
Google BigQuery was named a leader in the 2021 Forrester Wave: Cloud Data Warehouse. We actually agree with this; it really is a great product.
Google announces Cloud SQL for SQL Server now comes with Active Directory authentication. Helpful only if you are on GCP Active Directory.

Azure: Pay To Play

❄️ Azure has released several new compliance management capabilities to the Azure Security Center. We think this is really, really cool.
Microsoft named a leader in the 2021 Forrester Wave: Function-as-a-Service Platforms. Congratulations to Microsoft.

TCP Lightning Round

⚡ Justin cuts through the awkward silence and takes this week’s point, leaving scores at Justin (4), Ryan (3), Jonathan (5).

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Things Coming Up

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