On The Cloud Pod this week, Ryan has given all his money to the Amazon press team to write really confusing headlines just to annoy Peter. Also, Jonathan is missing presumed cranky buns.

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This week’s highlights

IBM is spinning off its infrastructure services business — the new public company will be called “Kyndryl.”
Teresa Carlson has left the AWS building. The AWS VP is headed to big-data analytics company Splunk Inc. as its new chief growth officer.
Google’s like the cool kids who know how to party.

General News: Eventual Degradation of Profits

IBM to name its infrastructure services business “Kyndryl”. We hope they didn’t spend a lot of money coming up with that name.
Top AWS executive Teresa Carlson joins Splunk as President and Chief Growth Officer. We thought she might have been a candidate to succeed Andy Jassy.

Amazon Web Services: 5G Not Included

AWS formally launches the OpenSearch project. Seems like it’s listened to the open source feedback.
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling introduces Warm Pools to accelerate scale-out while saving money. Please don’t let Andy name anything.
‍‍ AWS and Verizon team up to provide 5G-powered edge computing infrastructure. Justin got his COVID-19 vaccination and was disappointed it didn’t come with 5G.
Amazon Redshift now supports data sharing when producer clusters are paused. We wonder what underlying tech made this possible?

Google Cloud Platform: Excel at No Code

Leaf Space enables next-gen satellites on Google Cloud. This fills a very obvious gap in the market and is pretty cool.
Google introduces a new blog series: Cloud CISO perspectives. Hopefully some cool stuff will be announced.
Google announces its business process automation app AppSheet is now generally available. We feel bad for the poor sap that has to maintain this on the backend.

Oracle: Answering Questions That Haven’t Been Asked

️ Oracle releases new features for its Cloud Infrastructure Mobile app. None of the providers really do an amazing job of cloud mobile apps.

TCP Lightning Round

⚡ Though he won’t be quitting his day job for the comedy club circuit, Justin produces some gold to take this week’s point, leaving scores at Justin (6), Ryan (3), Jonathan (5).

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113: The Cloud Pod goes mobile