On The Cloud Pod this week, the team admits to using the podcast as a way to figure out what day it is. Justin also relents and includes Azure news because he couldn’t handle any more Oracle mobile apps announcements.

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

Social media influencers can breathe a sigh of relief.
Amazon is dangling a carrot in front of one of its partners.
Azure is throwing a spanner in the works.

General News: Not Cool News

The FBI arrests a man for his plan to kill “70% of the internet” in an AWS bomb attack. 70% is quite a stretch but we’re sure it would have caused a crappy day for a lot of people.
Hashicorp has released its Boundary 0.2 release with several new features. We’re really excited about this.
Announcing HashiCorp Terraform 0.15 General Availability. If you believe it, this is really great news.

Amazon Web Services: Good At Compromising

AWS announces AQUA is now generally available. Justin should have gotten a prediction point for this one.
Amazon Managed Service for Grafana now offers more support. We’ll see if Grafana can actually make money out of its partnership with Amazon.
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now integrates with AWS Lambda. This is really cool!
Decrease machine learning costs with instance price reductions and savings plans for Amazon SageMaker. Some pretty significant savings here.

Google Cloud Platform: Colossal

‍♀️ Google takes a deep dive into its scalable storage solution, Colossus. Nothing new here.
Google announces tracking index backfill operation progress in Cloud Spanner. This is super important.
️ The new Google Cloud region in Warsaw is open. Nice to see Eastern Europe getting another region.

Azure: Someone Out There Cares

User data through Azure Instance Metadata Service is now generally available. It would be great to use this with VMWare.
Microsoft announces encryption is now supported at the host level with AKS. Compliance people will be happy with this one.
Microsoft announces plans to establish its first datacenter region in Malaysia. Just an announcement — don’t get too excited because it’s not opening yet.

TCP Lightning Round

⚡ Jonathan takes the cake and this week’s point, leaving scores at Justin (6), Ryan (3), Jonathan (6).

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Things Coming Up

114: The Cloud Pod looks forward to rewriting Terraform code… again