121: Blue Origin finds new “dummy” to go to space

Is sending the former CEO of one of the biggest technology companies in the world to space a good idea? On The Cloud Pod this week, the team discusses the potential economic catastrophe that could follow if Jeff Bezos becomes space junk.

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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.
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This week’s highlights

Amazon is sending the old junk it found in the attic into space.
Google is now fully qualified to direct traffic.
Azure turned its out-of-office message on and hoped no one would notice.

General News: Frenemies

⛄ Snowflake had its annual user conference and announced some new tools and features. Pretty good!
Jeff Bezos is joining the first human flight to space with his company Blue Origin. This is super risky, even if he’s no longer CEO.
Fastly blames global internet outage on a software bug. This is the right way to address outages — nice one, Fastly!

Amazon Web Services: Watch This Space

Amazon announces auditing feature for FSx for Windows File Server. This needs an acronym.
AWS has added a third availability zone to the China (Beijing) region operated by Sinnet. Nice to see.
AWS Sagemaker Data Wrangler now supports Snowflake as a data source. Smart move.

Google Cloud Platform: Sneaky Sales Tactics

Google announces the release of container-native Cloud DNS for Kubernetes. Powerful building block or Achilles heel?
Google announces new capabilities for Cloud Asset Inventory. Makes so much sense to come from the provider because they know what you have.
Google releases new Microsoft and Windows demos on Google Cloud Demo center. This is absolutely not a sales tool…
Introducing Google Cloud Service, Kf for Cloud Foundry, on Kubernetes. Another good pathway to Google.
Google’s Artifact repository now supports Java, Node.JS and Python. We think it’s great it’s included Python.
Google is releasing a fully managed zero-trust security solution using traffic director. We wish there was a demo for this.

Azure: Getting Fit

Azure announces a name change and new features for Windows Virtual Desktop service. This is really just a rebranding exercise.
⛰️ Azure is changing the pricing structure for Azure Sentinel and Monitor Log analytics. The cheaper it gets, the more you will store.

TCP Lightning Round

⚡ After a slightly subdued round, Justin takes this week’s point, leaving scores at Justin (10), Ryan (5), Jonathan (7).

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