Amazon triggers a cloud pod panic – Ep 36

AWS introduces new kernel panic API trigger, Azure storage gets complicated, and Google’s big query gets a terraform module.

Sponsors:

• Foghorn Consulting – fogops.io/thecloudpod

Follow Up

• Cloudflare files for IPO, revealing revenue of $129M in first half of 2019

Topics

General News

• Alibaba blows past earnings estimates cloud business hits 4.5b run rate
• Digital Ocean launches new managed MySQL and Redis Database Services

AWS

• New – Trigger a Kernel Panic to Diagnose Unresponsive EC2 Instances
• Amazon Prime Day 2019 – Powered by AWS
• AWS App Mesh now supports routing based on HTTP headers and specifying route priorities
• Easily enable AWS Systems Manager capabilities with Quick Setup
• Amazon ECS Now Supports Per-Container Swap Space Parameters
• 081319 Amazon Letter to Sen Wyden RE Consumer Data.pdf
• Original letter: https://www.wyden.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/080519%20Letter%20to%20Amazon%20re%20Capital%20One%20Hack.pdf 
• Amazon Redshift now recommends distribution keys for improved query performance

Google

• Skip the heavy lifting: Moving Redshift to BigQuery easily
• Shining a light on your costs: New billing features from Google Cloud
• Introducing the BigQuery Terraform Module

Azure

• Improving Azure Virtual Machines resiliency with Project Tardigrade
• Geo Zone Redundant Storage in Azure now in preview

• Announcing the general availability of Azure Ultra Disk Storage
• Azure Archive Storage expanded capabilities: faster, simpler, better
• Microsoft buys Java specialist jClarity to make Azure workloads run smoother
• Azure Security Center single click remediation and Azure Firewall JIT support

Lightning Round (Jonathan 8, Justin 13, and Guest 3): 

• Amazon CloudFront announces new Edge location in Israel
• Alexa for Business customers can now manage how their data improves Amazon’s Services
• AWS CodeBuild adds Support for Amazon Linux 2
• AWS Site-to-Site VPN now Supports Certificate Authentication
• Amazon Athena now supports querying data from Amazon S3 Requester Pays Buckets
• Amazon chime adds call history for voice and video calls
• Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) adds support for slow peter query logging
• AWS RoboMaker now supports log-based simulation, event driven simulation termination, and simulation event tagging
• Amazon RDS for MySQL supports 8.0.16 now making it only 1 revision behind
• Announcing the general availability of Python support in Azure Functions