CloudWatch detects The Cloud Pod as an Anomaly – Ep 44

Peter goes Absent With Out Leave – AWOL. Redhat can’t save IBM’s earnings, AWS starts detecting anomalies, Google adds 100-Gbps direct connect links to their data centers, and Azure gets FHIR-Y. We also take a few somber minutes to talk about the passing of Mark Hurd, Oracle’s former Co-CEO.  Plus the world famous lightning round.

Sponsors:

• Foghorn Consulting – fogops.io/thecloudpod

Follow Up

Topics

General News/Topics

• Oracle’s Mark Hurd, who was on medical leave, has died at 62
• Despite Red Hat boost, IBM misses revenue targets ?
• Defense Secretary Mark Esper pulls out of JEDI cloud computing contract review

AWS

• Amazon CloudWatch Anomaly Detection 
• Now Available – Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) on VMware
• Containers and infrastructure as code, like peanut butter and jelly
• Amazon joins the Java Community Process (JCP)

Google

• Improve your connectivity to Google Cloud with enhanced hybrid connectivity options
• Leave no database behind with Cloud SQL for SQL Server

Azure

• Microsoft unveils two open-source projects for building cloud and edge applications
• Announcing the general availability of larger, more powerful standard file shares for Azure Files
• Azure API for FHIR® moves to general availability

Lightning Round (Jonathan 11, Justin 16, and Guest 4): 

• AWS IoT Things Graph now provides workflow monitoring with AWS CloudWatch
• Amazon CloudWatch now sends alarm state change events to Amazon EventBridge
• Amazon FSx for Windows File Server now enables administrators to restore activity on files locked by inactive users
• Amazon EFS now in the EC2 Launch Instance Wizard
• Amazon EC2 Hibernation Now Available on Windows
• You can now expand your Amazon MSK clusters and deploy new clusters across 2-AZs
• Amazon Neptune now supports SPARQL 1.1 federated query
• Amazon Neptune now supports Streams to capture graph data changes
• AWS CodePipeline Adds Execution Visualization to Pipeline Execution History
• Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) adds additional Aggregation Pipeline Capabilities including $lookup
• AWS Managed Services (AMS) Simplifies ServiceNow integration
• Amazon Managed Blockchain now supports Amazon CloudWatch metrics for peer nodes
• Amazon API Gateway now supports wildcard custom domain names