Episode 19: Announcing the new Cloud Pod Premium Tier

We are back to our normal show after our GCP Next recap.  This week the new AWS APAC region, Azure premium tiers and the AWS open letter on climate change. Plus the lightning round and cool tools.

Sponsors

• Foghorn Consulting: fogops.io/thecloudpod

Topics

• Alerts in Azure are now all the more consistent
• Self-Service exchange and refund for Azure Reservations
• Unlock Dedicated resources and enterprise features with Service Bus Premium
• Extending Azure Security Capabilities
• AWS Boosts presence in Asia with new Indonesia cloud region
• Spinnaker continuous delivery platform now with support for Azure
• Azure Front Door service is now GA
• Amplify Framework simplifies configuring Oauth 2.0 flows, hosted UI and AR/VR scenes for Mobile and Web
• Introducing the App Service Migration Assistant for ASP.NET applications
• Azure security center exposes crypto miner campaign
• Gizmodo reports that Amazon is Aggressively pursuing big oil as its clean energy initiative stalls
• 6562 Amazon employees have signed letter
• AWS simplifies replatforming of MS SQL databases from Windows to Linux
• New Release for Open Distro for ES 0.8.0

Lightning Round (Jonathan 4, Justin 4, Peter 1 and Guest 3)

• AWS Cloudwatch launches search expressions
• AWS Cloud 9 announces support for ubuntu development environments
• Announcing the Azure Functions Premium plan for enterprise serverless workloads
• Windows Server 2019 support now available for Windows Containers on Azure App Service
• Amazon EKS now delivers kubernetes control plane logs to Amazon Cloudwatch
• Amazon workspaces add tagging support for directories, images, custom bundles and IP access control groups
• AWS Systems Manager session manager enables session encryption using customer keys
• Amazon DocumentDB adds aggregation pipeline capabilities for strings, dates and sampling
• AWS Elastic Beanstalk adds support Go 1.12
• AWS Fargate PV1.3 adds secrets and enhanced container dependency management
• AWS introduces CSI Drivers for Amazon EFS and Amazon FSx for Lustre
• AWS Deeplens introduces new bird classification project
• AWS Certification triples its testing locations, making it even more convenient to get AWS Certified
• Amazon Transcribe now supports real-time speech-to-text in British English, French and Canadian French
• Amazon Elasticsearch adds event monitoring and alerting support
• Amazon Cloudfront enhances the security for adding alternate domains name to a distribution
• Amazon QuickSight now supports localization, percentile calculations and more.
• Amazon SageMaker now supports greater control of root access to Notebook Instances
• Amazon RDS Enhanced Monitoring adds new storage and host metrics

Cool Tool

EC2 Metadata Filter – https://github.com/stefansundin/ec2-metadata-filter