Episode 20: The Cloud Pod spends 30 dollars a month on AWS

Google Kubernetes Engine Advanced, Jedi Contract Finalists, Cloud Migrations services and Apple’s 30 million a month spend on AWS this week on The Cloud Pod, plus the lightning round.

Sponsors:

Foghorn Consulting – https://fogop.io/thecloudpod

Topics:

• Improve Enterprise IT Procurement with Private Catalog, now in Beta
• Introducing GKE Advanced – Enhanced reliability, simplicity and scale for enterprise
  • https://medium.com/@tinder.engineering/tinders-move-to-kubernetes-cda2a6372f44 
• Amazon Cloudfront is now available in mainland China
• Move your data from AWS S3 to Azure Storage using AzCopy
• Announcing Azure to AWS Migration support in AWS Server Migration Service
• Rewrite HTTP headers with Azure Application Gateway
• Much to Oracles’ chagrin, Pentagon names Microsoft and Amazon as $10B JEDI contract finalists
• Announcing Azure Government Secret Private preview and Expansion of DOD IL5
• AWS Organizations now available in the AWS Govcloud regions for Central Governance and Management of AWS accounts
• Google Hires 27-year SAP veteran Robert Enslin to boost cloud sales and support
• Cloudbees buys Electric Cloud to strengthen Devops Platform
• Microsoft Open sources data accelerator an easy to configure pipeline for streaming at scale
• Apple spends more than 30m a month on AWS
• AWS Cloudformation coverage updates for EC2, ECS and ELB

Lightning Round

• Announcing the new AWS certified Alexa Skill Builder Specialty Exam
• Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now supports Muti Major version upgrades to PostgreSQL 11
• Azure Container Registry now supports Singularity Image Format containers
• Amazon WorkDocs introduces document approvals
• Amazon Workdocs Migration Services is now available
• AWS has expanded Privatelink to now support Kinesis Data Firehose
• Amazon polly adds arabic language support with new female Arabic Voice called Zeina
• You can now managed Azure HDInsight using .Net, Python or Java SDK’s
• Amazon Comprehend now supports confusion matrices for Custom Classification
• AWS ParallelCluster 2.3.1 with new enhanced support for Slurm workload manager
• Amazon Aurora Serverless now supports sharing and cross-region copying of snapshots
• Azure Cost Management now generally available for peter as you go customers