Episode 25: Optimize your Journey with The Cloud Pod Center of Excellence

This week we talk about Cloud Center of Excellence, New Encryption options, open source update on Firecracker and more.  Elise Carmichael (twitter: @uncfleece) from @tricentis joins us to talk about some of their tools.

Sponsors:

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

Topics:

• New – Updated Pay-Per-Use Pricing Model for AWS Config Rules
• Google Says some G-Suite Passwords were stored in Plaintext since 2005
• Google Cloud – Optimize your organizations cloud journey with a Cloud Center of Excellence
• Amazon RDS for SQL Server increases database limit per database instance up to 100
• AWS Opt-In to Default Encryption for New EBS Volumes
• AWS Ground Station – Ready to ingest & process Satellite Data
• Firecracker Open Source Update May 2019
• Application Management made easier with Kubernetes Operators on GCP Marketplace
• Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports Always On Availability Groups for SQL Server 2017
• Github launches Sponsors, lets you pay your favorite open source contributors
• Manage your cross cloud spend using Azure Cost management

Lightning Round (Jonathan 5, Justin 9, Peter 1 and Guest 3):

• AWS now allows you to enable Hibernations on EC2 instances at the same time as you launch the AMI
• Amazon Document DB (with MongoDB Compatibility) is now SOC 1, 2, 3 Compliant
• AWS Marketplace enables long term contracts for AMI products
• AWS Budgets now Supports Variable Budget Targets for Cost and Usage Budgets
• Amazon RDS Recommendations Provide Best Practice Guidance for Amazon Aurora
• All US Azure regions now approved for FedRAMP High impact level
• AWS Backup Now Supports AWS CloudFormation
• AWS Step Functions Adds Support for Callback Patterns in Workflows
• Amazon API Gateway Now Supports Tag-Based Access Control and Tags on Additional Resources
• AWS CodeCommit Now Supports Including Application Code When Creating a Repository with AWS CloudFormation
• CloudWatch Logs adds support for percentiles in metric filters
• Amazon DynamoDB adaptive capacity is now instant
• Amazon Connect Decreases US Telephony Pricing by 26% in the US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon) regions
• AWS Transfer for SFTP now supports AWS CloudFormation and host key import
• Amazon RDS for SQL Server now Supports SQL Server Audit
• Azure NetApp Files is now generally available

Cool Tools

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