Episode 26: The Cloud Pod Goes Event Driven

Peter is back after a few weeks away from the show. Azure launches new Event Grid features, Palo Alto Networks picks up Twistlock and Puresec and Google has a really bad day. Plus the amazing lightning round with Peter.

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Topics:

• 25th Episode Blog Post

• Azure has simplified event-driven architectures with new updates to Event Grid
• Palo Alto Networks enters into definitive agreement to purchase Twistlock and Puresec
• Oracle Lays off hundreds from its Seattle office as its cloud strategy remains grounded
• Azure Adaptive network hardening in Azure Security Center is now GA
• Amazon EBS adds ability to take point-in-time, crash-consistent snapshots across multiple EBS volumes
• Announcing Tag-Based Access Control for AWS Cloudformation
• New Data API for Amazon Aurora Serverless
• Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK) – Now Generally Available
• Google Cloud has Major Outage on 6/2
  • Google Cloud Outage resolved, but it reveals holes in cloud computing atmosphere
  • An update on Sunday’s service disruption

Lightning Round (Jonathan 6, Justin 9, Peter 1 and Guest 3):

• AWS is Announcing Windows Server version 1903 AMI’s for Amazon EC2
• Amazon Chime now supports United States Toll-Free Numbers
• AWS Storage Gateway Service adds capability to move Virtual Tapes from S3 Glacier to Glacier Deep Archive
• AWS has introduced Fraud Detection capabilities using Machine Learning
• Google has announced a new open source load testing framework for pub/sub at scale testing
• Azure has several new enhancements for Azure App Configuration to increase release velocity via feature flags and simplifying troubleshooting across distributed apps
• AWS Textract is now Generally Available in Northern Virginia, Ohio, Oregon and Ireland regions
• AWS DataSync Now supports EFS-to-EFS Transfers
• AWS IOT Events and Things Graph is now Generally Available
  • AWS IOT Things graph now Generally Available
• Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports SQL Querying
• New AWS Certification Readiness course are available for Alexa Skill Builder and Certified Security Specialty
• AWS Now allows EC2 Hibernation without specifying Encryption Intent at Instance Launch
• Amazon Elasticache for Redis improves Cluster availability during planned maintenance
• Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility supports Database Activity Streams for real-time monitoring

After show

Tequila being discussed: https://www.compoveda.com/