Episode 27: Microsoft and Oracle interconnect with The Cloud Pod

Google Publishes RCA on their outage, Microsoft and Oracle enter into a cloud alliance and AWS improves incident resolution with Systems Manager Opscenter.

Sponsors:

• Foghorn Consulting – fogops.io/thecloudpod
• Turbonomic – turbonomic.com/cloudpod

Follow Up:

• Google Cloud networking incident 19009 Final RCA

Topics:

• Google releases new Translate API Capabilities to help localization experts and global enterprises
• Google now allows you to save money by stopping and starting compute engine instances on a schedule
• Google has created more choice, less complexity in their latest Google Compute Engine Pricing updates
• Azure forecasting has added several new features
• Microsoft Azure and Oracle Partner Up
• Microsoft and Oracle to interconnect Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud
• Overview of the Interconnect between Oracle and Microsoft
• AWS is introducing AWS Systems Manager Opscenter to enable faster issue resolution
• Google continues to preach multi-cloud with the acquistion of Looker
• Amazon Personalize is now GA
• Lightning Round (Jonathan 6, Justin 9, Peter 1 and Guest 3):
• Amazon API Gateway now supports VPC Endpoint Policies
• AWS Glue now provides VPC interface endpoint
• Amazon Inspector adds CIS Benchmark support for Amazon Linux 2
• Google has announced integrated partnership for Snowflake on Google Cloud Marketplace
• Azure has released new Mobility SDKs for Azure Maps
• AWS organizations now support tagging and untagging of AWS Accounts
• Amazon ECS now supports increased ENI limits for tasks in AWSVPC networking mode
• AWS Well Architected tool now supports 8x more text in notes fields
• New digital course on Edx now available for building applications with dynamodb
• Amazon ECS support for windows 2019 is now GA
• Amazon RDS for SQL server now supports multi-file-native-restores
• Amazon EC2 announces new host recovery
• AWS Cloudwatch launches Dynamic data labels on Dashboards
• AWS CodeCommit Supports Two Additional Merge Strategies and Merge Conflict Resolution