Import Existing Resources into The Cloud Pod – Ep 48

Docker sells off its enterprise business to Mirantis. Amazon gets upset with the pentagon and launches a data exchange. Azure wins a lucrative contract and GitHub actions.  Google buys cloudsimple complicating things for the VMWare on Azure offerings.

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Follow Up

Jonathan – Follows up on Redshift

Topics

General News/Topics

• Container shakeup: Docker sells enterprise business to Mirantis, appoints new CEO
• Amazon protests Pentagon’s cloud contract award, citing ‘unmistakable bias’

AWS

• Import Existing Resources into a CloudFormation Stack
• AWS Data Exchange – Find, Subscribe To, and Use Data Products
• Continuous delivery of container applications to AWS Fargate with GitHub Actions

Reinvent Tips & Suggestions

• Attending Sessions
• Reinvent Parties
• Replay

Google

• Google launches new service for monitoring multicloud networks
• Google makes biggest gains in ThousandEyes’ report on public cloud network performance
• Google acquires CloudSimple to bring more VMware workloads into its cloud
• Multi-tenancy support in Identity Platform, now generally available

Azure

• In a win for Microsoft, Salesforce will migrate its Marketing Cloud to Azure
• GitHub Actions for Azure is now generally available
• Save more on Azure usage—Announcing reservations for six more services

Lightning Round (Jonathan 13, Justin 18, and Guest 5): 

• Amazon CloudSearch provides option to mandate HTTPS & minimum TLS version
• Google Cloud Run, a managed Knative service, is GA
• Amazon CloudWatch Metric Math now supports additional functions
• Amazon RDS Performance Insights Supports Counter Metrics on Amazon RDS for SQL Server
• AWS Cost Explorer now supports Hourly and Resource Level Granularity
• Automate your operational playbooks with AWS Systems Manager
• AWS CodePipeline Enables Passing Variables Between Actions At Execution Time
• Announcing EMR Runtime for Apache Spark
• ECS container instances monitoring now available in Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights
• Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports additional instance sizes
• CloudFormation Announces Drift Detection Support in StackSets
• AWS Cost Explorer monthly forecasts now include Support costs