The Cloud Pod gets a Savings Plan – Episode 47

AWS releases new RI option called the savings plan, IBM builds a financial services cloud, and @jeffbarr celebrates 15 years of blogging for AWS!

Sponsors:

• Foghorn Consulting – fogops.io/thecloudpod

Follow Up

• Halloween Downtime RCA – Google

Topics

General News/Topics

• Capital One replaces security chief after data breach
• Amazon doubles down on Boston as a robotics hub with new $40M facility
• IBM: Bank of America Know-How Will Differentiate Financial Services Cloud

AWS

• 15 Years of AWS Blogging!
• New – Savings Plans for AWS Compute Services
• Cross-Account Cross-Region Dashboards with Amazon CloudWatch
• An outsider’s inside view on open source at AWS
• AWS supports Automated Draining for Spot Instance Nodes on Kubernetes
• Amazon QuickSight goes Mobile, launches Cross Source Join and More
• PostgreSQL 12.0 Now Available in Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment

Reinvent Tips & Suggestions

Google

• Google releases its Skaffold tool for automating Kubernetes into general availability
• Opening the door to more dev tools for Cloud Spanner

Azure

• 10 user experience updates to the Azure portal
• What’s new with Azure Monitor

Lightning Round (Jonathan 12, Justin 17, and Guest 5): 

• Updating Google App Engine with more new runtimes: Nodejs 12, Go 1.13, PHP 7.3 and Python 3.8
• Amazon EC2 now supports Microsoft SQL Server 2019
• Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Supports Customer Initiated Snapshot Upgrades
• Introducing the AWS Step Functions Data Science SDK for Amazon SageMaker
• AWS App Mesh now supports HTTP2 and gRPC services
• Amazon RDS for Oracle now Supports Oracle Database 19c
• Introducing notifications for AWS CodeCommit, AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodeDeploy, and AWS CodePipeline
• AWS CodeBuild Adds Support for AWS Secrets Manager
• Now use single-click setup to keep AWS Systems Manager Agents automatically updated
• Amazon Elastic File System Infrequent Access Now Supports a 7-day Lifecycle Management Policy
• Use the AWS CLI v2 preview with AWS Single Sign-on to increase developer productivity  
• NoSQL Workbench for Amazon DynamoDB adds support for DynamoDB local
• Amazon Redshift now supports changing table sort keys dynamically