The Cloud Pod now with Dynamic Parallelism – Ep 41

Chef finds a bad recipe for success, AWS rolls out Step Functions, Google launches its native load balancer for Kubernetes and Microsoft confuses us further with premium tier storage offerings.

Sponsors:

• Foghorn Consulting – fogops.io/thecloudpod

Topics

General News/Topics

• A CIO’s guide to cloud success: decouple to shift your business into high gear
• What’s Going on with GKE and Anthos?
• Chef Saga
  • DevOps biz Chef roasted for tech contract with family-separating US immigration, forks up attempt to quash protest – 9/19
  • Chef’s Position on Customer Engagement in the Public and Private Sectors 9/19
  • An Update to the Chef Community Regarding Current Events 9/20
  • A Personal Message From the CTO 9/20
  • An Important Update from Chef 9/23
• A ‘Grass Roots’ Campaign to Take Down Amazon Is Funded by Amazon’s Biggest Rivals  

AWS

• Now Available – EC2 Instances (G4) with NVIDIA T4 Tensor Core GPUs
• New – Step Functions Support for Dynamic Parallelism
• Amazon S3 introduces same region replication
• vCPU-based On-Demand Instance Limits are Now Available in Amazon EC2

Google

• Virtual display devices for Compute Engine now GA
• Container-native load balancing on GKE now generally available

Azure

• Azure Files premium tier gets zone redundant storage
• Introducing cost-effective increment snapshots of Azure managed disks in preview

Lightning Round (Jonathan 10, Justin 15, and Guest 4): 

• Introducing new Amazon EC2 Windows Server AMIs for DISA STIG compliance
• Amazon EKS Announces Beta Release of Amazon EFS CSI Driver
• Amazon API Gateway Simplifies Invoking Private APIs
• Amazon WorkSpaces Introduces WorkSpaces Restore to the Last Known Healthy State
• Amazon Aurora Serverless PostgreSQL Now Supports Data API
• AWS Lambda Now Supports Custom Batch Window for Kinesis and DynamoDB Event Sources
• AWS joins the .Net Foundation
• At OpenWorld, Oracle struggles to move the cloud needle its way
• Amazon Redshift announces automatic workload management and query priorities
• Amazon Athena adds support for inserting data into a table using the results of a SELECT query or using a provided set of values