The Cloud Pod to appear at Intersect.aws – Ep 35

Github.com gets a CI/CD Service, Lakes are forming with lake formation and Google and Azure get EPYC this week on the show.

Sponsors:

• Foghorn Consulting – fogops.io/thecloudpod

Follow Up

• Amazon and Capital One face legal backlash after massive hack affects 106M customers
• Intersect.AWS music festival has released ticket and lineup information

Topics

General News

• GitHub gets a CI/CD service
• Announcing the preview of Github Actions for Azure
• Pentagon pushes back JEDI winner decision by weeks amid fresh review
• Pentagon Makes case for Return of the Jedi: There’s only one cloud biz that can do the job and its starts with an A (or rhymes with loft)
  • https://media.defense.gov/2019/Aug/08/2002168542/-1/-1/1/UNDERSTANDING-THE-WARFIGHTING-REQUIREMENTS-FOR-DOD-ENTERPRISE-CLOUD-FINAL-08AUG2019.PDF
• Apple is a filthy AWS, Azure, Google Reseller, grip punters: iPhone giant accused of hiding iCloud’s real backend

AWS

• Local Mocking and Testing support with Amplify CLI
• AWS Lake Formation – Now GA
• Amazon Aurora Multi-Master is Now GA
  • https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/building-highly-available-mysql-applications-using-amazon-aurora-mmsr/
• Preview Release of the new AWS tools for Powershell
• AWS step functions adds support for nested workflows
• New AWS Training Courses teach APN partners to better help their customers
• Amazon Rekognition now detects violence, weapons and self-injury in images and videos; improves accuracy for nudity detection
• Introducing Amazon EC2 I3en and C5n Bare Metal Instances
• Use AWS Systems Manager to resolve operational issues with your .NET and Microsoft SQL Server Applications
• New Capacity-Optimized Allocation Strategy for Provisioning Amazon EC2 Spot Instances 

Google

• Cloud IAP enables context-aware access to VMs via SSH and RDP without bastion host
• Expanding virtual machine types to drive performance and efficiency
• AMD EPYC processors come to Google and to Google Cloud

Azure

• Announcing new AMD EPYC based Azure Virtual Machines
• Better Security with enhanced access control experience in Azure Files
• Disaster recovery of Azure disk encryption (V2) enabled virtual machines

Lightning Round (Jonathan 8, Justin 12, and Guest 3): 

• Amazon RDS SQL Server now supports changing the SeRvEr-LeVeL Collation
• Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports new instance sizes.
• Amazon EC2 Fleet now lets you set a maximum price for a fleet of instances
• Amazon EC2 Fleet Now lets you modify on-demand target capacity
• Amazon SNS message filtering adds support for attribute key matching
• Amazon EMR now supports native EBS encryption
• Amazon Rekognition improves Face Analysis (Improved Gender Identity, and  emotions Happy, Sad, Angry, Surprised, Disgusted, Calm and Confused) and new emotion Fear and improved age range estimation accuracy
• Amazon WorkDocs Migration Service now makes it easy to migrate your data to Workdocs
• Amazon EMR integration with Lake Formation is now in Beta, supporting Database, Table and Column level access controls for Apache Spark
• Amazon Athena adds support for AWS Lake Formation enabling fine-grained access control for databases, tables and columns
• Amazon Redshift now supports column level access control with AWS Lake Formation
• AWS has relaunched their developer series on edX
• Amazon RDS has released PostgreSQL 12 Beta 2 to the Database Preview Environment
• Amazon DynamoDB now helps you monitor as you approach your account limits
• Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility supports Publishing PostgreSQL log files to Cloudwatch Logs
• You can now purchase Redhat Enterprise Linux with HA Add-On via Azure Marketplace
• Azure has released new Azure Cosmos DB .Net SDK V3
• Introducing the new AWS Co-Branding Guide