US East 1’s on Fire,  The Cloud Pod says let the !#*&@ burn – Ep 38

US-East-1 has a hiccup in a single AZ, Lambda fixes cold start launches inside a VPC, Google gets an AD service and Microsoft goes cloud neutral in Switzerland. Plus special guest @ryron01

Sponsors:

• Foghorn Consulting – fogops.io/thecloudpod

Follow Up

• In updated IPO filing, Cloudflare seeks up to $483M at $3.5B valuation

Topics

AWS

• US-Tire-Fire-1 had an outage
• Operational Insights for Containers and Containerized Applications
• Port Forwarding Using AWS System Manager Session Manager
• Now use Session Manager to interactively run individual commands on instances
• Client IP Address Preservation for AWS Global Accelerator
• 64 AWS services achieve HITRUST certification
• Take the AWS certified cloud practitioner exam in your home or office 24/7
• AWS Chatbot Now Supports Notifications from AWS Systems Manager
• Amazon ECS now exposes runtime ContainerIds to APIs and ECS Console
• Announcing improved VPC networking for AWS Lambda functions

Google

• Managed Service for Microsoft Active Directory (AD)
• Using Google Cloud Speech-to-Text to transcribe your Twilio calls in real-time
• August on GCP

Azure

• How Microsoft and Oracle became cloud buddies, and what’s next for their improbable partnership
• Microsoft Azure’s cloud regions in Switzerland are now open for business
• Track the health of your disaster recovery with Log Analytics
• Beyond the printed form: Unlocking insights from documents with Form Recognizer
• Azure Cost Management Updates – August 2019

Lightning Round (Jonathan 8, Justin 14, and Guest 4): 

• AWS Site-to-Site VPN Adds Configurability of Security Algorithms and Timer Settings for VPN Tunnels
• AWS x-ray now supports Amazon SQS
• Lower Threshold for AWS WAF Rate-based Rules
• Now select resource groups as targets for AWS Systems Manager Run Command
• Amazon Route 53 Now Publishes Query Volume Metrics for Public Hosted Zones
• Amazon ElastiCache for Redis adds support for customer managed keys in AWS Key Management Service for encryption at rest
• Suspend/Resume Scaling now Available in AWS Application Auto Scaling
• Amazon SageMaker Notebooks now export Jupyter logs to Amazon Cloudwatch
• PyTorch on Azure: Full support for PyTorch 1.2
• Google New release of Cloud Storage Connector for Hadoop: Improving performance, throughput and more
• Amazon FSx for Lustre Reduces Minimum File System Size to 1.2 TBs
• Amazon SageMaker now supports accelerated training with new, smaller, Amazon FSx for Lustre file systems