117: Justin is out, Peter’s distracted by his parents, Jonathan is just British and Ryan is probably tipsy…. But we had one job and we’re recording!
Update: 2025-08-29
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This week on The Cloud Pod, Justin is away so the rest of the team has taken the opportunity to throw him under the bus.
A big thanks to this week’s sponsors:
- Foghorn Consulting, which provides full-stack cloud solutions with a focus on strategy, planning and execution for enterprises seeking to take advantage of the transformative capabilities of AWS, Google Cloud and Azure.
This week’s highlights
- The Pentagon has had enough of the kids fighting so no one gets the toy.
- Amazon has given developers the happy ending they’ve always wanted.
- Google is playing with fire and hopes no one gets burnt.
JEDI: Play Nice
- Pentagon officials are considering pulling the plug on the star-crossed JEDI cloud-computing project. Reminds us of when we were kids and our parents took toys away when we couldn’t play nice together.
Amazon Web Services: We’ve Made All the Money
- AWS announces a price reduction for Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus. That’s an awful lot of samples.
- Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) announces pricing change for VPC Peering. Just get rid of the ridiculous data transfer fees!
- AWS Organizations launches a new console experience. We’re excited to try this out!
- AWS announces IAM Access Control for Apache Kafka on Amazon MSK. This is great.
- AWS Systems Manager now includes Incident Manager to resolve IT incidents faster. This might initially fall short of some of the other offerings on the market.
- AWS Local Zones are now open in Boston, Miami and Houston. They’re continuing on the Oracle model of racks in random garages.
- Amazon now lets you create Microsoft SQL Server Instances of Amazon RDS on AWS Outposts. A big hooray for people using Outposts.
Google Cloud Platform: Smells A Bit
- Google announces Agent Assist for Chat is now in Preview. Hopefully this is better than predictive
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