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