This week on The Cloud Pod, apparently there was a machine learning conference because there is A LOT of machine learning news. For the listeners (and hosts of The Cloud Pod) who don’t understand machine learning, buckle up because this will be a long episode for you.

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 * 🚨 Amazon is acting like it’s helping but really it’s lying with numbers. * 🚨 Google is pretending the 1991 Ford Fiesta it’s selling is a 2021 Mustang. * 🚨 Azure got a little overexcited with the use of its naming bot.

General News: Fake It Until You Make It * 😐 Amazon data shows more diversity among senior leaders after the definition of “executive” loosened. Well, that’s one way to do it. * 🎉 Amazon’s Andy Jassy is warming up for the CEO role. We hope competitors don’t expect him to tread softly when he starts. * 😲 Pluralsight will acquire A Cloud Guru to address growing cloud skills gap. This is earth-shattering.

Amazon Web Services: Busy As Usual * 🤗 Amazon Redshift Machine Learning is now generally available. There’s a helpful table to explain the different machine learning products. * 😞 Amazon ECS Anywhere is now generally available. A bit disappointed that they haven’t addressed the networking issue more. * 🎥 Introducing Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics Studio for analyzing streaming data. They’re really into studios at the moment. * 👍 Amazon SQS now supports a high throughput mode for FIFO Queues. This is nice. * 🚚 Amazon Location Service is now generally available with new routing and satellite imagery capabilities. Just so you don’t run your truck under a bridge that’s too low.

Google Cloud Platform: Not A Robot In Disguise * 🥱 New Cloud TPU VMs make training machine learning models on TPUs easier. We told you this wou