On The Cloud Pod this week, the team admits to using the podcast as a way to figure out what day it is. Justin also relents and includes Azure news because he couldn’t handle any more Oracle mobile apps announcements.

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 * 🚨 Social media influencers can breathe a sigh of relief. * 🚨 Amazon is dangling a carrot in front of one of its partners. * 🚨 Azure is throwing a spanner in the works.

General News: Not Cool News * 💣 The FBI arrests a man for his plan to kill “70% of the internet” in an AWS bomb attack. 70% is quite a stretch but we’re sure it would have caused a crappy day for a lot of people. * 🥳 Hashicorp has released its Boundary 0.2 release with several new features. We’re really excited about this. * 😐 Announcing HashiCorp Terraform 0.15 General Availability. If you believe it, this is really great news.

Amazon Web Services: Good At Compromising * 💯 AWS announces AQUA is now generally available. Justin should have gotten a prediction point for this one. * 🤗 Amazon Managed Service for Grafana now offers more support. We’ll see if Grafana can actually make money out of its partnership with Amazon. * 👏 Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now integrates with AWS Lambda. This is really cool! * 🤑 Decrease machine learning costs with instance price reductions and savings plans for Amazon SageMaker. Some pretty significant savings here.

Google Cloud Platform: Colossal * 🏊‍♀️ Google takes a deep dive into its scalable storage solution, Colossus. Nothing new here. * 🔧 Google announces tracking index backfill operation progress in Cloud Spanner. This is super important. * 🗺️ The new Google Cloud region in Warsaw is open. Nice to see Eastern Eu