On The Cloud Pod this week, the team is feeling nostalgic and a little nerdy, as you can see from the show title — a throwback to Serial Console and its ability to add a ton of characters when you didn’t want it to.
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 should be singing a different tune. * 🚨 Google has astonished us all by actually sharing something interesting. * 🚨 Azure is the strict school principal that just canceled lunch.
General News: Justin Said It First * 🥇 VentureBeat predicts industry clouds could be the next big thing. Justin will take the royalties check anytime, VentureBeat.
Amazon Web Services: Please Don’t Keep It To Yourself * 🤷 Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS is now generally available. Surprising because we don’t remember it going into beta. * 🔭 AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry adds StatsD and Java support. We’re glad to see the continued investment in OpenTelemetry. * 🤯 AWS DevOps Monitoring Dashboard solution is now generally available. The solutions library is a Rube Goldberg machine. * 👍 Amazon Lookout for Metrics is now generally available — perfect for Ryan, who has no machine learning experience. * 🎵 Amazon Elasticsearch Service announces a new Auto-Tune feature for improved performance and application availability. We wish Amazon would open source this. * 👼 AWS SSO credential profile support is now available in the AWS Toolkit for VS Code. Thank you, Jesus. * 🍎 Amazon is developing a chip to power the hardware switches that shuttle data around networks. Apparently Google and Apple are also doing this. * 🦇 Troubleshoot boot and networking issues with new EC2 Serial Console. Must be useful for someone, maybe the people using enclaves?
Google Cloud Platform: Blame Active Directory * 😊 Google wants customers to rethink their cloud migration strategy. Actually quite an interesting blog post — no, this is not sarcasm!