On The Cloud Pod this week, Jonathan’s brain is a little scrambled and he can’t remember when he last went out for dinner even though it was with Justin on Tuesday.

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 honey pot might be about to dry up for Microsoft's lawyers. * 🚨 If you need a headache to get out of dinner with the in-laws, read this. * 🚨 Google has finally started listening to the sage advice from The Cloud Pod.

General News: Burn, Baby, Burn * 🥺 Okta says it’s buying security rival Auth0 for $6.5 billion, sending its stock plunging. The company’s not telling us its plan so don’t panic just yet. * 🔥 OVH data center burns down knocking major sites offline. Brutal.

JEDI: Things Are Not Going Well * 🤣 With a $10 billion cloud-computing deal snarled in court, the Pentagon may move forward without it. We can’t wait to see what this has cost taxpayers.

Amazon Web Services: Bottom Of The Barrel * 👍 AWS Lambda has received four new trusted advisor checks. This is a real advantage! * 🤯 AWS Secrets manager now lets you replicate secrets across multiple AWS regions. This makes our brains hurt.

Google Cloud Platform: Just Listen To The Cloud Pod * 🔨 Introducing Apache Spark Structured Streaming connector for Pub/Sub Lite. Easy tools to make life easier! * 🎠 Google’s Cloud Healthcare Consent Management API is now generally available. Could be a Trojan horse. * 🙏🏻 Save the date for Google Cloud Next ‘21: October 12–14, 2021. Thank you, Jesus, it’s not nine weeks long! * 😐 Managing cloud firewalls at scale with new Hierarchical Firewall Policies. This is a terrible name.

Azure: Hot Potato * 💖 Scale your critical applications cost-effectively with Azure Disk Storage. Always love a good disk storage story. * 🤷‍♀️ Architect and optimize your internet traffic with