It’s Peter’s washing night so please enjoy the soothing sounds of the odd spin cycle as we dive into the huge news coming out of Amazon on The Cloud Pod this week.
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This week’s highlights * 🚨 America’s version of Queen Elizabeth has stepped down. * 🚨 Google is a bit late to the party but brings the ice so we forgive its team. * 🚨 Azure is trying to claim it came first but the chicken says otherwise.
Follow Up: A Bit Slack * 👉 Slack explains how the January 4th outage occurred. It was all Amazon’s fault. * 🥳 FogOps for Linux is now available via the AWS Marketplace. Congratulations on getting FogOps on the marketplace, Peter! * General News: It’s Earnings Season! * 🥜 Microsoft releases its earnings. This is nuts. * 😶 Alphabet also released its earnings. We hope all the money it’s investing in infrastructure and data centers pays off in the long run, because that’s a big loss. * 🤪 Amazon announces financial results and CEO transition. That’s some crazy profit. * 🙋♀️ Outgoing Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos addresses employees. But who will head AWS now?
Amazon Web Services: Bon Voyage, Bezos * 🤨 AWS launches multiple private marketplace catalogs for AWS organizations. Not a problem any of us have so not wowed by this. * 👎 AWS PrivateLink for Amazon S3 is now generally available. We like it but don’t like the pricing. * 👍 Amazon Macie announces a slew of new capabilities. Check out our sponsor OpenRaven, which is much better at solving the same issue and is much cheaper.
Google Cloud Platform: Stop Blaming Our Database * 😕 Google announces a CentOS 7-based Virtual Machine image to achieve optimal Central Processing Unit and network performance on Google Cloud. We had to look a few of these terms up. * 👏 Google introduces Cloud SQL Insight