While waiting on tenterhooks to find out who will win the U.S. presidential race, the team welcomed guest Jacques Chester to The Cloud Pod this week.
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This week’s highlights * 🚨 AWS will be enjoying fondue in Switzerland. * 🚨 Google is clearing out the old junk in the attic. * 🚨 Dr. Microsoft is now taking appointments.
General News: Money, Money, Money * 🙄 Microsoft has reported its earnings for the first fiscal quarter of 2021. Microsoft is over 2020 already. * ☠️ Google’s parent company Alphabet crushed expectations for both earnings and revenue in its third-quarter earnings results. This could be a good sign it’s not planning on killing Google Cloud just yet. * 💪 Amazon reports $96.1 billion in Q3 2020 revenue. Overall a pretty strong quarter!
Amazon Web Services: Spend Or Save? * 🔐 Amazon launches AWS Nitro Enclaves to carve out isolated environments on any EC2 instance that is powered by the Nitro System. A great increase in security for no additional cost. * 🎉 Customers can now use Jira Service Desk to track operational items related to AWS resources. This is great for the start-ups and smaller organizations that are using Jira! * 🤗 Amazon announces new Application Load Balancer Support to make it easier to use gRPC with your applications. Another great feature! * 🤤 New AWS Europe region will allow customers to run their applications and serve end-users from data centers located in Switzerland. Happy for Europe but can we get more in the U.S.? * 🤢 AWS delivers up to 2.5x the deep learning performance with new GPU-Equippe