On The Cloud Pod this week, Peter turns into an old man in his yard, yelling at cloud providers.
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 big cloud providers must not tell lies about their cloud customers. * 🚨 Google keeps us guessing if features will survive after the Preview. * 🚨 Microsoft launches the world’s smallest Machine Learning degree.
General News: An Expensive Gimmick * 🤡 Microsoft, AWS and others boast of exclusive cloud customers that aren’t actually exclusive to them. At the end of the day, being “all in” is a gimmick. * 💰 Palo Alto Networks, Inc. announced it’s adding four new cloud security modules to Prisma Cloud. All for the low, low price of a lot of money. * ❓ Red Hat, Inc. ties Ansible automation to Kubernetes cluster management to improve automation in cloud-native infrastructure. The only thing that’s going to make Kubernetes easier to manage is a whole bunch of Ansible catalogues and code that you don’t understand. * 😡 Spinnaker-as-a-service startup Armory raises $40M in new funding. This makes us all cranky — these giant one-stop solutions are not the answer.
Amazon Web Services: Strangely Quiet * 💚 Amazon EventBridge now supports Dead Letter Queues, making event-driven applications more resilient. We love this! * 🏇 Amazon EKS now officially supports Kubernetes version 1.18. We’re taking bets on when version 1.19 comes out.
Google Cloud Platform: Apply Sunscreen * 🧯 Google announces that all new GCP products will launch in Preview or General Availability. Tread carefully here — we’ve been burned by previews before where features don’t make it into General Availability. * 😕 Google launches support across Google Cloud for buildpacks to easily create container images. Don’t be fooled: Problems you had with Docker files