On The Cloud Pod this week, your hosts just want to be wowed and Ryan is off motorcycling somewhere in the desert.
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. * When the girls get coding!. Join us on your screens, Oct 13, for the live@Manning “Women in Tech” conference to celebrate the rising movement of women in technology. http://mng.bz/MolW
This week’s highlights * 🚨 Fighting words from Amazon over JEDI loss. * 🚨 Microsoft has gone to crazy town with their AWS connector pricing. * 🚨 Oracle taps their inner millennial to win the Tik Tok U.S bid.
General: A Bit Picky * 💰 Business App Platform Progress will acquire automation technology company Chef for $220 million. That’s a bargain price when you look at their recurring revenue. * 🥇 Pentagon reaffirms Microsoft as winner of $10B JEDI cloud contract. Nobody says the government is the most efficient at doing anything so picking the second best cloud vendor is unsurprising. * ⚔️ AWS has responded to the Pentagon reaffirmation of Azure with a harshly worded blog post. Well, life’s just not fair. * 🥳 Foghorn Consulting (sponsor alert!) are teaming up with Hashicorp and sponsoring a virtual Q&A with Kelsey Hightower on September 24. Head to The Cloud Pod Slack page after to discuss!
Amazon Web Services: You’ll Need Some Pain Relief * ☁️ AWS named Cloud Leader in Gartner’s Infrastructure & Platform Services Magic Quadrant. Gartner, are you listening to The Cloud Pod? * 👍 Amazon CloudFront now supports Transport Layer Security v1.3 for improved performance and security. Good move for privacy, but will cause a lot of pain. * 👓 Amazon CloudWatch now monitors Prometheus metrics to reduce monitoring tools needed for application performance degradation and failures. Might be worth the money — we’ll see. * 🛒 Bezos’s likely Amazon successor is an executive made in Bezos’s image. Considering the source, are they floating this idea to see how people react? * 🚀 AWS turns its