Chef finds a bad recipe for success, AWS rolls out Step Functions, Google launches its native load balancer for Kubernetes and Microsoft confuses us further with premium tier storage offerings. Sponsors: * Foghorn Consulting - fogops.io/thecloudpod

Topics General News/Topics * A CIO’s guide to cloud success: decouple to shift your business into high gear * What’s Going on with GKE and Anthos? * Chef Saga + DevOps biz Chef roasted for tech contract with family-separating US immigration, forks up attempt to quash protest - 9/19 + Chef’s Position on Customer Engagement in the Public and Private Sectors 9/19 + An Update to the Chef Community Regarding Current Events 9/20 + A Personal Message From the CTO 9/20 + An Important Update from Chef 9/23 * A ‘Grass Roots’ Campaign to Take Down Amazon Is Funded by Amazon’s Biggest Rivals

AWS * Now Available – EC2 Instances (G4) with NVIDIA T4 Tensor Core GPUs * New – Step Functions Support for Dynamic Parallelism * Amazon S3 introduces same region replication * vCPU-based On-Demand Instance Limits are Now Available in Amazon EC2

Google * Virtual display devices for Compute Engine now GA * Container-native load balancing on GKE now generally available

Azure * Azure Files premium tier gets zone redundant storage * Introducing cost-effective increment snapshots of Azure managed disks in preview

Lightning Round (Jonathan 10, Justin 15, and Guest 4): * Introducing new Amazon EC2 Windows Server AMIs for DISA STIG compliance