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Follow Up AWS Reinvent Music Festival - https://intersect.aws/ Topics General News * Earnings + Amazon shares dip missing profit expectations tech giant posts 63.4billion in Q2 revenue + Microsoft trumpets record year with $126b in Annual Revenue up 14% as quarterly profits beat estimates + Google Cloud's run rate is now over $8B + Alphabet announces second quarter 2019 results

• Digital Ocean gets a new CEO and CFO
• CNN report: Inside the effort to turn trump against Amazon's bid for a $10 billion Jedi contract
• Amazon Hires Lobbyist with trump ties amid contentious pentagon cloud contest
• Capital One hacked over 100 million customers affected

AWS * eksctl – the EKS CLI * AWS Released resource optimization recommendations * Stackery lets AWS lambda developers debug their serverless programs locally on a laptop * AWS Launches a chatbot for chatops * AWS client VPN now adds support for split tunneling * AWS Secrets Manager now supports VPC endpoint policies * Announcing the new AWS Middle East Bahrain Region

Google * Google partners with VMWare to bring virtualized workloads to GCP * Brick by Brick: Learn GCP by setting up a kid-controllable Minecraft server

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