Gartner releases the new magic quadrant for IaaC and PaaS Cloud providers and Amazon continues to dominate. AT&T gets busy with the cloud, Google introduces spinnaker and Microsoft invests 1B in OpenAI this week on The Cloud Pod. Sponsors: * Foghorn Consulting - fogops.io/thecloudpod

Topics * Introducing the Amazon Corretto Crypto Provider for improved Crypto Performance * Advancing Microsoft Azure reliability * Introducing proximity placement groups * IBM inks multi-billion dollar cloud computing deal with AT&T * Microsoft & AT&T sign $2B+ cloud infrastructure and services deal * The case against Amazon: Why the tech giant is facing antitrust scrutiny on two continents * Arrested Development: Cops Dump Amazon's facial-recognition API after struggling to make the thing work properly * AWS named as leader in Gartner's Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Magic Quadrant for 9th consecutive year * Introducing Spinnaker for Google Cloud Platform - CD made easy * Azure is making it easier to bring your linux based web apps to Azure App Service * Microsoft will invest $1B for OpenAI aimed at improving Azure cloud platform

Lightning Round (Jonathan 8, Justin 9, Peter 1 and Guest 3): * Azure is Silo Busting with new Multi-Protocol access for the Azure Data Lake * Azure Monitor for containers with Prometheus now in preview * Amazon ECR now supports increased repository and image limits * AWS Cost Explorer