Episode 25: Optimize your Journey with The Cloud Pod Center of Excellence
Episode 25: Optimize your Journey with The Cloud Pod Center of Excellence  
Podcast: The Cloud Pod
Published On: Tue May 28 2019
Description: This week we talk about Cloud Center of Excellence, New Encryption options, open source update on Firecracker and more.  Elise Carmichael (twitter: @uncfleece) from @tricentis joins us to talk about some of their tools. Sponsors: Foghorn Consulting – https://fogops.io/thecloudpod  Topics: New – Updated Pay-Per-Use Pricing Model for AWS Config Rules Google Says some G-Suite Passwords were stored in Plaintext since 2005 Google Cloud – Optimize your organizations cloud journey with a Cloud Center of Excellence Amazon RDS for SQL Server increases database limit per database instance up to 100 AWS Opt-In to Default Encryption for New EBS Volumes AWS Ground Station – Ready to ingest & process Satellite Data Firecracker Open Source Update May 2019 Application Management made easier with Kubernetes Operators on GCP Marketplace Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports Always On Availability Groups for SQL Server 2017 Github launches Sponsors, lets you pay your favorite open source contributors Manage your cross cloud spend using Azure Cost management Lightning Round (Jonathan 5, Justin 9, Peter 1 and Guest 3): AWS now allows you to enable Hibernations on EC2 instances at the same time as you launch the AMI Amazon Document DB (with MongoDB Compatibility) is now SOC 1, 2, 3 Compliant AWS Marketplace enables long term contracts for AMI products AWS Budgets now Supports Variable Budget Targets for Cost and U