Episode 75: The Cloud Pod Deletes Everything (But Keeps Copies)
Episode 75: The Cloud Pod Deletes Everything (But Keeps Copies)  
Podcast: The Cloud Pod
Published On: Wed Jun 10 2020
Description: Your co-hosts announce parity with the leading cloud-computing podcast hosts on this week’s episode of The Cloud Pod. A big thanks to this week’s sponsor: 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. This week’s highlights Amazon is suing their former vice president of marketing. AWS introduces new instances. Google pulls the perfect hat-trick and celebrates parity with AWS three times. General News: What? Amazon is Litigious? No… Amazon is suing their former vice president of marketing Brian Hall over the breach of his non-compete agreement after taking a position with Google Cloud. We will see whether Amazon’s inconsistent enforcement of their non-compete agreements will give Hall a win in court. Slack is partnering with AWS, integrating Slack Calls with Amazon Chime. For an interview with Chime GM Sid Rao, check out friend of the show Corey Quinn’s podcast Screaming in the Cloud. Rackspace rebranded this week to “Rackspace Technology.” This shift mirrors their move from selling equipment to selling services. AWS: Instant Hits AWS launched new EC2 instances, this time bumping up to second generation AMD EPYC processors. Well, it’s cheaper than the Intel counterpart. EC2 G4dn bare metal instances are now available with up to eight NVIDIA T4 GPUs. You’ve got to be working on some seriously cool machine learning projects to need something this expensive. You can now find the machine-learning powered anomaly detection feature and interactive <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new