The Cloud Pod wins second place for the Jedi contract – Ep 45
The Cloud Pod wins second place for the Jedi contract – Ep 45  
Podcast: The Cloud Pod
Published On: Wed Oct 30 2019
Description: The DOD awards the coveted Jedi contract, the MS ignite Draft, Earnings season and more this week on The Cloud Pod. Sponsors: Foghorn Consulting – fogops.io/thecloudpod Follow Up Topics Pentagon awards controversial $10 billion cloud computing deal to Microsoft, spurning Amazon Even after Microsoft wins, JEDI saga could drag on General News/Topics Earnings Season Microsoft’s cloud shines again as it easily tops earnings targets, but Azure slows Despite AWS cloud growth, Amazon shares sag on lower forecast Google Cloud fails to lift Alphabet enough to please investors AWS 200 Amazon CloudFront Points of Presence + Price Reduction Native Container Image Scanning in Amazon ECR AWS Global Accelerator Now Supports EC2 Instance Endpoints Google Updates make Cloud AI platform faster and more flexible Advancing Customer Control in the Cloud Swipe right for a new guide to PCI on GKE Bring Your Own IP addresses: the secret to Bitly’s shortened cloud migration What’s happening in BigQuery: New features bring flexibility and scale to your data warehouse Azure Preview: Server-side encryption with customer-managed keys for Azure Managed Disks New in Stream Analytics: Machine Learning, online scaling, custom code, and more   MS Ignite Draft   Jonathan Digital Assistant to compete with Alexa or Google Home.   3 more Azure Regions in US More or Improved tooling for Devops Community Peter Istio for AKS 1 more region in Canada Visual Studio Online  Justin Azure Portal Redesign Sagemaker/Databricks like Competitor.  Oracle on Stage Lightning Round (Jonathan 12, Justin 16, and Guest 4):  AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate Now Supports Custom Domains Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) Adds Support for Change Streams AWS Managed Services (AMS) Now Offers Managed Landing Zones AWS Batch Introduces New Allocation Strategies “Alexa, I’m running late” – Alexa for Business enables Alexa users to inform their next meeting they will be late Amazon Transcribe Now Supports Australian English Speech-to-Text in Real Time AWS License Manager now helps you easily identify Windows and SQL Server License Included instances Increase AWS Single Sign-On security with multi-factor authentication using authenticator apps Amazon RDS for Oracle adds support to invoke EMCTL commands for Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Supports User Authentication with Kerberos and Microsoft Active Directory AWS Snowball Edge now supports volume sizes of up to 10 TB AWS Elastic Beanstalk Adds Support for PHP 7.3 and .NET Core 3.0 AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) Private Certificate Authority (CA) now enforces name constraints in imported CA certificates