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Your co-hosts recap 2019 and make predictions for the year ahead on the first episode of 2020. We’re skipping the Lightning Round this week to focus on a collaborative Q&A segment pulled from our Slack channel. A big thanks to this week’s sponsors: Foghorn Consulting , which provides full stack cloud solutions with a focus on strategy, planning and execution for enterprises seeking to take adv...

Your co-hosts settle into the winter holidays by unwinding from Re:Invent and recording the last episode of The Cloud Pod of 2019. A big thanks to this week’s sponsors: 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. Blue Medor...

Your co-hosts celebrate the one-year anniversary of the podcast by returning to the place where it all started – AWS Re:Invent. Joining us once again is Ryan Lucas (@ryron01) as we recap the largest week in Cloud. A big thanks to this week’s sponsors: Foghorn Consulting , which provides full stack cloud solutions with a focus on strategy, planning, and execution for enterprises seeking to take adv...

Sponsors: Foghorn Consulting Blue Medora Your co-hosts are back from Thanksgiving and Re:Invent, and we’re running through all of it for you. In this episode, we cover the lead-up to opening day. Next week, we’ll release an episode fully devoted to Re:Invent coverage.  This week’s highlights   CloudWatch has been growing quietly into a much more robust tool with 11 updates since the last episode....

AWS is getting ready for the biggest event of the year, Re:Invent 2019 in Las Vegas.  Your Co-Hosts do their best to guess what AWS may announce, we cover some preannouncement news, and more! NOTE: This episode was recorded on November 20th, to let the co-hosts enjoy Thanksgiving! This episode is AWS specific, as well as our first show after the Re:Invent conference. If you want to stay up to date...

Docker sells off its enterprise business to Mirantis. Amazon gets upset with the pentagon and launches a data exchange. Azure wins a lucrative contract and GitHub actions.  Google buys cloudsimple complicating things for the VMWare on Azure offerings. Sign up for our new Newsletter!  Sponsors: Foghorn Consulting – fogops.io/thecloudpod Follow Up Jonathan – Follows up on Redshift Topics General New...

AWS releases new RI option called the savings plan, IBM builds a financial services cloud, and @jeffbarr celebrates 15 years of blogging for AWS! Sponsors: Foghorn Consulting – fogops.io/thecloudpod Follow Up Halloween Downtime RCA – Google Topics General News/Topics Capital One replaces security chief after data breach Amazon doubles down on Boston as a robotics hub with new $40M facility IBM: Ba...

This week we discuss the Microsoft Ignite conference, announcements and new features and how we did on the Azure Draft.  AWS announces a new Spain region and GCP had a lengthy halloween incident.  Sponsors: Foghorn Consulting – fogops.io/thecloudpod Follow Up Amazon fails to stop ex-sales staffer winging it to Google Cloud Accused Capital One hacker had as much as 30 terabytes of stolen data, feds...

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...

Peter goes Absent With Out Leave – AWOL. Redhat can’t save IBM’s earnings, AWS starts detecting anomalies, Google adds 100-Gbps direct connect links to their data centers, and Azure gets FHIR-Y. We also take a few somber minutes to talk about the passing of Mark Hurd, Oracle’s former Co-CEO.  Plus the world famous lightning round.   Sponsors: Foghorn Consulting – fogops.io/thecloudpod Follow Up To...

Sponsors: Foghorn Consulting – fogops.io/thecloudpod Ryan Lucas ( @ryron01 ) fills in for Peter as we review the latest batch of cloud news. AWS re:Invent 2019 is just a month away and there’s no shortage of announcements this week either.  This week’s highlights AWS re:Invent 2019 session catalog is live. If you haven’t gotten into the panels you want, you’ll have to get on a waitlist. We’re also...

Justin is back from vacation and gets the podcast back on track. Justin, Peter and Jonathan talk about their guest spot on roaring elephants and Justin’s AWS lambda fireside chat video. Elasticsearch sues AWS over trademark infringement, AWS gets its IQ raised, Oracle gets fedramp certified cloud regions and Google enhances their github app for cloud build.  Plus the world famous lightning round....

Chef finds a bad recipe for success, AWS rolls out Step Functions, Google launches its native load balancer for Kubernetes and Microsoft confuses us further with premium tier storage offerings. Sponsors: Foghorn Consulting – fogops.io/thecloudpod Topics General News/Topics A CIO’s guide to cloud success: decouple to shift your business into high gear What’s Going on with GKE and Anthos? Chef Saga...

Justin goes to Oracle World and comes back with a new understanding of OCI customers.  VPC Flow logs get new metadata and we get an update on AWS outposts, but no date or pricing yet. Sponsors: Foghorn Consulting – fogops.io/thecloudpod Follow Up Investors send Cloudflare’s shares soaring 20% after IPO hauls in $525M Topics AWS Learn From Your VPC Flow Logs With Additional Meta-Data Running AWS In...

Episode 39: Recorded on September 10th, 2019. Show Title: The Cloud Pod goes Quantum This week AWS releases the Quantum Ledger Database, Google gets shielded GKE nodes and Microsoft gets a new shiny datacenter in Germany Sponsors: Foghorn Consulting – fogops.io/thecloudpod Follow Up Slack stock plunges on bigger-than-expected loss forecast Topics AWS Introducing Fine-Grained IAM Roles for Service...

US-East-1 has a hiccup in a single AZ, Lambda fixes cold start launches inside a VPC, Google gets an AD service and Microsoft goes cloud neutral in Switzerland. Plus special guest @ryron01 Sponsors: Foghorn Consulting – fogops.io/thecloudpod Follow Up In updated IPO filing, Cloudflare seeks up to $483M at $3.5B valuation Topics AWS US-Tire-Fire-1 had an outage Operational Insights for Containers a...

VMWare acquires Pivotal and Carbon black, plus VMworld debrief.  Google kills more products and AWS reduces the cost of SageMaker training. Sponsors: Foghorn Consulting – fogops.io/thecloudpod Topics General News Oracle files new appeal over Pentagon’s $10B JEDI cloud contract RFP process VMWorld VMware pays billions to acquire Pivotal Software and Carbon Black VMWorld US 2019 Monday Recap VMWorld...

AWS introduces new kernel panic API trigger, Azure storage gets complicated, and Google’s big query gets a terraform module. Sponsors: Foghorn Consulting – fogops.io/thecloudpod Follow Up Cloudflare files for IPO, revealing revenue of $129M in first half of 2019 Topics General News Alibaba blows past earnings estimates cloud business hits 4.5b run rate Digital Ocean launches new managed MySQL and...

Github.com gets a CI/CD Service, Lakes are forming with lake formation and Google and Azure get EPYC this week on the show. Sponsors: Foghorn Consulting – fogops.io/thecloudpod Follow Up Amazon and Capital One face legal backlash after massive hack affects 106M customers Intersect. AWS music festival has released ticket and lineup information Topics General News GitHub gets a CI/CD service Announc...

Special guest Josh Stella joins us to talk about the Capital One breach.  AWS releases PartiQL, one query language to rule them all, Microsoft licensing changes and more. Plus we talk more about Josh’s company @Fuguehq in Cool Tools. Sponsors: Foghorn Consulting – fogops.io/thecloudpod Follow Up Capital One A Technical Analysis of the capital one cloud misconfiguration breach Topics General News C...

Sponsors: Foghorn Consulting – fogops.io/thecloudpod 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 se...

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...

The team is back after some well deserved time off, with a busy two weeks they try to cover everything.  AWS NYC event, Azure Migration Program, EC2 Instance connect and AWS budget reports. Sponsors: Foghorn Consulting – fogops.io/thecloudpod Topics Announcing the General Availability of Azure Premium Files AWS OpsCenter – A new feature for streamlining IT Operations Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Serve...

We talk about AWS EKS 1.13 release, Slack IPO, GCP Workload identity and more this week on the cloud pod. Note: This episode was recorded after reinforce recap show due to vacation schedule of the hosts.  We will cover the first few weeks of July for all cloud providers in Episode 31 and then back to normal schedule. Sponsors: Foghorn Consulting – fogops.io/thecloudpod Topics App Engine second gen...

We recap the AWS Reinforce conference from Boston Massachusetts.  Draft results, overall impressions of the conference and we break down each announcement. Sponsors: Foghorn Consulting – fogops.io/thecloudpod Turbonomic – turbonomic.com/cloudpod Reinforce Results Justin DLP Cloud solution on AWS SIEM for AWS Endpoint Security Tools Jonathan Redlock or Trusted Advisor for security VPC Security Grou...