Episode Details

The Three Musketeers have gained their D’Artagnan and take on the world (metaphorically and from home) 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

• Take a break with us and enjoy a music video.
• Oracle managed a whole two headlines this week!
• Jonathan called it: AWS opens the Africa (Cape Town) Region.

General News: Chime After Chime

• • Tim Leehane and Spencer Johnson released a working-from-home anthem titled Chime After Chime we just had to share with you.

• Security company Rapid7 will acquire SaaS platform DivvyCloud for $145 million.

COVID-19

• Zoom picked the dark horse of cloud platforms Oracle for their next upscaling deal. Zoom is moving around 93 years of video through Oracle servers every day.
• AMD revealed an anonymous customer (probably Oracle or Microsoft) deployed 10,000 new Epyc servers in just 10 days.

 AWS: Summit Predictions

• Jonathan
  1. Improved DLP Tools for S3
  2. AI Powered submarine to explore the depths of the ocean
  3. ES service will pivot to Open Distro for ElasticSearch
• Ryan
  1. Docker Exec based Debugging tools/capability
  2. Remote Debug capabilities for Lambda Functions
  3. Security Code Scanning service (similar to code guru). (static and dynamic code analysis)
• Peter
  1. Direct Competitor to Anthos
  2. DLP for VPC, always wanted a layer 7 like proxy. Filtering/Domain Whitelisting
  3. A caricature of larry ellison will appear on the screen in the slides
• Justin
  1. Price Cut in EC2, S3 or Networking
  2. Covid Crazy Growth Numbers (service dig on Azure)
  3. A Diplo T-shirt will be worn by Werner Vogel

Honorable Mentions: 

• Amazon Crucible their first person shooter game, online multiplayer game
• Dr.