Episode Details

This week we discuss AWS Step Functions, VMware Tanzu Community Edition and Zoom’s M&A Strategy. Plus, some thoughts on car batteries…

Rundown

• AWS Step Functions Supports 200 AWS Services To Enable Easier Workflow Automation
• Introducing VMware Tanzu Community Edition
  • Tanzu Community Edition
• Zoom M&A
  • And that’s that, as the Zoom deal to buy Five9 is called off – TechCrunch
  • Zoom loses Five9 - leaves the cloud contact center business open to innovative alternatives
• Telegram added 70M new users amid six-hour WhatsApp outage

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