Episode Details

The DOD awards the coveted Jedi contract, the MS ignite Draft, Earnings season and more this week on The Cloud Pod.

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• 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