117: Justin is out, Peter’s distracted by his parents, Jonathan is just British and Ryan is probably tipsy…. But we had one job and we’re recording!

This week on The Cloud Pod, Justin is away so the rest of the team has taken the opportunity to throw him under the bus.    

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.

This week’s highlights

• The Pentagon has had enough of the kids fighting so no one gets the toy.
• Amazon has given developers the happy ending they’ve always wanted.
• Google is playing with fire and hopes no one gets burnt.

JEDI: Play Nice

• Pentagon officials are considering pulling the plug on the star-crossed JEDI cloud-computing project. Reminds us of when we were kids and our parents took toys away when we couldn’t play nice together.

Amazon Web Services: We’ve Made All the Money

• AWS announces a price reduction for Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus. That’s an awful lot of samples.  
• Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) announces pricing change for VPC Peering. Just get rid of the ridiculous data transfer fees!   
• AWS Organizations launches a new console experience. We’re excited to try this out!
• AWS announces IAM Access Control for Apache Kafka on Amazon MSK. This is great. 
• AWS Systems Manager now includes Incident Manager to resolve IT incidents faster. This might initially fall short of some of the other offerings on the market. 
• AWS Local Zones are now open in Boston, Miami and Houston. They’re continuing on the Oracle model of racks in random garages. 
• Amazon now lets you create Microsoft SQL Server Instances of Amazon RDS on AWS Outposts. A big hooray for people using Outposts. 

Google Cloud Platform: Smells A Bit

• Google announces Agent Assist for Chat is now in Preview. Hopefully this is better than predictive