109: The Cloud Pod Hopes all Fault Injections are Simulated

On The Cloud Pod this week, the team debate the merits of daylight savings and how they could use it to break things in a spectacular fashion.    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 Amazon is injecting the fun back into the party. Google is going mission-critical, spare a thought for its employees.  Azure has released a new storage defender to reduce the threat of storage exploitation.  General News: Back From The Dead Docker CEO talks about their progress, product-led strategy, and coders as “kingmakers.” We’re not sure how solid that funding is but we’ll see how it goes when the renewals come around.       Amazon Web Services: So Many Faults  Amazon is launching the AWS Fault Injection Simulator (FIS) for controlled fault experiments on AWS workloads. We can’t wait for FIS to go wrong and start injecting faults where they don’t belong.     Amazon announces price reduction for S3 Glacier. We can hear the cash registers ringing in the background.       Amazon is celebrating 15 years of Amazon S3 with “Pi Week” livestream events. It’s not a sentient being!   Amazon gives customers an easy way to execute commands in a container running on ECS ec2 based instances or Fargate