119: Oracle announces something amazing, The Cloud Pod worldview shook

This week on The Cloud Pod, Ryan is stuck somewhere in a tent under a broken-down motorcycle but is apparently still having fun.         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 went back to school to become a detective. Google was voted prom queen at the virtual homecoming. Oracle shocks everyone with its new look. General News: Great Partners Hashicorp has partnered with AWS to launch support for predictive scaling policy in the Terraform AWS provider. This will be hugely popular for people new to the cloud.     Amazon Web Services: Dropping Stories For No Reason AWS Lambda Extensions are now generally available with new performance improvements. This has pretty limited regional availability, though.    Amazon releases the AWS Shield threat landscape 2020 year in review. One of our favourite blogs. AWS EKS Add-Ons now supports CoreDNS and kube-proxy. This is neat! Introducing the AWS Application Cost Profiler — there have been a few complaints about this on...