121: Blue Origin finds new “dummy” to go to space

Is sending the former CEO of one of the biggest technology companies in the world to space a good idea? On The Cloud Pod this week, the team discusses the potential economic catastrophe that could follow if Jeff Bezos becomes space junk.  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. Jumpcloud, which provides cloud directory services, enables remote access, eases onboarding and offboarding of users and enables zero trust access models. This week’s highlights Amazon is sending the old junk it found in the attic into space. Google is now fully qualified to direct traffic. Azure turned its out-of-office message on and hoped no one would notice. General News: Frenemies  ⛄ Snowflake had its annual user conference and announced some new tools and features. Pretty good!  Jeff Bezos is joining the first human flight to space with his company Blue Origin. This is super risky, even if he’s no longer CEO.  Fastly blames global internet outage on a software bug. This is the right way to address outages — nice one, Fastly!  Amazon Web Services: Watch This Space Amazon announces auditing feature for FSx for Windows File Server. This needs an acronym.