153: The Cloud Pod Gets the (CloudFormation) Stage Hook

On The Cloud Pod this week, Jonathan’s got his detective hat on. Plus Akamai steps up to CloudFare with Linode acquisition, AWS’ CloudFormation Hooks lift us up, and EPYC instances are now available. 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 Akamai notes CloudFare’s aggressive pivot to edge computing and acquires AWS competitor Linode for $900m. AWS announces the general availability of AWS CloudFormation Hooks, which should prove very useful. Amazon provides EPYC-powered instances, with up to 15% improvement in price-performance. Top Quotes   “When AWS announces general availability of an instance, I have never been unable to launch that instance to test it. … I can’t say the same thing for workloads on GCP.” “If you ever take a laptop that has no security patches on it and you put it on a network … it’ll be hacked within minutes. It’s crazy how bad it is, actually. This is what we always talk about: it’s when you get hacked, not if you get hacked. Because if you have vulnerabilities, there’s always a chance. It’s just a matter of time before someone figures it out.” General News: Akamai Steps Up Its Game ️ Capitalizing on existing relationships, F5 unveils its new cloud platform with a huge advantage in security — but it might be a tough sell. Akamai acquires AWS competitor Linode for $900m. Clearly Akamai saw what CloudFare was doing and thought I gotta get me some of that. AWS: Getting Its CloudFormation Hooks In AWS announces the general availability of its CloudFormation Hooks. Very nice. We wish we’d had Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer’s new security features back in December — now it’s February and no one cares about Log4j anymore.