171: AWS Snowcones in Space

On The Cloud Pod this week, Peter finally returns with some beer-based bets about Amazon extending its TLS deadline. Plus: Terraform drift detection for managing infrastructure, chilling tales of Amazon’s CodeWhisperer ML advances, and Anthos on-premise options finally arrive for your platform of choice. Plus the cloud talks about AWS SNOWCONES in SPACE!!!!!! A big thanks to this week’s sponsor, 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 Terraform Cloud finally adds drift detection to help manage infrastructure, now generally available after its 2020 preview. Amazon’s crazy “ML-powered coding companion,” CodeWhisperer, is here for our jobs. Google expands its Distributed Cloud platform with Anthos on-premises options.  Top Quotes   “I’m surprised it’s taken so long. Because I mean, the reality is if you’re in a plan, and the plan doesn’t require any changes, then there’s been no drift. So what was the obstacle in delivering this as a feature sooner?” “Not only they’re training their own machine learning models, but they’re also generating code. Not concerned at all.” General News: Drifting in the Right Direction While everyone’s been a little afraid to pull the trigger, HashiCorp announced drift detection in Terraform cloud, which is in a public beta. Pretty exciting! ️ HashiCorp also announced the launch and free public beta of HCP Boundary, but what’s their long-term vision? AWS: Whispering Sweet Somethings to the Machine SageMaker Ground Truth now supports synthetic data generation, promising to reduce time and training costs for model operations. Getting enough data to actually train a model could be hard… (fake it til you make it?) Your new “ML-powered coding companion” CodeWhisperer now writes code for you. We’ve joked about it before, but Alexa really is one step away from upskilling to coding. Peter’s betting two beers at his local pub on Amazon extending the deadline on this one: