182: There Is a Wild Mandoogle Loose In the Theater

On The Cloud Pod this week, Amazon SWF launches a new console experience, Google acquires Mandiant, and Azure Space has some new products coming your way soon. Thank you to our sponsor, Foghorn Consulting, which provides top notch cloud and DevOps engineers to the world’s most innovative companies. Initiatives stalled because you’re having trouble hiring? Foghorn can be burning down your DevOps and Cloud backlogs as soon as next week. Episode Highlights ⏰  Amazon SWF just launched a new console experience for building distributed applications. ⏰ The Google acquisition of Mandiant (Mandoogle!) is finished. ⏰  Azure Space announced their next wave of products. Top Quote “The new certification is sort of interesting, because it’s a little bit more like the, the content isn’t new, right? But the certification is new. And so it’s an interesting metric. Like how do you, how do you ensure people are reviewing the content? You have these certifications that you measure on the completion of that? So like, it’s, I can see how it’s a little bit of like, weaponizing, you know, those metrics in order to like drive culture change, maybe within an org where there’s division over private cloud or public cloud? Or, you know, it just depends on what you want to do. But very interesting.” [17:04] General News: Hashi Corp announced that Consul Terraform Sync is generally available at the 0.7 release. [1:12] AWS: More Like Amazon SWTF? You’ve never heard of it, but Amazon SWF just launched a new console experience for building distributed applications. [4:20] Amazon SNS launches a public preview of message data protection. [6:53] ‍♂️ Your containers will now be launching faster, thanks to Seekable OCI for lazy loading container images. [10:00] GCP: Hey Siri, What Is a Mandoogle? Google Cloud Next is less than one month away. Have you registered yet? [12:16] ‍♀️ The Cloud Digital Leader certification is bringing Cloud training to those of us who aren’t technically inclined. [14:56] BeyondCorp Enterprise is giving you more ways to protect your corporate applications. [18:45] ‍The