183: The Cloud Pod competes for the Google Cloud Fly Cup

On The Cloud Pod this week, AWS Enterprise Support adds incident detection and response, the announcement of Google Cloud Spanner, and Oracle expands to Spain. 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 ⏰ AWS Enterprise Support adds incident detection and response ⏰ You can now get a 90-day free trial of Google Cloud Spanner ⏰ Oracle opens its newest cloud infrastructure region in Spain Top Quote “A very large percentage of MySQL HeatWave customers are AWS users who are migrating off Aurora. However, there are still some AWS customers who are not able to migrate to OCI. This is a service where the data plane, control plane and console are natively running on AWS. We have taken the MySQL HeatWave code and optimized it for AWS infrastructure.” –Nipun Agarwal, senior vice president of MySQL, Database and HeatWave at Oracle. General News: Moving from Ruby to Go, Vagrant 2.3 Introduces Go Runtime. [0:58] AWS: New Proactive Monitoring from AWS AWS Enterprise Support adds incident detection and response. [2:01] Helping to vastly reduce failover times, Amazon RDS Proxy adds support for Amazon RDS for SQL Server. [3:59] Beginning October 11th, ACM public certificates will be issued by one of the Intermediate CA’s that AWS manages. [7:46] AWS has announced direct VPC routing for AWS outposts. [10:23] ️ You can now deploy your Amazon EKS Clusters Locally on AWS Outposts. [12:12] GCP: Free Trial Here! Get Your Free Trial Here! You can now get a 90-day free trial of Google Cloud Spanner. [14:04] If you need a new way to protect your data, try Google introduced fine-grained access control for Cloud Spanner...