195: The Cloud Pod can’t wait for Azure Ultra Fungible Storage (Premium)!

On The Cloud Pod this week, Amazon announces massive corporate and tech lay offs and S3 Encrypts New Objects By Default, BigQuery multi-statement transactions are now generally available, and Microsoft announces acquisition of Fungible to accelerate datacenter innovation. 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. General News: Amazon to lay off 18,000 corporate and tech workers. [1:11] Episode Highlights ⏰ Amazon S3 Encrypts New Objects By Default. [3:09] ⏰ Announcing the GA of BigQuery multi-statement transactions. [13:04] ⏰ Microsoft announces acquisition of Fungible to accelerate datacenter innovation. [17:14] Top Quote “And it’s interesting that, you know, the way they’re phrasing this where it’s, you know, it’s it’s moving these traditional things that have been in relational databases for a long time, but it’s the it’s the, the analytical, sort of big data sort of offerings, and it’s interesting to see how that transforms over time.” [15:16] AWS Amazon S3 Encrypts New Objects By Default. [3:09] AWS App Runner now integrates with AWS Secrets Manager and AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store. [8:26] GCP Announcing the GA of BigQuery multi-statement transactions. [13:04] Azure Azure Confidential Computing on 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable Processors with Intel TDX. [15:38]