216: The Cloud Pod is Feeling Elevated Enough to Record the Podcast

Welcome to the newest episode of The Cloud Pod podcast – where the forecast is always cloudy! Today your hosts are Jonathan and Matt as we discuss all things cloud and AI, including Temporary Elevated Access Management (or TEAM, since we REALLY like acronyms today)  FTP servers, SQL servers and all the other servers, as well as pipelines, whether or not the government should regulate AI (spoiler alert: the AI companies don’t think so) and some updates to security at Amazon and Google.  Titles we almost went with this week: The Cloud Pod’s FTP server now with post-quantum keys support The CloudPod can now Team into your account, but only temporarily  The CloudPod dusts off their old floppy drive  The CloudPod dusts off their old SQL server disks The CloudPod is feeling temporarily elevated to do a podcast The CloudPod promise that AI will not take over the world The CloudPod duals with keys The CloudPod is feeling temporarily elevated. A big thanks to this week’s sponsor: Foghorn Consulting, provides top-notch cloud and DevOps engineers to the world’s most innovative companies. Initiatives stalled because you have trouble hiring?  Foghorn can be burning down your DevOps and Cloud backlogs as soon as next week. News this Week: No general news this week! Probably because no one wanted to talk to us.  AWS 00:49 Amazon EC2 Instance Connect supports SSH and RDP connectivity without public IP address You can now connect via SSH and RDP to EC2 instances without using public IP addresses.  With EIC endpoints, customers have remote connectivity to their instances in private subnets, eliminating the need to use public IPv4 addresses for connectivity.  Previously you would have needed to create bastion hosts to tunnel SSH/RDP connections to instances with private IP addresses, but that created its own set of problems because bastion hosts would have to be patched, managed and audited as well as incur additional costs.  EIC endpoint combines AWS IAM-based access controls to restrict access to trusted principles with network-based controls such as security group rules.  It provides an audit of all connections via AWS cloud trail, helping customers improve their security posture.  01:31 Matt- “It’s nice to see Amazon still coming up with more solutions to not have things be public; and really try to get their customers to not use all the older-school technology.” 03:02