228: Microsoft and Oracle Unite Their Legal Departments to Bring You…

Welcome episode 228 of the Cloud Pod podcast – where the forecast is always cloudy! This week your hosts are Justin, Jonathan, Matthew and Ryan –  Titles we almost went with this week: The Cloud Pod gets scanned for a malware infection The Cloud Pod gives up on security  The Cloud Pod burns cash on a new Mac instance ⚔️Copilot’s Copyright Crusade – Microsoft’s Got Your Back in Copyright Battles ☁️The Cloud Pod loves it when the clouds come together The Cloud Pod doubts 90 day account expirations are a good idea Matt brings a bit of class to the Cloud Pod 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. General News this Week: AWS 02:56 Amazon EC2 R7a Instances Powered By 4th Gen AMD EPYC Processors for Memory Optimized Workloads AND New Amazon EC2 R7iz Instances are Optimized for High CPU Performance, Memory-Intensive Workloads Amazon has a couple of new instances for us this week, including Amazon R7a, which is powered by the 4th generation AMD EPYC (Genoa) processors with a maximum frequency of 3.7ghz – this has 50 percent higher performance compared to the previous generation instances.  The R7a supports the AVX-512, Vector Neural Network Instructions and Brain Float Point (bfloat16https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bfloat16_floating-point_format). It also supports Double Data rate 5 (DDR5) memory.  From 1 vcpu and 8gb of ramp to 192 vcpu 1.5tb of memory Not excited for AMD? Would you rather pay more money for an Intel version? Well fear not! Also available is the new R7iz instances – which are the fastest 4th generation scalable-based (sapphire rapids) instances with 3....