67 – BigQuery Simulates The CloudPod March Madness

Your hosts meet online to work on this week’s episode of The Cloud Pod. A big thanks to this week’s sponsor: Foghorn Consulting, which provides full-stack cloud solutions with a focus on strategy, planning and execution for enterprises seeking to take advantage of the transformative capabilities of AWS, Google Cloud and Azure. This week’s highlights Profits of The Cloud Pod’s sticker sales will be donated to charity. DeepComposer is now generally available. You can play around with March Madness simulations in BigQuery. General News: The Cloud Pod Tackles COVID-19 ️ We’re donating profits of our sticker sales to the John Hopkins University COVID-19 Research Response Program through July 1, 2020.  AWS: Staying Productive The Amazon CloudWatch Contributor Insights feature, which gives users an overview of their operational problems, is now generally available. CloudWatch Contributor Insights is also generally available for DynamoDB, though it is 50 percent more expensive per million log events than Insights not for DynamoDB. You can build some neat automation around this. ☁️ Back in Episode 51, we covered the new instances with ra3.16xlarge nodes, and now Amazon is adding instances with ra3.4xlarge nodes, which lack the excess power of ra3.16xlarge. At a quarter of the price of the larger larges, that’s some considerable savings. Amazon Redshift now features elastic resi...