EP 70: The Cloud Pod is now fully ‘Synthetic’

The Three Musketeers have gained their D’Artagnan and take on the world (metaphorically and from home) 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 Take a break with us and enjoy a music video. Oracle managed a whole two headlines this week! Jonathan called it: AWS opens the Africa (Cape Town) Region. General News: Chime After Chime Tim Leehane and Spencer Johnson released a working-from-home anthem titled Chime After Chime we just had to share with you. Security company Rapid7 will acquire SaaS platform DivvyCloud for $145 million. COVID-19 Zoom picked the dark horse of cloud platforms Oracle for their next upscaling deal. Zoom is moving around 93 years of video through Oracle servers every day. AMD revealed an anonymous customer (probably Oracle or Microsoft) deployed 10,000 new Epyc servers in just 10 days.  AWS: Summit Predictions Jonathan Improved DLP Tools for S3 AI Powered submarine to explore the depths of the ocean ES service will pivot to Open Distro for ElasticSearch Ryan Docker Exec based Debugging tools/capability Remote Debug capabilities for Lambda Functions Security Code Scanning service (similar to code guru). (static and dynamic code analysis) Peter Direct Competitor to Anthos DLP for VPC, always wanted a layer 7 like proxy. Filtering/Domain Whitelisting A caricature of larry ellison will appear on the screen in the slides Justin Price Cut in EC2, S3 or Networking Covid Crazy Growth Numbers (service dig on Azure) A Diplo T-shirt will be worn by Werner Vogel Honorable Mentions:  Amazon Crucible their first person shooter game, online multiplayer game Dr. Matt Wood will make a passionate attempt for people to l