Episode 102: The Cloud Pod is NOT OK

It’s a Wednesday so things could be better, but spare a thought for the team as they battle Mother Nature on The Cloud Pod this week. A big thanks to this week’s sponsors: 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. Open Raven, the cloud native data protection platform that automates policy monitoring and enforcement. Auto-discover, classify, monitor and protect your sensitive data. This week’s highlights Amazon is forking people off big time. Google wants to help you lose those pandemic lockdown pounds. Azure didn’t overwhelm anyone with its “problem.”   General News: The Elastic Kerfuffle Elastic blames Amazon for forcing it to change its licensing. One of the most ridiculous blog posts ever.    ️ Logz.io looks to launch a true open-source distribution for Elasticsearch and Kibana. Everybody’s forking now. AWS has also announced that it will also fork its project for a truly open source Elasticsearch. The beginning of the end for Elasticsearch.   Logz.io followed up its previous announcement by announcing it’s combining its efforts with Amazon. This is great news for the open-source community. Amazon Web Services: Let’s Talk AWS Lex has released