Episode 103: Bezos retires over Slack outage — Episode 103

It’s Peter’s washing night so please enjoy the soothing sounds of the odd spin cycle as we dive into the huge news coming out of Amazon 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 America’s version of Queen Elizabeth has stepped down. Google is a bit late to the party but brings the ice so we forgive its team. Azure is trying to claim it came first but the chicken says otherwise. Follow Up: A Bit Slack Slack explains how the January 4th outage occurred. It was all Amazon’s fault.  FogOps for Linux is now available via the AWS Marketplace. Congratulations on getting FogOps on the marketplace, Peter! General News: It’s Earnings Season! Microsoft releases its earnings. This is nuts.   Alphabet also released its earnings. We hope all the money it’s investing in infrastructure and data centers pays off in the long run, because that’s a big loss.  Amazon announces financial results and CEO transition. That’s some crazy profit.  Outgoing Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos addresses employees. But who will head AWS now?   Amazon Web Services: Bon Voyage, Bezos AWS launches multiple private marketplace catalogs for AWS organizations. Not a problem any of us have so not wowed by this.  AWS PrivateLink for Amazon S3 is now generally available. We like it but don’t like the pricing.  Amazon Macie announces a slew of new capabilities. Check out our sponsor OpenRaven, which is much better at solving the same issue and is much cheaper. Google Cloud Platform: Stop Blaming Our Database Google announces <a href="https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/