Episode 104: The Cloud Pod gets Introspection Capabilities

On The Cloud Pod this week, The Team are on the brink and three more months of the pandemic will likely push the podcast over the edge into an abyss of garble that no one can understand.  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 has a gender reveal party and introduces its latest bundle of joy. Google is eating croissants for breakfast. Azure is dangling a pair of juicy fruits in front of us. Follow Up: The Mad Men Are Back  Amazon announces its “Other” business segment, which consists mostly of its advertising business, has surpassed its “subscription services” segment. There’s speculation that Andy Jassy might split Amazon’s advertising business out once he becomes CEO.  General News: Rolls Right Off The Tongue Vantage, an AWS Console alternative, has acquired ec2instances.info. They better not mess it up!   Amazon Web Services: Undoing Your Hard Work New Amazon Elastic Block Store Local Snapshots on AWS Outposts makes it easier to meet data residency and local backup requirements. It’s like playing a video game and building up your weapons, only to start from scratch when you move regions.  Amazon introduces CloudFront