Episode 276: I don’t understand how that works but I want to learn more

This week we discuss the state of virtual events, recent AWS re:Invent Announcements and the SolarWinds Hack. Plus, is YouTube Premium worth it…? The Rundown AWS re:Invent AWS CloudShell AWS Fault Injection Simulator – Fully managed chaos engineering service Amazon Managed Service for Grafana | Fully Managed Grafana Data Visualization Our new partnership with AWS gives Grafana users more options AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry – Amazon Web Services AWS and Zoom Extend Strategic Relationship State of Cloud 2018 Report Solarwinds Russian government spies are behind a broad hacking campaign that has breached U.S. agencies and a top cyber firm Solar Winds, probably hacked by Russia, serves White House, Pentagon, NASA SolarWinds Exposed FTP Credentials Publicly in a Github Repo ~18,000 organizations downloaded backdoor planted by Cozy Bear hackers SolarWinds hackers have a clever way to bypass multi-factor authentication Hackers at center of sprawling spy campaign turned SolarWinds' dominance against it New Evidence Suggests SolarWinds' Codebase Was Hacked to Inject Backdoor SolarWinds attack explained: And why it was so hard to detect More Hacking Attacks Found as Officials Warn of ‘Grave Risk’ to U.S. Government iOS 14.3 now available, here are the new features Relevant to your Interests Nobody Owns Linux, But You Can Pay For It – Or Not Amazon Wants to Train 29 Million People to Work in the Cloud SoftBank has reportedly sold Boston Dynamics to Hyundai Oracle reports slow revenue growth as licensing and hardware businesses decline Oracle is moving its headquarters from Silicon Valley to Austin, Texas After The US Election, Key People Are Leaving Facebook And Torching The Company In Departure Notes New Relic acquires Kubernetes observability platform Pixie Labs – TechCrunch AI Algorithms Are Slimming Down to Fit in Your Fridge Vista Equity Partners Agrees to Buy Software Maker Pluralsight Google's YouTube, Gmail recover after global outage Nonsense ‘Damn Good Taco’ Maker Torchy’s Sells Stake to General Atlantic The Office’s Brian Baumgartner to Make $1 Million in 2020 from Cameo Bookings AAdvantage program updates − AAdvantage program − American Airlines The 71 Best Podcasts of 2020 | Discover the Best Podcasts | Discover Pods Sponsors Twilio is the platform developers trust to build communications experiences with phone calls, text messages, video calls, and more. Visit twilio.com to learn more. strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT Listener Feedback From Slack Flow by Moleskine · Flow SDT news & hype Join us in Slack. Send your postal address to [email protected] and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitch, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn. Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total. Become a sponsor of Software Defined Talk! Recommendations Matt: AppleTV+ and Tiny World. Brandon: Tenet. Coté: Eve strip lights. Photo Credit Photo Credit