Episode 284: That’s Mr. Jeff to you

This week we discuss Amazon’s new CEO, AWS & GCP Earnings and Facebook vs. Apple. Plus, should you sign up for Clubhouse…? Rundown Bezos out, Jassy In, AWS Earnings Email from Jeff Bezos to employees Amazon's cloud division reports 28% revenue growth; AWS head Andy Jassy to succeed Bezos as Amazon CEO Amazon earnings: Q4 sales topped $100 billion for the first time, Bezos to step down as CEO Jeff Bezos to step down as Amazon CEO, Andy Jassy to take over in Q3 Amazon.com Announces Financial Results and CEO Transition GCP Earnings Google’s cloud business lost more than $5.5 billion last year, but it’s growing fast Charted: How Google Cloud stacks up to AWS Google Cloud lost $5.61 billion on $13.06 billion revenue last year VC Money Honeycomb Raises $20M to Define the Future of Observability Databricks Raises $1 Billion Series G Investment at $28 Billion Valuation EOL’d Google is shutting down its in-house Stadia game development studios The writing’s on the wall for Google Stadia IBM Blockchain Is a Shell of Its Former Self After Revenue Misses, Job Cuts: Sources Tim Cook May Have Just Ended Facebook Apple and Facebook Pentagon Hints It Could Abandon the JEDI Cloud Effort Relevant to your interests Google salvaged Robinhood’s one-star rating by deleting nearly 100,000 negative reviews Robinhood Raises $3.4 Billion to Fuel Record Customer Growth Lawmakers Look at GameStop Furor and See a Populist Issue to Seize A Brief History of Web Design Tools WeWork in Talks to Combine With SPAC or Raise Money Privately What went wrong with America’s $44 million vaccine data system? No Meetings, No Deadlines, No Full-Time Employees iCloud Passwords Chrome Windows extension now available Docker Hub and JFrog Partnership Removes Image Pull Limits for Artifactory Users Amazon Faces Familiar Opponent in Alabama Union Election Here’s Why We’re Co-Creating Our Future with Google Why You Should Also Switch to Linux Elon Musk: Neuralink enabled monkey to 'play video games using his mind' Ford and Google sign six-year deal for in-car connectivity and cloud services IBM cuts back on blockchain as COVID cuts hit Mask-wearers will be able to unlock their iPhone with the Apple Watch Azure Quantum is now in Public Preview - Microsoft Quantum Atos And DXC Technology Deal ‘Not For The Faint Of Heart:’ Analyst Tesla to recall more than 130,000 cars following regulators' pressure Nonsense Refrigerators Are Finally Embracing the Good Ice AWS CEO fake Job Post 20,000 honey bees took over a tech company’s empty office during lockdown Battle Chess : Interplay : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Sponsors strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT Listener Recommend Jobs Marc wants you to work at abstraction.games as an Automation Engineer Remote/Netherlands Conferences DevOpsDay Texas on March 2nd. SpringOne.io 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: Search Party Sun Run 10k SAFE Animal Rehoming Brandon: In & Of Itself Photo Credit Photo Credit