Episode 72: 13 Reasons Why This Episode is Better Than the Last One

Your co-hosts cover conferences past and yet to come on this week’s episode of The Cloud Pod. A big thanks to this week’s sponsor:   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.   This week’s highlights We take a good, hard look at the ways Google Cloud has AWS beat. Microsoft Build 2020 featured the fifth most powerful computer in the world. Google Cloud Next is here to stay for a long, long time. General News: Let Me Count the Ways Peter Wayner of InfoWorld wrote an article listing the 13 ways Google Cloud beats AWS. Well…he didn’t say they were all good reasons. AWS: That’s a MTHFL AWS announced the Cloud Development Kit for Kubernetes called cdk8s is now in alpha. Rolls right off the tongue, doesn’t it? You can now use Attribute-based access control with EC2 Instance Connect to define Secure Shell access permissions based on attributes. It’s good to move away from passing around all those extra keys. ‍ State Manager features for Systems Manager now