Episode 83: The Cloud Pod takes a Quantum Leap

Your hosts set right what once went wrong in this week’s quantum episode of The Cloud Pod. 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. Commvault is data-management done differently. It allows you to translate your virtual workloads to a cloud provider automatically, greatly simplifying the move to the cloud or your disaster recovery solution to the cloud. live@Manning: Sign up for RustConf and Manning’s Women in Tech conferences here. This week’s highlights Amazon and Rackspace may be growing closer soon. Your hosts may or may not know how quantum computing works. Google is now available for 35 more minutes out of the month. General: High Stakes Reuters reported that Amazon is looking to acquire a stake in cloud infrastructure and services company Rackspace Technology. It is unclear exactly how much of the company Amazon may buy. AWS: A Discrete Quantity of Computers ⚛️ You can now run Amazon Braket on real or simulated quantum chips. We’ll try to explain quantum computing to you if we ever understand it ourselves. AWS Step Functions has been updated to Amazon State Language. Alright, let’s learn this thing th...