Episode 84: We knew Ian was a hero before AWS

Your hosts kick off this week’s episode of The Cloud Pod by discussing the elephant in the room… the great Google outage. A big thanks to this week’s sponsors:     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.     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 Amazon gives customers the opportunity to spend lots of money with them. Your hosts sit on the fence discussing Google’s new platform. Azure gets features everybody else already has. General: The Great Google Outage Google explained how and why big chunks of its cloud crashed last week — turns out it broke itself. Google didn’t tell us who broke it because developers shouldn’t be publicly shamed… although they did break Google. That’s pretty bad. Amazon Web Services: Dollar Bills Amazon introduced the newest AWS Heroes who go above and beyond to share AWS knowledge and teach others. It’s great to see friend of the show, Ian McKay, recognized for his awesomeness.          AWS Firewall Manager now supports security groups on Application Load Balancers and Classic Load Balancers. Slowly but surely, it’s becoming the tool we’ve always wanted.     ️ Amazon launches new