Episode 86 – Google Cloud Next Digital Finally Ends

On The Cloud Pod this week, your hosts just want to be wowed and Ryan is off motorcycling somewhere in the desert. 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. When the girls get coding!. Join us on your screens, Oct 13, for the live@Manning “Women in Tech” conference to celebrate the rising movement of women in technology. http://mng.bz/MolW  This week’s highlights Fighting words from Amazon over JEDI loss.  Microsoft has gone to crazy town with their AWS connector pricing.  Oracle taps their inner millennial to win the Tik Tok U.S bid. General: A Bit Picky  Business App Platform Progress will acquire automation technology company Chef for $220 million. That’s a bargain price when you look at their recurring revenue.   Pentagon reaffirms Microsoft as winner of $10B JEDI cloud contract. Nobody says the government is the most efficient at doing anything so picking the second best cloud vendor is unsurprising.     ⚔️ AWS has responded to the Pentagon reaffirmation of Azure with a harshly worded blog post. Well, life’s just not fair. Foghorn Consulting (sponsor alert!) are teaming up with Hashicorp and sponsoring a virtual Q&A with Kelsey Hightower on September 24. Head to The Clo...