Episode 88: The Chronicles of The Cloud Pod

Your hosts have an action-packed episode in store for you on The Cloud Pod this week, and Ryan is back after surviving the wild Oregon forest.   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. Cloud Academy, which provides an intuitive and scalable training platform to meet teams wherever they are along the cloud maturity curve. Use the code THECLOUDPOD for 50% off its training platform.   This week’s highlights Amazon is helping you figure out where your money is going.  Google isn’t wowing anyone with its AI Platform Prediction improved reliability. Azure has some underwhelming improvements you should read about. General News: This Is What Happens When You Go On Vacation   ️ VMware, Inc. is acquiring SaltStack, Inc. to enhance its vRealize cloud management software suite. It’s interesting that this comes only a few weeks after Chef was acquired.     Amazon Web Services: Always Comes Through For Us AWS launches Glue Studio, which provides a simple visual interface to compose jobs that move and transform data and run them on AWS Glue. Surprised it wasn’t just an integration with Visual Studio Code. AWS Backup now supports application-consistent backups of Microsoft workloads. This is not the cloud way to do it.  AWS Security Hub has...