Episode 89: Azure gives The Cloud Pod an advisor score of 100

On The Cloud Pod this week, Ryan is shocked the rest of the team managed so well without him while he was on vacation. 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 Progress is tapping its inner Freddy Kruger after acquiring Chef. AWS is soothing the burns of many with its Compute Optimizer. Google is behind the eight ball with the launch of its healthcare API.  General News: On The Chopping Block IBM is splitting itself into two public companies to focus on high-margin cloud computing. We’re not sure about this strategy so we’ll keep an eye on this one. Google will give up direct control of the Knative cloud open-source project. We’re glad to see this is getting closer to a resolution. Business application platform Progress is making job cuts at recently acquired enterprise automation technology company Chef. The cuts included part of the Chef engineering team — when you’re buying a product company, that doesn’t seem like a good play.  Amazon Web Services: In Happier News Amazon S3 on Outposts expands object storage to on-premises environments. If only this had existed a year ago!    AWS Systems Manager now enables developers to view, author and publish Automation runbooks directly from Visual Studio Code. We like this! Amazon launches several new features with Redis 6 compatibility to Amazon ElastiCache for Redis. These enhancements are making it well on its way to being useful on a big project. Amazon SageMaker leads the way in machine learning and announces up to 18% lower prices on GPU instances. That’s a huge price cut that we think is great! Three new securit