Episode 94: The Cloud Pod No Code Required

This week on The Cloud Pod, the team is getting ready to share their predictions for re:Invent, and that may or may not involve greasing the palms of some Amazon employees. 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 becoming a connoisseur of international cuisine with its new region. Google is borderline nefarious in the scientific community.   Azure adds a long overdue feature.  Amazon Web Services: Spicing Things Up AWS announces the new Hyderabad region in India will open in mid-2022. We’re surprised at how long this took to happen.     AWS launches managed messaging service Amazon MQ for Rabbit MQ. Only took three years of Justin whinging.  Amazon now allows customers to proactively manage the EC2 Spot instance lifecycle using the new capacity rebalancing feature. Not sure this needed a whole blog about it.  AWS announces AWS Gateway Load Balancing for easy deployment, scalability and high availability for Partner Appliances in the cloud. Thanks for helping us out, Amazon!    AWS makes it easier to export DynamoDB table data to S3 with no code writing required. At lots less Lamda spackle, we like it.    AWS announces a full set of features across the storage family as part of AWS Storage Day 2020. Buckets, buckets and more buckets.     Google Cloud Platform: Doing What It Does Best  Google Cloud SQL now supports Postgres 13. Next up, Google announces deprecation of Postgres 13… Just kidding.         GCP launches a unified console for document processing with Document AI platform. For anyone who hates data en