The Cloud Pod ‘rebrands’ itself as Pod – EP66

Ryan Lucas (@ryron01) joins us once again on this early April episode of The Cloud Pod. Check out our merchandise shop and get the new Lambda Spackle Sticker  A big thanks to this week’s sponsor: 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 Zoom responds to a new surge of criticism.  AWS offers a new cheap storage solution. Google offers researchers open access to COVID-19 analysis tools. General News: Spotting Savings Spotinst, an Isreali-based startup which uses AI-powered software to optimize cloud computing expenduratues, has rebranded to Spot. We expect AI-powered is a bit of a stretch, but it should make it easier to adopt the service. Good luck Googling them now though.  COVID-19: Volatile Markets After a huge spike in customers, Slack now sees over one billion usage minutes per day. Investors, take caution: nobody knows how much usage will stick around after the pandemic. Microsoft implemented temporary usage restrictions to prioritize availability for health-related workloads. Customers in the free tier can expect to see the most impact. Video conferencing platform Zoom is under the legal microscope for