Episode 438 | AWS's Outage, Microsoft Azure News & Microsoft 365 Developer Updates

In this 438th episode, AC and CJ cover the recent AWS outage of their US-EAST-1 region as well as some Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365 news. At the end, hear them bookend the episode with their own blast radius of picks!

• Analysis: Outage shows how Amazon’s complex cloud makes backup plans difficult
• AWS Amplify Studio
• AWS opens ‘top secret’ western region for US government customers
• Microsoft expands cloud services with two new datacenters in Wyoming
• Azure Cost Management and Billing updates – November 2021
• Microsoft forces Office customers to change to an annual subscription, otherwise the price will increase by 20%
• Public preview of SharePoint Framework 1.14 – with updates for Viva Connections, Microsoft Teams and SharePoint

AC’s Pick

• AN UNEARTHLY SPECTACLE The untold story of the world’s biggest nuclear bomb

CJ’s Pick

• Revisiting the “Tsar Bomba” nuclear test