Ryan Lucas and Ian Mckay fill in for Jonathan on this week’s free-tier episode of The Cloud Pod. 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 GitHub announced a new business model . Amazon announced a giant pile of Beanstalk updates . Google published a free book ...
May 01, 2020•37 min•Ep. 68
Your hosts meet online to work on this week’s episode of The Cloud Pod. 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 Profits of The Cloud Pod’s sticker sales will be donated to charity . DeepComposer is now generally available . You can play around with March Madn...
Apr 15, 2020•38 min
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 ne...
Apr 09, 2020•54 min
Jonathan is out with a back injury, so it’s just Justin and Peter on this week’s intranational episode of The Cloud Pod. 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 Teleconferencing services continue to boom . Amazon opens up a new avenue of attack on Microsoft’s...
Apr 02, 2020•38 min
Your hosts join the rest of the world in phoning one in on this week’s episode of The Cloud Pod. 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 This week’s highlights More conference cancellations roll in due to the ongoing global pandemic . Amazon Redshift made several improvements this ...
Mar 30, 2020•56 min
Ryan Lucas ( @ryron01 ) fills in for Peter again as we practice social distancing on this week’s episode of The Cloud Pod. 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. Blue Medora , which offers pioneering IT monitoring integration as a service to address today’s IT challenges by easil...
Mar 25, 2020•48 min
Ryan Lucas ( @ryron01 ) fills in for Peter as we cover all the news you can use on this week’s episode of The Cloud Pod. 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. Blue Medora , which offers pioneering IT monitoring integration as a service to address today’s IT challenges by easily ...
Mar 17, 2020•1 hr 2 min
Your hosts talk about AWS Lambda, Azure’s Cybersecurity of Things and Google’s loquacious AI on this week’s episode of The Cloud Pod. 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. Blue Medora , which offers pioneering IT monitoring integration as a service to address today’s IT challeng...
Mar 06, 2020•34 min
We follow continuing stories with the JEDI contract, GigaOM and our new Lightning Round format on this week’s episode of The Cloud Pod. 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. Blue Medora , which offers pioneering IT monitoring integration as a service to address today’s IT challe...
Feb 29, 2020•44 min
Peter’s returned from his trip to Asia and the band’s back together on this episode of The Cloud Pod. 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. Blue Medora , which offers pioneering IT monitoring integration as a service to address today’s IT challenges by easily connecting system h...
Feb 19, 2020•43 min
Your hosts are joined again by Ryan Lucas ( @ryron01 ) who is filling in for Peter as we recap the week in cloud. 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. Blue Medora , which offers pioneering IT monitoring integration as a service to address today’s IT challenges by easily connect...
Feb 12, 2020•53 min
Your hosts are back at it — well some of them are. Ian Mckay ( @iann0036 ) fills in for Peter this week as we cover all of the triumphs and troubles in cloud. 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. Blue Medora , which offers pioneering IT monitoring integration as a service to ad...
Feb 05, 2020•1 hr 7 min
Your co-hosts move from the atmosphere to DigitalOcean as they recap the week in Cloud on this episode of The Cloud Pod. 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. Blue Medora , which offers pioneering IT monitoring integration as a service to address today’s IT challenges by easily ...
Jan 31, 2020•47 min
Your co-hosts discuss the National Security Agency, the Department of Defense, the UK Home Office and more on this week’s episode of The Cloud Pod. 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. Blue Medora , which offers pioneering IT monitoring integration as a service to address today...
Jan 22, 2020•48 min
Your co-hosts kick off their first regular news episode of the year with Consumer Electronics Show 2020, Google Cloud Next 2020 and Justin’s Oracle adventure. 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. Blue Medora , which offers pioneering IT monitoring integration as a service to ad...
Jan 15, 2020•46 min
Your co-hosts recap 2019 and make predictions for the year ahead on the first episode of 2020. We’re skipping the Lightning Round this week to focus on a collaborative Q&A segment pulled from our Slack channel. 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. Blue Medora , which offers...
Jan 08, 2020•1 hr 3 min
Your co-hosts settle into the winter holidays by unwinding from Re:Invent and recording the last episode of The Cloud Pod of 2019. 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. Blue Medora , which offers pioneering IT monitoring integration as a service to address today’s IT challenges ...
Dec 31, 2019•50 sec
Your co-hosts celebrate the one-year anniversary of the podcast by returning to the place where it all started – AWS Re:Invent. Joining us once again is Ryan Lucas (@ryron01) as we recap the largest week in Cloud. 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. Blue Medora , which offers...
Dec 19, 2019•1 sec
Sponsors: Foghorn Consulting Blue Medora Your co-hosts are back from Thanksgiving and Re:Invent, and we’re running through all of it for you. In this episode, we cover the lead-up to opening day. Next week, we’ll release an episode fully devoted to Re:Invent coverage. This week’s highlights CloudWatch has been growing quietly into a much more robust tool with 11 updates since the last episode. Attribute-based access control comes to AWS. This should allow a finer control over your security privi...
Dec 15, 2019•46 sec
AWS is getting ready for the biggest event of the year, Re:Invent 2019 in Las Vegas. Your Co-Hosts do their best to guess what AWS may announce, we cover some preannouncement news, and more! NOTE: This episode was recorded on November 20th, to let the co-hosts enjoy Thanksgiving! This episode is AWS specific, as well as our first show after the Re:Invent conference. If you want to stay up to date on Azure or GCP in the interim, follow our Twitter @thecloudpod1 or join our Slack Channel . Sign up...
Nov 29, 2019•48 sec
Docker sells off its enterprise business to Mirantis. Amazon gets upset with the pentagon and launches a data exchange. Azure wins a lucrative contract and GitHub actions. Google buys cloudsimple complicating things for the VMWare on Azure offerings. Sign up for our new Newsletter! Sponsors: Foghorn Consulting – fogops.io/thecloudpod Follow Up Jonathan – Follows up on Redshift Topics General News/Topics Container shakeup: Docker sells enterprise business to Mirantis, appoints new CEO Amazon prot...
Nov 25, 2019•50 sec
AWS releases new RI option called the savings plan, IBM builds a financial services cloud, and @jeffbarr celebrates 15 years of blogging for AWS! Sponsors: Foghorn Consulting – fogops.io/thecloudpod Follow Up Halloween Downtime RCA – Google Topics General News/Topics Capital One replaces security chief after data breach Amazon doubles down on Boston as a robotics hub with new $40M facility IBM: Bank of America Know-How Will Differentiate Financial Services Cloud AWS 15 Years of AWS Blogging! New...
Nov 21, 2019•1 hr 8 min
This week we discuss the Microsoft Ignite conference, announcements and new features and how we did on the Azure Draft. AWS announces a new Spain region and GCP had a lengthy halloween incident. Sponsors: Foghorn Consulting – fogops.io/thecloudpod Follow Up Amazon fails to stop ex-sales staffer winging it to Google Cloud Accused Capital One hacker had as much as 30 terabytes of stolen data, feds say Senators Wyden and Warren sic trade lapdog on AWS over Capital One hack culpability Topics AWS Am...
Nov 14, 2019•1 sec
The DOD awards the coveted Jedi contract, the MS ignite Draft, Earnings season and more this week on The Cloud Pod. Sponsors: Foghorn Consulting – fogops.io/thecloudpod Follow Up Topics Pentagon awards controversial $10 billion cloud computing deal to Microsoft, spurning Amazon Even after Microsoft wins, JEDI saga could drag on General News/Topics Earnings Season Microsoft’s cloud shines again as it easily tops earnings targets, but Azure slows Despite AWS cloud growth, Amazon shares sag on lowe...
Nov 04, 2019•42 sec
Peter goes Absent With Out Leave – AWOL. Redhat can’t save IBM’s earnings, AWS starts detecting anomalies, Google adds 100-Gbps direct connect links to their data centers, and Azure gets FHIR-Y. We also take a few somber minutes to talk about the passing of Mark Hurd, Oracle’s former Co-CEO. Plus the world famous lightning round. Sponsors: Foghorn Consulting – fogops.io/thecloudpod Follow Up Topics General News/Topics Oracle’s Mark Hurd, who was on medical leave, has died at 62 Despite Red Hat b...
Oct 31, 2019•40 sec
Sponsors: Foghorn Consulting – fogops.io/thecloudpod Ryan Lucas ( @ryron01 ) fills in for Peter as we review the latest batch of cloud news. AWS re:Invent 2019 is just a month away and there’s no shortage of announcements this week either. This week’s highlights AWS re:Invent 2019 session catalog is live. If you haven’t gotten into the panels you want, you’ll have to get on a waitlist. We’re also considering a podcast meetup! Please let us know if you’d be up for that. Reach out on Twitter or th...
Oct 26, 2019•34 sec
Justin is back from vacation and gets the podcast back on track. Justin, Peter and Jonathan talk about their guest spot on roaring elephants and Justin’s AWS lambda fireside chat video. Elasticsearch sues AWS over trademark infringement, AWS gets its IQ raised, Oracle gets fedramp certified cloud regions and Google enhances their github app for cloud build. Plus the world famous lightning round. Sponsors: Foghorn Consulting – fogops.io/thecloudpod Follow Up Topics Roaring Elephant https://roarin...
Oct 18, 2019•49 sec
Chef finds a bad recipe for success, AWS rolls out Step Functions, Google launches its native load balancer for Kubernetes and Microsoft confuses us further with premium tier storage offerings. Sponsors: Foghorn Consulting – fogops.io/thecloudpod Topics General News/Topics A CIO’s guide to cloud success: decouple to shift your business into high gear What’s Going on with GKE and Anthos? Chef Saga DevOps biz Chef roasted for tech contract with family-separating US immigration, forks up attempt to...
Oct 12, 2019•47 sec
Justin goes to Oracle World and comes back with a new understanding of OCI customers. VPC Flow logs get new metadata and we get an update on AWS outposts, but no date or pricing yet. Sponsors: Foghorn Consulting – fogops.io/thecloudpod Follow Up Investors send Cloudflare’s shares soaring 20% after IPO hauls in $525M Topics AWS Learn From Your VPC Flow Logs With Additional Meta-Data Running AWS Infrastructure On Premises with AWS Outposts What is an AWS Outpost? AWS Service Catalog Announces Budg...
Sep 28, 2019•53 sec
Episode 39: Recorded on September 10th, 2019. Show Title: The Cloud Pod goes Quantum This week AWS releases the Quantum Ledger Database, Google gets shielded GKE nodes and Microsoft gets a new shiny datacenter in Germany Sponsors: Foghorn Consulting – fogops.io/thecloudpod Follow Up Slack stock plunges on bigger-than-expected loss forecast Topics AWS Introducing Fine-Grained IAM Roles for Service Accounts Optimize Storage Cost with Reduced Pricing for Amazon EFS Infrequent Access Building Spinna...
Sep 17, 2019•48 sec