Google recognizes The Cloud Pod hosts as celebrities – E46

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. 

• Foghorn Consulting – fogops.io/thecloudpod

• 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

• Amazon Web Services to expand into Spain with new cloud region
• Post-quantum TLS now supported in AWS KMS

• GCP Halloween Outage – 10/31 6:30 PM Pacfic – 10/2 – 10:51 AM
• Celebrity Recognition now available to approved media & entertainment customers
• Cloud storage data protection that fits your business
• Introducing TensorFlow Enterprise: Supported, scalable, and seamless TensorFlow in the cloud
• Exploring container security: Use your own keys to protect your data on GKE

Jonathan

1. Digital Assistant to compete with Alexa or Google Home.  
2. 3 more Azure Regions in US
3. More or Improved tooling for Devops Community

Peter

1. Istio for AKS
2. 1 more region in Canada
3. Visual Studio Online 

Justin

1. Azure Portal Redesign
2. Sagemaker/Databricks like Competitor. 
3. Oracle on Stage

• Microsoft Azure customers reporting hitting virtual machine limits in U.S. East regions
• Companies of all sizes tackle real business problems with Azure AI
• Simply unmatched, truly limitless: Announcing Azure Synapse Analytics
• Azure services now run anywhere with new hybrid capabilities: Announcing Azure Arc
• Empowering developer velocity with the most complete toolchain
• At Ignite, Microsoft turns the spotlight on productivity with Project Cortex and Fluid
• Enabling and securing ubiquitous compute from intelligent cloud to intelligent edge
• Azure infrastructure as a service (IaaS) for every workload
• New Azure investments deliver unprecedented performance for all your business-critical applications

• AWS for WordPress plugin now available and with new Amazon CloudFront workflow
• Amazon Chime now supports an in-room experience on Dolby Voice Room
• AWS CodeStar Enables Automating Toolchain Setup Through CloudFormation
• AWS Secrets Manager now supports larger size for secrets and resource policies and higher request rate for GetSecretValue API
• Create serverless applications with an automated deployment pipeline from the AWS Lambda console
• New Feature Enables Visibility of Employees’ AWS Certification Completions
• AWS RoboMaker now supports conditional over-the-air deployment
• Now Available: New C5d Instance Sizes and Bare Metal Instances
• Google AutoML Translation goes GA, plus updates to Translation API
• AWS Service Catalog enables transfer of provisioned product ownership
• Amazon S3 Inventory now reports the Intelligent-tiering access tier for objects
• Google Partnering with HCL Technologies to scale enterprise cloud adoption