The Cloud Pod Goes Quantum – Ep 39

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

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• Slack stock plunges on bigger-than-expected loss forecast

• Introducing Fine-Grained IAM Roles for Service Accounts
• Optimize Storage Cost with Reduced Pricing for Amazon EFS Infrequent Access
• Building Spinnaker Features for Amazon ECS
• Amazon EKS now supports K8 1.14
• Use AWS Config Rules to Automatically Remediate Non-compliant Resources
• Now Available – Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB)

• Announcing the general availability of 6 and 12 TB VMs for SAP HANA instances on Google Cloud Platform
• Exploring container security: Bringing Shielded VMs to GKE with Shielded GKE Nodes

• Microsoft acquires infrastructure visibility provider Movere
• Azure HPC Cache: Reducing latency between Azure and on-premises storage
• Microsoft Azure available from new cloud regions in Germany
• Satellite connectivity expands reach of Azure ExpressRoute across the globe
• Building cloud-native applications with Azure and HashiCorp

• Introducing Analyzing Text with Amazon Elasticsearch Service and Amazon Comprehend
• Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth Now Supports Private Worker Throughput Worker Logs and Metrics
• Amazon EC2 Hibernation Now Available on Amazon Linux 2
• WorkDocs Drive enables Custom Drive Letter
• AWS Systems Manager Automation now supports additional queuing
• AISPL Now Accepts Netbanking Payments
• Simplify your Spark application dependency management with Docker and Hadoop 3 with EMR 6.0.0 (Beta)
• Amazon EKS Now Supports the EBS CSI Driver
• Amazon AppStream 2.0 enables AWS Identity and Access Management Role support for Image Builders and Fleets
• Amazon Quicksight announces Favorites, Anomaly Alerts, and More
• You can now managed EFS limits with AWS service Quotas
• Amazon Pinpoint Adds Support for iOS 13 and watchOS 6 Push Notifications
• AWS App Mesh now supports retry policies
• AWS Transfer for SFTP now supports logical directories for Amazon S3
• AWS Storage Gateway supports IBM Spectrum Protect on Linux, and 5 TiB tapes

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