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This week on The Cloud Pod, Ryan is stuck somewhere in a tent under a broken-down motorcycle but is apparently still having fun.

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

👏 Hashicorp has partnered with AWS to launch support for predictive scaling policy in the Terraform AWS provider. This will be hugely popular for people new to the cloud.

🐜 AWS Lambda Extensions are now generally available with new performance improvements. This has pretty limited regional availability, though.
👍 Amazon releases the AWS Shield threat landscape 2020 year in review. One of our favourite blogs.
😊 AWS EKS Add-Ons now supports CoreDNS and kube-proxy. This is neat!
🐦 Introducing the AWS Application Cost Profiler — there have been a few complaints about this on Twitter.
😺 AWS Compute Optimizer launches updates to its EC2 instance type recommendations. This is awesome.
🌎 AWS Outposts launches support for EC2 Capacity Reservations. Being able to use the same tool regardless of where you are is a good thing!
😃 An AWS Region in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is in the works. Great!

😐 Google VM Manager with OS configuration management is now in Preview. This is basically patch and agent management.
🥳 Forrester names Google Cloud a leader in Unstructured Data Security Platforms. Good job, Google!
😭 Google has released a better way to manage firewall rules with Firewall Insights. We just want a firewall manager that does everything for us.
🤷 Google announces new BigQuery user-friendly SQL launches. Thanks but no thanks.

🥐 Azure gains 100th compliance offering — protecting data with EU Cloud Code of Conduct. Now we know why France was so happy last week.
😲 Azure announces preview capabilities of Azure Application Services to run on K8 anywhere. We’re really surprised by how quickly the cloud providers have embraced hybrid infrastructure.
🌳 Azure releases several new features to empower developers to innovate with Azure Database services. We need to bring the tumbleweed sound effect back.
⛔ Accenture, GitHub, Microsoft and ThoughtWorks launch the Green Software Foundation with the Linux Foundation. So they’re anti-Bitcoin mining?
😆 Microsoft uses GPT-3 to add AI features to Power Apps. For developers who don’t code.
🔮 Microsoft’s new research lab studies developer productivity and well-being. We’ll see what happens.

TCP Lightning Round

⚡ Justin really appreciates Jonathan for handing him an easy win and takes this week’s point, leaving scores at Justin (9), Ryan (4), Jonathan (7).

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