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On The Cloud Pod this week, the team admits to using the podcast as a way to figure out what day it is. Justin also relents and includes Azure news because he couldn’t handle any more Oracle mobile apps announcements.

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

🚨 Social media influencers can breathe a sigh of relief.
🚨 Amazon is dangling a carrot in front of one of its partners.
🚨 Azure is throwing a spanner in the works.

General News: Not Cool News

💣 The FBI arrests a man for his plan to kill “70% of the internet” in an AWS bomb attack. 70% is quite a stretch but we’re sure it would have caused a crappy day for a lot of people.
🥳 Hashicorp has released its Boundary 0.2 release with several new features. We’re really excited about this.
😐 Announcing HashiCorp Terraform 0.15 General Availability. If you believe it, this is really great news.

Amazon Web Services: Good At Compromising

💯 AWS announces AQUA is now generally available. Justin should have gotten a prediction point for this one.
🤗 Amazon Managed Service for Grafana now offers more support. We’ll see if Grafana can actually make money out of its partnership with Amazon.
👏 Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now integrates with AWS Lambda. This is really cool!
🤑 Decrease machine learning costs with instance price reductions and savings plans for Amazon SageMaker. Some pretty significant savings here.

Google Cloud Platform: Colossal

🏊‍♀️ Google takes a deep dive into its scalable storage solution, Colossus. Nothing new here.
🔧 Google announces tracking index backfill operation progress in Cloud Spanner. This is super important.
🗺️ The new Google Cloud region in Warsaw is open. Nice to see Eastern Europe getting another region.

Azure: Someone Out There Cares

👍 User data through Azure Instance Metadata Service is now generally available. It would be great to use this with VMWare.
🙂 Microsoft announces encryption is now supported at the host level with AKS. Compliance people will be happy with this one.
🙁 Microsoft announces plans to establish its first datacenter region in Malaysia. Just an announcement — don’t get too excited because it’s not opening yet.

TCP Lightning Round

⚡ Jonathan takes the cake and this week’s point, leaving scores at Justin (6), Ryan (3), Jonathan (6).

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Things Coming Up

114: The Cloud Pod looks forward to rewriting Terraform code… again