On The Cloud Pod this week, Amazon adds the ability to embed fine-grained visualizations directly onto web pages, Google offers pay-as-you-go pricing for Apigee customers, and Microsoft launches Arm-based Azure VMs that are powered by ampere chips.

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Episode Highlights

⏰  Fine-grained visualizations can now be embedded directly into your webpages and applications

⏰  Google is now offering pay-as-you-go pricing for its Apigee API customers

⏰  Microsoft launches Arm-based Azure VMs powered by ampere chips

Top Quote

💎 “I think I feel like SimCity 2000 lied to me. By now we should have had satellites in space collecting solar power and beaming microwave energy down to us.”

General News:

• 😐 Due to concerns about power shortages and availability of supplies, ​​Microsoft and Amazon cancel several new planned data centers in Ireland. [1:18]

AWS: Adding Visuals to Your Apps Is Getting Even Easier…

• 📊 Fine-grained visualizations can now be embedded directly into your webpages and applications thanks to Amazon QuickSight. [4:44]
• ⚙️ Amazon’s announcement of the new AWS Support App for Slack is going to streamline management of technical, billing, and account support cases. [6:24]
• 🗣️ AWS Security Hub is now publish announcements through Amazon SNS, and anyone can submit via the console or CLI. [8:37]
• ✉️ Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports email subscription for SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS). [10:37]
• ☁️ Amazon CloudFront launches Origin Access Control (OAC), which helps more easily secure S3 origins. [11:08]
• 🔐 Your account login pages are becoming even more secure, thanks to AWS WAF Fraud Control. [12:38]
• 📦 Amazon EKS Anywhere Curated Packages now generally available. [13:20]
• 📈 AWS and VMware Announce VMware Cloud on AWS integration with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, allowing customers to scale storage independently. [14:33]
• 🇦🇪 AWS now has regions open in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). [16:06]

GCP: Get What You Pay For

• 🧩 Managed AD from Google now supports on-demand backups, schema extension support, and requires zero hardware management or patching. [18:02]
• ⚔️ Six months after it was launched in preview, virtual Machine Threat Detection is now generally available to Cloud customers [20:30]
• 🌥️ Google Cloud Certificate Manager is also generally available. [21:31]
• 💳 Google is now offering pay-as-you-go pricing for its Apigee API customers, allowing them to unlock all of the benefits with no upfront commitment. [23:03]

Azure: Arms in the Cloud

• 🦾 Ampere Altra Arm-based processors are now generally available on the Azure cloud.  [24:28]
• 🖥️ Azure Data Explorer now supports native ingestion from Amazon S3, one of the most popular object storage services. [27:00]
• 🧑‍💻 IoT Edge 1.4 is now generally available. [28:34]

TCP Lightning Lightning Round [30:06]

⚡️ This week, Peter struggles to keep up, as everyone else’s scores increase to: Justin (7), Ryan (4), Jonathan (4), Peter (1).

• A new sign-in experience is now generally available for Amazon QuickSight
• Announcing the Oracle Cloud VMware Solution summer release
• Amazon AppFlow now supports Jira Cloud as a source
• Announcing support for Crawler history in AWS Glue
• Prevent a lifecycle management policy from archiving recently rehydrated blobs on Azure
• Announcing dynamic performance scaling with autotuning for OCI Block Storage

Aftershow:

• 🪫 Silicon Valley Startup Sparks Controversy Over What Critics Call ‘Racist Software’

Things Coming Up:

• Sectember – CSA Conference – September 26-30th – Bellevue WA
• Elasticon San Francisco – October 4th
• Google Cloud Next – October 11th – 13th
• Oracle Cloud World – October 17-20th
• Devops Enterprise Summit US Flagship – October 18th-20th – Las Vegas
• Kubecon US – October 24-28th
• AWS Reinvent – November 28th-Dec-2 (assumed)

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