197: AWS throws another $35B on the tire fire in us-east-1

February 2, 2023 The Cloud Pod 00:50:0557.3 mb 2 Comments
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On this episode of The Cloud Pod, the team talks about the new AWS Melbourne Region in Australia, the layoff of employees by Microsoft and Google, the mutually beneficial expansion of the partnership between AWS and Stripe, as well as the role of security and GRC in the CCOE.

A big thanks to this week’s sponsor, 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

  • 🚨 AWS: AWS opens new Melbourne Region infrastructure in Australia
  • 🚨 GCP: Google lays off 12,000 employees, 6% of its workforce.
  • 🚨 Azure: Microsoft announced the layoff of 10,000 employees; 5% of their workforce.

Top Quotes  

  • 💡 “If you want that velocity you really have to democratize your access to cloud and your usage of cloud, and with that, you have to expand out the list of responsible parties to people with the proper business context”
  • 💡 “There’s all kinds of mistakes you can make; many more mistakes I think you can make by deploying incorrectly or insecurity in the cloud than you can do in the private data center”
  • 💡 “I think it’s important to keep the context of why you are shifting to the cloud; what is important to the business in terms of value”

AWS: AWS opens new Melbourne Region infrastructure in Australia.

GCP: Google lays off 12,000 employees; 6% of its workforce.

Azure: Microsoft announced the lay of 10,000 employees; 5% of their workforce.

The Cloud Journey Series; The Cloud Center of Excellence (CCOE)

  • GRC needs to address security based on the initial principles behind their typical security practices rather than trying to simply replicate old practices in the new cloud space.
  • There is credibility to the concern security teams have for the higher risk of mistakes when deploying incorrectly or insecurely in the cloud.
  • Summarily, the goal of the shift to the cloud will determine the approach to defining security standards, and with the way the cloud works, security teams need to get actively involved with the implementation of security protocols..

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2 comments on “197: AWS throws another $35B on the tire fire in us-east-1”
  1. DJ says:
    February 11, 2023 at 6:24 pm

    “This is the second infrastructure in Australia, offering an alternative to Perth.”

    “Singapore is the goto place for that”

    Just a FYI, your podcast and text made it sound like Melbourne and Perth was it for Australia and that people use Singapore. Of course, Sydney region has been open for years and is the main region, not Singapore.

    Reply
    1. jbrodley says:
      February 11, 2023 at 6:27 pm

      Yes our comment was regarding for disaster recovery if you needed further distances thanks Sydney/Melbourne. Singapore is often used as a DR but with Perth it gives one additional option.

      The show note could have made it more clear.

      Reply

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