Episode 9

Its earnings season and we take a look at both AWS and Googles earnings, plus recap the Azure earnings from last week.  We also talk about AWS Corretto GA, Microsoft DNS outage causes data loss?, Mongo DB SSPL licensing and more. Special Guest Ryan Lucas

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Topics

Earnings

• AWS Earnings – https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/31/aws-earnings-q4-2018.html
• Alphabet (Google) Earnings   – https://siliconangle.com/2019/02/04/alphabet-beats-earnings-forecast-costs-weigh-shares/

Google Cloud Firestore Nosql Database hits GA – https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/31/googles-cloud-firestore-nosql-database-hits-general-availability/

DNS Outage results in azure database outage – https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2019/02/01/dns-outage-turns-tables-on-azure-database-users/

MS Launches AMD powered Azure Instances – https://siliconangle.com/2019/02/01/microsoft-launches-amd-powered-azure-instances-analytics-databases/

Oracle AMD instances Outperform AWS – https://blogs.oracle.com/cloud-infrastructure/oracle-amd-instances-outperform-and-outprice-comparable-aws-instances

Amazon Corretto 8 is now GA – https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/amazon-corretto-8-generally-available/

Oracle CISO: Are Audits and Certifications enough? – https://blogs.oracle.com/cloud-infrastructure/security-in-the-cloud:-are-audits-and-certifications-really-enough

MongoDB SSPL Licenses rejected by RHEL – https://www.zdnet.com/article/mongodb-open-source-server-side-public-license-rejected/

Slack IPO – https://siliconangle.com/2019/02/04/months-rumors-team-chat-leader-slack-files-ipo/

Lightning Round

Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports t3 instances – https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/amazon-rds-for-oracle-now-supports-t3-instance-types/

Azure announces GA for Query store for sql data warehouse – https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-the-general-availability-of-query-store-for-azure-sql-data-warehouse/

Google Cloud now supports websockets for app engine flexible environment – https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/application-development/introducing-websockets-support-for-app-engine-flexible-environment

Azure now tells you when your hardware is degraded with scheduled events – https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/find-out-when-your-virtual-machine-hardware-is-degraded-with-scheduled-events/

Azure stream analytics now support Azure SQL databases as references – https://azure.microsoft.com

/en-us/blog/azure-stream-analytics-now-supports-azure-sql-database-as-reference-data-input/

Tom Tom and Microsoft partner to get users bad directions –

https://www.businessinsider.com/mapping-company-tomtom-explains-why-betting-microsoft-azure-2019-2

Dynamodb Local adds support for Dynamo Transactions, On Demand Capacity and 20 GSI’s (Global Secondary Indexes) – https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/02/amazon-dynamodb-local-adds-support-for-transactional-apis-on-demand-capacity-mode-and-20-gsis/

Develop and test step functions locally – https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/02/develop-and-test-aws-step-functions-workflows-locally/

APIGEE portal enhancments – https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/api-management/improving-developer-experience-with-enhanced-apigee-developer-portal

MS acquires data sense management from brightbytes –

https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/04/microsoft-acquires-datasense-management-from-brightbytes-to-step-up-its-education-play-in-azure/

Cool Tools

https://github.com/gruntwork-io/terratest

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