Episode 94: The Cloud Pod No Code Required

The Cloud Pod

This week on The Cloud Pod, the team is getting ready to share their predictions for re:Invent, and that may or may not involve greasing the palms of some Amazon employees.

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This week’s highlights

• Amazon is becoming a connoisseur of international cuisine with its new region.
• Google is borderline nefarious in the scientific community.
• Azure adds a long overdue feature.

Amazon Web Services: Spicing Things Up

• AWS announces the new Hyderabad region in India will open in mid-2022. We’re surprised at how long this took to happen.
• AWS launches managed messaging service Amazon MQ for Rabbit MQ. Only took three years of Justin whinging.
• Amazon now allows customers to proactively manage the EC2 Spot instance lifecycle using the new capacity rebalancing feature. Not sure this needed a whole blog about it.
• AWS announces AWS Gateway Load Balancing for easy deployment, scalability and high availability for Partner Appliances in the cloud. Thanks for helping us out, Amazon!
• AWS makes it easier to export DynamoDB table data to S3 with no code writing required. At lots less Lamda spackle, we like it.
• AWS announces a full set of features across the storage family as part of AWS Storage Day 2020. Buckets, buckets and more buckets.

Google Cloud Platform: Doing What It Does Best

• Google Cloud SQL now supports Postgres 13. Next up, Google announces deprecation of Postgres 13… Just kidding.
• GCP launches a unified console for document processing with Document AI platform. For anyone who hate