Sponsors: Foghorn Consulting – fogops.io/thecloudpod Follow Up AWS Reinvent Music Festival – https://intersect.aws/ Topics General News Earnings Amazon shares dip missing profit expectations tech giant posts 63.4billion in Q2 revenueMicrosoft trumpets record year with $126b in Annual Revenue up 14% as quarterly profits beat estimatesGoogle Cloud’s run rate is now over $8BAlphabet announces second quarter 2019 results Digital Ocean gets a new CEO and CFOCNN report: Inside the effort to turn trump against Amazon’s bid for a $10 billion Jedi contractAmazon Hires Lobbyist with trump ties amid contentious pentagon cloud contest Capital One hacked over 100 million customers affected AWS eksctl – the EKS CLIAWS Released resource optimization recommendationsStackery lets AWS lambda developers debug their serverless programs locally on a laptopAWS Launches a chatbot for chatops AWS client VPN now adds support for split tunnelingAWS Secrets Manager now supports VPC endpoint policiesAnnouncing the new AWS Middle East Bahrain Region Google Google partners with VMWare to bring virtualized workloads to GCPBrick by Brick: Learn GCP by setting up a kid-controllable Minecraft server Azure Azure publishes guidance for secure cloud adoption by governmentsMicrosoft owned LinkedIn moving to public cloud guess which platform their choosingMicrosoft acquires data privacy and governance service BlueTalon Lightning Round (Jonathan 8, Justin 10, Peter 1 and Guest 3): AWS Backup will now automatically copy tags from resources to recovery pointsNew AWS certification exam vouchers make certifying groups easierAWS introduces new predictive maintenance using machine learningAWS Budgets announces AWS chatbot integrationNew Google features for BigQuery: New persistent user-defined functions, increased concurrency limits, GIS and encryption functions, and moreAWS EFS Encryption for data in transit has a new configuration updateAmazon transcribe now supports websocketsAmazon ECR now supports immutable image tagsAmazon MSK (Managed Services for Kakfa) now PCI-DSS compliantAWS Cloudwatch logs insights adds cross log group queryingAWS Spot instances now available for Red Hat Enterprise LinuxAWS Temporary queue client for Amazon SQS client has been releasedYou can now use AWS systems manager maintenance windows to select resource groups as targetsAzure blog post on how to use their new Azure Bastion HostNew Digital Course on Coursera – AWS fundamentals of security riskAnnouncing GA of Azure Security Center for IOTAmazon ECS services now support multiple load balancer target groupsEBS default volume type updated to gp2Amazon EC2 on-demand capacity reservations shared across multiple AWS accounts