A New Cost Management blog, APAC gets a new AWS region and Docker Hub gets hacked. Plus Alphabet, Microsoft, and Amazon all release earnings and we break out the highs and lows. With special guest, Ian Mckay @iann0036 talks about his new AWS tool www.former2.com Sponsors: Foghorn Consulting – https://fogops.io/thecloudpod Follow Up Apple actually reducing dependence on Amazon Cloud services Topics Ford Partners with Amazon to build cloud service connected carsNew AWS cost management blog launchesNew Query for AWS Regions, Endpoints, and More using AWS Systems Manager Parameter StoreEarnings Season Microsoft beats Wall street expectations, posting $30.6B in revenue, powered by cloud divisionAWS revenue approaches $8 Billion in Q1, up 41% compared to last yearDespite Cloud growth, slowing revenue at Alphabet sends investors fleeing AMD EPYC-Powered Amazon EC2 T3a instancesNow Open – AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) RegionSlack renegotiated its deal with AWS in 2018, will spend 212 million more through 2023190,000 user accounts exposed in hack of Docker Hub DatabaseMicrosoft container registry unaffected by recent docker hub data exposureVMWare brings its virtualization software to Microsoft AzureAWS Deep Racer League Virtual Circuit is now Open Lightning Round AWS Single Sign-On now offers certificate customization to support your corporate policiesAmazon EKS supports EC2 A1 instances as public previewAnnouncing Azure Backup support to move recovery service vaultsOptimize Performance using Azure Database for PostgreSQL recommendationsAmazon RDS now supports per-second billingAWS Service Catalog announces Tag UpdatingAWS specifies the IP address ranges for Amazon DynamoDB endpointsEfficiently scale ML and other compute workloads on NVIDIA’s T4 GPU, now GAServerless automation using Powershell preview in Azure FunctionsDynamoDBMapper now supports Amazon DynamoDB transactional API callsNow you can tag Amazon DynamoDB tables when you create themAWS Systems Manager Parameter Store Introduces Advanced ParametersAWS Systems Manager now supports use of Parameter Store at Higher API ThroughputAzure Accelerate supercomputing in the cloud with Cray ClusterstorAWS Security Token Service (STS) now supports enabling the global STS endpoint to issue session tokens compatible with all AWS RegionsAWS Elastic Fabric Adapter is Now Generally Available Cool Tools https://former2.com/ with guest Ian McKay