The DOD awards the coveted Jedi contract, the MS ignite Draft, Earnings season and more this week on The Cloud Pod. Sponsors: Foghorn Consulting – fogops.io/thecloudpod Follow Up Topics Pentagon awards controversial $10 billion cloud computing deal to Microsoft, spurning AmazonEven after Microsoft wins, JEDI saga could drag on General News/Topics Earnings Season Microsoft’s cloud shines again as it easily tops earnings targets, but Azure slowsDespite AWS cloud growth, Amazon shares sag on lower forecastGoogle Cloud fails to lift Alphabet enough to please investors AWS 200 Amazon CloudFront Points of Presence + Price ReductionNative Container Image Scanning in Amazon ECRAWS Global Accelerator Now Supports EC2 Instance Endpoints Google Updates make Cloud AI platform faster and more flexibleAdvancing Customer Control in the CloudSwipe right for a new guide to PCI on GKEBring Your Own IP addresses: the secret to Bitly’s shortened cloud migrationWhat’s happening in BigQuery: New features bring flexibility and scale to your data warehouse Azure Preview: Server-side encryption with customer-managed keys for Azure Managed DisksNew in Stream Analytics: Machine Learning, online scaling, custom code, and more MS Ignite Draft Jonathan Digital Assistant to compete with Alexa or Google Home. 3 more Azure Regions in USMore or Improved tooling for Devops Community Peter Istio for AKS1 more region in CanadaVisual Studio Online Justin Azure Portal RedesignSagemaker/Databricks like Competitor. Oracle on Stage Lightning Round (Jonathan 12, Justin 16, and Guest 4): AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate Now Supports Custom DomainsAmazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) Adds Support for Change StreamsAWS Managed Services (AMS) Now Offers Managed Landing ZonesAWS Batch Introduces New Allocation Strategies“Alexa, I’m running late” – Alexa for Business enables Alexa users to inform their next meeting they will be lateAmazon Transcribe Now Supports Australian English Speech-to-Text in Real TimeAWS License Manager now helps you easily identify Windows and SQL Server License Included instancesIncrease AWS Single Sign-On security with multi-factor authentication using authenticator appsAmazon RDS for Oracle adds support to invoke EMCTL commands for Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud ControlAmazon RDS for PostgreSQL Supports User Authentication with Kerberos and Microsoft Active DirectoryAWS Snowball Edge now supports volume sizes of up to 10 TBAWS Elastic Beanstalk Adds Support for PHP 7.3 and .NET Core 3.0AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) Private Certificate Authority (CA) now enforces name constraints in imported CA certificates