While waiting on tenterhooks to find out who will win the U.S. presidential race, the team welcomed guest Jacques Chester to The Cloud Pod this week.
A big thanks to this week’s sponsors:
- Foghorn Consulting, which provides full-stack cloud solutions with a focus on strategy, planning and execution for enterprises seeking to take advantage of the transformative capabilities of AWS, Google Cloud and Azure.
- Cloud Academy, which provides an intuitive and scalable training platform to meet teams wherever they are along the cloud maturity curve. Use the code THECLOUDPOD for 50% off its training platform.
- Manning Press is offering a 40% discount on any Manning Publication, and we highly recommend Knative in Action by guest Jacques Chester. Use the code PODCLOUD20 to receive 40% off; additionally, the first five people who retweet this episode from the official @thecloudpod1 twitter account will get a free copy.
This week’s highlights
- AWS will be enjoying fondue in Switzerland.
- Google is clearing out the old junk in the attic.
- Dr. Microsoft is now taking appointments.
General News: Money, Money, Money
- Microsoft has reported its earnings for the first fiscal quarter of 2021. Microsoft is over 2020 already.
- Google’s parent company Alphabet crushed expectations for both earnings and revenue in its third-quarter earnings results. This could be a good sign it’s not planning on killing Google Cloud just yet.
- Amazon reports $96.1 billion in Q3 2020 revenue. Overall a pretty strong quarter!
Amazon Web Services: Spend Or Save?
- Amazon launches AWS Nitro Enclaves to carve out isolated environments on any EC2 instance that is powered by the Nitro System. A great increase in security for no additional cost.
- Customers can now use Jira Service Desk to track operational items related to AWS resources. This is great for the start-ups and smaller organizations that are using Jira!
- Amazon announces new Application Load Balancer Support to make it easier to use gRPC with your applications. Another great feature!
- New AWS Europe region will allow customers to run their applications an