Episode 97: S3 Buckets land the key to success

The Cloud Pod

This week on The Cloud Pod, the team admits defeat and acknowledges they are not experts in machine learning. Joining them in that club is the rest of us.

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.
• Open Raven, the cloud native data protection platform that automates policy monitoring and enforcement. Auto discover, classify, monitor and protect your sensitive data.

This week’s highlights

• Amazon is helpfully pointing out all your mistakes.
• Google knows you have deep pockets and wants a piece.
• Microsoft is really bad at keeping secrets.

General News: Jonathan Called It

• Salesforce has acquired Slack for $27.7 billion. We’re hoping Chatter will die a horrible death now.

Amazon Web Services: Error 404

Amazon explains the Thanksgiving Kinesis outage that occurred in North East Virginia. We feel bad for the Ops team that had to support this.

re:Invent Continued

• Amazon adds stronger Read-After-Write consistency to S3. A really fantastic technical feat.
• Amazon announces S3 Replication support for multiple destination buckets. Nice and simple!
• Amazon S3 Replication now has the ability to replicate data from one source bucket to multiple destination buckets. Super excited about this!
• Integrate Amazon Honeycode with popular SaaS applications, AWS services and more. It’s finally usable now.
• Amazon announces new AWS Region is in the works for Melbourne, Australia. It will also use 100% renewable energy, which is cool.
• Fully serverless batch computing with AWS Batch Support for AWS Fargate. Batch is a weird service to begin with.
• Amazon debuts Trainium, a custom chip for machine learning training in the cloud. We’re confused by this one.
• Amazon HealthLake stores, transforms