Amazon’s doing OK
Episode 232 · May 8th, 2020 · 1 hr 1 min
About this Episode
AWS and Azure announce earnings, Backblaze takes on Amazon, Cloud Native Survey Results and Fortnite takes our suggestions. Plus, Matt updates us on his quest to turn a smartphone into a webcam.
The Rundown
- Tech Giant Earnings
- Backblaze challenges AWS by making its cloud storage S3 compatible
- The State of Cloud Native Development: A new survey report! - Cloud Native Computing Foundation
- Salesforce will help businesses return to work with a new set of tools it just announced
- Fortnite's no-combat mode is its next bold step towards creating a metaverse
Relevant to your interests
- M&A
- Announcements
- SaltStack Security
- Departures
- Google
- Google Cloud training available at no cost for 30 days
- Google Authenticator’s first Android update in years lets you move your account between devices
- Google tells employees they can't expense food or other perks when working from home
- Google unifies all of its messaging and communication apps into a single team
Nonsense
Sponsors
strongDM — Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at: strongdm.com/SDT
Conferences, Videos et. al.
- Chef Tools & Terraform: Better Together from Matt Ray
- Michael Coté - Intro - Spring Live
- FlylessConf May 27
- ChefConf 2020 June 2, 2020 All Digital.
- MongoDB’s virtual event http://MongoDB.Live on June 9-10, 2020
- THAT Conference August 3 - 6 in Wisconsin Dells®. Fill out their survey.
SDT news & hype
- Join us in Slack.
- Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com and we will send you free laptop stickers!
- Follow us on Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn
- Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast. Check out the back catalog.
- Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App and he wants you to buy it for $0.99.
- Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, Digital WTF, so $5 total.
Recommendations
- Brandon: American Factory on Netflix
- Matt Ray: Small Victories: The True Story Of Faith No More