Episode 129: Amazon’s serverless strategy: what happens next will shock you!

“In Australia, I have access to all the Full House episodes.”

We finally nail down Amazon’s strategy with serverless (AWS Lambda), and also go over some recent AWS announcements in the security and compliance area. Plus, Cloudflare’s new consumer DNS service, The Man in the High Castle, and Oracle goes after those sweet government cloud contracts. And, Coté gets a little too angry about Google Fiber giving his neighborhood the finger.

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Relevant to your interests

• Announcing 1.1.1.1: the fastest, privacy-first consumer DNS service
• Auditing - what you do after AD integration. AWS aggregating compliance gunk.
• AWS Summit SF: Most definitely not a sales event, nuh uh, no way
• AWS Secrets Manager: Store, Distribute, and Rotate Credentials Securely
• AWS Config Rules Update: Aggregate Compliance Data Across Accounts and Regions
• Oracle’s Safra Catz Raises Amazon Contract Fight With Trump
• Simon Wardley’s Serverless Tea Bet
• Microsoft’s Windows chief departs as the company pushes further toward AI and the cloud
• The End of Windows
• State of DevOps Report now DORA + Google - not doing it with Puppet. Puppet layoffs not related!
• Zenoss Announces Partnership With Google Cloud
• Apple hires Google’s former AI boss to help improve Siri

Nonsense

• The Man in the High Castle, which is not really anything like the original book.
• 80’s neon in tumblr.

Conferences, et. al.

• April 11th, InnoTech San Antonio - Coté speaking.
• April 10-12th, Sydney AWS Summit.
• April 26-27, DevOpsDays Jakarta - Matt is keynoting, and Coté will be speaking too.
• May 15th to 18th, 2018 - Coté talking EA at Continuous Lifecycle London.
• May 16-17, Matt presenting at Cloud Expo Hong Kong
• May 22-25, ChefConf 2018, in Chicago.

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Recommendations

• Matt: MuseScore for learning piano and writing music
• Brandon: Developing iOS 11 Apps with Swift with course assignments
• Coté: Au Bon Pain in DFW, the little “protein” packs, gate A34.