Episode 232: Amazon’s doing OK

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
  • AWS tops $10 billion in quarterly revenue for the first time
  • Microsoft Azure update
  • The Immunity of the Tech Giant
  • The Small-Business Die-Off Is Here
• 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
  • DocuSign acquires Seal Software for $188M to enhance its AI chops
  • Hot On The Heels Of Mellanox, Nvidia Snaps Up Cumulus Networks
  • Intel's Mobileye targets urban mobility growth with Moovit deal
  • Keybase joins Zoom
• Announcements
  • IBM Cloud Satellite
  • Abby Kearns takes over as Puppet CTO
  • Microsoft to establish first datacenter region in New Zealand
• SaltStack Security
  • Critical Salt Vulnerability: Thousands Exposed, Bug Gives Full RCE as Root
  • Hackers are Running Rampant Exploiting the SaltStack Vulnerability
• Departures
  • VMware Confirms Employee Salary Freeze, CEO Pay Cut
  • A Message from Co-Founder and CEO Brian Chesky
  • Tim Bray, Goodbye
  • Nutanix cuts 1,500
• 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

• Fortnite hosted a Diplo concert in its new party mode
• About Those Asian Giant Hornets...

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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.

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Recommendations

• Brandon: American Factory on Netflix
• Matt Ray: Small Victories: The True Story Of Faith No More