The Biggest Innovator in SFTP in 30 Years? Amazon Web Services!

Welcome episode 221 of The Cloud Pod podcast - where the forecast is always cloudy! This week your hosts, Justin, Jonathan, Ryan, and Matthew look at some of the announcements from AWS Summit, as well as try to predict the future - probably incorrectly - about what’s in store at Next 2023. Plus, we talk more about the storm attack, SFTP connectors (and no, that isn’t how you get to the Moscone Center for Next) Llama 2, Google Cloud Deploy and more!  Titles we almost went with this week: Now You Too Can Get Ignored by Google Support via Mobile App The Tech Sector Apparently Believes Multi-Cloud is Great… We Hate You All.  The cloud pod now wants all your HIPAA Data The Meta Llama is Spreading Everywhere The Cloud Pod Recursively Deploys Deploy A big thanks to this week’s sponsor: Foghorn Consulting, provides top-notch cloud and DevOps engineers to the world’s most innovative companies. Initiatives stalled because you have trouble hiring?  Foghorn can be burning down your DevOps and Cloud backlogs as soon as next week. 📰News this Week:📰 00:33 HashiCorp State of Cloud Strategy Survey 2023: The tech sector perspective  We didn’t find anything in the survey particularly interesting, until they broke it down by respondents who are actively in the tech industry.  Despite strong Macro pressure and recent earnings reports about slowness in growth, 48% of respondents increased their cloud spend in the last 12 months 94% of tech industry respondents indicated that multi-cloud works, citing that it has advanced or achieved their company’s business goals.   Sure, Jan.  91% of tech companies rely on platform teams.  01:37📢 Justin - “The thing about that is, I could see the value for Saas vendors, right? Especially if you're dealing with large data ingestion. I think we were talking to New Relic, for example, when they launched a New Relic on Azure.It saves their customers a bunch of money because they're not doing egress charges out to the internet to AWS to basically get the New Relic data in. And they see that as a strategy that helps customers reduce money and also helps increase adoption as well as partnership opportunities.” AWS 05:11 AWS Summit New York  just happened, and there were a lot of announcements (and protests.) We won’t spend a lot of time going over each of these in the show, but the link are available for you to peruse at your leisure.  Introducing AWS HealthImaging — purpose-built for medical imaging at scale AWS is very excited to announce the general availability of AWS HealthImaging, a purpose-built service that helps builders develop cloud-native applications that store, analyze, and share medical imaging data at a petabyte scale. HealthImaging ingests data in the DICOM P10 format. It provides APIs for low-latency retrieval and purpose-built storage.  Amazon Redshift now supports querying Apache Iceberg tables