The Cloud Pod Proclaims: One Does Not Just Entra into Mordor

Welcome episode 219 of The Cloud Pod podcast - where the forecast is always cloudy! Today your hosts are Justin and Jonathan, and they discuss all things cloud, including clickstream analytics, databricks, Microsoft Entra, virtual machines, Outlook threats, and some major changes over at the Google Cloud team.  Titles we almost went with this week: TCP is not Entranced with Entra ID The Cave you Fear to Entra, Holds the Treasure you Seek Microsoft should rethink Entra rules for their Email 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:📰 AWS 00:47 Clickstream Analytics on AWS for Mobile and Web Applications Want some solutions? Don’t we all! Well, for clickstream analytics at least, Amazon has released an update that has pre built solutions using Amazon components.  Covers iOS and Android  You can now deploy an end-to-end solution to capture, ingest, store, analyze and visualize your customers' clickstreams inside your web and mobile applications.  This solution is built using standard AWS services to allow you to keep your data in the security and compliance perimeter of your AWS account and customize the processing and analytics as you require, giving you the full flexibility to extract value for your business.  The new solution leverages ECS+Kafka/Kineses/S3, EMR, Redshift and Quicksight You can use plugins to transform the data during processing via EMR< AWS has provided you to build in ones for User Agent enrichment and IP address enrichment. You can also export your source server inventory list to a CSV file and download it to your local disk.  You can always continue leveraging the previously launched import and export functionality to and from an S3 bucket if you're so inclined.  Additional Post launch actions, adds four predefined post launch actions.  Configure Time Sync Validate Disk Space Verify HTTP(S) response Enable Amazon Inspector If only this had been written 9 months ago when everyone was trying to run away from Google analytics… 02:45 📢 Justin- “I believe they have cloud cost optimization opportunities and solutions, but I would appreciate maybe some additional of those. More dashboards, more pretty pictures for dealing with your Amazon bill.” 02:58 Introducing the AWS .NET Distributed