WNiCF - November News - GCP Flex CUDS and technical sound fails by Steve!

In our latest news episode, we round up everything that's happened outside of Re:invent in November (Special Re:invent Episode to follow).  We also discuss some changes to the format, our new website (yet to launch) and our ongoing aim to share our learning and research.
 
Please see Transcript for list of all of the articles used this month.

Transcript

November 2022

Data/DBs

1. https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/11/amazon-redshift-concurrency-scaling-write-workloads/ (F)
2. https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/11/amazon-memorydb-redis-data-tiering/ (S)
3. https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/11/amazon-athena-query-result-reuse-accelerate-queries/ (F)
4. https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/11/amazon-quicksight-monitoring-spice-consumption-sending-metrics-cloudwatch/ (F)
5. https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/a-technical-overview-of-cloud-spanners-query-optimizer  (S)
6. https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/bq-omnis-cross-cloud-transfer-now-generally-available (S)

Visibility (Billing conductor - Tags - cost categories)

1. https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/11/aws-billing-conductor-entity-pricing-rules/ (F)
2. https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/11/aws-billing-conductor-recurring-custom-line-items/ (F)
3. https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/11/announcing-aws-resource-explorer/ (S)

Spot

1. https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/11/amazon-ec2-specifying-instance-types-selection-ec2-spot-fleet-auto-scaling/ (F)
2. https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/11/amazon-ec2-price-capacity-optimized-allocation-strategy-provisioning-ec2-spot-instances/ (F)

Commitment

1. https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/save-money-with-the-new-compute-engine-flexible-cuds (S)

Savings 

1. https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/11/application-load-balancers-turning-off-cross-zone-load-balancing-per-target-group/ (F)
2. https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/11/pricing-calculator-modernization-cost-estimates-microsoft-workloads/ (S)
3. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/updates/azure-quota-rest-api-2/ (F)
4. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/updates/general-availability-dr-secondary-free-with-sql-server-on-azure-virtual-machines/ (S)

Storage

1. https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/11/amazon-s3-storage-lens-organization-wide-visibility-34-metrics/ (F)
2. https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/11/amazon-s3-glacier-restore-throughput-10x-large-volumes-archived-data/ (S)
3. https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/11/amazon-s3-select-improves-query-performance-trino/ (F)
4. https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/11/amazon-s3-outposts-optimizes-storage-management-new-lifecycle-actions-filters/ (S)

Instances

Misc/Silly

1. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/a-new-aws-region-opens-in-switzerland/ (F)
2. https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/11/aws-wavelength-zone-manchester/ (S)
3. https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/11/amazon-forecast-generates-predictions-products-historical-data-more-accurate/ (F)
4. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/updates/generally-available-additional-always-free-services-for-azure-free-account-and-payg/ (S)
5. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/updates/general-availability-12-months-free-services-for-new-azure-payg-customers/  (S)

STEVE - Going to make a new website, share all the news links on the episode transcript, going to share the live document we have for the news on the site as well (maybe slightly off live), we’re also looking for collaborators for some interesting articles and for episodes next year!