Episode 387 | AWS Black Wednesday & re:invent, Salesforce Slacking, & Microsoft 365 Surveillance

It’s been a big week with AWS’s largest outage yet, AWS re:invent conference, Slack being acquired and Microsoft news and AC and CJ dive right in.Banter AWS engineer puts Windows 10 on Arm on Apple Mac M1 – and it thrashes Surface Pro X News Control automatic external email forwarding in Microsoft 365 Microsoft Roadmap Office 365 ATP: External Email Forwarding Controls Microsoft productivity score feature criticised as workplace surveillance Microsoft apologises for feature criticised as workplace surveillance Zoom Pricing & Plans Six months after Oracle trumpeted Zoom as a cloud customer, AWS says it is Zoom’s ‘preferred’ cloud Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack Prolonged AWS outage takes down a big chunk of the internet Summary of the Amazon Kinesis Event in the Northern Virginia (US-EAST-1) Region AWS re:Invent 2020 – Announcements From the News Blog New – Use Amazon EC2 Mac Instances to Build & Test macOS, iOS, iPadOS, tvOS, and watchOS Apps New for AWS Lambda – 1ms Billing Granularity Adds Cost Savings New for AWS Lambda – Container Image Support New for AWS Lambda – Functions with Up to 10 GB of Memory and 6 vCPUs Amazon Elastic Container Registry Public: A New Public Container Registry Amazon S3 Strong Consistency Amazon S3 Update – Strong Read-After-Write Consistency Want more PostgreSQL? You just might like Babelfish EKS Anywhere (coming in 2021) Picks AC’s Pick Video: Footage of Collapse Arecibo Observatory CJ’s Pick The Secret History of Microsoft Bob - Dave Tells All - Was Bob Secretly Hidden in Windows?