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Your hosts are back at it — well some of them are. Ian Mckay (@iann0036) fills in for Peter this week as we cover all of the triumphs and troubles in cloud.

A big thanks to this week’s sponsors:

• Foghorn Consulting, which provides full-stack cloud solutions with a focus on strategy, planning and execution for enterprises seeking to take advantage of the transformative capabilities of AWS, Google Cloud and Azure.
• Blue Medora, which offers pioneering IT monitoring integration as a service to address today’s IT challenges by easily connecting system health and performance data —  no matter its source — with the world’s leading monitoring and analytics platforms. 

This week’s highlights

• Ian Mckay gives an Aussie perspective on the AWS outage in Sydney.
• Amazon streamlines permissions with the IAM policy simulator.
• Google competes with AWS with competitively priced services.

Amazon Pressures Pentagon, Suffers in Sydney

⚖️ On January 22, Amazon filed a motion to halt work on the JEDI contract between Microsoft and the Department of Defense until a court rules on the protest filed by Amazon last year. Expect more news here as the story develops through February.

That same day, Amazon Web Services (AWS) suffered a six hour outage across multiple services in the Sydney region “including EC2, elastic load balancing (ELB), relational database service (RDS), AppStream 2.0, ElastiCache, WorkSpaces and Lambda.” After the issue was resolved, Amazon assured customers it will use this experience to learn and improve future operational performance.

AWS Adds, Updates and Improves