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Published: Dec. 17, 2020, 6:30 a.m.

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This week we discuss the state of virtual events, recent AWS re:Invent Announcements and the SolarWinds Hack. Plus, is YouTube Premium worth it\\u2026?

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The Rundown

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• AWS re:Invent\\n\\n
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  • AWS CloudShell
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  • AWS Fault Injection Simulator \\u2013 Fully managed chaos engineering service
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  • Amazon Managed Service for Grafana | Fully Managed Grafana Data Visualization
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  • Our new partnership with AWS gives Grafana users more options
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  • AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry \\u2013 Amazon Web Services
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  • AWS and Zoom Extend Strategic Relationship
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  • State of Cloud 2018 Report
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• Solarwinds\\n\\n
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  • Russian government spies are behind a broad hacking campaign that has breached U.S. agencies and a top cyber firm
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  • Solar Winds, probably hacked by Russia, serves White House, Pentagon, NASA
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  • SolarWinds Exposed FTP Credentials Publicly in a Github Repo
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  • ~18,000 organizations downloaded backdoor planted by Cozy Bear hackers
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  • SolarWinds hackers have a clever way to bypass multi-factor authentication
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  • Hackers at center of sprawling spy campaign turned SolarWinds\' dominance against it
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  • New Evidence Suggests SolarWinds\' Codebase Was Hacked to Inject Backdoor
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  • SolarWinds attack explained: And why it was so hard to detect
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  • More Hacking Attacks Found as Officials Warn of \\u2018Grave Risk\\u2019 to U.S. Government
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• iOS 14.3 now available, here are the new features
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Relevant to your Interests

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• Nobody Owns Linux, But You Can Pay For It \\u2013 Or Not
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• Amazon Wants to Train 29 Million People to Work in the Cloud
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• SoftBank has reportedly sold Boston Dynamics to Hyundai
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• Oracle reports slow revenue growth as licensing and hardware businesses decline
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• Oracle is moving its headquarters from Silicon Valley to Austin, Texas
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• After The US Election, Key People Are Leaving Facebook And Torching The Company In Departure Notes
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• New Relic acquires Kubernetes observability platform Pixie Labs \\u2013 TechCrunch
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• AI Algorithms Are Slimming Down to Fit in Your Fridge
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• Vista Equity Partners Agrees to Buy Software Maker Pluralsight
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• Google\'s YouTube, Gmail recover after global outage
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Nonsense

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• \\u2018Damn Good Taco\\u2019 Maker Torchy\\u2019s Sells Stake to General Atlantic
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• The Office\\u2019s Brian Baumgartner to Make $1 Million in 2020 from Cameo Bookings
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• AAdvantage program updates \\u2212 AAdvantage program \\u2212 American Airlines
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• The 71 Best Podcasts of 2020 | Discover the Best Podcasts | Discover Pods
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Recommendations

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• Matt: AppleTV+ and Tiny World.
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• Brandon: Tenet.
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