In this 438th episode, AC and CJ cover the recent AWS outage of their US-EAST-1 region as well as some Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365 news. At the end, hear them bookend the episode with their own blast radius of picks! News Analysis: Outage shows how Amazon’s complex cloud makes backup plans difficult AWS Amplify Studio AWS opens ‘top secret’ western region for US government customers Microsoft expands cloud services with two new datacenters in Wyoming Azure Cost Management and Billing updates – November 2021 Microsoft forces Office customers to change to an annual subscription, otherwise the price will increase by 20% Public preview of SharePoint Framework 1.14 – with updates for Viva Connections, Microsoft Teams and SharePoint Picks AC’s Pick AN UNEARTHLY SPECTACLE The untold story of the world’s biggest nuclear bomb CJ’s Pick Revisiting the “Tsar Bomba” nuclear test