Welcome to episode 332 of The Cloud Pod ? where the forecast is always cloudy! It?s Thanksgiving week, which can only mean one thing: AWS Re:Invent predictions! In this special episode, Justin, Jonathan, Ryan, and Matt engage in the annual tradition of drafting their best guesses for what AWS will announce at the biggest cloud conference of the year. Justin is the reigning champion (probably because he actually reads the show notes), but with a reverse snake draft order determined by dice roll, anything could happen. Will Werner announce his retirement? Is Cognito finally getting a much-needed overhaul? And just how many times will ?AI? be uttered on stage? Grab your turkey and let?s get predicting!

Titles we almost went with this week: Roll For Initiative: The Re:Invent Prediction Draft Justin?s Winning Streak: A Study in Actually Doing Your Homework Serverless GPUs and Broken Dreams: Our Re:Invent Wishlist Shooting in the Dark: AWS Predictions Edition We?re Never Good at This, But Here We Go Again Vegas Odds: What Happens at Re:Invent, Gets Predicted Wrong AWS Re:Invent Predictions 2025

The annual prediction draft is here! Draft order was determined by dice roll: Jonathan first, followed by Ryan, Justin, and Matt in last position. As always, it?s a reverse order format, with points awarded for each correct prediction announced during the Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday keynotes.

Jonathan?s Predictions Serverless GPU Support ? An extension to Lambda or a different service that provides on-demand serverless GPU/inference capability. Likely with requirements for pre-warmed provisioned instances. Agentic Platform for Continuous AI Agents ? A service that allows agents to run continuously with goals or instructions, performing actions periodically or on-demand in the real world. Think: running agents on a schedule that can check conditions and take automated actions. Werner Vogels Retirement Announcement ? Werner will announce that this is his last Re:Invent keynote and that he is retiring. Ryan?s Predictions New Trainium 3 Chips, Inferentia, and Graviton Chips ? New generation of AWS custom silicon across training, inference, and general compute. Expanded Model Availability in Bedrock ? AWS will significantly expand the number of models available in Bedrock, potentially via partnerships or integrations with additional providers. Major Refresh to AWS Organizations ? UI-based or functionality refresh providing better visibility into SCPs, OU mappings, and stack sets across organizations. Chapters (00:00:02) - Episode 332: Reinvent Predictions For(00:01:26) - Reinvent: The Contest(00:03:35) - How to Predict the AI Announcement(00:04:23) - Serverless GPUs: First Step(00:05:58) - SageMaker vs. Amazon: The Fight(00:09:56) - What is the Future of AI Agents?(00:11:03) - Facebook is an Agent Platform, but...(00:11:38) - AWS: Bedrock Expansion & OpenAI Partnership(00:15:09) - Top Tech Speakers: ML, AI and the Warner Key(00:16:15) - Third and Final Prediction(00:17:15) - WSJDLive: Future of AWS IT refresh(00:18:18) - 3 of the Best Security Hub Features(00:19:22) - AWS: Cognito 2.0 or Agentic Identities?(00:21:27) - Tiebreaker: How Many Times Will AI Be Said?(00:23:28) - What to Do to Reinvent Yourself at Reinvent 2012(00:24:00) - Amazon's AI Wish List(00:29:50) - A Taste of Re Invent 2018

Welcome to episode 331 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Jonathan, Ryan, Matt, and Justin (for a little bit, anyway) are in the studio today to bring you all the latest in cloud and AI news. This week, we?re looking at our Ignite predictions (that side gig as internet psychics isn?t looking too good) undersea cables (our fave!), plus datacenters and more. Plus Claude and Azure make a 30 billion dollar deal! Take a break from turkey and avoiding politics, and let?s take a trip into the clouds!   

Titles we almost went with this week GPT-5.1 Gets a Shell Tool Because Apparently We Haven?t Learned Anything From Sci-Fi Movies The Great Ingress Egress: NGINX Controller Waves Goodbye After Years of Volunteer Burnout Queue the Applause: Lambda SQS Mapping Gets a Serious Speed Boost SELECT * FROM future WHERE SQL meets AI without the prompt drama MFA or GTFO: Microsoft?s 99.6% Phishing-Resistant Authentication Achievement JWT Another Thing ALB Can Do: OAuth Validation Moves to the Load Balancer Google?s Emerging Threats Center: Because Manually Checking 12 Months of Logs Sounds Terrible EventBridge Gets a Drag-and-Drop Makeover: No More Schema Drama Permission Denied: How Granting Access Took Down the Internet

Follow Up 

00:51 Ignite Predictions ? The Results 

Matt (Who is in charge of sound effects, so be aware) 

ACM Competitor ? True SSL competitive product AI announcement in Security AI Agent (Copilot for Sentinel) ? sort of (½)  Azure DevOps Announcement

Justin

New Cobalt and Mai Gen 2 or similar ? Check Price Reduction on OpenAI & Significant Prompt Caching  Microsoft Foundational LLM to compete with OpenAI ? 

Jonathan

The general availability of new, smaller, and more power-efficient Azure Local hardware form factors Declarative AI on Fabric: This represents a move towards a declarative model, where users state the desired outcome, and the AI agent system determines the steps needed to achieve it within the Fabric ecosystem. Advanced Cost Management: Granular dashboards to track the token and compute consumption per agent or per transaction, enabling businesses to forecast costs and set budgets for their agent workforce.

How many times will they say Copilot:

The word ?Copilot? is mentioned 46 to 71 times in the video.

Jonathan 45

Justin: 35

Matt: 40

General News

05:13 Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025

Cloudflare experienced its worst outage since 2019 on November 18, 2025, lasting approximately three hours and affecting core traffic routing across its entire network.  The incident was triggered by a database permissions change that caused a Bot Management feature file to double in size, exceeding hardcoded limits in their proxy software and causing system panics that resulted in 5xx errors for customers. The root cause reveals a cascading failure pattern, where a ClickHouse database query began returning duplicate column metadata after permission changes.  This resulted in a significant i... Chapters (00:00:00) - The Cloud Pod(00:01:04) - Matchbox: Microsoft's AI Announcement(00:05:04) - Cloudflare's Worst Outage Since 2019(00:07:32) - GPT 5.1 Release(00:11:21) - ChatGPT Launches Group Chat(00:14:53) - Microsoft Teams: Working in Teams with Copilot(00:16:16) - Gemini 3.0 Pro Launch at Google AI Conference(00:18:51) - Microsoft, Nvidia to Develop Cloud Models for Anthropic(00:22:45) - Ingress NGINX Controller to Be Retired(00:25:05) - Cloudflare Expands AI into the Edge with a Replicate(00:29:31) - AWS Lambda: Provisioned Mode for SQS(00:32:31) - Amazon EventBridge Expands Schema Aware with New Rule Builder(00:34:37) - Application Load Balancers support JWT Token Verification(00:37:51) - How Protective Reroute Improves Network Resilience(00:40:26) - Google Security Operations Launches Emerging Threat Center(00:46:48) - Google to Invest $7 Million in Subsea Cable Networks(00:50:17) - Microsoft's Azure AI SuperFactory(00:53:43) - Azure DB for Postgres Announces Private Preview(00:57:04) - Microsoft Defender for Cloud Integrates with GitHub Advanced Security(01:00:09) - Azure introduces Smart Tiering for Blob Storage(01:06:29) - How to lay a fiber cable in your house(01:10:02) - Microsoft's AI Agent Development Announcement(01:16:21) - How to Manage Ideas in the AI World(01:22:18) - The Project Narrative in the Machine Learning Code(01:23:38) - Week in Cloud: The Cloud Pod

Welcome to episode 329 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy (and if you?re in California, rainy too!) Justin and Matt have taken a break from Ark building activities to bring you this week?s episode, packed with all the latest in cloud and AI news, including undersea cables (our favorite!) FinOps, Ignite predictions, and so much more! Grab your umbrellas and let?s get started!  Titles we almost went with this week Fastnet and Furious: AWS Lays 320 Terabits of Cable Across the Atlantic No More kubectl apply ?pray: AWS Backup Takes the Stress Out of EKS Recovery AWS Gets Swift with Lambda: No Taylor Version Required Breaking Up Is Hard to Do: Microsoft Splits Teams from Office FinOps and Behold: Google Automates Your Cloud Budget Nightmares AMD Turin Around GCP?s Price-Performance with N4D VMs Azure Gets Territorial: Your Data Stays Put Whether It Likes It or Not AWS Finally Answers ?Is It Available in My Region?? Before You Build It  Getting to the Bare Metal of Things: Google?s Axion Goes Commando Azure Ultra Disk Gets Ultra Serious About Latency Container Size Matters: Azure Expands ACI to 240 GB Memory  Google Containerises Chaos: Agent Sandbox Keeps Your AI from Going Rogue AWS Prints Money While Amazon Prints Pink Slips: Q3 Earnings Beat Follow Up 

02:08 Microsoft sidesteps hefty EU fine with Teams unbundling deal

Microsoft avoids a potentially substantial EU antitrust fine by agreeing to unbundle Teams from the Office 365 and Microsoft 365 suites for a period of seven years.  The settlement follows a 2023 complaint from Salesforce-owned Slack alleging anticompetitive bundling practices that harmed rival collaboration tools. The commitments require Microsoft to offer Office and Chapters (00:00:00) - The Cloud Pod: When You Can't Even Sit Down(00:01:37) - Nice Job Last Week With Jonathan and Elise(00:02:03) - Microsoft Settles Competition Lawsuit Over Teams(00:04:47) - Amazon, Google Cloud Deliver Record Earnings(00:08:13) - Microsoft Q1 Fiscal 2026 Earnings(00:09:06) - Azure Q4 Update, Microsoft(00:09:45) - Azure Front Door Incident Follow Up(00:13:53) - Azure Conference Prediction(00:14:52) - Microsoft Ignite 2017: What Do You Want From SSL?(00:16:28) - Microsoft's Next-Gen AI Accelerator(00:17:32) - Top Tech News: Apple's AI Announcement(00:19:12) - Microsoft's Azure DevOps Announcement, and More(00:20:59) - How Many Times Will They Say Co-Pilot in This Present(00:21:54) - Microsoft, Chat AI, and More(00:26:12) - IBM Cloud Ability Governance and Kubecast 3.0(00:28:06) - Amazon Rolls Out New Fastnet Cable(00:29:32) - AWS Cloud Planning Tool: Capabilities by Region(00:34:04) - Kubernetes: Agent Sandbox for AI(00:35:52) - Google's Ironwood TPU and Axion VM(00:37:38) - Google Cloud: FinOps Tooling in the Future(00:39:10) - Azure 3.8: Continuous Delivery & Cost Management(00:42:29) - Will the MCP help with deployment?(00:44:20) - Microsoft UltraDisk Gets Performance and Cost Update(00:46:46) - Azure Container Instances now supports 31 VCPUs and 240(00:48:04) - Azure 10.2: Geo Priority Replication(00:49:22) - Cloud Podcast: Predicting the Keynote

Welcome to episode 329 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Jonathan, and special guest Elise are in the studio to bring you all the latest in AI and cloud news, including ? you guessed it ? more outages, and more OpenAI team-ups. We?ve also got GPUs, K8 news, and Cursor updates. Let?s get started!  Titles we almost went with this week Azure Front Door: Please Use the Side Entrance ? el -jb Azure and NVIDIA: A Match Made in GPU Heaven ? mk Azure Goes Down Under the Weight of Its Own Configuration ? el GitHub Turns Your Copilot Subscription Into an All-You-Can-Eat Agent Buffet ? mk, el Microsoft Goes Full Blackwell: No Regrets, Just GPUs Jules Verne Would Be Proud: Google?s CLI Goes 20,000 Bugs Under the Codebase RAG to Riches: AWS Makes Retrieval Augmented Generation Turnkey Kubectl Gets a Gemini Twin: Google Teaches AI to Speak Kubernetes I?m Not a Robot: Azure WAF Finally Learns to Ask the Important Questions OpenAI Puts 38 Billion Eggs in Amazon?s Basket: Multi-Cloud Gets Complicated The Root Cause They?ll Never Root Out: Why Attrition Stays Off the RCA Google?s New Extension Lets You Deploy Kubernetes by Just Asking Nicely Cursor 2.0: Now With More Agents Than a Hollywood Talent Agency Follow Up 

04:46 Massive Azure outage is over, but problems linger ? here?s what happened | ZDNET 

Azure experienced a global outage on October 29, affecting all regions simultaneously, unlike the recent AWS outage that was limited to a single region.  The incident lasted approximately eight hours from noon to 8 PM ET, impacting major services including Microsoft 365, Teams, Xbox Live, and critical infrastructure for Alaska Airlines, Vodafone UK, and Heathrow Airport, among others. The root cause was an inadvertent tenant configuration change in Azure Front Door that bypassed safety validations due to a software defect. Microsoft?s protection mechanisms failed to catch the erroneous deployment, allowing invalid configurations to propagate across the global fleet and cause HTTP timeouts, server errors, and elevated packet loss at network edges. Recovery required rolling back to the last known good configuration and gradually rebalancing traffic across nodes to prevent overload conditions.  Some customers experienced lingering issues even after the official recovery time, with Microsoft temporarily blocking configuration changes to Azure Front Door while completing the restoration process. The incident highlights concentration risk in cloud infrastructure, as this marks the second major cloud provider outage in October 2025.  Despite Azure revenue growing 40 percent in the latest quarterly report, Microsoft?s stock declined in after-hours trading as the company acknowledged capaci... Chapters (00:00:00) - Azure Front Door(00:01:07) - Microsoft Azure's Front Door Outage: Update!(00:04:09) - Amazon AWS and OpenAI Announce Multi-Year Strategic Partnership(00:09:21) - OpenAI vs. Nvidia: Which One Will Win?(00:12:09) - Google removes Gemini AI models from AI Studio(00:20:40) - The New York Times' political model(00:21:35) - GitHub's Agent HQ: Orchestrating Multiple Agents with(00:25:53) - Cursor Launches Multi-Agent Interface with Composer(00:33:49) - Conversations with an AI(00:37:13) - Amazon.com Releases MCP Proxy for AWS(00:40:35) - Cloud Cost Management Tool(00:41:18) - ECS Now Supports Built-in Linear and Canary Deployments(00:44:27) - Amazon Route 53 Resolver now supports AWS Private Link(00:47:46) - Mount Points for S3(00:52:08) - Google Cloud's New Log Analytics Query Builder(00:54:40) - Google's Gemini CLI Adds Kubernetes to DevOps(00:58:13) - Google Launches Joules Extension for Gnome CLI(01:04:20) - Google Cloud: GA of Cost Anomaly Detection(01:09:07) - Microsoft and Nvidia expand AI partnership with Azure(01:11:23) - California data centers: How expensive is electricity?(01:13:02) - Microsoft: Azure Cloud: 1.2 Million Tokens a Second,(01:19:25) - Azure WAF: Capture Challenges for Bot Traffic(01:22:10) - Azure: Instant Access to Snapshots for SSD & Ultra Disk(01:27:47) - Week in Cloud: The Cloud Podcast

Welcome to episode 328 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Ryan, and Matt are on board today to bring you all the latest news in cloud and AI, including secret regions (this one has the aliens), ongoing discussions between Microsoft and OpenAI, and updates to Nova, SQL, and OneLake -and even the latest installment of Cloud Journeys.  Let?s get started!  Titles we almost went with this week CloudWatch?s New Feature: Because Nobody Likes Writing Incident Reports at 3 AM DNS: Did Not Survive ? The Great US-EAST-1 Outage of 2025 404 DevOps Not Found: The AWS Automation Adventure mk When Your DevOps Team Gets Replaced by AI and Then Everything Crashes Database Migrations Get the ChatGPT Treatment: Just Vibe Your Schema Changes AWS DevOps Team Gets the AI Treatment: 40% Fewer Humans, 100% More Questions Breaking Up is Hard to Compute: Microsoft and OpenAI Redefine Their Relationship AWS Goes Full Scope: Now Tracking Your Cloud?s Carbon from Cradle to Gate Platform Engineering: When Your Golden Path Leads to a Dead End DynamoDB?s DNS Disaster: How a Race Condition Raced Through AWS AI Takes Over AWS DevOps Jobs, Servers Take Unscheduled Vacation PostgreSQL Scaling Gets a 30-Second Makeover While AWS Takes a Coffee Break The Domino Effect: When DynamoDB Drops, Everything Drops RAG to Riches: Amazon Nova Learns to Cite Its Sources AWS Finally Tells You When Your EC2 Instance Can?t Keep Up With Your Storage Ambitions AWS Nova Gets Grounded: No More Hallucinating About Reality One API to Rule Them All: OneLake?s Storage Compatibility Play OpenAI gets to pay Alimony Database schema deployments are totally a vibe AWS will tell you how not green you are today, now in 3 scopes General News 

02:00 DDoS in September | Fastly

Fastly?s September DDoS report reveals a notable 15.5 million requests per second attack that lasted over an hour, demonstrating how modern application-layer attacks can sustain extreme throughput with real HTTP requests rather than simple pings or amplification techniques. Attack volume in September dropped to 61% of August levels, with data suggesting a correlation between school schedules and attack frequency: lower volumes coincide with school breaks, while higher volumes occur when schools are in session. Media & Entertainment companies faced the highest median attack sizes, followed by Education and High Technology sectors, with 71% of September?s peak attack day attributed to a single enterprise media company. The sustained 15 million RPS attack originated from a single cloud-provider ASN, using sophisticated daemons that mimicked browser behavior, making detection more challenging than typical DDoS patterns. Organizations should evaluate whether their incident response runbooks can handle hour-long attacks at 15+ million RPS, as these sustained high-throughput attacks require automated mitigation rather than manual intervention. Listen, we?re not inviting a DDoS attack, but also?we?ll just turn off the website, so there?s that.  AI Is Going Great ? Or How ML Makes Money

04:41 Google AI Studio updates: More control, less friction

Google AI Studio introduces ?vibe coding? ? a new AI-powered develo... Chapters (00:00:00) - AWS vs. Azure: When Will Both Companies Have Outages(00:02:07) - DDoS Attacks Rise in September(00:04:43) - Google AI Studio Introduces Vibe Coding(00:09:20) - OpenAI's Company Knowledge for Chat GPT(00:13:59) - Microsoft and OpenAI Strike a New Deal(00:17:19) - Amazon Nova: General Availability of WebGrounding(00:18:58) - Athena Health Reporting's AI-Powered Database Migration Author(00:20:56) - Amazon Reportedly Replaces 40% of DevOps Staff With AI(00:23:58) - Amazon's DynamoDB Outage(00:28:11) - CloudWatch: Automated Incident Reporting with Scope 3(00:33:24) - Amazon's Secret West Region(00:39:31) - EC2: EBS IOPS exceeded and Volume level(00:42:52) - Google Cloud Parameter Manager(00:46:37) - Azure Key Vault vs AWS SSM: Feature Flag Management(00:48:32) - Citadel Cross-Site Interconnect with Google Cloud Platform(00:51:52) - BigTable Storage: Limited-Access Storage in Preview(00:54:38) - Google Cloud: 4x Max Nvidia NVL70 Instance(00:56:58) - Nvidia GB300 Envel 72 Instances(00:58:35) - Azure databases for PostgreSQL now with High Availability ( HA)(01:00:11) - OneLake + Fabric: What Could Go Wrong?(01:01:40) - 8 Platform Engineering Anti-Patterns(01:05:01) - The Second Anti-Pattern: Lack of Product Mindset(01:08:02) - 2. Give the team some ownership of the platform(01:11:56) - Building a Successful Platform: Tracking the Wrong Metrics(01:13:34) - Don't Copy the Kubernetes Platform(01:16:08) - 7 Pitfalls of Over Engineering on Day 1(01:19:14) - Platform Engineering: The Product Management Process(01:20:59) - This Week in the Cloud: Platform Engineering(01:21:41) - Next Week In The Cloud: Trip to the Bay

Welcome to episode 327 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Matt, and Ryan are here to bring you all the latest news (and a few rants) in the worlds of Cloud and AI. I?m sure all our readers are aware of the AWS outage last week, as it was in all the news everywhere. But we?ve also got some new AI models (including Sora in case you?re low on really crappy videos the youths might like), plus EKS, Kubernetes, Vertex AI, and more. Let?s get started!  Titles we almost went with this week Oracle and Azure Walk Into a Cloud Bar: Nobody Gets ETL?d When DNS Goes Down, So Does Your Monday: AWS Takes Half the Internet on a Coffee Break 404 Cloud Not Found: AWS Proves Even the Internet?s Phone Book Can Get Lost DNS: Definitely Not Staffed ? How AWS Lost Its Way When It Lost Its People When Larry Met Satya: A Cloud Love Story Azure Finally Answers ?Dude, Where?s My Data?? with Storage Discovery Breaking: Microsoft Discovers AI Training Uses More Power Than a Small Country 404 Engineers Not Found ? AWS Learns the Hard Way That People Are Its Most Critical Infrastructure Azure Storage Discovery: Finding Your Data Needles in the Cloud Haystack EKS Auto Mode: Because Even Your Clusters Deserve Cruise Control Azure Gets Reel: Microsoft Adds Video Generation to AI Foundry The Great Token Heist: Vertex AI Steals 90% Off Your Gemini Bills Cache Me If You Can: Vertex AI?s Token-Saving Feature IaC Just Got a Manager ? And It?s Not Your Boss  From Musk to Microsoft: Grok 4 Makes the Great Cloud Migration No Harness.. You are not going to make IACM happen Microsoft Drafts a Solution to Container Creation Chaos PowerShell to the People: Azure Simplifies the Great Gateway Migration IP There Yet? Azure?s Scripts Keep Your Address While You Upgrade Follow Up

00:53 Glacier Deprecation Email

Standalone Amazon Glacier service (vault-based with separate APIs) will stop accepting new customers as of December 15, 2025.  S3 Glacier storage classes (Instant Retrieval, Flexible Retrieval, Deep Archive) are completely unaffected and continue normally Existing Glacier customers can keep using it forever ? no forced migration required.  AWS is essentially consolidating around S3 as the unified storage platform, rather than maintaining two separate archival services. The standalone service will enter maintenance mode, meaning there will be no new features, but the service will remain operational. Migration to S3 Glacier is optional but recommended for better integration, lower costs, and more features. (Justin assures us it is actually slightly cheaper, so there?s that.)  General News 

02:24

Chapters (00:00:00) - Azure vs. GCP(00:00:59) - Amazon's Glacier Storage Deprecation, and More(00:02:33) - Big IP Software Breach: Worrisome(00:04:56) - Claude Code Gets a Web Version(00:11:45) - Infrastructure as Code Management: Annoying Sales Pitch(00:14:26) - AWS: US East 1 Outage Causes Chaos(00:23:17) - EC2 Capacity Manager(00:25:39) - EC2 Auto-Mode for Kubernetes 1.29(00:28:44) - Amazon. EC2: CPU Optimization for License Included Instances(00:30:55) - AWS Systems Manager Patch Manager: Improved Security Protection(00:35:14) - Amazon ECS CLI Agent Orchestrator(00:40:37) - Google Cloud: BigQuery Update, New GPUs(00:46:11) - Google Cloud: Management of Suences in Vertex & AI SDK(00:47:58) - Gemini Code Assist on GitHub Enterprise(00:52:09) - Vertex AI Context Caching(00:54:25) - Cloud Armor Announces New Features(00:57:05) - Microsoft Firewall: New Capacity Metric(00:59:55) - Microsoft's Azure API Management introduces carbon aware features(01:04:14) - Azure Storage Discovery(01:07:45) - Two new AI models available in Azure AI Foundry(01:08:54) - Azure: Application Gateway V1 to V2 Migration Scripts(01:12:43) - Oracle's AI Agent Studio Expands(01:14:05) - Week in the Cloud

Welcome to episode 326 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin and Ryan are your guides to all things cloud and AI this week! We?ve got news from SonicWall (and it?s not great), a host of goodbyes to say over at AWS, Oracle (finally) joins the dark side, and even Slurm ? and you don?t even need to ride on a creepy river to experience it. Let?s get started!  Titles we almost went with this week SonicWall?s Cloud Backup Service: From 5% to Oh No, That?s Everyone AWS Spring Cleaning: 19 Services Get the Boot The Great AWS Service Purge of 2025 Maintenance Mode: Where Good Services Go to Die GitHub Gets Assimilated: Resistance to Azure Migration is Futile Salesforce to Ransomware Gang: You Can?t Always Get What You Want Kansas City Gets the Need for Speed with 100G Direct Connect. Peter, what are you up too Gemini Takes the Wheel: Google?s AI Learns to Click and Type  Oracle Discovers the Dark Side (Finally Has Cookies) Azure Goes Full Blackwell: 4,600 Reasons to Upgrade Your GPU Game DataStax to the Future: AWS Hires Database CEO for Security Role The Clone Wars: EBS Strikes Back with Instant Volume Copies Slurm Dunk: AWS Brings HPC Scheduling to Kubernetes The Great Cluster Convergence: When Slurm Met EKS Codex sent me a DM that I?ll ignore too on Slack General News 

01:24 SonicWall: Firewall configs stolen for all cloud backup customers

SonicWall confirmed that all customers using their cloud backup service had firewall configuration files exposed in a breach, expanding from their initial estimate of 5% to 100% of cloud backup users. That?s a big difference? The exposed backup files contain AES-256-encrypted credentials and configuration data, which could include MFA seeds for TOTP authentication, potentially explaining recent Akira ransomware attacks that bypassed MFA. SonicWall requires affected customers to reset all credentials, including local user passwords, TOTP codes, VPN shared secrets, API keys, and authentication tokens across their entire infrastructure. This incident highlights a fundamental security risk of cloud-based configuration backups where sensitive credentials are stored centrally, making them attractive targets for attackers. The breach demonstrates why WebAuthn/passkeys offer superior security architecture since they don?t rely on shared secrets that can be stolen from backups or servers. Interested in checking out their detailed remediation guidance? Find that here. 

02:36 Justin ? ?You know, providing your own encryption keys is also good; not allowing your SaaS vendor to have the encryption key is a positive thing to do. There?s all kinds of ways to protect your data in the cloud when you?re leveraging a SaaS service.?

04:43 Take this rob and shove it! Salesforce issues stern retort to ransomware extort

Salesforce is refusing to pay ransomware demands from criminals claiming to have stolen nearly 1 billion customer records, stating they will not engage, negotiate with, or pay any extortion dema... Chapters (00:00:00) - Cloud Pod: Oracle Explains The Dark Side(00:01:31) - Cloud Security: Sonicwall Hacking(00:04:44) - Salesforce Rejects Ransomware Demand(00:07:04) - OpenAI's AI Agent Kit and More(00:10:10) - Google's Gemini 2.5 for UIs(00:12:20) - Amazon Is Moving 19 AWS Services to Maintenance Mode(00:16:30) - AWS Direct Connect now offers 100 Gigabytes dedicated connections with Mac(00:17:37) - AWS Identity Center now supports customer-managed KMS Keys(00:18:56) - Amazon QuickSuite M8A New Instance Launch(00:22:31) - Amazon Hires Former Data Stack CEO as VP of Security Services and(00:26:43) - Amazon Bedrock Agent Core(00:28:35) - AWS Transports AI Inference to Custom Chips(00:30:07) - Amazon EBS Volume Clones(00:31:45) - Amazon EKS Adds Slurm to Kubernetes(00:32:48) - GCP Introduces Gemini Enterprise as a Unified AI Platform(00:35:44) - Google's LLM Eval Kit for Prompt Engineering(00:37:57) - Google Cloud : NetApp Files for Enterprise Storage(00:40:43) - GitHub to Move All Its Software to Azure(00:45:17) - Microsoft Deploys First Production Cluster with Nvidia GB300 GPUs(00:48:31) - Oracle's Dark Mode in Oci

Welcome to episode 325 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin is on vacation this week, so it?s up to Ryan and Matthew to bring you all the latest news in cloud and AI, and they definitely deliver! This week we have an AWS invoice undo button, Sora 2, and quite a bit of news DigitalOcean ? plus so much more. Let?s get started!  Titles we almost went with this week AWS Shoots for the Cloud with NBA Partnership Nothing But Net: AWS Scores Big with Basketball AI Deal From Courtside to Cloud-side: AWS Dunks on Sports Analytics PostgreSQL Gets a Gemini Twin for Natural Language Queries Fuzzy Logic: When Your Database Finally Speaks Your Language CLI and Let AI: Google?s Natural Language Database Assistant Satya?s Org Chart Shuffle: Now with More AI Synergy Microsoft Reorgs Again: This Time It?s Personal (and Commercial) Ctrl+Alt+Delete: Microsoft Reboots Its Sales Machine Sora 2: The Sequel Nobody Asked For But Everyone Will Use OpenAI Puts the ?You? in YouTube (AI Edition) Sam Altman Stars in His Own AI-Generated Reality Show Grok and Roll: Microsoft?s New AI Model Rocks Azure To Grok or Not to Grok: That is the Question Grok Around the Clock: Azure?s 24/7 Reasoning Machine Spark Joy: Google Lights Up ML Inference for Data Pipelines DigitalOcean?s Storage Trinity: Hot, Cold, and Backed Up NFS: Not For Suckers (Network File Storage) The Goldilocks Storage Strategy: Not Too Hot, Not Too Cold, Just Right NAT Gonna Cost You: DigitalOcean?s Gateway to Savings BYOIP: Bring Your Own IP (But Leave Your Billing Worries Behind) The Great Invoice Escape: No More Support Tickets Required Ctrl+Z for Your AWS Bills: The Undo Button Finance Teams Needed Image Builder Finally Learns When to Stop Trying Pipeline Dreams: Now With Built-in Reality Checks EC2 Image Builder Gets a Failure Intervention Feature MCP: Model Context Protocol or Marvel Cinematic Protocol? AI is Going Great ? Or How ML Makes Money 

00:45 OpenAI?s Sora 2 lets users insert themselves into AI videos with sound ? Ars Technica

OpenAI?s Sora 2 introduces synchronized audio generation alongside video synthesis, matching Google?s Veo 3 and Alibaba?s Wan 2.5 capabilities.  This positions OpenAI competitively in the multimodal AI space with what they call their ?GPT-3.5 moment for video.? The new iOS social app feature allows users to insert themselves into AI-generated videos through ?cameos,? suggesting potential applications for personalized content creation and social media integration at scale. Sora 2 demonstrates improved physical accuracy and consistency across multiple shots, addressing previous limitations where objects would teleport or deform unrealistically.  The model can now simulate complex movements like gymnastics routines while maintaining proper physics. The addition of ?sophisticated background soundscapes, speech, and sound effects? expands potential enterprise use cases for automated video production, training materials, and marketing content generation without separate audio post-processing. Chapters (00:00:00) - GCP 325(00:00:54) - OpenAI Sora 2: Creators of AI Videos(00:03:31) - Joules: New Tools and APIs for Developers(00:05:18) - OpenAI Doubles Down on Chip Diversity with AMD(00:07:52) - NBA Launches 'Inside the Game' Powered by AWS(00:14:27) - EC2 Image Builder Update(00:18:13) - AWS releases Open Source MCP Server for Amazon Bedrock Agent(00:22:57) - AWS Knowledge Based MCP Server(00:27:27) - AWS Service Quotations: Automatic Management(00:30:31) - Amazon RDS for DB2 Launches Native Database Backups(00:32:36) - GCP.com: Gemini CLI for PostgreSQL(00:37:34) - Google Announces $4 Billion Investment in Arkansas(00:42:06) - Microsoft Restructuring its Azure Commercial Organization(00:44:58) - Microsoft Bringing Xai Grok 4 to Azure AI Foundry(00:47:24) - Microsoft to Allow Personal Copilot in Corporate Environments(00:51:07) - Fabric Mirroring for Azure SQL Managed Instances(00:54:28) - Microsoft Firewall Update 1.8(00:56:32) - DigitalOcean: AI Storage, NFS, and More(00:59:58) - DigitalOcean Build smarter Agents with OpenAI and VPC(01:02:07) - DigitalOcean Brings Per Second Charges to Droplet Plans(01:04:40) - per second billing for Windows at DigitalOcean(01:06:15) - Snowflake Managed MCP Servers for Secure Governed Data(01:11:51) - Week in the Cloud: September 7, 2017

Welcome to episode 323 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Matt and Ryan are in the studio tonight to bring you all the latest in cloud and AI news! This week we have a close call from Entra, some DeepSeek news, Firestore, and even an acquisition! Make sure to stay tuned for the aftershow ? and Matt obviously falling asleep on the job. Let?s get started!  Titles we almost went with this week When One Key Opens Every Door: Microsoft?s Close Call with Cloud Catastrophe Bedrock Goes Qwen-tum: Alibaba?s Models Join the AWS Party DeepSeek and You Shall Find V3.1 in Bedrock GPUs of Unusual Size? I Don?t Think They Exist (Narrator: They Do) Kubernetes Without the Kubernightmares Firestore and Forget: AI Takes the Wheel SCPs Get Their Full License: IAM Language Edition Do What I Meant, Not What I Prompted Atlassian Pays a Billion to DX the Developer Experience Entra at Your Own Risk: The Azure Identity Crisis That Almost Was Oracle Intelligence: The AI Nobody Asked For Wisconsin Gets Cheesy with AI: Microsoft?s Dairy State Datacenter  Azure Opens the Data Floodgates (But Only in Europe) PostgreSQL Gets a Security Blanket and Won?t Share Its TEEs Microsoft?s New Cooling System Has Veins Like a Leaf and Runs Hotter Than Your Gaming PC Azure Gets Cold Feet About Hot Chips, Decides to Go With the Flow AI Is Going Great ? Or How ML Makes Money 

00:58 Google and Kaggle launch AI Agents Intensive course

Google and Kaggle are launching a 5-day intensive course on AI agents from November 10-14.  This follows their GenAI course that attracted 280,000 learners, with curriculum covering agent architectures, tools, memory systems, and production deployment. The course focuses on building autonomous AI agents and multi-agent systems, which represents a shift from traditional single-model AI to systems that can independently perform tasks, make decisions, and interact with tools and APIs. This development signals growing enterprise interest in AI agents for cloud environments, where autonomous systems can manage infrastructure, optimize resources, and handle complex workflows without constant human intervention. The hands-on approach includes codelabs and a capstone project, indicating Google?s push to democratize agent development skills as businesses increasingly need engineers who can build production-ready autonomous systems. The timing aligns with major cloud providers racing to offer agent-based services, as AI agents become essential for automating cloud operations, customer service, and business processes at scale. Interested in registering? You can do that here.  Cloud Tools 

03:21 Atlassian acquires DX, a developer productivity platform, for $1B

Atlassian is acquiring DX, a developer productivity ana... Chapters (00:00:00) - Cloud Podcast: Databricks 1(00:01:11) - Google and Kegel Launch Five Day Training Course on AI Agents(00:03:34) - Atlasian Buys DX: Will It Hurt Their Business?(00:07:03) - Amazon Web Services: New Models for DeepSeek and DeepSe(00:08:42) - Amazon RDS: MySQL Innovation Release 9.4 in Database Preview(00:14:12) - QDeveloper CLI Adds Remote MCPs(00:15:56) - Amazon Nova Act Extension(00:18:08) - Google Cloud: Security Command Center Insights for Kubernetes(00:20:42) - Google's Firestore: MCP for AI Systems(00:22:59) - AI Adoption Among Software Developers Hits 90%, Says Google(00:24:00) - AI: Return on Investment?(00:31:05) - Microsoft's Entra ID Vulnerabilities(00:36:37) - Microsoft Unveils $100 Million AI Data Center(00:40:31) - Azure SQL Server 2020: Managed Instance(00:43:20) - AKS Automatic for Kubernetes + Azure Cloud(00:45:49) - Databricks 1.4(00:47:11) - Microsoft's HPC Infrastructure: HBV5 Series VMs(00:52:08) - NET (for Mobile, Desktop, and More)(00:53:12) - Azure Monitor Kubernetes: Higher throughput & more(00:54:56) - Microsoft SQL: Integrations with Grafana(01:01:59) - Microsoft Expands Fabric with New Features and Collaboration(01:05:21) - Azure Application Gateway: zero downtime upgrade capability(01:07:28) - Oracle's AI Strategy: Setting the Standard(01:10:42) - Week in Cloud: Exploring the Cloud(01:11:26) - The Need for Prompt Engineering in Cloud Software(01:18:28) - Image Generation with Google GPT5(01:22:04) - A Week in the Life

Welcome to episode 324 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Ryan, and Jonathan are your hosts, bringing you all the latest news and announcements in Cloud and AI. This week we have some exec changes over at Oracle, a LOT of announcements about Sonnet 4.5, and even some marketplace updates over at Azure! Let?s get started.  Titles we almost went with this week Oracle?s Executive Shuffle: Promoting from Within While Chasing from Behind Copilot Takes the Wheel on Your Legacy Code Highway Queue Up for GPUs: Google?s Take-a-Number Approach to AI Computing License to Bill: Google?s 400% Markup Grievance Autopilot Engages: GKE Goes Full Self-Driving Mode SQL Server Finally Gets a Lake House Instead of a Server Room Microsoft Gives Office Apps Their Own AI Interns Claude and Present Danger: The AI That Codes for 30 Hours Straight The Claude Father Part 4.5: An Offer Your Code Can?t Refuse CUD You Believe It? Google Makes Discounts Actually Flexible ECS Goes Full IPv6: No IPv4s Given Breaking News: AWS Finally Lets You Hit the Emergency Stop Button One Marketplace to Rule Them All BigQuery Gets a Crystal Ball and a Chatty Friend Azure?s September to Remember: When Certificates and Allocators Attack Shall I Compare Thee to a Sonnet? 4.5 Ways Anthropic Just Leveled Up AWS provides a big red button Follow Up 

01:26 The global harms of restrictive cloud licensing, one year later | Google Cloud Blog

Google Cloud filed a formal complaint with the European Commission one year ago about Microsoft?s anti-competitive cloud licensing practices, specifically the 400% price markup Microsoft imposes on customers who move Windows Server workloads to non-Azure clouds. The UK Competition and Markets Authority found that restrictive licensing costs UK cloud customers £500 million annually due to lack of competition, while US government agencies overspend by $750 million yearly because of Microsoft?s licensing tactics. Microsoft recently disclosed that forcing software customers to use Azure is one of three pillars driving its growth and is implementing new licensing changes preventing managed service providers from hosting certain workloads on Azure competitors. Multiple regulators globally including South Africa and the US FTC are now investigating Microsoft?s cloud licensing practices, with the CMA finding that Azure has gained customers at 2-3x the rate of competitors since implementing restrictive terms. A European Centre for International Political Economy study suggests ending restrictive licensing could unlock ?1.2 trillion in additional EU GDP by 2030 and generate ?450 billion annually in fiscal savings and productivity gains.

03:32 Jonathan ? ?I?d feel happier about these complaints Google were making if they actually reciprocated the deals they make for their customers in the...

Chapters (00:00:00) - GCP Alumni(00:01:35) - Microsoft's Cloud Licensing Practices(00:05:22) - Microsoft introduces Office Agent in Copilot Chat(00:08:13) - Claude Sonet 4.5 Launches(00:09:33) - Claude 4.5 New Feature Announcement(00:15:12) - Bill Gates on ChatGPT and Bots(00:16:10) - Snowflake, Cloud Sonnet 4.5, and SQL Server(00:17:39) - Amazon EC2, ECS now supporting IPv6 Only workloads(00:20:23) - Amazon Machine Image Governance (New Parameter)(00:25:42) - Easy to Auto-Scalping (New Feature)(00:29:23) - Amazon EC2: Managed Serverless Instances(00:33:28) - AWS Outposts: Third-Party Storage Integration(00:36:45) - Google's Flex Start VMS for AI & GKE Autop(00:41:48) - Google Launches Cloud SQL, BigQuery Extensions(00:45:11) - BigQuery and Google Analytics: AI Data Analysis & Forecast(00:47:02) - Microsoft Azure Migrate and Modernize: Cloud Code vs. Microsoft(00:53:22) - Microsoft's Azure Marketplace Unifying with AppSource(00:56:06) - Azure Compute Gallery: Soft Delete(00:57:49) - Microsoft Azure Outages: Lessons Learned(01:03:32) - Week in Cloud: A Week of Consistency

Welcome to episode 322 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! We have BIG NEWS ? Jonathan is back! He?s joined in the studio by Justin and Ryan to bring you all the latest in cloud and AI news, including ongoing drama in the Microsoft/OpenAI drama, saying goodbye to data transfer fees (in the EU), M4 Power, and more. Let?s get started!   Titles we almost went with this week EU Later, Egress Fees: Google?s Brexit from Data Transfer Charges The Keys to the Cosmos: Azure Unlocks Customer Control Breaking Up is Hard to Do: Google Splits LLM Inference for Better Performance OpenAI and Microsoft: From Exclusive to It?s Complicated  Google?s New Model Has Trust Issues (And That?s a Good Thing) Mac to the Future: AWS Brings M4 Power to the Cloud Oracle?s Cloud Nine: Stock Soars on Half-Trillion Dollar Dreams ChatGPT: From Chat Bot to Hat Bot (Everyone?s Wearing Different Professional Hats) Five Billion Reasons to Love British AI NVMe Gonna Give You Up: AWS Delivers the Storage Metrics You?ve Been Missing Tea and AI: OpenAI Crosses the Pond The Norway Bug Strikes Back: A New YAML Hope

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01:33 Microsoft and OpenAI make a deal: Reading between the lines of their secretive new agreement ? GeekWire

Microsoft and OpenAI have signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding that will restructure their partnership, with OpenAI?s nonprofit entity receiving an equity stake exceeding $100 billion in a new public benefit corporation where Microsoft will play a major role. The deal addresses the AGI clause that previously allowed OpenAI to unilaterally dissolve the partnership upon achieving artificial general intelligence, which had been a significant risk for Microsoft?s multi-billion-dollar investment. Both companies are diversifying their partnerships ? Microsoft is now using Anthropic?s technology for some Office 365 AI features, while OpenAI has signed a $300 billion computing contract with Oracle over five years. Microsoft?s exclusivity on OpenAI cloud workloads has been replaced with a right of first refusal, enabling OpenAI to participate in the $500 billion Stargate AI project with Oracle and other partners. The restructuring allows OpenAI to raise capital for its mission while ensuring the nonprofit?s resources grow proportionally, with plans to use funds for community impact, including a recently launched $50 million grant program.

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OpenAI and Microsoft sign preliminary deal to revise partnership terms ? 

Chapters (00:00:00) - The Cloud Pod(00:00:34) - Microsoft and OpenAI Restructuring(00:06:55) - OpenAI's ChatGPT 5.0 Update(00:12:33) - ChatGPT: How People Are Using the Technology(00:16:33) - OpenAI's Stargate UK Announcement(00:18:24) - LocalStack for Mac: New Instances Launch(00:25:06) - Amazon EC2: More NVME Performance Metrics with EFA(00:26:43) - AWS Launches R8GN(00:28:20) - AWS CDK Preview: Refactoring with Cloudformation(00:29:59) - Amazon CloudTrail: AI Security Analysis with a McP Server(00:33:44) - Amazon Web Services: Cloud Commitment Insurance(00:35:37) - Google Cloud Launches Multi-Cloud Data Transfer Essentials(00:40:13) - Kubernetes 1.34(00:44:17) - Google Cloud introduces new recipe for disaggregated AI Inferance(00:46:47) - Google's Data Science Agent Now Generates Code for BigQuery,(00:49:09) - Google Cloud Launches DNS Armor to Detect Cyberthreats(00:52:02) - Google's Agent Payments Protocol (AP2)(00:54:32) - Google Cloud: Alloy DB on C4(00:56:42) - Google Cloud Trace now supports Open telemetry protocol (OTEL)(01:00:19) - Google's New 'Practical Guide to Data Science'(01:02:26) - Vault Gemma: The First Large Language Model with Privacy(01:06:05) - Customer Managed Keys(01:12:39) - Azure Logic Apps: Model Context Protocol Server (MCP)(01:14:46) - Microsoft's Kubernetes Storage v2(01:16:46) - Microsoft Fabric and AI Foundry: New Features, New Features(01:18:50) - Oracle Stock Jumping On Cloud Revenue Forecast(01:22:40) - Week in the Cloud: September 7, 2017

The Cloud Pod is in Tears Trying to Understand Azure Tiers    Welcome to episode 321 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Ryan, and Matt are all on hand to bring you the latest in cloud and AI news, including increased metrics data (because who doesn?t love more data), some issues over at Cloudflare, and even bigger issues at Builder.ai  ? plus so much more. Let?s get started!  Titles we almost went with this week Lost in Translation: Google Helps IPv6 Find Its Way to IPv4 BigQuery?s Soft Landing for Hard Problems CloudWatch Gets a Two-Week Memory Upgrade VM Glow-Up: From Gen1 Zero to Gen2 Hero Azure Gets Contextual: API Management Learns to Speak AI The Cloud Pod: Now Broadcasting from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea LoRA LoRA on the Wall, Who?s the Finest Model of Them All Azure Says MFA or the Highway for Resource Management Two-Factor or Two-Furious: Azure?s Security Ultimatum Agent 007: License to Build CUD You Believe It? Google?s Discounts Get More Flexible WAF?s New Deal: Free Logs with Every Million Requests Served SOC It To Me: Google?s AI Security Workshop Tour MFA mandatory in Azure, now you too can hate/hate MS Authenticator AWS AMIs no longer the Tribbles of cloud computing ECS Exec; Justin?s prediction from 2018 finally comes true General News

00:56 FinOps Weekly Summit 2025

Victor Garcia reached out and asked us to share the news about the FinOps Weekly Summit coming up on October 23rd, 2025.  A lot of great speakers; if you?re in the FinOps space, we recommend it.  Want to register? You can do that here. 

01:53 Ignite Registration Opens 

San Francisco, Moscone Center November 18?21, 2025 Need to convince your manager to pay for you to go? Find that letter here. 

02:45 Addressing the unauthorized issuance of multiple TLS certificates for 1.1.1.1

Some issues over at Cloudflare recently? Fina CA issued 12 unauthorized TLS certificates for Cloudflare?s 1.1.1.1 DNS resolver IP address between February 2024 and August 2025, violating domain control validation requirements and potentially allowing man-in-the-middle attacks on DNS-over-TLS and DNS-over-HTTPS connections. The incident highlights vulnerabilities in the Certificate Authority trust model where any trusted CA can issue certificates for any domain or IP without proper validation, though exploitation would require the attacker to have the private key, intercept traffic, and target clients that trust Fina CA (primarily Microsoft systems). Cloudflare failed to detect these certificates for months despite operating its own Certificate Transparency monitoring service because its system wasn?t configured to alert on IP address certificates rather than domain names, exposing gaps in its internal security monitoring. The certificates have been Chapters (00:00:00) - The Cloud Pod: Trying to Understand Azure tiers(00:01:04) - Two Up! Finops Weekly Summit and Ignite(00:02:56) - Cloudflare: Certificate Transparency is Critical Infrastructure(00:06:08) - AI is How ML Makes Money(00:08:44) - Visual Studio: August Update to Copilot(00:11:16) - Amazon.com: Regions and Zones in AWS Global View(00:14:19) - CloudWatch Metrics Insights: Extended to 3 Hours(00:16:19) - CloudWatch: Single Monitoring Alarms for Dynamic Resource Fleets(00:17:32) - AWS User Notifications now support centralized notification management across multi-(00:19:46) - ECS: Monitoring AMI usage with Cloud Shell(00:23:39) - AWS Terraform: Five Year Old Code(00:25:14) - AWS IAM: Network Parameter Controls for VPCs(00:27:56) - AWS WAF now provides 500 MB of free CloudWatch log(00:31:00) - WASP Config: Resource Tag Tracking for IAM Policies(00:33:01) - GCP: DNS64 and NAT64 for IPv6(00:34:28) - BigQuery Data Storage: Soft Failover(00:35:58) - Google Expands Cloud CUDs to Include HANA, Cloud(00:39:04) - Google Cloud Launches Society Operations Center Workshop(00:40:13) - Google Data Proc now supports multi-tenant cluster(00:41:37) - Google's Official Rust SDK(00:43:22) - Microsoft Azure: Upgrade to Gen2 with Trustful Launch enabled(00:45:34) - Azure API Management: New Features and Native Auto-Scaling(00:46:37) - Microsoft Launches GPT Real Time on Azure AI Foundry(00:50:47) - Azure AI Foundry(00:53:23) - Week in Cloud: September 7, 2018

Welcome to episode 320 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Matt, and Ryan are coming to you from Justin?s echo chamber and bringing all the latest in AI and Cloud news, including updates to Google?s Anti-trust case, AWS Cost MCP, new regions, updates to EKS, Veo, and Claude, and more! Let?s get into it.  Titles we almost went with this week: Breaking Bad Bottlenecks: AWS  Cooks Up Faster Container Pulls The Bucket List: Finding Your Lost Storage Dollars State of Denial: Terraform Finally Stops Saving Your Passwords Three Stages of Azure Grief: Development, Preview, and Launch Ground Control to Major Cloud: Microsoft Launches Planetary Computer Pro Veo Vidi Vici: Google Conquers Video Editing Red Alert: AWS Makes Production Accounts Actually Look Dangerous Amazon EKS Discovers the F5 Key  Chaos Theory Meets ChatGPT: When Your Reliability Data Gets an AI Therapist Breaking Bad (Services): How AI Helps You Find What?s Already   Broken Breaking Up is Hard to Cloud: Gemini Moves Back In Intel Inside Your Secrets: TDX Takes Over Google Cloud Lord of the Regions: The Return of the Kiwi  All Blacks and All Stacks: AWS Goes Full Kiwi Azure Forecast: 100% Chance of Budget Alert Storms Google Keeps Its Cloud Together: A $2.5T Near Miss Shell We Dance? AWS Makes CLI Scripting Less Painful AWS Finally Admits Nobody Remembers All Those CLI Commands Cache Me If You Claude Your AWS Console gets its Colors, just don?t choose red shirts Amazon Q walks into a bar, Tells MCP to order it a beer.. The Bartender sighs and mutters ?at least chatgpt just hallucinates its beer? Ryan?s shitty scripts now as a AWS CLI Library

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00:57 Google Dodges A 2.5t Breakup

We have breaking news ? and it?s good news for Google.  Google successfully avoided a potential $2.5 trillion breakup following antitrust proceedings, maintaining its current corporate structure despite regulatory pressure. The decision represents a significant outcome for Big Tech antitrust cases, potentially setting a precedent for how regulators approach market dominance issues in the cloud and technology sectors. Cloud customers and partners can expect business continuity with Google Cloud Platform services, avoiding potential disruptions that could have resulted from a corporate restructuring. The ruling may influence how other major cloud providers structure their businesses and approach regulatory compliance, particularly around bundling services and market competition. Enterprise customers relying on Google?s integrated ecosystem of cloud, advertising, and productivity tools can continue their current architectures without concerns about service separation. You just KNOW Microsoft is super mad about this.  AI Is Going Great ? Or How ML Makes Money 

02:16 Introducing GPT-Realtime

OpenAI?s Chapters (00:00:07) - Cloud Pod: Azure vs GCP(00:01:01) - Google Stops Exploring a Breakup(00:03:49) - Terraform Cloud Provider 7.0 in general availability(00:06:13) - How to Query Gremlin's LLM with Chaos Engineering Data(00:08:32) - Amazon EKS: Parallel Polls for AI & Windows(00:15:52) - Amazon.com: Terraform Deployment for SFTP Connectors(00:19:11) - Amazon Q Developer Adds Central Admin Control for MCP Servers(00:21:04) - AWS i8ge and M8i Flex Instances(00:24:55) - Amazon M7i Flex Instances: Best Cloud Instances(00:27:53) - Wales: New AWS Region Launches in New Zealand(00:32:56) - Google Cloud: New Features and No Cost Option for Videos(00:37:11) - GKE Container Optimized Compute(00:38:42) - Intel TDX for Confidential Computing with Google(00:40:17) - GCP EventArc Advanced is Now Generally Available(00:42:31) - Azure AI Foundry: Comprehensive agent observability capabilities(00:46:59) - Microsoft's Planetary Computer Pro: An All-in-One for(00:50:56) - Microsoft's Migration From MOSP to Microsoft Accounts Causes False Budget Alert(00:52:49) - Microsoft to Make UltraDs More Affordable in Multiple Regions(00:54:00) - The Business Talk Podcast(00:55:00) - Week in Cloud: Exploring the Cloud

Welcome to episode 319 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Matt, and Ryan are in the studio to bring you all the latest in cloud and AI news. AWS Cost MCP makes exploring your finops data as simple as english text. We?ve got a sunnier view for junior devs, a Microsoft open source development, tokens, and it?s even Kubernetes? birthday ? let?s get into it!  Titles we almost went with this week: From Linux Hater to Open Source Darling: A Microsoft Love Story 20,000 Lines of Code and a Dream: Microsoft?s Open Source Glow-Up Ctrl+Alt+Delete Your Assumptions: Microsoft Goes Full Penguin Token and Esteem: Amazon Bedrock Gets a Counter CSI: Cloud Scene Investigation The Great SQL Migration: How AI Became the Universal Translator Token and Ye Shall Receive: Bedrock?s New Counting Feature The Count of Monte Token: A Bedrock Tale ? mk Ctrl+Z for Your Database: Now with Built-in Lag Time IP Freely: GKE Takes the Pain Out of Address Management AWS CEO: AI Can?t Replace Junior Devs Because Someone Has to Fix the AI?s Code Better Late Than Never: RDS PostgreSQL Gets Time Travel The SQL Whisperer: Teaching AI to Speak Database DigitalOcean Goes Full Chatbot: Your Infrastructure Now Speaks Human Musk vs Cook: The App Store Wars Episode AI Firestore Goes Mongo: A Database Love Story GKE Turns 10: Now With More Candles and Less Complexity Prime Day Infrastructure: Now With 87,000 AI Chips and a Robot Army AWS Scales to Quadrillion Requests: Your Black Friday Traffic Looks Cute AWS billing now speaks human, thanks to MCPs The Bastion Holds: Azure?s New Gateway to Kubernetes Kingdoms The Surge Before the Merge: Azure?s New Upgrade Strategy CNI Overlay: Because Your Pods Deserve Their Own ZIP Code AI Is Going Great ? or How ML Makes Money 

00:46 Musk?s xAI sues Apple, OpenAI alleging scheme that harmed X, Grok

xAI filed a lawsuit against Apple and OpenAI, alleging anticompetitive practices in AI chatbot distribution, claiming Apple deprioritizes competing AI apps like Grok in the App Store while favoring ChatGPT through direct integration into iOS devices. The lawsuit highlights tensions in AI platform distribution models, where cloud-based AI services depend on mobile app stores for user access, potentially creating gatekeeping concerns for competing generative AI providers. Apple?s partnership with OpenAI to integrate ChatGPT into iPhone, iPad, and Mac products represents a shift toward native AI integration rather than app-based access, which could impact how cloud AI services reach end users. The dispute underscores growing competition in the generative AI market, where multiple players, including xAI?s Grok, OpenAI?s ChatGPT, DeepSeek, and Perplexity, are vying for market position through both cloud APIs and mobile distribution channels. For cloud developers, this case raises questions about AI service distribution strategies and whether direct device integration partnerships will become necessary to compete effectively against app store-based distribution models.

01:55 Justin ? ?There?s always a potential for conflict of interest when you have a partnership like this, but also the app store ? there?s a...

Chapters (00:00:00) - The Cloud Pod(00:00:58) - Amazon's Grok Sues Apple Over App Store Distribution(00:04:19) - Amazon CEO: AI Replacing Junior Developers is the Dumbest Idea(00:11:10) - Amazon: Count Your Tokens With AWS AI(00:17:32) - Amazon RDS for Postgres: Delayed Read Replicas(00:22:41) - Amazon Prime Day: My Favorite Amazon Announcement(00:23:45) - Amazon's Prime Day 2022(00:25:15) - AWS: How AWS Met Prime Day(00:29:17) - Amazon's Databases Hit Record Highs During Prime Day(00:30:14) - CloudTrail: What Caches Do They Use? vs.(00:33:37) - Amazon's AWS Countdown(00:35:52) - Google's AI Developer Tooling: Which One to Use?(00:40:12) - Google Launches Gemini 2.5 Flash Image on Vertex AI(00:42:54) - Google Cloud Asset Inventory: Root Cause Analysis Tool(00:46:12) - Google's automated SQL Translation from Databrick Spark SQL to Big(00:48:10) - Google's White Paper on AI Inference Environmental Impact(00:52:23) - Google Cloud Compliance Manager: Integrated Security and Compliance Management(00:59:04) - Kubernetes: GK Auto IPAM(01:01:59) - GKE: Happy 10th Anniversary!(01:08:24) - Microsoft Azure News: Week Three(01:09:47) - Microsoft vs. AWS: Open Source and Scale(01:14:01) - Microsoft to Give DocumentDB to the Linux Foundation(01:15:57) - Azure Bastion now supports Private AKS Clusters via Tunnel(01:24:11) - Microsoft Migrate now enables direct migration to zone redundant storage disks(01:29:49) - Digital Ocean's MCP Server Now Available(01:35:33) - Week in the Cloud: September 7, 2017

 Welcome to episode 318 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! We?re going on an adventure! Justin and Ryan have formed a fellowship of the cloud, and they?re bringing you all the latest and greatest news from Valinor to Helm?s Deep, and Azure to AWS to GCP. We?ve water issues, some Magic Quadrants, and Aurora updates?but sadly no potatoes. Let?s get into it!  Titles we almost went with this week: You?ve Got No Mail: AOL Finally Hangs  Up on Dial-Up Ctrl+Alt+Delete Climate Change H2-Oh No: Your Gmail is Thirsty The Price is Vibe: Kiro?s New    Request-Based Model Spec-tacular Pricing: Kiro Leaves the Waitlist Behind SHA-zam! GitHub Actions Gets Its Security Cape Breaking Bad Actions: GitHub?s Supply Chain Intervention Graph Your Way to Infrastructure Happiness The Tables Have Turned: S3 Gets Its Iceberg Moment Subnet Where It Hurts: GKE Finally Gets IP Address Relief All Your Database Are Belong to Database Center From Droplets to Dollars: DigitalOcean?s AI Pivot Pays Off DigitalOcean Rides the AI Wave to Record Earnings Agent Smith Would Be Proud: Microsoft?s Multi-Agent Matrix Aurora Borealis: A Decade of Database Enlightenment Fifteen Shades of Cloud: AWS?s Unbroken Streak The Fast and the Failover-ious: Aurora Edition Gone in Single-Digit Seconds: AWS?s Speedy Database Recovery Agent 007: License to Secure Your AI

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General News 

01:02 AOL is finally shutting down its dial-up internet service | AP News

AOL is discontinuing its dial-up internet service on September 30, 2024, marking the end of a technology that introduced millions to the internet in the 1990s and early 2000s. Census data shows 163,401 US households still used dial-up in 2023, representing 0.13% of homes with internet subscriptions, highlighting the persistence of legacy infrastructure in underserved areas ? which is honestly crazy.  Here?s hoping that these folks are able to switch to alternatives, like Starlink. This shutdown reflects broader technology lifecycle patterns as companies retire legacy services like Skype, Internet Explorer, and AOL Instant Messenger to focus resources on modern platforms. The transition away from dial-up demonstrates the evolution from telephone-based connectivity to broadband and wireless technologies that now dominate internet access. AOL?s journey from a $164 billion valuation in 2000 to being sold by Verizon in 2021 illustrates the rapid shifts in technology markets and the challenges of adapting legacy business models.

02:30 British government asks people to delete old emails to reduce data centres? 

Chapters (00:00:00) - Week in the Cloud: GCP, Azure, VS Code Bind(00:00:57) - AOL to discontinue dial-up service(00:02:27) - UK Government Tells You to Deactivate Your Emails to Save Water(00:06:03) - UK's Data Center Problem(00:08:18) - GitHub Actions: SHA pinning and more(00:11:04) - Curo Pricing Plans Go Live for AWS(00:16:05) - Aurora DB Turns 10 Years Old(00:18:22) - Happy Birthday to My Sister!(00:18:36) - Gartner Magic Quadrant for Strategic Cloud Platform Services(00:20:53) - Gartner's Strategic Cloud Platform Services(00:25:01) - Gartner's Cloud Assessment: Microsoft, Google, Azure(00:26:32) - Go Driver to Reduce Database Failover Times by 60%(00:28:23) - Amazon AWS Announces R8i Flex and R7i Flex(00:30:58) - GKE: Multi-Subnet Support for Kubernetes(00:33:51) - Database Center for Google Cloud: Unifying Database Fleet Management(00:35:59) - Google Cloud HSM: Client Side Encryption(00:38:06) - Google Cloud Announces Comprehensive AI Security Abilities(00:41:23) - Google LLM: Right Size for GPUs and TPUs(00:44:14) - Microsoft Terraform Adds Ms. Graph Provider in Public Preview(00:46:45) - Azure AI Foundry: Unifying OneLake and Agent Factory(00:52:03) - Gartner's Cloud: Oracle-Microsoft partnership(00:54:52) - DigitalOcean Announces SQL Stored Procedures Support(00:58:35) - Shifting Down: How Google Does It(01:04:19) - Back in the Cloud: Week Three(01:04:43) - Week in Cloud: The Cloud Podcast

Welcome to episode 317 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Matt, and an out-of-breath (from outrunning bears) Ryan are back in the studio to bring you another episode of everyone?s favorite cloud and AI news wrap-up. This week we?ve got GTP-5, Oracle?s newly minted AI conference, hallucinations (not the good kind), and even a Cloud Journey follow-up. Let?s get into it!  Titles we almost went with this week: Oracle Intelligence: Mission Las Vegas AI World: Oracle?s Excellent Adventure AI Gets a Reality Check: Amazon?s New Math Teacher for Hallucinating Models Jules Verne?s 20,000 Lines Under the C GPT-5: The Empire Strikes Back at Computing Costs 5?Five Alive: OpenAI?s Latest Language Model Drops GPT-5 is Alive! (And Ready for Your API Calls) From Kanban to Kan?t-Ban: Alienate Your User Base in One Update No More Console Hopping: ECS Logs Stay Put Following the Paper Trail: ECS Logs Go Live The Pull Request Whisperer Five?s Company: DigitalOcean Joins the GPT Party WireGuard Your Kubernetes: The Mesh-iah Has Arrived EKS-tending Your Reach: When Your Nodes Need a VPN Alternative Buttercup Blooms: DARPA?s Prize-Winning AI Security Tool Goes Public From DARPA to Docker: How Buttercup Brings AI Bug-Hunting to Your Laptop Agent 007: License to Query Compliance Manager: Because Nobody Dreams of Filling Out Federal Paperwork Do Compliance Managers dream of Public Sector sheep? Blob?s Your Uncle: Finding Lost Data in the Cloud Wassette: Teaching Your AI Assistant to Go Shopping for Tools Monitor, Monitor on the Wall, Who?s the Most Secure of All? Better Late Than IPv-Never VPC Logs: Now with 100% Less Manual Labor CloudWatch Catches All the Flows in Your Organization The Organization-Wide Net: No VPC Left Behind SQS Goes Super Size: Would You Like to Quadruple That? One MiB to Rule Them All: SQS?s Payload Growth Spurt Microsoft Finally Merges with Its $7.5 Billion Side Piece From Hub to Spoke: GitHub Loses Its Independence Cloud Run Forest Run: Google?s AI Workshop Marathon From Zero to AI Hero: Google?s Production Pipeline Workshop The Fast and the Serverless: Cloud Run Drift

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General News 

01:17 GitHub will be folded into Microsoft proper as CEO steps down ? Ars Technica

GitHub will lose its operational independence and be integrated into Microsoft?s CoreAI organization in 2025, ending its separate CEO structure that has existed since Microsoft?s $7.5 billion acquisition in 2018. The reorganization eliminates the CEO position, with GitHub?s leadership team reporting to multiple executives within CoreAI rather than a single leader, potentially impacting decision-making speed and product direction. This structural change could affect GitHub?s developer-focused culture and remote-first operations that have distinguished it from Microsoft?s traditional corporate structure. The integration into CoreAI suggests Micr...

Welcome to episode 316 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! This week we?ve got earnings (with sound effects, obviously) as well as news from DeepSeek, DocumentDB, DigitalOcean, and a bunch of GPU news. Justin and Matt are here to lead you through all of it, so let?s get started!  Titles we almost went with this week: Lake Sentinel: The Security Data Monster Nobody Asked For Certificate Authority Issues: When Your Free Lunch Gets a Security Audit Slash and Learn: Gemini Gets Command-ing DigitalOcean Drops Anchor in AI Waters with Gradient Platform The Three Stages of Azure Grief: Development, Preview, and Launch E for Enormous: Azure?s New VM Sizes Are Anything But Virtual SRE You Later: Azure?s AI Agent Takes Over Your On-Call Duties Site Reliability Engineer? More Like AI Reliability Engineer Azure Disks Get Elastic Waistbands Agent Smith Would Be Proud: Google?s Multi-Agent Matrix Gets Real C4 Yourself: Google Explodes Into GA with Intel?s Latest Silicon The Cost is Right: GCP Edition Penny for Your Cloud Thoughts: Google?s Budget-Friendly Update DocumentDB Goes on a Diet: Now Available in Serverless Size MongoDB Compatibility Gets the AWS Serverless Treatment No Server? No Problem: DocumentDB Joins the Serverless Party Stream Big or Go Home: Lambda?s 10x Payload Boost Lambda Response Streaming: Because Size Matters GPT Goes Open Source Shopping GPT?s Open Source Awakening When Your Antivirus Needs an Antivirus: Enter Project Ire The Opus Among Us: Anthropic?s Coding Assistant Gets an Upgrade Serverless is becoming serverful in streaming responses General News 

02:08 It?s Earnings Time! (INSERT AWESOME SOUND EFFECTS HERE) 

02:16 Alphabet beats earnings expectations, raises spending forecast

Google Cloud revenue hit $13.62 billion, up 32% year-over-year, with OpenAI now using Google?s infrastructure for ChatGPT, signaling growing enterprise confidence in Google?s AI infrastructure capabilities. Alphabet is raising its 2025 capital expenditure forecast from $75 billion to $85 billion, driven by cloud and AI demand, with plans to increase spending further in 2026 as it competes for AI workloads. AI Overviews now serves 2 billion monthly users across 200+ countries, while the Gemini app reached 450 million monthly active users, demonstrating Google?s scale in deploying AI services globally. The $10 billion increase in planned capital spending reflects the infrastructure arms race among cloud providers to capture AI workloads, which require significant compute and specialized hardware investments. Google?s cloud growth rate of 32% outpaces its overall revenue growth of 14%, indicating the strategic importance of cloud services as traditional search and advertising face increased AI competition.

03:55 Justin ? ?I don?t know what it takes to actually run one of these large models at like ultimate scale that like a ChatGPT needs or Anthropic, but I have to imagine it?s just thousands and thousands of GPUs just working nonstop.?

04:31 Microsoft (MSFT) Q4 earnings report 2025

Microsoft reported Q4 fiscal 2025 earnings with revenue of $76.44 billion, up 18% year-ove... Chapters (00:00:00) - Azure: Why Microsoft's New AI Agent Won't Work(00:01:17) - Earnings season(00:01:43) - Google Cloud Revenue Up 32%, Capital Spending Forecast Up(00:03:51) - Microsoft Reports Strong Cloud Growth, AI Investment(00:05:51) - Amazon's AI, Cloud Growth(00:10:24) - Google's DeepThink AI for Complex Reasoning(00:13:13) - OpenAI releases new GPT OSS120B and OSS(00:15:32) - Microsoft's AI-enabled Binary Analyzer(00:24:27) - Good Testing Practices in Cloud(00:25:59) - Claude Opus 4.1 Upgrade to Sonnet 4(00:27:46) - AWS G6F: Fractional GPU Instances(00:29:40) - Amazon DocumentDB DCU Scale(00:34:13) - Amazon's Region Switch(00:37:28) - AWS Lambda: 200 Megabyte Response Streaming Capacity(00:38:55) - Gemini CLI: Adding slash commands to Google Cloud Code(00:41:06) - Agent to Agent Protocol Upgraded to Version 3(00:42:57) - GK Cloud: C4 Bare Metal VM on the Intel Xeon(00:44:35) - Google Cloud Hub Optimization and Cost Explorer Expands to Public Preview(00:47:04) - Microsoft's Sentinel Data Lake Announcement(00:50:42) - Microsoft's New E128 & E1092 VM Sizes(00:54:17) - Azure SRE Agent Billing Model(00:57:02) - Azure 2.8 Live Resizing for Ultra NVMe disks(00:59:13) - Azure Backup now supports agentless multi-disk backups(01:02:05) - Digital Ocean Brings AI to a Unified Platform(01:03:50) - This Week in the Cloud: Ending

 Welcome to episode 315 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Your hosts, Justin and Matt, are here to bring you the latest in cloud and AI news, including news about AI from the White House, the newest hacker exploits, and news from CloudWatch, CrowdStrike, and GKE ? plus so much more. Let?s get into it!  Titles we almost went with this week: SharePoint and Tell: Government Secrets at Risk Zero-Day Hero: How Hackers Found SharePoint?s Achilles? Heel Amazon Q Gets an F in Security Class Spark Joy: GitHub?s Marie Kondo Approach to App Development No Code? No Problem! GitHub Lights a Spark Under App Creation GKE Turns 10: Still Not Old Enough to Deploy Itself A Decade of Containers: Pokémon GO Caught Them All Kubernetes Engine Hits Double Digits, Still Can?t Count Past 9 Pods Account Names: The Missing Link in AWS Cost Optimization Flash Gordon Saves Your VMs from the Azure-verse The Flash: Fastest VM Monitor in the Multiverse Ctrl+AI+Delete: Rebooting America?s Artificial Intelligence Strategy The AImerican Dream: White House Plots Path to Silicon Supremacy CrowdStrike?s Year of Living Resiliently Kernel Panic at the Disco: A Recovery Story The Search is Over (But Your Copilot License Isn?t) Ground Control to Major Tom: You?re Fired GPU Booking.com: Reserve Your Neural Network?s Next Vacation Calendar Man Strikes Again: This Time He?s Scheduling Your TPUs AirBnB for AI: Short-Term Rentals for Your Machine Learning Models  Claude?s World Tour: Now Playing in Every Region Going Global: Claude Gets Its Passport Stamped on Vertex AI SQS Finally Learns to Share: No More Queue Hogging The Noisy Neighbor Gets Shushed: Amazon?s Fair Play for Queues CloudWatch Gets Its AI Degree in Observability Teaching Old Logs New Tricks: CloudWatch Goes GenAI The Agent Whisperer: CloudWatch?s New AI Monitoring Powers NotebookLM Gets Its PowerPoint License Slides, Camera, AI-ction: NotebookLM Goes Visual The SSL-ippery Slope: Azure?s Managed Certs Go Public or Go Home Breaking Bad Certificates: DigiCert?s New Rules Leave Some Apps High and Dry Firewall Rules: Now with a Rough Draft Feature Azure?s New Policy: Think Before You Deploy General News 

00:50 Hackers exploiting a SharePoint zero-day are seen targeting government agencies | TechCrunch

Microsoft SharePoint servers are being actively exploited through a zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2025-53770), with initial attacks primarily targeting government agencies, universities, and energy companies, according to security researchers. The vulnerability affects on-premises SharePoint installations only, not cloud versions, with researchers identifying 9,000-10,000 vulnerable instances accessible from the internet that require immediate patching or disconnection. Initial exploitation appears to be limited and targeted, suggesting that nation-states likely back advanced persistent threat (APT) actors. However, broader exploitation by other threat actors is expected as attack methods become public. Organizations running local Shar... Chapters (00:00:00) - The Cloud Pod: EC2 Shutdown Explained(00:01:08) - Microsoft SharePoint zero-day targeting government agencies(00:05:33) - Cloudflare Supports the White House AI Action Plan(00:10:04) - Trump's Anti-Woke AI Order(00:15:28) - NASA's AI Satellite Just Made a Decision Without Humans(00:21:14) - GitHub Launches Spark: A New Way to Build Micro(00:22:50) - Amazon AI Code Coding Assistant Hacked(00:26:01) - AWS Cross-Team Optimization Hub Update 1.4(00:27:50) - Amazon EC2: Auto-shutdown and more(00:30:44) - Amazon SQS Introduces Fair Queues to Prevent(00:34:11) - Amazon CloudWatch: Generative AI Observability in Preview(00:37:37) - GKE: Celebrating 10 Years in the Cloud(00:44:06) - Google's BigQuery for AI Agents(00:45:37) - Google Cloud: Global Endpoints on Vertex AI(00:50:21) - NotebookLM: Video Overviews in Cloud Documentation(00:52:22) - Azure VM Availability Monitoring(00:55:39) - Microsoft 365 copilot search: Unified Search with AI(00:57:42) - Azure App Service: Important Changes to Managed Certificates(01:02:29) - Azure Firewall: Draft and Deploy (Preview)(01:05:25) - Cloud Journey: Two Cloud Journey Stories(01:05:45) - IAM Identity Center vs. Cloud Shell: Best Authentication Solution(01:12:48) - 1Password Passkey(01:14:15) - CrowdStrike Expands Security Resilience Program

Welcome to episode 314 of The Cloud Pod, where your hosts, Matt and Ryan, are holding down the fort in Justin?s absence and bringing what?s left of our audience (those of you still here after the last time they were left in charge) the latest and greatest in cloud and tech news. We?ve got undersea cables, vector storage, and even some hobos ? but not the kind on trains. Plus AWS S3 Let?s get started!  Titles we almost went with this week: S3 Gets Direction: AWS Points to Vector Storage Vector? I Hardly Know Her! S3?s New AI Storage Play S3 Finds Its Magnitude and Direction Claude Goes to Wall Street Anthropic?s Bull Run Into Financial Services AI Assistant Gets Its Series 7 License Nova Scotia: AWS Brings Regional Flavor to AI Models The Fine-Tuning of the Shrew: Teaching Nova Models New Tricks Nova-caine: Numbing the Pain of Model Customization AgentCore Blimey: AWS Gives AI Agents Their License to Scale The Agent Infrastructure: Mission Deployable From Zero to Agent Hero: AWS Tackles the Production Problem SageMaker Gets Its Data Act Together From Catalog to QuickSight: A Data Love Story The Great Data Unification of 2024 AWS Free Tier Gets a $200 Makeover EKS-treme Makeover: Cluster Edition #?100K Nodes Walk Into a Cluster? S3 Gets Direction: Amazon Points to Vector Storage Amazon S3: Now with 90% Less Vector Bills and 100% More Dimensions Follow Up

01:03 SoftBank and OpenAI?s $500 Billion AI Project Struggles to Get Off Ground

The $500 billion AI effort unveiled at the White House has struggled to get off the ground and has scaled back its near-term plans.  It?s been six months since the announcement, where they said they would spend $100B almost immediately, but now they have a more modest goal of building a small data center by the end of the year in Ohio. Softbank committed to $30 billion earlier this year, and it is one of the largest ever startup investments by them, which led them to take on new debt and sell assets.   This investment was made alongside Stargate, giving them a role in the physical infrastructure needed for AI.  Altman, though, has been eager to secure computing power as quickly as possible and has proceeded without Softbank.  Publicly, they say it?s a great partnership, and they look forward to advancing projects in multiple states Oracle was part of Stargate, but the recent 30B deal just signed with includes a commitment of 4.5 gigawatts of capacity, and would consume the equivalent power of more than two Hoover Dams, or about 4 million homes.  Oracle was also named part of the deal with UAE firm MGX as a partner, but Oracle CEO Safra Catz said that Stargate hadn?t been formed yet, as of last month. 

02:31 Matthew ? ??everyone?s like, how hard can it be to build a data center? But it?s city zoning, power consumption, grid improvements, water for cooling? getting communities to approve ? and these things end up being a massive undertaking. And it takes the hyperscalers a long time to get these things up and operational. So it doesn?t surprise me that a small data center by the end of the year is probably something that was already in the works beforehand; they?re just taking over other plans. Most da...

Chapters (00:00:00) - Azure 1.8(00:01:04) - SoftBank and OpenAI's 500 Billion AI Project(00:04:53) - These Undersea Cable Sensors Could Aid Climate Change Monitoring(00:08:47) - AWS, Google Cloud AI for Financial Services(00:14:15) - Bedrock 12 Live Video Understanding Models now available in AWS(00:17:21) - Harness AI(00:20:06) - AWS New York City: AWS S3 Visions and More(00:22:56) - Elasticsearch + S3: Vector Search(00:24:47) - Amazon Nova Customization in SageMaker(00:27:40) - Amazon Bedrock Agent Core: Enterprise-grade Infrastructure for deploying AI(00:33:51) - Amazon SageMaker Catalog with Quicksight Integration(00:37:52) - WASP Introduces Free tier(00:40:01) - Amazon EC2 Budgeting Update(00:43:28) - Amazon EventBridge Locate & Debug Kinesis Data(00:47:29) - AWS S3 metadata: Complete metadata for all your S3(00:52:05) - Oh yeah, double-layer encryption with ON S3(00:52:54) - AWS Lambda: Direct to IDE and Remote Debugging(00:57:39) - ECS: Blue Green Deployments(01:00:57) - Amazon Bracket Adds New 54-Bit Qubit Quantum Processor(01:03:48) - Google CloudWatch and LibTPU for optimizing Google TPU resources(01:06:08) - Application Monitoring: Cloud Observation & Investigations(01:09:49) - Google Expands DeepSeen R1 to Microsoft Fabric(01:16:07) - AWS CLI for Migrating From Availability Sets and Basic Load Bal(01:18:42) - Microsoft's Cloud HSM(01:21:04) - Microsoft's New Hobo Model for ExpressRoute Gateways(01:23:02) - Azure Functions: Public Preview 2.8(01:26:09) - Azure WAF for Application Load Balancers for Kubernet(01:29:32) - Week in the Cloud

Welcome to episode 313 of The Cloud Pod, where your hosts, Matt, Ryan, and Justin, are here to bring you all the latest in Cloud and AI news. This week we?ve got an installation of Cloud Journey featuring Gartner and chaos AND an aftershow! We?ve got acquisition news, new tools, an undersea cable, and even a little chaos, all right now in the cloud. Let?s get into it! 

Titles we almost went with this week: From Vibe Check to Production Spec Node More Mr. Nice Guy: AWS Locks Down Access Until You Ask Nicely Grok?s New Feature: Ask Elon First The AI That Phones Home to Dad Musk-See TV: When Your Chatbot Needs Parental Guidance Oracle?s Federal Discount: 75% Off for Six Months (Terms and Conditions Apply) GameDay: Not Just for Sports Anymore Bob the Builder Center: Can We Fix AWS? Yes We Can! Bucket List: Google Cloud Storage Finally Lets You Pack Up and Move The Great Bucket Migration: No Forwarding Address Required Compose Yourself: Cloud Run Gets Docker-mented Survey Says: Your Team Needs a Performance Check-Up From Florida With Love: Google?s New Cable Has a License to Transmit Sol Train: Google Lays Track Across the Atlantic Finding the Right Gradient for Your AI Journey Google Cracks the Code on AWS?s Cloud Castle Breaking Cloud: Google?s Data Analytics Cook Up Market Share From Chat to Churn: The Great GPT Subscription Exodus AWS Finally Filters Out the Pricing Noise The Price is Right: AWS Edition Gets New Search Features Four Filters and a Pricing API Walk Into a Cloud Fee-fi-fo-fum who has a flash reasoning model Follow Up

02:01 Cognition to buy AI startup Windsurf days after Google poached CEO

Cognition acquired Windsurf?s IP, product, and remaining talent after Google hired away the CEO and senior staff, highlighting the intense competition for AI coding expertise among major tech companies. The deal follows a failed $3 billion acquisition attempt by OpenAI and Google?s $2.4 billion licensing and compensation package to secure Windsurf?s leadership, demonstrating the premium valuations for AI coding technology. Both companies develop AI coding agents designed to accelerate software development, with Cognition?s Devin agent and Windsurf?s tools representing the growing market for AI-powered developer productivity solutions. The acquisition ensures all Windsurf employees receive accelerated vesting and financial participation, addressing the disruption caused by the leadership exodus to Google. This consolidation in the AI coding space suggests smaller startups may struggle to retain talent and remain independent as tech giants aggressively pursue AI engineering capabilities. AI Is Going Great ? Or How ML Makes Money 

04:40 New Grok AI model surprises experts by checking Elon Musk?s views before

Chapters (00:00:07) - Breaking Things On Purpose(00:00:44) - Covid Has Hit(00:02:08) - OpenAI Buys Coding Startup Windsurf(00:04:34) - Grok 4: Elon Musk's Tweets Causes a Problem(00:06:50) - DigitalOcean Launches Unified AI Cloud Platform(00:08:58) - Enterprises Are Canceling ChatGPT Subscriptions(00:13:37) - DORA Survey Open Until July 18th(00:17:50) - GCP 2.8: Free to Use, Paid(00:21:23) - SSM: Free vs. Paid Features(00:24:33) - Kiro: AI-assisted Development with VS Code(00:31:29) - Curo: A New Way to Develop with Q IDE(00:34:14) - Amazon AWS Launches P6E GB200 Ultra for AI Training(00:37:09) - Wonders of AWS: Update to AWS Builder Center(00:42:01) - Amazon's AWS Pricing Server Open Source(00:42:48) - Amazon Cloud Portal: AI vs MCP(00:45:00) - Amazon DocumentDB with MongoDB compatibility to 10 regions(00:49:41) - GCP Backup for Cross-Project Backup (In Preview)(00:51:15) - Cloud Storage Bucket Relocation(00:54:40) - Gentek and Cloud Run integrate with Docker Compose(00:56:40) - Google Launches Seoul, New Transatlantic Cable(00:57:47) - Google Cloud's Cloud Battle(01:01:54) - Azure 2.8 for Mini-Flash Reasoning(01:05:41) - Oracle to Cut Cloud Costs for the Federal Government(01:07:20) - Chaos Engineering for Cloud: Future of IT Security(01:11:17) - Week in Cloud: September 7, 2017(01:11:59) - Stop Force AI Tools on Your Engineers(01:19:48) - Cloud Computing: An Eye on the AI

Welcome to episode 312 of The Cloud Pod, where your hosts, Matt, Ryan, and Justin, are here to bring you all the latest in Cloud and AI news. We?ve got security news, updates from PostgreSQL, Azure firewall and BlobNFS, plus TWO Cloud Journey stories for you! 

Thanks for joining us this week in the cloud!  

Titles we almost went with this week: Git Happens: Why Your Database Pipeline Keeps Breaking PostgreSQL and Chill: Azure?s New Storage Options for Database Romance NVMe, Myself, and PostgreSQL Canvas and Effect: AWS Paints a New Picture for E-commerce Oracle?s $30 Billion Stargate: The AI Infrastructure Wars Begin Larry?s Last Laugh: Oracle Lands OpenAI?s Mega Deal AI Will See You Now (Couch Not Included) Purview and Present Danger: Microsoft?s AI Security SDK Goes Live The Purview from Up Here: Microsoft?s Bird?s Eye View on AI Data Security Building Bridges: Azure?s Two-Way Street to Active Directory Domain Names: Not Just for Browsers Anymore FUSE or Lose: Azure?s BlobNFS Gets a Speed Boost When Larry Met Andy: An Exadata Love Story Bing There, Done That: Azure?s New Research Assistant The Search is Over: Azure AI Foundry Finds Its Research Groove Memory Lane: Where AI Agents Go to Remember Things Elephants Never Forget, and Now Neither Do Google?s Agents Z3 or Not Z3: That is the Storage Question Local SSD Hero: A New Hope for I/O Intensive Workloads Azure?s Certificate of Insecurity KeyVault?s Keys Left Under the Doormat When Your Cloud Provider Accidentally CCs the Hackers AI Is Going Great ? Or How ML Makes Money 

03:09 RYAN DOES A THING FOR SECURING AI WORKLOADS

Ryan was recently invited to Google?s Headquarters in San Francisco as part of a small group of security professionals where they spent time hands-on with Google security offerings, learning how to secure AI workloads.  AI ? and how to secure it ? is a hot topic right now, and being able to spend time working with the Google development team was really insightful, with how they work with various levels of protections in place in dummy applications.  Ryan was especially interested in the back-end logic that was executed in the applications. 

05:32  Ryan ? ?I was impressed because there?s how we?re thinking about AI is still evolving, and how we?re protecting it?s gonna be changing rapidly, and having real-world examples really helped really flesh out how their AI services are, how they?re integrated into a security ecosystem. It was pretty impressive. And it?s something that?s near and dear. I?ve been working and trying to roll out Google agent spaces and different AI workloads and trying to get involved and make sure that we, just getting visibility into all the different ones. And that was, it was really helpful to sort of think about it in those contexts.?

10:13 OpenAI secures $30bn cloud deal with Oracle

OpenAI signed a $30 billion annual cloud computing agreement with Oracle for 4.5GW of capacity, making it one of the largest AI cloud deals to date, and nearly triple Oracle?s current $10.3 billion annual data center infrastructure revenue. The deal represents a major expansion of the Stargate data center initiative, a $500 billion joint venture between OpenAI, SoftBank, Oracle, and Abu Dhabi?s MGX fund aimed at building AI infrastructure across multiple US states, in... Chapters (00:00:00) - Azure Firewall: Learning to Spell,(00:01:04) - Azure Bug in the Show Notes Bot(00:02:25) - How to Secure AI workloads with Threats(00:07:10) - GCP vs. AWS: Minimum-Viable Platforms(00:08:53) - Oracle to Buy 400,000 Nvidia GB200 Chips(00:15:54) - Google's New AI Tools for Mental Health(00:18:23) - Oracle Database at AWS(00:23:56) - Google Cloud's New Lustre Storage: General Availability(00:27:44) - Vertex AI Memory Bank Now in Public Preview(00:30:17) - Google Expands Z3 Storage Optimized VM Family(00:33:04) - Azure Adds Postgres to Kubernetes Database(00:35:42) - Kubernetes in the Wild: Data, Security, Continuous(00:39:22) - Kubernetes in the Wild: What is GitLab?(00:41:30) - Microsoft Purview SDK and APIs Announced(00:46:45) - Microsoft Entre Domain: Two Way Forest Trust(00:51:05) - Microsoft's Cloud Ranting(00:51:31) - Azure AD is Not Built for Cloud Ranting(00:52:48) - Azure Firewall GA: Fully Qualified Domain Name filtering(00:56:12) - Azure NFS for BLOB 3.0 Preview(00:58:36) - Azure AI: Deep Research(01:00:35) - Microsoft's Cloud Certificate Validation Validation Failure(01:08:21) - Database DevOps: Fix Git Before It Breaks Your Production Environment(01:13:32) - The Need for Test Drive Development in the Cloud(01:17:18) - How to Write Automated Tests with AI(01:24:36) - Test Coverage for a Large Codebase

Welcome to episode 311 of Two Old Men Yelling at Cloud ? aka The Cloud Pod, featuring Matt and Ryan who absolutely, definitely did NOT record an aftershow. 

This week, they?re talking about Cloudflare?s new Pay Per Crawler, a new open-source Terraform provider from mkdev, and lots of fabric news that Ryan doesn?t understand ? plus so much more. Let?s get into it!  

Titles we almost went with this week:

(Show Editor note: There are more show titles than emojis. I give up.) 

FSx and the City: When File Systems Meet Object Storage The Great Data Lake Escape: No Movement Required OpenZFS Gets an S3 Degree Without Leaving Home Kernel Sanders: Microsoft?s Recipe for Avoiding Another Fried System Windows Gets a Restraining Order Against Overly Attached Security Software Microsoft Builds a Fence Between Windows and Its Rowdy Security Neighbors Windows Gets a Kernel of Truth After CrowdStrike Meltdown Microsoft Kicks Security Vendors Out of the Kernel Clubhouse The Great Kernel Divorce: When Windows Said ?It?s Not You, It?s Your Access Level? Google?s Environmental Report Card: A+ for Effort, C- for Supply Chain The Cloud Pod Goes Green: Google?s 10th Annual Carbon Confession Watts Up Doc? Google?s Energy Efficiency Bugs Bunny Would Approve Terminal Velocity: Google?s AI Gets a Command Performance Ctrl+Alt+Gemini: Google?s New CLI Companion The Prompt and the Furious: Tokyo Terminal AI See What You Did There: Google?s New Compliance Framework Control Yourself: Google Cloud Gets Serious About AI Auditing The Audit-omatic: Teaching Old Compliance New AI Tricks Veo 3: Now Playing in a Cloud Near You Google?s Video Dreams Come True (Audio Included) Lights, Camera, API Action: Veo 3 Takes the Stage Prometheus Unbound: Azure Finally Sees What It?s Been Missing VS Code Gets Fabric-ated: Now With 100% More Workspace Management Ctrl+S Your Sanity: Fabric Items Now Created Where You Code The Extension Cord That Connects Your IDE to the Data Cloud Logic Apps Gets Its Template of Doom (But in a Good Way) Copy-Paste Engineering Just Got an Azure Upgrade Microsoft Introduces the IKEA Model for Workflow Assembly WAF?s Up Doc? Security Copilot Now Speaks Firewall The Firewall Whisperer: When AI Meets Web Application Security WAF and Peace: Microsoft?s Treaty Between Security Tools Azure Goes Wild(card) with Certificate Management Front Door Finally Gets Its Wild Side Microsoft Deals Everyone a Wildcard IP Freely: Azure Takes the Guesswork Out of Address Management No More IP Envy: Azure Catches Up to AWS?s Address Game Azure?s New Feature Has All the Right Addresses Terraform and Chill: When Infrastructure Meets AI DynamoDB Goes Global: Now with 100% Less Eventually The Consistency Chronicles: Return of the Strong Read Breaking: DynamoDB Achieves Peak Table Manners Across All Regions Follow Up

00:47 Microsoft changes Windows in attempt to prevent next CrowdStrike-style catastrophe ? Ars Technica

Microsoft is creating a new Windows endpoint security platform that allows antivirus vendors to operate outside the kernel, preventing catastrophic system-wide failures like the CrowdStrike incident that g... Chapters (00:00:00) - Azure 1.3(00:00:54) - Microsoft Is Changing Windows to Prevent the Next Crisis(00:04:07) - Cloudflare: Pay Per Crawl(00:08:36) - Terraform Provider for OpenAI(00:14:01) - Amazon FSX for OpenZFS: Integrating with S3(00:20:29) - Amazon EC2 C8GN Nitro Card Instances(00:25:13) - DynamoDB now supports Multi Region Strongly Consistent(00:30:11) - Google's 2025 Environmental Report(00:35:07) - Google Announces Gemini CLI as an AI Agent(00:39:47) - Google Cloud: Introducing recommended AI Controls Framework(00:46:03) - Azure Monitor + Prometheus Metrics Integration in VS Code(00:52:45) - Microsoft Logic Apps: Public Preview (Security Copilot)(01:01:38) - Azure Front Door: Managed Certificate for Wildcard Domains(01:04:50) - Azure Virtual Network Manager IP Address Management Feature

Welcome to episode 310 of The Cloud Pod ? where the forecast is always cloudy! Matt, Ryan and Justin are here to bring you all the latest and greatest in cloud and AI news. 

Literally. 

All of it. 

This week we have announcements from re:Inforce, Manual Testing, GuardDuty, Government AI (what could go wrong?) Gemini 2.5 and, in a flash from the past, MS-DOS Editor. All this and more, this week in the cloud! 

Titles we almost went with this week: ACM Finally Lets Its Certificates Leave the Nest Breaking Free: AWS Certificates Get Their Export Papers Certificate Manager Learns to Share Its Private Keys Skynet?s Origin Story: We Bullied It Into Existence Claude and Present Danger: When AI Fights Back Breaking Up is Hard to GPU EKS Marks the Spot for GuardDuty?s New Detection Powers Kubernetes Security: GuardDuty Connects the Dots Hub, Hub, Hooray for Unified Security Security Hub 2: Electric Boogaloo All Your Security Findings Are Belong to One Dashboard GuardDuty?s EKS-cellent Adventure in Attack Detection Shield Me From My Own Bad Decisions AWS Plays Network Security Whack-a-Mole Your VPC Called ? It Wants Better Security Groups Permission Impossible: Your Express App Will Self-Authorize in 5 Minutes Breaking the Glass: AWS Backup Gets a Multi-Party System Gemini 2.5: Now With More Flash and Less Cash AI Goes to Washington GPT-4: Government Property Taxpayer-funded DDoS and Don?ts: A 45-Second Horror Story Google?s AI Models Get a Flash-y Upgrade (Lite on the Wallet) Flash Gordon Called ? He Wants His Speed Back From Flash to Flash-Lite: Google?s AI Diet Plan Looker?s Pipeline Dreams Come True MS-DOS Editor: The Reboot Nobody Asked For But Everyone Needed Control-Alt-Delete Your Expectations: Microsoft Brings DOS to Linux Microsoft?s Text Editor Time Machine Now Runs on Your Toaster Copilot Gets Its Agent License Visual Studio?s AI Agent: Now Taking Orders The Bridge Over Troubled Prompts Azure?s Managed Compute Gets More Coherent Bring Your Own GPU Party: Cohere Models Join the Azure Bash Function Telemetry Gets Open Sourced (Kind Of) Azure Functions: Now Speaking Everyone?s Language (Except Java) Bucket List: AWS Makes S3 Policy Monitoring a Breeze The Policy Police: Keeping Your S3 Buckets in Check CDK Gets Its Own Town Hall (Infrastructure Not Included) Breaking: AWS Discovers Zoom, Plans to Use It Twice Per Quarter AWS and 1Password: A Secret Love Affair Keeping Secrets Has Never Been This Public Nano Nano: AWS Brings Alien-Level Time Precision to EC2 Time Flies When You?re Having Nanoseconds WorkSpaces Core: Now With More Cores to Work With Mount Compute-ier: AWS Builds AI Training Peak Making it Rain(ier): AWS Showers Anthropic with 5x More Compute Cache Me If You Can: Google?s Plugin Play CSI: Cloud Services Investigation General News 

01:09 Defending the Internet: How Cloudflare blocked a monumental 7.3 Tbps DDoS attack

Cloudflare blocked a record-breaking 7.3 Tbps DDoS attack in May 2025, which delivered 37.4 TB of data in just 45 seconds ? equivalent to streaming 7,480 hours of HD video or downloading 9.35 million songs in under a minute. The attack originate... Chapters (00:00:08) - Cloud Pod: Episode 310(00:01:25) - Cloudflare Blocks World's Biggest DDoS Attack(00:07:06) - Matt Appears Out Of The Blue(00:08:07) - OpenAI's Fight With Microsoft Over Stake(00:12:06) - OpenAI Launches Dedicated Government Cloud(00:14:05) - Visual Studio: June 7, 2018: AI Assistant with MCP(00:17:41) - Terraform Provider 6(00:21:16) - Microsoft's Edit: Old School Text Editor (In Rust)(00:26:35) - Learning to use a cloud computer(00:27:20) - VI vs VIM(00:29:23) - All About Security(00:29:50) - Amazon IAM Access Analyzer New Uplead Dashboard(00:33:44) - AWS Certificate Manager: Export Public SSL Certificates(00:39:19) - Certificate Industry: The Future of Automation(00:39:56) - AWS Now Requiring MFA for Root Users(00:44:51) - Amazon's AWS Network Firewall Now Includes Active Threat Defense(00:53:55) - AWS WAF(00:54:58) - AWS SHIELD Network Security Director: In Preview(00:58:18) - GuardDuty Expands Kubernetes Threat Detection Coverage to(01:05:14) - Windows Defender: Is It Windows Defender?(01:05:40) - Microsoft's Security Hub: V2, Not the New One(01:07:07) - Amazon S3 Bucket Authorization with EC2 in Express JS(01:13:53) - Amazon CDK Community Meetings Launch(01:16:08) - 1Password Integrates with AWS Secrets Manager(01:18:22) - Amazon Time Sync: Nanosecond Timestamps for Financial Services(01:20:51) - AWS VPC(01:24:59) - How many routes do you have in a Kubernetes V(01:25:21) - Amazon Building the World's Most Powerful Computing Center for AI Training(01:28:56) - Another GCP vs. Azure Story(01:29:33) - Google Cloud Backup: New Gemini 2.5 Flash and Pro(01:33:36) - Google's Looker Introduces Continuous Integration(01:37:33) - Google Cloud CDN: Edge Extensions Plugins(01:38:59) - Microsoft's Q1 Quantum Computing Update(01:40:29) - Azure DevOps MCP Server and Azure AI Connect(01:42:41) - Azure Functions finally Support OTEL or OpenTelemetry in Preview(01:43:55) - Azure SQL Database: Data Virtualization & More(01:46:13) - Microsoft Ignite 2025 Early Bird Registration: $2,300(01:49:03) - Oracle Expands GROK Services to OCI(01:50:17) - Week in Cloud: What's the Cloud?

Welcome to episode 308 of The Cloud Pod ? where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin and Matt are on hand and ready to bring you an action packed episode. Unfortunately, this one is also lullaby free. Apologies. This week we?re talking about Databricks and Lakebridge, Cedar Analysis, Amazon Q, Google?s little hiccup, and updates to SQL ? plus so much more! Thanks for joining us. 

Titles we almost went with this week: KV Phone Home: When Your Key-Value Store Goes AWOL When Your Coreless Service Finds Its Core Problem Oracle?s Vanity Fair: Pretty URLs for Pretty Penny From Warehouse to Lakehouse: Your Free Ticket to Cloud Town 1?Databricks Uno: Because One is the Loneliest Number Free as in Beer, Smart as in Data Science Cedar Analysis: Because Your Authorization Policies Wood Never Lie Cedar Analysis: Teaching Old Policies New Proofs Amazon Q Finally Learns to Talk to Other Apps Tomorrow: Visual Studio?s Predictive Edit Revolution The Ghost of Edits Future: AI Haunts Your Code Before You Write It IAM What IAM: Google?s Identity Crisis Breaks the Internet Permission Denied: The Day Google Forgot Who Everyone Was 403 Forbidden: When Google?s Bouncer Called in Sick AWS Brings the Heat to Fusion Research Larry?s Cloud Nine: Oracle Stock Soars on Forecast Raise OCI You Later: Oracle Bets Big on Cloud Growth Oracle?s Crystal Ball Shows 40% Cloud Growth Ahead Meta Scales Up Its AI Ambitions with $14 Billion Investment From FAIR to Scale: Meta?s $14 Billion AI Makeover Congratulations Databricks one, you are now the new low code solution.  AWS burns power to figure out how power works AI Is Going Great ? Or How ML Makes Money 

02:12 Zuckerberg makes Meta?s biggest bet on AI, $14 billion Scale AI deal

Meta is finalizing a $14 billion investment for a 49% stake in Scale AI, with CEO Alexandr Wang joining to lead a new AI research lab at Meta.  This follows similar moves by Google and Microsoft acquiring AI talent through investments rather than direct acquisitions to avoid regulatory scrutiny. Scale AI specializes in data labeling and annotation services critical for training AI models, serving major clients including OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Meta.  The company?s expertise covers approximately 70% of all AI models being built, providing Meta with valuable intelligence on competitor approaches to model development. The deal reflects Meta?s struggles with its Llama AI models, particularly the underwhelming reception of Llama 4 and delays in releasing the more powerful ?Behemoth? model due to concerns about competitiveness with OpenAI and DeepSeek. Meta recently reorganized its GenAI unit into two divisions following these setbacks. Wang brings both technical AI expertise and business acumen, having built Scale AI from a 2016 startup to a $14 billion valuation. His experience includes defense contracts and the recent Defense Llama collaboration with Meta for national security applications. For cloud providers and dev... Chapters (00:00:00) - The Cloud Pod: Episode 309(00:01:16) - Meta Completes $14 Million Investment in Scale AI(00:06:34) - Databricks Free Edition, SQL Migration and More(00:09:28) - WAF and Q&D: Cloud Computing(00:17:52) - AWS Power Tools for AWS Lambda(00:22:39) - Google IAM System Failure Causes widespread Outage(00:27:00) - Cloudflare Outage Highlights Storage Provider's Failure(00:31:14) - Google's Credential Scanner for Open Source(00:33:45) - Google Cloud Location Finder: Single API for Cloud Regions(00:35:33) - Google Cloud G4VMS and G4S: New Inst(00:37:23) - Microsoft Cross Tenant Customer Managed Keys for SSD v2 &(00:39:48) - Microsoft Cloud: Azure Cost Management, Next Edit suggestions in Visual Studio(00:43:41) - Oracle's Cloud Services: Growing 16%(00:46:53) - Oracle to Offer AMD Instinct GPUs on OCI(00:48:03) - Oracle Allows Custom Domains for Autonomous Database(00:50:01) - Cloud: Episode 1

Welcome to episode 308 of The Cloud Pod ? where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Matt and Ryan are in the house today to tell us all about the latest and greatest from FinOps and SnowFlake conferences, plus updates from Security Command Center, OpenAI, and even a new AWS Region. All this and more, today in the cloud! 

Titles we almost went with this week: I Left My Wallet at FinOps X, But Found Savings at Snowflake Summit Snowflake City Lights, FinOps by the Sea The Two Summits: A Tale of FinOps and Snowflakes Crunchy on the Outside, Snowflake on the Inside  AWS Taipei: Because Sometimes You Need Your Data Closer Than Your Night Market  AWS Plants Its Flag in Taipei: The 37th Time?s the Charm AWS Slashes GPU Prices Faster Than a CUDA Kernel Two Writers Walk Into a Database? And Both Succeed AWS Network Firewall: Now With Windows! The VPN Connection That Keeps Its Secrets Transform and Roll Out: Pub/Sub?s New Single Message Feature SAP Happens: Google?s New M4 VMs Handle It Better Total Recall: Google?s 6TB Memory Machines The M4trix Has You (And Your In-Memory Databases) DeepSeek and You Shall Find? on Google Cloud Four Score and Seven Vulnerabilities Ago ? mk The Fantastic Four Security Features MCP: Model Context Protocol or Master Control Program from Tron? No SQL? No Problem! AI Takes the Wheel Injection Rejection: How Azure Keeps Your Prompts Clean General News 

05:09 FinOps X 2025 Cloud Announcements: AI Agents  and Increased FOCUS Support

All major cloud providers announced expanded support for FOCUS (FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification) 1.0, with AWS already in general availability and Google Cloud launching a BigQuery export in private preview.  This signals an industry-wide standardization of cloud cost reporting formats. AWS introduced AI-powered cost optimization through Amazon Q Developer integration with Cost Optimization Hub, enabling automated recommendations across millions of resources with detailed explanations and action plans for cost reduction. Microsoft Azure launched AI agents for application modernization that can reduce migration efforts from months to hours by automating code assessment and remediation across thousands of files, while also introducing flexible PTU reservations that work across multiple AI models. Google Cloud unveiled FinOps Hub 2.0 with Gemini-powered waste detection that identifies underutilized resources (like VMs at 5% usage) and provides AI-generated optimization recommendations for Kubernetes, Cloud Run, and Cloud SQL services. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure added carbon emissions reporting with hourly power-based calculations and GHGP compliance, plus new cost anomaly detection and rules-based cost allocation features for improved financial governance.

06:11 Justin ? ?I mean, if I?m modernizing my application, typically it?s off .NET and Azure, but ok?? 

07:20 Broadcom reboots CloudHealt...

Chapters (00:00:00) - Don't Buy Software Named After Fuzzy Creatures(00:04:00) - FinOps X: Ranting About Finops Tooling(00:05:17) - Cloud Cost Reporting Standards 1.2 Spec(00:07:19) - CloudHealth's New Look for Finops(00:11:05) - FinOps and the dual-role(00:12:37) - Snowflake Summit 2018: Big Data, Intelligence & Security(00:17:29) - Snowflake Adds Postgres to its Cloud Platform(00:20:05) - OpenAI Adds Google Cloud to Its Infrastructure(00:23:34) - Mistral AI Releases Magistral, Their First Language Model(00:26:07) - Amazon Launches 37th Global Region in Taipei(00:31:25) - Wonders of AWS: Smithy API Models(00:37:34) - AWS to Lower GPU Prices for AI-based Instances(00:41:01) - AWS Open-Sourcing PG Active(00:44:43) - AWS Network Firewall: Monitoring Dashboard(00:48:35) - AWS Site to Site VPN: New Features and Best Practices(00:51:41) - Google Pub Sub: JavaScript Transforms (New Feature)(00:54:51) - Google Cloud: New SAP HANA M4 VMs with In(00:56:50) - What Sharding a Database Is Really Like(00:59:41) - Google Cloud Announces Optimized Deployment Recipes for DeepSeq(01:01:27) - BigQuery: reservation fairness and predictability,(01:06:19) - SEC Cybersecurity Command Center 2018: Four new capabilities(01:07:18) - Squid vs. Splunk(01:07:36) - Cloud Run Threat Detection(01:08:22) - SCC automatically detects connections to known malicious IPs by analyzing V(01:09:32) - Google Cloud's Natural Language Data Manipulation (MLDB)(01:11:31) - Google Cloud and Datadog: An AI Match(01:14:21) - Google Cloud Serverless for Apache Spark & BigQuery(01:16:40) - Microsoft: Azure Prompt Shields & More(01:20:08) - Jazz: Microsoft's Cloud J(01:23:45) - FinOps Tooling: The End of an Era(01:31:05) - Will Kelly: Cloud Vendors Are Screwed(01:37:18) - Will Cloud Health and Cloudability Help Your Finops?(01:41:16) - The Future of FinOps: Unit Economics(01:45:44) - Week in Cloud: The Cloud Podcast

Welcome to episode 307 of The Cloud Pod ? where the forecast is always cloudy! Who else is at a conference? Justin is coming to us this week from sunny San Diego where he?s attending FinOps ? so we have that news to look forward to for next week. Matt and Ryan are also on hand today to share the latest news from Kubernetes, Salesforce acquisitions, and the strange case of Azure making AWS more cost effective.

Titles we almost went with this week: The Great Redis Escape: One Year Later, Valkey is Living Its Best Life Cache Me If You Can: How Valkey Outran Redis?s License Policies Tier Today, Gone Tomorrow: AWS?s New Storage Class That Moves Your Data So         You Don?t  Hey AI, Deploy My App: AWS Makes It Actually Work AWS Finally Calculates What You?ll Actually Pay The Price is Right: AWS Edition From List Price to Real Price: AWS Gets Transparent Red Hat and AWS Sitting in a Tree, R-H-E-L-I-N-G Dockerfile? More Like Dockefile-It-For-Me with Amazon?s New MCP Server Elementary, My Dear Watson: Amazon Q Becomes Sherlock Holmes for AWS CUD You Believe It? Red Hat Gets the Discount Treatment Committed Relationship Status: It?s Complicated (But 20% Cheaper) RHEL Yeah! Google Drops Prices on Enterprise Linux Disk Today, Gone Tomorrow: Azure?s Vanishing OS Storage ATL1: Where GPUs Meet Sweet Tea and Southern Hospitality AWS Launches Operation Cloud Sovereignty The Great Firewall of Europe: AWS Edition Amazon Builds a GDPR Fortress in Germany General News 

01:46 What Salesforce?s $8B acquisition of Informatica means for enterprise data and AI | VentureBeat

Salesforce just dropped $8 billion to acquire Informatica.  This purchase was really about building the data foundation needed for agentic AI to actually work in enterprise environments ? we?re talking about combining Informatica?s 30 years of data management expertise with Salesforce?s cloud platform to create what they?re calling a ?unified architecture for agentic AI.? This acquisition fills a massive gap in Salesforce?s data management capabilities, bringing in critical pieces like data cataloging, integration, governance, quality controls, and master data management ? all the unsexy but absolutely essential plumbing that makes AI agents trustworthy and scalable in real enterprise deployments. The timing here is fascinating, because Informatica literally just announced their own agentic AI offerings last week at Informatica World, so Salesforce is essentially buying a company that?s already pivoted hard into the AI space ? rather than trying to build these capabilities from scratch. There?s going to be some interesting overlap with MuleSoft, which Salesforce bought for $6.5 billion back in 2018, but analysts are saying Informatica?s data management capabilities are more comprehensive and updated ? this could mean some consolidation challenges ahead as they figure out how to integrate these overlapping technologies. For enterprise customers, this could be a game-changer because it promises to automate those painful, time-consuming data processes that typically take days or weeks. These AI agents can handle data ingestion, in... Chapters (00:00:00) - Will GCP's Gemini Understand Kubernetes?(00:01:08) - Fooled by Conference(00:01:45) - Salesforce Buys Informatica for GenTech AI(00:05:02) - Valky Turns One(00:07:42) - Harness Unveils MCP Server(00:13:23) - Terraform 2.8: Security in the Cloud(00:16:21) - Amazon Launches FSX for Lustre Intelligent Tiering(00:18:56) - Amazon AI System Development with ecs, EKS and Serverless(00:21:15) - AWS Pricing Calculator Gets a Long-Needed Feature(00:28:19) - Amazon to Launch a European Sovereign Cloud(00:36:10) - Google's Cloud-based Red Hat Discount(00:38:06) - Google Launches Vertex AI Ranking API(00:42:41) - Google Cloud Run: Bringing GPUs to Serverless(00:45:17) - Kubernetes: Volume Populator for Machine Learning(00:47:48) - Microsoft's Azure AI Foundry: Turn Every Software Developer Into an(00:51:59) - C Scripts in C(00:55:32) - Azure: General Availability of Ephemeral OS Disks(01:01:08) - Azure AI Gateway Expands Support for AWS Bedrock Model End(01:04:50) - DigitalOcean Making a Serious Play for GPUs(01:10:23) - Week in Cloud: Finops X

Welcome to episode 306 of The Cloud Pod ? where the forecast is always cloudy! 

This week, we have a bunch of announcements concerning the newest offering from Anthropic ? Claude Sonnet 4 and Opus 4, plus container security, Azure MySQL Maintenance, Vertex AI, and Mistral AI. Plus, we?ve got a Cloud Journey installment AND an aftershow ? so get comfy and get ready for a trip to the clouds!

Titles we almost went with this week: ECS Failures Now Have 4x the Excuses Nailing Down Your Container Security, One Patch at a Time HashiCorp?s New Recipe: Terraform, AI, and a Pinch of MCP Teaching an Old DNS New IPv6 Tricks Dash-ing through the Klusters, in an AWS Console Google?s Generative AI Playground Gets a Glow-Up Vertex AI Studio: Now with 200% More Darkness! Like our souls Claude Opus 4 Strikes a Chord on Google Cloud Sovereign-teed to Please: Google Cloud?s Royal Treatment Google?s Cloud Kingdom Expands its Borders Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer?s AI? Anthropic Drops Sonne(t) 4 Knowledge on Vertex Mistral AI Chats Up a Storm on Google Cloud Google Cloud?s Vertex AI Gets a Dose of Mistral Magic .NET Aspire on Azure: The App Service Strikes Back Default Outbound Access Retires, Decides Florida Isn?t for Everyone  AI Is Going Great ? or How ML Makes Money 

01:52 Introducing Claude 4

Claude has launched the latest models in Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4, setting new standards for coding, advancing reasoning and AI agents. Maybe they?ll actually follow instructions when told to shut down? (Looking at you, ChatGPT.) Claude Opus 4 is ?the world?s best coding model? with sustained performance on complex, long-running tasks and agent workflows.  Opus 4 has 350 billion parameters, making it one of the largest publicly available language models.  It demonstrates strong performance on academic benchmarks, including research.  Sonnet 4 is a smaller 10 billion parameter model optimized for dialogue, making it well-suited for conversational AI applications.  Alongside the models, they are also announcing: Extended thinking with tool use (beta): Both models can use tools ? like web search ? during extended thinking, allowing Claude to alternate between reasoning and tool use to improve its responses. New Model Capabilities: Both models can use tools in parallel, follow instructions more precisely, and when given access to local files by developers ? demonstrate significantly improved memory capabilities, extracting and saving key facts maintain continuity and build tacit knowledge over time Claude code is now generally available: After receiving extensive positive feedback during our research preview, they are expanding how developers can collaborate with Claude.  Claude code now supports background tasks via github actions and native integrations with VS code and jetbrains, displaying edits directly in your files for seamless pair programming.  New Api capabilities: Four new capabilities on the API that enable developers to build more powerful AI agents including Code Execution tool, MCP connector, Files API and the ability to cache... Chapters (00:00:00) - Cloud Pod: Azure's Maintenance Makeover(00:00:38) - Gemini Power Glasses at IO 2017(00:01:58) - Claude Turns 4 and More(00:07:51) - Claude 4.2 and Silent Models(00:08:38) - OpenAI's Language AI Response API Update(00:11:14) - Docker: Hardened Images(00:15:30) - Terraform MCP Server Released for AI Integration(00:17:50) - Amazon Serverless SQL with GMAX(00:21:43) - Amazon ECS: Extended Container Exit Reason Message(00:23:55) - Dynamodb Local in AWS Cloud Shell(00:26:21) - EC2 DNS now supports IPv6(00:28:52) - EKS Dashboard: Kubernetes Cluster Management(00:33:50) - Vertex AI Studio: Going Dark(00:34:59) - Google's Gemma 3n AI Model for Mobile(00:37:03) - Google's Intelligent Agent Platform Update(00:39:24) - Google Cloud's Sovereign Cloud: Data Sovereignty(00:43:10) - GCP 2.5: Unstructured Data with Vertex(00:44:48) - Google Cloud AI: Lechat Enterprise and OCR(00:48:08) - Azure FX V2 series with 5th Gen Intel Xeon(00:49:33) - Red Hat OpenShift VM Virtualization on Azure(00:52:15) - Microsoft SQL Server: Maintenance Experience for MySQL(00:55:49) - Microsoft's NET Aspire Integration with Azure App Service(00:59:42) - Azure: Retiring Implicit Outbound Connectivity for V(01:03:19) - How to Code With AI in Visual Studio(01:08:25) - Building a serverless bot in Python(01:13:43) - Claude 2.8(01:19:07) - Google Docs: AI in the Show Notes document(01:25:27) - Building a DevOps team with AI(01:29:16) - Black FLP02 PC Case

Welcome to episode 305 of The Cloud Pod ? where the forecast is always cloudy! How did you do on your Microsoft Build Predictions? As badly as us? Plus we?ve got news on AWS service changes, a lifecycle catch up page for all those services that bought the farm, tons of Gemini news (seriously, like a lot) and even some AI for .NET. 

Welcome to the cloud pod- and thanks for joining us! 

Titles we almost went with this week: Google?s Jules: An AI Gem for Cloud Devs   Autonomous Agents of Code: Jules? Excellent Adventure in the Google Cloud Gemini 2.5 Shoots for the Stars with Cosmic-Sized AI Upgrades Resistance is Futile: OpenAI Assimilates Your Codebase  AWS Transformers: Rise of the Agentic AI  Teaching an old .NET dog new Linux tricks CodeBuild Puts Docker Builds in Hyperdrive Inspector Gadget?s New Trick: Mapping Container Vulnerabilities Yo Dawg, I Heard You Like Scanning Containers? Google Cranks AI to 11 with New Ultra Plan I, For One, Welcome Our New AI Ultra Overlords The Inference Engine That Could: llm-d Chugs Ahead with Kubernetes-Native        Scaling Scaling Inference to Infinity and Beyond with Google Cloud?s llm-d Google Cloud and Spring AI: A Match Made in Java-n The Fast and the Serverless: Cloud Run Drifts into AI Studio Territory SQL Server 2025: A Vector Victor, Not a Scalar Failure AI will solve my life problems of having money in my pocket I used to scan all the containers but now I will just scan yours AI Is Going Great ? or How ML Makes Money 

01:50 Jules: Google?s autonomous AI coding agent

Jules is an autonomous AI agent that can read code, understand intent, and make code changes on its own.  It goes beyond AI coding assistants to operate independently. It clones code into a secure Google Cloud VM, allowing it to understand the full context of a project. This enables it to write tests, build features, fix bugs, and more. Jules operates asynchronously in the background, presenting its plan and reasoning when complete. This allows developers to focus on other tasks while it works. Integration with GitHub enables Jules to work directly in existing workflows without extra setup or context switching. Developers can steer and give feedback throughout the process. For cloud developers, Jules demonstrates the rapid advancement of AI for coding moving from prototype to product. Its cloud-based parallel execution enables efficient handling of complex, multi-file changes. While in public beta, Jules is free with some usage limits. This allows developers to experiment with this cutting-edge AI coding agent and understand its potential to accelerate development on Google Cloud.

02:56 Ryan ? ?More and more, as new tools get released, it?s just going to change the way anything gets written? it?s getting more and more capable.? 

05:45 Introducing Flow: Google?s AI filmmaking tool designed for Veo

Flow is an AI-powered filmmaking tool custom-designed for Google?s advanced video, image and language models (Veo, Imagen, Gemini). It allows creators to generate cinem... Chapters (00:00:00) - Cloud Pod: AWS Breaks Up With unpopular Services(00:01:02) - Google's Joules: A Code Editing Agent for Cloud Developers(00:04:54) - Google's AI Filmmaking Tool, Flow(00:08:45) - Gemini 2.5 Large Language Models Update(00:10:33) - Google's Alpha Evolve: The AI Coding Agent(00:12:50) - OpenAI's Codex AI Agent for Cloud Development(00:14:44) - HashiCorp Validated Patterns for Cloud-based IT(00:16:49) - Amazon AWS: End Support for Several Services(00:21:12) - Amazon's New Strands AI Agent SDK(00:28:01) - Cloud Cost Management: The Right Step for IT Pros(00:31:36) - AWS Code Build: New Docker Server Capability(00:33:18) - Amazon Inspector for Docker & ECR(00:34:51) - Google AI Ultra: A Premium Subscription Plan(00:39:10) - Database Center(00:40:32) - PostgreSQL on GKE(00:43:32) - Google Cloud Introduces LLM-D for Large Language Inference(00:47:00) - Spring Boot: AI in Java 1.0(00:49:33) - Google Cloud: Bringing AI Studio to Cloud Run(00:51:12) - Google's Vertex AI for Creative Content Generation(00:52:30) - Two Gemini Stories In One Week(00:52:46) - Microsoft's Build 2020 Prediction(00:55:14) - Microsoft's App Services Platform Announcement(00:57:24) - Microsoft's Cloud Announcement(00:59:25) - Azure AI Foundry: New Features, Changes(01:01:58) - Microsoft Fabric and Azure Data Portfolio: Powering the Next AI(01:04:22) - Microsoft Discovery: Accelerating Research and Development (New Platform)(01:06:35) - Microsoft, GitHub Copilot: Agentic DevOps(01:09:33) - Oracle Launches E6 Cloud Compute(01:11:32) - Week in the Cloud: Starting Late

Welcome to episode 304 of The Cloud Pod ? where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Ryan and Matt are in the house tonight to bring you all the latest and greatest in Cloud and AI news, including AWS new Chilean region, the ongoing tug of war between Open AI and Microsoft, and even some K8 updates ? plus an aftershow. Let?s get started! 

Titles we almost went with this week: Open AI gets a COO delivered Things get Chile with new regions Observability and AI, I Q-uestion the logic Cloud Pod tries to Microsoft Build predictions K8 resizes pods on the fly Microsoft strongly reinforces the AI Foundry The Cloud Pod renegotiates the hosts? contracts ? we now have to pay the Cloud Pod to be on it  Follow Up 

01:53 DOJ?s extreme proposals will hurt consumers and America?s tech leadership 

We previously talked about the DOJ and Google Antitrust lawsuit ? and now the DOJ has wrapped up their remedies hearing, and Google has *not* been quiet about it. One of the claims is that the remedies would hurt browser choice, putting browsers like Firefox out of business completely.  Google also claimed that data disclosure mandates would threaten user?s privacy ? it would be MUCH safer if they could just sell it to you via their marketplace.  We do agree that divesting Chrome would make things more complicated for people living in the Google Cloud.  Really, what comes down to is that Google claims DOJ?s solutions are the wrong solutions ? although to us, Google?s solutions aren?t much better.  AI ? Or How ML Makes Money 

09:20 OpenAI Expands Leadership with Fidji Simo 

OpenAI Hires Instacart CEO Simo For Major Leadership Role 

OpenAI is hiring Fidji Simo as the CEO of applications, representing a major restructuring of leadership at the company.  She was the CEO at Chapters (00:00:00) - The Cloud Pod(00:02:05) - Google Lashes Out Over DOJ's Antitrust Proposal(00:06:19) - Does a Google Divested Chrome Affect the Internet?(00:09:17) - OpenAI Expands Leadership Team(00:10:22) - OpenAI's Nonprofit Status(00:11:34) - OpenAI Announces OpenAI for Countries and Data Residency for(00:13:58) - OpenAI in Tough Negotiations With Microsoft(00:16:48) - Terraform's AWS Provider Hits 4 Billion Downloads(00:17:41) - Amazon Terraform Provider 6.0 in Public Beta(00:23:14) - Amazon Launches New AWS Region in Chile(00:24:29) - Amazon Q Developer support to OpenSearch(00:27:04) - Kubernetes 1.33 Release Notes(00:31:23) - Does AWS have cloud commitment insurance?(00:33:25) - Google's Gecko Tool for Generative AI(00:35:54) - First Build Prediction: GitHub Copilot(00:37:04) - Microsoft's LLM for OpenAI(00:38:11) - Intel Announces New Quantum Computing Chip(00:39:17) - Third Choice: Microsoft Office PC Updates(00:40:30) - Top Three Office Products for 2020(00:42:07) - Google, Microsoft's AI Competitor(00:42:46) - The Number of Times Copilot Is Invited to Microsoft's Conference(00:46:15) - Microsoft Giving Virtual Data Center Tours(00:49:21) - Azure Storage Actions(00:52:15) - How many storage accounts can I have in a subscription?(00:54:46) - Azure Storage Actions(00:59:41) - "Oh, I can't handle that!"(01:00:14) - Red Hat Summit 2025 & Azure Migrate(01:02:57) - Azure AI: Reinforcement Fine-tuning (RFT(01:05:48) - Cloud Podcast: Week 3(01:06:40) - Linux Kernels to Drop 486 CPUs(01:09:29) - Can I Run Linux on a 486?(01:14:07) - AMD vs Intel: Which Is The Best?(01:16:21) - 486 compatibility in the Linux kernel

Welcome to episode 303 of The Cloud Pod ? where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Ryan and exhausted dad Matt are here (and mostly awake) ready to bring the latest in cloud news! This week we?ve got more news from Nova, updates to Claude, earnings news, and a mini funeral for Skype ? plus a new helping of Cloud Journey!

Titles we almost went with this week: Claude researches so Ryan can nap The best AI for Nova Corps, Amazon Nova Premiere JB If you can?t beat them, change the licensing terms and make them fork, and then       reverse course? and profit Q has invaded your IDE!! Skype bites the dust A big thanks to this week?s sponsor: We?re sponsorless! Want to get your brand, company, or service in front of a very enthusiastic group of cloud news seekers? You?ve come to the right place! Send us an email or hit us up on our Slack channel for more info.  Follow Up 

02:50 Sycophancy in GPT-4o: What happened and what we?re doing about it

OpenAI wrote up a blog post about their sycophantic Chat GPT 4o upgrade last week, and they wanted to set the record straight.  They made adjustments at improving the models default personality to make it feel more intuitive and effective across a variety of tasks.  When shaping model behavior, they start with a baseline principle and instructions outlined in their model spec.  They also teach their models how to apply these principles by incorporating user signals like thumbs up and thumbs down feedback on responses.  In this update, though, they focused too much on short-term feedback and did not fully account for how users? interactions with ChatGPT evolve. This skewed the results towards responses that were overly supportive ? but disingenuous.  Beyond rolling back the changes, they are taking steps to realign the model behavior, including refining core training techniques and system prompts to explicitly steer the model away from sycophancy.  They also plan to build more guardrails to increase honesty and transparency principles in the model spec. Additionally, they plan to expand ways for users to test and give direct feedback before deployments. Lastly, OpenAI continues to expand evaluations building on the model sync and our ongoing research. 

04:43 Deep Research on Microsoft Hotpatching:

Yes, they?re grabbing money and screwing you. Basically. 

07:06 Justin ? ?I?m not going to give them any credit on this one. I appreciate that they created hotpatching, but I don?t like what you want to charge me for it.? 

General News

It?s Earnings time ? cue the sound effects!

08:03 Alphabet?s Q1 earnings shattered analyst expectations, sending the stock soaring. Google?s CEO credits its AI efforts

Alphabet Q1 2025 earnings call: CEO Sundar Pichai?s remarks

Chapters (00:00:00) - The Cloud Pod(00:00:54) - Manto Man's 3 Kids Announcement(00:02:40) - Microsoft Hot Patching: Changes Coming soon to the Model(00:07:36) - Before the Earnings, How to Prepare(00:07:54) - Good Quarter for Microsoft, Google, and Amazon(00:10:47) - Amazon AWS Sales Up 17%(00:16:32) - Skype Is Dead(00:18:18) - Claude's Cloud Research: How ML Makes Money(00:20:22) - OpenAI Rescues Plan to Split Off and Become for Profit(00:22:56) - Anthropic's $61.5 Million Stock Offer(00:25:00) - Redis: Moving back to the SSPL(00:30:19) - HP Terraform Premium(00:33:09) - Amazon Nova Premiere Announced at AWS Revamp(00:34:09) - Amazon's Cloud Commitment Insurance(00:35:36) - Amazon Q Developer Introduces in VS Code(00:37:27) - Amazon Q Developer in GitHub(00:39:45) - EC2 Image Builder(00:42:44) - Amazon EBS Snapshot: Fast Provisioned Rate for Volume Initial(00:46:58) - Google Cloud: Vertex AI Prediction Dedicated Endpoints(00:48:28) - Microsoft Copilot for Azure in April(00:52:57) - Alexa's Small Language Models(00:53:56) - OpenAI Announces New 5.4(00:55:21) - Azure Portal(00:59:01) - How to really become a Windows admin with Terraform(01:03:44) - Microsoft Virtual Network Terminal Access Point (VNTAP) Public Preview(01:07:01) - Oracle Touts the Cloud on the Sphere(01:09:41) - Why Your Tagging Strategy Matters for the Cloud(01:11:36) - Cloudsecurity: Tagging our Services(01:19:16) - Amazon vs. GCP: Service Management & Tagging

Welcome to episode 302 of The Cloud Pod ? where the forecast is always cloudy! This week Justin and Ryan are on hand to bring you all the latest in Cloud (and AI news.) We?ve got hotpatching, Project Greenland, and a rollback of GPT-4.o, which sort of makes us sad ? and our egos are definitely less stroked. Plus Saas, containers, and outposts ? all of this and more. Thanks for joining us in the cloud! 

Titles we almost went with this week: The Cloud Pod was never accused of being sycophantic 2nd Gen outposts!?! I didn?t even know anyone was using Gen 1 AWS Outposts 2nd Gen? not with AI (GASP) If you?re doing SaaS wrong, Google & AWS have your back this week with new Features  Patching, so hot right now Larger container sizes for Azure?.  You don?t say AWS Green reporting detects hotspots? surprisingly close to Maryland?.. Visual pipeline for Opensearch? I want to like this? but I just can?t A big thanks to this week?s sponsor: We?re sponsorless! Want to get your brand, company, or service in front of a very enthusiastic group of cloud news seekers? You?ve come to the right place! Send us an email or hit us up on our Slack channel for more info.  General News 

01:37 Sharing new DORA research for gen AI in software development

The DORA team at Google has released a new report, ?Impact of Generative AI In Software Development.? The report is based on data and developer interviews, and the report aims to move beyond hype to offer a proper perspective on AI?s impact on individuals, teams and organizations.  Click on the link in our show notes to access the full report. However, Google has highlighted a few key points in the blog post. AI is Real ? A staggering 89% of organizations are prioritizing the integration of AI into their applications, and 76% of technologists are already using AI in some part of their daily work.  Productivity gains confirmed: Developers using Gen AI report significant increases in flow, productivity, and job satisfaction.  For instance, a 25% increase in AI adoption is associated with a 2.1% increase in individual productivity. Organization benefits are tangible: Beyond individual gains, Dora found strong correlations between AI adoption and improvements in crucial organizational metrics. A 25% increase in AI adoption is associated with increases in document quality, code quality, code review speeds and approval speeds.  If you are looking to utilize AI in your development organization, they provide five practical approaches for both leaders and practitioners. Have transparent communications Empower developers with learning and experimentation Establish clear policies Rethink performance metrics Embrace fast feedback loops

045:06 Ryan ? ?Those are really good approaches, but really difficult to implement in practice. You know, in my day job, watching the company struggle to get a handle on AI from all the different angles you need to, from data protection, legal liability ? just operationally ? it?s very hard. So I think having a mature program where you?re rolling that out with intent and being very specific with your AI tasks I think will go a long way with a lot of companies.?  

AI Is Going Great ? Or How ML Makes Its Money 

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Chapters (00:00:00) - The Cloud Pod(00:01:51) - A New Report on AI in Software Development(00:02:57) - How to Use AI in the Development Organization(00:08:37) - A Code Team's Journey(00:09:04) - How OpenAI Is Making Money With AI(00:12:13) - ChatGPT: The Chatbot's Syncophantic(00:14:38) - Cloudflare: DDoS Attacks reached 1 TB per second(00:18:22) - Cloudflare: Best DDoS Protection for $30 a month(00:20:09) - Amazon's US East 1 Availability Zone Announcement(00:25:41) - AWS AppSync Events(00:30:23) - EKS Cluster Node Monitoring and Auto-Repair(00:34:11) - Amazon Bedrock: Prompt Optimization (General Availability)(00:36:50) - Amazon Q Business Integrations for Microsoft Word and Outlook(00:39:05) - Amazon Serverless Reservations: New Discount for Analytics(00:42:25) - Amazon OpenSearch Injection Pipelines(00:44:50) - Amazon Announces Second Generation AWS Outpost Racks(00:48:09) - Amazon Cloudfront SaaS Manager: Multi-Termite Webs(00:52:34) - Amazon VPC Endpoints: 10 years too late(00:54:06) - SaaS Runtime: Fully Managed by Google Cloud(01:01:04) - On the Cloud: The IMS Blueprint(01:03:44) - Google Cloud Database and LangChain Integrations now support Go Java and(01:04:22) - OpenAI Unveils GPT Image 1 at Microsoft(01:06:16) - How to Stop restarting your Windows Servers for Patching(01:06:44) - Microsoft Hot Patching for Windows Server 25(01:13:27) - Let it go.(01:13:42) - Azure Confidential VMs(01:16:43) - Azure: Large Container Sizes for ACI(01:19:14) - DigitalOcean Launches Managed Caching for Valky(01:20:28) - How Amazon Rescued Its GPU Crunch(01:22:15) - Amazon's GPU Priority Process(01:24:01) - NVIDIA GPUs, Storage, and Collaboration(01:24:46) - Efficiency and confidentiality in the R&D environment(01:26:31) - Amazon's GPU Orchestration System(01:31:34) - Week in the Cloud: Longest Episode Yet

Chapters (00:00:00) - The Cloud Pod(00:01:07) - How to Write a 300-Episode Recap With AI(00:03:05) - We're Turning 300 Episodes Down(00:07:39) - Reinventing: The Future of the Podcast(00:13:52) - Google Wins Antitrust Case vs. DOJ(00:21:18) - Google's Proposal for the Antitrust Case(00:24:29) - OpenAI Launches OpenAI03 and O4 Mini(00:30:27) - GPT 4.1 and 4.0 Mini(00:34:25) - GitHub Cloud and Copilot Announcements(00:35:37) - Copilot for Business vs. Personal: Should You Buy Pro+(00:38:50) - Amazon VPC Route Server(00:42:32) - AWS Security Reference Architecture Code Examples for Generative AI(00:45:08) - Amazon Nova Sonic: New Gen AI Model for Voice-enabled Applications(00:46:55) - Thank You or No Thank You?(00:47:40) - Novasonic's Nova Real 1.1 security video(00:51:03) - Amazon AWS S3 Express 1 Zone Price Cut(00:53:07) - AWS STS now automatically serves all requests to the global endpoint in(00:56:13) - Gemini Cloud Assist: Spring Cleaning with FinOps Hub(00:58:23) - Google's New VM Store for Valkey(00:59:36) - Microsoft releases new capabilities to Azure AI(01:01:15) - Azure Storage Driver Update & New Capabilities for AI(01:02:06) - Llama 4 models now available in Azure AI(01:03:31) - Microsoft Azure OpenAI: GPT 4.1, 4.(01:04:43) - Copilot in Azure Announces General Availability(01:06:41) - Azure Cloud's Hybrid Connection Manager in Public Preview(01:07:38) - One-Bit AI Models Won't Need Supercomputers(01:09:46) - Microsoft's SQL Server Migration to hyperscale(01:12:42) - Oracle: My Public Cloud Was Hacked(01:14:49) - Oracle's PR for the Hacking(01:18:20) - A Week in the Cloud(01:18:57) - Week in Cloud: Cloud Apps

Welcome to episode 300 of The Cloud Pod ? where the forecast is always cloudy! According to the title, this week?s show is taking place inside of a Dr. Suess book, but don?t despair ? we?re not going to make you eat green eggs and ham, but we WILL give you the low down on all things Vegas. Well, Google?s Next event which recently took place in Vegas anyway. Did you make any Next predictions? 

Titles we almost went with this week: ??This is the CLOUDPOD Episode 300 ?Tonight we dine in the Cloud The Next Chapter Now in Preview: Episode 300 A big thanks to this week?s sponsor: We?re sponsorless! Want to get your brand, company, or service in front of a very enthusiastic group of cloud news seekers? You?ve come to the right place! Send us an email or hit us up on our slack channel for more info.  GCP

Pre-Next

02:35 Google shakes up Gemini leadership, Google Labs head taking the reins 

There was a lot of Gemini news at Next ? but we?ll get to all that.  In this particular case, there?s an employee shakeup. Sissie Hsiao is stepping down from leading the Google team, and is being replaced by Josh Woodward, who is currently leading the Google Labs. 

04:35 Filestore instance replication now available

GCP says customers have been asking for help in meeting business and regulatory goals, and so they are releasing Filestore instance replication. This new feature offers an efficient replication point objective (RPO) that can reach 30 minutes for data change rates of 100 MB/sec.

05:16 Multi-Cluster Orchestrator for cross-region Kubernetes workloads

The public preview of Multi-Cluster Orchestrator was recently announced. This lets platform and application teams optimize resource utilization, enhance application resilience, and accelerate innovation in complex, multi-cluster environments.  The need for effective multi-cluster management has become essential as organizations increasingly use Kubernetes to deploy and manage their applications; Challenges such as resource scarcity, ensuring high availability, and managing deployments across diverse environments create significant operational overhead. Multi-Cluster Orchestrator addresses these challenges by providing a centralized orchestration layer that abstracts away the complexities of underlying Kubernetes infrastructure matching workloads with capacity across regions.... Chapters (00:00:00) - The Cloud Pod: Episode 300(00:00:38) - Ryan's Absence at CES 2017(00:01:53) - Episode 300(00:02:30) - Google Shuffles Up Their Gemini Team(00:05:08) - GKE: Multi Cluster Orchestrator for Kubernetes(00:09:37) - Google I/O 2019: The Conference Schedule(00:12:22) - The Wizard of Oz Event at Google's Sphere(00:15:01) - The Wizard of Oz Movie Made With AI(00:18:56) - The Wizard of Oz: The Sphere(00:20:24) - Day 1, keynote(00:20:49) - Google Cloud Next: The First Google TPU for Inference &(00:25:33) - Google Agent Spaces: Unified Enterprise Search and Intelligence(00:31:38) - Google's Video, Speech and Music, Generative AI(00:35:42) - Inferring with AWS' GKE(00:38:33) - Python's AI Agent Development Kit(00:43:13) - Agent to Agent(00:47:52) - Google Cloud Keynote(00:51:18) - A Day in the Life(00:51:38) - Gemini Cloud Conference 2018: Small Announcements(00:56:52) - Google Cloud Network: Cross-Cloud Interconnect(01:02:14) - Google Cloud Storage Pools: More Storage, More Intelligence(01:03:01) - Migration from SQL Server to PostgreSQL using DMS(01:06:42) - Google Next: Predicting The Winners(01:09:08) - Microsoft's Ignite Conference Recap & More(01:13:04) - AI Conference Prediction(01:16:06) - Google Next: A Year 2 in Vegas(01:18:14) - Black Mirror: The First Season Review

Welcome to episode 299 of The Cloud Pod ? where the forecast is always cloudy! Google Next is quickly approaching, and you know what that means ? it?s time for predictions! Who will win this year?s Crystal Ball award? Only time and the main stage will tell. Join Matthew, Justin, and Ryan as they break down their thoughts on what groundbreaking (and less groundbreaking) announcements are in store for us. 

Titles we almost went with this week: OpenAI and Anthropic join forces?  Its 2025, and AWS is still trying to make Jumbo packets happen Beanstalk and Ruby?s Updates!! They?re Alive!!! Google Colossus or how to expect a colossal cloud outage someday. ?The Cloud Pod gives an ode to Peter A big thanks to this week?s sponsor: We?re sponsorless! Want to get your brand, company, or service in front of a very enthusiastic group of cloud news seekers? You?ve come to the right place! Send us an email or hit us up on our slack channel for more info.  AI Is Going Great ? Or How ML Makes All Its Money  

02:27 OpenAI adopts rival Anthropic?s standard for connecting AI models to data

OpenAI is embracing Anthropic?s standard for connecting AI assistants to the systems where the data resides.   By adapting Anthropic?s Model Context Protocol or MCP across its products, including the desktop app for ChatGPT.   MCP is an open source standard that helps AI models produce better, more relevant responses to certain queries.  Sam Altman says that people love MCP and they are excited to add support across their products and that it is available today in the Agents SDK and support for the ChatGPT desktop and Response API is coming soon. MCP lets models draw data from sources like business tools and software to complete tasks, as well as from content repositories and app development environments.  We found two helpful articles that may help demystify this whole concept. 

MCP: What It Is and Why It Matters ? by Addy Osmani

Chapters (00:00:00) - Prediction: Google Next(00:02:39) - OpenAI Arches MCP Standard for AI(00:07:42) - Databricks announces support for Anthropic Cloud 3.7(00:11:08) - AWS WAF for Amplify Hosted Sites(00:17:16) - Amazon EC2: Jumbo Frames and Full AWS Connection(00:20:02) - Ruby 3.4 Support on AWS Lambda(00:23:36) - Amazon API Gateway now supports dual-stack IPv4 & IPv6(00:26:37) - Amazon EKS Community Add Ons Catalog(00:30:02) - Beanstalk: Not Dead, but(00:31:59) - Amazon Launches Amazon Nova at New Website(00:35:17) - Google Next: Attendance Prediction & More(00:38:12) - The AI and Machine Learning Contest(00:40:12) - Google's 'Responsive AI'(00:42:19) - On The Future of AI(00:43:00) - Predictions: Microsoft Will Announce 5 New Features During the 2020 Conference(00:46:29) - GK Enterprise: Unification or Non-AI?(00:47:27) - AI Tech Announcement at Hudo(00:48:48) - Google IO 2018: Industry Verticalization, Personal Assistant(00:50:29) - Google's Cloud Announcement(00:50:56) - How many times can I say AI or ML on stage?(00:51:36) - Google Cloud Backup and Security: Two Things(00:53:37) - Google and Mlogical to Accelerate Mainframe Application Modernization(00:55:58) - Google's Colossus: The Cloud Storage System(01:02:39) - AI assisted BigQuery Data Preparation now generally available(01:04:04) - Microsoft Azure Backup Storage Billing Change(01:06:19) - Microsoft's 'Fabric' for Business Intelligence(01:07:26) - Microsoft Purview: How to Keep Up with DLP Alerts(01:10:43) - Oracle Cloud: How Much Does 131,000 Nvidia GV300(01:13:45) - OCI Bare Metal and Flex VM Instances Now Available(01:15:21) - Oracle's bare metal server pricing vs. Windows: How many regions(01:17:17) - Oracle Cloud Breach: How Can They Pass Responsibility?(01:18:23) - Cloud Pod

Welcome to episode 298 of The Cloud Pod ? where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Matthew and Ryan are in the house (and still very much missing Jonathan) to bring you a  jam packed show this week, with news from Beijing to Virginia! Did you know Virginia was in the US? Amazon definitely wants you to know that. 

We?ve got updates from BigQuery Git Support and their new collab tools, plus all the AI updates you were hoping you?d miss. Tune in now! 

Titles we almost went with this week: The Cloud Pod now Recorded from Planet Earth ?Wait Java still exists? When will java just be coffee and not software Cloudflare Makes AI beat Mazes Replacing native mobile things with mobile web apps won?t fix your problems AWS Turn your security over to the bots The Cloud Pod is lost in the AI labyrinth  AI security agents to secure the AI? wait recursion Durable + Stateless.. I don?t know if you know what those words means Click ops expands to our phones yay! The Cloud Pod is now a data analyst  ??Gitops come to bigquery A big thanks to this week?s sponsor: We?re sponsorless! Want to get your brand, company, or service in front of a very enthusiastic group of cloud news seekers? You?ve come to the right place! Send us an email or hit us up on our slack channel for more info.  AI Is Going Great ? Or How ML Makes All Its Money  

00:46 Manus, a New AI Agent From China is Going Viral?And Raising Big Questions  

Manus is being described as ?the first true autonomous AI agent? from China, capable of completing weeks of professional work in hours. Developed by a team called Butterfly Effect with offices in Beijing and Wuhan, Manus functions as a truly autonomous agent that independently analyzes, plans, and executes complex tasks.  The system uses a multi-agent architecture powered by several distinct AI models, including Anthropic?s Chapters (00:00:00) - Cloud Pod: Week 298(00:00:56) - China's First Autonomous AI Agent Is Going Viral(00:04:12) - Cloudflare's 'Artificial Labyrinth' to Stop Bots(00:06:54) - OpenAI's ChatGPT 4.0 Image Generation(00:10:46) - Bay Bridge vs Golden Gate(00:11:26) - OpenAI's Speech Text and Text Speech Audio Transcription(00:12:28) - Redis vs Valky: The Cloud-Tools Fork(00:17:25) - Amazon AWS: More Geography on Regions and Availability Zones(00:22:05) - Amazon Q & Quicksight: New Scales capability(00:24:39) - Amazon OpenSearch OC2 and OM2 Instances Announce(00:26:11) - OpenJDK24(00:28:26) - AWS Mobile App: More Services, Less Adoption(00:33:17) - AWS Network Firewall: New Flow Management Features(00:34:43) - Google Next(00:36:43) - Google Cloud Backup: Data Protection Summary and AI Protection(00:38:59) - Google's AI Toolbox for Databases(00:41:17) - BigQuery Repos: Git Integration in BigQuery Studio(00:45:31) - Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro Takes the Top L on the(00:48:46) - Azure Functions: Public Preview(00:52:13) - Nvidia Serverless GPUs: What You Need to Know(00:53:59) - Nvidia's Nim Microservices for Azure AI(00:57:16) - Microsoft Launches 6 AI Agents in Security Copilot(01:02:02) - Oracle Introduces AI Agent Studio(01:03:40) - Week in the Cloud: Google Cloud Next

Welcome to episode 297 of The Cloud Pod ? where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Ryan, and Matthew have beaten the black lung and are in the studio ? ready to bring you all the latest and greatest in cloud and AI news! We?ve got Wiz buyouts (that security, it?s so hot right now!) Gemma 3, Glue 5 (but not 3 or 4) and Gemini Robots ? plus looking forward to AI Skills Fest and Google Next, all this week on The Cloud Pod. 

Titles we almost went with this week: Google! Yer a WIZ?Ard Google Announces Network Security Integration? and that must include WIZ Gemini Robots?. What could go wrong  ?AI Data Studios ? So Hot Right Now I want 32 Billion dollars Azure Follow AWS in bad life choices ? mk Wait Glue is more than v2 What happened to Glue 3 and 4? 5th Try and AWS Glue still sucks A big thanks to this week?s sponsor: We?re sponsorless! Want to get your brand, company, or service in front of a very enthusiastic group of cloud news seekers? You?ve come to the right place! Send us an email or hit us up on our slack channel for more info.  Follow Up 

01:05 Microsoft quantum computing claim still lacks evidence: physicists are dubious

A MS researcher presented results behind the company?s controversial claim to have created the first topological qubits ? a long-sought goal of quantum computing.  Theorists said it?s a hard problem, and that it was a beautiful talk but the claims come without evidence, and people think they have gone overboard.  The Head of Quantum at Amazon was also highly skeptical: https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-exec-casts-doubt-microsoft-quantum-claims-2025-3

02:09 Justin ? ?No one?s really buying Microsoft actually created a new topological qubit. There?s some doubt? basically they said that what they showed, which is a microscopic H-shaped aluminum wire on top of indium arsenide ? a superconductor at ultra-cold temperatures, and the devices are designed to harness majoranas, previously undiscovered quasi-particles that are essential for topological qubits to work, and the goals for majoranas to appear at the four tips of the H-shaped wire emerging from reflective-behavior electrons, and these majorans in theory could be used to perform quantum computing that are resistant to informat...

Welcome to episode 296 of The Cloud Pod ? where the forecast is always cloudy! Today is a twofer ? Justin and Ryan are in the house to make sure you don?t miss out on any of today?s important cloud and AI news. From AI Protection, to Google Next, to Amazon Q Developer, we?ve got it all, this week on TCP! 

Titles we almost went with this week: Amazon Step Functions, walks step by step into my IDE Deepseek seeks the truth of ?is it serverless or servers??  ? Well Architected Reviews by AI? What will my solutions architects do now?  ?? The cloud pod hosts steps over the Azure EU Data Boundary ? BYOIP to ALBs? only years too late for everyone. A big thanks to this week?s sponsor: We?re sponsorless! Want to get your brand, company, or service in front of a very enthusiastic group of cloud news seekers? You?ve come to the right place! Send us an email or hit us up on our slack channel for more info.  General News 

01:02 HashiCorp and Red Hat, better together 

Hashicorp has more details on its future, with the recent IBM acquisition in this blog post.  They talk about the wide range of Day 2 operations, including things like drift detection, image management and patching, rightsizing, and configuration management.   As Red Hat Ansible is a purpose built operational management platform, it makes it easier to properly configure resources after the initial creation, but also to evolve the configuration after setup, and then execute ad-hoc playbooks to keep things running reliably and more securely at scale.  Some additional things they?re exploring, now that the acquisition has closed: Red Hat Ansible Inventory generated dynamically by Terraform.  Official Terraform modules for Redhat Ansible, making it easier to trigger terraform from Ansible Playbooks. Redhat and Hashicorp officially support the Red Hat Ansible Provider for Terraform, making it easier to trigger Ansible from Terraform. Evolving Terraform provisioners to support a more comprehensive set of lifecycle integrations. Improved mechanisms to invoke Ansible Playbooks outside of the resource provisioning lifecycle Customers ? not surprisingly ? regularly inte...

Welcome to episode 295 of The Cloud Pod ? where the forecast is always cloudy! 

Welp, it?s sayonara to Skype ? and time to finally make the move to Teams. Hashi has officially moved to IBM, GPT 4.5 is out and people have?thoughts. Plus, Google has the career coach you need to make all your dreams come true.*

*Assuming those dreams are reasonable in a volatile economy. 

Titles we almost went with this week: Someday we?ll find it, the rainbow connection, the lovers, the cloud dreamers, and Me  Dreamer, you know you are a dreamer ??You may say I?m a cloud dreamer, but I?m not the only one May the skype shut down Q can tell me that my python skills are bad How many free code assistance does Ryan need to be a good developer: ALL OF THEM Oops honey I spent 1M dollars on oracle Latest Cloud Pod Reviews: ?It?s a Lemon? A big thanks to this week?s sponsor: We?re sponsorless! Want to get your brand, company, or service in front of a very enthusiastic group of cloud news seekers? You?ve come to the right place! Send us an email or hit us up on our slack channel for more info.  General News 

01:04 On May 5, Microsoft?s Skype will shut down for good 

In what we swear is the 9th death for Skype, Microsoft has announced that after 21 years (with 13 of those years under MS Control,) Skype will be no more.  For real this time. Really.  May 5th is the official last day of Skype, and they?ve indicated you can continue your calls and chats in Teams.  Starting now, you should be able to use your Skype login to get into Teams.  For those of you who do this, you?ll see all your existing contacts and chats in Teams.  Alternatively, you can export your Skype data, specifically contacts, call history and chats.  Current subscribers to Skype Premium services will remain active until the end, but you will not be able to sign up for Skype at this time.  Skype dial pad credits will remain active in the web interface and inside Teams after May 5th so you can finish using those credits. 

03:37 Matthew  ? ?I think there?s a lot of people and, you know, at least people I know in other countries to still use Skype, like pretty heavily for like cross country communications, things along those lines. So I think a lot of that is that there probably is still a good amount of people using it. And this is just, Hey, they?re trying to make it nicely...

Welcome to episode 294 of The Cloud Pod ? where the forecast is always cloudy!Ilya Boy, do we have a news packed week for you! Sutskever raised $30B without a product, Mira Murati launched her own AI lab, and Claude 3.7 now thinks before it speaks. Meanwhile, Microsoft casually invented new matter for quantum computing, Google built an AI scientist, and AWS killed Chime (RIP). At this rate, AI is either going to save the world or speedrun becoming Ultron. Let?s all find out together ? today on The Cloud Pod! 

Titles we almost went with this week: ??Ding ? Chime is Dead Does your container really need 192 cores Quantum is the new AI AI is now IN the robots A big thanks to this week?s sponsor: We?re sponsorless! Want to get your brand, company, or service in front of a very enthusiastic group of cloud news seekers? You?ve come to the right place! Send us an email or hit us up on our slack channel for more info.  AI Is Going Great ? Or How ML Makes All It?s Money 

02:41 Ilya Sutskever?s Startup in Talks to Raise Financing at $30 Billion Valuation

It?s been a minute since we talked about former OpenAI executives and what they?re up to.  Let?s start with Ilya Sutskever and Mira Murati, post Open AI career The Information reports that Ilya Suskevers? startup ?Safe Superintelligence? is in talks to raise $1Billion in a round that would value the startup at $30 Billion.   The company has yet to release a product, but based on the name we can guess what they?re working on?

03:22 Ryan ? ?It?s so nuts to me that they can raise that much without ? really just an idea. Doesn?t have to have any proof or POC??

07:07 Murati Joins Crowded AI Startup Sector

Mira Murati confirmed one of the worst kept secrets in AI, by revealing her lab Thinking Machine Labs.  Murati has lured away two thirds of her team from OpenAI.  We?ll be waiting to see how the funding goes for this one. 

08:02 Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code

Welcome to episode 293 of The Cloud Pod ? where the forecast is always cloudy! This week we?ve got a lot of new and, surprise, a new installment of Cloud Journey AND and aftershow ? so make sure to stay tuned for that! We?ve got undersea cables, Go 1.24, Wasm, Anthropic and more. 

Titles we almost went with this week: ?Lets Go! Under Sea cables make AI go BRRRRRR The CloudPod says it will grow the listeners by 10x by 2027 A big thanks to this week?s sponsor:

We?re sponsorless! Want to get your brand, company, or service in front of a very enthusiastic group of cloud news seekers? You?ve come to the right place! Send us an email or hit us up on our slack channel for more info. 

General News

01:30 Go 1.24 is released! 

Go 1.24 has been released with a bunch of improvements!  Go now fully supports generic type aliases. It also includes several performance improvements to the runtime that have reduced CPU overhead by 2-3% on average across a suite of representative benchmarks. (Say that 5 times fast.) Tool improvements around tool dependencies for a module.  The standard library now includes new mechanisms to facilitate FIPS-140-3 compliance. And you know we love some good FIPS-140-3 compliance.  Lastly, it includes some improved WebAssembly support ? which we?ll talk about later. 

04:46 Unlocking global AI potential with next-generation subsea infrastructure

Meta announced their most ambitious subsea cable endeavor: Project Waterworth.  Once the cable is completed, the project will reach five major continents and span over 50,000 KM (longer than the earth?s circumference) making it the world?s longest subsea cable project using the highest-capacity technology available.  It will bring connectivity to the US, India, Brazil, South Africa, as well as other key regions.  Waterworth will be a multi-billion dollar, multi-year investment to strengthen the scale and reliability of the world?s digital highways by opening three new oceanic corridors with the abundant, high-speed connectivit...

Welcome to episode 292 of The Cloud Pod ? where the forecast is always cloudy! This week Justin and Jonathan are a dynamic duo, bringing you all the latest in news ? and sound effects ? because it?s earnings time! Plus we?ve got new from VS Code, Azure Data Studio, CodeBuild and more. 

Titles we almost went with this week: ??The Cloud Pod Renames Cloud Earnings to ?The Gulf of Capex? Sorry Elon, OpenAI Doesn?t Want Your Pocket Change MacOS gets into the Fastlane for Oil Changes A big thanks to this week?s sponsor: We?re sponsorless! Want to get your brand, company, or service in front of a very enthusiastic group of cloud news seekers? You?ve come to the right place! Send us an email or hit us up on our slack channel for more info.  General News

It?s earnings time! 

01:29 Alphabet is planning to spend big on AI again this year, sending shares down

Alphabet earnings were a bit of a let down with cloud revenue missing and their announcement of spending $75 Billion in CapEx (DeepSeek who?) Consolidated revenue rose 12% in the period to 96.5 billion.  Capex investments of $75b shocked analysts who expected $57.9 billion. EPS was 2.15 vs 2.13. Revenue of 96.5 billion vs 96.62 expected. Ad revenue rose to 72.46 billion vs 71.3, Youtube advertising revenue was 10.47 billion vs 10.22 billion.  Google Cloud was 12.0 billion vs expectation of 12.19 billion.

02:09 Jonathan ? ?I?m guessing ad revenue is gonna be down again, Q1, Q2 because I think a lot of ad revenue is driven by the election season. So that?s not looking too good for them.?

03:13 Microsoft GAAP EPS of $3.23 beats by $0.13, revenue of $69.6B beats by $790M

Microsoft followed up with also weak growth in its Azure cloud computing unit.  EPS was 3.23 beating expectations by 0.13 Revenue of 69.6B beating by 780M Intelligent clo...

Welcome to episode 291 of The Cloud Pod ? where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Jonathan, and Ryan have battled through the various plagues and have come together to bring you all the latest in cloud news, including Kro, DeepSeek, and CoPilot. 

Titles we almost went with this week: In Shocking News China Steals US IP ?The Cloud Pod is Now Supported in Gov Cloud  Microsoft Goes Open Source No SQL? and Hell Hasn?t Frozen Over Zombie Buckets Receive How Much Traffic?!? ?AWS, GCP and Azure eat KRO ???Github Copilot for Free, so You Can Win at Coding Interviews Customized Best Practices? I don?t think you know what best practices are ??TheCloudPod Leverages Deep Understanding to Make a Nuanced Decision on adopting Copilot A big thanks to this week?s sponsor: We?re sponsorless! Want to get your brand, company, or service in front of a very enthusiastic group of cloud news seekers? You?ve come to the right place! Send us an email or hit us up on our slack channel for more info.  Follow Up

01:23 Is DeepSeek really sending data to China? Let?s decode 

One of the early concerns about DeepSeek was its privacy implications, starting with their privacy policy.  Allegations are significant but reality is if the open source model is hosted locally or orchestrated via GPUs in the US the data does not go to China. But if you?re using the DeepSeek app it clearly states in the privacy policy that the data will be stored in China. Data hosted on Chinese servers can be seized by the Government at any time.  Maybe rethink using the native DeepSeek websites and mobile apps and just host them locally in LM studio. 

02:21 Jonathan ? ?They?re collecting some weird data. I get collecting conversational data, because that is the business they?re in, but they?re also doing some weird stuff, like they fingerprint users by looking at the patterns of the way that they type. Not just what they type, but how they type, like the timing between hitting different letters ? things like that.?

8:06 OpenAI Believes DeepSeek Was Developed Using OpenAI Models 

Listener Note: paywall article 

Welcome to episode 290 of The Cloud Pod ? where the forecast is always cloudy! It?s a full house this week ? and a good thing too, since there?s a lot of news! Justin, Jonathan, Ryan, and Matthew are all in the house to bring you news on DeepSeek, OpenVox, CloudWatch, and more. 

Titles we almost went with this week: ??The cloud pod wonders if azure is still hung over from new years Stratoshark sends the Cloud pod to the stratosphere Cutting-Edge Chinese ?Reasoning? Model Rivals OpenAI? and it?s FREE?! Wireshark turns 27, Cloud Pod Hosts feel old ??Operator: DeepSeek is here to kill OpenAI Time for a deepthink on buying all that Nvidia stock AWS Token Service finally goes cloud native The CloudPod wonders if OpenAI?s Operator can order its own $200 subscription A big thanks to this week?s sponsor: We?re sponsorless! Want to get your brand, company, or service in front of a very enthusiastic group of cloud news seekers? You?ve come to the right place! Send us an email or hit us up on our slack channel for more info.  AI IS Going Great ? Or How ML Makes All Its Money

01:29 Introducing the GenAI Platform: Simplifying AI Development for All 

If you?re struggling to find that AI GPU capacity, Digital Ocean is pleased to announce their DigitalOcean GenAI Platform is now available to everyone. The platform aims to democratize AI development, empowering everyone ? from solo developers to large teams ? to leverage the transformative potential of generative AI.  On the Gen AI platform you can: Build Scalable AI Agents Seamlessly integrate with workflows Leverage guardrails Optimize Efficiency.  Some of the use cases they are highlighting are chatbots, e-commerce assistance, support automation, business insights, AI-Driven CRMs, Personalized Learning and interactive tools. 

02:23 Jonathan ? ?Inference cost is really the big driver there. So once you once you build something that?s that?s done, but it?s nice to see somebody focusing on delivering it as a service rather than, you know, a $50 an hour compute for training models. This is right where they need to be.?

04:21 OpenAI: Introducing Operator

Welcome to episode 289 of The Cloud Pod ? where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Ryan, and Matt are here this week to bring you a riveting podcast on EU regulations! Are you asleep yet? No? Ok great. We promise it will be a good show ? despite the title. 

Titles we almost went with this week: Stargate: We?re not saying its Aliens, but its $500 Billion ?AWS: Now with extra sessions EC2 Flex: Bigger, Badder and Probably still expensive SNS FIFO: So fast, it?ll give you whiplash ???Azure: Now with added Legalese (Thanks, EU) OpenAI?s Stargate: From Chatbots to Interdimensional Travel (maybe) ??GCP?s Biochar Initiative: Turning Waste into? Well, Less Waste (hopefully) ?AWS Console Multiple Sessions: So you can prove you dropped those databases from multiple accounts ??Amazon still adds new features to SNS and the cloud pod is impressed ??AWS tries to kill chrome profiles A big thanks to this week?s sponsor: We?re sponsorless! Want to get your brand, company, or service in front of a very enthusiastic group of cloud news seekers? You?ve come to the right place! Send us an email or hit us up on our slack channel for more info.  AI IS Going Great ? Or How ML Makes All Its Money

01:47 Announcing The Stargate Project

Open AI announced a joint investment of $500 billion dollars over the next four years building new AI infrastructure for OpenAI in the US, with the intent to deploy $100B immediately. This infrastructure will secure American leadership in AI, create hundreds of thousands of American jobs, and generate massive economic benefits for the entire world.  The initial equity funders in stargate are SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle and MGX.   Softbank and OpenAI are the lead partners for Stargate, with Softbank having financial responsibility, and OpenAI having operational responsibility.  Arm, Microsoft, Nvidia

Welcome to episode 288 of The Cloud Pod ? where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Ryan, and Jonathan are your hosts as we make our way through this week?s cloud and AI news, including back to Vertex AI, Project Digits, Notebook LM, and some major improvements to AI image generation. 

Titles we almost went with this week: Digits? I?ll show you 5 digits? The only digit the AWS local zone in New York shows me is the middle one ?Keep one eye open near Mercedes with Agentic AI A big thanks to this week?s sponsor: We?re sponsorless! Want to get your brand, company, or service in front of a very enthusiastic group of cloud news seekers? You?ve come to the right place! Send us an email or hit us up on our slack channel for more info.  General News

01:59 Nvidia announces $3,000 personal AI supercomputer called Digits

If you don?t want to hand over all your money to the cloud providers, you will be able to hand over $3,000 dollars to Nvidia? for a computer that is probably going to be obsolete in <12 months. That?s fun!  The new personal AI supercomputer, called Project Digits, will launch in May.  The heart of Digits is the new GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip, which packs enough processing power to run sophisticated AI models, while being compact enough to fit on a desk and run from a standard power outlet. Digits can handle AI models with up to 200 billion parameters, and looks very similar to a Mac Mini.  ?AI will be mainstream in every application for every industry. With Project Digits, the Grace Blackwell Superchip comes to millions of developers,? Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said in a press release. ?Placing an AI supercomputer on the desks of every data scientist, AI researcher, and student empowers them to engage and shape the age of AI.? The Digits system comes with 128gb of unified coherent memory and up to 4tb of NVME storage.  For even more demanding apps, two digit systems can be linked together to handle models with 405b parameters.  The GB10 chip delivers up to 1 petaflop of AI performance, meaning it can perform 1 qu...

Welcome to episode 287 of The Cloud Pod ? where the forecast is always cloudy! 2025 is already shaping up to be another year of ?unprecedented? times, but have no fear, Justin, Ryan, Jonathan, and Matthew are all in the house and (mostly) recovered from the holidays ? and just in time to bring you all the latest new year news in the cloud world. 

Titles we almost went with this week: ??Everyone is investing in AI? but you could invest in the cloud pod Oracle Exadata X11M: Burn a big pile of money The cloud pod has better security than Microsoft ? mk ?The new and improved Cloud Pod 4.0 ?Cloud Nine? Figures (or $80 billion) ??$60 Billion and Counting: The Ai Arms Race Oracle Exadata X11M: For When You Absolutely, Positively, Have to Burn Money The Cloud Pod rebrands to The Cloud AI so we can get 11B in funding A big thanks to this week?s sponsor: We?re sponsorless! Want to get your brand, company, or service in front of a very enthusiastic group of cloud news seekers? You?ve come to the right place! Send us an email or hit us up on our slack channel for more info.  General News

2:42 Oracle?s rampant cloud growth wasn?t enough for Wall Street, and its stock slides after-hours 

We missed talking about Oracle?s earnings call on December 9th, since we were in the middle of our re:Invent shows. Apparently, their rapid cloud growth was not sufficient to appease the Wall Street gods., but honestly ? what is ever good enough for them?   They reported earnings of 1.47 a share, just shy of the 1.48 expected by the analysts. Revenue was up 9% from a year before, at $14.06B below the street?s target of $14.1 Billion. Income was up 26% from prior year, to 3.15B.   Revenue from cloud services and license support was up 12% to 10.8 billion.  Oracle CEO Safra Catz said growth in the AI segment was nothing short of extraordinary, with 336% growth in GPU unit consumption from the prior year.  Despite positive signs, Oracle guidance was soft and this also angered the Wall Street gods. 

04:09 Justin ? ??now in January, their stock is, up a dollar 11 today, but, looking at the month, they haven?t really recovered from earnings quite yet. So...

Welcome to episode 286 of The Cloud Pod ? where the forecast is always cloudy! Welcome to the final show of 2024! We thank you for joining us on our cloud journey over the past year. During this last show of the year, we look back on all the tech that changed our jobs and lives, and make predictions for an AI filled 2025. Join Justin, Jonathan, Ryan, and Matthew as they look forward to even more discussions about undersea cables. Happy New Year! 

Titles we almost went with this week: We thought 2024 would never end I can sum up 2024 ? AI AI AI AI and uhh AI ?AI has taken over the Cloud Pod ? we are not really here ?2024 the year we hoped AI would replace us? close but not yet A big thanks to this week?s sponsor: We?re sponsorless! Want to get your brand, company, or service in front of a very enthusiastic group of cloud news seekers? You?ve come to the right place! Send us an email or hit us up on our slack channel for more info.  General News 00:31   2024 Predictions Look Back

Matt

Simpler and Easier to access LLM with new services Kubernetes will become simpler for smaller companies to operate that doesn?t require Highly Paid Devops/Scientists Low Employee Churn Rates and increased Tenure (Quiet Quitting)

02:07 Matthew ? ?How is it simpler and easier? I think that there are more ways to run it. The general public has an easier way to access it. And they are simpler as Justin said that they are becoming easier and more efficient and better to use for the average user. So I know that I talked to many people that I work with now and just in general and people that are not in tech, which I feel like a year ago.?

Jonathan

There will be mass layoffs in tech directly attributed to AI in Q1 2024 (10k or more) Someone will start a cult that follows an AI LLM God believing in sentience, a higher power.  AI will find a new home in education. Lesson Plans, Personalized Learning plans by students, etc. 

02:07 Jonathan ? ?Well, there is a religion called the First Church of Artificial Intelligence, but it?s been around for longer than this year. I think it?s like five, six years old at this point. So that?s kind of cheating.

Ryan

Start seeing the financial impact of AI to better profitability by using AI. AI Solution tied towards new employee onboarding (replace wiki technology) Removal of stateful firewalls as traffic ruleset (next-gen next-gen firewall)

02:07 Ryan ? ?I mean, agentic AI is something that?s been rolled out in a lot of companies. I know in my day job, it?s been rolled out. I hope to see this get even stronger and more obvious just because I think that, you know, the days of searching through thousands of documents or the one, you know, unmaintained team page that someone built three years ago when they were new are over. And so I?d like to see this continue.

Justi...

Welcome to episode 285 of the Explain it to me Like I?m 5 Podcast, formerly known as The Cloud Pod ? where the forecast is always cloudy! We?ve got a lot of news this week, including the last of our coverage from re:Invent, ChatGTP Pro, FPGA, and even some major staffing turnovers.

Titles we almost went with this week: Throw $200 dollars in a fire with ChatGPT Pro Jeff Barr is wrapped up by Agentic AI ?The Tribble with Trilliums ?The Wind in the Quantum Willows  ??Rise of the dead instances FPGA and PowerPC Jeff Barr is replaced by Nova The Cloud Pod: Return of the dead instances types After 6 year Jeff Barr hands over the reigns to the CloudPod ?For our 6th birthday Jeff barr Retires For our 6th birthday jeff barr delegates announcements to the cloud pod 6 years of meaningless PR drivel ?6 years of cloud news and we still don?t know what Quantum computing is A big thanks to this week?s sponsor: We?re sponsorless! Want to get your brand, company, or service in front of a very enthusiastic group of cloud news seekers? You?ve come to the right place! Send us an email or hit us up on our slack channel for more info.  General News

HAPPY 6th BIRTHDAY! 

2:00 HashiCorp at re:Invent 2024: Security Lifecycle Management with AWS

Hashi is a big sponsor of re:Invent, so of course they had some news of their own to release.  HCP Vault Secrets auto-rotation is now generally available.  Dynamic secrets are generally available via HCP Vault Secrets. Secrets sync will help keep your secrets synced with AWS Secrets Manager. It still appears to be one direction, but you can now also view secrets in AWS Secrets Manager that are managed by vault.  HCP Vault Radar, now in beta, auto...

Welcome to episode 284 of The Cloud Pod ? where the forecast is always cloudy! Everybody is in the house this week, and it?s a good thing because since we?ve last recorded re:Invent happened, and we have a LOT to talk about. So let?s jump right in! 

Titles we almost went with this week: Amazon Steals from Azure?. We Are Doomed  ?The Cloud Pod Can Now Throw Away a lot of Code The Cloud Pod Controls the Future The Cloud Pod Observes More Insights We Are Simplicity ?X None of the Above Stop Trying to Make Bedrock & Q Happen My Head Went SuperNova over all the Q Announcements These are Not the Gadgets Bond Needed, Q!  A big thanks to this week?s sponsor: We?re sponsorless! Want to get your brand, company, or service in front of a very enthusiastic group of cloud news seekers? You?ve come to the right place! Send us an email or hit us up on our slack channel for more info.  AWS 

08:12 It?s the re:Invent recap! 

Did you make any announcement predictions? Let?s see how our hosts?  predictions stacked up to reality. 

Matt ? 1

Large Green Computing Reinvent LLM at the Edge Something new on S3?

Ryan (AI) ? 1

Improved serverless observability tools Expansion of AI Driven workflows in datalakes? Greater Focus on Multi-Account or Multi-region orchestration, centralized compliance management, or enhanced security services

Jonathan ? 0

New Edge Computing Capabilities better global application deployment type features. (Cloudflare competitor maybe) New automated cost optimization tools Automated RAG/vector to S3

Justin  ? 2

Managed Backstage or platform like service New LLM multi-modal replacement or upgrade to Titan? Competitor VM offering to Broadcom?

Honorable Mentions:

Jonathan:

Deeper integration between serverless and container services

New region

Enhanced Observability with AI driven debugging tool?

Justin:

Multicloud management ? in a bigger way (Anthos competitor)

Agentic AI toolings

New ARM graviton chip

How many will AI or Artificial Intelligence be said: 45

Justin ? 35?

Jonathan ? 72

Pre:Invent

There were over 180 announcements, and yes ? we have them all listed here for you...

Welcome to episode 283 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Break out your crystal balls and shuffle those tarot decks, because it?s Re:Invent prediction time! Sorry we missed you all last week ? the plague has been strong with us. But Justin and Jonathan are BACK, and we?ve got a ton of news, so buckle in and let?s get started! 

Titles we almost went with this week: Not My Snowcones!  Lambda at 10: Still Better Than Windows Containers  A big thanks to this week?s sponsor: We?re sponsorless! Want to get your brand, company, or service in front of a very enthusiastic group of cloud news seekers? You?ve come to the right place! Send us an email or hit us up on our slack channel for more info.  General News  

01:27 The voice of America Online?s ?You?ve got mail? has died at age 74

Elwoods Edwards, the voice behind the online service AOL?s iconic ?You?ve got mail? sound notification has died at the age of 74. He was just one day shy of his 75th birthday.  The ?you?ve got mail? soundbite started in 1989 when Steve Case, CEO of Quantum Computer Services (which will later become America Online or AOL,) wanted to add a human voice to their Quantum online service.   Karen Edwards, who worked as a customer service representative, heard Case discussing the plan and suggested her husband Elwood, a professional broadcaster.  Edwards recorded the famous phrase and others (?Welcome? ?File?s done? and ?Goodbye? among them) on a cassette recorder in his living room.  He was paid $200 for the service.   His voice is still used to greet users of the current AOL service.  AWS 

03:04 It?s Time for RE:Invent Predictions!

Matt

Large Green Computing Reinvent LLM at the Edge Something new On S3

Ryan (AI)

Improved serverless observability tools Expansion of AI Driven workflows in datalakes Greater Focus on Multi-Account or Multi-region orchestration, centralized compliance management, or enhanced security services

Jonathan

New Edge Computing Capabilities better global application deployment type features. (Cloudflare competitor maybe) New automated cost optimization tools