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333: The Cloud Pod Goes Nano Banana
10 Dec 2025
01:02:32
Welcome to episode 333 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Ryan, and Matt are taking a quick break from re:Invent festivities. They bring you the latest and greatest in Cloud and AI news. This week, we discuss Norad and Anthropic teaming up to bring you Christmas cheer. Wait, is that right? Huh. We also have undersea cables, some Turkish region delight, and a LOT of Opus 4.5 news. Let’s get into it!
Titles we almost went with this week
Boring Error Pages Not Found
Claude Goes Native in Snowflake: Finally, AI That Stays Where Your Data Lives
Cross-Cloud Romance: AWS and Google Make It Official with Interconnect
Google Gemini Puts OpenAI in Code Red: The Tables Have Turned
Azure NAT Gateway V2: Now With More Zones Than a Parking Lot
From ChatGPT to Chat-Uh-Oh: OpenAI Sounds the Alarm as Gemini Steals 200 Million
Users **Anthropic
Scheduled Actions: Because Your VMs Need a Work-Life Balance Too
Finally, Your 500 Errors Can Look as Good as Your Homepage
Foundry Model Router: Because Choosing Between 47 AI Models is Nobody’s Idea of Fun
Google Takes the Scenic Route: New Cable Avoids the Sunda Strait Traffic Jam
Azure Application Gateway Gets Its TCP/IP Diploma
Google Cloud Gets Its Türkiye Dinner: 2 Billion Dollar Cloud Feast Coming Soon
Microsoft Foundry: Turning AI Chaos into Compliance Gold
The model supports up to 14 reference images for style consistency and generates 4K resolution outputs with multilingual text rendering capabilities.
The model includes Google Search grounding for factual accuracy in generated infographics and diagrams, plus built-in SynthID watermarking for transparency. Copyright indemnification will be available at general availability under Google’s shared responsibility framework.
Enterprise integrations are live with Adobe Firefly, Photoshop, Canva, and Figma, enabling production-grade creative workflows. Major retailers, including Klarna, Shopify, and Wayfair, report using the model for product visualization and marketing asset generation at scale.
Developers can access Nano Banana Pro through Vertex AI with Provisioned Throughput and Pay As You Go pricing options, plus advanced safety filters. Business users get access through Google Workspace apps, including Slides, Vids, and
Chapters
(00:00:00) - The Cloud Pod: This Week's News
(00:03:02) - Google Launches Nano Banana Pro in Google Workspace
(00:05:59) - Cloud Opus 4.5 Availability and Performance
(00:10:41) - OpenAI Declares Code Red as Google's Gemini GPT G
(00:14:00) - AWS 10: Prediction vs. Keynotes
(00:14:49) - Google Cloud Region Coming to Turkey
(00:18:52) - Google to Build New Subsea Cable Link Between Australia and Thailand
(00:22:12) - Google Cloud Next
(00:25:57) - Google Cloud VPN Flow Logs now support Cross-Cloud Networks
(00:29:43) - Amazon Cloud Connects to Google Cloud
(00:32:10) - Azure Application Gateway: TLS and TCP Protocol Termination
(00:35:39) - Azure 2.8: Agent to Agent in Public Preview
(00:37:02) - Microsoft Cloud Open Sport 5
(00:39:10) - Azure DNS & Security: Threat Intelligence Feed Blocking
(00:41:22) - NAT Gateway: Standard V2 SKU and Public Preview
(00:45:23) - Azure app service: Custom Error Pages now in general availability
(00:47:22) - Microsoft Foundry
(00:51:02) - Microsoft's AI Orchestration Layer Gets Scheduled Tasks
(00:56:18) - Week in the Cloud: AWS Extravaganza
(00:57:06) - NORAD's AI-powered Holiday Tools
(01:00:34) - Elf Photo Day
(01:01:20) - Unifi: Printer v2 local
332: 2025 Re:Invent Predictions Draft – May The Odds Be Ever In Your Favor
28 Nov 2025
00:31:08
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...
(00:15:09) - 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
324: Clippy’s Revenge: The AI Assistant That Actually Works - Sort Of
09 Oct 2025
01:04:28
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
Google Cloudfiled 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...
(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
231: The CloudPod Takes the Highway to the Datazone
19 Oct 2023
00:33:21
Welcome to The Cloud Pod episode 231! This week Justin and Matthew are discussing updates to Terraform testing for code validation, some new tools from Docker, look into the now generally available AWS DataZone, and dig into the evolution of passkeys over at Google. Slide into the passenger seat and let’s check out this week’s cloud news.
Titles we almost went with this week:
The Cloud Pod wants to validate your code
The Cloud Pod can now test in parallel
A big thanks to this week’s sponsor:
Foghorn Consulting provides top-notch cloud and DevOps engineers to the world’s most innovative companies. Initiatives stalled because you have trouble hiring? Foghorn can be burning down your DevOps and Cloud backlogs as soon as next week.
General News this Week:
At Hashiconf this week, they announced Terraform 1.6 is now available for download.
The most exciting feature? We’re so glad you asked!
The new terraform test framework that deprecates and replaces the previous experimental features added in 0.15.
Terraform test allows authors to consistently validate the functionality of their configuration in a safe environment. Tests are written using familiar HCL syntax, so there is no need to learn a new language to get started.
Config-Driven import introduced in Terraform 1.5 gets improvements to support variable driven ID attributes. Making it easier than ever to import existing items.
Cli Improvements
Several changes are coming to the S3 Backend remote state in this release to better align with the SDK and the official terraform AWS provider.
It should still work but you may receive warnings about deprecated attributes. May the odds be ever in your favor.
You can check out the Testing Terraform overview page here, or the Write Terraform tests tutorial here.
03:22 Justin – “ One of the interesting things that, you know, that wasn’t part of this particular announcement is that they’re also adding an ability to use AI to help you with yo...
230: If I Ever Own a Sailboat, I Will Name it Kafka… and Sail it on a Data Lake
11 Oct 2023
00:54:50
Welcome to The Cloud Pod episode 230, where the forecast is always cloudy! This week we’re sailing our pod across the data lake and talking about updates to managed delivery from Kafka. We also take a gander at Bedrock, some new security tools from our friends over at Google. We’re also back with our Cloud Journey Series talking security theater.Stay Tuned!
Titles we almost went with this week:
Security and Delivery Within an Hour… Sacrilegious!
Unlock Global Innovation with Sovereign Cloud
Microsoft… What in the World Are You Doing?
⛵If I ever own a sailboat, I will name it Kafka.
And the Oscar for Security Theater goes to…
A big thanks to this week’s sponsor:
Foghorn Consulting provides top-notch cloud and DevOps engineers to the world’s most innovative companies. Initiatives stalled because you have trouble hiring? Foghorn can be burning down your DevOps and Cloud backlogs as soon as next week.
General News this Week:
01:15 Microsoft fans… This isn’t going to be pretty. You were warned.
In what has turned out to be a not so great week for Microsoft (and their customers) the software giant has released an urgent warning for SQL server instances running on Azure. **Insert meme of dog saying it’s fine surrounded by fire here**
Microsoft has detailed a new campaign in which attackers unsuccessfully attempted to move laterally to a cloud environment through a SQL server instance.
The attacker initially exploited a SQL injection vulnerability in an app, and then was able to gain access and elevated permission on MS SQL instance deployed in Azure VM.
The threat actor than attempted to move horizontally by abusing the server’s cloud identity, which could possess elevated permissions (least privilege folks)
MS says it found no evidence that the attacker successfully moved.
Considering the recent criticism by Tenable CEO who threw them under the bus for not fixing a major vulnerability for over 90 days, this warning and confirmation se...
229: The CloudPod Guide to Gartner’s Magic Quadrant Container Chaos
09 Oct 2023
00:40:41
Welcome episode 228 of the Cloud Pod podcast – where the forecast is always cloudy! This week your hosts Justin, Jonathan, Matthew and Ryan are taking a look at Magic Quadrant, Gemini AI, and GraalOS – along with all the latest news from OCI, Google, AWS, and Azure.
Titles we almost went with this week:
The CloudPod wonders if Anthropic’s Santa Clause will bring us everything we want in an AI Bot.
The Cloud Pod recommends protection to achieve Safer
Google rides the gemini rocket to AI JPB
The only Copilot I need Azure, is Booze
GraalOS, or what we now call ‘the noise our CFO makes when he receives the Oracle audit bills’
The hosts of the Cloud pod would like to understand how to properly pronounce GraalOS
Is Oracle even on the magic quadrant for cloud?
RedHat Puts lipstick on the pig and calls it OpenStack
A big thanks to this week’s sponsor:
Foghorn Consulting provides top-notch cloud and DevOps engineers to the world’s most innovative companies. Initiatives stalled because you have trouble hiring? Foghorn can be burning down your DevOps and Cloud backlogs as soon as next week.
Red Hat is rebranding the Red Hat OpenStack Platform, which will now be known as Red Hat OpenStack services on OpenShift. You know, because let’s add containers. What could go wrong?
We didn’t know anyone was still trying to openstack at this point – did you?
“By integrating Kubernetes with OpenStack, organizations see improved resource management and scalability, greater flexibility across the hybrid cloud, simplified development and DevOps practices and more,” said Sean Cohen, director of product management in Red Hat’s Hybrid Platforms organizations.
Per Holger, Mueller openstack has gotten a lot of popularity in the Telecommunications industry where they use it to build private clouds to run their networks… *adds to the list of don’t work there… telecommunications companies*
02:32 Justin – “I mean, OpenShift is just like Convox. It’s a plat...
228: Microsoft and Oracle Unite Their Legal Departments to Bring You…
27 Sep 2023
01:15:02
Welcome episode 228 of the Cloud Pod podcast – where the forecast is always cloudy! This week your hosts are Justin, Jonathan, Matthew and Ryan –
Titles we almost went with this week:
The Cloud Pod gets scanned for a malware infection
The Cloud Pod gives up on security
The Cloud Pod burns cash on a new Mac instance
⚔️Copilot’s Copyright Crusade – Microsoft’s Got Your Back in Copyright Battles
☁️The Cloud Pod loves it when the clouds come together
The Cloud Pod doubts 90 day account expirations are a good idea
Matt brings a bit of class to the Cloud Pod
A big thanks to this week’s sponsor:
Foghorn Consulting provides top-notch cloud and DevOps engineers to the world’s most innovative companies. Initiatives stalled because you have trouble hiring? Foghorn can be burning down your DevOps and Cloud backlogs as soon as next week.
General News this Week:
AWS
Amazon has a couple of new instances for us this week, including Amazon R7a, which is powered by the 4th generation AMD EPYC (Genoa) processors with a maximum frequency of 3.7ghz – this has 50 percent higher performance compared to the previous generation instances.
It also supports Double Data rate 5 (DDR5) memory.
From 1 vcpu and 8gb of ramp to 192 vcpu 1.5tb of memory
Not excited for AMD? Would you rather pay more money for an Intel version? Well fear not! Also available is the new R7iz instances – which are the fastest 4th generation scalable-based (sapphire rapids) instances with 3....
227: The Cloud Pod Peeps at Azure’s Explicit Proxy
13 Sep 2023
00:51:58
Welcome episode 227 of the Cloud Pod podcast – where the forecast is always cloudy! This week your hosts are Justin, Jonathan, Matthew and Ryan – and they’re REALLY excited to tell you all about the 161 one things announced at Google Next. Literally, all the things. We’re also saying farewell to EC2 Classic, Amazon SES, and Azure’s Explicit Proxy – which probably isn’t what you think it is.
Titles we almost went with this week:
Azure announced a what proxy?
The Cloud Pod would like you to engage with our email.
Oracle Rover to Base… Come In Rover
️A snarky look at 160 Google Next Announcements
Google Next’s got 161 Announcements and AI ain’t one
How high can you count, Google can count to 161
⚖️The cloud pod would like to get consensus on the definition of light weight
A big thanks to this week’s sponsor:
Foghorn Consulting provides top-notch cloud and DevOps engineers to the world’s most innovative companies. Initiatives stalled because you have trouble hiring? Foghorn can be burning down your DevOps and Cloud backlogs as soon as next week.
General News this Week:
AWS
Werner has a blog post talking about the end of Ec2-classic, with the final EC2-Classic instance being turned off on August 15th, 2 years after the announcement.
He points out that the reason it was “classic” is because of the network architecture. All instances launched on a giant 10.0.0.0/8 flat network shared between all customers.
The process for end users was simple, but it was highly complex for AWS at the time.
The m1.small that launched was equivalent of 1 virtual CPU powered by a 1.7ghz Xeon processor with 1.75gb of ram, and 160gb of local disk, and 250mb/s of network bandwidth. For the low price of $0.10 per clocked hour.
Werners blog even ran on the m1 small for 5+ years before he moved it to the Amazon S3 website feature.
VPC’s introduced in 2013, allows AWS customers to have their own slice of the cloud.. But classic still lived for another decade.
The EC2 team kept classic running until every instance was retired or migrated, providing the necessary documentation, tools and support from engineering and account management through the process.
Werner shows that this is one of the best examples of delivering cloud for today’s workloads as well as tomorrow, and how AWS won’t pull the rug out from under you.
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226: Duet, Co-Pilot, and a Code Whisperer Walk into a bar in San Francisco
08 Sep 2023
01:05:42
Welcome episode 226 of the Cloud Pod podcast – where the forecast is always cloudy! This week Justin, Matt and Ryan chat about all the news and announcements from Google Next, including – surprise surprise – the hot topic of AI, GKE Enterprise, Duet, Co-Pilot, Code Whisperer and more! There’s even some non-Next news thrown into the episode. So whether you’re interested in BART or Bard, we’ve got the news from SF just for you.
Titles we almost went with this week:
️The cloud pod sings a duet, guess who was singing
You get AI, you get AI, Everyone Gets AI
Does a Mandiant Hunt, Or does a Hunter mandiant?
️The Cloud Pod goes into ROM Mode
Does a mandalorian Hunt, Or does a Hunter a mandalorian?
A big thanks to this week’s sponsor:
Foghorn Consulting provides top-notch cloud and DevOps engineers to the world’s most innovative companies. Initiatives stalled because you have trouble hiring? Foghorn can be burning down your DevOps and Cloud backlogs as soon as next week.
General News this Week:
So you know Github Copilot, Duet AI, and Codewhisperer…. But do you know Code LLama? (Meta you better get good stickers on this)
Meta has released the source code for the Llama 2 based Code Specialized LLM in three sizes 7B, 13B, and 35B parameters.
Each model is trained with 500b tokens of code and code-related data.
The 7B and 13b base and instructor models have also been trained with fill-in-the-middle capability allowing them to insert code into existing code.
The 7B model can run on a single GPU, the 34B model however returns the best results and for the best for coding assistance… while the 7b and 13b are great for real-time code completions.
Training recipes for Code Llama are available on the Github Repository.
04:08 Matthew – “It’s interesting; if you go deep into the article there, they start to digress into like ‘Hey, this 7 and the 13 billion are better for near real time response back’ and the 34 billion… is better for fine tuning for yourself. So they really go into a little bit more detail of how to do it. And, you know, I think they also put out some code snippets if you kind of dive into it a little bit more, which I thought was very nice.”
225: The Cloud Pod Proclaims: Merry Google Next Eve!
28 Aug 2023
00:33:54
Google Next Eve!
Welcome episode 225 of The CloudPod Podcast – where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Jonathan, and Ryan are your hosts this week as we discuss all things Google Next! We talk schedule offerings, make our predictions about announcements, and prepare to be generally wrong about everything. Also – do you like stickers? Everyone likes stickers! Be on the lookout for us, and maybe you can have one.
Titles we almost went with this week:
None! Google Next is the next big thing, so of course it’s the title.
A big thanks to this week’s sponsor:
Foghorn Consulting provides top-notch cloud and DevOps engineers to the world’s most innovative companies. Initiatives stalled because you have trouble hiring? Foghorn can be burning down your DevOps and Cloud backlogs as soon as next week.
Pre-Show
Hashicorp has responded in their FAQ to some of the concerns we brought up when we talked about them moving to the BSL license in our last show.
Question: Can I host the HashiCorp products as a service internal to my organization?
Answer: Yes. The terms of the BSL allow for all non-production and production usage, except for providing competitive offerings to third parties that embed or host our software. Hosting the products for your internal use of your organization is permitted. HashiCorp considers an organization as including all of its affiliates. This means one division can host a HashiCorp product for use by another internal division.
Q: What is a “competitive offering” under the HashiCorp BSL license?
A: A “competitive offering” is a product that is sold to third parties, including through paid support arrangements, that significantly overlaps the capabilities of a HashiCorp commercial product. For example, this definition would include hosting or embedding Terraform as part of a solution that is sold competitively against our commercial versions of Terraform. By contrast, products that are not sold or supported on a paid basis are always allowed under the HashiCorp BSL license because they are not considered competitive.
Q: What does the term “embedded” mean under the HashiCorp BSL license?
A: Under the HashiCorp BSL license, the term “embedded” means including the source code or object code, including executable binaries, from a HashiCorp product in a competitive product. “Embedded” also means packaging the competitive product in such a way that the HashiCorp product must be accessed or downloaded for the competitive product to operate.
Q: What if HashiCorp releases a new product or feature in the future that makes my project competitive?
A: If HashiCorp creates an offering in the future that is competitive with a product you...
224: The Cloud Pod Adopts the BS License
24 Aug 2023
00:54:46
Welcome to episode 224 of The CloudPod Podcast – where the forecast is always cloudy! This week, your hosts Justin, Jonathan, and Ryan discuss some major changes at Terraform, including switching from open source to a BSL License. Additionally, we cover updates to Amazon S3, goodies from Storage Day, and Google Gemini vs. Open AI.
Titles we almost went with this week:
None! This week’s title was ✨chef’s kiss✨
A big thanks to this week’s sponsor:
Foghorn Consulting provides top-notch cloud and DevOps engineers to the world’s most innovative companies. Initiatives stalled because you have trouble hiring? Foghorn can be burning down your DevOps and Cloud backlogs as soon as next week.
Pre-Show
General News this Week:
Do you use tools like N0 or ScaleSet? Or perhaps some of the other Terraform-adjacent things? You **may** be in some trouble.
Despite being ok with Amazon and GCP integrating their open source – and now Terraform cloud offering – Hashicorp is mad at companies adopting their technology and productizing it, forcing them to move to the new BSL (Business Source License) model.
This covers all Hashicorp products, not just Terraform.
HashiCorp points out that their approach has enabled them to partner closely with cloud providers to enable tight integrations for their joint users and customers, as well as hundreds of other technology partners.
There are vendors who take advantage of pure OSS models, and the community work on OSS projects, for their own commercial goals, without providing material contributions back. (GASP!)
Hashi doesn’t think this is “the spirit of open source.”
223: Get an AWS Spin on Savings with Cost Optimization Flywheel
18 Aug 2023
00:32:14
Welcome episode 223 of The CloudPod Podcast! It’s a full house – Justin, Matt, Ryan, and Jonathan are all here this week to discuss all the cloud news you need. This week, cost optimization is the big one, with a deep dive on the newest AWS blog. Additionally, we’ve got updates to BigQuery, Google’s Health Service, managed services for Prometheus, and more.
Titles we almost went with this week:
I swear to you Mr. Compliance Man, Mutator is not as bad as it sounds
Oracle Cloud customer – or how we let Oracle Audit us internally at will
️We are all confused by the lack of AWS news
✨The CloudPod copies other Podcast’s Features
Get AWS spin on savings with Cost Optimization Flywheel
A big thanks to this week’s sponsor:
Foghorn Consulting provides top-notch cloud and DevOps engineers to the world’s most innovative companies. Initiatives stalled because you have trouble hiring? Foghorn can be burning down your DevOps and Cloud backlogs as soon as next week.
General News this Week:
AWS
No AWS news – so that should tell you we’re DEFINITELY getting close to announcement season.
Enterprises are generating data at an exponential rate, spanning traditional structured transactional data, semi-structured like JSON and unstructured data like images and audio.
Beyond the scale, the divergent types present processing challenges for developers, sometimes requiring a separate processing flow for each.
BigQuery supported semi structured JSON at launch eliminating the need for processing and providing schema flexibility, intuitive querying and the scalability benefits afforded to structured data.
Google is now releasing new sql functions for Bigquery JSON, extending the power and flexibility of their core JSON support. These new functions make it easier to extract and construct JSON data and perform complex data analysis.
Convert JSON values into primitive types (INT64, FLOAT64, BOOL and STRING)
Is anyone else insulted that STRING is considered primitive?
easier and more flexible way with new JSON LAX functions
Easily update and modify...
222: Even AWS is Hit by Inflation, and is Passing that on to you – the Customer
09 Aug 2023
01:02:16
Welcome episode 222 of The Cloud Pod Podcast – where the forecast is always cloudy! This week we take an in depth look at the latest earnings reports from all the major players, changes to IPv4 costs (inflation), Healthscribe, and all the news (in cybersecurity) that’s fit to print.
Titles we almost went with this week:
The CloudPod can finally read the doctors notes with HealthScribe
Amazon Healthscribe it’s like transcription, but for doctors who use big words
You get an LLM, you get an LLM; apparently EVERYTHING at Amazon gets an LLM
☁️Should The Cloud Pod rename itself C?
Musk Flips Twitter the Bird (just for Jonathan)
A big thanks to this week’s sponsor:
Foghorn Consulting provides top-notch cloud and DevOps engineers to the world’s most innovative companies. Initiatives stalled because you have trouble hiring? Foghorn can be burning down your DevOps and Cloud backlogs as soon as next week.
Pre-Show
The guys didn’t talk about this when it came up, as it didn’t get a full blog post and we killed lightning round – but Matt has **thoughts!**
Azure storage strives to give you an effective disaster recovery offering and are now supporting customer-managed failover for ADLS Gen 2 accounts.
Whether you are performing testing or facing a true disaster your primary endpoint can now initiate a failover from our primary endpoint to your secondary endpoint.
01:40 Matt – “It’s just one of those features that I’m just dumbfounded that didn’t exist day one. You know, encryption, DR – these things should just be there. And the fact that it’s ADLS has been around for a decent amount of time.”
Microsoft beat expectations, both for the last quarter and for when they were going to announce. It was early!
Net income of 20.1 billion for Fiscal 4th quarter 2023; which is up 20% from a year earlier.
Revenue rose to 56.19 Billion, ahead of Wall Street’s expectation of 55.47 billion
Stock still dropped 3% in after hours trading and is basically down 5...
322: Did OpenAI and Microsoft Break Up? It’s Complicated…
24 Sep 2025
01:23:24
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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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.
(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
221: The Biggest Innovator in SFTP in 30 Years? Amazon Web Services!
06 Aug 2023
00:53:37
Welcome episode 221 of The Cloud Pod podcast – where the forecast is always cloudy! This week your hosts, Justin, Jonathan, Ryan, and Matthew look at some of the announcements from AWS Summit, as well as try to predict the future – probably incorrectly – about what’s in store at Next 2023. Plus, we talk more about the storm attack, SFTP connectors (and no, that isn’t how you get to the Moscone Center for Next) Llama 2, Google Cloud Deploy and more!
Titles we almost went with this week:
Now You Too Can Get Ignored by Google Support via Mobile App
The Tech Sector Apparently Believes Multi-Cloud is Great… We Hate You All.
The cloud pod now wants all your HIPAA Data
The Meta Llama is Spreading Everywhere
The Cloud Pod Recursively Deploys Deploy
A big thanks to this week’s sponsor:
Foghorn Consulting, provides top-notch cloud and DevOps engineers to the world’s most innovative companies. Initiatives stalled because you have trouble hiring? Foghorn can be burning down your DevOps and Cloud backlogs as soon as next week.
News this Week:
We didn’t find anything in the survey particularly interesting, until they broke it down by respondents who are actively in the tech industry.
Despite strong Macro pressure and recent earnings reports about slowness in growth, 48% of respondents increased their cloud spend in the last 12 months
94% of tech industry respondents indicated that multi-cloud works, citing that it has advanced or achieved their company’s business goals.
Sure, Jan.
91% of tech companies rely on platform teams.
01:37 Justin – “The thing about that is, I could see the value for Saas vendors, right? Especially if you’re dealing with large data ingestion. I think we were talking to
New Relic, for example, when they launched a New Relic on Azure.It saves their customers a bunch of money because they’re not doing egress charges out to the internet to AWS to basically get the New Relic data in. And they see that as a strategy that helps customers reduce money and also helps increase adoption as well as partnership opportunities.”
AWS
05:11 AWS Summit New York just happened, and there were a lot of announcements (and protests.) We won’t spend a lot of time going over each of these in the show, but the link are available for you to peruse at your leisure.
220: The Cloud Pod Read Llama Llama Red Pajama
26 Jul 2023
00:29:30
Welcome episode 220 of The Cloud Pod podcast – where the forecast is always cloudy! This week your hosts, Justin, Jonathan, Ryan, and Matthew discuss all things cloud, including virtual machines, an AI partnership between Microsoft and Meta for Llama 2, Lambda functions, Fargate, and lots of security updates including the Outlook breach and WORM protections. This and much more in our newest episode.
Titles we almost went with this week:
Too Many Bees died for Honeycode
Microsoft announces that AI will only cost you 3 arms and a leg.
The Cloud Pod also detects Recursive Loops in cloud news
The cloud pod disables health checks bc who needs them
A big thanks to this week’s sponsor:
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News this Week:
AWS
You can turn this off by reaching out to AWS support, if you have a valid use-case where recursion is intentional, or if you need to loop something through more than 16 times....
219: The Cloud Pod Proclaims: One Does Not Just Entra into Mordor
20 Jul 2023
00:22:57
Welcome episode 219 of The Cloud Pod podcast – where the forecast is always cloudy! Today your hosts are Justin and Jonathan, and they discuss all things cloud, including clickstream analytics, databricks, Microsoft Entra, virtual machines, Outlook threats, and some major changes over at the Google Cloud team.
Titles we almost went with this week:
TCP is not Entranced with Entra ID
The Cave you Fear to Entra, Holds the Treasure you Seek
Microsoft should rethink Entra rules for their Email
A big thanks to this week’s sponsor:
Foghorn Consulting, provides top-notch cloud and DevOps engineers to the world’s most innovative companies. Initiatives stalled because you have trouble hiring? Foghorn can be burning down your DevOps and Cloud backlogs as soon as next week.
News this Week:
AWS
Want some solutions? Don’t we all! Well, for clickstream analytics at least, Amazon has released an update that has pre built solutions using Amazon components.
Covers iOS and Android
You can now deploy an end-to-end solution to capture, ingest, store, analyze and visualize your customers’ clickstreams inside your web and mobile applications.
This solution is built using standard AWS services to allow you to keep your data in the security and compliance perimeter of your AWS account and customize the processing and analytics as you require, giving you the full flexibility to extract value for your business.
You can use plugins to transform the data during processing via EMR< AWS has provided you to build in ones for User Agent enrichment and IP address enrichment.
You can also export your source server inventory list to a CSV file and download it to your local disk.
218: The Cloud Pod is a Sucker and Shifts Left
14 Jul 2023
00:51:16
Welcome to episode 218 of The Cloud Pod podcast – where the forecast is always cloudy! Today your hosts Justin, Ryan, and Matt discuss all things cloud – including migration services, AppFabric, state machines, and security updates, as well as the idea of shifting left versus (or in addition to) shifting down.
Titles we almost went with this week:
The Cloud Pod Prefers to be Bought by Anyone but IBM
What Does the F(in)O(ps)X say?
The Cloud Pod Leverage appFabric for your SaaS Security
A big thanks to this week’s sponsor:
Foghorn Consulting, provides top-notch cloud and DevOps engineers to the world’s most innovative companies. Initiatives stalled because you have trouble hiring? Foghorn can be burning down your DevOps and Cloud backlogs as soon as next week.
News this Week:
01:21 IBM acquires hybrid cloud software company Apptio for $4.6B
IBM is acquiring software company Apptio Inc for 4.6B in cash.
THe move comes five years after Vista Equity bought the firm for 1.94B
Apptio was created in 2007, and was notable as the first company Andreeson Horowitz invested in. Apptio owns Cloudability, among other features.
Apptio offers cloud-based technology and hybrid business management software for managing business in the IT field.
IBM Chief Executive Arvind Krishna said in a statement “Technology is changing business at a rate and pace we’ve never seen before. To capitalize on these changes, it is essential to optimize investments which drive better business value, and Apptio does just that. Apptio’s offerings combined with IBM’s IT automation software and watsonx AI platform, gives clients the most comprehensive approach to optimize and manage all of their technology investments.”
2:30Ryan – “The last time I played with Apptio was very early in my cloud experience and Apptio was struggling to understand how to sort of port their methodologies into cloud. It worked really well in the data center and for IT shops, for tracking assets and managing visibility into cost and financials there, but it really struggled with stuff like dynamically changing instance groups and that sort of thing. It made sense when they bought Cloudability, and I haven’t played with it since.”
06:10Justin – “I did have an opportunity to talk to some startups. they’re on the floor and they’re thinking about kind of the next generation and what that looks like and you’re really talking about bringing AI and LLM technology into FinO...
217: The Cloud Pod Whispers Its Secrets to Azure Open AI
07 Jul 2023
00:39:53
Welcome to the newest episode of The Cloud Pod podcast – where the forecast is always cloudy! Today your hosts Justin, Jonathan, and Matt discuss all things cloud and AI, as well as some really interesting forays into quantum computing, changes to Google domains, Google accusing Microsoft of cloud monopoly shenanigans, and the fact that Azure wants all your industry secrets. Also, Finops and all the logs you could hope for. Are your secrets safe? Better tune in and find out!
Titles we almost went with this week:
The Cloud Pod Adds Domains to the Killed by Google list
The Cloud Pod Whispers it’s Secrets to Azure OpenAI
The Cloud Pod Accuses the Cloud of Being a Monopoly
The Cloud Pod Does Not Pass Go and Does Not collect $200
A big thanks to this week’s sponsor:
Foghorn Consulting, provides top-notch cloud and DevOps engineers to the world’s most innovative companies. Initiatives stalled because you have trouble hiring? Foghorn can be burning down your DevOps and Cloud backlogs as soon as next week.
News this Week:
Overall, Vault 1.14 is a significant release with a number of new features and improvements. If you are using Vault, I recommend upgrading to the latest version.
216: The Cloud Pod is Feeling Elevated Enough to Record the Podcast
29 Jun 2023
00:30:53
Welcome to the newest episode of The Cloud Pod podcast – where the forecast is always cloudy! Today your hosts are Jonathan and Matt as we discuss all things cloud and AI, including Temporary Elevated Access Management (or TEAM, since we REALLY like acronyms today) FTP servers, SQL servers and all the other servers, as well as pipelines, whether or not the government should regulate AI (spoiler alert: the AI companies don’t think so) and some updates to security at Amazon and Google.
Titles we almost went with this week:
The Cloud Pod’s FTP server now with post-quantum keys support
The CloudPod can now Team into your account, but only temporarily
The CloudPod dusts off their old floppy drive
The CloudPod dusts off their old SQL server disks
The CloudPod is feeling temporarily elevated to do a podcast
The CloudPod promise that AI will not take over the world
The CloudPod duals with keys
The CloudPod is feeling temporarily elevated.
A big thanks to this week’s sponsor:
Foghorn Consulting, provides top-notch cloud and DevOps engineers to the world’s most innovative companies. Initiatives stalled because you have trouble hiring? Foghorn can be burning down your DevOps and Cloud backlogs as soon as next week.
News this Week:
No general news this week! Probably because no one wanted to talk to us.
You can now connect via SSH and RDP to EC2 instances without using public IP addresses. With EIC endpoints, customers have remote connectivity to their instances in private subnets, eliminating the need to use public IPv4 addresses for connectivity.
Previously you would have needed to create bastion hosts to tunnel SSH/RDP connections to instances with private IP addresses, but that created its own set of problems because bastion hosts would have to be patched, managed and audited as well as incur additional costs.
EIC endpoint combines AWS IAM-based access controls to restrict access to trusted principles with network-based controls such as security group rules.
It provides an audit of all connections via AWS cloud trail, helping customers improve their security posture.
01:31 Matt- “It’s nice to see Amazon still coming up with more solutions to not have things be public; and really try to get their customers to not use all the older-school technology.”
03:02
215: The Cloud Pod Breaks Into the Quantum Safe
22 Jun 2023
01:07:19
Welcome to the newest episode of The Cloud Pod podcast – where the forecast is always cloudy! Ryan, Jonathan, and Matt are your hosts this week as we discuss all things cloud, including updates to Terraform, pricing updates in GCP SCC, AWS Blueprint, DMS Serverless, and Snowball – as well as all the discussion on Microsoft quantum safe computing and ethical AI you could possibly want!
A big thanks to this week’s sponsor:
Foghorn Consulting, provides top-notch cloud and DevOps engineers to the world’s most innovative companies. Initiatives stalled because you have trouble hiring? Foghorn can be burning down your DevOps and Cloud backlogs as soon as next week.
News this Week:
More information on the default tags can be found on the changelog.
04:11 Jonathan – “It’s kind of cool – it’s a neat hack as well as a way of AWS providing a really useful feature without having to do any work on the cloud platform itself. Just implement the tool that does the deploying rather than having a service which could do it for you.”
Recognizing that many organizations were migrating to cloud platforms due to huge amounts of data, AWS has launched their cloud Database Migration Service back in 2016.
To make the migration even more seamless, AWS has now announced DMS Serv...
214: The Cloud Pod Loves Inspector Gadget
05 Jun 2023
01:00:42
Welcome to the newest episode of The Cloud Pod podcast! Justin, Ryan, Jonathan, Matthew are your hosts this week as we discuss all things cloud and AI, as well as Amazon Detective, SageMaker, AWS Documentation, and Google Workstation.
Titles we almost went with (and there’s a lot this week)
The Cloud Pod becomes the cloud docs
The Cloud Pod loves inspector gadget
The Cloud Pod documents the documentation
The Cloud Pod bangs its shin, since geospatial abilities are lacking
The Cloud Pod bangs its shin, since we lack geospatial abilities
The Cloud Pod bangs its shin, if only we had geospatial abilities
Unlike the Cloud Pod, Alibaba Cloud exits the stage
Retiring AWS Documents on Github… or how we laid off too many people in our
document team and can’t support this albatross anymore
️Microsoft Builds AI tools at its Build Conference and Wants you to Build More
A big thanks to this week’s sponsor:
Foghorn Consulting, provides top-notch cloud and DevOps engineers to the world’s most innovative companies. Initiatives stalled because you have trouble hiring? Foghorn can be burning down your DevOps and Cloud backlogs as soon as next week.
News this Week:
Alibaba is apparently planning to spin out its $12 Billion dollar cloud business.
It’s unclear if Alibaba is bowing to market pressures or political pressures; in 2020 Beijing became increasingly suspicious of cloud services operated by private firms, and started cracking down on internet services.
Alibaba Cloud drew regulatory ire in 2021 for discovering and sharing a flaw before informing authorities (there goes their citizenship score), and was investigated for its role in China’s largest cybersecurity leak.
Analysts value it at 30B, and was a once thriving operation that harbored the potential to AWS level of market control in China.
“This full spinoff plan involving AliCloud is both bold and puzzling, “Nomura Holdings Inc analysts Jialong Shi and Thomas Shen wrote in a note. “Their current valuation for the unit stands at about $31 billion. AliCloud is BABA’s organic business and is still deemed as one of the long-term drivers for the group even though its growth temporarily slowed down in recent quarters due to macro headwinds. That is why we find it puzzling that BABA has decided to fully spin off this business instead of retaining a minority stake at least.
04:30 Justin – “We’re basically entering a very Cold War period between the US and Chinese. And so that’s gonna be interesting to see how that continues to shake out. I saw some articles this week as well, like in the information about VC firms trying to exit their investments in China and just realizing that it’s not gonna be the growth engine they expect it to be. I mean, we talked about here on the show even some of the supply chain issues with China, with the clou...
213: The Cloud Pod Sings a Duet About AI
24 May 2023
01:11:54
Welcome to the newest episode of The Cloud Pod podcast! Justin, Ryan, Jonathan, Matthew are your hosts this week. Join us as we discuss all things cloud, AI, the upcoming Google AI Conference, AWS Console, and Duet AI for Google cloud.
Titles we almost went with this week:
You can finally lock yourself out of the AWS Console!
Google IO delivers the AI… hopefully soon to be renamed Google AI Conference
️Azure announces major MySQL upgrade!
Azure can now update mysql without taking itself offline
A big thanks to this week’s sponsor:
Foghorn Consulting, provides top-notch cloud and DevOps engineers to the world’s most innovative companies. Initiatives stalled because you have trouble hiring? Foghorn can be burning down your DevOps and Cloud backlogs as soon as next week.
News this Week:
A bunch of new updates are coming to Terraform Cloud
These update will provide access to **premium** features, up to 500 resources in the free tier
There are also new paid offerings for management capabilities, scaling currency, and enterprise support.
Consistent billing metrics based on managed resources, scaling concurrency, and enterprise support area available across all tiers. But let’s be honest – who needs consistent billing metrics? Half the fun is in the guessing!
New Features Include:
Premium security features such as SSO and Policy as Code on all tiers (yes, even the free ones for the poors like us.)
Make it “easy and frictionless” for smaller teams and organizations to get started with their first use cases.
And -finally- updated paid tiers provide easy upgrade paths for organizations as their usage scales, and they have more advanced use cases.
Consumer Advice Time! The updated pricing models include a “per resource” charge. That has the potential to get REAL messy over 500 devices.
Of course, it’s an option to stay on the legacy models, but the “carrots” – like SSO and Sentinel/OPA support – are pretty good, so you really just need to do a cost benefit analysis for your particular situation.
02:35 Ryan – “Yeah, I mean, the licensing for Terraform products for cloud and both enterprises always been rough, right? Like starting off per us...
212: The Cloud Pod Wades into Microservices vs. Monoliths
17 May 2023
00:41:27
Welcome to the newest episode of The Cloud Pod podcast! Justin, Ryan, Jonathan, Matthew and Peter are your hosts this week as we discuss all things cloud and AI,
Titles we almost went with this week:
The Cloud Pod is better than Bob’s Used Books
The Cloud Pod sets up AWS notifications for all
The Cloud Pod is non-differential about privacy in BigQuery
The Cloud Pod finds Windows Bob
The Cloud Pod starts preparing for its Azure Emergency today
A big thanks to this week’s sponsor:
Foghorn Consulting, provides top-notch cloud and DevOps engineers to the world’s most innovative companies. Initiatives stalled because you have trouble hiring? Foghorn can be burning down your DevOps and Cloud backlogs as soon as next week.
News this Week:
00:40 – News this week starts out with TCP’s own news – Peter’s podcasting career is riding off into the sunset. He claims he’ll actually start listening, but we’ll see…we’re always happy for more listeners though, no matter how we get them.
Have we mentioned the FinOps User Conference? I can’t remember if we’ve mentioned that at all… In any event, join the fun June 27th through the 30th in beautiful and sunny San Diego, and be immersed in all things FinOps. It’s a dream vacation opportunity!
The goal of the initiative is to develop a standard specification for organizing cloud spending and usage data.
According to FinOps, FOCUS will also provide a number of related data management capabilities, MS and Google will join the steering committee tasked with managing the project.
“FOCUS will solve problems that organizations maturing their cloud adoption now face,” said Udam Dewaraja, the chair of the FinOps Foundation’s FOCUS working group. “Today, there’s no clear way to unify cost and usage data sets across different vendors.”
FOCUS introduces standardized terminology for describing cloud expenses and usage metrics, provides a standardized schema, or a data format in which financial information can be organized. A schema specifies technical details such as the maximum number of expenses that should be included in each database row....
321: The Cloud Pod is in Tears Trying to Understand Azure Tiers
19 Sep 2025
00:54:07
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
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
210: The Cloud Pod Deep Inspects Itself
03 May 2023
00:59:35
Welcome to the newest episode of The Cloud Pod podcast! Justin, Ryan and Matthew are your hosts this week as we discuss all the latest news and announcements in the world of the cloud and AI – including what’s new with Google Deepmind, as well as goings on over at the Finops X Conference. Join us!
Titles we almost went with this week:
The Cloud Pod DeepMinds bring you the Cloud News
The Cloud Sounds Better When Tuned Properly
☁️The Cloud Pod Delegates Itself to Multiple Organizations
️The Cloud is Flush with Cash but Still Raining on Employees.
A big thanks to this week’s sponsor:
Foghorn Consulting, provides top-notch cloud and DevOps engineers to the world’s most innovative companies. Initiatives stalled because you have trouble hiring? Foghorn can be burning down your DevOps and Cloud backlogs as soon as next week.
News this Week:
This is a great opportunity to meet with other Finops users and share knowledge, collaborate on Chalk Talk, and network in beautiful San Diego, CA. There will even be an awards ceremony on an aircraft carrier, and you KNOW you want to be there for that.
Do you like stickers? Of course you do. Everyone likes stickers! Be on the lookout for Justin – he’ll be there! And if you ask nicely (or even just sort of nicely) he’ll give you a TCP sticker, so that right there is a great reason to attend.
The conference is June 29th – 31st, and registration can be found on the Finops Foundation website. See you there!
02:51 It’s earning season. Listener discretion is advised.
Let’s start with Microsoft
At their earnings report on Tuesday, Microsoft is reporting $52.9 billion revenue, up 7% from the previous year. Expectations were set at $51 billion. Much of this is driven by AI (because what isn’t driven by AI these days.)
Overall profits were up 9% from last year, coming in at $18.3 billion.
Microsoft Azure helped with these numbers by recording a 22% increase, vs. a 34% increase seen last year.
03:51 Ryan- I’m surprised with some of the numbers, just because I wasn’t expecting – after so many years of growth – that it would continue to rise despite the economic dip.”
Moving on to Google Earnings…
Google earnings were recorded at $69.79 billion,...
209: The Cloud Pod Whispers Sweet Nothings To Our Code (**why wont you work**)
28 Apr 2023
00:44:35
Welcome to the newest episode of The Cloud Pod podcast! Justin, Ryan and Jonathan are your hosts this week as we discuss all the latest news and announcements in the world of the cloud and AI – including Amazon’s new AI, Bedrock, as well as new AI tools from other developers. We also address the new updates to AWS’s CodeWhisperer, and return to our Cloud Journey Series where we discuss *insert dramatic music* – Kubernetes!
Titles we almost went with this week:
⭐I’m always Whispering to My Code as an Individual
Azure gets an AI, Google gets an AI… and Amazon finally gets an AI
You can now creep out your copilot by whispering to your code
✍️AI fails to generate an interesting show title this week
A big thanks to this week’s sponsor:
Foghorn Consulting, provides top-notch cloud and DevOps engineers to the world’s most innovative companies. Initiatives stalled because you have trouble hiring? Foghorn can be burning down your DevOps and Cloud backlogs as soon as next week.
News this Week:
AWS News
-Besides just the availability, this new real-time AI coding companion also includes a FREE individual tier open to all developers. This is a (good!) surprise to us.
-The free tier works with many popular IDEs, including VS Code and Intellij IDEA among others.
-Codewhisperer can assist in productivity by creating code for repetitive or routine tasks
– Cost wise, Codewhisperer is pretty much in line with other products like GitHub Copilot.
-The downside: security is fairly limited (Python and Java, for instance)
02:50 Jonathan: “I’m super happy that they’ve launched with so many languages supported, and so much support for different IDE’s. It’s a great launch. It’s definitely a time saver, and I’d pay the $20 a month for the service even if there wasn’t a free tier.”
(But maybe we don’t say that too loudly, or the free tier will disappear…)
And speaking of that free tier –
04:49 Jonathan: “I expect the reason there’s a free tier is so that they get much more data from user experiences, and can retrain the model based on people’s feedback.”
05:24 Ryan: “It’s edging us closer to code writing code.”
-One of the things that is important to point out from our discussion today is that you can get a bit more for your money from
208: Azure AI Lost in Space
21 Apr 2023
00:57:43
Welcome to the newest episode of The Cloud Pod podcast! Justin, Ryan and Matthew are your hosts this week as we discuss all the latest news and announcements in the world of the cloud and AI. Do people really love Matt’s Azure know-how? Can Google make Bard fit into literally everything they make? What’s the latest with Azure AI and their space collaborations? Let’s find out!
Titles we almost went with this week:
Clouds in Space, Fictional Realms of Oracles, Oh My.
The cloudpod streams lambda to the cloud
A big thanks to this week’s sponsor:
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-Google AI lab is separate, meaning researchers are separate from the engineers, versus Open AI where they are one combined team, which – go figure – works out better. -The article goes on to question whether Google is “losing their edge” which, as the number 3 player in the AI industry, is pretty evident. The guys discuss the two services, as well as how Bard can be crammed into every product Google makes.
02:49 Ryan: “I find it kind of fascinating that Open AI, because they were first to market, gets to dictate what AI is.”
@07:01 Are you an AI developer? Are you looking to build out your own models? -Good luck. Finding the hardware to do that continues to be an issue.
Desktop computer GPUs are having less issues with supply. Some of that is thanks to the bottom falling out of the Bitcoin market (no need for mining anymore.)
07:57 Ryan – “It’s a run on a limited resource, and GPU’s – they were the first to hit supply chain issue… it’s always been sort of a scarce resource. When I first heard of GPU’s being used for machine learning and those types of workloads, there weren’t enough of them, and it wasn’t really embedded in the type of hardware you need to run in a data center.
09:07Justin – “A lot of GPU returns and GPU availability in the desktop market, which those GPU’s are better suited for doing high computational work of 3D and things that are required for getting to bitcoin… so you could use desktop GPUs but your experience won’t go as far.”
Unfortunately the smart Bri...
207: AWS Puts Up a New VPC Lattice to Ease the Growth of Your Connectivity
14 Apr 2023
00:31:18
AWS Puts Up a New VPC Lattice to Ease the Growth of Your Connectivity
AKA Welcome to April (how is it April already?) This week, Justin, Jonathan, and Matt are your guides through all the latest and greatest in Cloud news; including VPC Lattice from AWS, the one and only time we’ll talk about Service Catalog, and an ultra premium DDoS experience. All this week on The Cloud Pod.
This week’s alternate title(s):
AWS Finally makes service catalogs good with Terraform
Amazon continues to believe retailers with supply chain will give all their data to them
Azure copies your data from S3… AWS copies your data from Azure Blobs… or how I set money on fire with data egress charges
News this Week:
AWS
@00:56 – Lots from AWS – Terraform and Service Catalog, Supply Chain and its crazy pricing, and VPC Lattice
–Self-service provisioning of Terraform open source configured with AWS Service Catalog. This means you can define your service catalog resources with either cloud formation *or* Terraform. And yes, Service Catalog inception is potentially a viable thing.
Matt: “It’s useful when you want to give people who don’t know what they’re doing very specific things; if you’re in a large organization, really just defining exactly what people can do…but to me it really starts to remove a lot of the innovation… but if you really want your teams to leverage the cloud and innovate I feel like it does start to limit some of the different aspects of the cloud.”
Justin: “Don’t drink the ITSM kool-aid on Service Catalog.”
@ 04:32 – AWS Supply Chain is now generally available; and yes, this is the same Supply Chain that was introduced at re:Invent. AWS says it will help mitigate risks, lower costs, increase visibility and help give actual insights on the supply chain.
-Honestly, we’re talking about Supply Chain because the pricing is all over the place. For example, the first 100,000 Supply Chain insights are .40/each; the next 900,000 are .13/each, and over 900,000 its .065/each.
@ 09:26 – VPC Lattice is finally here! Also announced at re:Invent, this gives you the ability to connect, secure, & monitor communications between services. It also gives the ability to refine policies for both traffic management and network access.
-Since the announcement, a few new capabilities have been added, including the ability to use custom domains, deploy open source AWS gateway API controllers to use Lattice with a Kubernetes-native experience, as well as giving the ability to configure SSL/TLS certificates when using HTTPS that matches the custom domain.
You ca...
206: The TCP Podcast Ponders Security Copilot or Vaporware – You Decide!
05 Apr 2023
00:58:35
This week on the podcast, Justin, Jonathan and Ryan are joined by Matt Kohn and can be found chatting about all things microservices and containers – including new Security Copilot features. In our cloud journeys, we discuss just what defines a microservice (spoiler: the guys actually agree for once) and whether or not those microservices require containers. Also on the agenda, IS Kubernetes the new Monolith?
News this Week:
@4:00 – HashiCorp has announced quite a few updates for Terraform, including a number of innovations for the cloud version. This includes:
-A *new version of the UI (*not actually new if you use the cloud version) and a new cross organizational provider, which will allow users to share via a private registry across an organization.
-They introduced Projects, which will give the ability to organize workspaces and ownership boundaries within Terraform.
-An Auth update will give enhanced integration between Terraform and GitHub.com
-But wait, there’s more from HashiCorp! Among the updates is a new and improved pipeline model called the TFE Taskworker. This will let Terraform offer features like OPA support, dynamic provider credentials, and drift detection.
From Justin: “And OPA is exactly what you thought – they’re getting rid of Sentinel. No. They’re not. They’re giving you OPA AND Sentinel so you can use either/or or both of them.”
@7:57 In AWS News – We discussed a few weeks ago the new app migration service from AWS; well, they’ve added three new features!
-Import/Export: You can use the App Migration Service to import source environment inventory list from a CSV file (snazzy!) as well as exporting that same data for reporting purposes, offline reviews, and update integration.
– New dashboard for server migration metrics and added 8 additional predefined actions, such as converting licenses to Amazon licensing.
– ALB’s now support TLS 1.3 (Did anyone else realize they hadn’t already offered that update?)
Matt: “I think what scares me more is the Windows update version; they have a runbook that will just do the upgrade for you. I feel like that **definitely** will never end well.”
@14:04 – Nothing of interest from GCP this week. Still trying to get Bard to work, go figure. Google recently discussed their “shared agenda for sensible AI progress” which is essentially an “if you can’t beat ‘em – regulate ‘em” ideology.
SIDENOTE: Weird Amazon returns policies
SIDENOTE: AI Startup Replika – it goes where you th...
205: The Cloud Pod decides to Bard or not to Bard. What’s the question?
27 Mar 2023
01:10:12
On this episode of The Cloud Pod, the team discusses the new Amazon Linux 2023, Google Bard, new features of Google Chronicle Security Operations, GPT-4 from Azure Open AI, and Oracle’s Kubernetes platform comparison. They also talk about cloud-native architecture as a way to adapt applications for a pivot to the cloud.
A big thanks to this week’s sponsor, Foghorn Consulting, which provides full-stack cloud solutions with a focus on strategy, planning and execution for enterprises seeking to take advantage of the transformative capabilities of AWS, Google Cloud and Azure.
This week’s highlights
AWS: Amazon announces General Availability of Amazon Linux 2023.
GCP: New capabilities available on Google Chronicle Security Operations
Azure: Azure announces preview of GPT-4 in Azure Open AI Service.
Oracle: Oracle compares its Kubernetes platform with that of Hyperscalers.
Top Quotes
“The goal of Cloud Native architecture is to develop scalable resilient ports of applications that you can easily deploy and manage in a modern Cloud environment”
“You maximize the benefits of the platform you’re on and you minimize the weaknesses of it when you design for that platform”
“There’s nothing that prevents you from going to the cloud if you’re not cloud-native, I just think you don’t get the advantages of the cloud native and what the cloud brings to you”
AWS: Amazon announces General Availability of Amazon Linux 2023.
They highlight both serverless and managed K8 services and compare some specific services offered by both.
The Cloud Journey Series; Cloud Native Architecture.
Cloud-Native architecture is an approach to building and running applications that use Cloud computing principles and technologies.
Some benefits are scalability, reduced time to market, better utilization of resources, integrated management and monitoring as well as efficiency with large or small-scale work.
While it is possible to move to the cloud without being cloud-native, the benefits may be reduced and there are no provisions for the typical challenges in the cloud space.
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204: Amazon eats Pi with their own version of S3FS
22 Mar 2023
00:50:38
On this episode of The Cloud Pod, the team discusses Amazon Pi Day, Google’s upcoming I/O conference, the agricultural data manager by Microsoft, and the downturn in net profits of Oracle. They also round up cloud migrations by highlighting tools from different cloud service providers that are useful for the process.
A big thanks to this week’s sponsor, Foghorn Consulting, which provides full-stack cloud solutions with a focus on strategy, planning and execution for enterprises seeking to take advantage of the transformative capabilities of AWS, Google Cloud and Azure.
This week’s highlights
AWS: Amazon celebrates Pi Day with live twitch streams.
GCP: Google announces their I/O conference to take place near their headquarters in Mountain View.
Azure:To increase global food production, Microsoft has created an agricultural data manager.
Oracle: Net income for Oracle this quarter dropped to 1.9 billion.
Top Quotes
“It’s been the thorn in the side of every migration I’ve been a part of… ‘how are we going to operate FTP securely in the cloud?”
“It is not about where you are in the future to Amazon, it’s about where you are today… that’s why Google and Azure have some success seen as Amazon because they come in and they realize the true long-term value of the customer not the immediate short-term value of the Amazon approach”
AWS: Amazon celebrates Pi Day with live twitch streams.
Despite the drop, and the gap from other cloud providers, they only slightly missed Wall Street expectations.
The Cloud Journey Series; Cloud Migration Tools.
The final part of Cloud Migrations Migrations; cloud tools to help with your migration.
AWS has the highest amount of tools for cloud migrations; GCP and Azure also have some useful tools, but the least is OCI
Foghorn Consulting can help clients with planning out their migration program.
Other Headlines Mentione...
203: From vaporware to visual apps – AWS App Composer Generally Available
15 Mar 2023
00:40:47
On this episode of The Cloud Pod, the team talks about the new AWS region in Malaysia, the launch of AWS App Composer, the expansion of spanner database capabilities, the release of a vision AI by Microsoft; Florence Foundation Model, and the three migration techniques to the cloud space.
A big thanks to this week’s sponsor, Foghorn Consulting, which provides full-stack cloud solutions with a focus on strategy, planning and execution for enterprises seeking to take advantage of the transformative capabilities of AWS, Google Cloud and Azure.
This week’s highlights
AWS: AWS announces upcoming region in Malaysia.
GCP: Google launches new capabilities to Spanners regional and multi-regional capabilities
Azure: The Florence Foundation Model from Microsoft..
Top Quotes
“I think that these migration projects end up getting sort of pigeonholed over time into things that they’re not”
“The reality is like ‘What are you really trying to get out of your migration for the business?”
“The hybrid migration model lets you realize the benefits of cloud incrementally as you go”
This new vision AI helps customers connect their data to natural language interactions to gain insights from their image and video resources.
The Cloud Journey Series; Cloud Migration Techniques
There are three Migration Techniques; Hybrid, Cloud Native, and VMWare Migrations.
One common mistake people make is believing they won’t get value from the migration till it is completed.
Generally, it may be hard to decide which is the most successful because this depends on the definition of success as applied to individual businesses.
On this episode of The Cloud Pod, the team talks about the possible replacement of CEO Sundar Pichai after Alphabet stock went up by just 1.9%, the new support feature of Amazon EKS for Kubernetes, three partner specializations just released by Google, and how clients have responded to the AI Powered Bing and Microsoft Edge.
A big thanks to this week’s sponsor, Foghorn Consulting, which provides full-stack cloud solutions with a focus on strategy, planning and execution for enterprises seeking to take advantage of the transformative capabilities of AWS, Google Cloud and Azure.
This week’s highlights
AWS: The new Amazon EKS release: the “combiner”.
GCP: Google rolls out new partner specializations
Azure: Microsoft releases AI-Powered Bing and Microsoft Edge.
Top Quotes
“It’s always going to be a race for these cloud providers to manage every software, in general, to stay up to date because it’s challenging”
201: The CloudPod is assimilated and joins the Azure Collective
27 Feb 2023
00:36:04
On this episode of The Cloud Pod, the team discusses the AWS systems manager default enablement option for all EC2 instances in an account, different ideas from leveraging innovators plus subscription using $500 Google credits, the Azure Open Source Day, the new theme for the Oracle OCI Console, and lastly, different ways to migrate to a cloud provider.
A big thanks to this week’s sponsor, Foghorn Consulting, which provides full-stack cloud solutions with a focus on strategy, planning and execution for enterprises seeking to take advantage of the transformative capabilities of AWS, Google Cloud and Azure.
This week’s highlights
AWS: AWS systems manager has a new default enablement option for all EC2 instances.
GCP: Leveraging the innovators plus subscription to create ideas on how to use Google cloud credits.
Azure: About Azure Open Source Day
Oracle: Oracle redesigns OCI Console UI
Top Quotes
“There’s a lot to understand about your product and the way it works before you can even think about a cloud migration”
“In the cloud, we always tell to plan for failure”
“If you’re selling to your business the need to innovate… and you’re going to move on a cloud journey, then you need to actually deliver on those things”
AWS: AWS systems manager has a new default enablement option for all EC2 instances
Although the changes are cosmetic, usability enhancements are expected. .
The Cloud Journey Series; Cloud Migrations
Cloud migration means moving your workload to a cloud provider, and the first part of this journey is the discovery phase.
After inventory and assessment, the next step is to decide exactly how to move to the cloud which can be any one of five methods.
It is imperative to consider your products and existing operational processes when migrating to a cloud provider..
Other Headlines Mentioned:
320: Azure gives your Finops person a heart attack
11 Sep 2025
00:55:42
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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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.
(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
200: Now you can make bad cloud decisions like running EKS on SNOW
21 Feb 2023
00:50:18
EKS on Snow Devices
On this episode of The Cloud Pod, the team highlights the new Graviton3-based images for users of AWS, new ways provided by Google to pay for its cloud services, the new partnership between Azure and the Finops Foundation, as well as Oracle’s new cloud banking, and the automation of CCOE.
A big thanks to this week’s sponsor, Foghorn Consulting, which provides full-stack cloud solutions with a focus on strategy, planning and execution for enterprises seeking to take advantage of the transformative capabilities of AWS, Google Cloud and Azure.
This week’s highlights
AWS: Users now have access to the new Graviton3-based images.
GCP: Google provides new ways to pay for Google Cloud Service.
Azure: Microsoft becomes a premier member of the Governing board at the Finops Foundation.
“It’s important to sort of have that structure; even if you’re starting with a single account or project, you want to make sure you’re building something that can grow to multiples as you keep it”
“There’s lots of things that you want to probably be automating; all the policies, all the governance, how you validate membership… that should all be really thought about from an automation perspective from day one”
AWS: Users now have access to the new Graviton3-based images.
Their approach is defined by 9 core elements related to security, resilience, reliability, cost-effectiveness, and others. .
The Cloud Journey Series; The Cloud Center of Excellence (CCOE)
This final installment of CCOE focuses on automating the CCOE and tracking CCOE metrics for adoption.
Tagging is a crucial part of the security, access, or cost management strategy, which should be developed early, and as such cloud resources should be retrofitted for it and older ones should be tagged.
One of the ways for a CCOE to demonstrate its value through automation is the metrics of adoption.
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199: All AI Products Agree, Earnings are down
17 Feb 2023
00:52:59
AI Products & Earnings
On this episode of The Cloud Pod, the team talks about the announcement of Amazon VPC resource map, Google’s new AI product, the new Bing AI-powered search engine, and why multiple accounts are necessary for data centers to carry out work seamlessly in the cloud.
A big thanks to this week’s sponsor, Foghorn Consulting, which provides full-stack cloud solutions with a focus on strategy, planning and execution for enterprises seeking to take advantage of the transformative capabilities of AWS, Google Cloud and Azure.
This week’s highlights
AWS: AWS announces Amazon VPC resource map
GCP: Sundar introduces Google’s new AI product, Google Bard.
Azure: Microsoft announces the resurgence of Bing now powered by Open AI and Edge browser.
Top Quotes
“How was Google the first one to start looking into AI and still be late to the market?”
“That’s why you have a center of excellence; they’re positioned centrally to be able to orchestrate all the different moving parts and be able to facilitate the communication between all the different projects and parts of not only your business but also your cloud provider’s business as well”
“I think it’s important to not try to answer the next ten years of problems but also to try to build in circuit breakers or flexibility into your designs so that you can quickly adapt”
On this episode of The Cloud Pod, the team discusses the upcoming 2023 in-person Google Cloud conference, the accessibility of AWS CloudTrail Lake for non-AWS activity events, the new updates from Azure Chaos studio, and the comparison between Oracle Cloud service and other Cloud providers. They also highlight the application and importance of VPCs in CCOE.
A big thanks to this week’s sponsor, Foghorn Consulting, which provides full-stack cloud solutions with a focus on strategy, planning and execution for enterprises seeking to take advantage of the transformative capabilities of AWS, Google Cloud and Azure.
This week’s highlights
AWS: AWS CloudTrail Lake now allows users to consolidate, immutably store, and analyze activity events from non-AWS sources.
GCP: Google Cloud 2023 Next conference will be in-person.
Azure: New updates are available in the Azure Chaos studio.
Oracle: Oracle creates a page comparing its cloud services with AWS and others.
Top Quotes
“A transit gateway effectively is saying we’re going to let you make multiple VPCs into one VPC, which is awesome”
“When you’re designing VPC networking, make sure you’re aware of the cost involved in cross-zone communication because it’s not free and it can be quite significant”
AWS: AWS CloudTrail Lake now allows users to analyze activity events from non-AWS sources.
️️ Initially, AWS cloud lake was a service to access, analyze and store user and API activity from AWS as a source, but now users can set up custom events or integrate with other providers.
GCP: Google Cloud 2023 Next conference will be in-person.
The Cloud Journey Series; The Cloud Center of Excellence (CCOE)
VPC means Virtual Private Cloud and is a service tied to almost every aspect of the cloud, especially in AWS.
Security requirements are crucial to consider with VPCs which would include ACLs and VPC Flow Logs.
Another consideration for VPCs is connectivity back to your private data center which may be through a VPN connection or a direct connect point-to-point from a third party or your data center into the cloud provider itself.
196: The Cloud Pod plays with all the stuff it found in the cleanroom
27 Jan 2023
00:40:43
On this episode of The Cloud Pod, the team sits to talk about AWS’s new patching policies, the general availability of Azure OpenAI, and the role of addressing IM or access management challenges in ensuring the seamless transition to the Cloud.
A big thanks to this week’s sponsor, Foghorn Consulting, which provides full-stack cloud solutions with a focus on strategy, planning and execution for enterprises seeking to take advantage of the transformative capabilities of AWS, Google Cloud and Azure.
This week’s highlights
AWS announces new patching policies,
Azure OpenAI service is now generally available.
IM/Access Management in CCOE…
Top Quotes
“I think it(access management) should be the first challenge that’s tackled, and I usually try to approach it as such but it’s also sort of hard to do when it starts off as an experiment…and you have to retrofit it in”
0️⃣ This is Close to Jonathan’s prediction that Azure will launch a ChatGPT service, and more businesses can now access the most advanced AI models with pricing based on the mode of use..
The Cloud Journey Series; The Cloud Center of Excellence (CCOE)
IM or Access management should be the first area people look at and the first challenge to be tackled, while also defining data protection boundaries.
CCOE also provides the opportunity to identify activities in production that are unnecessary and should be changed.
Permissions are the least important part of your IM journey; permissions change and would need to be evaluated continually.
Thank you to our sponsor, Foghorn Consulting, which provides top notch cloud and DevOps engineers to the world’s most innovative companies. Initiatives stalled because you’re having trouble hiring? Foghorn can be burning down your DevOps and Cloud backlogs as soon as next week.
“And it’s interesting that, you know, the way they’re phrasing this where it’s, you know, it’s it’s moving these traditional things that have been in relational databases for a long time, but it’s the it’s the, the analytical, sort of big data sort of offerings, and it’s interesting to see how that transforms over time.” [15:16]
194: The Cloud Pods New Years Resolution: Change everything!
10 Jan 2023
01:20:40
For our New Years Resolution, we decided to change some of our show. First, we have cut the lightning round in favor of our new Cloud Journey series, where we will talk about core cloud concepts over several episodes. We are also covering only the larger stories from the cloud providers, we still want to provide you with all of the news, so you’ll find it in the show notes; if you enjoy the aggregation, subscribe to our newsletter to get the show notes to get your mailbox weekly. Share your feedback through our website or join our slack team.
On this episode of The Cloud Pod, the team follows up on the news from Salesforce’s last episode, as workforce cuts ensue as a fallout of the noted decline in productivity, with more on 2023 predictions from Peter, including general expectations in the tech space, while also highlighting the new Graph-explorer tool by Amazon Neptune, GCP security trends for the coming year, the CES Conference and CCOE from the new Cloud Journey Series.
A big thanks to this week’s sponsor, Foghorn Consulting, which provides full-stack cloud solutions focused on strategy, planning and execution for enterprises seeking to take advantage of the transformative capabilities of AWS, Google Cloud and Azure.
This week’s highlights
AWS: Amazon Neptune announces a new open-source low-code visual exploration tool, the Graph-explorer.
GCP releases an article on security trends to expect in 2023.
The Cloud Journey Series; The Cloud Center of Excellence (CCOE)
Top Quotes
“A lot of traditional security operations has been at the infrastructure level; tracking packets and using the header information of those packets for identification, and none of that really works on cloud anymore”
“It’s not just how to use cloud technology, which is what the IT teams were focused on, it’s how do you provide the value of cloud into your business and succeed?”
“Understanding the advantages of why you want to adopt Cloud is really important for a business, even before they start the CCOE”
After missing last week’s episode, Peter shares his 2023 prediction; The recession will be more severe than expected, resulting in significant layoffs as companies are forced to get more competitive with automated solutions.
Big Changes ahead in 2023 for big tech with poor valuations, justifying their software against slashing budgets and the next big thing; is it AI, AR, VR?
AWS: Amazon Neptune announces Graph-explorer
193: The cloud pod was less productive in 2022
29 Dec 2022
01:00:54
On this episode of The Cloud Pod, the team wraps up 2022 so far, comparing predictions made with the events so far while projecting into 2023 as the year comes to a close. They discuss the S3 security changes coming from Amazon, the new control plane connectivity options with GCP, and Microsoft’s achievement, finally topping a list within the cloud space.
A big thanks to this week’s sponsor, Foghorn Consulting, which provides full-stack cloud solutions with a focus on strategy, planning and execution for enterprises seeking to take advantage of the transformative capabilities of AWS, Google Cloud and Azure.
This week’s highlights
Starting in April, Amazon will change defaults around S3 security.
The new control plane connectivity and isolation options are coming to GKE clusters
Finally, Microsoft is Number #1 In a Cloud Thing.
Salesforce Founder, Marc Benioff says employees hired during the pandemic are facing much lower productivity.
Open AI’s new chat AI and AI playground create much buzz but with high compute costs, it will be monetized soon.
A lookback at 2022 predictions by our hosts, none of which came true.
The team gives 2023 predictions surrounding Microsoft, data Sovereignty and AI and No-code solution convergence
Top Quotes
“The problem with low-code No-code… is that the gap between those solutions and the bespoke development that you typically would meet is mountains of distance but with this [Open AI’s new chat AI] ..now I just have to tell the computer what I’m trying to do…and then the computer can determine what type of code to write for that”
2023 Predictions
Jonathan: Microsoft will release in preview of an Azure branded Chat GPT
Justin: Data Sovereignty will drive single panes of glass against multi-cloud
Ryan: An influx of all of the AI and No-Code solution convergence
192: The Empire strikes back and picks all the clouds for DOD Contract
22 Dec 2022
00:35:57
On The Cloud Pod the team reviews the multi-billion-dollar DOD contract formerly known as Jedi awarded to big tech companies; Microsoft buys a stake in LSE, raising questions; Werner shares his 2023 tech predictions and posts the Distributed Computing manifesto to his blog; and lastly, at Azure, Bell hits bumps while trying to make Microsoft safer.
A big thanks to this week’s sponsor, Foghorn Consulting, which provides full-stack cloud solutions with a focus on strategy, planning and execution for enterprises seeking to take advantage of the transformative capabilities of AWS, Google Cloud and Azure.
This week’s highlights
The Pentagon awards a cloud-computing contract that can reach up to $9 billion in total through 2028 to Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Oracle.
Microsoft buys 4% stake in the London Stock Exchange
AWS: Werner posts the Distributed Computing Manifesto to his blog All Things Distributed and shares his 2023 tech predictions.
GCP: Break down data silos with the new cross-cloud transfer feature of BigQuery Omni
Azure: Bell hits obstacles in his push to make Microsoft more secure as feedback suggests the bar is being set too high.
Top Quotes
“The long and the short of it is that slowly over time, the ship date when buying something on Amazon or anywhere else gets closer to real-time and the cost to get it to you gets lower”
“All software has defects since it’s created and configured by humans, [But] the pattern of security incidents [and] defects in Azure reported by third parties and the related severity suggests that even Microsoft is challenged in adopting proper security controls in cloud-native development pipelines, like many enterprises.”
AWS: ALL THINGS DISTRIBUTED – WERNER VOGELS’ BLOG
Werner posted the Distributed Computing Manifesto to his blog “All Things Distributed”.
️️ The manifesto highlights the challenges Amazon was facing at the end of the 20th century, and hints at where it was headed.
He also shared his 2023 tech predictions on the blog involving cloud technology, simulated worlds, silicone chips supply chain transformation, and smart energy..
0️⃣ GCP launched big query Omni in 2021 to help customers break down data silos.
They have now added support for SQL-supported Load Statements that allowed AWS/Azure Blob data to be brought into big query as a managed table for advanced analysis.
Feedback confirms improvements in usability, security, latency, and cost audibility.
⬆️ After spending 23 years at Amazon, Charlie Bell, the most senior cybersecurity executive now at Microsoft, faces resistance to preventing and responding to software vulnerabilities believing that he was setting the bar too high.
If there are flaws in the software they write that leads to vulnerabilities for downtime, developers in bell’s unit can expect to be paged and asked to fix it. This is long-standing practice at AWS but a new conc...
191: The Cloud Pod Reinvents the Recap Show
14 Dec 2022
01:15:47
The Cloud Pod recaps all of the positives and negatives of Amazon ReInvent 2022, the annual conference in Las Vegas, bringing together 50,000 cloud computing professionals. This year’s keynote speakers include Adam Selpisky, CEO of Amazon Web Services, Swami Sivasubramanian, Vice President of Data and Machine Learning at AWS and Werner Vogels, Amazon’s CTO. Attendees and web viewers were treated to new features and products, such as AWS Lambda Snapstart for Java Functions, New Quicksight capabilities and quality-of-life improvements to hundreds of services. Justin, Jonathan, Ryan, Peter and Special guest Joe Daly from the Finops foundation talk about the show and the announcements.
Thank you to our sponsor, Foghorn Consulting, which provides top notch cloud and DevOps engineers to the world’s most innovative companies. Initiatives stalled because you’re having trouble hiring? Foghorn can be burning down your DevOps and Cloud backlogs as soon as next week.
⏰ AWS Re:Invent 2022 announcements and keynote updates.
Top Quote
“But if I’m putting my business data into another data lake, and I want to use the business data to inform my security data, I now have to cross the lakes to even make this connection to get that data set. So I agree with you on a pure security basis in the open schema for security data is really great. My issue is that you’re putting borders around these lakes, when you really want to bring the data together and be able to hydrate across. That’s why we have enterprise data, we analyze data warehouses, where we have all these things to bring this data together, add context to data. And I feel like this is just more removing context.” [37:20]
190: Finally a Crowdsourced re:Invent Prediction Show
25 Nov 2022
00:35:27
RE:INVENT NOTICE
Jonathan, Ryan and Justin will be live streaming the major keynotes starting Monday Night, followed by Adam’s keynote on Tuesday, Swami’s keynote on Wednesday and Wrap up our Re:Invent coverage with Werner’s keynote on Thursday. Tune into our live stream here on the site or via Twitch/Twitter, etc.
Thank you to our sponsor, Foghorn Consulting, which provides top notch cloud and DevOps engineers to the world’s most innovative companies. Initiatives stalled because you’re having trouble hiring? Foghorn can be burning down your DevOps and Cloud backlogs as soon as next week.
“When we set this up, they still called you by voice and you had to validate when it took up to an hour to support case. And yeah, it would take forever. Like, not only did it take you to an hour, there’s like 10 things you needed to do with a root account that you couldn’t do with an im account. Yeah, it was brutal back then.” [9:27]
319: AWS Cost MCP: Your Billing Data Now Speaks Human
03 Sep 2025
01:36:14
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
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
189: The CloudPod Celebrates AWS Becoming a New Time Lord
22 Nov 2022
00:36:48
RE:INVENT NOTICE
Jonathan, Ryan and Justin will be live streaming the major keynotes starting Monday Night, followed by Adam’s keynote on Tuesday, Swami’s keynote on Wednesday and Wrap up our Re:Invent coverage with Werner’s keynote on Thursday. Tune into our live stream here on the site or via Twitch/Twitter, etc.
Thank you to our sponsor, Foghorn Consulting, which provides top notch cloud and DevOps engineers to the world’s most innovative companies. Initiatives stalled because you’re having trouble hiring? Foghorn can be burning down your DevOps and Cloud backlogs as soon as next week.
“And then those companies say, ‘Well, I don’t have time to performance tests and regression tests and load tests.’ Or, or, ‘It’s not broken, I don’t want to fix it.’ You know, and so they just sit there paying more money because it’s not worth the risk.” [10:37]
188: The CloudPod thinks the AWS Switzerland region is a big plus
15 Nov 2022
00:57:12
On a slow news week, we talk about the new AWS Switzerland region, Googles 2022 State of Devops report and GCP gets those flexible committed use discounts!
Thank you to our sponsor, Foghorn Consulting, which provides top notch cloud and DevOps engineers to the world’s most innovative companies. Initiatives stalled because you’re having trouble hiring? Foghorn can be burning down your DevOps and Cloud backlogs as soon as next week.
“Back when you only had the option of on demand or reserved instances, and you do the math… And if you run the thing, basically more than 40 hours a week, you might as well buy the Ri. You’re not getting any benefit of scaling anyway, at that point. So this is this is so much better, you get the benefit of committing to an aggregate use and the discount to that with the benefit of turning stuff off when you’re not using it.” [32:24]
187: Google Blockchain Engine – A Day Late and a Bitcoin Short
10 Nov 2022
01:14:36
On The Cloud Pod this week, Amazon announces Neptune Serverless, Google introduces Google Blockchain Node Engine, and we get some cost management updates from Microsoft.
Thank you to our sponsor, Foghorn Consulting, which provides top notch cloud and DevOps engineers to the world’s most innovative companies. Initiatives stalled because you’re having trouble hiring? Foghorn can be burning down your DevOps and Cloud backlogs as soon as next week.
“Google Cloud is an important partner to HashiCorp, and our enterprise customers use HashiCorp Terraform and Google Cloud to deploy mission critical infrastructure at scale. With 70 million downloads of the Terraform Google Provider this year and growing, we’re excited to collaborate closely with Google Cloud to offer our joint customers a seamless experience which we believe will significantly enhance their experience on Google Cloud.” – Burzin Patel, HashiCorp VP, Global Partner Alliances. [39:38]