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  • 325: Db2 or Not Db2: That Is the Backup Question

    325: Db2 or Not Db2: That Is the Backup Question
    Oct 16 2025
    Welcome to episode 325 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin is on vacation this week, so it’s up to Ryan and Matthew to bring you all the latest news in cloud and AI, and they definitely deliver! This week we have an AWS invoice undo button, Sora 2, and quite a bit of news DigitalOcean – plus so much more. Let’s get started! Titles we almost went with this week
    • AWS Shoots for the Cloud with NBA Partnership
    • Nothing But Net: AWS Scores Big with Basketball AI Deal
    • From Courtside to Cloud-side: AWS Dunks on Sports Analytics
    • PostgreSQL Gets a Gemini Twin for Natural Language Queries
    • Fuzzy Logic: When Your Database Finally Speaks Your Language
    • CLI and Let AI: Google’s Natural Language Database Assistant
    • Satya’s Org Chart Shuffle: Now with More AI Synergy
    • Microsoft Reorgs Again: This Time It’s Personal (and Commercial)
    • Ctrl+Alt+Delete: Microsoft Reboots Its Sales Machine
    • Sora 2: The Sequel Nobody Asked For But Everyone Will Use
    • OpenAI Puts the “You” in YouTube (AI Edition)
    • Sam Altman Stars in His Own AI-Generated Reality Show
    • Grok and Roll: Microsoft’s New AI Model Rocks Azure
    • To Grok or Not to Grok: That is the Question
    • Grok Around the Clock: Azure’s 24/7 Reasoning Machine
    • Spark Joy: Google Lights Up ML Inference for Data Pipelines
    • DigitalOcean’s Storage Trinity: Hot, Cold, and Backed Up
    • NFS: Not For Suckers (Network File Storage)
    • The Goldilocks Storage Strategy: Not Too Hot, Not Too Cold, Just Right
    • NAT Gonna Cost You: DigitalOcean’s Gateway to Savings
    • BYOIP: Bring Your Own IP (But Leave Your Billing Worries Behind)
    • The Great Invoice Escape: No More Support Tickets Required Ctrl+Z for Your AWS Bills: The Undo Button Finance Teams Needed
    • Image Builder Finally Learns When to Stop Trying
    • Pipeline Dreams: Now With Built-in Reality Checks
    • EC2 Image Builder Gets a Failure Intervention Feature
    • MCP: Model Context Protocol or Marvel Cinematic Protocol?
    AI is Going Great – Or How ML Makes Money

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

    • OpenAI’s Sora 2 introduces synchronized audio generation alongside video synthesis, matching Google’s Veo 3 and Alibaba’s Wan 2.5 capabilities.
    • This positions OpenAI competitively in the multimodal AI space with what they call their “GPT-3.5 moment for video.”
    • The new iOS social app feature allows users to insert themselves into AI-generated videos through “cameos,” suggesting potential applications for personalized content creation and social media integration at scale.
    • Sora 2 demonstrates improved physical accuracy and consistency across multiple shots, addressing previous limitations where objects would teleport or deform unrealistically.
    • The model can now simulate complex movements like gymnastics routines while maintaining proper physics.
    • The addition of “sophisticated background soundscapes, speech, and sound effects” expands potential enterprise use cases for automated video production, training materials, and marketing content generation without separate audio post-processing.
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    1 h et 13 min
  • 323: Databricks One: Because Seven Eight Nine

    323: Databricks One: Because Seven Eight Nine
    Oct 9 2025
    Welcome to episode 323 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Matt and Ryan are in the studio tonight to bring you all the latest in cloud and AI news! This week we have a close call from Entra, some DeepSeek news, Firestore, and even an acquisition! Make sure to stay tuned for the aftershow – and Matt obviously falling asleep on the job. Let’s get started! Titles we almost went with this week When One Key Opens Every Door: Microsoft’s Close Call with Cloud CatastropheBedrock Goes Qwen-tum: Alibaba’s Models Join the AWS PartyDeepSeek and You Shall Find V3.1 in BedrockGPUs of Unusual Size? I Don’t Think They Exist (Narrator: They Do)Kubernetes Without the KubernightmaresFirestore and Forget: AI Takes the Wheel SCPs Get Their Full License: IAM Language EditionDo What I Meant, Not What I PromptedAtlassian Pays a Billion to DX the Developer ExperienceEntra at Your Own Risk: The Azure Identity Crisis That Almost WasOracle Intelligence: The AI Nobody Asked ForWisconsin Gets Cheesy with AI: Microsoft’s Dairy State Datacenter Azure Opens the Data Floodgates (But Only in Europe)PostgreSQL Gets a Security Blanket and Won’t Share Its TEEsMicrosoft’s New Cooling System Has Veins Like a Leaf and Runs Hotter Than Your Gaming PCAzure Gets Cold Feet About Hot Chips, Decides to Go With the Flow AI Is Going Great – Or How ML Makes Money 00:58 Google and Kaggle launch AI Agents Intensive course Google and Kaggle are launching a 5-day intensive course on AI agents from November 10-14. This follows their GenAI course that attracted 280,000 learners, with curriculum covering agent architectures, tools, memory systems, and production deployment.The course focuses on building autonomous AI agents and multi-agent systems, which represents a shift from traditional single-model AI to systems that can independently perform tasks, make decisions, and interact with tools and APIs.This development signals growing enterprise interest in AI agents for cloud environments, where autonomous systems can manage infrastructure, optimize resources, and handle complex workflows without constant human intervention.The hands-on approach includes codelabs and a capstone project, indicating Google’s push to democratize agent development skills as businesses increasingly need engineers who can build production-ready autonomous systems.The timing aligns with major cloud providers racing to offer agent-based services, as AI agents become essential for automating cloud operations, customer service, and business processes at scale.Interested in registering? You can do that here. Cloud Tools 03:21 Atlassian acquires DX, a developer productivity platform, for $1B Atlassian is acquiring DX, a developer productivity ana... Chapters (00:00:00) - Cloud Podcast: Databricks 1(00:01:11) - Google and Kegel Launch Five Day Training Course on AI Agents(00:03:34) - Atlasian Buys DX: Will It Hurt Their Business?(00:07:03) - Amazon Web Services: New Models for DeepSeek and DeepSe(00:08:42) - Amazon RDS: MySQL Innovation Release 9.4 in Database Preview(00:14:12) - QDeveloper CLI Adds Remote MCPs(00:15:56) - Amazon Nova Act Extension(00:18:08) - Google Cloud: Security Command Center Insights for Kubernetes(00:20:42) - Google's Firestore: MCP for AI Systems(00:22:59) - AI Adoption Among Software Developers Hits 90%, Says Google(00:24:00) - AI: Return on Investment?(00:31:05) - Microsoft's Entra ID Vulnerabilities(00:36:37) - Microsoft Unveils $100 Million AI Data Center(00:40:31) - Azure SQL Server 2020: Managed Instance(00:43:20) - AKS Automatic for Kubernetes + Azure Cloud(00:45:49) - Databricks 1.4(00:47:11) - Microsoft's HPC Infrastructure: HBV5 Series VMs(00:52:08) - NET (for Mobile, Desktop, and More)(00:53:12) - Azure Monitor Kubernetes: Higher throughput & more(00:54:56) - Microsoft SQL: Integrations with Grafana(01:01:59) - Microsoft Expands Fabric with New Features and Collaboration(01:05:21) - Azure Application Gateway: zero downtime upgrade capability(01:07:28) - Oracle's AI Strategy: Setting the Standard(01:10:42) - Week in Cloud: Exploring the Cloud(01:11:26) - The Need for Prompt Engineering in Cloud Software(01:18:28) - Image Generation with Google GPT5(01:22:04) - A Week in the Life
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    1 h et 22 min
  • 324: Clippy’s Revenge: The AI Assistant That Actually Works - Sort Of

    324: Clippy’s Revenge: The AI Assistant That Actually Works - Sort Of
    Oct 9 2025
    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 BehindCopilot Takes the Wheel on Your Legacy Code HighwayQueue Up for GPUs: Google’s Take-a-Number Approach to AI ComputingLicense to Bill: Google’s 400% Markup GrievanceAutopilot Engages: GKE Goes Full Self-Driving ModeSQL Server Finally Gets a Lake House Instead of a Server RoomMicrosoft Gives Office Apps Their Own AI InternsClaude and Present Danger: The AI That Codes for 30 Hours StraightThe Claude Father Part 4.5: An Offer Your Code Can’t RefuseCUD You Believe It? Google Makes Discounts Actually FlexibleECS Goes Full IPv6: No IPv4s GivenBreaking News: AWS Finally Lets You Hit the Emergency Stop ButtonOne Marketplace to Rule Them AllBigQuery Gets a Crystal Ball and a Chatty FriendAzure’s September to Remember: When Certificates and Allocators AttackShall I Compare Thee to a Sonnet? 4.5 Ways Anthropic Just Leveled UpAWS provides a big red button Follow Up 01:26 The global harms of restrictive cloud licensing, one year later | Google Cloud Blog Google Cloud filed a formal complaint with the European Commission one year ago about Microsoft’s anti-competitive cloud licensing practices, specifically the 400% price markup Microsoft imposes on customers who move Windows Server workloads to non-Azure clouds.The UK Competition and Markets Authority found that restrictive licensing costs UK cloud customers £500 million annually due to lack of competition, while US government agencies overspend by $750 million yearly because of Microsoft’s licensing tactics.Microsoft recently disclosed that forcing software customers to use Azure is one of three pillars driving its growth and is implementing new licensing changes preventing managed service providers from hosting certain workloads on Azure competitors.Multiple regulators globally including South Africa and the US FTC are now investigating Microsoft’s cloud licensing practices, with the CMA finding that Azure has gained customers at 2-3x the rate of competitors since implementing restrictive terms.A European Centre for International Political Economy study suggests ending restrictive licensing could unlock €1.2 trillion in additional EU GDP by 2030 and generate €450 billion annually in fiscal savings and productivity gains. 03:32 Jonathan – “I’d feel happier about these complaints Google were making if they actually reciprocated the deals they make for their customers in the... Chapters (00:00:00) - GCP Alumni(00:01:35) - Microsoft's Cloud Licensing Practices(00:05:22) - Microsoft introduces Office Agent in Copilot Chat(00:08:13) - Claude Sonet 4.5 Launches(00:09:33) - Claude 4.5 New Feature Announcement(00:15:12) - Bill Gates on ChatGPT and Bots(00:16:10) - Snowflake, Cloud Sonnet 4.5, and SQL Server(00:17:39) - Amazon EC2, ECS now supporting IPv6 Only workloads(00:20:23) - Amazon Machine Image Governance (New Parameter)(00:25:42) - Easy to Auto-Scalping (New Feature)(00:29:23) - Amazon EC2: Managed Serverless Instances(00:33:28) - AWS Outposts: Third-Party Storage Integration(00:36:45) - Google's Flex Start VMS for AI & GKE Autop(00:41:48) - Google Launches Cloud SQL, BigQuery Extensions(00:45:11) - BigQuery and Google Analytics: AI Data Analysis & Forecast(00:47:02) - Microsoft Azure Migrate and Modernize: Cloud Code vs. Microsoft(00:53:22) - Microsoft's Azure Marketplace Unifying with AppSource(00:56:06) - Azure Compute Gallery: Soft Delete(00:57:49) - Microsoft Azure Outages: Lessons Learned(01:03:32) - Week in Cloud: A Week of Consistency
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    1 h et 4 min
  • 322: Did OpenAI and Microsoft Break Up? It’s Complicated…

    322: Did OpenAI and Microsoft Break Up? It’s Complicated…
    Sep 24 2025
    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 ChargesThe Keys to the Cosmos: Azure Unlocks Customer ControlBreaking Up is Hard to Do: Google Splits LLM Inference for Better PerformanceOpenAI 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 CloudOracle’s Cloud Nine: Stock Soars on Half-Trillion Dollar DreamsChatGPT: From Chat Bot to Hat Bot (Everyone’s Wearing Different Professional Hats)Five Billion Reasons to Love British AINVMe Gonna Give You Up: AWS Delivers the Storage Metrics You’ve Been MissingTea and AI: OpenAI Crosses the PondThe Norway Bug Strikes Back: A New YAML Hope A big thanks to this week’s sponsor: We’re sponsorless! Want to get your brand, company, or service in front of a very enthusiastic group of cloud news seekers? You’ve come to the right place! Send us an email or hit us up on our Slack channel for more info. AI Is Going Great – Or How ML Makes Money 01:33 Microsoft and OpenAI make a deal: Reading between the lines of their secretive new agreement – GeekWire Microsoft and OpenAI have signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding that will restructure their partnership, with OpenAI’s nonprofit entity receiving an equity stake exceeding $100 billion in a new public benefit corporation where Microsoft will play a major role.The deal addresses the AGI clause that previously allowed OpenAI to unilaterally dissolve the partnership upon achieving artificial general intelligence, which had been a significant risk for Microsoft’s multi-billion-dollar investment.Both companies are diversifying their partnerships – Microsoft is now using Anthropic’s technology for some Office 365 AI features, while OpenAI has signed a $300 billion computing contract with Oracle over five years.Microsoft’s exclusivity on OpenAI cloud workloads has been replaced with a right of first refusal, enabling OpenAI to participate in the $500 billion Stargate AI project with Oracle and other partners.The restructuring allows OpenAI to raise capital for its mission while ensuring the nonprofit’s resources grow proportionally, with plans to use funds for community impact, including a recently launched $50 million grant program. ALSO: OpenAI and Microsoft sign preliminary deal to revise partnership terms – Chapters (00:00:00) - The Cloud Pod(00:00:34) - Microsoft and OpenAI Restructuring(00:06:55) - OpenAI's ChatGPT 5.0 Update(00:12:33) - ChatGPT: How People Are Using the Technology(00:16:33) - OpenAI's Stargate UK Announcement(00:18:24) - LocalStack for Mac: New Instances Launch(00:25:06) - Amazon EC2: More NVME Performance Metrics with EFA(00:26:43) - AWS Launches R8GN(00:28:20) - AWS CDK Preview: Refactoring with Cloudformation(00:29:59) - Amazon CloudTrail: AI Security Analysis with a McP Server(00:33:44) - Amazon Web Services: Cloud Commitment Insurance(00:35:37) - Google Cloud Launches Multi-Cloud Data Transfer Essentials(00:40:13) - Kubernetes 1.34(00:44:17) - Google Cloud introduces new recipe for disaggregated AI Inferance(00:46:47) - Google's Data Science Agent Now Generates Code for BigQuery,(00:49:09) - Google Cloud Launches DNS Armor to Detect Cyberthreats(00:52:02) - Google's Agent Payments Protocol (AP2)(00:54:32) - Google Cloud: Alloy DB on C4(00:56:42) - Google Cloud Trace now supports Open telemetry protocol (OTEL)(01:00:19) - Google's New 'Practical Guide to Data Science'(01:02:26) - Vault Gemma: The First Large Language Model with Privacy(01:06:05) - Customer Managed Keys(01:12:39) - Azure Logic Apps: Model Context Protocol Server (MCP)(01:14:46) - Microsoft's Kubernetes Storage v2(01:16:46) - Microsoft Fabric and AI Foundry: New Features, New Features(01:18:50) - Oracle Stock Jumping On Cloud Revenue Forecast(01:22:40) - Week in the Cloud: September 7, 2017
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    1 h et 23 min
  • 321: The Cloud Pod is in Tears Trying to Understand Azure Tiers

    321: The Cloud Pod is in Tears Trying to Understand Azure Tiers
    Sep 19 2025
    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 IPv4BigQuery’s Soft Landing for Hard ProblemsCloudWatch Gets a Two-Week Memory UpgradeVM Glow-Up: From Gen1 Zero to Gen2 HeroAzure Gets Contextual: API Management Learns to Speak AIThe Cloud Pod: Now Broadcasting from 20,000 Leagues Under the SeaLoRA LoRA on the Wall, Who’s the Finest Model of Them AllAzure Says MFA or the Highway for Resource ManagementTwo-Factor or Two-Furious: Azure’s Security UltimatumAgent 007: License to BuildCUD You Believe It? Google’s Discounts Get More FlexibleWAF’s New Deal: Free Logs with Every Million Requests ServedSOC It To Me: Google’s AI Security Workshop TourMFA mandatory in Azure, now you too can hate/hate MS AuthenticatorAWS AMIs no longer the Tribbles of cloud computingECS Exec; Justin’s prediction from 2018 finally comes true General News 00:56 FinOps Weekly Summit 2025 Victor Garcia reached out and asked us to share the news about the FinOps Weekly Summit coming up on October 23rd, 2025. A lot of great speakers; if you’re in the FinOps space, we recommend it. Want to register? You can do that here. 01:53 Ignite Registration Opens San Francisco, Moscone CenterNovember 18–21, 2025Need to convince your manager to pay for you to go? Find that letter here. 02:45 Addressing the unauthorized issuance of multiple TLS certificates for 1.1.1.1 Some issues over at Cloudflare recently…Fina CA issued 12 unauthorized TLS certificates for Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 DNS resolver IP address between February 2024 and August 2025, violating domain control validation requirements and potentially allowing man-in-the-middle attacks on DNS-over-TLS and DNS-over-HTTPS connections.The incident highlights vulnerabilities in the Certificate Authority trust model where any trusted CA can issue certificates for any domain or IP without proper validation, though exploitation would require the attacker to have the private key, intercept traffic, and target clients that trust Fina CA (primarily Microsoft systems).Cloudflare failed to detect these certificates for months despite operating its own Certificate Transparency monitoring service because its system wasn’t configured to alert on IP address certificates rather than domain names, exposing gaps in its internal security monitoring.The certificates have been Chapters (00:00:00) - The Cloud Pod: Trying to Understand Azure tiers(00:01:04) - Two Up! Finops Weekly Summit and Ignite(00:02:56) - Cloudflare: Certificate Transparency is Critical Infrastructure(00:06:08) - AI is How ML Makes Money(00:08:44) - Visual Studio: August Update to Copilot(00:11:16) - Amazon.com: Regions and Zones in AWS Global View(00:14:19) - CloudWatch Metrics Insights: Extended to 3 Hours(00:16:19) - CloudWatch: Single Monitoring Alarms for Dynamic Resource Fleets(00:17:32) - AWS User Notifications now support centralized notification management across multi-(00:19:46) - ECS: Monitoring AMI usage with Cloud Shell(00:23:39) - AWS Terraform: Five Year Old Code(00:25:14) - AWS IAM: Network Parameter Controls for VPCs(00:27:56) - AWS WAF now provides 500 MB of free CloudWatch log(00:31:00) - WASP Config: Resource Tag Tracking for IAM Policies(00:33:01) - GCP: DNS64 and NAT64 for IPv6(00:34:28) - BigQuery Data Storage: Soft Failover(00:35:58) - Google Expands Cloud CUDs to Include HANA, Cloud(00:39:04) - Google Cloud Launches Society Operations Center Workshop(00:40:13) - Google Data Proc now supports multi-tenant cluster(00:41:37) - Google's Official Rust SDK(00:43:22) - Microsoft Azure: Upgrade to Gen2 with Trustful Launch enabled(00:45:34) - Azure API Management: New Features and Native Auto-Scaling(00:46:37) - Microsoft Launches GPT Real Time on Azure AI Foundry(00:50:47) - Azure AI Foundry(00:53:23) - Week in Cloud: September 7, 2018
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    54 min
  • 320: Azure gives your Finops person a heart attack

    320: Azure gives your Finops person a heart attack
    Sep 11 2025
    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 PullsThe Bucket List: Finding Your Lost Storage DollarsState of Denial: Terraform Finally Stops Saving Your PasswordsThree Stages of Azure Grief: Development, Preview, and LaunchGround Control to Major Cloud: Microsoft Launches Planetary Computer ProVeo Vidi Vici: Google Conquers Video EditingRed Alert: AWS Makes Production Accounts Actually Look DangerousAmazon EKS Discovers the F5 Key Chaos Theory Meets ChatGPT: When Your Reliability Data Gets an AI TherapistBreaking Bad (Services): How AI Helps You Find What’s Already BrokenBreaking Up is Hard to Cloud: Gemini Moves Back InIntel Inside Your Secrets: TDX Takes Over Google CloudLord of the Regions: The Return of the Kiwi All Blacks and All Stacks: AWS Goes Full KiwiAzure Forecast: 100% Chance of Budget Alert StormsGoogle Keeps Its Cloud Together: A $2.5T Near MissShell We Dance? AWS Makes CLI Scripting Less PainfulAWS Finally Admits Nobody Remembers All Those CLI CommandsCache Me If You ClaudeYour AWS Console gets its Colors, just don’t choose red shirtsAmazon 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 A big thanks to this week’s sponsor: We’re sponsorless! Want to get your brand, company, or service in front of a very enthusiastic group of cloud news seekers? You’ve come to the right place! Send us an email or hit us up on our Slack channel for more info. General News 00:57 Google Dodges A 2.5t Breakup We have breaking news – and it’s good news for Google. Google successfully avoided a potential $2.5 trillion breakup following antitrust proceedings, maintaining its current corporate structure despite regulatory pressure.The decision represents a significant outcome for Big Tech antitrust cases, potentially setting a precedent for how regulators approach market dominance issues in the cloud and technology sectors.Cloud customers and partners can expect business continuity with Google Cloud Platform services, avoiding potential disruptions that could have resulted from a corporate restructuring.The ruling may influence how other major cloud providers structure their businesses and approach regulatory compliance, particularly around bundling services and market competition.Enterprise customers relying on Google’s integrated ecosystem of cloud, advertising, and productivity tools can continue their current architectures without concerns about service separation.You just KNOW Microsoft is super mad about this. AI Is Going Great – Or How ML Makes Money 02:16 Introducing GPT-Realtime OpenAI‘s Chapters (00:00:07) - Cloud Pod: Azure vs GCP(00:01:01) - Google Stops Exploring a Breakup(00:03:49) - Terraform Cloud Provider 7.0 in general availability(00:06:13) - How to Query Gremlin's LLM with Chaos Engineering Data(00:08:32) - Amazon EKS: Parallel Polls for AI & Windows(00:15:52) - Amazon.com: Terraform Deployment for SFTP Connectors(00:19:11) - Amazon Q Developer Adds Central Admin Control for MCP Servers(00:21:04) - AWS i8ge and M8i Flex Instances(00:24:55) - Amazon M7i Flex Instances: Best Cloud Instances(00:27:53) - Wales: New AWS Region Launches in New Zealand(00:32:56) - Google Cloud: New Features and No Cost Option for Videos(00:37:11) - GKE Container Optimized Compute(00:38:42) - Intel TDX for Confidential Computing with Google(00:40:17) - GCP EventArc Advanced is Now Generally Available(00:42:31) - Azure AI Foundry: Comprehensive agent observability capabilities(00:46:59) - Microsoft's Planetary Computer Pro: An All-in-One for(00:50:56) - Microsoft's Migration From MOSP to Microsoft Accounts Causes False Budget Alert(00:52:49) - Microsoft to Make UltraDs More Affordable in Multiple Regions(00:54:00) - The Business Talk Podcast(00:55:00) - Week in Cloud: Exploring the Cloud
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    56 min
  • 319: AWS Cost MCP: Your Billing Data Now Speaks Human

    319: AWS Cost MCP: Your Billing Data Now Speaks Human
    Sep 3 2025
    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 Story20,000 Lines of Code and a Dream: Microsoft’s Open Source Glow-UpCtrl+Alt+Delete Your Assumptions: Microsoft Goes Full PenguinToken and Esteem: Amazon Bedrock Gets a CounterCSI: Cloud Scene InvestigationThe Great SQL Migration: How AI Became the Universal TranslatorToken and Ye Shall Receive: Bedrock’s New Counting FeatureThe Count of Monte Token: A Bedrock Tale – mkCtrl+Z for Your Database: Now with Built-in Lag TimeIP Freely: GKE Takes the Pain Out of Address ManagementAWS CEO: AI Can’t Replace Junior Devs Because Someone Has to Fix the AI’s CodeBetter Late Than Never: RDS PostgreSQL Gets Time TravelThe SQL Whisperer: Teaching AI to Speak DatabaseDigitalOcean Goes Full Chatbot: Your Infrastructure Now Speaks HumanMusk vs Cook: The App Store Wars Episode AIFirestore Goes Mongo: A Database Love StoryGKE Turns 10: Now With More Candles and Less ComplexityPrime Day Infrastructure: Now With 87,000 AI Chips and a Robot ArmyAWS Scales to Quadrillion Requests: Your Black Friday Traffic Looks CuteAWS billing now speaks human, thanks to MCPsThe Bastion Holds: Azure’s New Gateway to Kubernetes KingdomsThe Surge Before the Merge: Azure’s New Upgrade StrategyCNI Overlay: Because Your Pods Deserve Their Own ZIP Code AI Is Going Great – or How ML Makes Money 00:46 Musk’s xAI sues Apple, OpenAI alleging scheme that harmed X, Grok xAI filed a lawsuit against Apple and OpenAI, alleging anticompetitive practices in AI chatbot distribution, claiming Apple deprioritizes competing AI apps like Grok in the App Store while favoring ChatGPT through direct integration into iOS devices.The lawsuit highlights tensions in AI platform distribution models, where cloud-based AI services depend on mobile app stores for user access, potentially creating gatekeeping concerns for competing generative AI providers.Apple’s partnership with OpenAI to integrate ChatGPT into iPhone, iPad, and Mac products represents a shift toward native AI integration rather than app-based access, which could impact how cloud AI services reach end users.The dispute underscores growing competition in the generative AI market, where multiple players, including xAI’s Grok, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, DeepSeek, and Perplexity, are vying for market position through both cloud APIs and mobile distribution channels.For cloud developers, this case raises questions about AI service distribution strategies and whether direct device integration partnerships will become necessary to compete effectively against app store-based distribution models. 01:55 Justin – “There’s always a potential for conflict of interest when you have a partnership like this, but also the app store – there’s a... Chapters (00:00:00) - The Cloud Pod(00:00:58) - Amazon's Grok Sues Apple Over App Store Distribution(00:04:19) - Amazon CEO: AI Replacing Junior Developers is the Dumbest Idea(00:11:10) - Amazon: Count Your Tokens With AWS AI(00:17:32) - Amazon RDS for Postgres: Delayed Read Replicas(00:22:41) - Amazon Prime Day: My Favorite Amazon Announcement(00:23:45) - Amazon's Prime Day 2022(00:25:15) - AWS: How AWS Met Prime Day(00:29:17) - Amazon's Databases Hit Record Highs During Prime Day(00:30:14) - CloudTrail: What Caches Do They Use? vs.(00:33:37) - Amazon's AWS Countdown(00:35:52) - Google's AI Developer Tooling: Which One to Use?(00:40:12) - Google Launches Gemini 2.5 Flash Image on Vertex AI(00:42:54) - Google Cloud Asset Inventory: Root Cause Analysis Tool(00:46:12) - Google's automated SQL Translation from Databrick Spark SQL to Big(00:48:10) - Google's White Paper on AI Inference Environmental Impact(00:52:23) - Google Cloud Compliance Manager: Integrated Security and Compliance Management(00:59:04) - Kubernetes: GK Auto IPAM(01:01:59) - GKE: Happy 10th Anniversary!(01:08:24) - Microsoft Azure News: Week Three(01:09:47) - Microsoft vs. AWS: Open Source and Scale(01:14:01) - Microsoft to Give DocumentDB to the Linux Foundation(01:15:57) - Azure Bastion now supports Private AKS Clusters via Tunnel(01:24:11) - Microsoft Migrate now enables direct migration to zone redundant storage disks(01:29:49) - Digital Ocean's MCP Server Now Available(01:35:33) - Week in the Cloud: September 7, 2017
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    1 h et 36 min
  • 318: One Extension to Rule Them All (And in the VS Code Bind Them)

    318: One Extension to Rule Them All (And in the VS Code Bind Them)
    Aug 29 2025
    Welcome to episode 318 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! We’re going on an adventure! Justin and Ryan have formed a fellowship of the cloud, and they’re bringing you all the latest and greatest news from Valinor to Helm’s Deep, and Azure to AWS to GCP. We’ve water issues, some Magic Quadrants, and Aurora updates…but sadly no potatoes. Let’s get into it! Titles we almost went with this week: You’ve Got No Mail: AOL Finally Hangs Up on Dial-UpCtrl+Alt+Delete Climate ChangeH2-Oh No: Your Gmail is ThirstyThe Price is Vibe: Kiro’s New Request-Based ModelSpec-tacular Pricing: Kiro Leaves the Waitlist BehindSHA-zam! GitHub Actions Gets Its Security CapeBreaking Bad Actions: GitHub’s Supply Chain InterventionGraph Your Way to Infrastructure HappinessThe Tables Have Turned: S3 Gets Its Iceberg MomentSubnet Where It Hurts: GKE Finally Gets IP Address ReliefAll Your Database Are Belong to Database CenterFrom Droplets to Dollars: DigitalOcean’s AI Pivot Pays OffDigitalOcean Rides the AI Wave to Record EarningsAgent Smith Would Be Proud: Microsoft’s Multi-Agent MatrixAurora Borealis: A Decade of Database EnlightenmentFifteen Shades of Cloud: AWS’s Unbroken StreakThe Fast and the Failover-ious: Aurora EditionGone in Single-Digit Seconds: AWS’s Speedy Database RecoveryAgent 007: License to Secure Your AI A big thanks to this week’s sponsor: We’re sponsorless! Want to get your brand, company, or service in front of a very enthusiastic group of cloud news seekers? You’ve come to the right place! Send us an email or hit us up on our Slack channel for more info. General News 01:02 AOL is finally shutting down its dial-up internet service | AP News AOL is discontinuing its dial-up internet service on September 30, 2024, marking the end of a technology that introduced millions to the internet in the 1990s and early 2000s.Census data shows 163,401 US households still used dial-up in 2023, representing 0.13% of homes with internet subscriptions, highlighting the persistence of legacy infrastructure in underserved areas – which is honestly crazy. Here’s hoping that these folks are able to switch to alternatives, like Starlink.This shutdown reflects broader technology lifecycle patterns as companies retire legacy services like Skype, Internet Explorer, and AOL Instant Messenger to focus resources on modern platforms.The transition away from dial-up demonstrates the evolution from telephone-based connectivity to broadband and wireless technologies that now dominate internet access.AOL’s journey from a $164 billion valuation in 2000 to being sold by Verizon in 2021 illustrates the rapid shifts in technology markets and the challenges of adapting legacy business models. 02:30 British government asks people to delete old emails to reduce data centres’ Chapters (00:00:00) - Week in the Cloud: GCP, Azure, VS Code Bind(00:00:57) - AOL to discontinue dial-up service(00:02:27) - UK Government Tells You to Deactivate Your Emails to Save Water(00:06:03) - UK's Data Center Problem(00:08:18) - GitHub Actions: SHA pinning and more(00:11:04) - Curo Pricing Plans Go Live for AWS(00:16:05) - Aurora DB Turns 10 Years Old(00:18:22) - Happy Birthday to My Sister!(00:18:36) - Gartner Magic Quadrant for Strategic Cloud Platform Services(00:20:53) - Gartner's Strategic Cloud Platform Services(00:25:01) - Gartner's Cloud Assessment: Microsoft, Google, Azure(00:26:32) - Go Driver to Reduce Database Failover Times by 60%(00:28:23) - Amazon AWS Announces R8i Flex and R7i Flex(00:30:58) - GKE: Multi-Subnet Support for Kubernetes(00:33:51) - Database Center for Google Cloud: Unifying Database Fleet Management(00:35:59) - Google Cloud HSM: Client Side Encryption(00:38:06) - Google Cloud Announces Comprehensive AI Security Abilities(00:41:23) - Google LLM: Right Size for GPUs and TPUs(00:44:14) - Microsoft Terraform Adds Ms. Graph Provider in Public Preview(00:46:45) - Azure AI Foundry: Unifying OneLake and Agent Factory(00:52:03) - Gartner's Cloud: Oracle-Microsoft partnership(00:54:52) - DigitalOcean Announces SQL Stored Procedures Support(00:58:35) - Shifting Down: How Google Does It(01:04:19) - Back in the Cloud: Week Three(01:04:43) - Week in Cloud: The Cloud Podcast
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