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 The Cloud Pod is your one-stop-shop for all things Public, Hybrid, Multi-cloud, and private cloud. Cloud providers continue to accelerate with new features, capabilities, and changes to their APIs. Let Justin, Jonathan, Ryan and Peter help navigate you through this changing cloud landscape via our weekly podcast.© 2025 The Cloud Pod Économie
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  • 335: EKS Network Policies: Now With More Layers Than Your Security Team's Org Chart

    335: EKS Network Policies: Now With More Layers Than Your Security Team's Org Chart
    Dec 24 2025

    Welcome to episode 335 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! This pre-Christmas week, Ryan and Justin have hit the studio to bring you the final show of 2025. We’ve got lots of AI images, EKS Network Policies, Gemini 3, and even some Disney drama.

    Let’s get into it!

    Titles we almost went with this week
    • From Roomba to Tomb-ba: How the Robot Vacuum Pioneer Got Cleaned Out **OpenAI
    • From Napkin Sketch to Production: Google’s App Design Center Goes GA
    • Terraform Gets a Canvas: Google Paints Infrastructure Design with AI
    • Mickey Mouse Takes Off the Gloves: Disney vs Google AI Showdown
    • From Data Silos to Data Solos: Google Conducts the Integration Orchestra
    • No More Thread Dread: AWS Brings AI to JVM Performance Troubleshooting
    • MCP: More Corporate Plumbing Than You Think
    • GPT-5.2 Beats Humans at Work Tasks, Still Can’t Get You Out of Monday Meetings
    • Kerberos More Like Kerbero-Less: Microsoft Axes Ancient Encryption Standard
    • OpenAI Teaches GPT-5.2 to PowerPoint: Death by Bullet Points Now AI-Generated
    • MCP: Like USB-C, But Everyone’s Keeping Theirs in the Drawer
    • Flash Gordon: Google’s Gemini 3 Gets a Speed Boost Without the Sacrifice
    • Tag, You’re It: AWS Finally Knows Who to Bill
    • Snowflake Gets a GPT-5.2 Upgrade: Now With More Intelligence Per Query
    • OpenAI and Snowflake: Making Data Warehouses Smarter Than Your Average Analyst
    • GPT-5.2 Moves Into the Snowflake: No Melting Required
    AI Is Going Great, or How ML Makes Money

    01:06 Meta’s multibillion-dollar AI strategy overhaul creates culture clash:

    • Meta is developing Avocado, a new frontier AI model codenamed to succeed Llama, now expected to launch in Q1 2026 after internal delays related to training performance testing.
    • The model may be proprietary rather than open source, marking a significant shift from Meta’s previous strategy of freely distributing Llama’s weights and architecture to developers. We feel like this is an interesting choice for Meta, but what do we know?
    • Meta spent 14.3 billion dollars in June 2025 to hire Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang as Chief AI Officer and acquire a stake in Scale, while raising 2026 capital expenditure guidance to 70-72 billion dollars.
      • Wang now leads the elite TBD Lab developing Avocado, operating separately from traditional Meta teams and not using the company’s internal workplace network.
    • The company has restructured its AI leadership following the poor reception of Llama 4 in April, with Chief Product Officer Chris Cox no longer overseeing the GenAI unit.
    • Meta cut 600 jobs in Meta Superintelligence Labs in October, contributing to the departure of Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun to launch a startup, while implementing 70-hour workweeks across AI organizations.
    • Meta’s new AI leadership under Wang and former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman has introduced a “demo, don’t memo” development approach, replacing traditional multi-step approval processes with rapid prototyping using AI agents and newer tools.
    • The company is also leveraging third-party cloud services from CoreWeave and Oracle while buil...
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    51 min
  • 334: AWS Makes Kubernetes Conversational

    334: AWS Makes Kubernetes Conversational
    Dec 19 2025
    Welcome to episode 334 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! This week, we’re bringing you a jam-packed recap of re:Invent! We’ve got all the news, from keynotes to announcements. Whether you were there live or catching up on all the news, Justin, Matt, and Ryan are here to break it all down. Let’s get started! Titles we almost went with this week EKS Gets Chatty: Natural Language Replaces Command Line Nightmares Harvest Now, Decrypt Later: Why Your RSA Keys Need a Quantum Makeover Before 2026 NAT So Fast: AWS Helps You Find Gateways Doing Absolutely Nothing AWS Finally Admits You Have Too Many Log Buckets AWS Finally Lets You Log In Like a Normal Human Lambda Gets a Memory: Checkpoint Your Way to Multi-Step Workflows Step Functions at Home: Lambda Durable Functions Let You Write Workflows in Actual Code No More Bucket List: S3 Public Access Gets Organization-Wide Lockdown AWS Hits Ctrl-Z on CodeCommit Deprecation AWS Puts a Cap on CloudFront: Unlimited Traffic, Limited Anxiety AWS Tells SQL Server to Take a Thread Off: Optimize CPU Cuts Costs by 55% Amazon Bedrock Gets a Bouncer: AgentCore Identity Checks IDs at the Door AI Brings on the Developer Renaissance Follow Up 01:27 re:Invent Matt Garman- 14th Reinvent, which is weird, since we’ve been doing cloud stuff for 87 years…Warner – Open Mind for a different View and nothing else matters T-shirt. 02:59 re:Invent predictions Jonathan Serverless GPU support (extension in Lambda or a different service), it’s about time we have a serverless GPU/Inference capability. It is talked about in the keynote with DeSantis. AI Agent with a goal/instructions that can run when they need to, periodically, or always, and perform an action (Agentic Platform that runs agents) – Garman – Bedrock AgentCore and Kiro Autonomous Agent Werner will announce this is his last keynote and he will retire He retired from re:Invent Presentations Ryan New Tranium 3 chips, Inferentia, and Graviton chips Garman – announced Tranium 3 Ultraservers. They brought the Rack Ryan Expand the number of models in or via bedrock Doubled the number of models and announced Gemma, Minimax M2, Nvidia Nemotron, Mistral Large, and Mistral 3Refresh to AWS Organizations Justin New Nova Model & Sonic with Multi-modal Garman Nova 2 – Lite, Pro, and Sonic (the lack of Sonic the Hedgehog/Sega reference is a shame) Nova 2 Omni Announce a partnership with OpenAI (likely on stage) Not announced as new, but said they’re running on AWS and that EC2 Ultraservers are in use. Advanced Agentic AI Capabilities for Security Hub (Automate the SOC teams) Garman – Advanced Agentic AI Capabilities for Security Hub – with NEW AWS Security Agent Matt A model router to route LLM queries to different AI modelsWell-architected framework expansion End user Authentication that doesn’t suck (not current Cognito) Tie Breaker – How many times w... Chapters (00:00:00) - AWS + GCP: Kubectl Goodbye(00:01:31) - Reinvent Prediction: Who Won The PC World Awards(00:02:28) - AWS 10.2: Serverless and AI Agents(00:03:35) - Amazon Keynotes: Ryan Will Retire From Speaking(00:07:15) - AWS Security Hub: Advanced Agentic AI capabilities(00:08:06) - Treat Time: The AI Conference(00:11:04) - Matt Garmin's Conference Keynote(00:13:49) - Amazon Cloud Conference 2018: Highlights and Disclosures(00:19:05) - Swami's Keynote(00:20:33) - Peter Desantis at Reinvent:(00:21:55) - Peter Desantis's keynote(00:24:36) - Bedrock Reinforcement Learning Keynotes(00:29:23) - EC2 and Lambda: Computing with AWS, AI factories(00:30:43) - AWS Lambda Managed Instances(00:33:32) - AWS Lambda: Durable Functions Invite(00:37:37) - Amazon's Step Functions vs. AWS Lambda(00:40:40) - ECS x Kubernetes, NAT & More(00:47:16) - AWS: VPC Encryption Control (Nitro)(00:49:38) - AWS Network Firewall Proxy(00:50:58) - AWS S3: New Block Public Access Controls and More(00:54:19) - Amazon FSX for NetApp ONTAP Adds S3(00:55:56) - Database Enhancements in 2017(00:56:35) - AWS Adds Four New Features to SQL Server & Oracle RDS(00:57:30) - AWS Database Savings Plan Announcement(00:59:28) - RDS 10.2: SQL Server Resource Governor(01:00:41) - WAF and Security Identity(01:01:36) - Guardduty: Extended Threat Detection for Amazon EC2 & ECS(01:03:45) - AWS Security Agent: Automated Application Security Reviews, Code Scan(01:06:14) - Amazon IAM Policy Autopilot Release(01:08:36) - AWS data exports in the Focus 1.2 format and then(01:09:36) - AWS Compute Optimizer: Cost Efficiency and Cost Optimization(01:12:58) - Amazon Rescues CodeCommun from the AWS Cloud(01:17:10) - CloudWatch: Governance, Control Tower, and More(01:18:24) - AWS: AMI Ancestry(01:20:58) - Amazon Support Plans Reshuffled(01:25:29) - Amazon Cloud: Announcements #271
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    1 h et 28 min
  • 333: The Cloud Pod Goes Nano Banana

    333: The Cloud Pod Goes Nano Banana
    Dec 10 2025

    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
    AI Is Going Great, or How ML Makes Money

    02:59 Nano Banana Pro available for enterprise

    • Google launches Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image) in general availability on Vertex AI and Google Workspace, with Gemini Enterprise support coming soon.
    • 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
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    1 h et 3 min
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