The Cloud Pod

Welcome to episode 237 of The Cloud Pod Podcast - where the forecast is always cloudy! It's the most wonderful time of the year - it's almost time for re:Invent! That means it's also time for our wishlist and predictions. Follow along, and see which ones you think have the greatest likelihood of coming to fruition.  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. AWS Predictions  Jonathan GPU Support for Lambda functions   Chat Bot integration for the support portal that pulls from documentation New Baremetal Instance with more GPU's for AI Training Justin Graviton AI Chip Capabilities Olympus with a bigger data set than Open AI and publicly available Major Improvements to Quicksight Ryan AppMesh will support serverless workloads Data Sovereignty on stage Just in time IAM Permissions powered by AI Matthew AI Chat feature in the AWS Console Carbon Emissions and Green Technology talked about during the keynote.  Predictive typing thing integrated into AWS Shell (cloud 9).  Tie Breaker:   Number of times the word Artificial Intelligence and/or AI.   Matt - 72 Ryan - 563 Justin - 142 Jonathan - 90 Honorable Mentions: Reinvent announcement of Clippy/Mascot (Jonathan) Chip Fab (Jonathan) Astro Bot upgrade (Ryan) Astrobot Robot Wars (Ryan) Extra effort/hardware on energy usage (Jonathan) IAM Permissions reducer (Matt) Security/Guardduty/SOC AI (Justin) DuckDB (Justin) AI for Opensearch (Justin) Werner masterclass on AI (Justin) Simulated worlds (Jonathan)

Welcome to episode 236 of the Cloud Pod Podcast, where the forecast is always cloudy! Are you wandering around every day wondering just who has the biggest one? Chips, we mean. Of course. Get your mind out of the gutter. Did you know Azure was winning that battle for like 8 whole minutes? Join us for episode 236 where we talk about chip size, LLM's, updates to Bedrock, and Toxicity Detection - something you will never find applied to the podcast. Not on purpose, anyway.  Happy Thanksgiving! Titles we almost went with this week:

Welcome to episode 235 of the Cloud Pod podcast - where the forecast is always cloudy! This week a full house is here for your listening pleasure! Justin, Jonathan, Matthew, and Ryan are talking about cyberattacks, attacks on vacations (aka Looker for mobile) and introducing a whole new segment just for AI. You're welcome, SkyNet.  Titles we almost went with this week:

Welcome to episode 234 of The Cloud Pod podcast - where the forecast is always cloudy! This week your hosts Justin and Ryan are bringing you all the latest news from the cloud, including latest earnings news (you know you want it), a discussion about whether cloud is “bad” from one of repatriation's biggest advocates, Oxide's new cloud computer (it's SO pretty) and a look at some of latest updates on the AWS European Sovereign Cloud.  Titles we almost went with this week: ☁️The Cloud Pod is Sovereign 

Welcome to The Cloud Pod - where the forecast is always cloudy! This week your hosts Justin, Matthew, and Ryan are here to fill you in on all the latest and greatest happenings in the cloud, including news about your SSL & TLS certificates, MSK Replicator, and the Azure Incubations Team. Did you know about them? Neither did we!  Titles we almost went with this week: ☁️The Cloud Pod Replicator… Replicating Snark to all the Kafkas

Welcome to The Cloud Pod - where the forecast is always cloudy! This week your hosts, Jonathan and Ryan, are talking all about EC2 instances, including changes to AWS Systems Manager and Elastic Disaster Recovery. And speaking of disasters, we're also taking a dive into the ongoing Google DDOS attacks. Plus, we've even thrown a little earthquake warning into the podcast, just for effect.  Titles we almost went with 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.

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:

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:

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.

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:

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:

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:

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.

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.

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:

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:

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.

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: 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.

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.

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.

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.