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Welcome to episode 308 of The Cloud Pod – where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Matt and Ryan are in the house today to tell us all about the latest and greatest from FinOps and SnowFlake conferences, plus updates from Security Command Center, OpenAI, and even a new AWS Region. All this and more, today in the cloud!  Titles we almost went with this week: I Left My Wallet at FinOps X, But Found Savings at Snowflake Summit Snowflake City Lights, FinOps by the Sea The Two Summits: A Tale of FinOps and Snowflakes Crunchy on the Outside, Snowflake on the Inside  AWS Taipei: Because Sometimes You Need Your Data Closer Than Your Night Market  AWS Plants Its Flag in Taipei: The 37th Time’s the Charm AWS Slashes GPU Prices Faster Than a CUDA Kernel Two Writers Walk Into a Database… And Both Succeed AWS Network Firewall: Now With Windows! The VPN Connection That Keeps Its Secrets Transform and Roll Out: Pub/Sub’s New Single Message Feature SAP Happens: Google’s New M4 VMs Handle It Better Total Recall: Google’s 6TB Memory Machines The M4trix Has You (And Your In-Memory Databases) DeepSeek and You Shall Find… on Google Cloud Four Score and Seven Vulnerabilities Ago – mk The Fantastic Four Security Features MCP: Model Context Protocol or Master Control Program from Tron? No SQL? No Problem! AI Takes the Wheel Injection Rejection: How Azure Keeps Your Prompts Clean General News  05:09 FinOps X 2025 Cloud Announcements: AI Agents  and Increased FOCUS Support All major cloud providers announced expanded support for FOCUS (FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification) 1.0, with AWS already in general availability and Google Cloud launching a BigQuery export in private preview.  This signals an industry-wide standardization of cloud cost reporting formats. AWS introduced AI-powered cost optimization through Amazon Q Developer integration with Cost Optimization Hub, enabling automated recommendations across millions of resources with detailed explanations and action plans for cost reduction. Microsoft Azure launched AI agents for application modernization that can reduce migration efforts from months to hours by automating code assessment and remediation across thousands of files, while also introducing flexible PTU reservations that work across multiple AI models. Google Cloud unveiled FinOps Hub 2.0 with Gemini-powered waste detection that identifies underutilized resources (like VMs at 5% usage) and provides AI-generated optimization recommendations for Kubernetes, Cloud Run, and Cloud SQL services. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure added carbon emissio

Welcome to episode 307 of The Cloud Pod – where the forecast is always cloudy! Who else is at a conference? Justin is coming to us this week from sunny San Diego where he's attending FinOps – so we have that news to look forward to for next week. Matt and Ryan are also on hand today to share the latest news from Kubernetes, Salesforce acquisitions, and the strange case of Azure making AWS more cost effective. Titles we almost went with this week: The Great Redis Escape: One Year Later, Valkey is Living Its Best Life Cache Me If You Can: How Valkey Outran Redis’s License Policies Tier Today, Gone Tomorrow: AWS’s New Storage Class That Moves Your Data So         You Don’t  Hey AI, Deploy My App: AWS Makes It Actually Work AWS Finally Calculates What You’ll Actually Pay The Price is Right: AWS Edition From List Price to Real Price: AWS Gets Transparent Red Hat and AWS Sitting in a Tree, R-H-E-L-I-N-G Dockerfile? More Like Dockefile-It-For-Me with Amazon’s New MCP Server Elementary, My Dear Watson: Amazon Q Becomes Sherlock Holmes for AWS CUD You Believe It? Red Hat Gets the Discount Treatment Committed Relationship Status: It’s Complicated (But 20% Cheaper) RHEL Yeah! Google Drops Prices on Enterprise Linux Disk Today, Gone Tomorrow: Azure’s Vanishing OS Storage ATL1: Where GPUs Meet Sweet Tea and Southern Hospitality AWS Launches Operation Cloud Sovereignty The Great Firewall of Europe: AWS Edition Amazon Builds a GDPR Fortress in Germany General News  01:46 What Salesforce’s $8B acquisition of Informatica means for enterprise data and AI | VentureBeat Salesforce just dropped $8 billion to acquire Informatica.  This purchase was really about building the data foundation needed for agentic AI to actually work in enterprise environments – we’re talking about combining Informatica’s 30 years of data management expertise with Salesforce’s cloud platform to create what they’re calling a “unified architecture for agentic AI.” This acquisition fills a massive gap in Salesforce’s data management capabilities, bringing in critical pieces like data cataloging, integration, governance, quality controls, and master data management – all the unsexy but absolutely essential plumbing that makes AI agents trustworthy and scalable in real enterprise deployments. The timing here is fascinating, because Informatica literally just announced their own agentic AI offerings last week at Informatica World, so Salesforce is essentially buying a company that’s already pivoted hard into the AI space – rather than trying to build these capabilities from scratch. There’s going to be some interesting overlap with MuleSoft, which Salesforce bought for $6.5 billion back in 2018, but analysts are s

Welcome to episode 306 of The Cloud Pod – where the forecast is always cloudy!  This week, we have a bunch of announcements concerning the newest offering from Anthropic – Claude Sonnet 4 and Opus 4, plus container security, Azure MySQL Maintenance, Vertex AI, and Mistral AI. Plus, we've got a Cloud Journey installment AND an aftershow – so get comfy and get ready for a trip to the clouds! Titles we almost went with this week: ECS Failures Now Have 4x the Excuses Nailing Down Your Container Security, One Patch at a Time HashiCorp’s New Recipe: Terraform, AI, and a Pinch of MCP Teaching an Old DNS New IPv6 Tricks Dash-ing through the Klusters, in an AWS Console Google’s Generative AI Playground Gets a Glow-Up Vertex AI Studio: Now with 200% More Darkness! Like our souls Claude Opus 4 Strikes a Chord on Google Cloud Sovereign-teed to Please: Google Cloud’s Royal Treatment Google’s Cloud Kingdom Expands its Borders Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s AI? Anthropic Drops Sonne(t) 4 Knowledge on Vertex Mistral AI Chats Up a Storm on Google Cloud Google Cloud’s Vertex AI Gets a Dose of Mistral Magic .NET Aspire on Azure: The App Service Strikes Back Default Outbound Access Retires, Decides Florida Isn’t for Everyone  AI Is Going Great – or How ML Makes Money  01:52 Introducing Claude 4 Claude has launched the latest models in Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4, setting new standards for coding, advancing reasoning and AI agents. Maybe they'll actually follow instructions when told to shut down? (Looking at you, ChatGPT.) Claude Opus 4 is “the world's best coding model” with sustained performance on complex, long-running tasks and agent workflows.  Opus 4 has 350 billion parameters, making it one of the largest publicly available language models.  It demonstrates strong performance on academic benchmarks, including research.  Sonnet 4 is a smaller 10 billion parameter model optimized for dialogue, making it well-suited for conversational AI applications.  Alongside the models, they are also announcing: Extended thinking with tool use (beta): Both models can use tools – like web search – during extended thinking, allowing Claude to alternate between reasoning and tool use to improve its responses. New Model Capabilities: Both models can use tools in parallel, follow instructions more precisely, and when given access to local files by developers — demonstrate significantly improved memory capabilities, extracting and saving key facts maintain continuity and build tacit knowledge over time Claude code is now generally available: After receiving extensive positive feedback during our research preview, they are expanding how developers can collaborate with Claude.  Claude code now supports background tasks via gith

Welcome to episode 305 of The Cloud Pod – where the forecast is always cloudy! How did you do on your Microsoft Build Predictions? As badly as us? Plus we’ve got news on AWS service changes, a lifecycle catch up page for all those services that bought the farm, tons of Gemini news (seriously, like a lot) and even some AI for .NET.  Welcome to the cloud pod- and thanks for joining us!  Titles we almost went with this week: Google’s Jules: An AI Gem for Cloud Devs   Autonomous Agents of Code: Jules’ Excellent Adventure in the Google Cloud Gemini 2.5 Shoots for the Stars with Cosmic-Sized AI Upgrades Resistance is Futile: OpenAI Assimilates Your Codebase  AWS Transformers: Rise of the Agentic AI  Teaching an old .NET dog new Linux tricks CodeBuild Puts Docker Builds in Hyperdrive Inspector Gadget’s New Trick: Mapping Container Vulnerabilities Yo Dawg, I Heard You Like Scanning Containers… Google Cranks AI to 11 with New Ultra Plan I, For One, Welcome Our New AI Ultra Overlords The Inference Engine That Could: llm-d Chugs Ahead with Kubernetes-Native        Scaling Scaling Inference to Infinity and Beyond with Google Cloud’s llm-d Google Cloud and Spring AI: A Match Made in Java-n The Fast and the Serverless: Cloud Run Drifts into AI Studio Territory SQL Server 2025: A Vector Victor, Not a Scalar Failure AI will solve my life problems of having money in my pocket I used to scan all the containers but now I will just scan yours AI Is Going Great – or How ML Makes Money  01:50 Jules: Google's autonomous AI coding agent Jules is an autonomous AI agent that can read code, understand intent, and make code changes on its own.  It goes beyond AI coding assistants to operate independently. It clones code into a secure Google Cloud VM, allowing it to understand the full context of a project. This enables it to write tests, build features, fix bugs, and more. Jules operates asynchronously in the background, presenting its plan and reasoning when complete. This allows developers to focus on other tasks while it works. Integration with GitHub enables Jules to work directly in existing workflows without extra setup or context switching. Developers can steer and give feedback throughout the process. For cloud developers, Jules demonstrates the rapid advancement of AI for coding moving from prototype to product. Its cloud-based parallel execution enables efficient handling of complex, multi-file changes. While in public beta, Jules is free with some usage limits. This allows developers to experiment with this cutting-edge AI coding agent and understand its potential to accelerate development on Google Cloud. 02:56 Ryan – “More and more, as new tools get released, it's just going to change the way anything gets written… it's getting more and more capable.”  05:45 Introducing Flow: Google's AI filmmaking tool designed for Veo

Welcome to episode 304 of The Cloud Pod – where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Ryan and Matt are in the house tonight to bring you all the latest and greatest in Cloud and AI news, including AWS new Chilean region, the ongoing tug of war between Open AI and Microsoft, and even some K8 updates – plus an aftershow. Let's get started!  Titles we almost went with this week: Open AI gets a COO delivered Things get Chile with new regions Observability and AI, I Q-uestion the logic Cloud Pod tries to Microsoft Build predictions K8 resizes pods on the fly Microsoft strongly reinforces the AI Foundry The Cloud Pod renegotiates the hosts’ contracts … we now have to pay the Cloud Pod to be on it  Follow Up  01:53 DOJ’s extreme proposals will hurt consumers and America’s tech leadership  We previously talked about the DOJ and Google Antitrust lawsuit – and now the DOJ has wrapped up their remedies hearing, and Google has *not* been quiet about it. One of the claims is that the remedies would hurt browser choice, putting browsers like Firefox out of business completely.  Google also claimed that data disclosure mandates would threaten user's privacy – it would be MUCH safer if they could just sell it to you via their marketplace.  We do agree that divesting Chrome would make things more complicated for people living in the Google Cloud.  Really, what comes down to is that Google claims DOJ's solutions are the wrong solutions – although to us, Google's solutions aren't much better.  AI – Or How ML Makes Money  09:20 OpenAI Expands Leadership with Fidji Simo  OpenAI Hires Instacart CEO Simo For Major Leadership Role  OpenAI is hiring Fidji Simo as the CEO of applications, representing a major restructuring of leadership at the company.  She was the CEO at

Welcome to episode 303 of The Cloud Pod – where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Ryan and exhausted dad Matt are here (and mostly awake) ready to bring the latest in cloud news! This week we've got more news from Nova, updates to Claude, earnings news, and a mini funeral for Skype – plus a new helping of Cloud Journey! Titles we almost went with this week: Claude researches so Ryan can nap The best AI for Nova Corps, Amazon Nova Premiere JB If you can't beat them, change the licensing terms and make them fork, and then       reverse course… and profit Q has invaded your IDE!! Skype bites the dust A big thanks to this week's sponsor: We're sponsorless! Want to get your brand, company, or service in front of a very enthusiastic group of cloud news seekers? You've come to the right place! Send us an email or hit us up on our Slack channel for more info.  Follow Up  02:50 Sycophancy in GPT-4o: What happened and what we're doing about it OpenAI wrote up a blog post about their sycophantic Chat GPT 4o upgrade last week, and they wanted to set the record straight.  They made adjustments at improving the models default personality to make it feel more intuitive and effective across a variety of tasks.  When shaping model behavior, they start with a baseline principle and instructions outlined in their model spec.  They also teach their models how to apply these principles by incorporating user signals like thumbs up and thumbs down feedback on responses.  In this update, though, they focused too much on short-term feedback and did not fully account for how users’ interactions with ChatGPT evolve. This skewed the results towards responses that were overly supportive – but disingenuous.  Beyond rolling back the changes, they are taking steps to realign the model behavior, including refining core training techniques and system prompts to explicitly steer the model away from sycophancy.  They also plan to build more guardrails to increase honesty and transparency principles in the model spec. Additionally, they plan to expand ways for users to test and give direct feedback before deployments. Lastly, OpenAI continues to expand evaluations building on the model sync and our ongoing research.  04:43 Deep Research on Microsoft Hotpatching: Yes, they’re grabbing money and screwing you. Basically.  07:06 Justin – “I'm not going to give them any credit on this one. I appreciate that they created hotpatching, but I don't like what you want to charge me for it.”  General News It's Earnings time – cue the sound effects! 08:03 Alphabet’s Q1 earnings shattered analyst expectations, sending the stock 

Welcome to episode 302 of The Cloud Pod – where the forecast is always cloudy! This week Justin and Ryan are on hand to bring you all the latest in Cloud (and AI news.) We've got hotpatching, Project Greenland, and a rollback of GPT-4.o, which sort of makes us sad – and our egos are definitely less stroked. Plus Saas, containers, and outposts – all of this and more. Thanks for joining us in the cloud!  Titles we almost went with this week: The Cloud Pod was never accused of being sycophantic 2nd Gen outposts!?! I didn't even know anyone was using Gen 1 AWS Outposts 2nd Gen… not with AI (GASP) If you’re doing SaaS wrong, Google & AWS have your back this week with new Features  Patching, so hot right now Larger container sizes for Azure….  You don't say AWS Green reporting detects hotspots… surprisingly close to Maryland….. Visual pipeline for Opensearch… I want to like this… but I just can't A big thanks to this week's sponsor: We're sponsorless! Want to get your brand, company, or service in front of a very enthusiastic group of cloud news seekers? You've come to the right place! Send us an email or hit us up on our Slack channel for more info.  General News  01:37 Sharing new DORA research for gen AI in software development The DORA team at Google has released a new report, “Impact of Generative AI In Software Development.” The report is based on data and developer interviews, and the report aims to move beyond hype to offer a proper perspective on AI’s impact on individuals, teams and organizations.  Click on the link in our show notes to access the full report. However, Google has highlighted a few key points in the blog post. AI is Real – A staggering 89% of organizations are prioritizing the integration of AI into their applications, and 76% of technologists are already using AI in some part of their daily work.  Productivity gains confirmed: Developers using Gen AI report significant increases in flow, productivity, and job satisfaction.  For instance, a 25% increase in AI adoption is associated with a 2.1% increase in individual productivity. Organization benefits are tangible: Beyond individual gains, Dora found strong correlations between AI adoption and improvements in crucial organizational metrics. A 25% increase in AI adoption is associated with increases in document quality, code quality, code review speeds and approval speeds.  If you are looking to utilize AI in your development organization, they provide five practical approaches for both leaders and practitioners. Have transparent communications Empower developers with learning and experimentation Establish clear policies Rethink performance metrics Embrace fast feedback loops 045:06 Ryan – “Those are really good approaches, but really difficult to implement in practice. You know, in my day job, watching the company struggle to get a handle on AI from all the different angles you need to, from data protection, legal liability

Welcome to episode 300 of The Cloud Pod – where the forecast is always cloudy! According to the title, this week's show is taking place inside of a Dr. Suess book, but don't despair – we're not going to make you eat green eggs and ham, but we WILL give you the low down on all things Vegas. Well, Google's Next event which recently took place in Vegas anyway. Did you make any Next predictions?  Titles we almost went with this week: This is the CLOUDPOD Episode 300 Tonight we dine in the Cloud The Next Chapter Now in Preview: Episode 300 A big thanks to this week's sponsor: We're sponsorless! Want to get your brand, company, or service in front of a very enthusiastic group of cloud news seekers? You've come to the right place! Send us an email or hit us up on our slack channel for more info.  GCP Pre-Next 02:35 Google shakes up Gemini leadership, Google Labs head taking the reins  There was a lot of Gemini news at Next – but we'll get to all that.  In this particular case, there's an employee shakeup. Sissie Hsiao is stepping down from leading the Google team, and is being replaced by Josh Woodward, who is currently leading the Google Labs.  04:35 Filestore instance replication now available GCP says customers have been asking for help in meeting business and regulatory goals, and so they are releasing Filestore instance replication. This new feature offers an efficient replication point objective (RPO) that can reach 30 minutes for data change rates of 100 MB/sec. 05:16 Multi-Cluster Orchestrator for cross-region Kubernetes workloads The public preview of Multi-Cluster Orchestrator was recently announced. This lets platform and application teams optimize resource utilization, enhance application resilience, and accelerate innovation in complex, multi-cluster environments.  The need for effective multi-cluster management has become essential as organizations increasingly use Kubernetes to deploy and manage their applications; Challenges such as resource scarcity, ensuring high availability, and managing deployments across diverse environments create significant operational overhead. Multi-Cluster Orchestrator addresses these challenges by providing a centralized orchestration layer that abstracts away the complexities of underlying Kubernetes infrastructure matching workloads with capacity across regions. 06:26 GKE at 65,000 nodes: Evaluating performance for simulated mixed AI workloads Recently GKE announced it can now support up to 65,000 nodes (up from 15,000.)  Saint Carrie be with your CFO.  09:15

Welcome to episode 299 of The Cloud Pod – where the forecast is always cloudy! Google Next is quickly approaching, and you know what that means – it's time for predictions! Who will win this year’s Crystal Ball award? Only time and the main stage will tell. Join Matthew, Justin, and Ryan as they break down their thoughts on what groundbreaking (and less groundbreaking) announcements are in store for us.  Titles we almost went with this week: OpenAI and Anthropic join forces?  Its 2025, and AWS is still trying to make Jumbo packets happen Beanstalk and Ruby’s Updates!! They're Alive!!! Google Colossus or how to expect a colossal cloud outage someday. The Cloud Pod gives an ode to Peter A big thanks to this week's sponsor: We're sponsorless! Want to get your brand, company, or service in front of a very enthusiastic group of cloud news seekers? You've come to the right place! Send us an email or hit us up on our slack channel for more info.  AI Is Going Great – Or How ML Makes All Its Money   02:27 OpenAI adopts rival Anthropic's standard for connecting AI models to data OpenAI is embracing Anthropic's standard for connecting AI assistants to the systems where the data resides.   By adapting Anthropic's Model Context Protocol or MCP across its products, including the desktop app for ChatGPT.   MCP is an open source standard that helps AI models produce better, more relevant responses to certain queries.  Sam Altman says that people love MCP and they are excited to add support across their products and that it is available today in the Agents SDK and support for the ChatGPT desktop and Response API is coming soon. MCP lets models draw data from sources like business tools and software to complete tasks, as well as from content repositories and app development environments.  We found two helpful articles that may help demystify this whole concept.  MCP: What It Is and Why It Matters – by Addy Osmani Meet MCP: Your LLM's Super-Helpful Assistant! Justin particularly loves Addy Osmani's blog, as they start out with a simple ELI5 on understanding MCP. We're going to quote verbatim:  “Imagine you have a single universal plug that fits all your devices – that’s essentially what the Model Context Protocol (MCP) is for AI. MCP is an

Welcome to episode 298 of The Cloud Pod – where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Matthew and Ryan are in the house (and still very much missing Jonathan) to bring you a  jam packed show this week, with news from Beijing to Virginia! Did you know Virginia was in the US? Amazon definitely wants you to know that.  We've got updates from BigQuery Git Support and their new collab tools, plus all the AI updates you were hoping you'd miss. Tune in now!  Titles we almost went with this week: The Cloud Pod now Recorded from Planet Earth Wait Java still exists? When will java just be coffee and not software Cloudflare Makes AI beat Mazes Replacing native mobile things with mobile web apps won't fix your problems AWS Turn your security over to the bots The Cloud Pod is lost in the AI labyrinth  AI security agents to secure the AI… wait recursion Durable + Stateless.. I don't know if you know what those words means Click ops expands to our phones yay! The Cloud Pod is now a data analyst  Gitops come to bigquery A big thanks to this week's sponsor: We're sponsorless! Want to get your brand, company, or service in front of a very enthusiastic group of cloud news seekers? You've come to the right place! Send us an email or hit us up on our slack channel for more info.  AI Is Going Great – Or How ML Makes All Its Money   00:46 Manus, a New AI Agent From China is Going Viral—And Raising Big Questions   Manus is being described as “the first true autonomous AI agent” from China, capable of completing weeks of professional work in hours. Developed by a team called Butterfly Effect with offices in Beijing and Wuhan, Manus functions as a truly autonomous agent that independently analyzes, plans, and executes complex tasks.  The system uses a multi-agent architecture powered by several distinct AI models, including Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet and fine-tuned versions of

Welcome to episode 297 of The Cloud Pod – where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Ryan, and Matthew have beaten the black lung and are in the studio – ready to bring you all the latest and greatest in cloud and AI news! We've got Wiz buyouts (that security, it's so hot right now!) Gemma 3, Glue 5 (but not 3 or 4) and Gemini Robots – plus looking forward to AI Skills Fest and Google Next, all this week on The Cloud Pod.  Titles we almost went with this week: Google! Yer a WIZ—Ard Google Announces Network Security Integration… and that must include WIZ Gemini Robots…. What could go wrong  AI Data Studios … So Hot Right Now I want 32 Billion dollars Azure Follow AWS in bad life choices – mk Wait Glue is more than v2 What happened to Glue 3 and 4? 5th Try and AWS Glue still sucks A big thanks to this week's sponsor: We're sponsorless! Want to get your brand, company, or service in front of a very enthusiastic group of cloud news seekers? You've come to the right place! Send us an email or hit us up on our slack channel for more info.  Follow Up  01:05 Microsoft quantum computing claim still lacks evidence: physicists are dubious A MS researcher presented results behind the company's controversial claim to have created the first topological qubits – a long-sought goal of quantum computing.  Theorists said it’s a hard problem, and that it was a beautiful talk but the claims come without evidence, and people think they have gone overboard.  The Head of Quantum at Amazon was also highly skeptical: https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-exec-casts-doubt-microsoft-quantum-claims-2025-3 02:09 Justin – “No one’s really buying Microsoft actually created a new topological qubit. There’s some doubt… basically they said that what they showed, which is a microscopic H-shaped aluminum wire on top of indium arsenide – a superconductor at ultra-cold temperatures, and the devices are designed to harness majoranas, previously undiscovered quasi-particles that are essential for topological qubits to work, and the goals for majoranas to appear at the four tips of the H-shaped wire emerging from reflective-behavior electrons, and these majorans in theory could be used to perform quantum computing that are resistant to information loss, but no proof, no evidence, and they think Microsoft’s full of it.” General News  04:12 Google + Wiz: Strengthening Multicloud Security Google has announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire Wiz. This will allow them to better provide business and governments with more choice in how they protect themselves.  Google answers why now… and that they have seen their

Welcome to episode 296 of The Cloud Pod – where the forecast is always cloudy! Today is a twofer – Justin and Ryan are in the house to make sure you don't miss out on any of today's important cloud and AI news. From AI Protection, to Google Next, to Amazon Q Developer, we've got it all, this week on TCP!  Titles we almost went with this week: Amazon Step Functions, walks step by step into my IDE Deepseek seeks the truth of “is it serverless or servers”?  Well Architected Reviews by AI… What will my solutions architects do now?  The cloud pod hosts steps over the Azure EU Data Boundary BYOIP to ALBs… only years too late for everyone. A big thanks to this week's sponsor: We're sponsorless! Want to get your brand, company, or service in front of a very enthusiastic group of cloud news seekers? You've come to the right place! Send us an email or hit us up on our slack channel for more info.  General News  01:02 HashiCorp and Red Hat, better together  Hashicorp has more details on its future, with the recent IBM acquisition in this blog post.  They talk about the wide range of Day 2 operations, including things like drift detection, image management and patching, rightsizing, and configuration management.   As Red Hat Ansible is a purpose built operational management platform, it makes it easier to properly configure resources after the initial creation, but also to evolve the configuration after setup, and then execute ad-hoc playbooks to keep things running reliably and more securely at scale.  Some additional things they're exploring, now that the acquisition has closed: Red Hat Ansible Inventory generated dynamically by Terraform.  Official Terraform modules for Redhat Ansible, making it easier to trigger terraform from Ansible Playbooks. Redhat and Hashicorp officially support the Red Hat Ansible Provider for Terraform, making it easier to trigger Ansible from Terraform. Evolving Terraform provisioners to support a more comprehensive set of lifecycle integrations. Improved mechanisms to invoke Ansible Playbooks outside of the resource provisioning lifecycle Customers – not surprisingly – regularly integrate Vault and Openshift, and they have identified dozens of connection points that can add value, including: Vault Secrets Operator for OpenShift Etcd data encryption  Argo CI/CD Istio Certificate issuance 01:48 Justin – “That's a lot of promise for Ansible there, that I'm not sure it completely lives up to…” 07:09

Welcome to episode 295 of The Cloud Pod – where the forecast is always cloudy!  Welp, it's sayonara to Skype – and time to finally make the move to Teams. Hashi has officially moved to IBM, GPT 4.5 is out and people have…thoughts. Plus, Google has the career coach you need to make all your dreams come true.* *Assuming those dreams are reasonable in a volatile economy.  Titles we almost went with this week: Someday we’ll find it, the rainbow connection, the lovers, the cloud dreamers, and Me  Dreamer, you know you are a dreamer You may say I’m a cloud dreamer, but I’m not the only one May the skype shut down Q can tell me that my python skills are bad How many free code assistance does Ryan need to be a good developer: ALL OF THEM Oops honey I spent 1M dollars on oracle Latest Cloud Pod Reviews: “It’s a Lemon” A big thanks to this week's sponsor: We're sponsorless! Want to get your brand, company, or service in front of a very enthusiastic group of cloud news seekers? You've come to the right place! Send us an email or hit us up on our slack channel for more info.  General News  01:04 On May 5, Microsoft's Skype will shut down for good  In what we swear is the 9th death for Skype, Microsoft has announced that after 21 years (with 13 of those years under MS Control,) Skype will be no more.  For real this time. Really.  May 5th is the official last day of Skype, and they've indicated you can continue your calls and chats in Teams.  Starting now, you should be able to use your Skype login to get into Teams.  For those of you who do this, you'll see all your existing contacts and chats in Teams.  Alternatively, you can export your Skype data, specifically contacts, call history and chats.  Current subscribers to Skype Premium services will remain active until the end, but you will not be able to sign up for Skype at this time.  Skype dial pad credits will remain active in the web interface and inside Teams after May 5th so you can finish using those credits.  03:37 Matthew  – “I think there’s a lot of people and, you know, at least people I know in other countries to still use Skype, like pretty heavily for like cross country communications, things along those lines. So I think a lot of that is that there probably is still a good amount of people using it. And this is just, Hey, they’re trying to make it nicely. So how, you know, nice and clean cut over for people versus, you know, the Apple method of it just doesn’t work anymore. Good luck.” 04:41 HashiCorp officially joins the IBM family  IBM has finished the acquisition of HashiCorp, which they had announced last year. Armon Dadgar wrote a blog post reflecting on the journey that Hashicorp has been on; he talks about the future and that his goal is to have Hashicorp in every datacenter. 

Welcome to episode 294 of The Cloud Pod – where the forecast is always cloudy!Ilya Boy, do we have a news packed week for you! Sutskever raised $30B without a product, Mira Murati launched her own AI lab, and Claude 3.7 now thinks before it speaks. Meanwhile, Microsoft casually invented new matter for quantum computing, Google built an AI scientist, and AWS killed Chime (RIP). At this rate, AI is either going to save the world or speedrun becoming Ultron. Let's all find out together – today on The Cloud Pod!  Titles we almost went with this week: Ding – Chime is Dead Does your container really need 192 cores Quantum is the new AI AI is now IN the robots A big thanks to this week's sponsor: We're sponsorless! Want to get your brand, company, or service in front of a very enthusiastic group of cloud news seekers? You've come to the right place! Send us an email or hit us up on our slack channel for more info.  AI Is Going Great – Or How ML Makes All It's Money  02:41 Ilya Sutskever's Startup in Talks to Raise Financing at $30 Billion Valuation It's been a minute since we talked about former OpenAI executives and what they're up to.  Let's start with Ilya Sutskever and Mira Murati, post Open AI career The Information reports that Ilya Suskevers' startup “Safe Superintelligence” is in talks to raise $1Billion in a round that would value the startup at $30 Billion.   The company has yet to release a product, but based on the name we can guess what they’re working on… 03:22 Ryan – “It's so nuts to me that they can raise that much without – really just an idea. Doesn't have to have any proof or POC…” 07:07 Murati Joins Crowded AI Startup Sector Mira Murati confirmed one of the worst kept secrets in AI, by revealing her lab Thinking Machine Labs.  Murati has lured away two thirds of her team from OpenAI.  We'll be waiting to see how the funding goes for this one.  08:02 Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code Anthropic is releasing their latest model Claude 3.7 Sonnet, their most intelligent model to date and the first hybrid reasoning model on the market.   Claude 3.7 sonnet can produce near instant responses or extended, step by step thinning that is made visible to the user.   API users also have fine grai

Welcome to episode 293 of The Cloud Pod – where the forecast is always cloudy! This week we've got a lot of new and, surprise, a new installment of Cloud Journey AND and aftershow – so make sure to stay tuned for that! We've got undersea cables, Go 1.24, Wasm, Anthropic and more.  Titles we almost went with this week: Lets Go! Under Sea cables make AI go BRRRRRR The CloudPod says it will grow the listeners by 10x by 2027 A big thanks to this week's sponsor: We're sponsorless! Want to get your brand, company, or service in front of a very enthusiastic group of cloud news seekers? You've come to the right place! Send us an email or hit us up on our slack channel for more info.  General News 01:30 Go 1.24 is released!  Go 1.24 has been released with a bunch of improvements!  Go now fully supports generic type aliases. It also includes several performance improvements to the runtime that have reduced CPU overhead by 2-3% on average across a suite of representative benchmarks. (Say that 5 times fast.) Tool improvements around tool dependencies for a module.  The standard library now includes new mechanisms to facilitate FIPS-140-3 compliance. And you know we love some good FIPS-140-3 compliance.  Lastly, it includes some improved WebAssembly support – which we'll talk about later.  04:46 Unlocking global AI potential with next-generation subsea infrastructure Meta announced their most ambitious subsea cable endeavor: Project Waterworth.  Once the cable is completed, the project will reach five major continents and span over 50,000 KM (longer than the earth’s circumference) making it the world’s longest subsea cable project using the highest-capacity technology available.  It will bring connectivity to the US, India, Brazil, South Africa, as well as other key regions.  Waterworth will be a multi-billion dollar, multi-year investment to strengthen the scale and reliability of the world's digital highways by opening three new oceanic corridors with the abundant, high-speed connectivity needed to drive AI innovation around the world. Meta has apparently developed 20 subsea cables over the last decade, including multiple deployments of industry leading subsea cables of 24 fiber pairs, compared to the typical 8 to 16 pairs of other new systems . They are also deploying a first of its kind routing system, maximizing the cable load in deep waters at depths up to 7,000 meters and using enhanced burial techniques in high-risk fault areas, such as shallow waters near the coast, to avoid damage from ship anchors and other hazards.  They wrap up the article by basically saying t

Welcome to episode 292 of The Cloud Pod – where the forecast is always cloudy! This week Justin and Jonathan are a dynamic duo, bringing you all the latest in news – and sound effects – because it's earnings time! Plus we've got new from VS Code, Azure Data Studio, CodeBuild and more.  Titles we almost went with this week: The Cloud Pod Renames Cloud Earnings to ‘The Gulf of Capex’ Sorry Elon, OpenAI Doesn’t Want Your Pocket Change MacOS gets into the Fastlane for Oil Changes A big thanks to this week's sponsor: We're sponsorless! Want to get your brand, company, or service in front of a very enthusiastic group of cloud news seekers? You've come to the right place! Send us an email or hit us up on our slack channel for more info.  General News It's earnings time!  01:29 Alphabet is planning to spend big on AI again this year, sending shares down Alphabet earnings were a bit of a let down with cloud revenue missing and their announcement of spending $75 Billion in CapEx (DeepSeek who?) Consolidated revenue rose 12% in the period to 96.5 billion.  Capex investments of $75b shocked analysts who expected $57.9 billion. EPS was 2.15 vs 2.13. Revenue of 96.5 billion vs 96.62 expected. Ad revenue rose to 72.46 billion vs 71.3, Youtube advertising revenue was 10.47 billion vs 10.22 billion.  Google Cloud was 12.0 billion vs expectation of 12.19 billion. 02:09 Jonathan – “I'm guessing ad revenue is gonna be down again, Q1, Q2 because I think a lot of ad revenue is driven by the election season. So that’s not looking too good for them.” 03:13 Microsoft GAAP EPS of $3.23 beats by $0.13, revenue of $69.6B beats by $790M Microsoft followed up with also weak growth in its Azure cloud computing unit.  EPS was 3.23 beating expectations by 0.13 Revenue of 69.6B beating by 780M Intelligent cloud revenue was 25.5 billion an increase of 19% Microsoft indicated they plan to spend 80 Billion in CapEx for AI and data center growth.  04:02 Justin- “Also international expansion still, I think a big area too, particularly for Azure and Google and even Amazon. Like they’re all announcing more and more regions, more expansion of data centers, lots of laws that are going to pass for data sovereignty that they have to deal with. there’s, there’s spend everywhere.” 04:23

Welcome to episode 291 of The Cloud Pod – where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Jonathan, and Ryan have battled through the various plagues and have come together to bring you all the latest in cloud news, including Kro, DeepSeek, and CoPilot.  Titles we almost went with this week: In Shocking News China Steals US IP The Cloud Pod is Now Supported in Gov Cloud  Microsoft Goes Open Source No SQL… and Hell Hasn't Frozen Over Zombie Buckets Receive How Much Traffic?!? AWS, GCP and Azure eat KRO Github Copilot for Free, so You Can Win at Coding Interviews Customized Best Practices… I don't think you know what best practices are TheCloudPod Leverages Deep Understanding to Make a Nuanced Decision on adopting Copilot A big thanks to this week's sponsor: We're sponsorless! Want to get your brand, company, or service in front of a very enthusiastic group of cloud news seekers? You've come to the right place! Send us an email or hit us up on our slack channel for more info.  Follow Up 01:23 Is DeepSeek really sending data to China? Let's decode  One of the early concerns about DeepSeek was its privacy implications, starting with their privacy policy.  Allegations are significant but reality is if the open source model is hosted locally or orchestrated via GPUs in the US the data does not go to China. But if you’re using the DeepSeek app it clearly states in the privacy policy that the data will be stored in China. Data hosted on Chinese servers can be seized by the Government at any time.  Maybe rethink using the native DeepSeek websites and mobile apps and just host them locally in LM studio.  02:21 Jonathan – “They’re collecting some weird data. I get collecting conversational data, because that is the business they're in, but they're also doing some weird stuff, like they fingerprint users by looking at the patterns of the way that they type. Not just what they type, but how they type, like the timing between hitting different letters – things like that.” 8:06 OpenAI Believes DeepSeek Was Developed Using OpenAI Models  Listener Note: paywall article  OpenAI says they have found evidence that the Chinese firm behind DeepSeek developed the AI using information generated by OpenAI's models.  This is prohibited by the OpenAI terms of service, and is a practice known as AI model distillation.   With distillation, the developer asks existing AI models lots of questions and uses the answers to develop new models that mimic their performance.   This shortcut results in models that roughly approximate sta

Welcome to episode 290 of The Cloud Pod – where the forecast is always cloudy! It's a full house this week – and a good thing too, since there's a lot of news! Justin, Jonathan, Ryan, and Matthew are all in the house to bring you news on DeepSeek, OpenVox, CloudWatch, and more.  Titles we almost went with this week: The cloud pod wonders if azure is still hung over from new years Stratoshark sends the Cloud pod to the stratosphere Cutting-Edge Chinese “Reasoning” Model Rivals OpenAI… and it’s FREE?! Wireshark turns 27, Cloud Pod Hosts feel old Operator: DeepSeek is here to kill OpenAI Time for a deepthink on buying all that Nvidia stock AWS Token Service finally goes cloud native The CloudPod wonders if OpenAI’s Operator can order its own $200 subscription A big thanks to this week's sponsor: We're sponsorless! Want to get your brand, company, or service in front of a very enthusiastic group of cloud news seekers? You've come to the right place! Send us an email or hit us up on our slack channel for more info.  AI IS Going Great – Or How ML Makes All Its Money 01:29 Introducing the GenAI Platform: Simplifying AI Development for All  If you’re struggling to find that AI GPU capacity, Digital Ocean is pleased to announce their DigitalOcean GenAI Platform is now available to everyone. The platform aims to democratize AI development, empowering everyone – from solo developers to large teams – to leverage the transformative potential of generative AI.  On the Gen AI platform you can: Build Scalable AI Agents Seamlessly integrate with workflows Leverage guardrails Optimize Efficiency.  Some of the use cases they are highlighting are chatbots, e-commerce assistance, support automation, business insights, AI-Driven CRMs, Personalized Learning and interactive tools.  02:23 Jonathan – “Inference cost is really the big driver there. So once you once you build something that’s that’s done, but it’s nice to see somebody focusing on delivering it as a service rather than, you know, a $50 an hour compute for training models. This is right where they need to be.” 04:21 OpenAI: Introducing Operator We have thoughts about the name of this service… OpenAI is releasing the preview version of their agent that can use a web browser to perform tasks for you.  The new version is available to OpenAI pro users.  OpenAI says it’s currently a research preview, meaning it has limitations and will evolve based on your feedback.  Operator can handle various browser tasks such as filling out forms, ordering groceries, and even creating memes.  

Welcome to episode 289 of The Cloud Pod – where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Ryan, and Matt are here this week to bring you a riveting podcast on EU regulations! Are you asleep yet? No? Ok great. We promise it will be a good show – despite the title.  Titles we almost went with this week: Stargate: We're not saying its Aliens, but its $500 Billion AWS: Now with extra sessions EC2 Flex: Bigger, Badder and Probably still expensive SNS FIFO: So fast, it'll give you whiplash Azure: Now with added Legalese (Thanks, EU) OpenAI's Stargate: From Chatbots to Interdimensional Travel (maybe) GCP's Biochar Initiative: Turning Waste into… Well, Less Waste (hopefully) AWS Console Multiple Sessions: So you can prove you dropped those databases from multiple accounts Amazon still adds new features to SNS and the cloud pod is impressed AWS tries to kill chrome profiles A big thanks to this week's sponsor: We're sponsorless! Want to get your brand, company, or service in front of a very enthusiastic group of cloud news seekers? You've come to the right place! Send us an email or hit us up on our slack channel for more info.  AI IS Going Great – Or How ML Makes All Its Money 01:47 Announcing The Stargate Project Open AI announced a joint investment of $500 billion dollars over the next four years building new AI infrastructure for OpenAI in the US, with the intent to deploy $100B immediately. This infrastructure will secure American leadership in AI, create hundreds of thousands of American jobs, and generate massive economic benefits for the entire world.  The initial equity funders in stargate are SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle and MGX.   Softbank and OpenAI are the lead partners for Stargate, with Softbank having financial responsibility, and OpenAI having operational responsibility.  Arm, Microsoft, Nvidia, Oracle and OpenAI are the key initial technology partners.  The buildout is currently underway starting in Texas, and they are evaluating potential sites across the country for more campuses as they finalize definitive agreements.  As part of Stargate, Oracle, Nvidia and OpenAI will closely collaborate to build and operate this computing system. This builds on a deep collaboration between OpenAI and NVIDIA going back to 2016, and a newer partnership between OpenAI and Oracle.  This also builds on the existing OpenAI partnership with Microsoft. OpenAI will continue to increase its consumption of Azure as OpenAI continues its work with Microsoft with this additional computer to train leading models and deliver great products and services.  “All of us look forward to continuing to build and develop AI—and in particular

Welcome to episode 288 of The Cloud Pod – where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Ryan, and Jonathan are your hosts as we make our way through this week's cloud and AI news, including back to Vertex AI, Project Digits, Notebook LM, and some major improvements to AI image generation.  Titles we almost went with this week: Digits… I'll show you 5 digits… The only digit the AWS local zone in New York shows me is the middle one Keep one eye open near Mercedes with Agentic AI A big thanks to this week's sponsor: We're sponsorless! Want to get your brand, company, or service in front of a very enthusiastic group of cloud news seekers? You've come to the right place! Send us an email or hit us up on our slack channel for more info.  General News 01:59 Nvidia announces $3,000 personal AI supercomputer called Digits If you don't want to hand over all your money to the cloud providers, you will be able to hand over $3,000 dollars to Nvidia… for a computer that is probably going to be obsolete in

Welcome to episode 287 of The Cloud Pod – where the forecast is always cloudy! 2025 is already shaping up to be another year of “unprecedented” times, but have no fear, Justin, Ryan, Jonathan, and Matthew are all in the house and (mostly) recovered from the holidays – and just in time to bring you all the latest new year news in the cloud world.  Titles we almost went with this week: Everyone is investing in AI… but you could invest in the cloud pod Oracle Exadata X11M: Burn a big pile of money The cloud pod has better security than Microsoft – mk The new and improved Cloud Pod 4.0 Cloud Nine… Figures (or $80 billion) $60 Billion and Counting: The Ai Arms Race Oracle Exadata X11M: For When You Absolutely, Positively, Have to Burn Money The Cloud Pod rebrands to The Cloud AI so we can get 11B in funding A big thanks to this week's sponsor: We're sponsorless! Want to get your brand, company, or service in front of a very enthusiastic group of cloud news seekers? You've come to the right place! Send us an email or hit us up on our slack channel for more info.  General News 2:42 Oracle's rampant cloud growth wasn't enough for Wall Street, and its stock slides after-hours  We missed talking about Oracle's earnings call on December 9th, since we were in the middle of our re:Invent shows. Apparently, their rapid cloud growth was not sufficient to appease the Wall Street gods., but honestly – what is ever good enough for them?   They reported earnings of 1.47 a share, just shy of the 1.48 expected by the analysts. Revenue was up 9% from a year before, at $14.06B below the street’s target of $14.1 Billion. Income was up 26% from prior year, to 3.15B.   Revenue from cloud services and license support was up 12% to 10.8 billion.  Oracle CEO Safra Catz said growth in the AI segment was nothing short of extraordinary, with 336% growth in GPU unit consumption from the prior year.  Despite positive signs, Oracle guidance was soft and this also angered the Wall Street gods.  04:09 Justin – “…now in January, their stock is, up a dollar 11 today, but, looking at the month, they haven’t really recovered from earnings quite yet. So we’ll see how they do as they continue through the year. But, yeah, I mean, tech in general is down. I mean, everything’s down. Everyone’s waiting for the election to, election, the, the soaring in and the new administration to come in as we’re past that.” 04:34 HashiCorp 2024 year in review 2024 was a busy year for Hashicorp, and they wrote up a blog post to point out the highlights. IBM + Hashicorp si

Welcome to episode 286 of The Cloud Pod – where the forecast is always cloudy! Welcome to the final show of 2024! We thank you for joining us on our cloud journey over the past year. During this last show of the year, we look back on all the tech that changed our jobs and lives, and make predictions for an AI filled 2025. Join Justin, Jonathan, Ryan, and Matthew as they look forward to even more discussions about undersea cables. Happy New Year!  Titles we almost went with this week: We thought 2024 would never end I can sum up 2024 – AI AI AI AI and uhh AI AI has taken over the Cloud Pod – we are not really here 2024 the year we hoped AI would replace us… close but not yet A big thanks to this week's sponsor: We're sponsorless! Want to get your brand, company, or service in front of a very enthusiastic group of cloud news seekers? You've come to the right place! Send us an email or hit us up on our slack channel for more info.  General News 00:31   2024 Predictions Look Back Matt Simpler and Easier to access LLM with new services Kubernetes will become simpler for smaller companies to operate that doesn't require Highly Paid Devops/Scientists Low Employee Churn Rates and increased Tenure (Quiet Quitting) 02:07 Matthew – “How is it simpler and easier? I think that there are more ways to run it. The general public has an easier way to access it. And they are simpler as Justin said that they are becoming easier and more efficient and better to use for the average user. So I know that I talked to many people that I work with now and just in general and people that are not in tech, which I feel like a year ago.” Jonathan There will be mass layoffs in tech directly attributed to AI in Q1 2024 (10k or more) Someone will start a cult that follows an AI LLM God believing in sentience, a higher power.  AI will find a new home in education. Lesson Plans, Personalized Learning plans by students, etc.  02:07 Jonathan – “Well, there is a religion called the First Church of Artificial Intelligence, but it’s been around for longer than this year. I think it’s like five, six years old at this point. So that’s kind of cheating. Ryan Start seeing the financial impact of AI to better profitability by using AI. AI Solution tied towards new employee onboarding (replace wiki technology) Removal of stateful firewalls as traffic ruleset (next-gen next-gen firewall) 02:07 Ryan – “I mean, agentic AI is something that’s been rolled out in a lot of companies. I know in my day job, it’s been rolled out. I hope to see this get even stronger and more obvious just because I think that, you know, the days of searching through thousands of documents or the one, you know, unmaintained team page that someone built three years ago when they were new are over. And so I’d like to see this continue. Justin LLM will hit the trough of disillusionment either on Cost, Environmental impact or people realizing how limited these models are Another AI model other than Transformer based We will see another large defector from Public Cloud (not 37 Signals or X/Twitter) 13:26 Justin – “I feel partially vindicated that I was sort of right, just I thought we didn’t be in the trough a little faster, but maybe it’s coming still. I don’t know. they’re innovating pretty quickly. I don’t think they’ll get there, but definitely environmental is going to become a big, big conversation around AI.” 17:02  Favorite Story of 2024 Did you r

Welcome to episode 285 of the Explain it to me Like I'm 5 Podcast, formerly known as The Cloud Pod – where the forecast is always cloudy! We've got a lot of news this week, including the last of our coverage from re:Invent, ChatGTP Pro, FPGA, and even some major staffing turnovers. Titles we almost went with this week: Throw $200 dollars in a fire with ChatGPT Pro Jeff Barr is wrapped up by Agentic AI The Tribble with Trilliums The Wind in the Quantum Willows  Rise of the dead instances FPGA and PowerPC Jeff Barr is replaced by Nova The Cloud Pod: Return of the dead instances types After 6 year Jeff Barr hands over the reigns to the CloudPod For our 6th birthday Jeff barr Retires For our 6th birthday jeff barr delegates announcements to the cloud pod 6 years of meaningless PR drivel 6 years of cloud news and we still don't know what Quantum computing is A big thanks to this week's sponsor: We're sponsorless! Want to get your brand, company, or service in front of a very enthusiastic group of cloud news seekers? You've come to the right place! Send us an email or hit us up on our slack channel for more info.  General News HAPPY 6th BIRTHDAY!  2:00 HashiCorp at re:Invent 2024: Security Lifecycle Management with AWS Hashi is a big sponsor of re:Invent, so of course they had some news of their own to release.  HCP Vault Secrets auto-rotation is now generally available.  Dynamic secrets are generally available via HCP Vault Secrets. Secrets sync will help keep your secrets synced with AWS Secrets Manager. It still appears to be one direction, but you can now also view secrets in AWS Secrets Manager that are managed by vault.  HCP Vault Radar, now in beta, automates the detection and identification of unmanaged secrets in your code, including AWS infrastructure configurations 03:10 Matthew – “This qualifies under the category of things that I feel like we talked about so long ago, I just already assumed was GA. I’m surprised that it wasn’t.” 03:34 HashiCorp at re:Invent 2024: Infrastructure Lifecycle Management with AWS Terraform AWS provider is now at 3 billion downloads.  The

Welcome to episode 284 of The Cloud Pod – where the forecast is always cloudy! Everybody is in the house this week, and it's a good thing because since we've last recorded re:Invent happened, and we have a LOT to talk about. So let's jump right in!  Titles we almost went with this week: Amazon Steals from Azure…. We Are Doomed  The Cloud Pod Can Now Throw Away a lot of Code The Cloud Pod Controls the Future The Cloud Pod Observes More Insights We Are Simplicity X None of the Above Stop Trying to Make Bedrock & Q Happen My Head Went SuperNova over all the Q Announcements These are Not the Gadgets Bond Needed, Q!  A big thanks to this week's sponsor: We're sponsorless! Want to get your brand, company, or service in front of a very enthusiastic group of cloud news seekers? You've come to the right place! Send us an email or hit us up on our slack channel for more info.  AWS  08:12 It's the re:Invent recap!  Did you make any announcement predictions? Let's see how our hosts'  predictions stacked up to reality.  Matt – 1 Large Green Computing Reinvent LLM at the Edge Something new on S3 Ryan (AI) – 1 Improved serverless observability tools Expansion of AI Driven workflows in datalakes Greater Focus on Multi-Account or Multi-region orchestration, centralized compliance management, or enhanced security services Jonathan – 0 New Edge Computing Capabilities better global application deployment type features. (Cloudflare competitor maybe) New automated cost optimization tools Automated RAG/vector to S3 Justin  – 2 Managed Backstage or platform like service New LLM multi-modal replacement or upgrade to Titan Competitor VM offering to Broadcom Honorable Mentions: Jonathan: Deeper integration between serverless and container services New region Enhanced Observability with AI driven debugging tool Justin: Multicloud management – in a bigger way (Anthos competitor) Agentic AI toolings New ARM graviton chip How many will AI or Artificial Intelligence be said: 45 Justin – 35 Jonathan – 72 Pre:Invent There were over 180 announcements, and yes – we have them all listed here for you. You're welcome.  17:12 Time-based snapshot copy for Amazon EBS Now you can specify a desired completion duration, from 15 minutes to 48 hours when you copy an Amazon EBS snapshot within or between Amazon regions or accounts.  This will allow you to meet your time-based compliance and business requirements for critical workloads, mostly around DR capabilities.  We're just glad to see this one finally, because having it built in directly to the console to guarantee that EBS snapshots make it to the other region is a big quality of life enhancement. Announcing future-dated Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations

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Welcome to episode 283 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Break out your crystal balls and shuffle those tarot decks, because it’s Re:Invent prediction time! Sorry we missed you all last week – the plague has been strong with us. But Justin and Jonathan are BACK, and we've got a ton of news, so buckle in and let's get started!  Titles we almost went with this week: Not My Snowcones!  Lambda at 10: Still Better Than Windows Containers  A big thanks to this week's sponsor: We're sponsorless! Want to get your brand, company, or service in front of a very enthusiastic group of cloud news seekers? You've come to the right place! Send us an email or hit us up on our slack channel for more info.  General News   01:27 The voice of America Online's “You've got mail” has died at age 74 Elwoods Edwards, the voice behind the online service AOL's iconic “You've got mail” sound notification has died at the age of 74. He was just one day shy of his 75th birthday.  The “you've got mail” soundbite started in 1989 when Steve Case, CEO of Quantum Computer Services (which will later become America Online or AOL,) wanted to add a human voice to their Quantum online service.   Karen Edwards, who worked as a customer service representative, heard Case discussing the plan and suggested her husband Elwood, a professional broadcaster.  Edwards recorded the famous phrase and others (“Welcome” “File's done” and “Goodbye” among them) on a cassette recorder in his living room.  He was paid $200 for the service.   His voice is still used to greet users of the current AOL service.  AWS  03:04 It's Time for RE:Invent Predictions! Matt Large Green Computing Reinvent LLM at the Edge Something new On S3 Ryan (AI) Improved serverless observability tools Expansion of AI Driven workflows in datalakes Greater Focus on Multi-Account or Multi-region orchestration, centralized compliance management, or enhanced security services Jonathan New Edge Computing Capabilities better global application deployment type features. (Cloudflare competitor maybe) New automated cost optimization tools Automated RAG/vector to S3 Justin  Managed Backstage or platform like service New LLM multi-modal replacement or upgrade to Titan Competitor VM offering to Broadcom  Honorable Mentions Jonathan: Deeper integration between serverless and container services New Region Enhanced Observability with AI driven debugging tool Justin: Multi Cloud management – in a bigger way (Anthos competitor) Agenti

Welcome to episode 282 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! This week Justin, Ryan, and Matthew are happy to be joining you in the clouds versus watching election information. This week we're talking nuclear energy, AI Search tools, and all things Pre:Invent. Welcome, and thanks for joining us!  Titles we almost went with this week: The Cloud Pod Would Much Rather Record This Show Than Watch the Election Results IBM Comes for Your AI Dollars AWS Goes Limitless with the PostgreSQL Possibilities It is Upon Us the Pre-Invent Period and AWS Does Not Disappoint Amazon Loses Its Nuclear Superhero A big thanks to this week's sponsor: We're sponsorless! Want to get your brand, company, or service in front of a very enthusiastic group of cloud news seekers? You've come to the right place! Send us an email or hit us up on our slack channel for more info.  Follow Up 01:13 Energy regulators scrutinizing data center use reject Amazon bid  Late Friday, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission rejected a proposal that would have allowed an Amazon data center to co-locate with an existing nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania.   The commission voted it down 2-1  FERC chairman Willie Phillips said that the commission should encourage the development of data centers and semiconductor manufacturing as national security and economic development priorities.   Commissioners Mark Christie and Lindsay See (both R) voted to reject the proposal, while Davis Rosner and Judy Change (D) didn't vote.  Talen Energy, who signed the agreement, drew challenges from neighboring utilities AEP and Exelon – who challenged the novel arrangement, arguing it would unfairly shift costs of running the broader grid to other consumers.  FERC's order found the region’s grid operator, PJM Interconnection, failed to show why the proposal was necessary and prove such a deal would be limited to the Susquehanna plant given the widespread interest in placing data centers next to power plants.  Talen said the ruling would have a chilling effect on the region’s economic development and it is weighing its options.  Will see what happens with Microsoft/Constellation energies plan to restart 3-Mile Island.  3:21 Justin – “It’s sort of sad because I kind like the idea of nuclear power to solve a bunch of problems, but it has to be done in the right way for sure.” General News   04:12  IT'S EARNINGS TIME!   04:22 IBM revenue misses, but execs say AI will drive future growth  This week, we have an additiona

Welcome to episode 281 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin and Ryan are your hosts as we search the clouds for all the latest news and info. This week we're talking about ECS turning 10 (yes, we were there when it was announced, and yes, we're old,) some more drama from the CrowdStrike fiasco, lots of updates to GitHub, plus more. Join us!   Titles we almost went with this week: Github Universe full of ECS containers Github Universe lives up to the Universal expectations  A big thanks to this week's sponsor: We're sponsorless! Want to get your brand, company, or service in front of a very enthusiastic group of cloud news seekers? You've come to the right place! Send us an email or hit us up on our slack channel for more info.  Follow Up 01:09 Dr. Matt Woods ended up at PWC as chief innovation officer YAWN What exactly does a chief innovation officer at PWC do? Is this like a semi-retirement?  General News 01:44 TSA silent on CrowdStrike's claim Delta skipped required security update Delta isn't backing down with CrowdStrike, and in a court filing said CrowdStrike should be on the hook for the entire $500M in losses, partly because CrowdStrike has admitted that it should have done more testing and staggered deployments to catch bugs.  Delta further alleges that CrowdStrike postured as a certified best-in-class security provider who “never cuts corners,” while secretly designing its software to bypass Microsoft security certifications to make changes at the core of Delta's computer systems without Delta's knowledge.  Delta says they would never have agreed to such a dangerous process if it had been disclosed.  In its testimony to Congress, CrowdStrike said that they follow standard protocols, and that they are protecting against threats as they evolve. CrowdStrike is also accusing Delta of failing to follow laws, including best practices established by the TSA. According to CrowdStrike, most customers were up within a day of the issue – while Delta took 5 days.  Crowdstrike alleges that Delta's negligence caused this in following the TSA requirements designed to ensure that no major airline ever experiences prolonged system outages.  CrowdStrike realized Delta failed to follow the requirements when its efforts to help remediate the issue revealed alleged technological shortcomings and failures to follow security best practices, including outdated IT systems, issues in Delta's AD environment and thousands of compromised passwords. Delta threatened to sue Microsoft as well as CrowdStrike, but has only named CrowdStrike to date in the lawsuits.  3:48 Ryan – “It’s a tool that needs to evolve very quickly to emerging threats. And while the change that was pushed through shouldn’t have gone through that particular workflow, and that’s a m

Welcome to episode 280 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! This week Justin, Jonathan, Ryan, and Matthew are your hosts as we travel through the latest in cloud news. This week we're talking more about nuclear power, some additional major employee shakeups, Claude releases, plus saying RIP to CloudWatch Evidently and hello to Azure Cobalt VMs.   Titles we almost went with this week: The cloud providers are colluding on Nuclear Power I fear our AWS AI nightmare might get worse without Dr. Matt Wood. I'm a glow with excitement about nuclear cloud power Plainly no one else knew what “CloudWatch Evidently” did either We sing a Claude Sonnet about Nuclear Power Evidently, The Cloud Pod was always right Amazon goes nuclear while their AI VP goes AWOL A big thanks to this week's sponsor: We're sponsorless! Want to get your brand, company, or service in front of a very enthusiastic group of cloud news seekers? You've come to the right place! Send us an email or hit us up on our slack channel for more info. AI Is Going Great – Or How ML Makes All It's Money   00:53 Introducing computer use, a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku Anthropic is announcing the upgraded Claude 3.5 Sonnet and a new Model Claude 3.5 Haiku.  Claude 3.5 Sonnet delivers across the board improvements over its predecessor, with particularly significant gains in coding — an area where it already leads the field (per anthropic).   Claude 3.5 Haiku interestingly matches the performance of Claude 3 Opus, the prior largest model, on many evaluations at the same cost and similar speed to the previous generation of Haiku.  Claude 3.5 Sonnet also includes a groundbreaking new capability in beta: Computer Use.   Available today as an API, developers can direct Claude to use computers the way people do – by looking at a screen, moving a cursor, clicking buttons and typing text.   Claude 3.5 is the first frontier AI model to offer this capability.  Anthropic warns the feature is still experimental – at times cumbersome and error-prone. As well as things that are effortless for a human are still difficult including scrolling, dragging or zooming.    The idea is to make Claude complete individual tasks, without always needing to leverage an API, like clicking in a GUI, or uploading a file from a computer.  These types of solutions are typically found in Build and Test like scenarios with tools such as Saucelabs or Browserstack.  To do this, Claude was built to perceive and interact with computer interfaces. You can use data from my computer to fill out this online form or check a spreadsheet, move the cursor to a web browser, navigate to the relevant web pages, select the data for the spreadsheet and so on.  3:06 Jonathan – “If you can take pictures of the screen, then it can identify where buttons and things are with

Welcome to episode 279 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! This week Justin, Jonathan and Matthew are your guide through the Cloud. We're talking about everything from BigQuery to Google Nuclear power plans, and everything in between! Welcome to episode 279!  Titles we almost went with this week: AWS SKYNET (Q) now controls the supply chain AWS Supply Chain: Where skynet meets your shopping list Digital Ocean follows Azure with the Premium everything EKS mounts S3  GCP now a nuclear Big query don't hit that iceberg  Big Query Yells: “ICEBERG AHEAD”  The Cloud Pod: Now with 50% more meltdown protection The Cloud Pod radiates excitement over Google's nuclear deal A big thanks to this week's sponsor: We're sponsorless! Want to get your brand, company, or service in front of a very enthusiastic group of cloud news seekers? You've come to the right place! Send us an email or hit us up on our slack channel for more info.  Follow Up 00:46 OpenAI's Newest Possible Threat: Ex-CTO Murati Apologies listeners – paywall article.  Given the recent departure of Ex-CTO Mira Murati from OpenAI, we speculated that she might be starting something new…and the rumors are rumorin'.  Rumors have been running wild since her last day on October 4th, with several people reporting that there has been a lot of churn.  Speculation is that Murati may join former Open AI VP Bret Zoph at his new startup.   It may be easy to steal some people, as the research organization at Open AI is reportedly in upheaval after Liam Fedus’s promotion to lead post-training – several researchers have asked to switch teams.  In addition, Ilya Sutskever, an Open AI co-founder and former chief scientist, also has a new startup.   We'll definitely be keeping an eye on this particular soap opera.  2:00 Jonathan – “I kind wonder what will these other startups bring that’s different than what OpenAI are doing or Anthropic or anybody else. mean, they’re all going to be taking the same training data sets because that’s what’s available. It’s not like they’re going to invent some data from somewhere else and have an edge. I mean, I guess they could do different things like be mindful about licensing.” General News 4:41 Introducing New 48vCPU and 60vCPU Optimized Premium Droplets on DigitalOcean Those raindrops are getting pretty heavy as Digital Ocean announces their new 48vCPU Memory and storage optimized premium droplets, and 60vcpu general purpose and CPU optimized premium droplets.  Droplets are DO's Linux-based virtual machines.   Premium Optimized Droplets are dedicated CPU instances with access to the full hyperthread, as well as 10GBps of outbound data transfer. The 48vCPU boxes have 384GB of memory, and the 60vCPU boxes have 160gb. 6:02 Justin – “I’ve been watchi

Welcome to episode 278 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! When Justin's away, the guys will… maybe get a show recorded? This week, we're talking OpenAI, another service scheduled for the grave over at AWS, saying goodbye to pesky IPv4 fees, Azure FXv2 VMs, Valkey 8.0 and so much more! Thanks for joining us, here in the cloud!  Titles we almost went with this week: Another One Bites the Dust Peak AI reached: OpenAI Now Puts Print Statements in Code to Help You Debug A big thanks to this week's sponsor: Archera There are a lot of cloud cost management tools out there. But only Archera provides cloud commitment insurance. It sounds fancy but it’s really simple. Archera gives you the cost savings of a 1 or 3 year AWS Savings Plan with a commitment as short as 30 days. If you don’t use all the cloud resources you’ve committed to, they will literally put money back in your bank account to cover the difference. Other cost management tools may say they offer “commitment insurance”, but remember to ask: will you actually give me my money back? Archera will. Click this link to check them out AI Is Going Great – Or How ML Makes All It's Money 00:59 Introducing vision to the fine-tuning API. OpenAI has announced the integration of vision capabilities into its fine-tuning API, allowing developers to enhance the GPT-4o model to analyze and interpret images alongside text and audio inputs.  This update broadens the scope of applications for AI, enabling more multimodal interactions. The fine-tuning API now supports image inputs, which means developers can train models to understand and generate content based on visual data in conjunction with text and audio. After October 31, 2024, training for fine-tuning will cost $25 per 1 million tokens, with inference priced at $3.75 per 1 million input tokens and $15 per 1 million output tokens.  Images are tokenized based on size before pricing. The introduction of prompt caching and other efficiency measures could lower the operational costs for businesses deploying AI solutions. The API is also being enhanced to include features like epoch-based checkpoint creation, a comparative playground for model evaluation, and integration with third-party platforms like Weights and Biases for detailed fine-tuning data management. What does it mean? Admit it – you're dying to know.  Developers can now create applications that not only process text or voice but also interpret and generate responses based on visual cues, and importantly fine tuned for domain specific applications, and this update could lead to more intuitive user interfaces in applications, where users can interact with services using images as naturally as they do with text or speech, potentially expanding the user base to those less tech-savvy or in fields where visual data is crucial. 03:53 Jonathan – “I mean, I think it’s useful for things like quality assurance in manufacturing, for example. You know, could, you could tune it on what your nuts and bolts are supposed to look like and what a good bolt looks like and what a bad bolt looks like coming out of the factory. You just stream the video direct

​Welcome to episode 277 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Ryan, and Matthew are your hosts this week for a news packed show. This week we dive into the latest in cloud computing with announcements from Google’s new AI search tools, Meta’s open-sourced AI models, and Microsoft Copilot’s expanded capabilities. We've also got Oracle releases, and some non-liquid Java on the agenda (but also the liquid kind, too) and Class E IP addresses. Plus, be sure to stay tuned for the aftershow!  Titles we almost went with this week: Which cloud provider does not have llama 3.2 Vmware says we will happily help you support your old Microsoft OS's for $$$$ Class E is the best kind of IP Space Microsoft says trust AI, and so does Skynet 3.2 Llama's walked into an AI bar…  Google gets cranky about MS Licensing, join the club Write Your Prompts, Optimize them with Vertex Prompts Analyzer, rinse repeat into a        vortex of optimization Oracle releases Java 23, Cloud Pod Uses Amazon Corretto 23 instead Oracle releases Java 23, Cloud Pod still says run! MK  A big thanks to this week's sponsor: Archera There are a lot of cloud cost management tools out there. But only Archera provides cloud commitment insurance. It sounds fancy but it’s really simple. Archera gives you the cost savings of a 1 or 3 year AWS Savings Plan with a commitment as short as 30 days. If you don’t use all the cloud resources you’ve committed to, they will literally put money back in your bank account to cover the difference. Other cost management tools may say they offer “commitment insurance”, but remember to ask: will you actually give me my money back? Archera will. Click this link to check them out https://shortclick.link/uthdi1 AI Is Going Great – Or How ML Makes All It's Money 01:06 OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, 2 other execs announce they’re leaving Listener Note: paywall article  OpenAI Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati is leaving, and within hours, two more OpenAI executives joined the list of high-profile departures. Mira Murati spent 6.5 years at the company, and was named CEO temporarily when the board ousted co-founder Sam Altman.   “It’s hard to overstate how much Mira has meant to OpenAI, our mission, and to us all personally,” Altman wrote. “I feel tremendous gratitude towards her for what she has helped us build and accomplish, but most of all, I feel personal gratitude towards her for her support and love during all the hard times. I am excited for what she’ll do next.” Mira oversaw the development of ChatGPT and image generator Dall-E. She was also a pretty public face for the company, appearing in its videos and interviewing journalists. The other two departures were Barret Zoph, who was the company’s Vice President of Research and Chief Research officer Bob McGrew

Welcome to episode 276 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! This week, our hosts Justin, Matthew, and Jonathan do a speedrun of OpenWorld news, talk about energy needs and the totally not controversial decision to reopen 3 Mile Island, a “managed” exodus from cloud, and Kubernetes news. As well as Amazon’s RTO we are calling “Elastic Commute”. All this and more, right now on The Cloud Pod.  Titles we almost went with this week: The Cloud Pod Hosts don't own enough pants for five days a week IBM thinks it can contain the cost of K8s Microsoft loves nuclear energy The Cloudpod tries to give Oracle some love and still does not care The cloud pod goes nuclear on k8s costs Can IBM contain the costs of Kubernetes and Nuclear Power?  Google takes on take over while microsoft takes on nuclear AWS Launches ‘Managed Exodus’: Streamline Your Talent Drain Introducing Amazon WorkForce Alienation: Scale Your Employee Discontent to the Cloud Amazon SageMaker Studio Lab: Now with Real-Time Resignation Prediction 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 01:08 IBM acquires Kubernetes cost optimization startup Kubecost  IBM is quickly becoming the place where cloud cost companies go to assimilate? Or Die? Rebirthed mabe? Either way, it's not a great place to end up.  On Tuesday they announced the acquisition of Kubecost, a FinOps startup that helps teams monitor and optimize their K8 clusters, with a focus on efficiency – and ultimately cost.  This acquisition follows the acquisitions of Apptio, Turbonomic, and Instana over the years.  Kubecost is the company behind OpenCost; a vendor-neutral open source project that forms part of the core Kubecost commercial offering.   OpenCost is part of the Cloud Native Computing Foundations cohort of sandbox projects. Kubecost is expected to be integrated into IBM’s FinOps Suite, which combines Cloudability and Turbonomic.  There is also speculation that it might make its way to OpenShift, too. 02:26 Jsutin- “…so KubeCost lives inside of Kubernetes, and basically has the ability to see how much CPU, how much memory they’re using, then calculate basically the price of the EC2 broken down into the different pods and services.” AI Is Going Great –

Welcome to episode 275 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Matthew and Ryan are awake and ready to bring you all the latest and greatest in cloud news, including SQream, a new partnership between OCI and AWS (yes, really) Azure Linux, and a lot of updates over at AWS. Get comfy and we'll see you all in the cloud!  Titles we almost went with this week: I SQream, You SQream, The CloudPod SQreams for AI Ice Cream AWS East gets Stability, but only for AI. AWS has some Lofty Goals Claude Learns BigQuery Azure now Securely Checks the Prompts from the cloud pod Azure find out about Linux A big thanks to this week's sponsor: We're sponsorless! Want to get your brand, company, or service in front of a very enthusiastic group of cloud news seekers? You've come to the right place! Send us an email or hit us up on our slack channel for more info.  AWS 00:28 Stability AI's best image generating models now in Amazon Bedrock  If you are like The CloudPod hosts, the part you care most about AI is the rapid ability to create graphics for any meme-worthy moment or funny pictures for that group chat.  Luckily AWS has access to the latest image generation capability with 3 models from Stability AI. Stable Image Ultra – Produces the highest quality, photorealistic outputs perfect for professional print media and large format applications. Stable image Ultra excels at rendering exceptional detail and realism.  Stable diffusion 3 large – strikes a balance between generation speed and output quality. Ideal for creating high-volume, high-quality digital assets for websites, newsletters and marketing materials.  Stable Image Core – Optimized for fast and affordable image generation, great for rapidly iterating on concepts during ideation.  One of the key improvements of Stable Image Ultra and Stable Diffusion 3 large compared to Stable Diffusion XL (SDXL) is text quality in generated images, with fewer errors in spelling and typography thanks to innovation diffusion transformer architecture, which implements two separate sets of weights for image and text but enables information flow between the two modalities.  02:46 Justin – “I do notice more and more that, you get it, you get the typical product shot on Amazon, but then like they’ll insert the product into different backgrounds and scenes. Like, it’s a, it’s a lamp and all of a sudden it’s on a thing and they’re like, Hmm, that doesn’t look like a real photo though. It looks like AI. So you do notice it more and more.” 04:13 AWS Network Load Balancer now supports configurable TCP idle timeout AWS Gateway Load Balancer now supports configurable TCP idle timeout We see you Amazon – trying to get two press releases for basically the same thing, not today sir!  Both the AWS Network Load Balancer and Gateway Load Balancer have received a configurable TCP Idle timeout. 

Welcome to episode 274 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Ryan and Matthew are your hosts this week as we explore the world of SnapShots, Maia, Open Source, and VMware – just to name a few of the topics. And stay tuned for an installment of our continuing Cloud Journey Series to explore ways to decrease tech debt, all this week on The Cloud Pod.   Titles we almost went with this week: The Cloud Pod in Parallel Cluster The Cloud Pod cringes at managing 1000 aws accounts The Cloud Pod welcomes Imagen 3 with less Wokeness The Cloud Pod wants to be instantly snapshotted The Cloud pod hates tech debt 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 00:32 Elasticsearch is Open Source, Again Shay Banon is pleased to call ElasticSearch and Kibana “open source” again.  He says everyone at Elastic is ecstatic to be open source again, it’s part of his and “Elastics DNA.”  They’re doing this by adding AGPL as another license option next to ELv2 and SSPL in the coming weeks.  They never stopped believing or behaving like an OSS company after they changed the license, but by being able to use the term open source and by using AGPL – an OSI approved license – removes any questions or fud people might have.  Shay says the change 3 years ago was because they had issues with AWS and the market confusion their offering was causing.  So, after trying all the other options, changing the license – all while knowing it would result in a fork with a different name – was the path they took.  While it was painful, they said it worked.  3 years later, Amazon is fully invested in their OpenSearch fork, the market confusion has mostly gone, and their partnership with AWS is stronger than ever. They are even being named partner of the year with AWS.  They want to “make life of our users as simple as possible,” so if you’re ok with the ELv2 or the SSPL, then you can keep using that license. They aren't removing anything, just giving you another option with AGPL. He calls out trolls and people who will pick at this announcement, so they are attempting to address the trolls in advance.  “Changing the license was a mistake, and Elastic now backtracks from it”. We removed a lot of market confusion when we changed our license 3 years ago. And because of our actions, a lot has changed. It's an entirely different landscape now. We aren't living in the past. We want to build a better future for our users. It's because we took action then, that we are in a position to take action now. “AGPL i

Welcome to episode 273 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Hold onto your butts – this week your hosts Justin, Ryan, Matthew and (eventually) Jonathan are bringing you two weeks worth of cloud and AI news. We've got Karpenter, Kubernetes, and Secrets, plus news from OpenAI, MFA changes that are going to be super fun for Matthew, and Azure Phi. Get comfy – it's going to be a doozy! Titles we almost went with this week: The Cloud Pod Teaches Azure-normalized Camel Casing The Cloud Pod Travels to Malaysia Azure Detaches Itself From its Own Scale Sets The Cloud Pod Conditionally Writes Show Notes  You got MFA! The Cloud Pod Delays Deleting Itself The Cloud Pod is Now the Cloud Pod Podcast! A big thanks to this week's sponsor: We're sponsorless! Want to get your brand, company, or service in front of a very enthusiastic group of cloud news seekers? You've come to the right place! Send us an email or hit us up on our slack channel for more info.  General News 01:37 Terraform AzureRM provider 4.0 adds provider-defined functions  Terraform is announcing the GA of Terraform AzureRM provider 4.0.  The new version improves the extensibility and flexibility in the provider.  Since the Providers’ Last major release in March 2022, Hashi has added support for some 340 resources and 120 data sources, bringing the total Azure resources to 1,101 resources and almost 360 data sources.  The provider has topped 660M downloads, MS and Hashi continue to develop new, innovative integrations that further ease the cloud adoption journey to enterprise organizations.  With Terraform 1.8, providers can implement custom functions that you can call from the Terraform configuration. The new provider adds two Azure-specific provider functions to let users correct the casing of their resource IDs or access the individual components of it.  Previously, the Azure RM provider took an all-or-nothing approach to Azure resource provider registration, where the Terraform provider would either attempt to register a fixed set of 68 providers upon initialization or registration or be skipped.  This didn't match Microsoft’s recommendations, which are to register resource providers only as needed, and to enable the services you're actively using.  With adding two new feature flags, resource_provider_registrations and resource_providers_to_register, users now have more control over which providers to register automatically or whether to continue managing a subscription resources provider.  AzureRM has removed a number of deprecated items, and it is recommended that you look at the removed resources/data sources and the

Welcome to episode 272 of The Cloud Pod! This week, Matthew and Justin are bringing you all the latest in cloud and AI news, including new updates to the ongoing Crowdstrike drama, JSON schemas, AWS vaults, and IPv6 addresses – even some hacking opportunities! All this and more, this week in the cloud.  Titles we almost went with this week: The cloud pod is now logically air-gapped The Cloud Pod has continuous snark The Cloud Pod points the finger at delta AI now with JSON SCHEMAS!!!  A big thanks to this week's sponsor: We're sponsorless! Want to get your brand, company, or service in front of a very enthusiastic group of cloud news seekers? You've come to the right place! Send us an email or hit us up on our slack channel for more info.  Follow Up 00:35 Crowdstrike RCA The final RCA is out from Crowdstrike, and as we talked during the preliminary report, this was an issue with a channel file that had 21 input parameters. No update previously had more than 20, and it was not caught in earlier testing.  Crowdstrike has several findings, and mitigating actions that they are taking. They go into detail on each of them, and you can read through all of them at the linked document.  02:31 Justin – “…the one thing I would say is this would be a perfect RCA if it included a timeline, but it lacks, it lacks a timeline view.” 12:06 Justin – “…their mitigations don’t have any dates on them of when they’re going to be done or implemented, which, in addition to a timeline, it would be nice to see in this process.” 15:46 Microsoft joins CrowdStrike in pushing IT outage recovery responsibility  back to Delta Microsoft has joined Crowdstrike in throwing Delta under the bus.  Delta Airlines has been blaming Crowdstrike and MS for their recent IT woes, which the company claims cost them over $500 million. Microsoft says “Our preliminary review suggests that Delta, unlike its competitors, has not modernized its IT infrastructure, either for the benefit of its customers or for its pilots and flight attendants” Mark Cheffo from law firm Dechert representing MS.  Gonna get ugly before this all gets settled. *Insert Michael Jackson eating popcorn gif here* 16:43 Justin – “The struggle with, you know, offering to send someone on site to help you is, you know, you, you can’t vet them that quickly. And so you also have an obligation to your shareholders. You have obligations to your security controls and your SOC and ISO and all the things that you’re doing, you know, to, to allow some strangers into your network and then give them access required to fix this issue, which in some cases required you to

Welcome to episode 271 of the Cloud Pod Podcast – where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Jonathan and Matthew are your hosts today as we discuss the latest news in cloud and AI, including earnings reports, Google's legal trouble, and SQL updates. We even take a minute to give some side eye to AWS's deprioritization techniques. Spoiler alert: 0 out of 5 stars for keeping customers informed.  Titles we almost went with this week: No Google, you can't own Park Place, Boardwalk, the railroads and the utilities  Amazons Titan Image Generator is no titan of photography BigTable graduates to SQL support TikTok/Instagram, Azure Reliability and Temu bring down the big three clouds’ earnings Span your Mind to Graphs & Vectors DOJ rules The Cloud Pod should be your default news source The CloudPod – now with SQL support AWS Deprioritizes 7 Services, Cloud Pod Hosts Prioritize Therapy A big thanks to this week's sponsor: We're sponsorless! Want to get your brand, company, or service in front of a very enthusiastic group of cloud news seekers? You've come to the right place! Send us an email or hit us up on our slack channel for more info.  Follow Up 00:45 Amazon decision to deprioritize 7 cloud services caught customers and  even some salespeople by surprise  Jeff Barr confirmed on Twitter (Yes will always call it Twitter) after recording last week’s episode that they had made the tough decision to deprioritize 7 cloud services.   There is still no official blog post announcing this, beyond the confirmation from Jeff Barr.  Amazon is discontinuing new access to a small number of services in the tweet – but would continue to run them in a secure environment.  Jeff Bar confirmed the list of services to be S3 Select, CloudSearch, Cloud9, SimpleDB, Forecast, Data Pipeline and CodeCommit.  An AWS Spokesperson claimed to Business Insider that the changes were communicated through multiple channels within and outside the company.  But were they REALLY though?  01:33 Justin – “Yeah, they kind of took a leap out of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy book and put the planning commission in the filing cabinet downstairs with the broken light.” General News  It's Earnings Time! 07:35  Alphabet meets earnings expectations but misses on YouTube ad revenue  Alphabet revenue was up 14% YOY, driven by search and cloud, GCP surpassed $10B in quarterly revenues and

The Cloud Pod Puts a Hex-LLM on all these AI Announcements Welcome to episode 270 of the Cloud Pod Podcast – where the forecast is always cloudy! Jonathan, Ryan, Matt and Justin are your hosts today as we sort through all of the cloud and AI news of the week, including updates to the Crowdstrike BSOD event, more info on that proposed Wiz takeover (spoiler alert: it's toast) and some updates to Bedrock. All this and more news, right now on the Cloud Pod!  Titles we almost went with this week: The antivirus strikes back The return of the crowdstrike The cloud pod is worth more than 23B The cloud pod is rebranded to the AI podcast The cloud pod might need to move to another git provider Amazon finally gets normal naming for end user messaging  Amazon still needs to work on it's end user messaging The CloudPod goes into hibernation before the next crisis hits EC2 Now equipped with ARM rests A big thanks to this week's sponsor: Follow Up 01:33 In what feels suspiciously like an SNL skit, CrowdStrike sent its partners $10 Uber Eats gift cards as an apology for mass IT outage As you can imagine, Twitter (or X) had thoughts.  Turns out they were just for third party partners that were helping with implementation.  2024 Economics wants to know – what are you going to do with only $10 with Uber Eats?  Crowdstrike: Preliminary Post Incident Review Moving on to the actual story – The Preliminary Post Incident Review (PIR) is now out for the BSOD Crowdstrike event we talked about last week. Crowdstrike reports that a Rapid Response Content Update for the Falcon sensor was published to Windows hosts running sensor version 7.11 and above.  The update was to gather telemetry on new threat techniques that targeted named pipes in the kernel but instead triggered a BSOD on systems online from 4:09 – 5:27 UTC. Ultimately, the crash occurred due to undetected content during validation checks, which resulted in an out-of-bounds memory read.  To avoid this, Crowdstrike plans to do a bunch of things: Improve rapid response content testing by using testing types such as Local developer, content update and rollback, stress, fuzzing, fault injection, stability and content interface testing.  Introduce additional validation checks in the content validator to prevent similar issues.  Strengthen error handling mechanisms in the Falcon sensor to ensure errors from problematic content are managed gracefully. Adopt staggered deployment strategies, starting with a canary deployment to a small subset of systems before further staged rollouts Enhanced sensor and system performance monitoring during the staggered content deployment to identify and mitigate issues promptly. Allowing a granular section of when and where these updates are deployed will give customers greater contro

Welcome to episode 265 of the Cloud Pod Podcast – where the forecast is always cloudy! This week, Jonathan, Ryan, and Justin are trying to keep cool in new WorkSpaces Pools, avoiding the Heatwave with Oracle's new LLM,  taking a look at AWS Jamba (hold the straw) and taking a look at the ever elusive Cloud Maturity.  All this news and more, this week on The Cloud Pod!  Titles we almost went with this week: The Cloud Pod takes a dip in the Workspaces Pool The Cloud Pod Lineage view is suspect A Gitlab, A BitBucket, and a Blueprint build a Workspaces Pool AWS goes for a Jamba Juice  Google Cloud Autokey does exactly what it sounds like Oracle LLM Heatwaves send us to the Amazon Workspace Pool Jonathan is unimpressed with this weeks show Highway to the DataZone  A big thanks to this week's sponsor: We're sponsorless! Want to reach a dedicated audience of cloud engineers? Send us an email or hit us up on our Slack Channel and let's chat!  General News 01:03 HashiCorp State of Cloud Strategy Survey 2024: Cloud Maturity is Elusive but Valuable Hashicorp just released the results of its State of Cloud Survey, and guess what? Cloud maturity is pretty elusive. Weird…  Hashicorp finds that 8% of organizations qualify as Highly Mature, this results that the biggest benefits are cloud is only going to a small group of truly mature organizations.  Justin wonders if this is part of the cloud repatriation push?  Are other listeners seeing some of this, especially on places like LinkedIn? We'd love to hear.  Trailblazers are finding faster development speed, lower costs and reduced risks while others continue to struggle to create haves and have nots with enterprises getting different business outcomes.  Hashicorp collected responses from almost 1,200 technology practitioners and decision makers at organizations with more than 1000 employees.  66% of respondents report that they have increased cloud spending in the last year, but 91% believe they are wasting money in the cloud, and 64% are experiencing a shortage of skilled staff. 45% of low maturity organizations are still waiting for their cloud strategy to pay off! One of the key takeaways from the survey is that the path to cloud maturity increasingly relies on platform teams to help automate and systemize cloud operations.  However, only half the respondents 42% say they rely on centralized platform teams to standardize cloud operations throughout their organization.  Platform teams help manage cloud, but also help address the skills shortage that has long plagued enterprise cloud adoption. If only they'd pay for training. 03:22 Jonathan – “The skill shortage thing really bugs me sometimes because there are plenty of skilled workers around and the reccs aren’t open for them. So I don’t think there aren’t qualified staff… yeah, it’s not a shortage because of the lac

Welcome to episode 262 of the Cloud Pod podcast – where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, and Ryan are your hosts this week, and there's a ton of news to get through! We look at updates to .NET and Kubernetes, the future of email, new instances that promise to cause economic woes, and – hold onto your butts – a new deep sea cable! Let's get started!  Titles we almost went with this week: What is a vagrant when you move it into your cloud I only Aspire not to use/support .NET AI Is the Gateway drug to Cloudflare Let me tell you about the future with MAIL ROUTING AWS invents impressive ways to burn money with the U7i instances Google Only wishes they could delete our podcast with an expiring subscription AKS Automatic — impressive new attack weapon or an impressive way to make Ops Cry?  A big thanks to this week's sponsor: Big thanks to Sonrai Security for sponsoring today's podcast! Check out Sonrai Securities’ new Cloud Permission Firewall. Just for our listeners, enjoy a 14 day trial at https://sonrai.co/cloudpod  General News  00:53 Vagrant Cloud is moving to HCP  What sort of feels like a “if you care about it, get it moved into HCP before the IBM acquisition is done” Vagrant Cloud is being migrated to the Hashicorp Cloud Platform (HCP) under the new name of HCP Vagrant Registry.   All existing users of Vagrant Cloud are now able to migrate their Vagrant Boxes to HCP.  Vagrant isn't changing; HCP provides a fully managed platform to make using Vagrant easier.  An improved box search experience A refreshed Vagrant Cloud UI No Fee for private boxes Users who migrate can register for free with the same email address as their existing Vagrant cloud account.  Want to review the migration guide? You can find it here.  01:53 Justin – “I really think Vagrant would be a key pillar of the IBM future strategy for HashiCorp? Nope, I sure did not. I mean, I figured they’d probably just keep it open source and people would keep developing on it, but I didn’t really expect much. So, you know, to at least get this and an improved search experience is kind of nice because the old Vagrant cloud website, it was definitely a little stale. So I can have improved search and a new UI is always nice.” AI Is Going Great (Or How ML Makes All It's Money) 02:43 Snowflake Announces Agreement to Acquire TruEra AI Observability Platform to Bring LLM and ML O

Welcome to episode 261 of the Cloud Pod podcast – where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Matthew, and Ryan are your hosts this week, and there's a ton of news to cover, including a slew of Azure and Oracle stories! This week the guys cover some new cost management strategies from FinOps, some Kubernetes updates, MS Build, and even fancy schmancy CoPilot PCs!  Titles we almost went with this week: Azure woke up and announced things AWS stops taking your IPv4 Money Well now everything has copilot A big thanks to this week's sponsor: Big thanks to Sonrai Security for sponsoring today's podcast! Check out Sonrai Securities’ new Cloud Permission Firewall. Just for our listeners, enjoy a 14 day trial at https://sonrai.co/cloudpod  AWS  00:57 AWS plans to invest €7.8B into the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, set to launch by the end of 2025 Amazon is sharing more details about the AWS European Sovereign Cloud roadmap so that customers and partners can start planning.  The first AWS European Sovereign Cloud is planning to launch its first AWS Region in the state of Brandenburg, Germany by the end of 2025.   Available to all AWS customers, this effort is backed by a 7.8B Euro investment in infrastructure, jobs and skills development. Customers will get the full power of the AWS architecture, expansive service portfolio and API's that customers use today.   Customers can start building applications in any existing Region and simply move them to AWS European Sovereign Cloud when the first region launches in 2025.  And how exactly will they do that, you might be wondering? If you mean there will be an easy button that’s awesome… do it everywhere else.  if you mean update Terraform and redeployed Screw you, Amazon.  03:23 Ryan – “Yeah. It just seems so anti what they’re trying to set up with the sovereign region to begin with, right? Like, I guess copying data is fine in, but not out. Like it’s sort of, it’s like GovCloud, right? It’s completely separate. So strange.” 05:06 Application Load Balancer launches IPv6-only support for Internet clients  ALB's now allow you to provision load balancers without IPV4 for clients that can connect using just IPv6. Woot.  05:25 Ryan – “So the trick is for internal, the reason why we’re starting to see this more and more is that because you can address these huge spaces in IPv6, they’re not doing the equivalent of RFC 1918 address space. So that’s why these things become super important because they’ll configure an internal sort of networking path that

Welcome to episode 260 of the Cloud Pod podcast – where the forecast is always cloudy! This week your hosts Justin, Matthew, and Jonathan and Ryan are talking about changes in leadership over at Amazon, GPT-4.o and its image generating capabilities, and the new voice of Skynet, Amazon Polly! It's an action packed episode – and make sure to stay tuned for this week's after show.  Titles we almost went with this week: Who eats pumpkin pie in May Bytes and Goodbyes: AWS CEO Logs Off AWS lets you know that you are burning money sooner than before High-Ho, High-Ho, It's GPT-4-Ohhh The CloudPod pans for nuggets in the AI Gold rush A big thanks to this week's sponsor: Big thanks to Sonrai Security for sponsoring today's podcast! Check out Sonrai Securities’ new Cloud Permission Firewall. Just for our listeners, enjoy a 14 day trial at https://sonrai.co/cloudpod  General News  00:40 Terraform Enterprise adds Podman support and workflow enhancements The latest version of Terraform Enterprise now supports Podman with RHEL 8 and above.  Originally, it only supported Docker Engine and Cloud Managed K8 services.   With the upcoming EOL of RHEL 7 in June 2024, customers faced a lack of an end-to-end supported option for running a terraform enterprise on RHEL.   Now, with support from Podman, this is rectified.   01:18 Ryan – “This is for the small amount of customers running the enterprise either on -prem or in their cloud environment. It’s a pretty good option. Makes sense.” 01:42 Justin – “You know, the thing I was most interested in at this actually is that Red Hat Linux 7 is now end of life, which this is my first time in my entire 20 some odd career that I’ve never had to support Red Hat Linux in production because we use Ubuntu for some weird reason, which I actually appreciate because I always like Ubuntu best for my home projects, but I didn’t actually know Red Hat 7 was going away.” AI Is Going Great (Or, How ML Makes All It's Money)  03:58 Hello GPT-4o Open AI has launched their GPT-4o (o for Omni) model which can reason across audio, vision and text in real time.  The new model can accept input combinations of text, audio and image and generates any combination as output. It can respond to audio inputs in as little as 232 milliseconds, with an average of 320 milliseconds, similar to human response time in conversation.   It matches GPT-4 Turbo performance on text in English and OCDE, with significant improvements on text in non-english languages, while also being much f

Welcome to episode 259 of the Cloud Pod podcast – where the forecast is always cloudy! This week your hosts Justin, Matthew, and Jonathan and Ryan (yes, all 4!) are covering A LOT of information – you're going to want to sit down for this one. This week's agenda includes unnecessary Magic Quadrants, SecOps, Dataflux updates, CNAME chain struggles, and an intro into Phi-3 – plus so much more!  Titles we almost went with this week: GKE Config Sync or the Auto Outage for K8 Feature If only all my disasters could be managed The Cloud Pod builds a Rag Doll Understanding Dataflux has given me reflux Oracle continuing the trend of adding AI to everything even databases A new way to burn your money on the cloud which isn't even your fault Google Gets a Magic Quadrant Participation Trophy We're All Winners to Magic Quadrant  Don't be a giant DNAME  A big thanks to this week's sponsor: Big thanks to Sonrai Security for sponsoring today's podcast Check out Sonrai Securities’ new Cloud Permission Firewall. Just for our listeners, enjoy a 14 day trial at https://sonrai.co/cloudpod  General News  00:33 Dropbox dropped the ball on security, hemorrhaging customer and third-party info  Dropbox has revealed a major attack on its systems that saw customers’ personal information accessed by unknown and unauthorized entities.  The attack, detailed in a regulatory filing, impacted Dropbox Sign, a service that supports e-signatures similar to Docusign.  The threat actor had accessed data related to all users of Dropbox Sign, such as emails and usernames, in addition to general account settings.  For a subset of users, the threat actor accessed phone numbers, hashed passwords and certain authentication information such as API keys, OAuth tokens and multi-factor authentication.   To make things *extra* worse – if you never had an account but received a signed document your email and name has also been exposed. Good times.  Want to read the official announcement? You can find it here.  03:06 Jonathan- “It’s unfortunate that it was compromised. It was their acquisition, wasn’t it – ‘HelloSign' that actually had the defect, not their main product at least.” 05:44 VMware Cloud on AWS – here today, here tomorrow  Last week at recording time Matt mentioned the VMWare Cloud on AWS rumors on twitter that Broadcom was terminating.  Hock Tan, President and CEO of Broadcom wrote a blog post letting you know that VMWare Cloud on AWS is Here today, and here tomorrow.  He says the reports have been false, and contends that the offering would be going away forcing unnecessary concern for their loyal customers who have used the se

Welcome to episode 257 of the Cloud Pod podcast – where the forecast is always cloudy! This week your hosts Justin, Matthew, Ryan, and Jonathan are in the barnyard bringing you the latest news, which this week is really just Meta's release of Llama 3. Seriously. That's every announcement this week. Don’t say we didn't warn you.  Titles we almost went with this week: Meta Llama says no Drama No Meta Prob-llama Keep Calm and Llama on  Redis did not embrace the Llama MK The bedrock of good AI is built on Llamas The CloudPod announces support for Llama3 since everyone else was doing it Llama3, better know as Llama Llama Llama The Cloud Pod now known as the LLMPod Cloud Pod is considering changing its name to LlamaPod Unlike WinAMP nothing whips the llamas ass A big thanks to this week's sponsor: Check out Sonrai Securities‘ new Cloud Permission Firewall. Just for our listeners, enjoy a 14 day trial at www.sonrai.co/cloudpod Follow Up  01:27 Valkey is Rapidly Overtaking Redis  Valkey has continued to rack up support from AWS, Ericsson, Google, Oracle and Verizon initially, to now being joined by Alibaba, Aiven, Heroku and Percona backing Valkey as well.   Numerous blog posts have come out touting Valkey adoption. I'm not sure this whole thing is working out as well as Redis CEO Rowan Trollope had hoped.  AI Is Going Great – Or How AI Makes All It's Money  03:26 Introducing Meta Llama 3: The most capable openly available LLM to date  Meta has launched Llama 3, the next generation of their state-of-the-art open source large language model.  Llama 3 will be available on AWS, Databricks, GCP, Hugging Face, Kaggle, IBM WatsonX, Microsoft Azure, Nvidia NIM, and Snowflake with support from hardware platforms offered by AMD, AWS, Dell, Intel, Nvidia and Qualcomm Includes new trust and safety tools such as Llama Guard 2, Code Shield and Cybersec eval 2 They plan to introduce new capabilities, including longer context windows, additional model sizes and enhanced performance. The first two models from Meta Lama3 are the 8B and 70B parameter variants that can support a broad range of use cases.  Meta shared some benchmarks against Gemma 7B and Mistral 7B vs the Lama 3 8B models and showed improvements across all major benchmarks.  Including Math with Gemma 7b doing 12.2 vs 30 with Llama 3 It had highly comparable performance with the 70B model against Gemini Pro 1.5 and Claude 3 Sonnet scoring within a few points of most of the other scores.  Jonathan recommends using LM Studio to get start playing around with LLMS, which you can find at https://lmstudio.ai/ 04:42 Jonathan – “Isn’t it funny how you go from an 8 billion parameter model to a 70 billion parameter model but nothing in between? Like you would have thought there would be some kind of like, some middle ground maybe? But, uh, but… No. But, um,

Welcome to episode 258 of the Cloud Pod podcast – where the forecast is always cloudy! This week your hosts Justin, Matthew, and Jonathan dig into all the latest earnings reports, talk about the 57 announcements made by AWS about Q, and discuss the IBM purchase of HashiCorp – plus even more news.  Make sure to stay for the aftershow, where the guys break down an article warning about the loss of training data for LLM's. Titles we almost went with this week: Terraform hugs to Big Blue (Bear) The CloudPod hosts again forgets to lower their headphone volume AWS fixes an issue that has made Matt swear many times Google gets mad at open-source Azure has crickets HashiCorp’s Nomadic Journey to the IBM Oasis It’s Gonna be Maaay! A big thanks to this week's sponsor:   Check out Sonrai Securities’ new Cloud Permission Firewall. Just for our listeners, enjoy a 14 day trial at https://sonrai.co/cloudpod  General News  01:48 It's Earnings TIme! Alphabet (Google) Alphabet beat on earnings and revenue in the first quarter, with revenue increasing 15% from a year earlier, one of the fastest growth rates since 2022.   They also announced its first dividend and a $70 billion dollar stock buyback. Using layoff money for something other than a buyback? IN THIS ECONOMY?  Revenue was 80.54 Billion vs 78.59 expected, resulting in earnings per share of 1.89.  Google Cloud Revenue was 9.57B vs 9.35 B expected.  Net income jumped 57% to 23.66 B up from 15.05B a year ago.  Operating income of the cloud business quadruped to 900M, showing that the company is finally generating substantial profits after pouring money into the business for years to keep up with AWS and Azure.  03:54 Justin – “Yeah, I mean, they’re doing pretty well… I think AI is helping them out tremendously in this regard.  I believe it includes G Suite as well. But I mean, like I don’t know how much revenue that is comparatively, but your Google cloud is definitely the majority of it, I think at this point..” 04:20 Microsoft MSFT fiscal third quarter results exceeded on the top and bottom line, but revenue guidance came in weaker than expected.  Consensus estimate said Q4 should be 64.5B but Microsoft CFO called for 64B. Revenue grew 17% year over year in the quarter, net coming was 21.94B up from 18.30 billion.  Micosoft said that currently near term AI demand is higher than their available capacity, and is focusing on buying more Nvidia GPU

Welcome to episode 256 of the Cloud Pod podcast – where the forecast is always cloudy! This week your hosts, Justin and Matthew are here this week to catch you up on all the news you may have missed while Google Next was going on. We've got all the latest news on the custom silicon hot war that's developing, some secret sync, drama between HashiCorp and OpenTofu, and one more Google Next recap – plus much more in today's episode. Welcome to the Cloud!  Titles we almost went with this week: I have a Google Next sized hangover Claude's Magnificent Opus now on AWS US-EAST-1 Gets called Reliable; how insulting The cloud pod flies on a g6  A big thanks to this week's sponsor:   Check out Sonrai Securities’ new Cloud Permission Firewall. Just for our listeners, enjoy a 14 day trial at www.sonrai.co/cloudpod General News  Today, we get caught up on the other Clouds from last week, and other news (besides Google, that is.) Buckle up.  04:11 OpenTofu Project Denies HashiCorp's Allegations of Code Theft  After our news cutoff before Google Next, Hashicorp issued a strongly worded Cease and Desist letter to the OpenTofu project, accusing that the project has “repeatedly taken code Hashi provided under the BSL and used it in a manner that violates those license terms and Hashi's intellectual properties.” It notes that in some instances, OpenTofu has incorrectly re-labeled Hashicorp's code to make it appear as if it was made available by Hashi, originally under a different license.  Hashi gave them until April 10th to remove any allegedly copied code from the OpenTofu repo, threatening litigation if the project failed to do so.  OpenTofu struck back – and they came with receipts!  They deny that any BSL licensed code was incorporated into the OpenTofu repo, and that any code they copied came from the MPL-Licensed version of terraform. “The OpenTofu team vehemently disagrees with any suggestions that it misappropriated, mis-sourced or misused Hashi's BSL code. All such statements have zero basis in facts” — Open Tofu Team OpenTofu showed how the code they accused was lifted from the BSL code, was actually in the MPL version, and then copied into the BSL version from an older version by a Hashi Engineer.  Anticipating third party contributions might submit BSL terraform code unwittingly or otherwise, OpenTofu instituted a “taint team” to compare Terraform and Open Tofu Pull requests. If the PR is found to be in breach of intellectual property rights, the pull request is closed and the contributor is closed from working on that area of the code in the future.  Matt Asay, (from Mongo) writing for Infoworld, dropped a hit piece when the C&D was filed, but then

Welcome to episode 255 of the Cloud Pod podcast – where the forecast is always cloudy! This week your hosts, Justin, Jonathan, Matthew and Ryan are here to tackle the aftermath of Google Next. Whether you were there or not, sit back, relax, and let the guys dissect each day's keynote and the major announcements.  Titles we almost went with this week: How About Some AI? “The New Way to Cloud” is a Terrible TagLine (and is what happens when you let AI do your copy) Welcome Google Cloud Next Where There is No Cloud, Just AI  Ok Google, did your phone go off? For 100 dollars, guess how many AI stories Google Has This Week  From Search to Skynet: Google Cloud Next's Descent into AI Madness ‘Next' Up from Google – AI!   Have Some Conference with Your AI  A big thanks to this week's sponsor: We've got a new sponsor! Sonrai Security   Check out Sonrai Securities’ new Cloud Permission Firewall. Just for our listeners, enjoy a 14 day trial at sonrai.co/cloudpod GCP – Google Next 2024 We're jumping right into GCP this week, so we can talk about all things Google Next.  01:44 FIrst impressions: Vegas > Moscone, so take that Vegas.  Both Ryan and Justin agree that Vegas is much better than the Mosconoe center in San Francisco for Google Next The Sessions were well organized, but Ryan is a little tired from walking back and forth between them. Exercise is tiring! Vegas infrastructure was well utilized, something Amazon didn't do as well.  Folks staying at area hotels that *weren’t* Mandalay Bay had some issues with trying to get onto / off  property at the beginning and end of the day.  Free coffee is still available. *If you can find it.  Expo hall felt cramped 08:22 Thoughts on the Keynote Address  Note: Not enough space in the arena for keynotes; the arena holds approx. 12k; numbers released by Google say there were 30k in attendance.  Thomas Kurian kicked off the keynote, introduced their new tagline “The New Way to Cloud” Sundar: Months can feel like decades in the cloud… WORD. 36B revenue run rate Kurian did a rapid fire announcement of all the things coming – which required Justin to rewatch just to get them all.  A3 Mega Nvidia H100 GPUs Nvidia GB200 NVL72 (in early 2025 TPU v5p GA Hyperdisk ML for Inference Cloud Storage Fuse Caching GA Parallel Store Caching AI Hypercomputer Dynamic Workload Scheduler Nvidia GPU Support for GDC Google Distributed Cloud GKE Enterprise for GDC AI Models on GDC Vector Search on GDC Vertex AI Solutions with GDC Secret and Top Secret

A bonus episode of The Cloud Pod may be just what the doctor ordered, and this week Justin and Jonathan are here to bring you an interview with Sandy Bird of Sonrai Security. There's so much going on in the IAM space, and we're really happy to have an expert in the studio with us this week to talk about some of the security least privilege specifics.  Background Sonrai (pronounced Son-ree, which means data in Gaelic) was founded in 2017. Sonrai provides Cloud Data Control, and seeks to deliver a complete risk model of all identity and data relationships, which includes activity and movement across cloud accounts, providers, and third party data stores. Try it free for 14 days Start your free trial today Meet Sandy Bird, Co founder of Sonrai Security Sandy is the co-founder and CTO of Sonrai, and has a long career in the tech industry. He was the CTO and co-founder of Q1 Labs, which was acquired by IBM in 2011, and helped to drive IBM security growth as CTO for global business security there.  Interview Notes: One of the big questions we start the interview with is just how has IAM evolved – and what kind of effect have those changes had on the identity models?  Enterprise wants things to be least privilege, but it's hard to find the logs. In cloud, however *most* things are logged – and so least privilege became an option.  Sonrai offers the first cloud permissions firewall, which enables one click least privilege management, which is important in the current environment where the platforms operate so differently from each other. With this solution, you have better control of your cloud access, limit your permissions, attack surface, and automate least privilege – all without slowing down DevOps2.  Is the perfect policy achievable? Sandy breaks it between human identities and workload identities; they're definitely separate. He claims, in workload identities the perfect policy is probably possible. Human identity is hugely sporadic, however, it's important to at least try to get to that perfect policy, especially when dealing with sensitive information. One of the more interesting data pieces they found was that less than 10% of identities with sensitive permissions actually used them – and you can use the information to balance out actually handing out permissions versus a one time use case.  Sonrai spent a lot of time looking at new solutions to problems with permissions; part of this includes purpose-built integration, offering a flexible open GraphQL API with prebuilt integrations.  Sonrai also offers continuous monitoring; providing ongoing intelligence on all the permission usage – including excess permissions – and enables the removal of unused permissions without any sort of disruptions. Policy automation automatically writes IAM policies tailored to access needs, and simplifies processes for teams.  On demand access is another tool that gives on demand requests for permissions that are restricted with a quick and efficient process.  Quotes from today's show  Sandy: “The unbelievably powerful model in AWS can do amazing things, especially when you get into some of the advanced conditions – but man, for a human to understand what all this stuff is, is super hard. Then you go to the Azure model, which is very different. It's an allow first model. If you have an allow anywhere in the tree, you can do whatever is asked, but there's this hierarchy to the whole thing, and so when you think you want to remove something you may not even be removing it., because something above may have that permission anyway. It's a whole different model to learn there.”  Sandy: “Only like 8% of those identities