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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 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 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

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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 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 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 254 of the Cloud Pod podcast – where the forecast is always cloudy! This week we're talking about trust issues with some security updates over at Azure, forking drama at Redis, and making all of our probably terrible predictions for Google Next. Going to be in Vegas? Find one of us and get a sticker for your favorite cloud podcast! Follow us on Slack and Twitter to get info on finding your favorite host IRL. (Unless Jonathan is your favorite. We won't be giving directions to his hot tub.) Titles we almost went with this week: The Cloud Pod Hosts Fail To Do Their Homework The Cloud Pod Now Has a Deadline  This Is Why I Love Curl … EC2 Shop Endpoint is Awesome AI & Elasticsearch… AI – But Not Like That  Preparing for Next Next Week 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 www.sonrai.co/cloudpod Follow Up 02:15  AWS, Google, Oracle back Redis fork “Valkey” under the Linux Foundation In no surprise, placeholderKV is now backed by AWS, Google and Oracle and has been rebranded to Valkey under the Linux Foundation. Interestingly, Ericsson and Snap Inc. also joined Valkey.  03:19 Redis vs. the trillion-dollar cabals Anytime an open source company changes their license, AWS and other cloud providers are blamed for not contributing enough upstream.  Matt Asay, from Infoworld, weighs in this time. The fact that placeholder/Valkey was forked by several employees at AWS who were core contributors of Redis, does seem to imply that they’re doing more than nothing.  I should point out that Matt Asay also happens to run Developer relations at MongoDB. Pot, meet kettle.  04:14 Ryan – “It’s funny because I always feel like the cloud contribution to these things is managed services around them, right? It’s not necessarily improvements to the core source code. It’s more management of that source code. Now there are definitely areas where they do make enhancements, but I’m not sure the vast majority makes sense to be included in an open source made for everyone product either.” General News  07:01 What we know about the xz Utils backdoor that almost infected the world  The Open Source community was a bit shocked when a Microsoft Developer revealed a backdoor had been intentionally planted in xz Utils, an open source data compression utility available on almost all installations of Linux and Other Unix-Like OS.   The person – or people – behind this project like

Welcome to episode 253 of the Cloud Pod podcast – where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Ryan, and Jonathan are your hosts this week as we discuss data centers, OCI coming in hot (and potentially underwater?) in Kenya, stateful containers, and Oracle's new globally distributed database (Oracle Autonomous Database) of many dollars. Sit back and enjoy the show! Titles we almost went with this week: The Cloud Pod: Transitioning to SSPL – Sharply Satirical Podcast Laughs! The Data Centers of Loudoun County The Forks of Redis were Speedb AWS, I'd Like to Make a Return, Please See…Stateful Containers Are a Thing Azure Whispers Sweet Nothings to You I'm a Hip OG-DAD  Legacy Vendor plus Legacy Vendor = Profit $$ Wine Vendors >Legacy Vendors  I'm Not a Regular Dad, I'm an OG Dad A big thanks to this week's sponsor: We're sponsorless this week! Interested in sponsoring us and having access to a specialized and targeted market? We'd love to talk to you. Send us an email or hit us up on our Slack Channel.  Follow Up 02:25  Microsoft Agreed to Pay Inflection $650 Million While Hiring Its Staff  Listener Note: Payway article  Last week, we talked about Microsoft hiring the Inflection Co-Founder Mustafa Suleyman and their Chief scientist, as well as most of the 70-person staff.  Inflection had previously raised 1.5B, and so this all seemed strange as part of their shift to an AI Studio or a company that helps others train AI models.  Now, it has been revealed that Microsoft has agreed to pay a 620M dollar licensing fee, as well as 30M to waive any legal rights related to the mass hiring. As well as it renegotiated a $140M line of credit that aimed to help inflection finance its operations and pay for the MS services.  03:22 Justin – “…that explains the mystery that we talked about last week for those who were paying attention.” General News  05:17 Redis switches licenses, acquires Speedb to go beyond its core in-memory database  Redis, one of the popular in-memory data stores, is switching away from its Open Source Three-Clause BSD license.  Instead it is adopting a dual licensing model called the Redis Source Available License (RSALv2) and Server Side Public Licensing (SSPLv1).   Under the new license, cloud service providers hosting Redis will need to enter into a commercial agreement with Redis. The first company to do so was Microsoft.  Redis also announced the acquisition of Speedb (speedy-bee) to take it beyond the in memory space.  This isn't the first time that Redis has changed the licensing model.  In 2018 and 2019, it changed the way it licensed Redis Models under the Redis Source Available License v1. 

Welcome to episode 250 of the Cloud Pod  podcast – where the forecast is always cloudy! Well, we're not launching rockets this week, but we ARE discussing the AI arms race, AWS going nuclear, and all the latest drama between Elon and OpenAI. You won't want to miss a minute of it! Titles we almost went with this week: The Paradox of AI choice Amazon just comes across super desperate on RACING to AI foundation model          support Your new JR developer Test-LLM If you can't beat OpenAI, sue them A big thanks to this week's sponsor: We're sponsorless this week! Interested in sponsoring us and having access to a specialized and targeted market? We'd love to talk to you. Send us an email or hit us up on our Slack Channel.  General News  01:12  IT Infrastructure, Operations Management & Cloud Strategies: Chicago (Rosemont/O'Hare), Illinois  Want to meet cloud superstar Matthew Kohn in person? He's going to be giving a talk in Chicago, if you're going to be in the neighborhood. *Maybe* he'll have some stickers. 11:30am – 12:30pm: Using Data and AI to Shine a Light on Your Dark IT Estate AI Is Going Great (Or, How ML Makes All Its Money) 03:42 Anthropic claims its new models beat GPT-4 AI Startup Anthropics, has announced their latest version of Claude.  The company claims that it rivals OpenAI's GPT-4 in terms of performance. Claude 3, and its family of models, includes Claude 3 Haiku, Sonnet and Opus, with Opus being the most powerful.   All show “increased capabilities” in analysis and forecasting, Anthropic claims, as well enhanced performance on specific benchmarks versus models like GPT-4 (but not GPT-4 Turbo) and Googles Gemini 1.0 Ultra (but not Gemini 1.5 Pro) Claude 3 is Anthropics first multi-modal model. In a step better than rivals, Claude can analyze multiple images in a single request (up to 20). This allows it to do compare and contrast operations However, there are limits to its image capabilities. It’s not allowed to identify people.   They admit it is also prone to mistakes on low-quality images under 200 pixels, and struggles with tasks involving spatial reasoning and object counting.   05:42 Justin – “Overall, this looks like not a bad model. I do see a little bit of chatter today actually. Some people say it’s not quite as good in some areas, but it’s pretty good in others. And it is not connected to the internet, this model. So it is dated only through August of 2023. So anything that happened after that, like the Israeli Hamas conflicts, it doesn’t know anything about those. So just be aware.” 06:08 Matthew – “You know, it’s actually interesting now. There’s so many models out there. You know, you have to start to look at what makes sense for your data and what you need, along with also price. You know, I look too closely at what the price is, but you might be able to get away

Welcome to episode 249 of the CloudPod Podcast – where the forecast is always cloudy! This week, Justin and Ryan put on their scuba suits and dive into the latest cloud news, from Google Gemini’s “woke” woes, to Azure VMware Solution innovations, and some humorous takes on Reddit and Google’s unexpected collaboration. Join the conversation on AI, storage solutions, and more this week in the Cloud! Titles we almost went with this week: Gemini Has Gone Woke? Uhhh…ok.  A big thanks to this week's sponsor: We're sponsorless this week! Interested in sponsoring us and having access to a specialized and targeted market? We'd love to talk to you. Send us an email or hit us up on our Slack Channel.  General News  01:48 DigitalOcean beats expectations under the helm of new CEO Paddy Srinivasan Quick earnings chat. Digital Ocean, under their new CEO Paddy Srinivasan reported earnings of 44 centers per share, well ahead of Wall Street’s target of 37 cents per share.  Revenue growth was a little sluggish at 11% more than a year earlier, but the companies 181 million in reported sales still beat analysts expectations.  Full year revenue was 693M for the year.  We’re really glad to see the business is still going, and instead of going back on-premise, we think it’s a viable option for many workloads so don't sleep on them. 02:46  Ryan – “I like that, you know, while they are very focused on, you know, traditional compute workloads, you can still see them. Dip in their toes into managed services and, and, um, their interaction with the community and documentation of how to do things. I think it’s really impactful.” 03:34 VMware moves to quell concern over rapid series of recent license changes   As we have reported multiple times on the VMWARE shellacking they are doing to the customers, Vmware has released a blog post trying to convince you that they’re **not** screwing you.  Broadcom has realigned operations around VMWare Cloud Foundation private cloud portfolio and data center-focused VMWare Vsphere suite, and no longer sells discrete products such as vSphere hypervisor, vSAN virtual storage and NSX network storage virtualization software.   They also are eliminating perpetual licensing in favor of subscription-only pricing, with VCF users getting vSAN, NSX and the Aria Management and orchestration components bundled whether you want them or not.  Broadcom says this is about focusing on best-of-breed silos, and not disparate products without an integrated experience. 

John McClain details his most important facts and figures from a very impressive Texans season. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

John McClain details his notable facts and figures after the Texans impressive Wildcard win over the Browns. Which includes noting a lot of position groups that have turned it around this season. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

From 'Houtopia Football Podcast' (subscribe here): John McClain details his most interesting findings from the Texans that both recap their hot streak and also take a look at their last Browns matchup. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

John McClain details his most interesting findings from the Texans that both recap their hot streak and also take a look at their last Browns matchup. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sean Pendergast and John McClain are back to address the attention that not only Nick Caserio is getting from other organizations, but also Bobby Slowik - will the Texans hang on to two valuable assets? They answer that, get to "General News & Notes" and end with a Houtopia Mailbag. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

John McClain details his most noteworthy facts and figures from the Texans win this past weekend with one main message: Will Anderson Jr. is still here. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

John McClain details his most interesting findings after the Texans matchup with the Titans on Sunday. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

John McClain details his most interesting facts and figures from the Texans loss to the Jets on Sunday - which had Zach Wilson looking like an actual #2 overall draft pick. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

With a couple of key players injured this week, Sean Pendergast and John McClain believe it's "Back to the drawing board time for the" Texans. The two go over the C.J. Stroud injury (among others) while also getting to "General" News & Notes and a Houtopia Mailbag. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

John McClain details his most interesting findings in the Texans win over the Broncos on Sunday. Both the offense and the defense ended up in the record books. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sean Pendergast and John McClain are back with their normal Tuesday slate for Houtopia: First they cover the Trevor Lawrence injury in Jacksonville, get to "General News & Notes" and end with a Houtopia Mailbag. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

From 'Houtopia Football Podcast' (subscribe here): John McClain details his most interesting numbers from the Texans this past weekend. Although they lost, the numbers are still looking great. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

John McClain details his most interesting numbers from the Texans this past weekend. Although they lost, the numbers are still looking great. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

John McClain details his biggest storylines of the week in Texans world. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

From 'Houtopia Football Podcast' (subscribe here): John McClain details his most notable findings from the Texans win against the Bengals on Sunday - which features a lot more than just C.J. Stroud. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

John McClain details his most notable findings from the Texans win against the Bengals on Sunday - which features a lot more than just C.J. Stroud. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sean Pendergast and John McClain have declared the Texans have grown up and are out of the kitty pool. See if the rest of the NFL agrees as they take a look at the power rankings, then they get into "General" News & Notes before reaching into the Houtopia Mailbag. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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

From 'Houtopia Football Podcast' (subscribe here): "The General" John McClain shares his most noteworthy facts and figures from the Texans win against the Bucs. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

"The General" John McClain shares his most noteworthy facts and figures from the Texans win against the Bucs. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sean Pendergast and John McClain are here to celebrate a Texans win and a memorable C.J. Stroud performance! They first cover the injuries to the squad before getting to "General News & Notes" and of course a Houtopia Mailbag. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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

From 'Houtopia Football Podcast' (subscribe here): "The General" John McClain displays his best findings from the Texans and around the NFL for Week 8 To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

"The General" John McClain displays his best findings from the Texans and around the NFL for Week 8 To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to The Cloud Pod - where the forecast is always cloudy! This week your hosts, Jonathan and Ryan, are talking all about EC2 instances, including changes to AWS Systems Manager and Elastic Disaster Recovery. And speaking of disasters, we're also taking a dive into the ongoing Google DDOS attacks. Plus, we've even thrown a little earthquake warning into the podcast, just for effect.  Titles we almost went with this week: A big thanks to this week's sponsor: Foghorn Consulting provides top-notch cloud and DevOps engineers to the world's most innovative companies. Initiatives stalled because you have trouble hiring?  Foghorn can be burning down your DevOps and Cloud backlogs as soon as next week.

John McClain brings you his most noteworthy facts and figures from around the NFL after the Texans bye week. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sean Pendergast and John McClain enjoyed the weekend off of football but are excited to get back to it! They start with their "General" News & Notes around the NFL before reaching into the Houtopia Mailbag To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to The Cloud Pod episode 231! This week Justin and Matthew are discussing updates to Terraform testing for code validation, some new tools from Docker, look into the now generally available AWS DataZone, and dig into the evolution of passkeys over at Google. Slide into the passenger seat and let's check out this week's cloud news.  Titles we almost went with this week:

From 'Houtopia Football Podcast' (subscribe here): "The General" John McClain details his most interesting findings from the Texans game and from around the league in Week 5. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to The Cloud Pod episode 230, where the forecast is always cloudy! This week we're sailing our pod across the data lake and talking about updates to managed delivery from Kafka. We also take a gander at Bedrock, some new security tools from our friends over at Google. We're also back with our Cloud Journey Series talking security theater.Stay Tuned!   Titles we almost went with this week:

Welcome episode 228 of the Cloud Pod podcast - where the forecast is always cloudy! This week your hosts Justin, Jonathan, Matthew and Ryan are taking a look at Magic Quadrant, Gemini AI, and GraalOS - along with all the latest news from OCI, Google, AWS, and Azure.  Titles we almost went with this week: The CloudPod wonders if Anthropic's Santa Clause will bring us everything we want in an AI Bot. The Cloud Pod recommends protection to achieve Safer Google rides the gemini rocket to AI JPB The only Copilot I need Azure, is Booze GraalOS, or what we now call ‘the noise our CFO makes when he receives the Oracle audit bills' The hosts of the Cloud pod would like to understand how to properly pronounce GraalOS Is Oracle even on the magic quadrant for cloud? RedHat Puts lipstick on the pig and calls it OpenStack A big thanks to this week's sponsor: Foghorn Consulting provides top-notch cloud and DevOps engineers to the world's most innovative companies. Initiatives stalled because you have trouble hiring?  Foghorn can be burning down your DevOps and Cloud backlogs as soon as next week.

From 'Houtopia Football Podcast' (subscribe here): "The General" John McClain is here to give you his biggest takeaways from the Texans wins against the Steelers & Jaguars. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome episode 228 of the Cloud Pod podcast - where the forecast is always cloudy! This week your hosts are Justin, Jonathan, Matthew and Ryan -  Titles we almost went with this week:

Welcome episode 227 of the Cloud Pod podcast - where the forecast is always cloudy! This week your hosts are Justin, Jonathan, Matthew and Ryan - and they're REALLY excited to tell you all about the 161 one things announced at Google Next. Literally, all the things. We're also saying farewell to EC2 Classic, Amazon SES, and Azure's Explicit Proxy - which probably isn't what you think it is.  Titles we almost went with this week:

Welcome episode 226 of the Cloud Pod podcast - where the forecast is always cloudy! This week Justin, Matt and Ryan chat about all the news and announcements from Google Next, including - surprise surprise - the hot topic of AI, GKE Enterprise, Duet, Co-Pilot, Code Whisperer and more! There's even some non-Next news thrown into the episode. So whether you're interested in BART or Bard, we've got the news from SF just for you.  Titles we almost went with this week: