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The Cloud Pod | Weekly AI & Cloud News on AWS, Azure & GCP

Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas and Matt Kohn | Cloud Computing & AI Newswww.thecloudpod.net
The Cloud Pod delivers weekly cloud computing and AI news for engineers, architects, and technology leaders. Join Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas, and Matt Kohn as they break down the latest from AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud — covering new services, platform updates, FinOps strategies, and the AI innovations reshaping the industry. Stay ahead of the cloud landscape with one of the longest-running cloud computing podcasts available.
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Episodes

224: The Cloud Pod Adopts the BS License

Welcome to episode 224 of The CloudPod Podcast – where the forecast is always cloudy! This week, your hosts Justin, Jonathan, and Ryan discuss some major changes at Terraform, including switching from open source to a BSL License. Additionally, we cover updates to Amazon S3, goodies from Storage Day, and Google Gemini vs. Open AI. Titles we almost went with this week: None! This week’s title was ✨chef’s kiss✨ A big thanks to this week’s sponsor: Foghorn Consulting provides top-notch cloud and De...

Aug 24, 202355 minEp. 224

223: Get an AWS Spin on Savings with Cost Optimization Flywheel

Welcome episode 223 of The CloudPod Podcast! It’s a full house – Justin, Matt, Ryan, and Jonathan are all here this week to discuss all the cloud news you need. This week, cost optimization is the big one, with a deep dive on the newest AWS blog. Additionally, we’ve got updates to BigQuery, Google’s Health Service, managed services for Prometheus, and more. Titles we almost went with this week: ‍I swear to you Mr. Compliance Man, Mutator is not as bad as it sounds Oracle Cloud customer – or how ...

Aug 18, 202332 minEp. 223

222: Even AWS is Hit by Inflation, and is Passing that on to you – the Customer

Welcome episode 222 of The Cloud Pod Podcast – where the forecast is always cloudy! This week we take an in depth look at the latest earnings reports from all the major players, changes to IPv4 costs (inflation), Healthscribe, and all the news (in cybersecurity) that’s fit to print. Titles we almost went with this week: The CloudPod can finally read the doctors notes with HealthScribe Amazon Healthscribe it’s like transcription, but for doctors who use big words You get an LLM, you get an LLM; a...

Aug 09, 20231 hr 2 minEp. 222

221: The Biggest Innovator in SFTP in 30 Years? Amazon Web Services!

Welcome episode 221 of The Cloud Pod podcast – where the forecast is always cloudy! This week your hosts, Justin, Jonathan, Ryan, and Matthew look at some of the announcements from AWS Summit, as well as try to predict the future – probably incorrectly – about what’s in store at Next 2023. Plus, we talk more about the storm attack, SFTP connectors (and no, that isn’t how you get to the Moscone Center for Next) Llama 2, Google Cloud Deploy and more! Titles we almost went with this week: Now You T...

Aug 06, 202354 minEp. 221

220: The Cloud Pod Read Llama Llama Red Pajama

Welcome episode 220 of The Cloud Pod podcast – where the forecast is always cloudy! This week your hosts, Justin, Jonathan, Ryan, and Matthew discuss all things cloud, including virtual machines, an AI partnership between Microsoft and Meta for Llama 2, Lambda functions, Fargate, and lots of security updates including the Outlook breach and WORM protections. This and much more in our newest episode. Titles we almost went with this week: Too Many Bees died for Honeycode Microsoft announces that A...

Jul 26, 202330 minEp. 220

219: The Cloud Pod Proclaims: One Does Not Just Entra into Mordor

Welcome episode 219 of The Cloud Pod podcast – where the forecast is always cloudy! Today your hosts are Justin and Jonathan, and they discuss all things cloud, including clickstream analytics, databricks, Microsoft Entra, virtual machines, Outlook threats, and some major changes over at the Google Cloud team. Titles we almost went with this week: TCP is not Entranced with Entra ID The Cave you Fear to Entra, Holds the Treasure you Seek Microsoft should rethink Entra rules for their Email A big ...

Jul 20, 202323 minEp. 5219

218: The Cloud Pod is a Sucker and Shifts Left

Welcome to episode 218 of The Cloud Pod podcast – where the forecast is always cloudy! Today your hosts Justin, Ryan, and Matt discuss all things cloud – including migration services, AppFabric, state machines, and security updates, as well as the idea of shifting left versus (or in addition to) shifting down. Titles we almost went with this week: The Cloud Pod Prefers to be Bought by Anyone but IBM What Does the F(in)O(ps)X say? The Cloud Pod Leverage appFabric for your SaaS Security A big than...

Jul 14, 202351 minEp. 218

217: The Cloud Pod Whispers Its Secrets to Azure Open AI

Welcome to the newest episode of The Cloud Pod podcast – where the forecast is always cloudy! Today your hosts Justin, Jonathan, and Matt discuss all things cloud and AI, as well as some really interesting forays into quantum computing, changes to Google domains, Google accusing Microsoft of cloud monopoly shenanigans, and the fact that Azure wants all your industry secrets. Also, Finops and all the logs you could hope for. Are your secrets safe? Better tune in and find out! Titles we almost wen...

Jul 07, 202340 minEp. 217

216: The Cloud Pod is Feeling Elevated Enough to Record the Podcast

Welcome to the newest episode of The Cloud Pod podcast – where the forecast is always cloudy! Today your hosts are Jonathan and Matt as we discuss all things cloud and AI, including Temporary Elevated Access Management (or TEAM, since we REALLY like acronyms today) FTP servers, SQL servers and all the other servers, as well as pipelines, whether or not the government should regulate AI (spoiler alert: the AI companies don’t think so) and some updates to security at Amazon and Google. Titles we a...

Jun 29, 202331 minEp. 216

215: The Cloud Pod Breaks Into the Quantum Safe

Welcome to the newest episode of The Cloud Pod podcast – where the forecast is always cloudy! Ryan, Jonathan, and Matt are your hosts this week as we discuss all things cloud, including updates to Terraform, pricing updates in GCP SCC, AWS Blueprint, DMS Serverless, and Snowball – as well as all the discussion on Microsoft quantum safe computing and ethical AI you could possibly want! A big thanks to this week’s sponsor: Foghorn Consulting , provides top-notch cloud and DevOps engineers to the w...

Jun 22, 20231 hr 7 minEp. 215

214: The Cloud Pod Loves Inspector Gadget

Welcome to the newest episode of The Cloud Pod podcast! Justin, Ryan, Jonathan, Matthew are your hosts this week as we discuss all things cloud and AI, as well as Amazon Detective, SageMaker, AWS Documentation, and Google Workstation. Titles we almost went with (and there’s a lot this week) The Cloud Pod becomes the cloud docs The Cloud Pod loves inspector gadget The Cloud Pod documents the documentation The Cloud Pod bangs its shin, since geospatial abilities are lacking The Cloud Pod bangs its...

Jun 05, 20231 hr 1 minEp. 214

213: The Cloud Pod Sings a Duet About AI

Welcome to the newest episode of The Cloud Pod podcast! Justin, Ryan, Jonathan, Matthew are your hosts this week. Join us as we discuss all things cloud, AI, the upcoming Google AI Conference, AWS Console, and Duet AI for Google cloud. Titles we almost went with this week: You can finally lock yourself out of the AWS Console! Google IO delivers the AI… hopefully soon to be renamed Google AI Conference ️Azure announces major MySQL upgrade! Azure can now update mysql without taking itself offline ...

May 24, 20231 hr 12 minEp. 213

212: The Cloud Pod Wades into Microservices vs. Monoliths

Welcome to the newest episode of The Cloud Pod podcast! Justin, Ryan, Jonathan, Matthew and Peter are your hosts this week as we discuss all things cloud and AI, Titles we almost went with this week: The Cloud Pod is better than Bob’s Used Books The Cloud Pod sets up AWS notifications for all The Cloud Pod is non-differential about privacy in BigQuery The Cloud Pod finds Windows Bob The Cloud Pod starts preparing for its Azure Emergency today A big thanks to this week’s sponsor: Foghorn Consulti...

May 17, 202341 minEp. 212

210: The Cloud Pod Deep Inspects Itself

Welcome to the newest episode of The Cloud Pod podcast! Justin, Ryan and Matthew are your hosts this week as we discuss all the latest news and announcements in the world of the cloud and AI – including what’s new with Google Deepmind, as well as goings on over at the Finops X Conference. Join us! Titles we almost went with this week: The Cloud Pod DeepMinds bring you the Cloud News The Cloud Sounds Better When Tuned Properly ☁️The Cloud Pod Delegates Itself to Multiple Organizations ️The Cloud ...

May 03, 20231 hrEp. 210

209: The Cloud Pod Whispers Sweet Nothings To Our Code (**why wont you work**)

Welcome to the newest episode of The Cloud Pod podcast! Justin, Ryan and Jonathan are your hosts this week as we discuss all the latest news and announcements in the world of the cloud and AI – including Amazon’s new AI, Bedrock, as well as new AI tools from other developers. We also address the new updates to AWS’s CodeWhisperer, and return to our Cloud Journey Series where we discuss *insert dramatic music* – Kubernetes! Titles we almost went with this week: ⭐I’m always Whispering to My Code a...

Apr 28, 202345 minEp. 209

208: Azure AI Lost in Space

Welcome to the newest episode of The Cloud Pod podcast! Justin, Ryan and Matthew are your hosts this week as we discuss all the latest news and announcements in the world of the cloud and AI. Do people really love Matt’s Azure know-how? Can Google make Bard fit into literally everything they make? What’s the latest with Azure AI and their space collaborations? Let’s find out! Titles we almost went with this week: Clouds in Space, Fictional Realms of Oracles, Oh My. The cloudpod streams lambda to...

Apr 21, 202358 minEp. 208

207: AWS Puts Up a New VPC Lattice to Ease the Growth of Your Connectivity

AWS Puts Up a New VPC Lattice to Ease the Growth of Your Connectivity AKA Welcome to April (how is it April already?) This week, Justin, Jonathan, and Matt are your guides through all the latest and greatest in Cloud news; including VPC Lattice from AWS, the one and only time we’ll talk about Service Catalog, and an ultra premium DDoS experience. All this week on The Cloud Pod. This week’s alternate title(s): AWS Finally makes service catalogs good with Terraform Amazon continues to believe reta...

Apr 14, 202331 minEp. 207

206: The TCP Podcast Ponders Security Copilot or Vaporware – You Decide!

This week on the podcast, Justin, Jonathan and Ryan are joined by Matt Kohn and can be found chatting about all things microservices and containers – including new Security Copilot features. In our cloud journeys, we discuss just what defines a microservice (spoiler: the guys actually agree for once) and whether or not those microservices require containers. Also on the agenda, IS Kubernetes the new Monolith? News this Week: @4:00 – HashiCorp has announced quite a few updates for Terraform, incl...

Apr 05, 202359 minEp. 206

205: The Cloud Pod decides to Bard or not to Bard. What’s the question?

On this episode of The Cloud Pod, the team discusses the new Amazon Linux 2023, Google Bard, new features of Google Chronicle Security Operations, GPT-4 from Azure Open AI, and Oracle’s Kubernetes platform comparison. They also talk about cloud-native architecture as a way to adapt applications for a pivot to the cloud. A big thanks to this week’s sponsor, Foghorn Consulting , which provides full-stack cloud solutions with a focus on strategy, planning and execution for enterprises seeking to ta...

Mar 27, 20231 hr 10 minEp. 205

204: Amazon eats Pi with their own version of S3FS

On this episode of The Cloud Pod, the team discusses Amazon Pi Day, Google’s upcoming I/O conference, the agricultural data manager by Microsoft, and the downturn in net profits of Oracle. They also round up cloud migrations by highlighting tools from different cloud service providers that are useful for the process. A big thanks to this week’s sponsor, Foghorn Consulting , which provides full-stack cloud solutions with a focus on strategy, planning and execution for enterprises seeking to take ...

Mar 22, 202351 minEp. 204

203: From vaporware to visual apps – AWS App Composer Generally Available

On this episode of The Cloud Pod, the team talks about the new AWS region in Malaysia, the launch of AWS App Composer, the expansion of spanner database capabilities, the release of a vision AI by Microsoft; Florence Foundation Model, and the three migration techniques to the cloud space. A big thanks to this week’s sponsor, Foghorn Consulting , which provides full-stack cloud solutions with a focus on strategy, planning and execution for enterprises seeking to take advantage of the transformati...

Mar 15, 202341 minEp. 203

202: The Bing is dead! Long live the Bing

On this episode of The Cloud Pod, the team talks about the possible replacement of CEO Sundar Pichai after Alphabet stock went up by just 1.9%, the new support feature of Amazon EKS for Kubernetes, three partner specializations just released by Google, and how clients have responded to the AI Powered Bing and Microsoft Edge. A big thanks to this week’s sponsor, Foghorn Consulting , which provides full-stack cloud solutions with a focus on strategy, planning and execution for enterprises seeking ...

Mar 10, 202336 minEp. 202

201: The CloudPod is assimilated and joins the Azure Collective

On this episode of The Cloud Pod, the team discusses the AWS systems manager default enablement option for all EC2 instances in an account, different ideas from leveraging innovators plus subscription using $500 Google credits, the Azure Open Source Day, the new theme for the Oracle OCI Console, and lastly, different ways to migrate to a cloud provider. A big thanks to this week’s sponsor, Foghorn Consulting , which provides full-stack cloud solutions with a focus on strategy, planning and execu...

Feb 27, 202336 minEp. 201

200: Now you can make bad cloud decisions like running EKS on SNOW

EKS on Snow Devices On this episode of The Cloud Pod, the team highlights the new Graviton3-based images for users of AWS, new ways provided by Google to pay for its cloud services, the new partnership between Azure and the Finops Foundation, as well as Oracle’s new cloud banking, and the automation of CCOE. A big thanks to this week’s sponsor, Foghorn Consulting , which provides full-stack cloud solutions with a focus on strategy, planning and execution for enterprises seeking to take advantage...

Feb 21, 202350 minEp. 200

199: All AI Products Agree, Earnings are down

AI Products & Earnings On this episode of The Cloud Pod, the team talks about the announcement of Amazon VPC resource map, Google’s new AI product, the new Bing AI-powered search engine, and why multiple accounts are necessary for data centers to carry out work seamlessly in the cloud. A big thanks to this week’s sponsor, Foghorn Consulting , which provides full-stack cloud solutions with a focus on strategy, planning and execution for enterprises seeking to take advantage of the transformat...

Feb 17, 202353 minEp. 199

198: Cloudtrail ingests activity events, CloudPod ingests Pizza

On this episode of The Cloud Pod, the team discusses the upcoming 2023 in-person Google Cloud conference, the accessibility of AWS CloudTrail Lake for non-AWS activity events, the new updates from Azure Chaos studio, and the comparison between Oracle Cloud service and other Cloud providers. They also highlight the application and importance of VPCs in CCOE. A big thanks to this week’s sponsor, Foghorn Consulting , which provides full-stack cloud solutions with a focus on strategy, planning and e...

Feb 09, 202359 minEp. 198

196: The Cloud Pod plays with all the stuff it found in the cleanroom

On this episode of The Cloud Pod, the team sits to talk about AWS’s new patching policies, the general availability of Azure OpenAI, and the role of addressing IM or access management challenges in ensuring the seamless transition to the Cloud. A big thanks to this week’s sponsor, Foghorn Consulting , which provides full-stack cloud solutions with a focus on strategy, planning and execution for enterprises seeking to take advantage of the transformative capabilities of AWS, Google Cloud and Azur...

Jan 27, 202341 minEp. 196

195: The Cloud Pod can’t wait for Azure Ultra Fungible Storage (Premium)!

On The Cloud Pod this week, Amazon announces massive corporate and tech lay offs and S3 Encrypts New Objects By Default , BigQuery multi-statement transactions are now generally available, and Microsoft announces acquisition of Fungible to accelerate datacenter innovation . Thank you to our sponsor, Foghorn Consulting , which provides top notch cloud and DevOps engineers to the world’s most innovative companies. Initiatives stalled because you’re having trouble hiring? Foghorn can be burning dow...

Jan 20, 202349 minEp. 195

194: The Cloud Pods New Years Resolution: Change everything!

For our New Years Resolution, we decided to change some of our show. First, we have cut the lightning round in favor of our new Cloud Journey series, where we will talk about core cloud concepts over several episodes. We are also covering only the larger stories from the cloud providers, we still want to provide you with all of the news, so you’ll find it in the show notes; if you enjoy the aggregation, subscribe to our newsletter to get the show notes to get your mailbox weekly. Share your feed...

Jan 10, 20231 hr 21 minEp. 194

193: The cloud pod was less productive in 2022

On this episode of The Cloud Pod, the team wraps up 2022 so far, comparing predictions made with the events so far while projecting into 2023 as the year comes to a close. They discuss the S3 security changes coming from Amazon, the new control plane connectivity options with GCP, and Microsoft’s achievement, finally topping a list within the cloud space. A big thanks to this week’s sponsor, Foghorn Consulting , which provides full-stack cloud solutions with a focus on strategy, planning and exe...

Dec 29, 20221 hr 1 minEp. 193
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