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 ...
Apr 17, 2024•37 min•Ep. 255
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 h...
Apr 11, 2024•1 hr 22 min•Ep. 254
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 ...
Apr 04, 2024•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 253
Welcome to episode 252 of The Cloud Pod podcast, where the forecast is always cloudy! This week Justin, Jonathan, Ryan, and Matthew are talking about InfluxDB, collabs between AWS and NVIDIA, some personnel changes over at Microsoft, Amazon Timestream, and so much more! Sit back and enjoy – and make sure to hang around for the aftershow, where Linux and DBOS are on the docket. You won’t want to miss it. Titles we almost went with this week: Light a fire under your Big Queries with Spark procedur...
Mar 27, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 252
Welcome to episode 251 of The Cloud Pod podcast – where the forecast is always cloudy! This week we’re looking at the potential end of low impact code thanks to generative AI, how and why Kubernetes is still hanging on, and Cloudflare’s new defensive AI project. Plus we take on the death of Project Titan in our aftershow. Titles we almost went with this week: The Cloud Pod is Magic Why is the Cloud Pod Not on the Board of the Director for OpenAI The Cloud Pod wants Gen AI Money The Cloud Pod Thi...
Mar 20, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 251
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...
Mar 15, 2024•56 min•Ep. 250
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 sp...
Mar 06, 2024•59 min•Ep. 249
Welcome to episode 247 of the CloudPod Podcast – where the forecast is always cloudy! Pepperidge Farm remembers – and now so does ChatGPT! Today on the pod we’re talking about the new “memory” function in ChatGPT, secrets over at OCI, and Firehose dropping Kinesis like its HOT. Plus plenty of other Cloud and AI news to get you through the week. Let’s get started! Titles we almost went with this week: I Don’t Think Anyone Wants to be “Good Enough” in AI ㊙️Oracle Can Rotate All My Secrets Amazon D...
Feb 24, 2024•58 min•Ep. 247
Welcome to episode 246 of The CloudPod podcast, where the forecast is always cloudy! This week we’re discussion localllm and just why they’ve saddled us all with that name, saying goodbye to Bard and hello to Gemini Pro, and discussing the pros and cons of helping skynet to eradicate us all. All that and more cloud and AI news, now available for your listening nightmares. Titles we almost went with this week: Oracle says hold my beer on Africa The Cloud Pod Thinks the LLM Maturity Model has More...
Feb 16, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 246
Welcome to episode 245 of The CloudPod podcast, where the forecast is always cloudy! This week is a real SBOM of an episode. (See what I did there?) Justin and Matthew have braved Teams outages, floods, cold, and funny business names to bring you the latest in Cloud and AI news. This week, we’re talking about Roomba, OpenTofu, and Oracle deciding AI makes money, along with a host of other stories. Join us! Titles we almost went with this week: Amazon Decides Roomba Sucks ⚔️AI Weapons: Will They ...
Feb 07, 2024•44 min•Ep. 245
Welcome to episode 244 of the Cloud Pod Podcast – where the forecast is always cloudy! We’ve got a ton of news for you this week, including a lot of AI updates, including new CoPilot Pro and updates to ChatGPT, including the addition of a GPT store. Plus, we discuss everyone’s favorite supernatural axis, MagicQuadrants.It’s a jam packed episode you won’t want to miss. Titles we almost went with this week: Switching from Google is Finally Easier Cheaper AI Doesn’t Mean Better AI Is the Cloud Pod ...
Feb 02, 2024•1 hr 28 min•Ep. 245
Welcome to episode 243 of the Cloud Pod podcast – where the forecast is always cloudy! It’s a bit of a slow new week, but we’re not hitting the snooze button! This week Justin, Matthew and Ryan are discussing more changes over at Broadcom after VMware buyout last year, HPE buying out Juniper Networks, why all the venture capital money seems to be going into trying to take down Nvidia, and changes to WHOIS lookup over at AWS certificate manager. Plus we’ll find out exactly what that special somet...
Jan 17, 2024•30 min•Ep. 243
Welcome to episode 242 of the The Cloud Pod podcast – where the forecast is always cloudy. This week your hosts Justin, Ryan, Matthew, and Jonathan are talking about DoH – or DNS over HTTPS, the Digital Ocean, CISO issues, and whether employee issues over at Amazon will impact user experience. It’s a quiet week, but some interesting conversations you’re not going to want to miss. Titles we almost went with this week: Tired of the Winter of Other Announcements, The Cloud Pod Hits the Digital Ocea...
Jan 12, 2024•45 min•Ep. 242
Welcome to episode 241 of the Cloud Pod Podcast – where the forecast is always cloudy! Can you believe we’ve reached the end of 2023? Neither can we! Join us today for a look back at 2023 and all of the announcements that excited, befuddled, and confused us – as well as a slew of predictions for 2024. Make sure to share your own predictions (after listening, of course) with us on socials. Titles we almost went with this week: Wait, How is it 2024? Thank God 2023 is Over Thank God 2020 is Over… F...
Jan 03, 2024•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 241
Welcome to episode 240! It’s a doozy this week! Justin, Ryan, Jonathan and Matthew are your hosts in this supersized episode. Today we talk about Google Gemini, the GCP sales force (you won’t believe the numbers) and Google feudalism. (There’s some lovely filth over here!) Plus we discuss the latest happenings over at HashiCorp, Broadcom, and the Code family of software. So put away your ugly sweaters and settle in for episode 240 of The Cloud Pod podcast – where the forecast is always cloudy! T...
Dec 30, 2023•1 hr 25 min•Ep. 240
The Cloud Pod Sees the Irony of Using AI to Assist with Climate Change Welcome to episode 239 of The Cloud Pod podcast, where the forecast is always cloudy! Jonathan, Matthew and Ryan are your hosts this week as we talk about all things AI and Climate Change – and Google’s assertion that their AI is going to fix it all. Also on today’s agenda: updates to Google Next’s new dates, Azure’s chips, Defender, and all the shenanigans over at OpenAI. Join us! Titles we almost went with this week: Micros...
Dec 14, 2023•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 239
Welcome to episode 238 of the Cloud Pod Podcast – where the forecast is always cloudy! This week we’re bringing you a preview of Amazon re:Invent 2023. We’re talking all things AWS, Bedrock, Q, and frugal architecture, and – you guessed it – AI. Titles we almost went with this week: Amazon Builds on Bedrock with Q ️ You Need to Be All Frugal Architects A big thanks to this week’s sponsor: Foghorn Consulting provides top-notch cloud and DevOps engineers to the world’s most innovative companies. I...
Dec 06, 2023•1 hr 44 min
Welcome to episode 237 of The Cloud Pod Podcast – where the forecast is always cloudy! It’s the most wonderful time of the year – it’s almost time for re:Invent! That means it’s also time for our wishlist and predictions. Follow along, and see which ones you think have the greatest likelihood of coming to fruition. A big thanks to this week’s sponsor: Foghorn Consulting provides top-notch cloud and DevOps engineers to the world’s most innovative companies. Initiatives stalled because you have tr...
Nov 25, 2023•34 min•Ep. 237
Welcome to episode 236 of the Cloud Pod Podcast, where the forecast is always cloudy! Are you wandering around every day wondering just who has the biggest one? Chips, we mean. Of course. Get your mind out of the gutter. Did you know Azure was winning that battle for like 8 whole minutes? Join us for episode 236 where we talk about chip size, LLM’s, updates to Bedrock, and Toxicity Detection – something you will never find applied to the podcast. Not on purpose, anyway. Happy Thanksgiving! Title...
Nov 23, 2023•23 min•Ep. 236
Welcome to episode 235 of the Cloud Pod podcast – where the forecast is always cloudy! This week a full house is here for your listening pleasure! Justin, Jonathan, Matthew, and Ryan are talking about cyberattacks, attacks on vacations (aka Looker for mobile) and introducing a whole new segment just for AI. You’re welcome, SkyNet. Titles we almost went with this week: AI is worth investing in – says leading AI service provider, Microsoft Join The Cloud Pod for the ‘AI Worth Investing In’ Eye-Rol...
Nov 16, 2023•50 min
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 Sover...
Nov 10, 2023•37 min•Ep. 234
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 Mirror Mirror on the wall, Which Events? We Want Them All. The R...
Nov 02, 2023•34 min•Ep. 233
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-no...
Oct 25, 2023•42 min•Ep. 232
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: The Cloud Pod wants to validate your code The Cloud Pod can now test in parallel A big thanks to this week’s sponsor: Fo...
Oct 19, 2023•33 min•Ep. 231
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: Security and Delivery Within an Hour… Sacrilegious! Unlock Global Innovation with Sovereign Cloud Micr...
Oct 11, 2023•55 min•Ep. 230
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 o...
Oct 09, 2023•41 min•Ep. 229
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: The Cloud Pod gets scanned for a malware infection The Cloud Pod gives up on security The Cloud Pod burns cash on a new Mac instance ⚔️Copilot’s Copyright Crusade – Microsoft’s Got Your Back in Copyright Battles ☁️The Cloud Pod loves it when the clouds come together The Cloud Pod doubts 90 day account expirations a...
Sep 27, 2023•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 228
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: Azure announced a what proxy? The Cloud Pod would like you to engage...
Sep 13, 2023•52 min•Ep. 227
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: ️The cloud pod sings a duet, gue...
Sep 08, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 226
Google Next Eve! Welcome episode 225 of The CloudPod Podcast – where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Jonathan, and Ryan are your hosts this week as we discuss all things Google Next! We talk schedule offerings, make our predictions about announcements, and prepare to be generally wrong about everything. Also – do you like stickers? Everyone likes stickers! Be on the lookout for us, and maybe you can have one. Titles we almost went with this week: None! Google Next is the next big thing, s...
Aug 28, 2023•34 min•Ep. 225
