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

316: Microsoft’s New AI Agent Has Trust Issues (With Software)

Welcome to episode 316 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! This week we’ve got earnings (with sound effects, obviously) as well as news from DeepSeek, DocumentDB, DigitalOcean, and a bunch of GPU news. Justin and Matt are here to lead you through all of it, so let’s get started! Titles we almost went with this week: Lake Sentinel: The Security Data Monster Nobody Asked For Certificate Authority Issues: When Your Free Lunch Gets a Security Audit Slash and Learn: Gemini Gets Com...

315: EC2's New Shutdown Shortcut: Because Sometimes You Just Need to Pull the Plug

Welcome to episode 315 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Your hosts, Justin and Matt, are here to bring you the latest in cloud and AI news, including news about AI from the White House, the newest hacker exploits, and news from CloudWatch, CrowdStrike, and GKE – plus so much more. Let’s get into it! Titles we almost went with this week: SharePoint and Tell: Government Secrets at Risk Zero-Day Hero: How Hackers Found SharePoint’s Achilles’ Heel Amazon Q Gets an F in Security...

314: Vector? I Hardly Know Her! S3's New AI Storage Play

Welcome to episode 314 of The Cloud Pod, where your hosts, Matt and Ryan, are holding down the fort in Justin’s absence and bringing what’s left of our audience (those of you still here after the last time they were left in charge) the latest and greatest in cloud and tech news. We’ve got undersea cables, vector storage, and even some hobos – but not the kind on trains. Plus AWS S3 Let’s get started! Titles we almost went with this week: S3 Gets Direction: AWS Points to Vector Storage Vector? I ...

313: The Gartner Guide to Breaking Things on Purpose

Welcome to episode 313 of The Cloud Pod, where your hosts, Matt, Ryan, and Justin, are here to bring you all the latest in Cloud and AI news. This week we’ve got an installation of Cloud Journey featuring Gartner and chaos AND an aftershow! We’ve got acquisition news, new tools, an undersea cable, and even a little chaos, all right now in the cloud. Let’s get into it! Titles we almost went with this week: From Vibe Check to Production Spec Node More Mr. Nice Guy: AWS Locks Down Access Until You ...

312: Azure Firewall Finally Learns to Spell (FQDN Edition)

Welcome to episode 312 of The Cloud Pod, where your hosts, Matt, Ryan, and Justin, are here to bring you all the latest in Cloud and AI news. We’ve got security news, updates from PostgreSQL, Azure firewall and BlobNFS, plus TWO Cloud Journey stories for you! Thanks for joining us this week in the cloud! Titles we almost went with this week: Git Happens: Why Your Database Pipeline Keeps Breaking PostgreSQL and Chill: Azure’s New Storage Options for Database Romance NVMe, Myself, and PostgreSQL C...

311: The Crawlers are Running the Asylum

Welcome to episode 311 of Two Old Men Yelling at Cloud – aka The Cloud Pod, featuring Matt and Ryan who absolutely, definitely did NOT record an aftershow. This week, they’re talking about Cloudflare’s new Pay Per Crawler, a new open-source Terraform provider from mkdev, and lots of fabric news that Ryan doesn’t understand – plus so much more. Let’s get into it! Titles we almost went with this week: (Show Editor note: There are more show titles than emojis. I give up.) FSx and the City: When Fil...

310: CI You Later, Manual Testing

Welcome to episode 310 of The Cloud Pod – where the forecast is always cloudy! Matt, Ryan and Justin are here to bring you all the latest and greatest in cloud and AI news. Literally. All of it. This week we have announcements from re:Inforce, Manual Testing, GuardDuty, Government AI (what could go wrong?) Gemini 2.5 and, in a flash from the past, MS-DOS Editor. All this and more, this week in the cloud! Titles we almost went with this week: ACM Finally Lets Its Certificates Leave the Nest Break...

309: Microsoft tries to give away cloud services for free, sadly, it's only SQL

Welcome to episode 308 of The Cloud Pod – where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin and Matt are on hand and ready to bring you an action packed episode. Unfortunately, this one is also lullaby free. Apologies. This week we’re talking about Databricks and Lakebridge, Cedar Analysis, Amazon Q, Google’s little hiccup, and updates to SQL – plus so much more! Thanks for joining us. Titles we almost went with this week: KV Phone Home: When Your Key-Value Store Goes AWOL When Your Coreless Service F...

308: SCC: Security Command Center or Super Cool Capabilities?

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 F...

307: The AI Assistant That Finally Understands Your Kubernetes Cluster (We are Doomed)

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...

306: Batch Better Have MySQL: Azure's Maintenance Makeover

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 Secur...

305: AWS Breaks Up with Unpopular Services - "It's Not You, It's Me"

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’ E...

304: It’s Chile Up Here in The Cloud!

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 tri...

303: Someday You Will Find Me, Caught Beneath the AI Landslide, in a Champagne Premier Nova in The Sky

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 term...

302: It’s So Hot, Even Windows is Hotpatching

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 ...

301: The Cloud Pod PartyRocks in the House Tonight

300: The Next Chapter: How Google’s Next-Level Next Event Nexted All Our Next Expectations – and What’s Next Now That Next Is Past

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 Th...

299: We Predict Next, for Next Week’s, Next-Level Google Next Event. What’s Next?

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 ...

298: BigQuery Gits it With Devops

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 Clou...

297: Save the Date So You Can Get Some Skills – In AI!

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 Annou...

296: Google Forces AI Protection

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...

295: Skype follows Chime to the Grave

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 Dreame...

294: Ding: Chime is Dead

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 T...

293: Terraform Apply – Output Pizza

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 br...

292: VS Code Friend or Foe… Azure Data Studio Murdered

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 th...

291: AWS, GCP and Azure eat KRO

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 ...

290: Open AI to Operator: There is a DeepSeek Outside the Door

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 F...

289: DORA The Explorer… Of EU Regulations

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 ...

288: You Might Be Able to Retrain Notebook LM Hosts to be Less Annoyed, But Not Your Cloud Pod Hosts

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 thi...

287: The Cloud Pod Rebrands to The Cloud AI So We Can Get A 1B Valuation

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...