Welcome to episode 263 of the Cloud Pod Podcast – where the forecast is always cloudy! This week we’re diving into the world of Snowflake, including announcements from their latest conference and details about their recent breach. Seriously – MFA is important! Plus we look at updates to Terraform, Claude 3, and OCI pushing the IOPS limits and much more. Join us!

• Snowflake Announces State-of-the-Art way for hackers to Talk to your Data
• Ticketmaster gets a snow job – MFA matters!
• The CloudPod wouldn’t use Oracle even for a million IOPS
• Azure finally wakes up to hibernation support JJB
• No one ever called a Bastion Host Premium until Today – JPB MK
• I look forward to connecting Kinesis to Pub Sub to Event Hub in the most rube
• goldberg eventing architecture ever
• Hashicorp shows you the way
• 10 ways to say I want you Matt (I’m not bias with the name)
• Can we just hibernate ourselves on AI announcements
• Sus is how i feel about the new Susscanner from AWS
• OCI has enough power to run Oracle databases with 1 MIllion IOPS
• OCI wants 1 Million IOPS (dr evil voice)
• Monday, Tuesday, Hashidays…

Terraform AWS Cloud Control API provider is now generally available

• The AWS Cloud Control Provider (AWSCC), built around the AWS Cloud Control API and designed to bring new services to Terraform faster, is now generally available.
  • The 1.0 release represents a step in their effort to provide launch-day support of AWS services.
• This service was put into tech preview in 2021.
• Glad it’s finally here; although we thought this effort was abandoned, honestly.
• Interesting that you can mix HCL Terraform and AWSCC, but specify the different resource types in the configurations.

00:53 New Vault and Boundary offerings advance Security Lifecycle Management at HashiDays 2024

• Hashicorp held their “Hashidays” event in London this last week, and announced improvements to their Security Lifecycle Management (SLM) products: Vault and Boundary
• Vault will be getting Workload Identify Federation, coming soon to Vault Enterprise which enables secretless configuration for vault plugins that integrate with external systems supporting WIF, such as AWS, Azure and Google Cloud.
  • By enabling secretless configuration, organizations reduce security concerns that can come with using long-lived and highly privileged security credentials.
  • With WIF, Vault no longer needs access to highly sensitive root credentials for cloud providers, giving operators a solution to the “secret zero” problem.
• Secrets Sync – which we talked about on a previous show

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!

• 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?

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.”

02:43 Snowflake Announces Agreement to Acquire TruEra AI Observability Platform to Bring LLM and ML Observability to the AI Data Cloud

• Snowflake is announcing the acquisition of TrueEra AI Observability.
• This complementation investment will allow them to provide even deeper functionality that will help organi

Welcome to episode 261 of the Cloud Pod podcast – where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Matthew, and Ryan are your hosts this week, and there’s a ton of news to cover, including a slew of Azure and Oracle stories! This week the guys cover some new cost management strategies from FinOps, some Kubernetes updates, MS Build, and even fancy schmancy CoPilot PCs!

• Azure woke up and announced things
• AWS stops taking your IPv4 Money
• Well now everything has copilot

00:57 AWS plans to invest €7.8B into the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, set to launch by the end of 2025

• Amazon is sharing more details about the AWS European Sovereign Cloud roadmap so that customers and partners can start planning.
• The first AWS European Sovereign Cloud is planning to launch its first AWS Region in the state of Brandenburg, Germany by the end of 2025.
• Available to all AWS customers, this effort is backed by a 7.8B Euro investment in infrastructure, jobs and skills development.
• Customers will get the full power of the AWS architecture, expansive service portfolio and API’s that customers use today.
• Customers can start building applications in any existing Region and simply move them to AWS European Sovereign Cloud when the first region launches in 2025.
• And how exactly will they do that, you might be wondering? If you mean there will be an easy button that’s awesome… do it everywhere else.
• if you mean update Terraform and redeployed Screw you, Amazon.

03:23 Ryan – “Yeah. It just seems so anti what they’re trying to set up with the sovereign region to begin with, right? Like, I guess copying data is fine in, but not out. Like it’s sort of, it’s like GovCloud, right? It’s completely separate. So strange.”

05:06 Application Load Balancer launches IPv6-only support for Internet clients

• ALB’s now allow you to provision load balancers without IPV4 for clients that can connect using just IPv6. Woot.

05:25 Ryan – “So the trick is for internal, the reason why we’re starting to see this more and more is that because you can address these huge spaces in IPv6, they’re not doing the equivalent of RFC 1918 address space. So that’s why these things become super important because they’ll configure an internal sort of networking path that’s only IPv6, but then you can’t use like a managed load balancer or something like that because there’s no IP space.”

08:37

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.

• 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

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.”

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 faster and 50% cheaper in the API.
• GPT-4o is especially better at vision and audio.
• Previously you could interact with ChatGPT using voice mode, but the latency was 2.8 seconds for

Welcome to episode 259 of the Cloud Pod podcast – where the forecast is always cloudy! This week your hosts Justin, Matthew, and Jonathan and Ryan (yes, all 4!) are covering A LOT of information – you’re going to want to sit down for this one. This week’s agenda includes unnecessary Magic Quadrants, SecOps, Dataflux updates, CNAME chain struggles, and an intro into Phi-3 – plus so much more!

• GKE Config Sync or the Auto Outage for K8 Feature
• If only all my disasters could be managed
• The Cloud Pod builds a Rag Doll
• Understanding Dataflux has given me reflux
• Oracle continuing the trend of adding AI to everything even databases
• A new way to burn your money on the cloud which isn’t even your fault
• Google Gets a Magic Quadrant Participation Trophy
• We’re All Winners to Magic Quadrant
• Don’t be a giant DNAME

00:33 Dropbox dropped the ball on security, hemorrhaging customer and third-party info

• Dropbox has revealed a major attack on its systems that saw customers’ personal information accessed by unknown and unauthorized entities.
• The attack, detailed in a regulatory filing, impacted Dropbox Sign, a service that supports e-signatures similar to Docusign.
• The threat actor had accessed data related to all users of Dropbox Sign, such as emails and usernames, in addition to general account settings.
• For a subset of users, the threat actor accessed phone numbers, hashed passwords and certain authentication information such as API keys, OAuth tokens and multi-factor authentication.
• To make things *extra* worse – if you never had an account but received a signed document your email and name has also been exposed. Good times.
• Want to read the official announcement? You can find it here.

03:06 Jonathan- “It’s unfortunate that it was compromised. It was their acquisition, wasn’t it – ‘HelloSign’ that actually had the defect, not their main product at least.”

05:44 VMware Cloud on AWS – here today, here tomorrow

• Last week at recording time Matt mentioned the VMWare Cloud on AWS rumors on twitter that Broadcom was terminating.
• Hock Tan, President and CEO of Broadcom wrote a blog post letting you know that VMWare Cloud on AWS is Here today, and here tomorrow.
• He says the reports have been false, and contends that the offering would be going away forcing unnecessary concern for their loyal customers who have used the service for years. He quotes Winston Churchill (which is an interesting choice) and then goes on to report the service is alive, available and continues to support costumer’s strategic business initiatives.

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.

• 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!

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 units.
• Azure Revenue and other cloud services grew 31% up from 30% in the previous quarter.
• Overall Intelligence cloud revenue was 25.71 B up 21% from the year before.

Welcome to episode 257 of the Cloud Pod podcast – where the forecast is always cloudy! This week your hosts Justin, Matthew, Ryan, and Jonathan are in the barnyard bringing you the latest news, which this week is really just Meta’s release of Llama 3. Seriously. That’s every announcement this week. Don’t say we didn’t warn you.

• Meta Llama says no Drama
• No Meta Prob-llama
• Keep Calm and Llama on
• Redis did not embrace the Llama MK
• The bedrock of good AI is built on Llamas
• The CloudPod announces support for Llama3 since everyone else was doing it
• Llama3, better know as Llama Llama Llama
• The Cloud Pod now known as the LLMPod
• Cloud Pod is considering changing its name to LlamaPod
• Unlike WinAMP nothing whips the llamas ass

01:27 Valkey is Rapidly Overtaking Redis

• Valkey has continued to rack up support from AWS, Ericsson, Google, Oracle and Verizon initially, to now being joined by Alibaba, Aiven, Heroku and Percona backing Valkey as well.
• Numerous blog posts have come out touting Valkey adoption.
• I’m not sure this whole thing is working out as well as Redis CEO Rowan Trollope had hoped.

03:26 Introducing Meta Llama 3: The most capable openly available LLM to date

• Meta has launched Llama 3, the next generation of their state-of-the-art open source large language model.
• Llama 3 will be available on AWS, Databricks, GCP, Hugging Face, Kaggle, IBM WatsonX, Microsoft Azure, Nvidia NIM, and Snowflake with support from hardware platforms offered by AMD, AWS, Dell, Intel, Nvidia and Qualcomm
• Includes new trust and safety tools such as Llama Guard 2, Code Shield and Cybersec eval 2
• They plan to introduce new capabilities, including longer context windows, additional model sizes and enhanced performance.
• The first two models from Meta Lama3 are the 8B and 70B parameter variants that can support a broad range of use cases.
• Meta shared some benchmarks against Gemma 7B and Mistral 7B vs the Lama 3 8B models and showed improvements across all major benchmarks. Including Math with Gemma 7b doing 12.2 vs 30 with Llama 3
• It had highly comparable performance with the 70B model against Gemini Pro 1.5 and Claude 3 Sonnet scoring within a few points of most of the other scores.
• Jonathan recommends using LM Studio to get start playing around with LLMS, which you can find at https://lmstudio.ai/

04:42 Jonathan – “Isn’t it funny how you go from an 8 billion parameter model to a 70 billion parameter model but nothing in between? Like you would have thought there would be some kind of like, some middle ground maybe? But, uh, but… No. But, um, I’ve been playing with the, um, 8 billion parameter model at home and it’s absolutely amazing. It blows everything else out of the water that IR

Welcome to episode 256 of the Cloud Pod podcast – where the forecast is always cloudy! This week your hosts, Justin and Matthew are here this week to catch you up on all the news you may have missed while Google Next was going on. We’ve got all the latest news on the custom silicon hot war that’s developing, some secret sync, drama between HashiCorp and OpenTofu, and one more Google Next recap – plus much more in today’s episode. Welcome to the Cloud!

• I have a Google Next sized hangover
• Claude’s Magnificent Opus now on AWS
• US-EAST-1 Gets called Reliable; how insulting
• The cloud pod flies on a g6

Today, we get caught up on the other Clouds from last week, and other news (besides Google, that is.) Buckle up.

04:11 OpenTofu Project Denies HashiCorp’s Allegations of Code Theft

• After our news cutoff before Google Next, Hashicorp issued a strongly worded Cease and Desist letter to the OpenTofu project, accusing that the project has “repeatedly taken code Hashi provided under the BSL and used it in a manner that violates those license terms and Hashi’s intellectual properties.”
• It notes that in some instances, OpenTofu has incorrectly re-labeled Hashicorp’s code to make it appear as if it was made available by Hashi, originally under a different license.
• Hashi gave them until April 10th to remove any allegedly copied code from the OpenTofu repo, threatening litigation if the project failed to do so.
• OpenTofu struck back – and they came with receipts!
• They deny that any BSL licensed code was incorporated into the OpenTofu repo, and that any code they copied came from the MPL-Licensed version of terraform.
• “The OpenTofu team vehemently disagrees with any suggestions that it misappropriated, mis-sourced or misused Hashi’s BSL code. All such statements have zero basis in facts” — Open Tofu Team
• OpenTofu showed how the code they accused was lifted from the BSL code, was actually in the MPL version, and then copied into the BSL version from an older version by a Hashi Engineer.
• Anticipating third party contributions might submit BSL terraform code unwittingly or otherwise, OpenTofu instituted a “taint team” to compare Terraform and Open Tofu Pull requests.
• If the PR is found to be in breach of intellectual property rights, the pull request is closed and the contributor is closed from working on that area of the code in the future.
• Matt Asay, (from Mongo) writing for Infoworld, dropped a hit piece when the C&D was filed, but then issued a retraction on his opinion after reviewing the documents from the OpenTofu team.

06:32 Matthew – “It’s gonna be inte