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330: AWS Proves the Internet Really Is a Series of Tubes Under the Ocean

330: AWS Proves the Internet Really Is a Series of Tubes Under the Ocean

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 Welcome to episode 329 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy (and if you’re in California, rainy too!) Justin and Matt have taken a break from Ark building activities to bring you this week’s episode, packed with all the latest in cloud and AI news, including undersea cables (our favorite!) FinOps, Ignite predictions, and so much more! Grab your umbrellas and let’s get started! Titles we almost went with this week
  • Fastnet and Furious: AWS Lays 320 Terabits of Cable Across the Atlantic
  • No More kubectl apply –pray: AWS Backup Takes the Stress Out of EKS Recovery
  • AWS Gets Swift with Lambda: No Taylor Version Required
  • Breaking Up Is Hard to Do: Microsoft Splits Teams from Office
  • FinOps and Behold: Google Automates Your Cloud Budget Nightmares
  • AMD Turin Around GCP’s Price-Performance with N4D VMs
  • Azure Gets Territorial: Your Data Stays Put Whether It Likes It or Not
  • AWS Finally Answers “Is It Available in My Region?” Before You Build It
  • Getting to the Bare Metal of Things: Google’s Axion Goes Commando
  • Azure Ultra Disk Gets Ultra Serious About Latency
  • Container Size Matters: Azure Expands ACI to 240 GB Memory
  • Google Containerises Chaos: Agent Sandbox Keeps Your AI from Going Rogue
  • AWS Prints Money While Amazon Prints Pink Slips: Q3 Earnings Beat
Follow Up

02:08 Microsoft sidesteps hefty EU fine with Teams unbundling deal

  • Microsoft avoids a potentially substantial EU antitrust fine by agreeing to unbundle Teams from the Office 365 and Microsoft 365 suites for a period of seven years.
  • The settlement follows a 2023 complaint from Salesforce-owned Slack alleging anticompetitive bundling practices that harmed rival collaboration tools.
  • The commitments require Microsoft to offer Office and
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