The Cloud Pod cover art

The Cloud Pod

The Cloud Pod

By: Justin Brodley Jonathan Baker Ryan Lucas and Matt Kohn
Listen for free

About this listen

 The Cloud Pod is your one-stop-shop for all things Public, Hybrid, Multi-cloud, and private cloud. Cloud providers continue to accelerate with new features, capabilities, and changes to their APIs. Let Justin, Jonathan, Ryan and Peter help navigate you through this changing cloud landscape via our weekly podcast.© 2025 The Cloud Pod Economics
Episodes
  • AWS Makes Kubernetes Conversational

    AWS Makes Kubernetes Conversational
    Dec 19 2025

    Welcome to episode 334 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! This week, we’re bringing you a jam-packed recap of re:Invent! We’ve got all the news, from keynotes to announcements. Whether you were there live or catching up on all the news, Justin, Matt, and Ryan are here to break it all down. Let’s get started!

    Titles we almost went with this week
    • EKS Gets Chatty: Natural Language Replaces Command Line Nightmares
    • Harvest Now, Decrypt Later: Why Your RSA Keys Need a Quantum Makeover Before 2026
    • NAT So Fast: AWS Helps You Find Gateways Doing Absolutely Nothing
    • AWS Finally Admits You Have Too Many Log Buckets
    • AWS Finally Lets You Log In Like a Normal Human
    • Lambda Gets a Memory: Checkpoint Your Way to Multi-Step Workflows
    • Step Functions at Home: Lambda Durable Functions Let You Write Workflows in Actual Code
    • No More Bucket List: S3 Public Access Gets Organization-Wide Lockdown
    • AWS Hits Ctrl-Z on CodeCommit Deprecation
    • AWS Puts a Cap on CloudFront: Unlimited Traffic, Limited Anxiety
    • AWS Tells SQL Server to Take a Thread Off: Optimize CPU Cuts Costs by 55%
    • Amazon Bedrock Gets a Bouncer: AgentCore Identity Checks IDs at the Door
    • AI Brings on the Developer Renaissance
    Follow Up

    01:27 re:Invent

    • Matt Garman- 14th Reinvent, which is weird, since we’ve been doing cloud stuff for 87 years…
    • Warner – Open Mind for a different View and nothing else matters T-shirt.

    02:59 re:Invent predictions

    Jonathan

      1. Serverless GPU support (extension in Lambda or a different service), it’s about time we have a serverless GPU/Inference capability.
        1. It is talked about in the keynote with DeSantis.
    • AI Agent with a goal/instructions that can run when they need to, periodically, or always, and perform an action (Agentic Platform that runs agents) –
    • Garman – Bedrock AgentCore and Kiro Autonomous Agent
    • Werner will announce this is his last keynote and he will retire
    • He retired from re:Invent Presentations

    Ryan

    • New Tranium 3 chips, Inferentia, and Graviton chips
    • Garman – announced Tranium 3 Ultraservers.
    • They brought the Rack Ryan
    • Expand the number of models in or via bedrock
    • Doubled the number of models and announced Gemma, Minimax M2, Nvidia Nemotron, Mistral Large, and Mistral 3
    • Refresh to AWS Organizations

    Justin

    • New Nova Model & Sonic with Multi-modal
    • Garman Nova 2 – Lite, Pro, and Sonic (the lack of Sonic the Hedgehog/Sega reference is a shame)
    • Nova 2 Omni
    • Announce a partnership with OpenAI (likely on stage)
        1. Not announced as new, but said they’re running on AWS and that EC2 Ultraservers are in use.
    • Advanced Agentic AI Capabilities for Security Hub (Automate the SOC teams)
    • Garman – Advanced Agentic AI Capabilities for Security Hub – with NEW AWS Security Agent

    Matt

    1. A model router to route LLM queries to different AI models
    2. Well-architected framework expansion
    3. End user Authentication that doesn’t suck (not current Cognito)

    Tie Breaker – How many times w...
    Show More Show Less
    1 hr and 28 mins
  • 333: The Cloud Pod Goes Nano Banana

    333: The Cloud Pod Goes Nano Banana
    Dec 10 2025
    Welcome to episode 333 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Ryan, and Matt are taking a quick break from re:Invent festivities. They bring you the latest and greatest in Cloud and AI news. This week, we discuss Norad and Anthropic teaming up to bring you Christmas cheer. Wait, is that right? Huh. We also have undersea cables, some Turkish region delight, and a LOT of Opus 4.5 news. Let’s get into it! Titles we almost went with this week Boring Error Pages Not Found Claude Goes Native in Snowflake: Finally, AI That Stays Where Your Data Lives Cross-Cloud Romance: AWS and Google Make It Official with Interconnect Google Gemini Puts OpenAI in Code Red: The Tables Have Turned Azure NAT Gateway V2: Now With More Zones Than a Parking Lot From ChatGPT to Chat-Uh-Oh: OpenAI Sounds the Alarm as Gemini Steals 200 Million Users **Anthropic Scheduled Actions: Because Your VMs Need a Work-Life Balance Too Finally, Your 500 Errors Can Look as Good as Your Homepage Foundry Model Router: Because Choosing Between 47 AI Models is Nobody’s Idea of Fun Google Takes the Scenic Route: New Cable Avoids the Sunda Strait Traffic Jam Azure Application Gateway Gets Its TCP/IP Diploma Google Cloud Gets Its Türkiye Dinner: 2 Billion Dollar Cloud Feast Coming Soon Microsoft Foundry: Turning AI Chaos into Compliance Gold AI Is Going Great, or How ML Makes Money 02:59 Nano Banana Pro available for enterprise Google launches Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image) in general availability on Vertex AI and Google Workspace, with Gemini Enterprise support coming soon.The model supports up to 14 reference images for style consistency and generates 4K resolution outputs with multilingual text rendering capabilities.The model includes Google Search grounding for factual accuracy in generated infographics and diagrams, plus built-in SynthID watermarking for transparency. Copyright indemnification will be available at general availability under Google’s shared responsibility framework.Enterprise integrations are live with Adobe Firefly, Photoshop, Canva, and Figma, enabling production-grade creative workflows. Major retailers, including Klarna, Shopify, and Wayfair, report using the model for product visualization and marketing asset generation at scale.Developers can access Nano Banana Pro through Vertex AI with Provisioned Throughput and Pay As You Go pricing options, plus advanced safety filters. Business users get access through Google Workspace apps, including Slides, Vids, and Chapters (00:00:00) - The Cloud Pod: This Week's News(00:03:02) - Google Launches Nano Banana Pro in Google Workspace(00:05:59) - Cloud Opus 4.5 Availability and Performance(00:10:41) - OpenAI Declares Code Red as Google's Gemini GPT G(00:14:00) - AWS 10: Prediction vs. Keynotes(00:14:49) - Google Cloud Region Coming to Turkey(00:18:52) - Google to Build New Subsea Cable Link Between Australia and Thailand(00:22:12) - Google Cloud Next(00:25:57) - Google Cloud VPN Flow Logs now support Cross-Cloud Networks(00:29:43) - Amazon Cloud Connects to Google Cloud(00:32:10) - Azure Application Gateway: TLS and TCP Protocol Termination(00:35:39) - Azure 2.8: Agent to Agent in Public Preview(00:37:02) - Microsoft Cloud Open Sport 5(00:39:10) - Azure DNS & Security: Threat Intelligence Feed Blocking(00:41:22) - NAT Gateway: Standard V2 SKU and Public Preview(00:45:23) - Azure app service: Custom Error Pages now in general availability(00:47:22) - Microsoft Foundry(00:51:02) - Microsoft's AI Orchestration Layer Gets Scheduled Tasks(00:56:18) - Week in the Cloud: AWS Extravaganza(00:57:06) - NORAD's AI-powered Holiday Tools(01:00:34) - Elf Photo Day(01:01:20) - Unifi: Printer v2 local
    Show More Show Less
    1 hr and 3 mins
  • 332: 2025 Re:Invent Predictions Draft – May The Odds Be Ever In Your Favor

    332: 2025 Re:Invent Predictions Draft – May The Odds Be Ever In Your Favor
    Nov 28 2025
    Welcome to episode 332 of The Cloud Pod – where the forecast is always cloudy! It’s Thanksgiving week, which can only mean one thing: AWS Re:Invent predictions! In this special episode, Justin, Jonathan, Ryan, and Matt engage in the annual tradition of drafting their best guesses for what AWS will announce at the biggest cloud conference of the year. Justin is the reigning champion (probably because he actually reads the show notes), but with a reverse snake draft order determined by dice roll, anything could happen. Will Werner announce his retirement? Is Cognito finally getting a much-needed overhaul? And just how many times will “AI” be uttered on stage? Grab your turkey and let’s get predicting! Titles we almost went with this week: Roll For Initiative: The Re:Invent Prediction Draft Justin’s Winning Streak: A Study in Actually Doing Your Homework Serverless GPUs and Broken Dreams: Our Re:Invent Wishlist Shooting in the Dark: AWS Predictions Edition We’re Never Good at This, But Here We Go Again Vegas Odds: What Happens at Re:Invent, Gets Predicted Wrong AWS Re:Invent Predictions 2025 The annual prediction draft is here! Draft order was determined by dice roll: Jonathan first, followed by Ryan, Justin, and Matt in last position. As always, it’s a reverse order format, with points awarded for each correct prediction announced during the Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday keynotes. Jonathan’s Predictions Serverless GPU Support – An extension to Lambda or a different service that provides on-demand serverless GPU/inference capability. Likely with requirements for pre-warmed provisioned instances.Agentic Platform for Continuous AI Agents – A service that allows agents to run continuously with goals or instructions, performing actions periodically or on-demand in the real world. Think: running agents on a schedule that can check conditions and take automated actions.Werner Vogels Retirement Announcement – Werner will announce that this is his last Re:Invent keynote and that he is retiring. Ryan’s Predictions New Trainium 3 Chips, Inferentia, and Graviton Chips – New generation of AWS custom silicon across training, inference, and general compute.Expanded Model Availability in Bedrock – AWS will significantly expand the number of models available in Bedrock, potentially via partnerships or integrations with additional providers.Major Refresh to AWS Organizations – UI-based or functionality refresh providing better visibility into SCPs, OU mappings, and stack sets across organizations. Chapters (00:00:02) - Episode 332: Reinvent Predictions For(00:01:26) - Reinvent: The Contest(00:03:35) - How to Predict the AI Announcement(00:04:23) - Serverless GPUs: First Step(00:05:58) - SageMaker vs. Amazon: The Fight(00:09:56) - What is the Future of AI Agents?(00:11:03) - Facebook is an Agent Platform, but...(00:11:38) - AWS: Bedrock Expansion & OpenAI Partnership(00:15:09) - Top Tech Speakers: ML, AI and the Warner Key(00:16:15) - Third and Final Prediction(00:17:15) - WSJDLive: Future of AWS IT refresh(00:18:18) - 3 of the Best Security Hub Features(00:19:22) - AWS: Cognito 2.0 or Agentic Identities?(00:21:27) - Tiebreaker: How Many Times Will AI Be Said?(00:23:28) - What to Do to Reinvent Yourself at Reinvent 2012(00:24:00) - Amazon's AI Wish List(00:29:50) - A Taste of Re Invent 2018
    Show More Show Less
    31 mins
No reviews yet
In the spirit of reconciliation, Audible acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.