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 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
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  • 311: The Crawlers are Running the Asylum

    311: The Crawlers are Running the Asylum
    Jul 11 2025

    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 File Systems Meet Object Storage
    • The Great Data Lake Escape: No Movement Required
    • OpenZFS Gets an S3 Degree Without Leaving Home
    • Kernel Sanders: Microsoft’s Recipe for Avoiding Another Fried System
    • Windows Gets a Restraining Order Against Overly Attached Security Software
    • Microsoft Builds a Fence Between Windows and Its Rowdy Security Neighbors
    • Windows Gets a Kernel of Truth After CrowdStrike Meltdown
    • Microsoft Kicks Security Vendors Out of the Kernel Clubhouse
    • The Great Kernel Divorce: When Windows Said “It’s Not You, It’s Your Access Level”
    • Google’s Environmental Report Card: A+ for Effort, C- for Supply Chain
    • The Cloud Pod Goes Green: Google’s 10th Annual Carbon Confession
    • Watts Up Doc? Google’s Energy Efficiency Bugs Bunny Would Approve
    • Terminal Velocity: Google’s AI Gets a Command Performance
    • Ctrl+Alt+Gemini: Google’s New CLI Companion
    • The Prompt and the Furious: Tokyo Terminal
    • AI See What You Did There: Google’s New Compliance Framework
    • Control Yourself: Google Cloud Gets Serious About AI Auditing
    • The Audit-omatic: Teaching Old Compliance New AI Tricks
    • Veo 3: Now Playing in a Cloud Near You
    • Google’s Video Dreams Come True (Audio Included)
    • Lights, Camera, API Action: Veo 3 Takes the Stage
    • Prometheus Unbound: Azure Finally Sees What It’s Been Missing
    • VS Code Gets Fabric-ated: Now With 100% More Workspace Management
    • Ctrl+S Your Sanity: Fabric Items Now Created Where You Code
    • The Extension Cord That Connects Your IDE to the Data Cloud
    • Logic Apps Gets Its Template of Doom (But in a Good Way)
    • Copy-Paste Engineering Just Got an Azure Upgrade
    • Microsoft Introduces the IKEA Model for Workflow Assembly
    • WAF’s Up Doc? Security Copilot Now Speaks Firewall
    • The Firewall Whisperer: When AI Meets Web Application Security
    • WAF and Peace: Microsoft’s Treaty Between Security Tools
    • Azure Goes Wild(card) with Certificate Management
    • Front Door Finally Gets Its Wild Side
    • Microsoft Deals Everyone a Wildcard
    • IP Freely: Azure Takes the Guesswork Out of Address Management
    • No More IP Envy: Azure Catches Up to AWS’s Address Game
    • Azure’s New Feature Has All the Right Addresses
    • Terraform and Chill: When Infrastructure Meets AI
    • DynamoDB Goes Global: Now with 100% Less Eventually
    • The Consistency Chronicles: Return of the Strong Read
    • Breaking: DynamoDB Achieves Peak Table Manners Across All Regions
    Follow Up

    00:47 Microsoft changes Windows in attempt to prevent next CrowdStrike-style catastrophe – Ars Technica

    • Microsoft is creating a new Windows endpoint security platform that allows antivirus vendors to operate outside the kernel, preventing catastrophic system-wide failures like the CrowdStrike incident that g...
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    1 hr and 10 mins
  • 310: CI You Later, Manual Testing

    310: CI You Later, Manual Testing
    Jul 3 2025
    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 NestBreaking Free: AWS Certificates Get Their Export PapersCertificate Manager Learns to Share Its Private KeysSkynet’s Origin Story: We Bullied It Into ExistenceClaude and Present Danger: When AI Fights BackBreaking Up is Hard to GPUEKS Marks the Spot for GuardDuty’s New Detection PowersKubernetes Security: GuardDuty Connects the DotsHub, Hub, Hooray for Unified SecuritySecurity Hub 2: Electric BoogalooAll Your Security Findings Are Belong to One DashboardGuardDuty’s EKS-cellent Adventure in Attack DetectionShield Me From My Own Bad DecisionsAWS Plays Network Security Whack-a-MoleYour VPC Called – It Wants Better Security GroupsPermission Impossible: Your Express App Will Self-Authorize in 5 MinutesBreaking the Glass: AWS Backup Gets a Multi-Party SystemGemini 2.5: Now With More Flash and Less CashAI Goes to WashingtonGPT-4: Government Property Taxpayer-fundedDDoS and Don’ts: A 45-Second Horror StoryGoogle’s AI Models Get a Flash-y Upgrade (Lite on the Wallet)Flash Gordon Called – He Wants His Speed BackFrom Flash to Flash-Lite: Google’s AI Diet PlanLooker’s Pipeline Dreams Come TrueMS-DOS Editor: The Reboot Nobody Asked For But Everyone NeededControl-Alt-Delete Your Expectations: Microsoft Brings DOS to LinuxMicrosoft’s Text Editor Time Machine Now Runs on Your ToasterCopilot Gets Its Agent LicenseVisual Studio’s AI Agent: Now Taking OrdersThe Bridge Over Troubled PromptsAzure’s Managed Compute Gets More CoherentBring Your Own GPU Party: Cohere Models Join the Azure BashFunction Telemetry Gets Open Sourced (Kind Of)Azure Functions: Now Speaking Everyone’s Language (Except Java)Bucket List: AWS Makes S3 Policy Monitoring a BreezeThe Policy Police: Keeping Your S3 Buckets in CheckCDK Gets Its Own Town Hall (Infrastructure Not Included)Breaking: AWS Discovers Zoom, Plans to Use It Twice Per QuarterAWS and 1Password: A Secret Love AffairKeeping Secrets Has Never Been This PublicNano Nano: AWS Brings Alien-Level Time Precision to EC2Time Flies When You’re Having NanosecondsWorkSpaces Core: Now With More Cores to Work WithMount Compute-ier: AWS Builds AI Training PeakMaking it Rain(ier): AWS Showers Anthropic with 5x More ComputeCache Me If You Can: Google’s Plugin PlayCSI: Cloud Services Investigation General News 01:09 Defending the Internet: How Cloudflare blocked a monumental 7.3 Tbps DDoS attack Cloudflare blocked a record-breaking 7.3 Tbps DDoS attack in May 2025, which delivered 37.4 TB of data in just 45 seconds – equivalent to streaming 7,480 hours of HD video or downloading 9.35 million songs in under a minute.The attack originate... Chapters (00:00:08) - Cloud Pod: Episode 310(00:01:25) - Cloudflare Blocks World's Biggest DDoS Attack(00:07:06) - Matt Appears Out Of The Blue(00:08:07) - OpenAI's Fight With Microsoft Over Stake(00:12:06) - OpenAI Launches Dedicated Government Cloud(00:14:05) - Visual Studio: June 7, 2018: AI Assistant with MCP(00:17:41) - Terraform Provider 6(00:21:16) - Microsoft's Edit: Old School Text Editor (In Rust)(00:26:35) - Learning to use a cloud computer(00:27:20) - VI vs VIM(00:29:23) - All About Security(00:29:50) - Amazon IAM Access Analyzer New Uplead Dashboard(00:33:44) - AWS Certificate Manager: Export Public SSL Certificates(00:39:19) - Certificate Industry: The Future of Automation(00:39:56) - AWS Now Requiring MFA for Root Users(00:44:51) - Amazon's AWS Network Firewall Now Includes Active Threat Defense(00:53:55) - AWS WAF(00:54:58) - AWS SHIELD Network Security Director: In Preview(00:58:18) - GuardDuty Expands Kubernetes Threat Detection Coverage to(01:05:14) - Windows Defender: Is It Windows Defender?(01:05:40) - Microsoft's Security Hub: V2, Not the New One(01:07:07) - Amazon S3 Bucket Authorization with EC2 in Express JS(01:13:53) - Amazon CDK Community Meetings Launch(01:16:08) - 1Password Integrates with AWS Secrets Manager(01:18:22) - Amazon Time Sync: Nanosecond Timestamps for Financial Services(01:20:51) - AWS VPC(01:24:59) - How many routes do you have in a Kubernetes V(01:25:21) - Amazon Building the World's Most Powerful Computing Center for AI Training(01:28:56) - Another GCP vs. Azure Story(01:29:33) - Google Cloud Backup: New Gemini 2.5 Flash and Pro(01:33:36) - Google's Looker Introduces Continuous Integration(01:37:33) - Google Cloud CDN: Edge Extensions Plugins(01:38:59) - Microsoft's Q1 Quantum Computing Update(01:40:29) - Azure DevOps MCP Server and Azure AI Connect(01:42:41) - Azure Functions finally Support OTEL ...
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    1 hr and 51 mins
  • 309: Microsoft tries to give away cloud services for free, sadly, it's only SQL

    309: Microsoft tries to give away cloud services for free, sadly, it's only SQL
    Jun 26 2025
    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 AWOLWhen Your Coreless Service Finds Its Core ProblemOracle’s Vanity Fair: Pretty URLs for Pretty PennyFrom Warehouse to Lakehouse: Your Free Ticket to Cloud Town1⃣Databricks Uno: Because One is the Loneliest NumberFree as in Beer, Smart as in Data ScienceCedar Analysis: Because Your Authorization Policies Wood Never LieCedar Analysis: Teaching Old Policies New ProofsAmazon Q Finally Learns to Talk to Other AppsTomorrow: Visual Studio’s Predictive Edit RevolutionThe Ghost of Edits Future: AI Haunts Your Code Before You Write ItIAM What IAM: Google’s Identity Crisis Breaks the InternetPermission Denied: The Day Google Forgot Who Everyone Was403 Forbidden: When Google’s Bouncer Called in SickAWS Brings the Heat to Fusion ResearchLarry’s Cloud Nine: Oracle Stock Soars on Forecast RaiseOCI You Later: Oracle Bets Big on Cloud GrowthOracle’s Crystal Ball Shows 40% Cloud Growth AheadMeta Scales Up Its AI Ambitions with $14 Billion InvestmentFrom FAIR to Scale: Meta’s $14 Billion AI MakeoverCongratulations Databricks one, you are now the new low code solution. AWS burns power to figure out how power works AI Is Going Great – Or How ML Makes Money 02:12 Zuckerberg makes Meta’s biggest bet on AI, $14 billion Scale AI deal Meta is finalizing a $14 billion investment for a 49% stake in Scale AI, with CEO Alexandr Wang joining to lead a new AI research lab at Meta. This follows similar moves by Google and Microsoft acquiring AI talent through investments rather than direct acquisitions to avoid regulatory scrutiny.Scale AI specializes in data labeling and annotation services critical for training AI models, serving major clients including OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Meta. The company’s expertise covers approximately 70% of all AI models being built, providing Meta with valuable intelligence on competitor approaches to model development.The deal reflects Meta’s struggles with its Llama AI models, particularly the underwhelming reception of Llama 4 and delays in releasing the more powerful “Behemoth” model due to concerns about competitiveness with OpenAI and DeepSeek. Meta recently reorganized its GenAI unit into two divisions following these setbacks.Wang brings both technical AI expertise and business acumen, having built Scale AI from a 2016 startup to a $14 billion valuation. His experience includes defense contracts and the recent Defense Llama collaboration with Meta for national security applications.For cloud providers and dev... Chapters (00:00:00) - The Cloud Pod: Episode 309(00:01:16) - Meta Completes $14 Million Investment in Scale AI(00:06:34) - Databricks Free Edition, SQL Migration and More(00:09:28) - WAF and Q&D: Cloud Computing(00:17:52) - AWS Power Tools for AWS Lambda(00:22:39) - Google IAM System Failure Causes widespread Outage(00:27:00) - Cloudflare Outage Highlights Storage Provider's Failure(00:31:14) - Google's Credential Scanner for Open Source(00:33:45) - Google Cloud Location Finder: Single API for Cloud Regions(00:35:33) - Google Cloud G4VMS and G4S: New Inst(00:37:23) - Microsoft Cross Tenant Customer Managed Keys for SSD v2 &(00:39:48) - Microsoft Cloud: Azure Cost Management, Next Edit suggestions in Visual Studio(00:43:41) - Oracle's Cloud Services: Growing 16%(00:46:53) - Oracle to Offer AMD Instinct GPUs on OCI(00:48:03) - Oracle Allows Custom Domains for Autonomous Database(00:50:01) - Cloud: Episode 1
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    51 mins

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