Episodes

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

    308: SCC: Security Command Center or Super Cool Capabilities?
    Jun 18 2025
    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 SummitSnowflake City Lights, FinOps by the SeaThe Two Summits: A Tale of FinOps and SnowflakesCrunchy on the Outside, Snowflake on the Inside AWS Taipei: Because Sometimes You Need Your Data Closer Than Your Night Market AWS Plants Its Flag in Taipei: The 37th Time’s the CharmAWS Slashes GPU Prices Faster Than a CUDA KernelTwo Writers Walk Into a Database… And Both SucceedAWS Network Firewall: Now With Windows!The VPN Connection That Keeps Its SecretsTransform and Roll Out: Pub/Sub’s New Single Message FeatureSAP Happens: Google’s New M4 VMs Handle It BetterTotal Recall: Google’s 6TB Memory MachinesThe M4trix Has You (And Your In-Memory Databases)DeepSeek and You Shall Find… on Google CloudFour Score and Seven Vulnerabilities Ago – mkThe Fantastic Four Security FeaturesMCP: Model Context Protocol or Master Control Program from Tron?No SQL? No Problem! AI Takes the WheelInjection Rejection: How Azure Keeps Your Prompts Clean General News 05:09 FinOps X 2025 Cloud Announcements: AI Agents and Increased FOCUS Support All major cloud providers announced expanded support for FOCUS (FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification) 1.0, with AWS already in general availability and Google Cloud launching a BigQuery export in private preview. This signals an industry-wide standardization of cloud cost reporting formats.AWS introduced AI-powered cost optimization through Amazon Q Developer integration with Cost Optimization Hub, enabling automated recommendations across millions of resources with detailed explanations and action plans for cost reduction.Microsoft Azure launched AI agents for application modernization that can reduce migration efforts from months to hours by automating code assessment and remediation across thousands of files, while also introducing flexible PTU reservations that work across multiple AI models.Google Cloud unveiled FinOps Hub 2.0 with Gemini-powered waste detection that identifies underutilized resources (like VMs at 5% usage) and provides AI-generated optimization recommendations for Kubernetes, Cloud Run, and Cloud SQL services.Oracle Cloud Infrastructure added carbon emissions reporting with hourly power-based calculations and GHGP compliance, plus new cost anomaly detection and rules-based cost allocation features for improved financial governance. 06:11 Justin – “I mean, if I’m modernizing my application, typically it’s off .NET and Azure, but ok…” 07:20 Broadcom reboots CloudHealt... Chapters (00:00:00) - Don't Buy Software Named After Fuzzy Creatures(00:04:00) - FinOps X: Ranting About Finops Tooling(00:05:17) - Cloud Cost Reporting Standards 1.2 Spec(00:07:19) - CloudHealth's New Look for Finops(00:11:05) - FinOps and the dual-role(00:12:37) - Snowflake Summit 2018: Big Data, Intelligence & Security(00:17:29) - Snowflake Adds Postgres to its Cloud Platform(00:20:05) - OpenAI Adds Google Cloud to Its Infrastructure(00:23:34) - Mistral AI Releases Magistral, Their First Language Model(00:26:07) - Amazon Launches 37th Global Region in Taipei(00:31:25) - Wonders of AWS: Smithy API Models(00:37:34) - AWS to Lower GPU Prices for AI-based Instances(00:41:01) - AWS Open-Sourcing PG Active(00:44:43) - AWS Network Firewall: Monitoring Dashboard(00:48:35) - AWS Site to Site VPN: New Features and Best Practices(00:51:41) - Google Pub Sub: JavaScript Transforms (New Feature)(00:54:51) - Google Cloud: New SAP HANA M4 VMs with In(00:56:50) - What Sharding a Database Is Really Like(00:59:41) - Google Cloud Announces Optimized Deployment Recipes for DeepSeq(01:01:27) - BigQuery: reservation fairness and predictability,(01:06:19) - SEC Cybersecurity Command Center 2018: Four new capabilities(01:07:18) - Squid vs. Splunk(01:07:36) - Cloud Run Threat Detection(01:08:22) - SCC automatically detects connections to known malicious IPs by analyzing V(01:09:32) - Google Cloud's Natural Language Data Manipulation (MLDB)(01:11:31) - Google Cloud and Datadog: An AI Match(01:14:21) - Google Cloud Serverless for Apache Spark & BigQuery(01:16:40) - Microsoft: Azure Prompt Shields & More(01:20:08) - Jazz: Microsoft's Cloud J(01:23:45) - FinOps Tooling: The End of an Era(01:31:05) - Will Kelly: Cloud Vendors Are Screwed(01:37:18) - Will Cloud Health and Cloudability Help Your Finops?(01:41:16) - The Future of FinOps: Unit Economics(01:45:44) - Week in Cloud: The Cloud Podcast
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    1 hr and 46 mins
  • 307: The AI Assistant That Finally Understands Your Kubernetes Cluster (We are Doomed)

    307: The AI Assistant That Finally Understands Your Kubernetes Cluster (We are Doomed)
    Jun 13 2025
    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 Living Its Best LifeCache Me If You Can: How Valkey Outran Redis’s License PoliciesTier Today, Gone Tomorrow: AWS’s New Storage Class That Moves Your Data So You Don’t Hey AI, Deploy My App: AWS Makes It Actually WorkAWS Finally Calculates What You’ll Actually PayThe Price is Right: AWS EditionFrom List Price to Real Price: AWS Gets TransparentRed Hat and AWS Sitting in a Tree, R-H-E-L-I-N-GDockerfile? More Like Dockefile-It-For-Me with Amazon’s New MCP ServerElementary, My Dear Watson: Amazon Q Becomes Sherlock Holmes for AWSCUD You Believe It? Red Hat Gets the Discount TreatmentCommitted Relationship Status: It’s Complicated (But 20% Cheaper)RHEL Yeah! Google Drops Prices on Enterprise LinuxDisk Today, Gone Tomorrow: Azure’s Vanishing OS StorageATL1: Where GPUs Meet Sweet Tea and Southern HospitalityAWS Launches Operation Cloud SovereigntyThe Great Firewall of Europe: AWS EditionAmazon Builds a GDPR Fortress in Germany General News 01:46 What Salesforce’s $8B acquisition of Informatica means for enterprise data and AI | VentureBeat Salesforce just dropped $8 billion to acquire Informatica. This purchase was really about building the data foundation needed for agentic AI to actually work in enterprise environments – we’re talking about combining Informatica’s 30 years of data management expertise with Salesforce’s cloud platform to create what they’re calling a “unified architecture for agentic AI.”This acquisition fills a massive gap in Salesforce’s data management capabilities, bringing in critical pieces like data cataloging, integration, governance, quality controls, and master data management – all the unsexy but absolutely essential plumbing that makes AI agents trustworthy and scalable in real enterprise deployments.The timing here is fascinating, because Informatica literally just announced their own agentic AI offerings last week at Informatica World, so Salesforce is essentially buying a company that’s already pivoted hard into the AI space – rather than trying to build these capabilities from scratch.There’s going to be some interesting overlap with MuleSoft, which Salesforce bought for $6.5 billion back in 2018, but analysts are saying Informatica’s data management capabilities are more comprehensive and updated – this could mean some consolidation challenges ahead as they figure out how to integrate these overlapping technologies.For enterprise customers, this could be a game-changer because it promises to automate those painful, time-consuming data processes that typically take days or weeks. These AI agents can handle data ingestion, in... Chapters (00:00:00) - Will GCP's Gemini Understand Kubernetes?(00:01:08) - Fooled by Conference(00:01:45) - Salesforce Buys Informatica for GenTech AI(00:05:02) - Valky Turns One(00:07:42) - Harness Unveils MCP Server(00:13:23) - Terraform 2.8: Security in the Cloud(00:16:21) - Amazon Launches FSX for Lustre Intelligent Tiering(00:18:56) - Amazon AI System Development with ecs, EKS and Serverless(00:21:15) - AWS Pricing Calculator Gets a Long-Needed Feature(00:28:19) - Amazon to Launch a European Sovereign Cloud(00:36:10) - Google's Cloud-based Red Hat Discount(00:38:06) - Google Launches Vertex AI Ranking API(00:42:41) - Google Cloud Run: Bringing GPUs to Serverless(00:45:17) - Kubernetes: Volume Populator for Machine Learning(00:47:48) - Microsoft's Azure AI Foundry: Turn Every Software Developer Into an(00:51:59) - C Scripts in C(00:55:32) - Azure: General Availability of Ephemeral OS Disks(01:01:08) - Azure AI Gateway Expands Support for AWS Bedrock Model End(01:04:50) - DigitalOcean Making a Serious Play for GPUs(01:10:23) - Week in Cloud: Finops X
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    1 hr and 11 mins
  • 306: Batch Better Have MySQL: Azure's Maintenance Makeover

    306: Batch Better Have MySQL: Azure's Maintenance Makeover
    Jun 6 2025
    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 ExcusesNailing Down Your Container Security, One Patch at a TimeHashiCorp’s New Recipe: Terraform, AI, and a Pinch of MCPTeaching an Old DNS New IPv6 TricksDash-ing through the Klusters, in an AWS ConsoleGoogle’s Generative AI Playground Gets a Glow-UpVertex AI Studio: Now with 200% More Darkness! Like our soulsClaude Opus 4 Strikes a Chord on Google CloudSovereign-teed to Please: Google Cloud’s Royal TreatmentGoogle’s Cloud Kingdom Expands its BordersShall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s AI? Anthropic Drops Sonne(t) 4 Knowledge on VertexMistral AI Chats Up a Storm on Google CloudGoogle Cloud’s Vertex AI Gets a Dose of Mistral Magic.NET Aspire on Azure: The App Service Strikes BackDefault Outbound Access Retires, Decides Florida Isn’t for Everyone AI Is Going Great – or How ML Makes Money 01:52 Introducing Claude 4 Claude has launched the latest models in Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4, setting new standards for coding, advancing reasoning and AI agents. Maybe they’ll actually follow instructions when told to shut down? (Looking at you, ChatGPT.)Claude Opus 4 is “the world’s best coding model” with sustained performance on complex, long-running tasks and agent workflows. Opus 4 has 350 billion parameters, making it one of the largest publicly available language models. It demonstrates strong performance on academic benchmarks, including research. Sonnet 4 is a smaller 10 billion parameter model optimized for dialogue, making it well-suited for conversational AI applications. Alongside the models, they are also announcing: Extended thinking with tool use (beta): Both models can use tools – like web search – during extended thinking, allowing Claude to alternate between reasoning and tool use to improve its responses.New Model Capabilities: Both models can use tools in parallel, follow instructions more precisely, and when given access to local files by developers — demonstrate significantly improved memory capabilities, extracting and saving key facts maintain continuity and build tacit knowledge over timeClaude code is now generally available: After receiving extensive positive feedback during our research preview, they are expanding how developers can collaborate with Claude. Claude code now supports background tasks via github actions and native integrations with VS code and jetbrains, displaying edits directly in your files for seamless pair programming. New Api capabilities: Four new capabilities on the API that enable developers to build more powerful AI agents including Code Execution tool, MCP connector, Files API and the ability to cache... Chapters (00:00:00) - Cloud Pod: Azure's Maintenance Makeover(00:00:38) - Gemini Power Glasses at IO 2017(00:01:58) - Claude Turns 4 and More(00:07:51) - Claude 4.2 and Silent Models(00:08:38) - OpenAI's Language AI Response API Update(00:11:14) - Docker: Hardened Images(00:15:30) - Terraform MCP Server Released for AI Integration(00:17:50) - Amazon Serverless SQL with GMAX(00:21:43) - Amazon ECS: Extended Container Exit Reason Message(00:23:55) - Dynamodb Local in AWS Cloud Shell(00:26:21) - EC2 DNS now supports IPv6(00:28:52) - EKS Dashboard: Kubernetes Cluster Management(00:33:50) - Vertex AI Studio: Going Dark(00:34:59) - Google's Gemma 3n AI Model for Mobile(00:37:03) - Google's Intelligent Agent Platform Update(00:39:24) - Google Cloud's Sovereign Cloud: Data Sovereignty(00:43:10) - GCP 2.5: Unstructured Data with Vertex(00:44:48) - Google Cloud AI: Lechat Enterprise and OCR(00:48:08) - Azure FX V2 series with 5th Gen Intel Xeon(00:49:33) - Red Hat OpenShift VM Virtualization on Azure(00:52:15) - Microsoft SQL Server: Maintenance Experience for MySQL(00:55:49) - Microsoft's NET Aspire Integration with Azure App Service(00:59:42) - Azure: Retiring Implicit Outbound Connectivity for V(01:03:19) - How to Code With AI in Visual Studio(01:08:25) - Building a serverless bot in Python(01:13:43) - Claude 2.8(01:19:07) - Google Docs: AI in the Show Notes document(01:25:27) - Building a DevOps team with AI(01:29:16) - Black FLP02 PC Case
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    1 hr and 34 mins
  • 305: AWS Breaks Up with Unpopular Services - "It's Not You, It's Me"

    305: AWS Breaks Up with Unpopular Services - "It's Not You, It's Me"
    May 28 2025
    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’ Excellent Adventure in the Google CloudGemini 2.5 Shoots for the Stars with Cosmic-Sized AI UpgradesResistance is Futile: OpenAI Assimilates Your Codebase AWS Transformers: Rise of the Agentic AI Teaching an old .NET dog new Linux tricksCodeBuild Puts Docker Builds in HyperdriveInspector Gadget’s New Trick: Mapping Container VulnerabilitiesYo Dawg, I Heard You Like Scanning Containers…Google Cranks AI to 11 with New Ultra PlanI, For One, Welcome Our New AI Ultra OverlordsThe Inference Engine That Could: llm-d Chugs Ahead with Kubernetes-Native ScalingScaling Inference to Infinity and Beyond with Google Cloud’s llm-dGoogle Cloud and Spring AI: A Match Made in Java-nThe Fast and the Serverless: Cloud Run Drifts into AI Studio TerritorySQL Server 2025: A Vector Victor, Not a Scalar FailureAI will solve my life problems of having money in my pocketI used to scan all the containers but now I will just scan yours AI Is Going Great – or How ML Makes Money 01:50 Jules: Google’s autonomous AI coding agent Jules is an autonomous AI agent that can read code, understand intent, and make code changes on its own. It goes beyond AI coding assistants to operate independently.It clones code into a secure Google Cloud VM, allowing it to understand the full context of a project. This enables it to write tests, build features, fix bugs, and more.Jules operates asynchronously in the background, presenting its plan and reasoning when complete. This allows developers to focus on other tasks while it works.Integration with GitHub enables Jules to work directly in existing workflows without extra setup or context switching. Developers can steer and give feedback throughout the process.For cloud developers, Jules demonstrates the rapid advancement of AI for coding moving from prototype to product. Its cloud-based parallel execution enables efficient handling of complex, multi-file changes.While in public beta, Jules is free with some usage limits. This allows developers to experiment with this cutting-edge AI coding agent and understand its potential to accelerate development on Google Cloud. 02:56 Ryan – “More and more, as new tools get released, it’s just going to change the way anything gets written… it’s getting more and more capable.” 05:45 Introducing Flow: Google’s AI filmmaking tool designed for Veo Flow is an AI-powered filmmaking tool custom-designed for Google’s advanced video, image and language models (Veo, Imagen, Gemini). It allows creators to generate cinem... Chapters (00:00:00) - Cloud Pod: AWS Breaks Up With unpopular Services(00:01:02) - Google's Joules: A Code Editing Agent for Cloud Developers(00:04:54) - Google's AI Filmmaking Tool, Flow(00:08:45) - Gemini 2.5 Large Language Models Update(00:10:33) - Google's Alpha Evolve: The AI Coding Agent(00:12:50) - OpenAI's Codex AI Agent for Cloud Development(00:14:44) - HashiCorp Validated Patterns for Cloud-based IT(00:16:49) - Amazon AWS: End Support for Several Services(00:21:12) - Amazon's New Strands AI Agent SDK(00:28:01) - Cloud Cost Management: The Right Step for IT Pros(00:31:36) - AWS Code Build: New Docker Server Capability(00:33:18) - Amazon Inspector for Docker & ECR(00:34:51) - Google AI Ultra: A Premium Subscription Plan(00:39:10) - Database Center(00:40:32) - PostgreSQL on GKE(00:43:32) - Google Cloud Introduces LLM-D for Large Language Inference(00:47:00) - Spring Boot: AI in Java 1.0(00:49:33) - Google Cloud: Bringing AI Studio to Cloud Run(00:51:12) - Google's Vertex AI for Creative Content Generation(00:52:30) - Two Gemini Stories In One Week(00:52:46) - Microsoft's Build 2020 Prediction(00:55:14) - Microsoft's App Services Platform Announcement(00:57:24) - Microsoft's Cloud Announcement(00:59:25) - Azure AI Foundry: New Features, Changes(01:01:58) - Microsoft Fabric and Azure Data Portfolio: Powering the Next AI(01:04:22) - Microsoft Discovery: Accelerating Research and Development (New Platform)(01:06:35) - Microsoft, GitHub Copilot: Agentic DevOps(01:09:33) - Oracle Launches E6 Cloud Compute(01:11:32) - Week in the Cloud: Starting Late
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    1 hr and 13 mins
  • 304: It’s Chile Up Here in The Cloud!

    304: It’s Chile Up Here in The Cloud!
    May 22 2025
    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 deliveredThings get Chile with new regionsObservability and AI, I Q-uestion the logicCloud Pod tries to Microsoft Build predictionsK8 resizes pods on the flyMicrosoft strongly reinforces the AI FoundryThe Cloud Pod renegotiates the hosts’ contracts … we now have to pay the Cloud Pod to be on it Follow Up 01:53 DOJ’s extreme proposals will hurt consumers and America’s tech leadership We previously talked about the DOJ and Google Antitrust lawsuit – and now the DOJ has wrapped up their remedies hearing, and Google has *not* been quiet about it.One of the claims is that the remedies would hurt browser choice, putting browsers like Firefox out of business completely. Google also claimed that data disclosure mandates would threaten user’s privacy – it would be MUCH safer if they could just sell it to you via their marketplace. We do agree that divesting Chrome would make things more complicated for people living in the Google Cloud. Really, what comes down to is that Google claims DOJ’s solutions are the wrong solutions – although to us, Google’s solutions aren’t much better. AI – Or How ML Makes Money 09:20 OpenAI Expands Leadership with Fidji Simo OpenAI Hires Instacart CEO Simo For Major Leadership Role OpenAI is hiring Fidji Simo as the CEO of applications, representing a major restructuring of leadership at the company. She was the CEO at Chapters (00:00:00) - The Cloud Pod(00:02:05) - Google Lashes Out Over DOJ's Antitrust Proposal(00:06:19) - Does a Google Divested Chrome Affect the Internet?(00:09:17) - OpenAI Expands Leadership Team(00:10:22) - OpenAI's Nonprofit Status(00:11:34) - OpenAI Announces OpenAI for Countries and Data Residency for(00:13:58) - OpenAI in Tough Negotiations With Microsoft(00:16:48) - Terraform's AWS Provider Hits 4 Billion Downloads(00:17:41) - Amazon Terraform Provider 6.0 in Public Beta(00:23:14) - Amazon Launches New AWS Region in Chile(00:24:29) - Amazon Q Developer support to OpenSearch(00:27:04) - Kubernetes 1.33 Release Notes(00:31:23) - Does AWS have cloud commitment insurance?(00:33:25) - Google's Gecko Tool for Generative AI(00:35:54) - First Build Prediction: GitHub Copilot(00:37:04) - Microsoft's LLM for OpenAI(00:38:11) - Intel Announces New Quantum Computing Chip(00:39:17) - Third Choice: Microsoft Office PC Updates(00:40:30) - Top Three Office Products for 2020(00:42:07) - Google, Microsoft's AI Competitor(00:42:46) - The Number of Times Copilot Is Invited to Microsoft's Conference(00:46:15) - Microsoft Giving Virtual Data Center Tours(00:49:21) - Azure Storage Actions(00:52:15) - How many storage accounts can I have in a subscription?(00:54:46) - Azure Storage Actions(00:59:41) - "Oh, I can't handle that!"(01:00:14) - Red Hat Summit 2025 & Azure Migrate(01:02:57) - Azure AI: Reinforcement Fine-tuning (RFT(01:05:48) - Cloud Podcast: Week 3(01:06:40) - Linux Kernels to Drop 486 CPUs(01:09:29) - Can I Run Linux on a 486?(01:14:07) - AMD vs Intel: Which Is The Best?(01:16:21) - 486 compatibility in the Linux kernel
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    1 hr and 17 mins