The Cloudcast

Massive Studios

The Cloudcast (@cloudcastpod) is the industry's #1 Cloud Computing podcast, and the place where Cloud meets AI.  Co-hosts Aaron Delp (@aarondelp) & Brian Gracely (@bgracely) speak with technology and business leaders that are shaping the future of business. Topics will include Cloud Computing | AI | AGI | ChatGPT | Open Source | AWS | Azure | GCP | Platform Engineering | DevOps | Big Data | ML | Security | Kubernetes | AppDev | SaaS | PaaS . 

  1. 2 DAYS AGO

    The 2025 State of AI in Review

    Aaron and Brian review the Year in AI, hand out AI awards, and discuss the biggest AI trends from 2025. Maybe a few predictions will be made as well. SHOW: 987 SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #987 Transcript SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET  CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW SPONSORS: SHOW NOTES CLOUD & AI NEWS OF THE MONTH - NOV 2025 (show)CLOUD & AI NEWS OF THE MONTH - OCT 2025 (show)CLOUD & AI NEWS OF THE MONTH - SEPT 2025 (show)CLOUD & AI NEWS OF THE MONTH - AUG 2025 (show)CLOUD & AI NEWS OF THE MONTH - JUL 2025 (show)CLOUD & AI NEWS OF THE MONTH - JUN 2025 (show)CLOUD & AI NEWS OF THE MONTH - MAY 2025 (show)CLOUD & AI NEWS OF THE MONTH - APR 2025 (show)CLOUD & AI NEWS OF THE MONTH - MAR 2025 (show)CLOUD & AI NEWS OF THE MONTH - FEB 2025 (show)CLOUD & AI NEWS OF THE MONTH - JAN 2025 (show)2025 AI YEAR IN REVIEW The Year of OpenAIThe Year of NVIDIAThe Year of MicrosoftThe Year of GoogleThe Year of OracleThe Year of China AIThe Year of AppleThe Year of Coding Agents (Anthropic, Cursor, Windsurf, CLIs, etc..)The Year of Data CentersAI Highlights and Lowlights (Corporate Layoffs, Acquihires, Funding, etc..)2026 AI DraftFEEDBACK? Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodBlueSky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpod

    57 min

  2. 5 DAYS AGO

    How AGI will change Everything, Everywhere

    If an AGI falls in the woods and nobody can define it, did it actually fall? This week we make an exact prediction of when AGI will happen, and the 10 ways it will immediately change the world.  SHOW: 986 SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #986 Transcript SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET  CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW NOTES Planning for AGI and Beyond (OpenAI) Machines of Loving Grace (Anthropic)Microsoft and Google has different visions/opinions on AGIAmazon reorganizes around new AGI team reporting to Andy JassyMistral CEO says that AGI is a marketing move AGI is defined by an independent committee in new Microsoft and OpenAI agreementWhy does being first to AGI matter?Bret Taylor on the current status of AGI (Acquired/AC2 podcast, 2025)WHAT DOES REACHING AGI PROVIDE FOR HUMANITY (or ANYTHING)? Y2K bug, 2038 Bug (techies are good at dates when things need to be patched)The % of people with Internet accessThe % of people with a smartphoneThe % of people with a certain level of education (basic or advanced)How much smarter is humanity than 10yrs ago? 20yrs ago? How much smarter could existing humanity be at any given time? Nobody has a consistent or measurable definition of AGIWhat are the Top 10 problems of humanity that need to be solved? (direct or indirect)Does reaching AGI enable certain government or corporate actions to start happening that couldn’t happen now? FEEDBACK? Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodBlueSky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpod

    14 min

  3. 17 DEC

    The 2025 State of Cloud in Review

    Aaron and Brian review the Year in Cloud, hand out Cloud awards, and discuss the biggest cloud trends from 2025. Maybe a few predictions will be made as well.  SHOW: 985 SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #985 Transcript SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET  CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW NOTES: CLOUD & AI NEWS OF THE MONTH - NOV 2025 (show)CLOUD & AI NEWS OF THE MONTH - OCT 2025 (show)CLOUD & AI NEWS OF THE MONTH - SEPT 2025 (show)CLOUD & AI NEWS OF THE MONTH - AUG 2025 (show)CLOUD & AI NEWS OF THE MONTH - JUL 2025 (show)CLOUD & AI NEWS OF THE MONTH - JUN 2025 (show)CLOUD & AI NEWS OF THE MONTH - MAY 2025 (show)CLOUD & AI NEWS OF THE MONTH - APR 2025 (show)CLOUD & AI NEWS OF THE MONTH - MAR 2025 (show)CLOUD & AI NEWS OF THE MONTH - FEB 2025 (show)CLOUD & AI NEWS OF THE MONTH - JAN 2025 (show)2025 CLOUD YEAR IN REVIEW Cloud of the year Cloud concept of the year (non-AI)Cloud memory of the yearCloud revenues in 2025Are NeoClouds in the hyperscaler discussion? Was Cloud (circa 2007) the actual downfall of Intel? (Cloud vs Mobile choice)Rank the clouds, end of 2025 (cloud draft 2025)Do outages matter if they are only once a year? Where does AWS go next?FEEDBACK? Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodBlueSky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpod

    52 min

  4. 14 DEC

    Will there be a market for expert AI agents?

    How difficult will it be to train and build an AI Agent that has expertise in a given domain? Will it happen in the next year, or 3 years or 10 years? And who will benefit in the marketplace from his evolution?  SHOW: 984 SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #984 Transcript SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET  CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW SPONSORS: [Mailtrap] Try Mailtrap for free[Interconnected] Interconnected is a new series from Equinix diving into the infrastructure that keeps our digital world running. With expert guests and real-world insights, we explore the systems driving AI, automation, quantum, and more. Just search “Interconnected by Equinix”.SHOW NOTES OpenAI looks to train their models to replace junior bankersWHAT WOULD BE THE STAGES OF AN EXPERT AGENT? Train it on a set of standard knowledge (e.g. Masters of Accounting, Auditing, International Tax)Train it on a set of well-defined case studies, to provide industry contextTrain it on a set of adjacent case studies and other domains (business, law, specific industries)How to train corner cases?How to train gray areas like ethics, morality, or cost-benefit analysis? Who is motivated to train these experts? What would the cost of these experts be? Can it be similar to a human, or need to be a fraction, or a premium? Is there a way to build memory (e.g. experience) without disclosing client information? Is there a way to build shareable knowledge between agents for reinforcement training/learning? FEEDBACK? Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodBlueSky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpod

    25 min

  5. 10 DEC

    How AI is evolving Enterprise Infrastructure

    Dan McConnell (Senior VP Product Management at @HitachiVantara) talks about how Enterprise infrastructure is having to evolve to keep up with the data challenges of AI.  SHOW: 983 SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #983 Transcript SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET  CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"  SPONSORS: [Interconnected] Interconnected is a new series from Equinix diving into the infrastructure that keeps our digital world running. With expert guests and real-world insights, we explore the systems driving AI, automation, quantum, and more. Just search “Interconnected by Equinix”.[Mailtrap] Try Mailtrap for free SHOW NOTES: Hitachi Vantara (website) Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about your background. Topic 2 - How is AI changing the way enterprises need to think about infrastructure? Topic 3 - What makes AI workloads so different from traditional workloads? How is AI exposing the limitations of broken cloud environments? Topic 4 - Where are organizations feeling the most pressure? What are the biggest misconceptions enterprises have about preparing for AI? Topic 5 - What problems come from managing separate systems? What is the biggest driving factor toward unified data platforms? Topic 6 - How is Hitachi Vantara helping customers handle the growing infrastructure demands created by AI? FEEDBACK? Email: show at the cloudcast dot netBluesky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpod

    33 min

  6. 7 DEC

    The Future of PaaS

    The PaaS of the future probably doesn't look anything like the PaaS of the past. AI should help bring in an era where we can abstract much more than just infrastructure to align technology and business.  SHOW: 982 SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #982 Transcript SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET  CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW SPONSORS: [Mailtrap] Try Mailtrap for free[Interconnected] Interconnected is a new series from Equinix diving into the infrastructure that keeps our digital world running. With expert guests and real-world insights, we explore the systems driving AI, automation, quantum, and more. Just search “Interconnected by Equinix”.SHOW NOTES Vercel v0Building Web Apps with just English and AI (Acquired podcast, Feb 2025)Vercel on The Cloudcast (2024)Vercel on The Cloudcast (2021)8 tools to build your own PaaS (2025)IS PAAS READY TO TAKE THE NEXT STEP?  Where could PaaS evolve to now?Can new PaaS services abstract the developer, and just focus on business logic and business ideas? What languages or design patterns would be mandated? (web only, mobile only, web + mobile? )Can we template “best practices” enough to be reliable?Can we template compliances needed to handle financial transactions, customer data, etc.?Can troubleshooting become an automated service?Where was PaaS in the past? (Heroku, Google AppEngine, Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes)Language specificCloud specificAbstracting the infrastructure and security FEEDBACK? Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodBlueSky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpod

    20 min

  7. 3 DEC

    AI & Cloud Trends for November 2025

    Brian Gracely (@bgracely) and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard, @SoftwareDefTalk) discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from November 2025. SHOW: 981 SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #981 Transcript SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET  NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST:  "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SPONSORS: [Interconnected] Interconnected is a new series from Equinix diving into the infrastructure that keeps our digital world running. With expert guests and real-world insights, we explore the systems driving AI, automation, quantum, and more. Just search “Interconnected by Equinix”.[Mailtrap] Try Mailtrap for freeSHOW NOTES: Link to November 2025 News and ArticlesFEEDBACK? Email: show at the cloudcast dot netBluesky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpod

    41 min

  8. 30 NOV

    Things to be Thankful for

    As the Thanksgiving weekend passes, let's look at some technology things that we're thankful for and excited about.  SHOW: 980 SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #980 Transcript SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET  CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW SPONSORS: [Mailtrap] Try Mailtrap for free[Interconnected] Interconnected is a new series from Equinix diving into the infrastructure that keeps our digital world running. With expert guests and real-world insights, we explore the systems driving AI, automation, quantum, and more. Just search “Interconnected by Equinix”.[TestKube] TestKube is Kubernetes-native testing platform, orchestrating all your test tools, environments, and pipelines into scalable workflows empowering Continuous Testing. Check it out at TestKube.io/cloudcastSHOW NOTES THINGS TO BE THANKFUL FOR: Thankful for healthHappy Birthday to ChatGPTThe feature on an iPhone that remembers the code sent in an SMS messageRole playing, brain storming, scenario planning on ChatGPT/GeminiTools like Vercel that let non-programmers use AI to build apps (the future of PaaS)Tools like NotebookLM making complex stuff like LLM training, RAG patterns,  True competition in the cloud market as differentiation emergesThe beginnings of alternatives to NVIDIA in the AI HW Acceleration marketThe evolution of wearables like fitness trackers, or AirPods (better sound quality, noise cancelling, language translation, etc.) FEEDBACK? Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodBlueSky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpod

    18 min
See All (1K)

4.9
out of 5
15 Ratings

About

The Cloudcast (@cloudcastpod) is the industry's #1 Cloud Computing podcast, and the place where Cloud meets AI.  Co-hosts Aaron Delp (@aarondelp) & Brian Gracely (@bgracely) speak with technology and business leaders that are shaping the future of business. Topics will include Cloud Computing | AI | AGI | ChatGPT | Open Source | AWS | Azure | GCP | Platform Engineering | DevOps | Big Data | ML | Security | Kubernetes | AppDev | SaaS | PaaS . 

Information

  • Creator
    Massive Studios
  • Years Active
    2011 - 2025
  • Episodes
    1K
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2025 Massive Studios
  • Show Website
    The Cloudcast

You Might Also Like