The Cloud Pod | Weekly AI & Cloud News on AWS, Azure & GCP

Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas and Matt Kohn | Cloud Computing & AI News

The Cloud Pod delivers weekly cloud computing and AI news for engineers, architects, and technology leaders. Join Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas, and Matt Kohn as they break down the latest from AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud — covering new services, platform updates, FinOps strategies, and the AI innovations reshaping the industry. Stay ahead of the cloud landscape with one of the longest-running cloud computing podcasts available.

  1. 352: Google Next: Rebrandapalooza

    1 DAG GELEDEN

    352: Google Next: Rebrandapalooza

    Welcome to episode 352 of The Cloud Pod, where the weather is always cloudy! Justin, Matt, and Ryan are safely back from Vegas (Ryan and Justin, anyway), and they have all the news and announcements from Google Next. Plus, we have Ryan’s take on Phish, news from Cloudflare, and a shoe company making a pivot. There’s a lot to cover, so let’s get started! Titles we almost went with this week Redact Yourself Before You Wreck Yourself OpenAI **Anthropic Fork Yeah Cloudflare Artifacts Is Here Git Happens at Scale on Cloudflare Bucket List Item Checked Lambda Mounts S3 File Systems Terraform Your Agents Before They Terraform You Cloud Run Gets GPUs and Finally Hits the Gym Spanner Goes Rogue, Leaves the Cloud Behind Knowledge Catalog Knows What Your Agents Did Last Query One Control Plane to Rule a Million Chips No More Incognito Windows for Your AWS Identity Crisis Your Agent Can Now Write Files Without Burning Everything Down Spend Caps Finally Tell Runaway AI Jobs to Chill RIP Vertex, long live the agent Agents all the way down Google Next: This is the dawning of the Age of Agentic Allbirds Proves AI Hype Needs No Infrastructure   A big thanks to this week’s sponsors: There are a lot of cloud cost management tools out there, but only Archera provides insured commitments. It sounds fancy, but it’s really simple. Archera gives you the cost savings of a 1 or 3-year AWS Savings Plan with a commitment as short as 30 days. If you do not use all the cloud resources you have committed to, Archera will literally cover the difference. Other cost management tools may say they offer “insured commitments”, but remember to ask: Will you actually give me my rebate? Because Archera will.  Check out thecloudpod.net/archera to schedule a demo today.  We also wanted to tell you about something coming to the US for the first time — WeAreDevelopers World Congress!  They’ve been doing this in Europe for years, 15,000-plus attendees in Berlin, it’s one of the biggest developer events over there. Coté from Software Defined Talk is actually speaking at their Berlin event this summer, so we’ve got some firsthand context here. In September, they’re launching the North America edition. San José, September 23 to 25. 500-plus speakers, 18 tracks — cloud, infrastructure, DevOps, security, AI, data engineering, all of it. Speakers from Datadog, Honeycomb, Sentry, Google, LinkedIn, and Stack Overflow. Olivier Pomel, Christine Yen, Milin Desai, Kelsey Hightower – plus workshops and masterclasses, not just talks. These are people who know how to do a developer conference at scale. wearedevelopers.us, code DEVPOD26 for 15% off. Group rates on top of that for 4 or more. General News  06:12 Amazon invest up to $25 billion in Anthropic part of AI infrastructure Amazon has committed up to $25 billion in additional investment in Anthropic, bringing its total potential investment to $33 billion. The latest $5 billion tranche is based on Anthropic’s $380 billion valuation, with up to $20 billion more tied to commercial milestones. In exchange, Anthropic has committed to spending over $100 billion on AWS over the next decade, with a specific focus on Trainium custom AI chips, and plans to bring nearly 1 gigawatt of Trainium2 and Trainium3 capacity online by end of the year. Anthropic cited real infrastructure strain from growing enterprise... Chapters (00:00:00) - WerDevelopers World Congress Coming to San Jose(00:02:03) - The Eagles at the Sphere in Vegas(00:05:37) - The Secret Life of the Sphere(00:07:23) - Amazon, Google Invest $40 Million in OpenAI(00:11:57) - SpaceX Buys AI Coding Startup Cursor(00:14:36) - OpenAI's Agent SDK Unveils(00:20:23) - Don't Blame AI for Layoffs(00:20:45) - Claude Opus 4.7(00:28:37) - Archera and Claude Design: Cloud Design Preview(00:31:55) - Cloudflare's First Agents Week(00:33:10) - Cloudflare Launches Artifact File System and Private Beta(00:36:58) - OpenAI's GPT 5.5 for Cloud & Enterprise Work(00:38:44) - OpenAI's ChatGPT: Workflow Agents for Enterprise(00:43:54) - AWS Interconnect now generally available for Google Cloud, Azure and(00:45:18) - Amazon Quicksight Launches Desktop With New Features(00:48:35) - Amazon CloudWatch: Auditing Telemetry Configuration across multiple regions(00:52:35) - Anthropic for AWS: S3 Files and More(00:57:58) - Amazon Bedrock Agent Core: New Features, New CLI, and(00:59:40) - Google's Dev Signal: Text to Speech AI(01:01:58) - 2018 Cloud Conference(01:03:19) - Orion Comes in Strong With Gemini 3.1 Pro(01:05:04) - AI Conference 2017: Who Won?(01:08:20) - How to Rank the AI Announcements(01:09:04) - Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform Build 1.4(01:10:09) - Torch TPU: From Inference to Scale(01:11:55) - Wiz AI Expands to AWS, Cloud and Salesforce(01:18:22) - GKE Cloud: Tier 3, BigQuery AI and More(01:21:46) - Gemini Enterprise Announcements 2017(01:22:58) - Google Cloud Agent Skill Repo(01:24:57) - Wizard & Agentic Conference 2017: A Bigger Conference than(01:29:37) - Microsoft Azure: Intelligent Tiering, and More(01:32:23) - Entre 2.0 Announcement and Governance(01:33:12) - Azure SRE Agent now supports KQL and Application Insights(01:34:19) - Azure 2.8(01:34:32) - Azure Key Vault: Migrating to the Modern HSM(01:35:36) - Cloud News: Google's AI Marathon(01:36:59) - Allbirds to Rebrand as AI Clothes(01:41:45) - What Happened to AI?(01:45:16) - Facebook Is Trying to Become an AI Company

    1 u 46 m
  2. 351: IAM the One Spending All Your AI Money

    22 APR

    351: IAM the One Spending All Your AI Money

    Welcome to episode 351 of The Cloud Pod, where the weather is always cloudy! Justin, Matt, and Ryan are in the studio today and ready to bring you the latest in cloud and AI news. And it’s that time of year again – we’re coming up quickly on Google Next, place your so we’ve got our yearly predictions for what’s coming from Vegas, as well as more news about Mythos, Amazon finally becoming a utility, and even an aftershow where we discuss the computing power of Artemis. It’s a great show, so let’s get started!  Titles we almost went with this week Three StorageClasses Walk Into an AI Workload Deprecated Models Don’t Die, They Just Fail Your API Calls SQL Walks Into a Graph Bar and Stays Too Many Agents Spoil the Workflow One Registry to Rule All Your Rogue AI Agents Eight CPUs Walk Into Space, Only One Comes Back Stop Retyping the Same Gemini Prompt Like a Caveman Claude Code Routines Let AI Work While You Sleep AWS Builds a Yellow Pages for Your AI Agents GPT Finally Stops Refusing to Talk About Hacking None of the hosts is ready for Next We are once again trying to look into our next next next crystal ball and failing Google is gonna announce AI, it’s just mandatory now Las Vegas is calling, our Livers are crying A big thanks to this week’s sponsors: There are a lot of cloud cost management tools out there, but only Archera provides insured commitments. It sounds fancy, but it’s really simple. Archera gives you the cost savings of a 1 or 3-year AWS Savings Plan with a commitment as short as 30 days. If you do not use all the cloud resources you have committed to, Archera will literally cover the difference. Other cost management tools may say they offer “insured commitments”, but remember to ask: Will you actually give me my rebate? Because Archera will.  Check out thecloudpod.net/archera to schedule a demo today.  We also wanted to tell you about something coming to the US for the first time — WeAreDevelopers World Congress!  They’ve been doing this in Europe for years, 15,000-plus attendees in Berlin, it’s one of the biggest developer events over there. Coté from Software Defined Talk is actually speaking at their Berlin event this summer, so we’ve got some firsthand context here. In September, they’re launching the North America edition. San José, September 23 to 25. 500-plus speakers, 18 tracks — cloud, infrastructure, DevOps, security, AI, data engineering, all of it. Speakers from Datadog, Honeycomb, Sentry, Google, LinkedIn, and Stack Overflow. Olivier Pomel, Christine Yen, Milin Desai, Kelsey Hightower – plus workshops and masterclasses, not just talks. These are people who know how to do a developer conference at scale. wearedevelopers.us, code DEVPOD26 for 15% off. Group rates on top of that for 4 or more. Follow Up 01:47 AI Cybersecurity After Mythos: The Jagged Frontier  Since the original Mythos/Project Glasswing announcement, AISLE published follow-up testing showing that small, inexpensive open-weight models can replicate much of the vulnerability detection work Anthropic attributed to Mythos, with all 8 tested models detecting the flagship FreeBSD NFS buffer overflow, including a 3.6B parameter model costing $0.11 per million tokens. A notable correction to the framing of the original announcement: cybersecurity AI capability does not scale smoothly with model size or cost.  Model rankings reshuffle completely across different security tasks, meaning there is no single b... Chapters (00:00:00) - We Are Developers: Coming to North America(00:01:58) - Vacation Hits the Beach While It Pours Down Rain(00:03:02) - Will Cloudfla Find Vulnerabilities?(00:08:37) - Google Next: First Predictation(00:10:47) - Gemini 2.8(00:11:30) - Gemini: Big Announcement for Dev and Enterprise(00:13:38) - Third and Final Pick: Inference-based Chips(00:14:37) - Three Things to Watch Out For From VMware(00:17:25) - Top 3 AI Announcements of 2017(00:19:09) - Gemini Robotics: Private Preview, AI Expansion(00:21:55) - 2017 Conference Keynotes: How Many Times Will They Say AI?(00:23:49) - Cloud Managed Agents(00:28:57) - Meta AI Launches Muspark Model(00:33:15) - Cloud Code: Installing Automated Workflows(00:38:00) - OpenAI Launches GPT 5.4 Cyber, a Fine(00:41:04) - Cloud Code: The New App Release(00:45:13) - Amazon Bedrock Projects: Cost Analysis by IAM User(00:48:36) - Amazon Bedrock Agent Core: Stateful MCP ((00:53:39) - Amazon's Bedrock Agent Core(00:57:25) - Amazon LEO to Power iPhone 14 and Apple Watch(01:01:44) - GMC: 3-D Models in Cloud Storage(01:05:40) - Google Cloud: Data Studio and Security(01:11:13) - Google's 'Skills' in Chrome(01:16:02) - Azure Agent Stack: More Confusing Than Google Cloud or AWS(01:18:02) - Week in the Cloud: AI, Google Cloud, and Azure(01:19:27) - NASA's Two Fault Tolerant Computer(01:25:50) - AI in Healthcare: The Challenges

    1 u 27 m
  3. 350: It looks like you're trying to send an email from 250,000 miles away! Would you like help with that?

    16 APR

    350: It looks like you're trying to send an email from 250,000 miles away! Would you like help with that?

    Welcome to episode 350 of The Cloud Pod, where the weather is always cloudy! Justin, Jonathan, and Matt are this week’s hosts, and they’ve scoured the clouds for all the latest news and announcements, including that Mythos drop. Is it the AI apocalypse that everyone is claiming? We’ve also got news from DigitalOcean, an email from Space, Claude and even some Guardrails. There’s a lot to cover, so let’s get started! Titles we almost went with this week Two AIs Walk Into a Studio and Actually Sound Good  No More Idle GPUs Twiddling Their Tensor Cores  When AWS Availability Zones Become Unavailability Zones Token by Token Codex Pricing Finally Makes Cents Just Ask AWS Where All Your Money Went You’ve Got mTLS: Amazon SES Locks Down Email Security Cost Explorer Finally Speaks Plain English Missiles Make AWS Multi-Region Strategy Mandatory Shell Yeah Your Agent State Now Persists S3 Files Finally Lets You ls Your Bucket Claude Found Your Zero-Day Before Lunch One Guardrail to Rule All Your AWS Accounts Premium SSD Wins Azure VDI but Your Wallet Cries No More Amnesia: Your Bedrock Agent Keeps Its Memories Pay Per Claw Anthropic Sharpens Its Pricing Policy Even Astronauts Need IT Support for Microsoft Outlook AWS still can’t answer the question of what EC2 Other is AWS announces several new Unavailability Zones A big thanks to this week’s sponsor: There are a lot of cloud cost management tools out there, but only Archera provides insured commitments. It sounds fancy, but it’s really simple. Archera gives you the cost savings of a 1 or 3-year AWS Savings Plan with a commitment as short as 30 days. If you do not use all the cloud resources you have committed to, Archera will literally cover the difference. Other cost management tools may say they offer “insured commitments”, but remember to ask: Will you actually give me my rebate? Because Archera will.  Check out thecloudpod.net/archera to schedule a demo today.  Follow Up 00:45 Ground control to Microsoft: Artemis 2 astronauts deal with Outlook hiccup in deep space Artemis 2 astronauts aboard NASA’s Orion spacecraft encountered a common Outlook configuration issue on their first day in space, requiring remote IT support from Mission Control to resolve it by reloading the commander’s files. NASA uses commercial off-the-shelf software like Microsoft Outlook for crew scheduling and personal communications, while keeping primary flight systems on separate radiation-hardened hardware, illustrating a practical separation of concerns in mission-critical environments. The Outlook issue stemmed from the app having configuration problems when no direct network connection is available, which the flight director noted is not uncommon, raising questions about offline-readiness for software deployed in connectivity-constrained environments. This incident is a useful reminder for cloud and enterprise software users that applications heavily dependent on network connectivity can... Chapters (00:00:00) - Episode 350(00:00:51) - NASA: Outgoing Hiccup in Deep Space(00:03:36) - Iran Declares AWS, Google and Microsoft Data Centers as Military Targ(00:07:53) - Codex Only Pricing with Pay as You Go(00:09:50) - Will Bedrock prioritize its higher-priced plans?(00:16:04) - Anthropic Expands Cloud Hardware Partnership With Google, Broadcom(00:17:42) - Anthropic's Cloud Mythos Preview Announced(00:21:51) - Amazon SES adds managed daemons to Mail Manager(00:25:35) - Bedrock Guardrails 1.8 in AWS Cost Management(00:33:20) - Amazon's EFS Proxy for S3 Files(00:35:10) - NetApp: No S3Fs for AI & ML(00:39:09) - GK Inference Gateway now supports real-time and async workload(00:40:36) - Gemini API Documentation and Coding Agents(00:43:35) - Azure Network Watcher: Firewall Comparison vs. Standard SSD(00:50:33) - DigitalOcean Launches Cloud Security PAM(00:52:28) - Week in the Cloud: September 7, 2016(00:53:41) - A Top Microsoft Engineer Reveals How Microsoft Vaporized a Tr

    1 u 2 m
  4. 349: Gmail Finally Lets You Ditch xXDragonSlayer2004Xx

    8 APR

    349: Gmail Finally Lets You Ditch xXDragonSlayer2004Xx

    Welcome to episode 349 of The Cloud Pod, where the weather is always cloudy! Justin and Jonathan managed to make it into the studio this week, and they brought a guest! Dave Garaway jas joined us, and brought some on-the-ground knowledge from GTC, plus a slew of supply chain attacks, Gmail username changes and Claude’s code debacle. We’ve got all this and more – so let’s get started!  Titles we almost went with this week AWS Console Gets a Makeover Nobody Asked For From Eight Hours to 22 Seconds, Hackers Got Fast AWS Spring Cleaning Hits Nine Services Hard Trivy Pursuit Turns Into a 500K Credential Heist Skip the Consultant, AWS Security Now Hacks Itself AWS Pen Testing Agent Pokes Your Cloud Around the Clock Your Cringey Gmail Address Gets a Second Chance Stop Babysitting Servers, Let Google Handle MCP AI Agent Untangles Your Kubernetes Networking Spaghetti One Bad Actor Poisons a Hundred Million Downloads Lambda Finally Hits the Gym with 32 GB From GPU Hype to Production Inference Without the Hyperscaler Headache Follow Up 01:28 Hegseth, Trump had no authority to order Anthropic to be blacklisted, judge says A US District Judge granted Anthropic a preliminary injunction blocking the Department of War’s blacklisting, ruling the designation was First Amendment retaliation rather than a legitimate national security action. The court found officials lacked authority to blacklist Anthropic without considering less restrictive alternatives or providing evidence of an urgent security risk, noting the designation was triggered by Anthropic’s “hostile manner through the press.” The practical business impact was already substantial before the ruling, with three trade deals cancelled and other potential partners delaying negotiations, representing potentially billions in lost contracts over five years. Anthropic continues to balance the legal fight with maintaining its government relationships, publicly emphasizing alignment with the Department of War’s mission around safe AI deployment even while litigating against it. For cloud and AI vendors, this case establishes a notable precedent around government procurement decisions and First Amendment protections, with implications for how companies publicly challenge federal contracting positions. 02:35 Jonathan – “I’m guessing Anthropic is super busy with all the people coming to them for deals right now, because it seems to me that Anthropic is getting all the business customers and OpenAI are getting the personal customers.”   04:08 Delve Announces Changes and New Customer Support Measures  Delve has responded to allegations from an anonymous Substack post by denying claims of faked evidence, clarifying that independent AICPA-accredited auditors, not Delve, issue SOC 2 reports and ISO 27001 certifications.  The company published... Chapters (00:00:07) - The Cloud Pod(00:01:37) - Anthropic Wins Preliminary Injunction Against US Blacklist(00:04:14) - Delve: We're Not Filling Their Own Audits With(00:08:03) - Nvidia's GTC 2017 Announcement(00:16:21) - Will Microsoft Fill the Kubernetes Demand?(00:24:09) - Are Data Centers Bad for the Environment?(00:24:57) - Is the Cloud in a Bubble?(00:27:07) - Gmail Lets You Change Your Username Every 12 Months(00:28:56) - Supply Chain Hackers Hit(00:32:47) - Anthropic's Cloud Code Leaks(00:36:09) - Amazon's New Console Enhancements(00:37:48) - AWS Lambda: Up to 32 GB of RAM and 16(00:40:17) - AWS Security Agents and AWS DevOps Agent(00:44:35) - Amazon Bedrock Agent Core Evaluations(00:52:55) - Edge Computing: Custom AI Agents(00:55:01) - Amazon's Reference Architecture for Building a FinOps Agent Using Amazon Bed(00:58:23) - Google's TurboQuant Compresses LLM Data to 3 Bits(01:01:08) - Google's Open Source AI playbook for sustainability reporting(01:01:51) - Azure Launches AI Agent to Troubleshoot Kuber(01:03:12) - Week in the Cloud: Nvidia GTC 2017

    1 u 4 m
  5. 348: Compliance Theater Now Available as a Subscriptions

    2 APR

    348: Compliance Theater Now Available as a Subscriptions

    Welcome to episode 348 of The Cloud Pod, where the weather is always cloudy! Justin, Ryan, and Matt are in the studio this week to bring you all the latest news in AI and Cloud, inclduing Strykers troubles, AWS’ birthday, Bedrock Agents, and Claude Code – plus so much more. Let’s get started!  Titles we almost went with this week SOC 2 It to Me Delve Fires Back  Shell Yeah Bedrock Agents Just Got Command Line Powers When Your SOC 2 Report Is Just Fan Fiction uv, Ruff, and ty Walk Into an OpenAI Acquisition Hash Field Expiration Is Here, and It’s No Redis Herring Stop Paying Full Price for Tokens You Already Bought Fake It Till You Audit It Cache Me If You Can CNCF Sandbox Edition Microsoft Learns Consent Matters in Copilot Rollout Microsoft’s Stinky Cloud Gets Federal Seal of Approval When Your Audit Trail Leads to a Blog Fight Ping Your AI Agent on Discord Like a Millennial Twenty Years of AWS and the Bill Never Stops The LLM hack that feels a lot like Node Shift Left Package issues Claude Code Auto Mode Lets AI Work Unsupervised Stop Babysitting Your AI Claude Code Goes Solo Auto Mode Gives Claude Code the Keys to the Car Java comes to the coffee shop with AI General News  01:21 Customer Updates: Stryker Network Disruption  Stryker confirmed a cyberattack on March 11, 2026, that disrupted their internal Microsoft corporate environment, affecting order processing, manufacturing, and shipping, but notably not their connected medical devices or cloud-hosted products. The attack vector was specific to Stryker’s Microsoft environment, which meant products running on AWS (Vocera Edge, Vocera Ease) and Google Cloud Platform (care.ai) were architecturally isolated and unaffected, demonstrating a practical benefit of multi-cloud separation. Stryker explicitly stated this was not ransomware or malware, and government agencies, including CISA, FBI, and the White House National Cyber Director, were engaged, with domain seizures linked to threat actors already executed. The incident highlights how healthcare organizations can architect medical device and cloud product infrastructure to be independent of corporate IT environments, as every product from Mako to SurgiCount to LIFEPAK operated normally due to network segmentation. Real-world patient impact was limited but present, with some personalized implant cases rescheduled due to shipping delays, underscoring that even contained corporate IT incidents can have downstream effects on physical supply chains. 02:30 Justin – “HugOps to the entire Stryker team; I couldn’t imagine having to rebuild my entire Windows estate at a company the size of Stryker in the middle of trying to do business and everything else.”  05:00 Chapters (00:00:00) - Episode 348(00:01:31) - Stryker Attack: How to Survive an Attack(00:05:09) - Critics: Microsoft Cloud Was a Pile of SHIT(00:06:50) - Dell Says Delve is a Fraudster and Should Be Removed(00:14:12) - Dell vs Delve: The Smear(00:18:50) - Light LLM: Supply Chain Attack(00:23:04) - Kubernetes: Open sourcing the GKE Cluster Autos(00:25:59) - Kubecon 2018: Azure Kubernetes Networking(00:27:48) - Snowflake Announces Project Snow AI Platform(00:29:36) - Codex to Acquire Astral(00:32:15) - Cloud Code 2.8: Connect to Telegram and Discord(00:34:54) - Cloud Cowork Launches Computer Use Capabilities(00:37:46) - OpenClaw: Auto-Mode for Cloud Code & Research(00:40:31) - Amazon Bedrock Agent Core: Invoke Agent Runtime with a Shell(00:42:03) - Amazon EC2 Scanning with Chain Guard(00:46:03) - AWS Turns 20 Years Old(00:47:36) - AWS MCP Server in Preview: CloudWatch 2.8(00:48:52) - GCP Cloud SQL Read Pools: Auto-Scaling(00:51:17) - How to Design with AI in 2020(00:53:48) - Microsoft at GTC 2017: Nvidia and Azure(00:56:34) - Microsoft Temporarily Halt Copilot App Deployment(00:58:12) - Microsoft's SQL Server Management Plan at SQLCon 2026(01:03:36) - Azure Skills Plugin: What's Included?(01:05:51) - Microsoft's Azure DevOps Remote MCP Server(01:07:56) - Java 26: AI Integration, More(01:09:01) - Oracle Announces AI-in-The-(01:10:19) - This Week in Cloud: AI News

    1 u 11 m
  6. 347: The CloudPod is Only Recording this Week “Because of AI”

    26 MRT

    347: The CloudPod is Only Recording this Week “Because of AI”

    Welcome to episode 347 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Jonathan, and Ryan are in the studio recording today, and thankfully, Jonathan hasn’t replaced us all with Skynet – yet. This week, we’re discussing how old our tools (and us) are (hint: it’s really old), whether or not the SaasApocalypse is upon us, and whether or not the business or AI is responsible for the latest round of layoffs.  Titles we almost went with this week S3 Bucket Names Finally Stop Being a Global Hunger Games One Million Tokens Walk Into a Context Window SLO Down and Smell the Reliability Metrics CloudWatch Finally Watches Your Whole Cloud Organization S3 Turns 20 and Still Buckets the Competition Azure SRE Agent Goes GA So You Don’t Have To Twenty Years of S3 and No Signs of Object Permanence One Rule to Monitor Them All Across AWS One Flag to Secure Them All on Cloud Run SaaSpocalypse Now Atlassian Layoffs Hit the Jira No More Bucket Name Bingo with S3 Regional Namespaces A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Claude Tokens One Command to Rule Your Autonomous AI Agents AI Fixes Your Incidents Before Your Boss Notices The CloudPod is only recording this week “Because of AI” Amazon begs users to leave Simple DB with another migration tool Follow Up 00:54 Microsoft’s brief in Anthropic case shows new alliance and willingness to challenge Trump administration Microsoft filed an amicus brief in Anthropic’s lawsuit against the U.S. Department of War, urging a federal judge to temporarily block the Pentagon’s designation of Anthropic as a supply chain risk, citing substantial costs to government contractors that rely on Anthropic models. The brief arrived one day after Microsoft launched Copilot Cowork, built on Anthropic’s Claude, and four months after Microsoft committed up to $5 billion in Anthropic as part of a deal requiring Anthropic to spend at least $30 billion on Azure, making the legal filing directly tied to concrete commercial dependencies. Microsoft highlighted a procedural inconsistency in the government’s approach: the Pentagon gave itself six months to transition off Anthropic’s models while making the supply chain designation effective immediately for contractors, creating an unequal compliance burden. Amazon, which has invested $8 billion in Anthropic, has not publicly responded to the lawsuit or the designation, creating a notable contrast in how two major cloud providers with similar financial exposure are handling the situation. OpenAI announced its own Pentagon deal on the same day the Anthropic designation was issued, and Chapters (00:00:00) - The Cloud Pod(00:00:54) - Podcasters: 17 Hours Long(00:01:09) - Microsoft's Amicus Brief in Anthropic Lawsuit(00:06:19) - Claude Launches In-App Visualization Feature(00:08:41) - Databricks Launches GENIE Code as a General Available Product(00:11:09) - 1. Million Context Window(00:17:31) - Code: Auto-Compaction(00:19:20) - GPT 5.4 Mini and Nano: Smaller Models for(00:22:19) - Amazon S3: 20 Years of Computing(00:24:56) - AWS S3: Regional Namespaces for General Purpose Bools(00:27:30) - Amazon CloudWatch(00:28:58) - Amazon SimpleDB now supports exporting domain data directly to S3(00:31:14) - Amazon CloudWatch: EC2: Detailed Monitoring Enablement(00:32:35) - Google Cloud's Sensitive Data Protection(00:35:57) - Google Completing Acquisition of Wiz Cloud Security Platform(00:40:24) - Google Cloud's Kubernetes Inference Gateway(00:45:40) - Azure S3 Agent(00:50:00) - Azure's Cloud Migration Agent and GitHub Copilot modernization agent(00:53:45) - Microsoft Merges Copilot into a Unified Organization(00:56:17) - Copilot: What's Next for the Service?(00:57:56) - Week in the Cloud: Microsoft(00:58:36) - Amazon AI Voice Service misconfiguration in Spanish

    1 u 3 m
  7. 346: Zuckerberg Finally Finds His People, They Are All AI Agents

    19 MRT

    346: Zuckerberg Finally Finds His People, They Are All AI Agents

    Welcome to episode 346 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Hold on to your butts, because Justin, Ryan, and Matt are in the studio today, and they’re ready to bring you all the latest in Cloud and AI news, including the usual: Meta buying social networks, Amazon responding to outages, and OpenAI giving up another version of GPT. Let’s get into it!  Titles we almost went with this week ✍️ Cloudflare Spent $1100 to Rewrite Next.js in a Week One Pipe to Rule All Your OpenTelemetry Data ☑️ Check Yourself Before Google Wrecks Your Cloud Config Copilot Takes Jira Tickets So You Don't Have To ‍✈️ GitHub Copilot Agent Joins Your Jira Workflow Uninvited When AI Agents Network, Meta Swipes Right on Moltbook ️ Sixty Controls Walk Into a Terraform Repository One Security Console to Rule All Your Clouds AI Ate My Lock-In, and I Feel Fine ⛅ Oracle Sees $90 Billion Future Cloudy With a Chance of GPUs Your API Has Trust Issues, and We Can Prove It Stop Running Three Pipelines Like a Telemetry Hoarder From Database Dinosaur to AI Cash Cow ☠️ Meta: Target acquired; must kill Moltbook Meta saw Moltbook and said, “WE MUST OWN IT AND KILL.” Follow Up 00:51 Where things stand with the Department of War  Anthropic has been designated a supply chain risk to US national security by the Department of War, a designation the company is challenging in court as legally unsound under 10 USC 3252. The practical scope of the designation is narrow, applying only to the use of Claude in direct Department of War contracts, not to all customers that hold such contracts or to unrelated business with Anthropic. Anthropic has stated that it will continue to provide its models to the Department of War and the national security community at nominal cost, with ongoing engineering support, during any transition period and for as long as permitted. The company's two stated exceptions to military use involve fully autonomous weapons and mass domestic surveillance, and Anthropic has clarified these do not extend to operational decision-making, which it considers the military's domain. For cloud and enterprise customers, the key takeaway is that existing Claude deployments unrelated to Department of War contracts remain unaffected, though the legal dispute introduces uncertainty into federal procurement pipelines involving AI services. We will keep you updated on this in 12-18 months… AI Is Going Great - Or How ML Makes Money  01:21 Introducing GPT-5.4 OpenAI released GPT-5.4 across ChatGPT, the API, and Codex, positioning it as their most capable reasoning model to date. It merges the coding strengths of GPT-5.3-Codex with general reasoning, professional knowledge work, and native computer-use capabilities in a single model. The computer-use capabilities are a notable technical step, with GPT-5.4 achieving a 75% success rate on OSWorld-Verified desktop navigation, surpassing the reported human benchmark of 72.4% and... Chapters (00:00:00) - Week 2: Iran War and More(00:01:26) - OpenAI GPT 5.4 Injection Into Chat(00:04:26) - OpenAI ChatGpt for Excel 5.4(00:06:07) - Carl(00:08:39) - Shift Left: OpenAI's Codec Security in Research Preview(00:12:16) - OpenAI Expands Into AI Security With PromptFu Acquisition(00:14:46) - Code Review: Databricks Launches Cazale, an(00:21:38) - Meta Superintelligence Labs Buys AI Agent Social Network(00:25:12) - Cloudflare's Complete Re-write of Next JS(00:31:00) - Cloudflare Launches OAuth Vulnerability Scanner(00:33:30) - Amazon's AI-Caused Outages(00:37:37) - Amazon OpenSearch and Neptune Analytics: 35% DB Savings Plan(00:39:24) - Amazon Bedrock(00:41:36) - Amazon Connect Health: A HIPAA-Eligible AI Agent(00:46:45) - Amazon EC2: Copilot CLI to End(00:49:18) - Amazon Route 53 Global Resolver Now Available(00:51:33) - Amazon ECS: Automating GitHub Actions to Container Deployment(00:53:59) - Google Cloud Security Checklist(00:56:00) - Google's Autonomous Data Steward for Telecoms(00:57:14) - Google Notebook LM now goes after YouTubers(00:59:05) - Google's first natively multimodal embedding model(01:01:07) - Google's Gemini in Docs, Sheets, and Drive(01:03:08) - Postgres as a managed serverless database with Azure(01:04:48) - Microsoft 365 Copilot to Integrate with Cowork(01:10:02) - OCI Cost Anomaly Detection(01:10:59) - Oracle Announces Q3 Earnings(01:12:53) - Week in Cloud: The Cloud and AI(01:13:32) - Xbox One: Project Helix(01:17:55) - Xbox One vs. Playstation 4

    1 u 19 m
  8. 345: Damn It… my excuse is now gone for Disaster Recovery

    12 MRT

    345: Damn It… my excuse is now gone for Disaster Recovery

    Welcome to episode 345 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Ryan, and Matt are in the studio this week and are ready to bring you all the latest in cloud and AI news, including what’s going on between Anthropic, the DOD, and OpenAI, what the war means for Middle East data centers (Spoiler – I hope you have a good Disaster Recovery plan), and Transit Gateway pricing changes that are enough to make a grown man cry. And don’t bother waiting: Matt has completely forgotten almost two years of “bye everybody” and now claims full amnesia as to what his outtro is. Oh well. Let’s get into today’s show.  Titles we almost went with this week Claude Learned to Use a Computer Better Than Your Dad **OpenAI Amazon and OpenAI’s $138 Billion AI Bromance When Two AZs Go Dark the Cloud Gets Crispy Fifty Billion Reasons AWS Loves OpenAI Now **Anthropic Azure Still Wins Even When AWS Thinks It Did Fire, Water, and a Multi-AZ Assumption Goes Up in Smoke Claude Refuses to Go Full Skynet for the Pentagon GPT-5.3 Instant Finally Stops Lecturing You No Killer Robots Without Human Approval Please Terraform Finally Sees Your Forgotten Cloud Resources Stage Before You Rage Deploy Azure Firewall CrowdStrike to Zscaler AWS Wants Your Security Tab One Hub to Rule Your API Sprawl Transit Gateway Attachments Just Got Surprisingly Expensive Azure Container Registry Finally Has Room for Your AI Hoarding Bedrock Gets a Roommate OpenAI Moves In Azure Firewall Gets a Safety on the Trigger Stop Writing Scripts, Just Import the Dang Infrastructure Audit Your APIs Before March 2026 Bites You Damn it… my excuse not to DR is gone I’m Epically Furious about DR AI Is Going Great – Or How ML Makes Money  03:34 Anthropic acquires Vercept to advance Claude’s computer use capabilities  Anthropic acquired Vercept, a team specializing in AI perception and interaction, to strengthen Claude’s computer use capabilities.  The Vercept founders, including Ross Girshick, bring deep expertise in how AI systems visually interpret and interact with software interfaces. Claude Sonnet 4.6 shows substantial improvement in computer use benchmarks, jumping from under 15% on the OSWorld evaluation in late 2024 to 72.5% today.  The model is now approaching human-level performance on tasks like navigating spreadsheets and completing multi-tab web forms. Computer use enables Claude to operate inside live applications the way a human would, handling multi-step workflows across tools that cannot be automated through code alone.  This is relevant for enterprise use cases involving document processing, browser-based workflows, and cross-application task management. This is Anthropic’s second acquisition in a short period, following the purchase of Bun, which was tied to the Claude Code milestone. The pattern suggests Anthropic is actively acquiring specialized engineering teams rather than just technology assets. For developers and businesses building agentic workflows on Claude, the improved computer use performance means more reliable automation of complex, real-world software tasks without requiring custom integrations or APIs for every application involved. 05:18 Justin – “It seems like every day I have to upda... Chapters (00:00:00) - Foreign, Where the forecast is always cloudy(00:01:04) - Let's Talk Cloud(00:01:37) - Anthropic Expands Cloud's Computer Use Capabilities(00:07:17) - How to Write a Review in AI-Native(00:10:07) - Alexis Skill Creator Update & Cloud Agent(00:12:18) - Anthropic Banished from Supporting the Military(00:18:49) - Google AI's Gemini 3.1 & Nanobana(00:20:07) - Chat GPT 5.3: More Alikes, Less Dist(00:24:08) - Comments on the AI News(00:24:58) - Amazon AWS: Drone Strike in the Middle East Affects Infrastructure(00:30:52) - Azure vs. Google: The Distributed Data Center(00:34:06) - OpenAI Expands Cloud Deal to $100 Million(00:39:51) - Amazon Security Hub Extended: Full Stack Enterprise Security with Curated Partner(00:41:57) - Amazon's Encryption Controls: Starting Soon(00:44:17) - Amazon Cloud: Natural Language to Cedar Compliance(00:47:13) - API Specs: Combat Specs Sprawl(00:48:39) - Google Cloud's Polyglot Storage approach for Chatbot(00:52:53) - Matt's Azure Quotation(00:53:21) - Azure Monitor Pipeline: New Public Preview(00:55:30) - Microsoft Azure Local Disconnected and Large Model Support(00:58:39) - Azure Functions for Linux: Best Practices for Self-signed Cert(01:00:54) - Microsoft Azure Confidential VMs: Learning the Names(01:04:44) - Azure firewall policy: Two-Phase Draft and Deploy(01:05:51) - Azure container registry: 100 terabytes of storage(01:09:00) - Azure 2.8 Resource Limits(01:09:52) - This Week in the Cloud: OpenAI and the Trump Administration

    1 u 11 m
Bekijk alles (279)

Info

The Cloud Pod delivers weekly cloud computing and AI news for engineers, architects, and technology leaders. Join Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas, and Matt Kohn as they break down the latest from AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud — covering new services, platform updates, FinOps strategies, and the AI innovations reshaping the industry. Stay ahead of the cloud landscape with one of the longest-running cloud computing podcasts available.

Informatie

Suggesties voor jou