The Cloud Pod

Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas and Matt Kohn
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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.

  1. 12/24/2025

    335: EKS Network Policies: Now With More Layers Than Your Security Team's Org Chart

    Welcome to episode 335 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! This pre-Christmas week, Ryan and Justin have hit the studio to bring you the final show of 2025. We’ve got lots of AI images, EKS Network Policies, Gemini 3, and even some Disney drama.  Let’s get into it!  Titles we almost went with this week From Roomba to Tomb-ba: How the Robot Vacuum Pioneer Got Cleaned Out **OpenAI From Napkin Sketch to Production: Google’s App Design Center Goes GA Terraform Gets a Canvas: Google Paints Infrastructure Design with AI Mickey Mouse Takes Off the Gloves: Disney vs Google AI Showdown From Data Silos to Data Solos: Google Conducts the Integration Orchestra No More Thread Dread: AWS Brings AI to JVM Performance Troubleshooting MCP: More Corporate Plumbing Than You Think GPT-5.2 Beats Humans at Work Tasks, Still Can’t Get You Out of Monday Meetings Kerberos More Like Kerbero-Less: Microsoft Axes Ancient Encryption Standard OpenAI Teaches GPT-5.2 to PowerPoint: Death by Bullet Points Now AI-Generated MCP: Like USB-C, But Everyone’s Keeping Theirs in the Drawer Flash Gordon: Google’s Gemini 3 Gets a Speed Boost Without the Sacrifice Tag, You’re It: AWS Finally Knows Who to Bill Snowflake Gets a GPT-5.2 Upgrade: Now With More Intelligence Per Query OpenAI and Snowflake: Making Data Warehouses Smarter Than Your Average Analyst GPT-5.2 Moves Into the Snowflake: No Melting Required AI Is Going Great, or How ML Makes Money  01:06 Meta’s multibillion-dollar AI strategy overhaul creates culture clash: Meta is developing Avocado, a new frontier AI model codenamed to succeed Llama, now expected to launch in Q1 2026 after internal delays related to training performance testing.  The model may be proprietary rather than open source, marking a significant shift from Meta’s previous strategy of freely distributing Llama’s weights and architecture to developers. We feel like this is an interesting choice for Meta, but what do we know?  Meta spent 14.3 billion dollars in June 2025 to hire Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang as Chief AI Officer and acquire a stake in Scale, while raising 2026 capital expenditure guidance to 70-72 billion dollars.  Wang now leads the elite TBD Lab developing Avocado, operating separately from traditional Meta teams and not using the company’s internal workplace network. The company has restructured its AI leadership following the poor reception of Llama 4 in April, with Chief Product Officer Chris Cox no longer overseeing the GenAI unit.  Meta cut 600 jobs in Meta Superintelligence Labs in October, contributing to the departure of Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun to launch a startup, while implementing 70-hour workweeks across AI organizations. Meta’s new AI leadership under Wang and former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman has introduced a “demo, don’t memo” development approach, replacing traditional multi-step approval processes with rapid prototyping using AI agents and newer tools.  The company is also leveraging third-party cloud services from CoreWeave and Oracle while buil... Chapters (00:00:00) - A Year in Cloud(00:01:21) - Meta Developing New Frontier AI Model(00:03:15) - Disney Sues Google AI for Copyright Infringement(00:04:59) - OpenAI to License Disney's 'Sora' Characters(00:07:13) - OpenAI GPT Image 1.5 and 1.6(00:08:41) - ChatGPT 5.2 Release(00:10:45) - Cedar Open-Sourcing and CNCF(00:12:38) - AWS GuardDuty Extended Threat Detection(00:15:51) - Amazon EKS: Admin Network Policies and Application Network Policies for Ku(00:18:43) - Amazon Web Services: Thread dump analysis solution(00:22:16) - Amazon EC2: Automatic Cost Allocation based on User Attributes(00:25:47) - GCP's Gemini 3 Flash for Enterprises(00:27:19) - Google's MCP Server Integration into Anti Gravity(00:30:59) - Google's Application Design Center (GAA) Now General Availability(00:33:12) - Microsoft to deprecate RC4 Authentication by default(00:35:50) - Azure Storage: 50 Terabit Bucket Support(00:38:23) - Microsoft Expands Azure's Network for AI and Disaster Recovery(00:42:14) - This Week in Cloud: Looking Back & Looking Forward(00:43:29) - IRobot's bankruptcy throws a cloud spotlight(00:49:27) - RIP iRobot: Ben Kehoe(00:50:35) - Christmas wishes for everyone

    51 min

  2. 12/19/2025

    334: AWS Makes Kubernetes Conversational

    Welcome to episode 334 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! This week, we’re bringing you a jam-packed recap of re:Invent! We’ve got all the news, from keynotes to announcements. Whether you were there live or catching up on all the news, Justin, Matt, and Ryan are here to break it all down. Let’s get started!  Titles we almost went with this week EKS Gets Chatty: Natural Language Replaces Command Line Nightmares Harvest Now, Decrypt Later: Why Your RSA Keys Need a Quantum Makeover Before 2026 NAT So Fast: AWS Helps You Find Gateways Doing Absolutely Nothing AWS Finally Admits You Have Too Many Log Buckets AWS Finally Lets You Log In Like a Normal Human Lambda Gets a Memory: Checkpoint Your Way to Multi-Step Workflows Step Functions at Home: Lambda Durable Functions Let You Write Workflows in Actual Code No More Bucket List: S3 Public Access Gets Organization-Wide Lockdown AWS Hits Ctrl-Z on CodeCommit Deprecation AWS Puts a Cap on CloudFront: Unlimited Traffic, Limited Anxiety AWS Tells SQL Server to Take a Thread Off: Optimize CPU Cuts Costs by 55% Amazon Bedrock Gets a Bouncer: AgentCore Identity Checks IDs at the Door AI Brings on the Developer Renaissance Follow Up  01:27 re:Invent  Matt Garman- 14th Reinvent, which is weird, since we’ve been doing cloud stuff for 87 years… Warner – Open Mind for a different View and nothing else matters T-shirt. 02:59 re:Invent predictions Jonathan Serverless GPU support (extension in Lambda or a different service), it’s about time we have a serverless GPU/Inference capability. It is talked about in the keynote with DeSantis. AI Agent with a goal/instructions that can run when they need to, periodically, or always, and perform an action (Agentic Platform that runs agents) –  Garman – Bedrock AgentCore and Kiro Autonomous Agent Werner will announce this is his last keynote and he will retire He retired from re:Invent Presentations Ryan New Tranium 3 chips, Inferentia, and Graviton chips Garman – announced Tranium 3 Ultraservers. They brought the Rack Ryan Expand the number of models in or via bedrock Doubled the number of models and announced Gemma, Minimax M2, Nvidia Nemotron, Mistral Large, and Mistral 3 Refresh to AWS Organizations Justin New Nova Model & Sonic with Multi-modal Garman Nova 2 – Lite, Pro, and Sonic (the lack of Sonic the Hedgehog/Sega reference is a shame) Nova 2 Omni Announce a partnership with OpenAI (likely on stage) Not announced as new, but said they’re running on AWS and that EC2 Ultraservers are in use.  Advanced Agentic AI Capabilities for Security Hub (Automate the SOC teams) Garman – Advanced Agentic AI Capabilities for Security Hub – with NEW AWS Security Agent Matt A model router to route LLM queries to different AI models Well-architected framework expansion  End user Authentication that doesn’t suck (not current Cognito) Tie Breaker – How many times w... Chapters (00:00:00) - AWS + GCP: Kubectl Goodbye(00:01:31) - Reinvent Prediction: Who Won The PC World Awards(00:02:28) - AWS 10.2: Serverless and AI Agents(00:03:35) - Amazon Keynotes: Ryan Will Retire From Speaking(00:07:15) - AWS Security Hub: Advanced Agentic AI capabilities(00:08:06) - Treat Time: The AI Conference(00:11:04) - Matt Garmin's Conference Keynote(00:13:49) - Amazon Cloud Conference 2018: Highlights and Disclosures(00:19:05) - Swami's Keynote(00:20:33) - Peter Desantis at Reinvent:(00:21:55) - Peter Desantis's keynote(00:24:36) - Bedrock Reinforcement Learning Keynotes(00:29:23) - EC2 and Lambda: Computing with AWS, AI factories(00:30:43) - AWS Lambda Managed Instances(00:33:32) - AWS Lambda: Durable Functions Invite(00:37:37) - Amazon's Step Functions vs. AWS Lambda(00:40:40) - ECS x Kubernetes, NAT & More(00:47:16) - AWS: VPC Encryption Control (Nitro)(00:49:38) - AWS Network Firewall Proxy(00:50:58) - AWS S3: New Block Public Access Controls and More(00:54:19) - Amazon FSX for NetApp ONTAP Adds S3(00:55:56) - Database Enhancements in 2017(00:56:35) - AWS Adds Four New Features to SQL Server & Oracle RDS(00:57:30) - AWS Database Savings Plan Announcement(00:59:28) - RDS 10.2: SQL Server Resource Governor(01:00:41) - WAF and Security Identity(01:01:36) - Guardduty: Extended Threat Detection for Amazon EC2 & ECS(01:03:45) - AWS Security Agent: Automated Application Security Reviews, Code Scan(01:06:14) - Amazon IAM Policy Autopilot Release(01:08:36) - AWS data exports in the Focus 1.2 format and then(01:09:36) - AWS Compute Optimizer: Cost Efficiency and Cost Optimization(01:12:58) - Amazon Rescues CodeCommun from the AWS Cloud(01:17:10) - CloudWatch: Governance, Control Tower, and More(01:18:24) - AWS: AMI Ancestry(01:20:58) - Amazon Support Plans Reshuffled(01:25:29) - Amazon Cloud: Announcements #271

    1h 28m

  3. 12/10/2025

    333: The Cloud Pod Goes Nano Banana

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

    1h 3m

  4. 11/28/2025

    332: 2025 Re:Invent Predictions Draft – May The Odds Be Ever In Your Favor

    Welcome to episode 332 of The Cloud Pod – where the forecast is always cloudy! It’s Thanksgiving week, which can only mean one thing: AWS Re:Invent predictions! In this special episode, Justin, Jonathan, Ryan, and Matt engage in the annual tradition of drafting their best guesses for what AWS will announce at the biggest cloud conference of the year. Justin is the reigning champion (probably because he actually reads the show notes), but with a reverse snake draft order determined by dice roll, anything could happen. Will Werner announce his retirement? Is Cognito finally getting a much-needed overhaul? And just how many times will “AI” be uttered on stage? Grab your turkey and let’s get predicting! Titles we almost went with this week: Roll For Initiative: The Re:Invent Prediction Draft Justin’s Winning Streak: A Study in Actually Doing Your Homework Serverless GPUs and Broken Dreams: Our Re:Invent Wishlist Shooting in the Dark: AWS Predictions Edition We’re Never Good at This, But Here We Go Again Vegas Odds: What Happens at Re:Invent, Gets Predicted Wrong AWS Re:Invent Predictions 2025 The annual prediction draft is here! Draft order was determined by dice roll: Jonathan first, followed by Ryan, Justin, and Matt in last position. As always, it’s a reverse order format, with points awarded for each correct prediction announced during the Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday keynotes. Jonathan’s Predictions Serverless GPU Support – An extension to Lambda or a different service that provides on-demand serverless GPU/inference capability. Likely with requirements for pre-warmed provisioned instances. Agentic Platform for Continuous AI Agents – A service that allows agents to run continuously with goals or instructions, performing actions periodically or on-demand in the real world. Think: running agents on a schedule that can check conditions and take automated actions. Werner Vogels Retirement Announcement – Werner will announce that this is his last Re:Invent keynote and that he is retiring. Ryan’s Predictions New Trainium 3 Chips, Inferentia, and Graviton Chips – New generation of AWS custom silicon across training, inference, and general compute. Expanded Model Availability in Bedrock – AWS will significantly expand the number of models available in Bedrock, potentially via partnerships or integrations with additional providers. Major Refresh to AWS Organizations – UI-based or functionality refresh providing better visibility into SCPs, OU mappings, and stack sets across organizations. Chapters (00:00:02) - Episode 332: Reinvent Predictions For(00:01:26) - Reinvent: The Contest(00:03:35) - How to Predict the AI Announcement(00:04:23) - Serverless GPUs: First Step(00:05:58) - SageMaker vs. Amazon: The Fight(00:09:56) - What is the Future of AI Agents?(00:11:03) - Facebook is an Agent Platform, but...(00:11:38) - AWS: Bedrock Expansion & OpenAI Partnership(00:15:09) - Top Tech Speakers: ML, AI and the Warner Key(00:16:15) - Third and Final Prediction(00:17:15) - WSJDLive: Future of AWS IT refresh(00:18:18) - 3 of the Best Security Hub Features(00:19:22) - AWS: Cognito 2.0 or Agentic Identities?(00:21:27) - Tiebreaker: How Many Times Will AI Be Said?(00:23:28) - What to Do to Reinvent Yourself at Reinvent 2012(00:24:00) - Amazon's AI Wish List(00:29:50) - A Taste of Re Invent 2018

    31 min

  5. 11/27/2025

    331: Claude Gets a $30 Billion Azure Wardrobe and Two New Best Friends

    Welcome to episode 331 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Jonathan, Ryan, Matt, and Justin (for a little bit, anyway) are in the studio today to bring you all the latest in cloud and AI news. This week, we’re looking at our Ignite predictions (that side gig as internet psychics isn’t looking too good) undersea cables (our fave!), plus datacenters and more. Plus Claude and Azure make a 30 billion dollar deal! Take a break from turkey and avoiding politics, and let’s take a trip into the clouds!    Titles we almost went with this week GPT-5.1 Gets a Shell Tool Because Apparently We Haven’t Learned Anything From Sci-Fi Movies The Great Ingress Egress: NGINX Controller Waves Goodbye After Years of Volunteer Burnout Queue the Applause: Lambda SQS Mapping Gets a Serious Speed Boost SELECT * FROM future WHERE SQL meets AI without the prompt drama MFA or GTFO: Microsoft’s 99.6% Phishing-Resistant Authentication Achievement JWT Another Thing ALB Can Do: OAuth Validation Moves to the Load Balancer Google’s Emerging Threats Center: Because Manually Checking 12 Months of Logs Sounds Terrible EventBridge Gets a Drag-and-Drop Makeover: No More Schema Drama Permission Denied: How Granting Access Took Down the Internet Follow Up  00:51 Ignite Predictions – The Results  Matt (Who is in charge of sound effects, so be aware)  ACM Competitor – True SSL competitive product AI announcement in Security AI Agent (Copilot for Sentinel) – sort of (½)  Azure DevOps Announcement Justin New Cobalt and Mai Gen 2 or similar – Check Price Reduction on OpenAI & Significant Prompt Caching  Microsoft Foundational LLM to compete with OpenAI –  Jonathan The general availability of new, smaller, and more power-efficient Azure Local hardware form factors Declarative AI on Fabric: This represents a move towards a declarative model, where users state the desired outcome, and the AI agent system determines the steps needed to achieve it within the Fabric ecosystem. Advanced Cost Management: Granular dashboards to track the token and compute consumption per agent or per transaction, enabling businesses to forecast costs and set budgets for their agent workforce. How many times will they say Copilot: The word “Copilot” is mentioned 46 to 71 times in the video. Jonathan 45 Justin: 35 Matt: 40 General News 05:13 Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 Cloudflare experienced its worst outage since 2019 on November 18, 2025, lasting approximately three hours and affecting core traffic routing across its entire network.  The incident was triggered by a database permissions change that caused a Bot Management feature file to double in size, exceeding hardcoded limits in their proxy software and causing system panics that resulted in 5xx errors for customers. The root cause reveals a cascading failure pattern, where a ClickHouse database query began returning duplicate column metadata after permission changes.  This resulted in a significant i... Chapters (00:00:00) - The Cloud Pod(00:01:04) - Matchbox: Microsoft's AI Announcement(00:05:04) - Cloudflare's Worst Outage Since 2019(00:07:32) - GPT 5.1 Release(00:11:21) - ChatGPT Launches Group Chat(00:14:53) - Microsoft Teams: Working in Teams with Copilot(00:16:16) - Gemini 3.0 Pro Launch at Google AI Conference(00:18:51) - Microsoft, Nvidia to Develop Cloud Models for Anthropic(00:22:45) - Ingress NGINX Controller to Be Retired(00:25:05) - Cloudflare Expands AI into the Edge with a Replicate(00:29:31) - AWS Lambda: Provisioned Mode for SQS(00:32:31) - Amazon EventBridge Expands Schema Aware with New Rule Builder(00:34:37) - Application Load Balancers support JWT Token Verification(00:37:51) - How Protective Reroute Improves Network Resilience(00:40:26) - Google Security Operations Launches Emerging Threat Center(00:46:48) - Google to Invest $7 Million in Subsea Cable Networks(00:50:17) - Microsoft's Azure AI SuperFactory(00:53:43) - Azure DB for Postgres Announces Private Preview(00:57:04) - Microsoft Defender for Cloud Integrates with GitHub Advanced Security(01:00:09) - Azure introduces Smart Tiering for Blob Storage(01:06:29) - How to lay a fiber cable in your house(01:10:02) - Microsoft's AI Agent Development Announcement(01:16:21) - How to Manage Ideas in the AI World(01:22:18) - The Project Narrative in the Machine Learning Code(01:23:38) - Week in Cloud: The Cloud Pod

    1h 24m

  6. 11/21/2025

    330: AWS Proves the Internet Really Is a Series of Tubes Under the Ocean

    Welcome to episode 329 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy (and if you’re in California, rainy too!) Justin and Matt have taken a break from Ark building activities to bring you this week’s episode, packed with all the latest in cloud and AI news, including undersea cables (our favorite!) FinOps, Ignite predictions, and so much more! Grab your umbrellas and let’s get started!  Titles we almost went with this week Fastnet and Furious: AWS Lays 320 Terabits of Cable Across the Atlantic No More kubectl apply –pray: AWS Backup Takes the Stress Out of EKS Recovery AWS Gets Swift with Lambda: No Taylor Version Required Breaking Up Is Hard to Do: Microsoft Splits Teams from Office FinOps and Behold: Google Automates Your Cloud Budget Nightmares AMD Turin Around GCP’s Price-Performance with N4D VMs Azure Gets Territorial: Your Data Stays Put Whether It Likes It or Not AWS Finally Answers “Is It Available in My Region?” Before You Build It  Getting to the Bare Metal of Things: Google’s Axion Goes Commando Azure Ultra Disk Gets Ultra Serious About Latency Container Size Matters: Azure Expands ACI to 240 GB Memory  Google Containerises Chaos: Agent Sandbox Keeps Your AI from Going Rogue AWS Prints Money While Amazon Prints Pink Slips: Q3 Earnings Beat Follow Up  02:08 Microsoft sidesteps hefty EU fine with Teams unbundling deal Microsoft avoids a potentially substantial EU antitrust fine by agreeing to unbundle Teams from the Office 365 and Microsoft 365 suites for a period of seven years.  The settlement follows a 2023 complaint from Salesforce-owned Slack alleging anticompetitive bundling practices that harmed rival collaboration tools. The commitments require Microsoft to offer Office and Chapters (00:00:00) - The Cloud Pod: When You Can't Even Sit Down(00:01:37) - Nice Job Last Week With Jonathan and Elise(00:02:03) - Microsoft Settles Competition Lawsuit Over Teams(00:04:47) - Amazon, Google Cloud Deliver Record Earnings(00:08:13) - Microsoft Q1 Fiscal 2026 Earnings(00:09:06) - Azure Q4 Update, Microsoft(00:09:45) - Azure Front Door Incident Follow Up(00:13:53) - Azure Conference Prediction(00:14:52) - Microsoft Ignite 2017: What Do You Want From SSL?(00:16:28) - Microsoft's Next-Gen AI Accelerator(00:17:32) - Top Tech News: Apple's AI Announcement(00:19:12) - Microsoft's Azure DevOps Announcement, and More(00:20:59) - How Many Times Will They Say Co-Pilot in This Present(00:21:54) - Microsoft, Chat AI, and More(00:26:12) - IBM Cloud Ability Governance and Kubecast 3.0(00:28:06) - Amazon Rolls Out New Fastnet Cable(00:29:32) - AWS Cloud Planning Tool: Capabilities by Region(00:34:04) - Kubernetes: Agent Sandbox for AI(00:35:52) - Google's Ironwood TPU and Axion VM(00:37:38) - Google Cloud: FinOps Tooling in the Future(00:39:10) - Azure 3.8: Continuous Delivery & Cost Management(00:42:29) - Will the MCP help with deployment?(00:44:20) - Microsoft UltraDisk Gets Performance and Cost Update(00:46:46) - Azure Container Instances now supports 31 VCPUs and 240(00:48:04) - Azure 10.2: Geo Priority Replication(00:49:22) - Cloud Podcast: Predicting the Keynote

    50 min
  7. 329: Azure Front Door: Please Use the Side Entrance

    11/12/2025

    329: Azure Front Door: Please Use the Side Entrance

    Welcome to episode 329 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Jonathan, and special guest Elise are in the studio to bring you all the latest in AI and cloud news, including – you guessed it – more outages, and more OpenAI team-ups. We’ve also got GPUs, K8 news, and Cursor updates. Let’s get started!  Titles we almost went with this week Azure Front Door: Please Use the Side Entrance – el -jb Azure and NVIDIA: A Match Made in GPU Heaven – mk Azure Goes Down Under the Weight of Its Own Configuration – el GitHub Turns Your Copilot Subscription Into an All-You-Can-Eat Agent Buffet – mk, el Microsoft Goes Full Blackwell: No Regrets, Just GPUs Jules Verne Would Be Proud: Google’s CLI Goes 20,000 Bugs Under the Codebase RAG to Riches: AWS Makes Retrieval Augmented Generation Turnkey Kubectl Gets a Gemini Twin: Google Teaches AI to Speak Kubernetes I’m Not a Robot: Azure WAF Finally Learns to Ask the Important Questions OpenAI Puts 38 Billion Eggs in Amazon’s Basket: Multi-Cloud Gets Complicated The Root Cause They’ll Never Root Out: Why Attrition Stays Off the RCA Google’s New Extension Lets You Deploy Kubernetes by Just Asking Nicely Cursor 2.0: Now With More Agents Than a Hollywood Talent Agency Follow Up  04:46 Massive Azure outage is over, but problems linger – here’s what happened | ZDNET  Azure experienced a global outage on October 29, affecting all regions simultaneously, unlike the recent AWS outage that was limited to a single region.  The incident lasted approximately eight hours from noon to 8 PM ET, impacting major services including Microsoft 365, Teams, Xbox Live, and critical infrastructure for Alaska Airlines, Vodafone UK, and Heathrow Airport, among others. The root cause was an inadvertent tenant configuration change in Azure Front Door that bypassed safety validations due to a software defect. Microsoft’s protection mechanisms failed to catch the erroneous deployment, allowing invalid configurations to propagate across the global fleet and cause HTTP timeouts, server errors, and elevated packet loss at network edges. Recovery required rolling back to the last known good configuration and gradually rebalancing traffic across nodes to prevent overload conditions.  Some customers experienced lingering issues even after the official recovery time, with Microsoft temporarily blocking configuration changes to Azure Front Door while completing the restoration process. The incident highlights concentration risk in cloud infrastructure, as this marks the second major cloud provider outage in October 2025.  Despite Azure revenue growing 40 percent in the latest quarterly report, Microsoft’s stock declined in after-hours trading as the company acknowledged capaci... Chapters (00:00:00) - Azure Front Door(00:01:07) - Microsoft Azure's Front Door Outage: Update!(00:04:09) - Amazon AWS and OpenAI Announce Multi-Year Strategic Partnership(00:09:21) - OpenAI vs. Nvidia: Which One Will Win?(00:12:09) - Google removes Gemini AI models from AI Studio(00:20:40) - The New York Times' political model(00:21:35) - GitHub's Agent HQ: Orchestrating Multiple Agents with(00:25:53) - Cursor Launches Multi-Agent Interface with Composer(00:33:49) - Conversations with an AI(00:37:13) - Amazon.com Releases MCP Proxy for AWS(00:40:35) - Cloud Cost Management Tool(00:41:18) - ECS Now Supports Built-in Linear and Canary Deployments(00:44:27) - Amazon Route 53 Resolver now supports AWS Private Link(00:47:46) - Mount Points for S3(00:52:08) - Google Cloud's New Log Analytics Query Builder(00:54:40) - Google's Gemini CLI Adds Kubernetes to DevOps(00:58:13) - Google Launches Joules Extension for Gnome CLI(01:04:20) - Google Cloud: GA of Cost Anomaly Detection(01:09:07) - Microsoft and Nvidia expand AI partnership with Azure(01:11:23) - California data centers: How expensive is electricity?(01:13:02) - Microsoft: Azure Cloud: 1.2 Million Tokens a Second,(01:19:25) - Azure WAF: Capture Challenges for Bot Traffic(01:22:10) - Azure: Instant Access to Snapshots for SSD & Ultra Disk(01:27:47) - Week in Cloud: The Cloud Podcast

    1h 29m
  8. 328: Shhh… It’s a Secret Region!

    11/05/2025

    328: Shhh… It’s a Secret Region!

    Welcome to episode 328 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Ryan, and Matt are on board today to bring you all the latest news in cloud and AI, including secret regions (this one has the aliens), ongoing discussions between Microsoft and OpenAI, and updates to Nova, SQL, and OneLake -and even the latest installment of Cloud Journeys.  Let’s get started!  Titles we almost went with this week CloudWatch’s New Feature: Because Nobody Likes Writing Incident Reports at 3 AM DNS: Did Not Survive – The Great US-EAST-1 Outage of 2025 404 DevOps Not Found: The AWS Automation Adventure mk When Your DevOps Team Gets Replaced by AI and Then Everything Crashes Database Migrations Get the ChatGPT Treatment: Just Vibe Your Schema Changes AWS DevOps Team Gets the AI Treatment: 40% Fewer Humans, 100% More Questions Breaking Up is Hard to Compute: Microsoft and OpenAI Redefine Their Relationship AWS Goes Full Scope: Now Tracking Your Cloud’s Carbon from Cradle to Gate Platform Engineering: When Your Golden Path Leads to a Dead End DynamoDB’s DNS Disaster: How a Race Condition Raced Through AWS AI Takes Over AWS DevOps Jobs, Servers Take Unscheduled Vacation PostgreSQL Scaling Gets a 30-Second Makeover While AWS Takes a Coffee Break The Domino Effect: When DynamoDB Drops, Everything Drops RAG to Riches: Amazon Nova Learns to Cite Its Sources AWS Finally Tells You When Your EC2 Instance Can’t Keep Up With Your Storage Ambitions AWS Nova Gets Grounded: No More Hallucinating About Reality One API to Rule Them All: OneLake’s Storage Compatibility Play OpenAI gets to pay Alimony Database schema deployments are totally a vibe AWS will tell you how not green you are today, now in 3 scopes General News  02:00 DDoS in September | Fastly Fastly‘s September DDoS report reveals a notable 15.5 million requests per second attack that lasted over an hour, demonstrating how modern application-layer attacks can sustain extreme throughput with real HTTP requests rather than simple pings or amplification techniques. Attack volume in September dropped to 61% of August levels, with data suggesting a correlation between school schedules and attack frequency: lower volumes coincide with school breaks, while higher volumes occur when schools are in session. Media & Entertainment companies faced the highest median attack sizes, followed by Education and High Technology sectors, with 71% of September’s peak attack day attributed to a single enterprise media company. The sustained 15 million RPS attack originated from a single cloud-provider ASN, using sophisticated daemons that mimicked browser behavior, making detection more challenging than typical DDoS patterns. Organizations should evaluate whether their incident response runbooks can handle hour-long attacks at 15+ million RPS, as these sustained high-throughput attacks require automated mitigation rather than manual intervention. Listen, we’re not inviting a DDoS attack, but also…we’ll just turn off the website, so there’s that.  AI Is Going Great – Or How ML Makes Money 04:41 Google AI Studio updates: More control, less friction Google AI Studio introduces “vibe coding” – a new AI-powered develo... Chapters (00:00:00) - AWS vs. Azure: When Will Both Companies Have Outages(00:02:07) - DDoS Attacks Rise in September(00:04:43) - Google AI Studio Introduces Vibe Coding(00:09:20) - OpenAI's Company Knowledge for Chat GPT(00:13:59) - Microsoft and OpenAI Strike a New Deal(00:17:19) - Amazon Nova: General Availability of WebGrounding(00:18:58) - Athena Health Reporting's AI-Powered Database Migration Author(00:20:56) - Amazon Reportedly Replaces 40% of DevOps Staff With AI(00:23:58) - Amazon's DynamoDB Outage(00:28:11) - CloudWatch: Automated Incident Reporting with Scope 3(00:33:24) - Amazon's Secret West Region(00:39:31) - EC2: EBS IOPS exceeded and Volume level(00:42:52) - Google Cloud Parameter Manager(00:46:37) - Azure Key Vault vs AWS SSM: Feature Flag Management(00:48:32) - Citadel Cross-Site Interconnect with Google Cloud Platform(00:51:52) - BigTable Storage: Limited-Access Storage in Preview(00:54:38) - Google Cloud: 4x Max Nvidia NVL70 Instance(00:56:58) - Nvidia GB300 Envel 72 Instances(00:58:35) - Azure databases for PostgreSQL now with High Availability ( HA)(01:00:11) - OneLake + Fabric: What Could Go Wrong?(01:01:40) - 8 Platform Engineering Anti-Patterns(01:05:01) - The Second Anti-Pattern: Lack of Product Mindset(01:08:02) - 2. Give the team some ownership of the platform(01:11:56) - Building a Successful Platform: Tracking the Wrong Metrics(01:13:34) - Don't Copy the Kubernetes Platform(01:16:08) - 7 Pitfalls of Over Engineering on Day 1(01:19:14) - Platform Engineering: The Product Management Process(01:20:59) - This Week in the Cloud: Platform Engineering(01:21:41) - Next Week In The Cloud: Trip to the Bay

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