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 The Cloud Pod is your one-stop-shop for all things Public, Hybrid, Multi-cloud, and private cloud. Cloud providers continue to accelerate with new features, capabilities, and changes to their APIs. Let Justin, Jonathan, Ryan and Peter help navigate you through this changing cloud landscape via our weekly podcast.© 2025 The Cloud Pod Economics
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  • 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 Nest
    • Breaking Free: AWS Certificates Get Their Export Papers
    • Certificate Manager Learns to Share Its Private Keys
    • Skynet’s Origin Story: We Bullied It Into Existence
    • Claude and Present Danger: When AI Fights Back
    • Breaking Up is Hard to GPU
    • EKS Marks the Spot for GuardDuty’s New Detection Powers
    • Kubernetes Security: GuardDuty Connects the Dots
    • Hub, Hub, Hooray for Unified Security
    • Security Hub 2: Electric Boogaloo
    • All Your Security Findings Are Belong to One Dashboard
    • GuardDuty’s EKS-cellent Adventure in Attack Detection
    • Shield Me From My Own Bad Decisions
    • AWS Plays Network Security Whack-a-Mole
    • Your VPC Called – It Wants Better Security Groups
    • Permission Impossible: Your Express App Will Self-Authorize in 5 Minutes
    • Breaking the Glass: AWS Backup Gets a Multi-Party System
    • Gemini 2.5: Now With More Flash and Less Cash
    • AI Goes to Washington
    • GPT-4: Government Property Taxpayer-funded
    • DDoS and Don’ts: A 45-Second Horror Story
    • Google’s AI Models Get a Flash-y Upgrade (Lite on the Wallet)
    • Flash Gordon Called – He Wants His Speed Back
    • From Flash to Flash-Lite: Google’s AI Diet Plan
    • Looker’s Pipeline Dreams Come True
    • MS-DOS Editor: The Reboot Nobody Asked For But Everyone Needed
    • Control-Alt-Delete Your Expectations: Microsoft Brings DOS to Linux
    • Microsoft’s Text Editor Time Machine Now Runs on Your Toaster
    • Copilot Gets Its Agent License
    • Visual Studio’s AI Agent: Now Taking Orders
    • The Bridge Over Troubled Prompts
    • Azure’s Managed Compute Gets More Coherent
    • Bring Your Own GPU Party: Cohere Models Join the Azure Bash
    • Function Telemetry Gets Open Sourced (Kind Of)
    • Azure Functions: Now Speaking Everyone’s Language (Except Java)
    • Bucket List: AWS Makes S3 Policy Monitoring a Breeze
    • The Policy Police: Keeping Your S3 Buckets in Check
    • CDK Gets Its Own Town Hall (Infrastructure Not Included)
    • Breaking: AWS Discovers Zoom, Plans to Use It Twice Per Quarter
    • AWS and 1Password: A Secret Love Affair
    • Keeping Secrets Has Never Been This Public
    • Nano Nano: AWS Brings Alien-Level Time Precision to EC2
    • Time Flies When You’re Having Nanoseconds
    • WorkSpaces Core: Now With More Cores to Work With
    • Mount Compute-ier: AWS Builds AI Training Peak
    • Making it Rain(ier): AWS Showers Anthropic with 5x More Compute
    • Cache Me If You Can: Google’s Plugin Play
    • CSI: 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...
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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
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