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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
  • 307: The AI Assistant That Finally Understands Your Kubernetes Cluster (We are Doomed)

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

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

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

    304: It’s Chile Up Here in The Cloud!
    May 22 2025
    Welcome to episode 304 of The Cloud Pod – where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Ryan and Matt are in the house tonight to bring you all the latest and greatest in Cloud and AI news, including AWS new Chilean region, the ongoing tug of war between Open AI and Microsoft, and even some K8 updates – plus an aftershow. Let’s get started! Titles we almost went with this week: Open AI gets a COO deliveredThings get Chile with new regionsObservability and AI, I Q-uestion the logicCloud Pod tries to Microsoft Build predictionsK8 resizes pods on the flyMicrosoft strongly reinforces the AI FoundryThe Cloud Pod renegotiates the hosts’ contracts … we now have to pay the Cloud Pod to be on it Follow Up 01:53 DOJ’s extreme proposals will hurt consumers and America’s tech leadership We previously talked about the DOJ and Google Antitrust lawsuit – and now the DOJ has wrapped up their remedies hearing, and Google has *not* been quiet about it.One of the claims is that the remedies would hurt browser choice, putting browsers like Firefox out of business completely. Google also claimed that data disclosure mandates would threaten user’s privacy – it would be MUCH safer if they could just sell it to you via their marketplace. We do agree that divesting Chrome would make things more complicated for people living in the Google Cloud. Really, what comes down to is that Google claims DOJ’s solutions are the wrong solutions – although to us, Google’s solutions aren’t much better. AI – Or How ML Makes Money 09:20 OpenAI Expands Leadership with Fidji Simo OpenAI Hires Instacart CEO Simo For Major Leadership Role OpenAI is hiring Fidji Simo as the CEO of applications, representing a major restructuring of leadership at the company. She was the CEO at Chapters (00:00:00) - The Cloud Pod(00:02:05) - Google Lashes Out Over DOJ's Antitrust Proposal(00:06:19) - Does a Google Divested Chrome Affect the Internet?(00:09:17) - OpenAI Expands Leadership Team(00:10:22) - OpenAI's Nonprofit Status(00:11:34) - OpenAI Announces OpenAI for Countries and Data Residency for(00:13:58) - OpenAI in Tough Negotiations With Microsoft(00:16:48) - Terraform's AWS Provider Hits 4 Billion Downloads(00:17:41) - Amazon Terraform Provider 6.0 in Public Beta(00:23:14) - Amazon Launches New AWS Region in Chile(00:24:29) - Amazon Q Developer support to OpenSearch(00:27:04) - Kubernetes 1.33 Release Notes(00:31:23) - Does AWS have cloud commitment insurance?(00:33:25) - Google's Gecko Tool for Generative AI(00:35:54) - First Build Prediction: GitHub Copilot(00:37:04) - Microsoft's LLM for OpenAI(00:38:11) - Intel Announces New Quantum Computing Chip(00:39:17) - Third Choice: Microsoft Office PC Updates(00:40:30) - Top Three Office Products for 2020(00:42:07) - Google, Microsoft's AI Competitor(00:42:46) - The Number of Times Copilot Is Invited to Microsoft's Conference(00:46:15) - Microsoft Giving Virtual Data Center Tours(00:49:21) - Azure Storage Actions(00:52:15) - How many storage accounts can I have in a subscription?(00:54:46) - Azure Storage Actions(00:59:41) - "Oh, I can't handle that!"(01:00:14) - Red Hat Summit 2025 & Azure Migrate(01:02:57) - Azure AI: Reinforcement Fine-tuning (RFT(01:05:48) - Cloud Podcast: Week 3(01:06:40) - Linux Kernels to Drop 486 CPUs(01:09:29) - Can I Run Linux on a 486?(01:14:07) - AMD vs Intel: Which Is The Best?(01:16:21) - 486 compatibility in the Linux kernel
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    1 hr and 17 mins
  • 303: Someday You Will Find Me, Caught Beneath the AI Landslide, in a Champagne Premier Nova in The Sky

    303: Someday You Will Find Me, Caught Beneath the AI Landslide, in a Champagne Premier Nova in The Sky
    May 18 2025
    Welcome to episode 303 of The Cloud Pod – where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Ryan and exhausted dad Matt are here (and mostly awake) ready to bring the latest in cloud news! This week we’ve got more news from Nova, updates to Claude, earnings news, and a mini funeral for Skype – plus a new helping of Cloud Journey! Titles we almost went with this week: Claude researches so Ryan can napThe best AI for Nova Corps, Amazon Nova Premiere JBIf you can’t beat them, change the licensing terms and make them fork, and then reverse course… and profitQ has invaded your IDE!!Skype bites the dust A big thanks to this week’s sponsor: We’re sponsorless! Want to get your brand, company, or service in front of a very enthusiastic group of cloud news seekers? You’ve come to the right place! Send us an email or hit us up on our Slack channel for more info. Follow Up 02:50 Sycophancy in GPT-4o: What happened and what we’re doing about it OpenAI wrote up a blog post about their sycophantic Chat GPT 4o upgrade last week, and they wanted to set the record straight. They made adjustments at improving the models default personality to make it feel more intuitive and effective across a variety of tasks. When shaping model behavior, they start with a baseline principle and instructions outlined in their model spec. They also teach their models how to apply these principles by incorporating user signals like thumbs up and thumbs down feedback on responses. In this update, though, they focused too much on short-term feedback and did not fully account for how users’ interactions with ChatGPT evolve. This skewed the results towards responses that were overly supportive – but disingenuous. Beyond rolling back the changes, they are taking steps to realign the model behavior, including refining core training techniques and system prompts to explicitly steer the model away from sycophancy. They also plan to build more guardrails to increase honesty and transparency principles in the model spec.Additionally, they plan to expand ways for users to test and give direct feedback before deployments.Lastly, OpenAI continues to expand evaluations building on the model sync and our ongoing research. 04:43 Deep Research on Microsoft Hotpatching: Yes, they’re grabbing money and screwing you. Basically. 07:06 Justin – “I’m not going to give them any credit on this one. I appreciate that they created hotpatching, but I don’t like what you want to charge me for it.” General News It’s Earnings time – cue the sound effects! 08:03 Alphabet’s Q1 earnings shattered analyst expectations, sending the stock soaring. Google’s CEO credits its AI efforts Alphabet Q1 2025 earnings call: CEO Sundar Pichai’s remarks Chapters (00:00:00) - The Cloud Pod(00:00:54) - Manto Man's 3 Kids Announcement(00:02:40) - Microsoft Hot Patching: Changes Coming soon to the Model(00:07:36) - Before the Earnings, How to Prepare(00:07:54) - Good Quarter for Microsoft, Google, and Amazon(00:10:47) - Amazon AWS Sales Up 17%(00:16:32) - Skype Is Dead(00:18:18) - Claude's Cloud Research: How ML Makes Money(00:20:22) - OpenAI Rescues Plan to Split Off and Become for Profit(00:22:56) - Anthropic's $61.5 Million Stock Offer(00:25:00) - Redis: Moving back to the SSPL(00:30:19) - HP Terraform Premium(00:33:09) - Amazon Nova Premiere Announced at AWS Revamp(00:34:09) - Amazon's Cloud Commitment Insurance(00:35:36) - Amazon Q Developer Introduces in VS Code(00:37:27) - Amazon Q Developer in GitHub(00:39:45) - EC2 Image Builder(00:42:44) - Amazon EBS Snapshot: Fast Provisioned Rate for Volume Initial(00:46:58) - Google Cloud: Vertex AI Prediction Dedicated Endpoints(00:48:28) - Microsoft Copilot for Azure in April(00:52:57) - Alexa's Small Language Models(00:53:56) - OpenAI Announces New 5.4(00:55:21) - Azure Portal(00:59:01) - How to really become a Windows admin with Terraform(01:03:44) - Microsoft Virtual Network Terminal Access Point (VNTAP) Public Preview(01:07:01) - Oracle Touts the Cloud on the Sphere(01:09:41) - Why Your Tagging Strategy Matters for the Cloud(01:11:36) - Cloudsecurity: Tagging our Services(01:19:16) - Amazon vs. GCP: Service Management & Tagging
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