289: DORA The Explorer… Of EU Regulations

Welcome to episode 289 of The Cloud Pod – where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Ryan, and Matt are here this week to bring you a riveting podcast on EU regulations! Are you asleep yet? No? Ok great. We promise it will be a good show – despite the title.  Titles we almost went with this week: Stargate: We’re not saying its Aliens, but its $500 Billion ️AWS: Now with extra sessions EC2 Flex: Bigger, Badder and Probably still expensive SNS FIFO: So fast, it’ll give you whiplash ‍⚖️Azure: Now with added Legalese (Thanks, EU) OpenAI’s Stargate: From Chatbots to Interdimensional Travel (maybe) ☢️GCP’s Biochar Initiative: Turning Waste into… Well, Less Waste (hopefully) ️AWS Console Multiple Sessions: So you can prove you dropped those databases from multiple accounts ☁️Amazon still adds new features to SNS and the cloud pod is impressed ☠️AWS tries to kill chrome profiles 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.  AI IS Going Great – Or How ML Makes All Its Money 01:47 Announcing The Stargate Project Open AI announced a joint investment of $500 billion dollars over the next four years building new AI infrastructure for OpenAI in the US, with the intent to deploy $100B immediately. This infrastructure will secure American leadership in AI, create hundreds of thousands of American jobs, and generate massive economic benefits for the entire world.  The initial equity funders in stargate are SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle and MGX.   Softbank and OpenAI are the lead partners for Stargate, with Softbank having financial responsibility, and OpenAI having operational responsibility.  Arm, Microsoft, Nvidia