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The Cloud Pod | Weekly AI & Cloud News on AWS, Azure & GCP — 355 episodes
363: SQS: 20 Years of waiting in line
362: Mechanical Turk: The Fall of the Ottoman API
361: Beep Beep: AWS Ships an ACME Product That Actually Works
360: And you thought AWS was out of features for S3. Surprise!
359: Tokenomicon Sounds Metal, but it's Just Cloud Budgets
358: AI Spend Limits Because Frontier Models Aren't Free Therapy
357: Cache Me If You Can - Now With Durability
356: Holy Labor Displacement, Batman! The Vatican Weighs In
355: The Cloud Pod's AI Pleads Not Guilty, Blames Philip K. Dick
354: US-Tirefire-1 lives up to its Stellar Reputation
353: Don't Be Evil Unless the Government Asks Nicely
352: Google Next: Rebrandapalooza
351: IAM the One Spending All Your AI Money
350: It looks like you're trying to send an email from 250,000 miles away! Would you like help with that?
349: Gmail Finally Lets You Ditch xXDragonSlayer2004Xx
348: Compliance Theater Now Available as a Subscriptions
347: The CloudPod is Only Recording this Week “Because of AI”
346: Zuckerberg Finally Finds His People, They Are All AI Agents
345: Damn It… my excuse is now gone for Disaster Recovery
344: Amazon’s Coding Bot Bites the Hand That Runs It
343: AWS CloudWatch Finally Hits Snooze
342: Eight Minutes to Midnight: When AI Helps Hackers Speed Run Your AWS Account
341: AWS Layoffs: Scaling Down Instead of Scaling Out
340: Azure releases a new SQL AI Assistant… Jimmy Droptables
339: Just-in-Time Secrets: Because Your AI Agent Can't Keep Its Mouth Shut
338: T5Gemma Says "AI’ll be Back”
337: AWS Discovers Prices Can Go Both Ways, Raises GPU Costs 15 Percent
336: We Were Right (Mostly), 2026: The New Prophecies
335: EKS Network Policies: Now With More Layers Than Your Security Team's Org Chart
334: AWS Makes Kubernetes Conversational
333: The Cloud Pod Goes Nano Banana
332: 2025 Re:Invent Predictions Draft – May The Odds Be Ever In Your Favor
331: Claude Gets a $30 Billion Azure Wardrobe and Two New Best Friends
330: AWS Proves the Internet Really Is a Series of Tubes Under the Ocean
329: Azure Front Door: Please Use the Side Entrance
328: Shhh… It’s a Secret Region!
327: AWS Finally Admits Kubernetes is Hard, Makes Robots Do It Instead
326: Oracle Discovers the Dark Side (And Finally Has Cookies)
325: Db2 or Not Db2: That Is the Backup Question
323: Databricks One: Because Seven Eight Nine
324: Clippy’s Revenge: The AI Assistant That Actually Works - Sort Of
322: Did OpenAI and Microsoft Break Up? It’s Complicated…
321: The Cloud Pod is in Tears Trying to Understand Azure Tiers
320: Azure gives your Finops person a heart attack
319: AWS Cost MCP: Your Billing Data Now Speaks Human
318: One Extension to Rule Them All (And in the VS Code Bind Them)
317: I Got 99 Problems, But a Hallucination Ain’t One
316: Microsoft’s New AI Agent Has Trust Issues (With Software)
315: EC2's New Shutdown Shortcut: Because Sometimes You Just Need to Pull the Plug
314: Vector? I Hardly Know Her! S3's New AI Storage Play
313: The Gartner Guide to Breaking Things on Purpose
312: Azure Firewall Finally Learns to Spell (FQDN Edition)
311: The Crawlers are Running the Asylum
310: CI You Later, Manual Testing
309: Microsoft tries to give away cloud services for free, sadly, it's only SQL
308: SCC: Security Command Center or Super Cool Capabilities?
307: The AI Assistant That Finally Understands Your Kubernetes Cluster (We are Doomed)
306: Batch Better Have MySQL: Azure's Maintenance Makeover
305: AWS Breaks Up with Unpopular Services - "It's Not You, It's Me"
304: It’s Chile Up Here in The Cloud!
303: Someday You Will Find Me, Caught Beneath the AI Landslide, in a Champagne Premier Nova in The Sky
302: It’s So Hot, Even Windows is Hotpatching
301: The Cloud Pod PartyRocks in the House Tonight
300: The Next Chapter: How Google’s Next-Level Next Event Nexted All Our Next Expectations – and What’s Next Now That Next Is Past
299: We Predict Next, for Next Week’s, Next-Level Google Next Event. What’s Next?
298: BigQuery Gits it With Devops
297: Save the Date So You Can Get Some Skills – In AI!
296: Google Forces AI Protection
295: Skype follows Chime to the Grave
294: Ding: Chime is Dead
293: Terraform Apply – Output Pizza
292: VS Code Friend or Foe… Azure Data Studio Murdered
291: AWS, GCP and Azure eat KRO
290: Open AI to Operator: There is a DeepSeek Outside the Door
289: DORA The Explorer… Of EU Regulations
288: You Might Be Able to Retrain Notebook LM Hosts to be Less Annoyed, But Not Your Cloud Pod Hosts
287: The Cloud Pod Rebrands to The Cloud AI So We Can Get A 1B Valuation
286: I Can Sum Up 2024 – AI AI AI AI and uhh… ML
285: 6 years of cloud news… and we’re still talking about FPGAs and PowerPC
284: Amazon Q uses machine learning to get smarter, but Bond’s Q can turn a wristwatch into a laser beam. Your move, AI.
283: You’ve Got Re:Invent Predictions
282: Search – ChatGPT vs Google…. Fight!
281: Happy Birthday, ECS. You’re still so much better than K8 at 10!
280: Evidently, The Cloud Pod Was Always Right
279: The Cloud Pod Glows With Excitement Over Google Nuclear Deal
278: Azure is on a Bender: Bite my Shiny Metal FXv2-series VMs
277: Class E IPs, so now you can procrastinate IPv6 even longer
276: New from AWS – Elastic Commute – Flex Your Way to an Empty Office
275: I SQream, You SQream, We All SQream for AI Ice Cream
274: The Cloud Pod is Still Not Open Source
273: Phi-fi-fo-fum, I Smell the Bones of The Cloud Pod Hosts
272: AI: Now with JSON Schemas!
271: AWS Deprioritizes 7 Services, Cloud Pod Hosts Prioritize Therapy
270: The Cloud Pod Puts a Hex-LLM on all these AI Announcements
269: Crowdstrike: Does Anyone Know the Graviton of this Situation?
268: Long Time Show Host is CloudPod’s first Casualty to AI (For This Week, at Least)
266: AWS Billing Finally Comes into FOCUS
265: Swing and a WIF
264: AWS Audit Manager: Because even AI needs a Babysitter!
263: Ticketmaster Gets a Snow Job – MFA Matters Folks!
262: I Only Aspire Not to Use and Support .NET
261: Azure Will Continue Until Further Notice… Unfortunately
260: Amazon Dispatches AWS CEO Adam Selipsky with Prime 2-day delivery
259: If Only All My Disasters Could Be Managed
258: To Q or Not to Q – That is the Question (But, Will We Get a Good Answer?)
257: Who Let the LLamas Out? *Bleat Bleat*
256: Begun, The Custom Silicon Wars Have
255: Guess What’s Google Next? AI, AI, and Some More AI!
254: The Cloud Pod Offers Therapy Sessions to AIs With Trust Issues
253: Oracle Autonomous Database is the OG Dad Joke
252: I have an InfluxDB of AI Related Stories
251: AI Is the Final Nail in the Coffin for Low Code
250: The Cloud Pod Goes Nuclear Powered
249: Google Gemini and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week
247: ChatGPT Remembers? Oh No!
246: The CloudPod Will Never Type localllm Correctly
245: The CloudPod is the SBOM!
244: CoPilot For the People!
243: WHOIS The Cloud Pod? We’ll Never Know
242: DoH: DNS over HTTPS – or One More Way For It To be DNS Fault
241: A Reflection on 2023: Clouded by the Fog of AI
240: Secure AI? We Didn’t Train for That!
239: The Cloud Pod Sees the Irony of Using AI to Assist with Climate Change
238: AWS Joins the Q Continuum – Reinvent Recap
237: Clean Your Crystal Balls – The Clod Pod Makes its re:Invent Predictions / Wishlist
236: We Now Measures the Largest Chips Used to Generate an LLM – or a 21st century #$%& Measuring Contest
235: The Cloud Pod Explores Looker for Mobile: Ruining One Vacation at a Time
234: The Cloud Pod Decrees I’m not a Good Cloud – but I’m not a Bad Cloud Either
233: Replicator Isn’t a Real Product Because it isn’t Spelled with a K
232: The CloudPod Is Tired of Talking About New Instance Types
231: The CloudPod Takes the Highway to the Datazone
230: If I Ever Own a Sailboat, I Will Name it Kafka… and Sail it on a Data Lake
229: The CloudPod Guide to Gartner’s Magic Quadrant Container Chaos
228: Microsoft and Oracle Unite Their Legal Departments to Bring You…
227: The Cloud Pod Peeps at Azure’s Explicit Proxy
226: Duet, Co-Pilot, and a Code Whisperer Walk into a bar in San Francisco
225: The Cloud Pod Proclaims: Merry Google Next Eve!
224: The Cloud Pod Adopts the BS License
223: Get an AWS Spin on Savings with Cost Optimization Flywheel
222: Even AWS is Hit by Inflation, and is Passing that on to you – the Customer
221: The Biggest Innovator in SFTP in 30 Years? Amazon Web Services!
220: The Cloud Pod Read Llama Llama Red Pajama
219: The Cloud Pod Proclaims: One Does Not Just Entra into Mordor
218: The Cloud Pod is a Sucker and Shifts Left
217: The Cloud Pod Whispers Its Secrets to Azure Open AI
216: The Cloud Pod is Feeling Elevated Enough to Record the Podcast
215: The Cloud Pod Breaks Into the Quantum Safe
214: The Cloud Pod Loves Inspector Gadget
213: The Cloud Pod Sings a Duet About AI
212: The Cloud Pod Wades into Microservices vs. Monoliths
210: The Cloud Pod Deep Inspects Itself
209: The Cloud Pod Whispers Sweet Nothings To Our Code (**why wont you work**)
208: Azure AI Lost in Space
207: AWS Puts Up a New VPC Lattice to Ease the Growth of Your Connectivity
206: The TCP Podcast Ponders Security Copilot or Vaporware – You Decide!
205: The Cloud Pod decides to Bard or not to Bard. What’s the question?
204: Amazon eats Pi with their own version of S3FS
203: From vaporware to visual apps – AWS App Composer Generally Available
202: The Bing is dead! Long live the Bing
201: The CloudPod is assimilated and joins the Azure Collective
200: Now you can make bad cloud decisions like running EKS on SNOW
199: All AI Products Agree, Earnings are down
198: Cloudtrail ingests activity events, CloudPod ingests Pizza
196: The Cloud Pod plays with all the stuff it found in the cleanroom
195: The Cloud Pod can’t wait for Azure Ultra Fungible Storage (Premium)!
194: The Cloud Pods New Years Resolution: Change everything!
193: The cloud pod was less productive in 2022
192: The Empire strikes back and picks all the clouds for DOD Contract
191: The Cloud Pod Reinvents the Recap Show
190: Finally a Crowdsourced re:Invent Prediction Show
189: The CloudPod Celebrates AWS Becoming a New Time Lord
188: The CloudPod thinks the AWS Switzerland region is a big plus
187: Google Blockchain Engine – A Day Late and a Bitcoin Short
186: Google Cloud Next, More Like Google Cloud Passed
185: The Cloud Pod is flush with cache!
184: The CloudPod Explicitly trusts itself
183: The Cloud Pod competes for the Google Cloud Fly Cup
182: There Is a Wild Mandoogle Loose In the Theater
181: You get a Tanzu, I get a Tanzu, EVERYONE GETS A TANZU
180: Azure Data Explorer Says ‘All Your S3 Data are Belong to Us’
179: Google Cloud Can’t Be DDoS’d
178: What’s in the Microsoft Dev Box?
177: The Cloud Pod Hopes That Amazon Knows the Three Laws of iRobots
176: The Cloud Pod Earnings Continue To Be Steady
175: AWS re:Inforces Their Dislike for OrcaSec
174: The Cloud Pod Goes the Distance With Rocky Linux
173: Oracle Begins Its Invasion of Sovereign Nations
172: The Cloud Pod Masquerades With GKE Autopilot
171: AWS Snowcones in Space
170: The Cloud Pod Is Also Intentionally Paranoid
169: The CloudPod bounces back with Elastic Disaster Recovery
168: The Cloud Pod Celebrates GCP Madrid Region With Sangria
167: The Cloud Pod Gets Sucked In by the Graviton3
166: The Cloud Pod Eagerly Awaits the Microsoft Pay Increase
165: The Cloud Pod Angry That Amazon Describes Step Functions as Low Code
164: The Cloud Pod SWIFT-ly Moves Its Money to Google Cloud
163: The Cloud Pod Pushes the Azure Red Button
161: The Cloud Pod Observes Its Databases With Google Cloud SQL Insights
160: The Cloud Pod Goes Fishing on Google BigLake
158: The Cloud Pod Discloses All of Its Okta Breaches
157: The Cloud Pod Goes on a Quest…. An AWS Cloud Quest
156: The Cloud Pod Takes Back Everything It Said About Windows vs Linux Security
154: The Cloud Pod Is QUIC and Rusty This Week
153: The Cloud Pod Gets the (CloudFormation) Stage Hook
152: Is GCP Rebranding No-Code as ‘Visual Interface’?
150: The Cloud Pod Exfiltrates Jonathan’s Credentials
149: The Cloud Pod BreaksFormation
148: The Cloud Pod Siemplify’s Our First Recording of 2022
147: Goodbye 2021, A log4j kinda year
146: The Google CyberCAT is Out of the Bag
145: The Cloud Pod Evidently Wants to Talk about re:Invent
144: Oh the Places You’ll Go at re:Invent 2021
143: It’s Chaos in the Cloud Pod Studio
142: The Cloud Pod spends the Weekend at the Google Data Lakehouse
141: The Cloud Pod Wears Gaudi Outfits for Amazon’s New Deep Learning Accelerator
140: The Cloud Pod Buys all its Synapse in Advance
139: Back to the Future With Google Distributed Cloud
138: Cloud Pod productivity is way up thanks to the Facebook outage
137: Now Serving Clients in the Shire
136: Take us to your Google Cloud Digital Leader
135: The Cloud Pod Goes to Google Cloud Toronto, Eh?
134: The Cloud Pod has NetApp ONTAP
133: Google Cloud Serverless Functions now with Servers
132: The Cloud Pod takes a trip down MemoryDB lane
131: The Cloud Pod relaxes and has an AWS data brew
130: The Cloud Pod has how many unattended Google projects?
129: The Cloud Pod ditches our m1.small instances
128: Azure puts its gold in CloudKnox
127: The Cloud Pod drowns in the HealthLake
126: The Cloud Pod Gives Amazon Money in Advance
125: JEDI is Dead, and the Cloud Pod Launches Bottlerockets in Celebration
124: The Cloud Pod now with millions of bugs
123: The Cloud Pod does Step in the Studio
122: Welcome to Crash Consistency Week
121: Blue Origin finds new “dummy” to go to space
120: The Cloud Pod crosses the data streams
119: Oracle announces something amazing, The Cloud Pod worldview shook
118: The Cloud Pod talks LaMDA, which one?
117: Justin is out, Peter’s distracted by his parents, Jonathan is just British and Ryan is probably tipsy…. But we had one job and we’re recording!
116: The Cloud Pod is positively charged for AWS Proton
114: The Cloud Pod looks forward to rewriting Terraform code… again
113: The Cloud Pod goes mobile
112: The Cloud Pod bots are in control
111: The Cloud Pod now available at 9600 bps, 8 bits and 1 stop bit
110: They didn’t even call The Cloud Pod about the AWS CEO role
109: The Cloud Pod Hopes all Fault Injections are Simulated
108: The Cloud Pod moves forward without JEDI
107: The Cloud Meshes with Microsoft
Episode 106: The Cloud Pod disagrees with Gartner on Low-Code
Episode 105: The Cloud Pod’s heart is a Flutter with Space Edge
Episode 104: The Cloud Pod gets Introspection Capabilities
Episode 103: Bezos retires over Slack outage — Episode 103
Episode 102: The Cloud Pod is NOT OK
Episode 101: AWS plays the Parler games
Episode 100: The Cloud Pod tail -f’s the news
Episode 99: 2020 overstays its welcome
Episode 98: AWS tries the JEDI mind trick again
Episode 97: S3 Buckets land the key to success
Episode 96 – re:Invent is here with presents for everyone!
Episode 95 – THE BEST IS YET TO COME!!!
Episode 94: The Cloud Pod No Code Required
Episode 93: Docker Hub rate limits The Cloud Pod
Episode 92: The Cloud Pod is first in, first out
Episode 91: The Cloud Pod Hashi’s it out
Episode 90: The Cloud Pod gets a NanoDegree on podcasting
Episode 89: Azure gives The Cloud Pod an advisor score of 100
Episode 88: The Chronicles of The Cloud Pod
Episode 87 – The Cloud Pod gets the AWS Perspective
Episode 86 – Google Cloud Next Digital Finally Ends
Episode 85 – The Cloud Pod Plays Buzzword Bingo on Machine Learning
Episode 84: We knew Ian was a hero before AWS
Episode 83: The Cloud Pod takes a Quantum Leap
Episode 82: Azure says “How About them Apples, Open Usage Commons”
Ep 81 – Azure & GCP … Are you ok?
Episode 80: The Cloud Pod now with more Seoul
Episode 79 – The Cloud Pod Confidential
Ep 78 – Honey, I built an App
Episode 77b: Google Next Prediction Show
Episode 77 – The Cloud Pod Enjoys a Snowcone
Episode 76: IBM Blames Cloud Pod for Outages
Episode 75: The Cloud Pod Deletes Everything (But Keeps Copies)
Episode 74: The Cloud Pod Gets Their Groove Back
Episode 73: The Cloud Pod Celebrates BigQuery’s 10th Birthday
Episode 72: 13 Reasons Why This Episode is Better Than the Last One
Ep 71: Now Open AWS WFH Region
EP 70: The Cloud Pod is now fully ‘Synthetic’
69 – The Cloud Pod asks: Can you hear us now?
68 – The Cloud Pod is as free as Github for Teams
67 – BigQuery Simulates The CloudPod March Madness
The Cloud Pod ‘rebrands’ itself as Pod – EP66
The CloudPod opens the Azure front door – EP65
The Cloud Pod on Lockdown – EP 64
63: The Cloud Pod Stays Home to Enjoy the Fireworks
The Cloud Pod Automatically Redacted
RSA: The Silence of the Clouds – Episode 61
This Episode is EPYC!
The Cloud Pod goes to Mars – Episode 59
The Cloud Pod Faster on Azure… No Wait AWS – Episode 58
The Cloud Pod has a Secret – Episode 57
The Cloud Pod: A Masterclass in Cloud Architecture – Episode 56
The Cloud Pod Bug Affects Millions! – Episode 55
GCP puts the Cloud Pod on Ice – Episode 54
2019: We hardly knew thee – Episode 53
Google to kill Cloud Pod if not #1 by 2023 – Episode 52
Re:Invent 2019 – We *really* should have gone back to the room – Episode 51
The Smart Choice would have been to go back to the room – Ep 50
Twas the night before Re:Invent – Ep 49
Import Existing Resources into The Cloud Pod – Ep 48
The Cloud Pod gets a Savings Plan – Episode 47
Google recognizes The Cloud Pod hosts as celebrities – E46
The Cloud Pod wins second place for the Jedi contract – Ep 45
CloudWatch detects The Cloud Pod as an Anomaly – Ep 44
The Right to Bare ARM Chips – Ep 43
You had one Job while I was away – Ep 42
The Cloud Pod now with Dynamic Parallelism – Ep 41
Autonomous Cloud Pod – Ep 40
The Cloud Pod Goes Quantum – Ep 39
US East 1’s on Fire, The Cloud Pod says let the !#*&@ burn – Ep 38
Google will shutdown The Cloud Pod in 2027 – Ep. 37
Amazon triggers a cloud pod panic – Ep 36
The Cloud Pod to appear at Intersect.aws – Ep 35
Parti(QL) with The Cloud Pod – Ep 34
Announcing the new cloud pod CTL for Kubernetes – Ep 33
The Cloud Pod placed outside the cloud magic quadrant – Ep 32
The Cloud Pod Development Kit Now in GA – Ep 31
Episode 30: The Cloud Pod remains Cloud-full
Episode 29: The Cloud Pod Re:Inforces Security
Episode 28: The Cloud Pod Metal Edition
Episode 27: Microsoft and Oracle interconnect with The Cloud Pod
Episode 26: The Cloud Pod Goes Event Driven
Episode 25: Optimize your Journey with The Cloud Pod Center of Excellence
Episode 24: Happy 5th Birthday to Kubernetes from The Cloud Pod
Episode 23: Unlock the podcast with your Android device
Episode 22: The Cloud Pod Increases listener limit to 1 million
Episode 21: The Cloud Pod exceeds quarterly listener expectations
Episode 20: The Cloud Pod spends 30 dollars a month on AWS
Episode 19: Announcing the new Cloud Pod Premium Tier
Episode 18: It’s a Google Next, Next Level Recap
Episode 17: The Cloud Pod now 100% open source
Episode 16: This week in the cloud blob
Episode 15: The Cloud Pod eats 31.4 trillion pieces of PI
Episode 14: Elizabeth Warren votes to break up the cloud pod
Episode 13 – The Cloud Pod goes all in on AWS, Azure and GCP
Episode 12: Spotinst has yet to announce partnership with the cloud pod
Episode 11 – Screaming in the last week of the cloud pod
Episode 10: The podcast no longer requires credit cards
Episode 9: Redhat Drops support for the cloud pod
Episode 8 – Now with Insane Magic
Episode 7 – The Cloud Pod now 99.9% available
Episode 6 – The Cloud Pod Now Supports Resource Tagging
Episode 5 – The Cloud Pod now 50% cheaper
Episode 4 – The podcast is now available in multiple regions
Episode 3 – 2018 Recap
Episode 2 – Larry says no normal person would listen to this podcast
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