330: AWS Proves the Internet Really Is a Series of Tubes Under the Ocean AWS just casually dropped a 320 Tbps cable across the Atlantic. Even the Gungans are getting high-speed internet now. (Oh, are we still not acknowledging them? Oops.) #thecloudpod #underseacable #episode330 […]

329: Azure Front Door: Please Use the Side Entrance GitHub just launched Agent HQ, where you can boss around fleets of coding AIs like a digital middle manager. You can even remind it about the TPS reports - but only if you want to. #github #agenthq #thecloudpod https://www.thecloudpod.net/?p=21285

329: Azure Front Door: Please Use the Side Entrance Azure’s Front Door took a sick day—and took half the internet with it. We’re unpacking the outage and guessing at who is going to take a punch at productivity next. This week, on The Cloud Pod. #episode329 #azure #sosadnoteams #outages […]

328: Shhh… It’s a Secret Region! We’ve gotten more info on the great AWS crash of 2025. Was it the result of brain drain? Amazon says it was a DynamoDB DNS meltdown. We explore the possibilities this week on The Cloud Pod #thecloudpod #aws #crash #hugops https://www.thecloudpod.net/?p=21280

328: Shhh… It’s a Secret Region! AWS just launched Secret-West. Ryan asked for access and got a Men in Black flash instead. Quick, somebody offer him some sugar water. #thecloudpod #aws #secretregion https://www.thecloudpod.net/?p=21280

327: AWS Finally Admits Kubernetes is Hard, Makes Robots Do It Instead AWS US-EAST-1 has gone down so many times that it should have its own historical marker. “Site of the Great Internet Panics of 2017, 2021, 2023, and 2025.” #hugops #thecloudpod #nationalregisterofbadplaces […]

327: AWS Finally Admits Kubernetes is Hard, Makes Robots Do It Instead F5 got owned by nation-state hackers. Guess we finally found out what “BIG-IP” stands for — “Big Intrusion Point.” Yeah, I know. It’s not a great pun - but it’s late. I’ll do better next week. #f5 #hackers #thecloudpod […]

326: Oracle Discovers the Dark Side (And Finally Has Cookies) https://www.thecloudpod.net/?p=21268

326: Oracle Discovers the Dark Side (And Finally Has Cookies) Oracle discovered the dark side — and it only took eight years! Now you can deploy databases and protect your eyes from their UI in one “timely” update. #thecloudpod #oracle #darkmode #jointhedarkside #wehavecookies […]

325: Db2 or Not Db2: That Is the Backup Question Sora 2: Because sometimes you REALLY need to convince your boss that your’re REALLY sick. Hear more about it, this week on The Cloud Pod #thecloudpod #sora2 #deepfakesforthewin? https://www.thecloudpod.net/?p=21262

325: Db2 or Not Db2: That Is the Backup Question AWS just became the official AI partner of the NBA. So if your fantasy team suddenly gets benched by a SageMaker model, you know who to blame. (Hint: It’s not us.) #thecoudpod #aws #nba https://www.thecloudpod.net/?p=21262

323: Databricks One: Because Seven Eight Nine DORA shows AI multiplies efficiency. In my house, the only thing multiplying is Boots’ bananas. Yes, this joke only makes sense if you have small children. If you get it, lo siento. #thecloudpod #dora #ai https://www.thecloudpod.net/?p=21252

324: Clippy’s Revenge: The AI Assistant That Actually Works – Sort Of Copilot has become the true Lord of the Sheets, thanks to Agent Mode. But it also works in PowerPoint, in case you have any Justin’s in your life you want to impress with pretty pictures. #execslovepowerpoint #thecloudpod […]

324: Clippy’s Revenge: The AI Assistant That Actually Works – Sort Of Everyone’s out here announcing Claude Sonnet 4.5 like they’re at the Council of Elrond. “You have my GPU, and my context window… and my benchmark scores.” Want to hear all the Sonnet announcements? You’re in luck - this week […]

323: Databricks One: Because Seven Eight Nine Did you know Oracle invented AI? No, really guys, they really did. Want to hear about it and how that’s totally a real thing that really happened? Episode 323 of The Cloud Pod, out now! #thecloudpod #blameociforskynet #ai #oci […]

317: I Got 99 Problems, But a Hallucination Ain’t One Clippy's revenge! Microsoft officially moved GitHub into CoreAI org - they've lost independence AND their CEO. Talk about reverse Independence Day. Meanwhile: Jules (Google's async coder) is public, OpenAI's GPT-5 getting the Bill Lumberg […]

317: I Got 99 Problems, But a Hallucination Ain’t One OpenAI released GPT-5 and everyone had an announcement - but the reviews aren't stellar. Users calling it "sterile" and corporate vs the friendlier GPT-4o. Who knew even AI could suffer from burnout? Episode 317 also covers GitHub's […]

#msnow is unfortunately too close to MS "Meow" in my head. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rlSjdnAKY4&pp=0gcJCfwAo7VqN5tD

316: Microsoft’s New AI Agent Has Trust Issues (With Software) AWS introduces DCUs (DocumentDB Capacity Units) - finally a DCU to rival the MCU, though this Endgame is just your cloud bill 💰 Meanwhile DigitalOcean's Gradient has us imagining dolphins training AI models to find fish (while orcas […]

316: Microsoft’s New AI Agent Has Trust Issues (With Software) Big Tech earnings are wild - Alphabet raising capex to $85B, Microsoft hits $4 trillion market cap. Plus: DigitalOcean launches "Gradient" AI platform Project Ire: Microsoft's malware-hunting AI (Batman minus the cape!) Fractional […]

315: EC2’s New Shutdown Shortcut: Because Sometimes You Just Need to Pull the Plug NotebookLM now makes narrated AI slides from your docs. Someone is losing their job due to this, but honestly, we’re not sure who yet. #probablythecopywriters #copywritersarestillbetterthough #thecloudpod […]

315: EC2’s New Shutdown Shortcut: Because Sometimes You Just Need to Pull the Plug NotebookLM now makes narrated AI slides from your docs. Someone is losing their job due to this, but honestly, we’re not sure who yet. #probablythecopywriters #copywritersarestillbetterthough #thecloudpod […]

TCP-Talks: Focus on Value: How FinOps Transformed from Cost Cops to Business Enablers "Cloud Plus" is the new reality in #finops No longer just about AWS/Azure/GCP costs. Now it's: ☁️ Cloud 💻 SaaS 🏢 Data Center 🤖 AI/ML 📜 Licensing Mike Fuller explains how Focus 1.2 enables this broader view […]

315: EC2’s New Shutdown Shortcut: Because Sometimes You Just Need to Pull the Plug Trump’s “anti-woke AI” order wants ideologically neutral models. Congrats to whoever gets to define “neutral” in America in 2025. #probablynotgrok #thecloudpod #ai https://www.thecloudpod.net/?p=21194 #thecloudpod […]

TCP-Talks: Focus on Value: How FinOps Transformed from Cost Cops to Business Enablers 🎙️ New #tcptalks: "Focus on Value: How FinOps Transformed from Cost Cops to Business Enablers" The evolution is real! Rob @19:53: "Almost every conversation was 'I'm trying to get my data into Focus'" Plus: Why […]

313: The Gartner Guide to Breaking Things on Purpose Have you ever wished that you had a more judgmental version of Clippy for your architecture? Boy, have I got good news for you - introducing Kiro! It writes specs, diagrams, interfaces, and tests - AND keeps them all in sync. #kiro […]

313: The Gartner Guide to Breaking Things on Purpose Grok 4 appears to be referencing Elon’s X posts before answering some controversial questions. Add that to the news that Tesla will be integrating Grok into their vehicles, and I can’t wait for Elon to start second-guessing my restaurant […]

TCP Talks: The David vs. Goliath of Cloud Storage: Chris Opat from Backblaze on Challenging Hyperscalers Fascinating insight from today's TCP Talks @28:31: "Canadian data doesn't leave Canada unless there's a catastrophe." Backblaze's approach to data sovereignty goes beyond location—it's about […]

TCP Talks: The David vs. Goliath of Cloud Storage: Chris Opat from Backblaze on Challenging Hyperscalers 🎙️ New #tcptalks episode! Chris Opat from Backblaze joins us to discuss how they're challenging cloud storage assumptions. Key quote @7:59: "If you don't know what you're doing with a […]

312: Azure Firewall Finally Learns to Spell (FQDN Edition) 56:49 📢 @ryron01 - “The fact that routing traffic by IP Address on the backend wasn’t possible until now is crazy to me.” on Azure Firewall speaking FQDN https://www.thecloudpod.net/?p=21154

312: Azure Firewall Finally Learns to Spell (FQDN Edition) "This was not the secret you were looking for..." – Azure, after leaking your KeyVault like a broken Death Star exhaust port. Trust in the cloud, you must. But audit your logs, you should. #thecloudpod #keyvault #episode312 […]

312: Azure Firewall Finally Learns to Spell (FQDN Edition) AI wants to be your therapist AND your virtual dressing room. Really, all we were asking for was decent lightning and mirrors in dressing rooms. As the youths say, “they be doing too much.” Episode 312 of the Cloud Pod, out now […]

312: Azure Firewall Finally Learns to Spell (FQDN Edition) OpenAI + Oracle + 400K Nvidia chips = The Fast & the Flurriously Expensive. *Vin Diesel voice* “It’s not about compute… it’s about family…bandwidth.” #openai #oracle #thecloudpo https://www.thecloudpod.net/?p=21154

312: Azure Firewall Finally Learns to Spell (FQDN Edition) OpenAI x Oracle: $30B/year, 4.5GW data centers, 400K Nvidia chips. That's 25% of US capacity. Not a typo. 🤯 Google's making AI therapists—because telling Skynet your secrets always ends well. Definitely won't be used for blackmail like […]

312: Azure Firewall Finally Learns to Spell (FQDN Edition) Episode 312 of The Cloud Pod podcast, bringing you all the latest Cloud news from AWS, Oracle, GCP, Azure, Nova, Lustre, K8, Azure firewall FQDN Filtering, and Blob storage […]

311: The Crawlers are Running the Asylum @jbrodley Here... if I had been there I would have pushed hard for this show title: "Kernel Sanders: Microsoft's Recipe for Avoiding Another Fried System" LOL. But thanks Microsoft for trying to stop the next crowdstrike my weekends thank you […]

AWS announced Kiro this morning their Vibe Coding IDE. https://kiro.dev/blog/introducing-kiro/ I'm just starting to play with it, but I find the Ghost logo choice interesting... does that represent the engineer jobs murdered by AI that Andy Jassy talked about last week?

311: The Crawlers are Running the Asylum According to their newly released environmental report, Google reduced emissions while increasing energy use. It’s truly inspiring what’s possible when you own the grid, the hardware, and the PR department. I guess copywriters ARE still useful for […]

311: The Crawlers are Running the Asylum One app to rule them all, one update to crash them. Microsoft is finally casting antivirus out of the kernel and directly into Mount Doom. Hear more about it on episode 311 of The Cloud Pod - out now! #justkeptgoingwiththelotrpuns #crowdstrike #microsoft […]

311: The Crawlers are Running the Asylum According to their newly released environmental report, Google reduced emissions while increasing energy use. It’s truly inspiring what’s possible when you own the grid, the hardware, and the PR department. I guess copywriters ARE still useful for […]

311: The Crawlers are Running the Asylum *Insert Gandalf voice* “You. Shall. Not. Crawl!” 🧙 Cloudflare has introduced pay-to-crawl. Finally, maybe The Cloud Pod can make some money! #thecloudpod #episode311 #cloudflare https://www.thecloudpod.net/?p=21149

311: The Crawlers are Running the Asylum Episode 311 of The Cloud Pod podcast, bringing you all the latest Cloud news from AWS, Oracle, GCP, Azure, Cloudflare, Crowdstrike, Fabric, WAF, FSx, AI Crawlers https://www.thecloudpod.net/podcast/311-the-crawlers-are-running-the-asylum #thecloudpod

311: The Crawlers are Running the Asylum Middle-aged dudes ranting? Snarkfest? You're in luck! Justin's away so Matt & Ryan run wild on Episode 311 of @thecloudpod. Shorter than last week (thank me later). Topics: Cloudflare, CrowdStrike (yes, STILL), Fabric & environmental reports. Props to […]

311: The Crawlers are Running the Asylum Episode 311 of The Cloud Pod podcast, bringing you all the latest Cloud news from AWS, Oracle, GCP, Azure, Cloudflare, Crowdstrike, Fabric, WAF, FSx, AI Crawlers https://www.thecloudpod.net/podcast/311-the-crawlers-are-running-the-asylum #thecloudpod

310: CI You Later, Manual Testing This week in “things that give Justin nightmares” - Amazon Time Sync Service now supports *Nanosecond* Hardware Packet Timestamps. Now your packets arrive so fast, they file SEC reports before you do. #aws #timesync #thecloudpod https://www.thecloudpod.net/?p=21134

310: CI You Later, Manual Testing Remember MS-DOS Edit? From the computer lab? Right next to the floppy disks and Oregon Trail? Well, it's back. Rewritten in Rust, runs on Linux, and still won't save you from dysentery. Finally, a text editor that makes you feel 12 - and terrified of water […]

310: CI You Later, Manual Testing “Not today, Satan” - Cloudflare blocked a 7.3 Tbps DDoS attack. 37.4 TB in 45 seconds? That’s not a cyberattack; that’s the internet trying to yeet itself into oblivion. Want to hear about it? Episode 310 of The Cloud Pod, out now! #thecloudpod #ddosattacks […]

310: CI You Later, Manual Testing Episode 310 of The Cloud Pod podcast, bringing you all the latest Cloud news from AWS, Oracle, GCP, Azure, Grok, Manual Testing, Gemini, re:Inforce, Cloudflare, DDos https://www.thecloudpod.net/podcast/310-ci-you-later-manual-testing #thecloudpod

309: Microsoft tries to give away cloud services for free, sadly, it’s only SQL Episode 309 of The Cloud Pod podcast, with Cloud news from AWS, Oracle, GCP, Azure, Microsoft SQL, Meta, Llama, Databricks, WAF, and Cedar https://www.thecloudpod.net/podcast/309-microsoft-sql-free #thecloudpod

309: Microsoft tries to give away cloud services for free, sadly, it’s only SQL https://www.thecloudpod.net/?p=21128