Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas and Matt Kohn | Cloud Computing & AI News

The Cloud Pod | Weekly AI & Cloud News on AWS, Azure & GCP

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The Cloud Pod delivers weekly cloud computing and AI news for engineers, architects, and technology leaders. Join Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas, and Matt Kohn as they break down the latest from AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud — covering new services, platform updates, FinOps strategies, and the AI innovations reshaping the industry. Stay ahead of the cloud landscape with one of the longest-running cloud computing podcasts available.

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Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas and Matt Kohn | Cloud Computing & AI News

Episodes

311: The Crawlers are Running the Asylum 11.07.2025 1:10:10

Welcome to episode 311 of Two Old Men Yelling at Cloud – aka The Cloud Pod, featuring Matt and Ryan who absolutely, definitely did NOT record an aftershow. This week, they’re talking about Cloudflare’s new Pay Per Crawler, a new open-source Terraform provider from mkdev, and lots of fabric news that Ryan doesn’t understand – plus so much more. Let’s get into it! Titles we almost went with this...

310: CI You Later, Manual Testing 03.07.2025 1:51:15

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...

309: Microsoft tries to give away cloud services for free, sadly, it's only SQL 26.06.2025 51:05

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...

308: SCC: Security Command Center or Super Cool Capabilities? 18.06.2025 1:46:18

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 Fo...

307: The AI Assistant That Finally Understands Your Kubernetes Cluster (We are Doomed) 13.06.2025 1:11:17

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 cos...

306: Batch Better Have MySQL: Azure's Maintenance Makeover 06.06.2025 1:34:13

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...

305: AWS Breaks Up with Unpopular Services - "It's Not You, It's Me" 28.05.2025 1:12:49

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 al...

304: It’s Chile Up Here in The Cloud! 22.05.2025 1:16:54

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...

303: Someday You Will Find Me, Caught Beneath the AI Landslide, in a Champagne Premier Nova in The Sky 18.05.2025 1:24:54

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 nap T...

302: It’s So Hot, Even Windows is Hotpatching 08.05.2025 1:32:41

Welcome to episode 302 of The Cloud Pod – where the forecast is always cloudy! This week Justin and Ryan are on hand to bring you all the latest in Cloud (and AI news.) We’ve got hotpatching, Project Greenland, and a rollback of GPT-4.o, which sort of makes us sad – and our egos are definitely less stroked. Plus Saas, containers, and outposts – all of this and more. Thanks for joining us in the cl...

301: The Cloud Pod PartyRocks in the House Tonight 02.05.2025 1:19:31

Chapters (00:00:00) - The Cloud Pod (00:01:07) - How to Write a 300-Episode Recap With AI (00:03:05) - We're Turning 300 Episodes Down (00:07:39) - Reinventing: The Future of the Podcast (00:13:52) - Google Wins Antitrust Case vs. DOJ (00:21:18) - Google's Proposal for the Antitrust Case (00:24:29) - OpenAI Launches OpenAI03 and O4 Mini (00:30:27) - GPT 4.1 and 4.0 Mini (00:34:25) - GitHub Cloud a...

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 17.04.2025 1:20:18

Welcome to episode 300 of The Cloud Pod – where the forecast is always cloudy! According to the title, this week’s show is taking place inside of a Dr. Suess book, but don’t despair – we’re not going to make you eat green eggs and ham, but we WILL give you the low down on all things Vegas. Well, Google’s Next event which recently took place in Vegas anyway. Did you make any Next predictions? Titl...

299: We Predict Next, for Next Week’s, Next-Level Google Next Event. What’s Next? 06.04.2025 1:20:01

Welcome to episode 299 of The Cloud Pod – where the forecast is always cloudy! Google Next is quickly approaching, and you know what that means – it’s time for predictions! Who will win this year’s Crystal Ball award? Only time and the main stage will tell. Join Matthew, Justin, and Ryan as they break down their thoughts on what groundbreaking (and less groundbreaking) announcements are in store f...

298: BigQuery Gits it With Devops 02.04.2025 1:05:02

Welcome to episode 298 of The Cloud Pod – where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Matthew and Ryan are in the house (and still very much missing Jonathan) to bring you a jam packed show this week, with news from Beijing to Virginia! Did you know Virginia was in the US? Amazon definitely wants you to know that. We’ve got updates from BigQuery Git Support and their new collab tools, plus all...

297: Save the Date So You Can Get Some Skills – In AI! 26.03.2025 1:07:38

Welcome to episode 297 of The Cloud Pod – where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Ryan, and Matthew have beaten the black lung and are in the studio – ready to bring you all the latest and greatest in cloud and AI news! We’ve got Wiz buyouts (that security, it’s so hot right now!) Gemma 3, Glue 5 (but not 3 or 4) and Gemini Robots – plus looking forward to AI Skills Fest and Google Next, all...

296: Google Forces AI Protection 21.03.2025 59:26

Welcome to episode 296 of The Cloud Pod – where the forecast is always cloudy! Today is a twofer – Justin and Ryan are in the house to make sure you don’t miss out on any of today’s important cloud and AI news. From AI Protection, to Google Next, to Amazon Q Developer, we’ve got it all, this week on TCP! Titles we almost went with this week: Amazon Step Functions, walks step by step into my IDE D...

295: Skype follows Chime to the Grave 13.03.2025 1:03:59

Welcome to episode 295 of The Cloud Pod – where the forecast is always cloudy! Welp, it’s sayonara to Skype – and time to finally make the move to Teams. Hashi has officially moved to IBM, GPT 4.5 is out and people have…thoughts. Plus, Google has the career coach you need to make all your dreams come true.* *Assuming those dreams are reasonable in a volatile economy. Titles we almost went with t...

294: Ding: Chime is Dead 07.03.2025 1:01:25

Welcome to episode 294 of The Cloud Pod – where the forecast is always cloudy! Ilya Boy, do we have a news packed week for you! Sutskever raised $30B without a product, Mira Murati launched her own AI lab, and Claude 3.7 now thinks before it speaks. Meanwhile, Microsoft casually invented new matter for quantum computing, Google built an AI scientist, and AWS killed Chime (RIP). At this rate, AI is...

293: Terraform Apply – Output Pizza 26.02.2025 1:09:53

Welcome to episode 293 of The Cloud Pod – where the forecast is always cloudy! This week we’ve got a lot of new and, surprise, a new installment of Cloud Journey AND and aftershow – so make sure to stay tuned for that! We’ve got undersea cables, Go 1.24, Wasm, Anthropic and more. Titles we almost went with this week: ️Lets Go! Under Sea cables make AI go BRRRRRR The CloudPod says it will grow the...

292: VS Code Friend or Foe… Azure Data Studio Murdered 22.02.2025 41:23

Welcome to episode 292 of The Cloud Pod – where the forecast is always cloudy! This week Justin and Jonathan are a dynamic duo, bringing you all the latest in news – and sound effects – because it’s earnings time! Plus we’ve got new from VS Code, Azure Data Studio, CodeBuild and more. Titles we almost went with this week: ☁️The Cloud Pod Renames Cloud Earnings to ‘The Gulf of Capex’ Sorry Elon, O...

291: AWS, GCP and Azure eat KRO 13.02.2025 1:05:44

Welcome to episode 291 of The Cloud Pod – where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Jonathan, and Ryan have battled through the various plagues and have come together to bring you all the latest in cloud news, including Kro, DeepSeek, and CoPilot. Titles we almost went with this week: In Shocking News China Steals US IP ️The Cloud Pod is Now Supported in Gov Cloud Microsoft Goes Open Source N...

290: Open AI to Operator: There is a DeepSeek Outside the Door 06.02.2025 1:10:12

Welcome to episode 290 of The Cloud Pod – where the forecast is always cloudy! It’s a full house this week – and a good thing too, since there’s a lot of news! Justin, Jonathan, Ryan, and Matthew are all in the house to bring you news on DeepSeek, OpenVox, CloudWatch, and more. Titles we almost went with this week: ☁️The cloud pod wonders if azure is still hung over from new years Stratoshark sen...

289: DORA The Explorer… Of EU Regulations 31.01.2025 51:37

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:...

288: You Might Be Able to Retrain Notebook LM Hosts to be Less Annoyed, But Not Your Cloud Pod Hosts 22.01.2025 56:25

Welcome to episode 288 of The Cloud Pod – where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Ryan, and Jonathan are your hosts as we make our way through this week’s cloud and AI news, including back to Vertex AI, Project Digits, Notebook LM, and some major improvements to AI image generation. Titles we almost went with this week: Digits… I’ll show you 5 digits… The only digit the AWS local zone in New...

287: The Cloud Pod Rebrands to The Cloud AI So We Can Get A 1B Valuation 15.01.2025 47:16

Welcome to episode 287 of The Cloud Pod – where the forecast is always cloudy! 2025 is already shaping up to be another year of “unprecedented” times, but have no fear, Justin, Ryan, Jonathan, and Matthew are all in the house and (mostly) recovered from the holidays – and just in time to bring you all the latest new year news in the cloud world. Titles we almost went with this week: ☁️Everyone is...