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

234: The Cloud Pod Decrees I’m not a Good Cloud – but I’m not a Bad Cloud Either 10.11.2023 37:25

Welcome to episode 234 of The Cloud Pod podcast – where the forecast is always cloudy! This week your hosts Justin and Ryan are bringing you all the latest news from the cloud, including latest earnings news (you know you want it), a discussion about whether cloud is “bad” from one of repatriation’s biggest advocates, Oxide’s new cloud computer (it’s SO pretty) and a look at some of latest updates...

233: Replicator Isn’t a Real Product Because it isn’t Spelled with a K 02.11.2023 34:17

Welcome to The Cloud Pod – where the forecast is always cloudy! This week your hosts Justin, Matthew, and Ryan are here to fill you in on all the latest and greatest happenings in the cloud, including news about your SSL & TLS certificates, MSK Replicator, and the Azure Incubations Team. Did you know about them? Neither did we! Titles we almost went with this week: ☁️The Cloud Pod Replicator…...

232: The CloudPod Is Tired of Talking About New Instance Types 25.10.2023 41:32

Welcome to The Cloud Pod – where the forecast is always cloudy! This week your hosts, Jonathan and Ryan, are talking all about EC2 instances, including changes to AWS Systems Manager and Elastic Disaster Recovery. And speaking of disasters, we’re also taking a dive into the ongoing Google DDOS attacks. Plus, we’ve even thrown a little earthquake warning into the podcast, just for effect. Titles w...

231: The CloudPod Takes the Highway to the Datazone 19.10.2023 33:21

Welcome to The Cloud Pod episode 231! This week Justin and Matthew are discussing updates to Terraform testing for code validation, some new tools from Docker, look into the now generally available AWS DataZone, and dig into the evolution of passkeys over at Google. Slide into the passenger seat and let’s check out this week’s cloud news. Titles we almost went with this week: ‍The Cloud Pod wants...

230: If I Ever Own a Sailboat, I Will Name it Kafka… and Sail it on a Data Lake 11.10.2023 54:50

Welcome to The Cloud Pod episode 230, where the forecast is always cloudy! This week we’re sailing our pod across the data lake and talking about updates to managed delivery from Kafka. We also take a gander at Bedrock, some new security tools from our friends over at Google. We’re also back with our Cloud Journey Series talking security theater. Stay Tuned! Titles we almost went with this week:...

229: The CloudPod Guide to Gartner’s Magic Quadrant Container Chaos 09.10.2023 40:41

Welcome episode 228 of the Cloud Pod podcast – where the forecast is always cloudy! This week your hosts Justin, Jonathan, Matthew and Ryan are taking a look at Magic Quadrant, Gemini AI, and GraalOS – along with all the latest news from OCI, Google, AWS, and Azure. Titles we almost went with this week: The CloudPod wonders if Anthropic’s Santa Clause will bring us everything we want in an AI Bot...

228: Microsoft and Oracle Unite Their Legal Departments to Bring You… 27.09.2023 1:15:02

Welcome episode 228 of the Cloud Pod podcast – where the forecast is always cloudy! This week your hosts are Justin, Jonathan, Matthew and Ryan – Titles we almost went with this week: The Cloud Pod gets scanned for a malware infection The Cloud Pod gives up on security The Cloud Pod burns cash on a new Mac instance ⚔️Copilot’s Copyright Crusade – Microsoft’s Got Your Back in Copyright Battles ☁️...

227: The Cloud Pod Peeps at Azure’s Explicit Proxy 13.09.2023 51:58

Welcome episode 227 of the Cloud Pod podcast – where the forecast is always cloudy! This week your hosts are Justin, Jonathan, Matthew and Ryan – and they’re REALLY excited to tell you all about the 161 one things announced at Google Next. Literally, all the things. We’re also saying farewell to EC2 Classic, Amazon SES, and Azure’s Explicit Proxy – which probably isn’t what you think it is. Title...

226: Duet, Co-Pilot, and a Code Whisperer Walk into a bar in San Francisco 08.09.2023 1:05:42

Welcome episode 226 of the Cloud Pod podcast – where the forecast is always cloudy! This week Justin, Matt and Ryan chat about all the news and announcements from Google Next, including – surprise surprise – the hot topic of AI, GKE Enterprise, Duet, Co-Pilot, Code Whisperer and more! There’s even some non-Next news thrown into the episode. So whether you’re interested in BART or Bard, we’ve got t...

225: The Cloud Pod Proclaims: Merry Google Next Eve! 28.08.2023 33:54

Google Next Eve! Welcome episode 225 of The CloudPod Podcast – where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Jonathan, and Ryan are your hosts this week as we discuss all things Google Next! We talk schedule offerings, make our predictions about announcements, and prepare to be generally wrong about everything. Also – do you like stickers? Everyone likes stickers! Be on the lookout for us, and mayb...

224: The Cloud Pod Adopts the BS License 24.08.2023 54:46

Welcome to episode 224 of The CloudPod Podcast – where the forecast is always cloudy! This week, your hosts Justin, Jonathan, and Ryan discuss some major changes at Terraform, including switching from open source to a BSL License. Additionally, we cover updates to Amazon S3, goodies from Storage Day, and Google Gemini vs. Open AI. Titles we almost went with this week: None! This week’s title was...

223: Get an AWS Spin on Savings with Cost Optimization Flywheel 18.08.2023 32:14

Welcome episode 223 of The CloudPod Podcast! It’s a full house – Justin, Matt, Ryan, and Jonathan are all here this week to discuss all the cloud news you need. This week, cost optimization is the big one, with a deep dive on the newest AWS blog. Additionally, we’ve got updates to BigQuery, Google’s Health Service, managed services for Prometheus, and more. Titles we almost went with this week: ‍I...

222: Even AWS is Hit by Inflation, and is Passing that on to you – the Customer 09.08.2023 1:02:16

Welcome episode 222 of The Cloud Pod Podcast – where the forecast is always cloudy! This week we take an in depth look at the latest earnings reports from all the major players, changes to IPv4 costs (inflation), Healthscribe, and all the news (in cybersecurity) that’s fit to print. Titles we almost went with this week: The CloudPod can finally read the doctors notes with HealthScribe Amazon Heal...

221: The Biggest Innovator in SFTP in 30 Years? Amazon Web Services! 06.08.2023 53:37

Welcome episode 221 of The Cloud Pod podcast – where the forecast is always cloudy! This week your hosts, Justin, Jonathan, Ryan, and Matthew look at some of the announcements from AWS Summit, as well as try to predict the future – probably incorrectly – about what’s in store at Next 2023. Plus, we talk more about the storm attack, SFTP connectors (and no, that isn’t how you get to the Moscone Cen...

220: The Cloud Pod Read Llama Llama Red Pajama 26.07.2023 29:30

Welcome episode 220 of The Cloud Pod podcast – where the forecast is always cloudy! This week your hosts, Justin, Jonathan, Ryan, and Matthew discuss all things cloud, including virtual machines, an AI partnership between Microsoft and Meta for Llama 2, Lambda functions, Fargate, and lots of security updates including the Outlook breach and WORM protections. This and much more in our newest episod...

219: The Cloud Pod Proclaims: One Does Not Just Entra into Mordor 20.07.2023 22:57

Welcome episode 219 of The Cloud Pod podcast – where the forecast is always cloudy! Today your hosts are Justin and Jonathan, and they discuss all things cloud, including clickstream analytics, databricks, Microsoft Entra, virtual machines, Outlook threats, and some major changes over at the Google Cloud team. Titles we almost went with this week: TCP is not Entranced with Entra ID The Cave you F...

218: The Cloud Pod is a Sucker and Shifts Left 14.07.2023 51:16

Welcome to episode 218 of The Cloud Pod podcast – where the forecast is always cloudy! Today your hosts Justin, Ryan, and Matt discuss all things cloud – including migration services, AppFabric, state machines, and security updates, as well as the idea of shifting left versus (or in addition to) shifting down. Titles we almost went with this week: The Cloud Pod Prefers to be Bought by Anyone but...

217: The Cloud Pod Whispers Its Secrets to Azure Open AI 07.07.2023 39:53

Welcome to the newest episode of The Cloud Pod podcast – where the forecast is always cloudy! Today your hosts Justin, Jonathan, and Matt discuss all things cloud and AI, as well as some really interesting forays into quantum computing, changes to Google domains, Google accusing Microsoft of cloud monopoly shenanigans, and the fact that Azure wants all your industry secrets. Also, Finops and all t...

216: The Cloud Pod is Feeling Elevated Enough to Record the Podcast 29.06.2023 30:53

Welcome to the newest episode of The Cloud Pod podcast – where the forecast is always cloudy! Today your hosts are Jonathan and Matt as we discuss all things cloud and AI, including Temporary Elevated Access Management (or TEAM, since we REALLY like acronyms today) FTP servers, SQL servers and all the other servers, as well as pipelines, whether or not the government should regulate AI (spoiler a...

215: The Cloud Pod Breaks Into the Quantum Safe 22.06.2023 1:07:19

Welcome to the newest episode of The Cloud Pod podcast – where the forecast is always cloudy! Ryan, Jonathan, and Matt are your hosts this week as we discuss all things cloud, including updates to Terraform, pricing updates in GCP SCC, AWS Blueprint, DMS Serverless, and Snowball – as well as all the discussion on Microsoft quantum safe computing and ethical AI you could possibly want! A big thank...

214: The Cloud Pod Loves Inspector Gadget 05.06.2023 1:00:42

Welcome to the newest episode of The Cloud Pod podcast! Justin, Ryan, Jonathan, Matthew are your hosts this week as we discuss all things cloud and AI, as well as Amazon Detective, SageMaker, AWS Documentation, and Google Workstation. Titles we almost went with (and there’s a lot this week) The Cloud Pod becomes the cloud docs The Cloud Pod loves inspector gadget The Cloud Pod documents the docum...

213: The Cloud Pod Sings a Duet About AI 24.05.2023 1:11:54

Welcome to the newest episode of The Cloud Pod podcast! Justin, Ryan, Jonathan, Matthew are your hosts this week. Join us as we discuss all things cloud, AI, the upcoming Google AI Conference, AWS Console, and Duet AI for Google cloud. Titles we almost went with this week: You can finally lock yourself out of the AWS Console! Google IO delivers the AI… hopefully soon to be renamed Google AI Conf...

212: The Cloud Pod Wades into Microservices vs. Monoliths 17.05.2023 41:27

Welcome to the newest episode of The Cloud Pod podcast! Justin, Ryan, Jonathan, Matthew and Peter are your hosts this week as we discuss all things cloud and AI, Titles we almost went with this week: The Cloud Pod is better than Bob’s Used Books The Cloud Pod sets up AWS notifications for all The Cloud Pod is non-differential about privacy in BigQuery The Cloud Pod finds Windows Bob The Cloud Pod...

210: The Cloud Pod Deep Inspects Itself 03.05.2023 59:35

Welcome to the newest episode of The Cloud Pod podcast! Justin, Ryan and Matthew are your hosts this week as we discuss all the latest news and announcements in the world of the cloud and AI – including what’s new with Google Deepmind, as well as goings on over at the Finops X Conference. Join us! Titles we almost went with this week: The Cloud Pod DeepMinds bring you the Cloud News The Cloud Sou...

209: The Cloud Pod Whispers Sweet Nothings To Our Code (**why wont you work**) 28.04.2023 44:35

Welcome to the newest episode of The Cloud Pod podcast! Justin, Ryan and Jonathan are your hosts this week as we discuss all the latest news and announcements in the world of the cloud and AI – including Amazon’s new AI, Bedrock, as well as new AI tools from other developers. We also address the new updates to AWS’s CodeWhisperer, and return to our Cloud Journey Series where we discuss *insert dra...