The Cloud Pod | Weekly AI & Cloud News on AWS, Azure & GCP
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.
Episodes
374: Data Center Caught Gassing Up Without a Permit Slip
Welcome to episode 374 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Ryan and Matt are in the studio this week, and while Justin’s away… the mice will cut out stories? Somehow, they still managed to put together a packed show this week, including more data center drama, even MORE new models, a continuation of the fight between Anthropic and the
373: Raiders of the Lost Claude Artifact
Welcome to episode 373 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin and Matt are in the studio this week and ready to bring you the latest in cloud and AI news, including updates over at BigQuery, a handful of new models (yes we know, last week we told you they were slowing down development) and some unfortunate updates for AWS users in
372: Welcome to Microsoft Patch-A-Palooza
Welcome to episode 372 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Ryan, and Matt have their head in the clouds all week and are ready to bring you all the latest in cloud and AI news, including Microsoft’s continued attempts to keep up with AI-detected issues, updates to Terraform and GKE, plus so much more. Let’s get started!
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371: MrBeast Bets on Gemini for Survival
Welcome to episode 371 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin is away this week, so Matt and Ryan are doing their best to keep things on track and bring you all the latest in cloud and AI news, including even more models, like OpenAI’s Astra and Google’s Mantis (It eats the bad bugs! Get it?) Plus news from GuardDuty and a chat ab
370: Gates Says AI Might Take Your Job, Ctrl-Alt-Delete Career
Welcome to episode 370 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! We’re super lucky this week, since Ryan has arranged his busy napping schedule to allow for recording the episode, and he’s joined by Justin (also not napping) to discuss all the latest in cloud and AI news, including more detail on the Hugging Face hack by OpenAI’s Skynet, Bi
369: Thirteen Billion Reasons to Hug This Face
Welcome to episode 369 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Ryan, and (eventually) Matt are in the studio this week to bring you all the latest news in AI and Cloud, including a new local zone in Vegas, a 20th birthday, and some OAuth news thanks to Cloudflare. There’s a lot to cover, so let’s get into it!
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368: Push, Pull, and Pray: GitHub Outage Strikes
Welcome to episode 368 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Matt, and Ryan are in the studio this week, and the major story is the GitHub outage – are you still digging out from that one too? We have MANY thoughts. Plus, we have news from EKS, CloudShell, and some major Microsoft changes to the Copilot ecosystem. There’s a lot
367: Claude introduces DLP, I thought it always stole Data
Welcome to episode 367 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Ryan, and Matthew are in the studio this week and ready with a lot of news, including passkeys (we know, they’ve had a rough week), Secrets Manager, Vector Search, and Glimmer (no, not my second favorite character from She-Ra), and even…wait for it…undersea cable news!
366: You just can’t kill a good JWT
Welcome to episode 366 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Ryan is back from “vacation,” aka his other job (moonlighting as the admin of the Eagles’ biggest fan Facebook group), and this week we’re talking a lot about security, how orgs are managing threats, and whose turn it is to release a new hoard of patches. Plus, we’ve got news
365: Linux Drops 432 CVEs, Sysadmins Drop Everything Else
Welcome to episode 364 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Ryan is out trying to find Hotel California, but Justin, Matt, and Jonathan are in the studio today, and they’ve got a lot of news and some great convo – from privacy in the digital age to Nova models (and a lot of employees) getting the ax, there’s a ton of stuff to cover thi
364: AWS Billing Bug Sends Invoices to the Moon
Welcome to episode 364 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin and Matt are in the studio this week to bring you all the latest in cloud and AI news, including (surprise) astronomical AWS bills, Kimi K3 and what it means for Enterprise AI, and lots of security news! All that and so much more, so let’s get started!
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363: SQS: 20 Years of waiting in line
Welcome to episode 363 of The Cloud Pod, where the weather is always cloudy! Justin, Matt, and Ryan are in the studio this week to bring you all the latest in cloud and AI news, including Amazon SQS turning 20, Grok solving a Rubik’s cube, and Cloudflare’s new “spot the bot” tool, which harnesses *checks notes* monitoring mouse movements? Ok… It’s been
362: Mechanical Turk: The Fall of the Ottoman API
Welcome to episode 362 of The Cloud Pod, where the weather is always cloudy! Justin, Jonathan, and Matt are in the studio, and this week we’ve got slightly less AI, but much more data news – a trend Jonathan is sure will continue. Join us as we explore Kubernetes updates, the end of Amazon Mechanical Turk, and the last of the physical media for game con
361: Beep Beep: AWS Ships an ACME Product That Actually Works
Welcome to episode 361 of The Cloud Pod, where the weather is always cloudy! It’s a full house tonight – Justin, Ryan, Jonathan (and eventually) Matt are all in the studio this week to bring you the latest in cloud and AI news, including a greenlight for Mythos, an ACME product that *doesn’t* involve an anvil, and a couple of new models from Anthropic a
360: And you thought AWS was out of features for S3. Surprise!
Welcome to episode 360 of The Cloud Pod, where the weather is always cloudy! Justin, Matt, and Jonathan (for a bit, anyway) are in the studio this week bringing you all the latest in cloud and AI news, including a bunch of analytics, some upgrades courtesy of AI agents, and some news from Kafka. There’s a lot to cover, so let’s get started!
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359: Tokenomicon Sounds Metal, but it's Just Cloud Budgets
Welcome to episode 359 of The Cloud Pod, where the weather is always cloudy! Justin and Ryan are in the studio this week to bring you all the latest in cloud and AI news, including AI governance, FinOps’ final conference, and even an earnings story courtesy of Oracle. These and so much more – so let’s get started!
Titles we almost went with this week
358: AI Spend Limits Because Frontier Models Aren't Free Therapy
Welcome to episode 358 of The Cloud Pod, where the weather is always cloudy!
Justin, Matt, and Ryan (who, rumour has it, was working on an Eagles music podcast) are in the studio this week to bring you all the latest in AI and cloud news (and begging for a AI spend limit increase), including anthropic wanting everyone – except themselves – to slow down
357: Cache Me If You Can - Now With Durability
Welcome to episode 357 of The Cloud Pod, where the weather is always cloudy! Justin and Matt are in the studio this week to bring you all the latest in cloud and AI news! Is AI costing more than the people it replaced? Are CEO’s suffering from AI psychosis? Is Opus 4.8 better than 4.7? We answer all of these questions and more this week – so let’s get s
356: Holy Labor Displacement, Batman! The Vatican Weighs In
Welcome to episode 356 of The Cloud Pod, where the weather is always cloudy! Justin and Ryan are in the studio this week and ready to bring you all the latest in cloud and AI news, including the Pope coming out against AI, AWS introducing a new local zone, and GitHub having yet another crappy week. There’s a lot of news, so let’s get started!
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355: The Cloud Pod's AI Pleads Not Guilty, Blames Philip K. Dick
354: US-Tirefire-1 lives up to its Stellar Reputation
Welcome to episode 354 of The Cloud Pod, where the weather is always cloudy! This week was sort of a tire fire for the cloud, with US-East-1 losing power, TanStack Supply chain being hit with an impressively creative attack, and Linux getting hit with a second vulnerability in as many weeks. But it’s not all bad news – Microsoft finally figured out we d
353: Don't Be Evil Unless the Government Asks Nicely
Welcome to episode 353 of The Cloud Pod, where the weather is always cloudy! Justin, Ryan, and Matt are in the studio this week and ready to bring you all the latest news, including earnings from the big 3, a new agreement between the DOW and Google (Don’t be Evil), AI Agents, and more OpenClaw news (that your security team may not appreciate). Plus, Da
352: Google Next: Rebrandapalooza
Welcome to episode 352 of The Cloud Pod, where the weather is always cloudy! Justin, Matt, and Ryan are safely back from Vegas (Ryan and Justin, anyway), and they have all the news and announcements from Google Next. Plus, we have Ryan’s take on Phish, news from Cloudflare, and a shoe company making a pivot. There’s a lot to cover, so let’s get started!
351: IAM the One Spending All Your AI Money
Welcome to episode 351 of The Cloud Pod, where the weather is always cloudy! Justin, Matt, and Ryan are in the studio today and ready to bring you the latest in cloud and AI news. And it’s that time of year again – we’re coming up quickly on Google Next, place your so we’ve got our yearly predictions for what’s coming from Vegas, as well as more news ab
350: It looks like you're trying to send an email from 250,000 miles away! Would you like help with that?
Welcome to episode 350 of The Cloud Pod, where the weather is always cloudy! Justin, Jonathan, and Matt are this week’s hosts, and they’ve scoured the clouds for all the latest news and announcements, including that Mythos drop. Is it the AI apocalypse that everyone is claiming? We’ve also got news from DigitalOcean, an email from Space, Claude and even
349: Gmail Finally Lets You Ditch xXDragonSlayer2004Xx
Welcome to episode 349 of The Cloud Pod, where the weather is always cloudy! Justin and Jonathan managed to make it into the studio this week, and they brought a guest! Dave Garaway jas joined us, and brought some on-the-ground knowledge from GTC, plus a slew of supply chain attacks, Gmail username changes and Claude’s code debacle. We’ve got all this a
348: Compliance Theater Now Available as a Subscriptions
Welcome to episode 348 of The Cloud Pod, where the weather is always cloudy! Justin, Ryan, and Matt are in the studio this week to bring you all the latest news in AI and Cloud, inclduing Strykers troubles, AWS’ birthday, Bedrock Agents, and Claude Code – plus so much more. Let’s get started!
Titles we almost went with this week
SOC 2 It to Me Delve
347: The CloudPod is Only Recording this Week “Because of AI”
Welcome to episode 347 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Jonathan, and Ryan are in the studio recording today, and thankfully, Jonathan hasn’t replaced us all with Skynet – yet. This week, we’re discussing how old our tools (and us) are (hint: it’s really old), whether or not the SaasApocalypse is upon us, and whether or not
346: Zuckerberg Finally Finds His People, They Are All AI Agents
Welcome to episode 346 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Hold on to your butts, because Justin, Ryan, and Matt are in the studio today, and they’re ready to bring you all the latest in Cloud and AI news, including the usual: Meta buying social networks, Amazon responding to outages, and OpenAI giving up another version of GPT. Let’s
345: Damn It… my excuse is now gone for Disaster Recovery
Welcome to episode 345 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Ryan, and Matt are in the studio this week and are ready to bring you all the latest in cloud and AI news, including what’s going on between Anthropic, the DOD, and OpenAI, what the war means for Middle East data centers (Spoiler – I hope you have a good Disaster Recov
344: Amazon’s Coding Bot Bites the Hand That Runs It
Welcome to episode 344 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin is out of the office at a World of Warcraft Tournament (not really), and Ryan is pursuing his lifelong dream of becoming a roadie for The Eagles (maybe?), so it’s Jonathan and Matt holding down the fort this week, and they’ve got a ton of cloud news for you! From securi
343: AWS CloudWatch Finally Hits Snooze
Welcome to episode 343 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Ryan, and Matt are in the studio this week bringing you all the latest in Cloud and AI news, including some of the smaller clouds like Cloudflare and Crusoe Cloud, as well as announcements from the big guys like Google’s Gemini DeepThink, Anthropic’s big pay day, and M
342: Eight Minutes to Midnight: When AI Helps Hackers Speed Run Your AWS Account
Welcome to episode 342 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Ryan, and Matt are in the studio today to bring you all the latest in cloud and AI news this week. How do you feel about ads? How do you feel about ads while using AI? We’ve got options! We’ve got a round-up of tech Super Bowl ads, AI ads, Earnings reports (who frankly
341: AWS Layoffs: Scaling Down Instead of Scaling Out
Welcome to episode 341 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Matt & Ryan are picking up Justin’s slack this week while he’s traveling for work, but don’t worry, because they have plenty of news! We’re talking about those mass layoffs over at AWS, a major security breach over at Notepad++, and some new slight of hand over at Elon’s c
340: Azure releases a new SQL AI Assistant… Jimmy Droptables
Welcome to episode 340 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! It’s a full house (eventually) with Justin, Jonathan, Ryan, and Matt all on board for today’s episode. We’ve got a lot of announcements, from Gemini for Gov (no more CamoGPT!) to Route 52 and Claude. Let’s get started!
Titles we almost went with this week
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339: Just-in-Time Secrets: Because Your AI Agent Can't Keep Its Mouth Shut
Welcome to episode 339 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin and Matt are in the studio today to bring you all the latest in cloud and AI announcements, including more personnel shifts (and it doesn’t seem like it was very friendly), a new way to get much needed copper, and Azure marketplace advertising 4,000 different models. Wh
338: T5Gemma Says "AI’ll be Back”
Welcome to episode 338 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Ryan, Matt, and Jonathan are in the studio today to bring you all the latest in cloud and AI news, including a bit of a buying spree (inlcuding whole power companies) Veo 3.1, Cowork, and more – today in the cloud!
Titles we almost went with this week
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337: AWS Discovers Prices Can Go Both Ways, Raises GPU Costs 15 Percent
Welcome to episode 337 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Matt, and Ryan have hit the recording studio to bring you all the latest in cloud and AI news, from acquisitions and price hikes to new tools that Ryan somehow loves but also hates? We don’t understand either… but let’s get started!
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336: We Were Right (Mostly), 2026: The New Prophecies
Welcome to episode 335 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Welcome to the first show of 2026, and it’s a full house, too! Justin, Jonathan, Ryan, and Matt are all here to reflect on 2025, plus bring you their predictions for 2026.
Let’s get started!
Titles we almost went with this week
SQL Me Maybe: AlloyDB Gets Chatty With Your D
335: EKS Network Policies: Now With More Layers Than Your Security Team's Org Chart
Welcome to episode 335 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! This pre-Christmas week, Ryan and Justin have hit the studio to bring you the final show of 2025. We’ve got lots of AI images, EKS Network Policies, Gemini 3, and even some Disney drama.
Let’s get into it!
Titles we almost went with this week
From Roomba to Tomb-ba: How th
334: AWS Makes Kubernetes Conversational
Welcome to episode 334 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! This week, we’re bringing you a jam-packed recap of re:Invent! We’ve got all the news, from keynotes to announcements. Whether you were there live or catching up on all the news, Justin, Matt, and Ryan are here to break it all down. Let’s get started!
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333: The Cloud Pod Goes Nano Banana
Welcome to episode 333 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Ryan, and Matt are taking a quick break from re:Invent festivities. They bring you the latest and greatest in Cloud and AI news. This week, we discuss Norad and Anthropic teaming up to bring you Christmas cheer. Wait, is that right? Huh. We also have undersea cables, s
332: 2025 Re:Invent Predictions Draft – May The Odds Be Ever In Your Favor
Welcome to episode 332 of The Cloud Pod – where the forecast is always cloudy! It’s Thanksgiving week, which can only mean one thing: AWS Re:Invent predictions! In this special episode, Justin, Jonathan, Ryan, and Matt engage in the annual tradition of drafting their best guesses for what AWS will announce at the biggest cloud conference of the year. Ju
331: Claude Gets a $30 Billion Azure Wardrobe and Two New Best Friends
Welcome to episode 331 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Jonathan, Ryan, Matt, and Justin (for a little bit, anyway) are in the studio today to bring you all the latest in cloud and AI news. This week, we’re looking at our Ignite predictions (that side gig as internet psychics isn’t looking too good) undersea cables (our fave!), plu
330: AWS Proves the Internet Really Is a Series of Tubes Under the Ocean
Welcome to episode 329 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy (and if you’re in California, rainy too!) Justin and Matt have taken a break from Ark building activities to bring you this week’s episode, packed with all the latest in cloud and AI news, including undersea cables (our favorite!) FinOps, Ignite predictions, and so much more! G
329: Azure Front Door: Please Use the Side Entrance
Welcome to episode 329 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Jonathan, and special guest Elise are in the studio to bring you all the latest in AI and cloud news, including – you guessed it – more outages, and more OpenAI team-ups. We’ve also got GPUs, K8 news, and Cursor updates. Let’s get started!
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328: Shhh… It’s a Secret Region!
Welcome to episode 328 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Ryan, and Matt are on board today to bring you all the latest news in cloud and AI, including secret regions (this one has the aliens), ongoing discussions between Microsoft and OpenAI, and updates to Nova, SQL, and OneLake -and even the latest installment of Cloud Jou
327: AWS Finally Admits Kubernetes is Hard, Makes Robots Do It Instead
Welcome to episode 327 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Matt, and Ryan are here to bring you all the latest news (and a few rants) in the worlds of Cloud and AI. I’m sure all our readers are aware of the AWS outage last week, as it was in all the news everywhere. But we’ve also got some new AI models (including Sora in case
326: Oracle Discovers the Dark Side (And Finally Has Cookies)
Welcome to episode 326 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin and Ryan are your guides to all things cloud and AI this week! We’ve got news from SonicWall (and it’s not great), a host of goodbyes to say over at AWS, Oracle (finally) joins the dark side, and even Slurm – and you don’t even need to ride on a creepy river to experien
325: Db2 or Not Db2: That Is the Backup Question
Welcome to episode 325 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin is on vacation this week, so it’s up to Ryan and Matthew to bring you all the latest news in cloud and AI, and they definitely deliver! This week we have an AWS invoice undo button, Sora 2, and quite a bit of news DigitalOcean – plus so much more. Let’s get started!
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323: Databricks One: Because Seven Eight Nine
Welcome to episode 323 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Matt and Ryan are in the studio tonight to bring you all the latest in cloud and AI news! This week we have a close call from Entra, some DeepSeek news, Firestore, and even an acquisition! Make sure to stay tuned for the aftershow – and Matt obviously falling asleep on
324: Clippy’s Revenge: The AI Assistant That Actually Works - Sort Of
Welcome to episode 324 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Ryan, and Jonathan are your hosts, bringing you all the latest news and announcements in Cloud and AI. This week we have some exec changes over at Oracle, a LOT of announcements about Sonnet 4.5, and even some marketplace updates over at Azure! Let’s get started.
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322: Did OpenAI and Microsoft Break Up? It’s Complicated…
Welcome to episode 322 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! We have BIG NEWS – Jonathan is back! He’s joined in the studio by Justin and Ryan to bring you all the latest in cloud and AI news, including ongoing drama in the Microsoft/OpenAI drama, saying goodbye to data transfer fees (in the EU), M4 Power, and more. Let’s get started!
321: The Cloud Pod is in Tears Trying to Understand Azure Tiers
The Cloud Pod is in Tears Trying to Understand Azure Tiers
Welcome to episode 321 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Ryan, and Matt are all on hand to bring you the latest in cloud and AI news, including increased metrics data (because who doesn’t love more data), some issues over at Cloudflare, and even bigger issues at B
320: Azure gives your Finops person a heart attack
Welcome to episode 320 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Matt, and Ryan are coming to you from Justin’s echo chamber and bringing all the latest in AI and Cloud news, including updates to Google’s Anti-trust case, AWS Cost MCP, new regions, updates to EKS, Veo, and Claude, and more! Let’s get into it.
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319: AWS Cost MCP: Your Billing Data Now Speaks Human
Welcome to episode 319 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Matt, and Ryan are in the studio to bring you all the latest in cloud and AI news. AWS Cost MCP makes exploring your finops data as simple as english text. We’ve got a sunnier view for junior devs, a Microsoft open source development, tokens, and it’s even Kubernetes’
318: One Extension to Rule Them All (And in the VS Code Bind Them)
Welcome to episode 318 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! We’re going on an adventure! Justin and Ryan have formed a fellowship of the cloud, and they’re bringing you all the latest and greatest news from Valinor to Helm’s Deep, and Azure to AWS to GCP. We’ve water issues, some Magic Quadrants, and Aurora updates…but sadly no potato
317: I Got 99 Problems, But a Hallucination Ain’t One
Welcome to episode 317 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Matt, and an out-of-breath (from outrunning bears) Ryan are back in the studio to bring you another episode of everyone’s favorite cloud and AI news wrap-up. This week we’ve got GTP-5, Oracle’s newly minted AI conference, hallucinations (not the good kind), and even a
316: Microsoft’s New AI Agent Has Trust Issues (With Software)
Welcome to episode 316 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! This week we’ve got earnings (with sound effects, obviously) as well as news from DeepSeek, DocumentDB, DigitalOcean, and a bunch of GPU news. Justin and Matt are here to lead you through all of it, so let’s get started!
Titles we almost went with this week:
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315: EC2's New Shutdown Shortcut: Because Sometimes You Just Need to Pull the Plug
Welcome to episode 315 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Your hosts, Justin and Matt, are here to bring you the latest in cloud and AI news, including news about AI from the White House, the newest hacker exploits, and news from CloudWatch, CrowdStrike, and GKE – plus so much more. Let’s get into it!
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314: Vector? I Hardly Know Her! S3's New AI Storage Play
Welcome to episode 314 of The Cloud Pod, where your hosts, Matt and Ryan, are holding down the fort in Justin’s absence and bringing what’s left of our audience (those of you still here after the last time they were left in charge) the latest and greatest in cloud and tech news. We’ve got undersea cables, vector storage, and even some hobos – but not th
313: The Gartner Guide to Breaking Things on Purpose
Welcome to episode 313 of The Cloud Pod, where your hosts, Matt, Ryan, and Justin, are here to bring you all the latest in Cloud and AI news. This week we’ve got an installation of Cloud Journey featuring Gartner and chaos AND an aftershow! We’ve got acquisition news, new tools, an undersea cable, and even a little chaos, all right now in the cloud. Let
312: Azure Firewall Finally Learns to Spell (FQDN Edition)
Welcome to episode 312 of The Cloud Pod, where your hosts, Matt, Ryan, and Justin, are here to bring you all the latest in Cloud and AI news. We’ve got security news, updates from PostgreSQL, Azure firewall and BlobNFS, plus TWO Cloud Journey stories for you!
Thanks for joining us this week in the cloud!
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Git Hap
311: The Crawlers are Running the Asylum
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 ge
310: CI You Later, Manual Testing
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
309: Microsoft tries to give away cloud services for free, sadly, it's only SQL
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 m
308: SCC: Security Command Center or Super Cool Capabilities?
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!
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307: The AI Assistant That Finally Understands Your Kubernetes Cluster (We are Doomed)
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
306: Batch Better Have MySQL: Azure's Maintenance Makeover
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 an
305: AWS Breaks Up with Unpopular Services - "It's Not You, It's Me"
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
304: It’s Chile Up Here in The Cloud!
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!
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303: Someday You Will Find Me, Caught Beneath the AI Landslide, in a Champagne Premier Nova in The Sky
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!
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302: It’s So Hot, Even Windows is Hotpatching
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 t
301: The Cloud Pod PartyRocks in the House Tonight
Chapters
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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
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 any
299: We Predict Next, for Next Week’s, Next-Level Google Next Event. What’s Next?
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
298: BigQuery Gits it With Devops
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
297: Save the Date So You Can Get Some Skills – In AI!
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 fo
296: Google Forces AI Protection
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 S
295: Skype follows Chime to the Grave
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 vo
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