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.
Episodes
- 352: Google Next: Rebrandapalooza
This episode of The Cloud Pod features Justin, Matt, and Ryan discussing news and announcements from Google Next, along with updates from Cloudflare and a shoe company. They also touch on Ryan's take on Phish.
- 351: IAM the One Spending All Your AI Money
In this episode, the hosts discuss the latest cloud and AI industry news and share their predictions for the upcoming Google Next event in Las Vegas. Topics also include Amazon's utility updates, Mythos, and the computing power of Artemis…
- 350: It looks like you’re trying to send an email from 250,000 miles away! Would you like help with that?
In episode 350 of The Cloud Pod, hosts discuss recent developments in cloud computing and AI, including news from DigitalOcean, AWS, and Anthropic's Claude. The episode also highlights a story involving IT support for Microsoft Outlook dur…
- 349: Gmail Finally Lets You Ditch xXDragonSlayer2004Xx
In this episode of The Cloud Pod, hosts Justin and Jonathan are joined by Dave Garaway to discuss updates from GTC, supply chain attacks, Gmail username changes, and issues with Claude. The discussion also covers a recent court ruling rega…
- 348: Compliance Theater Now Available as a Subscriptions
In this episode, the team discusses recent news in cloud and AI, including the Stryker cyberattack, AWS's 20th anniversary, Bedrock Agents, and Claude Code. They explore how multi-cloud architecture and network segmentation protected Stryk…
- 347: The CloudPod is Only Recording this Week “Because of AI”
In episode 347 of The Cloud Pod, the team discusses industry trends including the longevity of cloud tools, the state of SaaS, and the impact of AI on layoffs. They also cover recent news regarding Amazon, Microsoft's amicus brief in the A…
- 346: Zuckerberg Finally Finds His People, They Are All AI Agents
This episode of The Cloud Pod covers recent developments in the cloud and AI sectors, including Meta's acquisitions and OpenAI's latest model updates. The hosts also discuss Anthropic's designation as a supply chain risk by the Department…
- 345: Damn It… my excuse is now gone for Disaster Recovery
The hosts discuss recent developments in cloud and AI, including Anthropic's acquisition of Vercept, updates to Claude's computer use capabilities, and changes to AWS Transit Gateway pricing. The episode also covers the impact of geopoliti…
- 344: Amazon’s Coding Bot Bites the Hand That Runs It
In this episode of The Cloud Pod, Jonathan and Matt discuss the latest news in cloud computing, including developments in AI agents, serverless, and Kubernetes management. The hosts review updates from Cloudflare, OpenAI, and various AWS a…
- 343: AWS CloudWatch Finally Hits Snooze
Episode 343 of The Cloud Pod discusses new AWS CloudWatch Mute Rules that allow alarms to be silenced during maintenance. The hosts also cover AI news including Google's Gemini DeepThink, Anthropic's funding, and a Microsoft Notepad vulner…
- 342: Eight Minutes to Midnight: When AI Helps Hackers Speed Run Your AWS Account
This episode of The Cloud Pod covers AI and cloud news, including Super Bowl ads from major tech companies, earnings reports showing Azure cloud growth slowing and increased AI infrastructure investment by Microsoft, and various product an…
- 341: AWS Layoffs: Scaling Down Instead of Scaling Out
In episode 341 of The Cloud Pod, hosts Matt and Ryan discuss AWS layoffs, a security breach at Notepad++, and news from Elon Musk's companies, such as SpaceX acquiring xAI to integrate AI and satellite infrastructure.
- 340: Azure releases a new SQL AI Assistant… Jimmy Droptables
This episode of The Cloud Pod covers several cloud and AI announcements, including Gemini for Gov, Route 53, Claude, and Azure's new SQL AI Assistant. It also details Databricks' release of BlackIce, an open-source toolkit for AI security…
- 339: Just-in-Time Secrets: Because Your AI Agent Can’t Keep Its Mouth Shut
In episode 339, The Cloud Pod discusses AI and cloud news, noting personnel changes, Azure advertising 4,000 models, and OpenAI developments. Cloudflare acquired Astro Technology Company, integrating the web framework and its multi-cloud c…
- 338: T5Gemma Says “AI’ll be Back”
The Cloud Pod hosts cover AI and cloud news, including Anthropic's new Cowork feature for general office tasks, Google's Veo 3.1, and acquisitions by Flexera and Snowflake. They also touch on Gemini CLI updates and AI's growing role in var…
- 336: We Were Right (Mostly), 2026: The New Prophecies
In episode 336 of The Cloud Pod, hosts Justin, Jonathan, Ryan, and Matt review 2025 and present their predictions for the cloud and AI landscape in 2026. They discuss advancements in edge AI, the evolution of multi-cloud security, and shif…
- 337: AWS Discovers Prices Can Go Both Ways, Raises GPU Costs 15 Percent
The Cloud Pod episode 337 discusses AWS increasing GPU costs by 15%. It also highlights the free release of Google DeepMind's documentary "The Thinking Game," detailing their work on artificial general intelligence and the AlphaFold model.…
- 335: EKS Network Policies: Now With More Layers Than Your Security Team’s Org Chart
The Cloud Pod episode 335 discusses EKS Network Policies, Google's Gemini 3, and Meta's AI strategy shifts, including the development of their new AI model codenamed Avocado and changes in AI leadership.
- 334: AWS Makes Kubernetes Conversational
Episode 334 of The Cloud Pod recaps the AWS re:Invent conference, covering major announcements in AI, Kubernetes, serverless, and storage. Hosts Justin, Matt, and Ryan discuss new services and features, including updates to Bedrock AgentCo…
- 333: The Cloud Pod Goes Nano Banana
The Cloud Pod episode 333 covers cloud and AI news, including Norad and Anthropic
- 331: Claude Gets a $30 Billion Azure Wardrobe and Two New Best Friends
Episode 331 of The Cloud Pod covers the latest in cloud and AI news. The hosts discuss a significant $30 billion deal between Claude and Azure, as well as news on undersea cables, datacenters, and predictions.
- 332: 2025 Re:Invent Predictions Draft – May The Odds Be Ever In Your Favor
In episode 332, The Cloud Pod hosts Justin, Jonathan, Ryan, and Matt draft their predictions for AWS Re:Invent 2025. They discuss potential announcements including serverless GPU support, an agentic platform for AI, Werner Vogels' retireme…
- 330: AWS Proves the Internet Really Is a Series of Tubes Under the Ocean
This episode of The Cloud Pod discusses AI and cloud news, focusing on AWS undersea cables, FinOps, and Ignite predictions. It also covers Microsoft
- 329: Azure Front Door: Please Use the Side Entrance
Episode 329 of The Cloud Pod covers the massive Azure global outage on October 29, which lasted eight hours and was caused by an Azure Front Door configuration error. The hosts also discuss other AI and cloud news including GPUs, K8 update…
- 328: Shhh… It’s a Secret Region!
The Cloud Pod episode 328 discusses secret regions, Microsoft and OpenAI dynamics, and updates to Nova, SQL, and OneLake. It also includes a segment on Cloud Journeys. Fastly
- 327: AWS Finally Admits Kubernetes is Hard, Makes Robots Do It Instead
Episode 327 of The Cloud Pod reviews recent cloud and AI news, including AWS outages, new AI models, EKS, Kubernetes, and Vertex AI. It also addresses the deprecation of the standalone Amazon Glacier service, clarifying its impact on S3 Gl…
- 326: Oracle Discovers the Dark Side (And Finally Has Cookies)
The Cloud Pod episode 326 discusses a significant security breach at SonicWall impacting all cloud backup customers' firewall configurations. It also touches on AWS service updates, Oracle's cloud developments, and other industry news.
- 325: Db2 or Not Db2: That Is the Backup Question
Ryan and Matthew host episode 325 of The Cloud Pod, discussing cloud and AI news during Justin's vacation. Topics include an AWS invoice undo button, Sora 2 with cameo features, and several DigitalOcean updates.
- 324: Clippy’s Revenge: The AI Assistant That Actually Works – Sort Of
In episode 324, The Cloud Pod covers Oracle
- 322: Did OpenAI and Microsoft Break Up? It’s Complicated…
The Cloud Pod episode 322 discusses the restructured partnership between Microsoft and OpenAI, involving an equity stake for OpenAI and modifications to their agreement. This includes changes to the AGI clause, Microsoft
- 323: Databricks One: Because Seven Eight Nine
In episode 323 of The Cloud Pod, hosts Justin, Matt, and Ryan discuss cloud and AI news. Topics include Google and Kaggle's AI agents course, Microsoft Entra, DeepSeek, Firestore, and a recent acquisition.
- 321: The Cloud Pod is in Tears Trying to Understand Azure Tiers
Episode 321 of The Cloud Pod covers Azure tiers, Cloudflare's TLS certificate issues, problems at Builder.ai, and upcoming events like the FinOps Weekly Summit and Ignite.
- 320: Azure gives your Finops person a heart attack
In episode 320 of The Cloud Pod, hosts discuss Google avoiding a $2.5 trillion breakup. They also cover updates on AWS Cost MCP, EKS, Veo, Claude, and potential budget alerts with Azure.
- 319: AWS Cost MCP: Your Billing Data Now Speaks Human
AWS Cost MCP now allows users to explore finops data using natural language. This episode of The Cloud Pod also touches on Microsoft
- 318: One Extension to Rule Them All (And in the VS Code Bind Them)
The Cloud Pod episode 318 discusses cloud news from AWS, Azure, and GCP, featuring updates on Aurora and Magic Quadrants. It also covers AOL
- 317: I Got 99 Problems, But a Hallucination Ain’t One
The Cloud Pod covers AI and cloud news, including updates on GPT-5, Oracle's AI conference, and the issue of AI model hallucinations. The episode also features a follow-up on a previous Cloud Journey.
- 316: Microsoft’s New AI Agent Has Trust Issues (With Software)
The Cloud Pod episode 316 covers Microsoft's AI agent trust issues, Google's strong earnings with increased AI infrastructure spending, and news from various tech companies including DeepSeek, DocumentDB, and DigitalOcean.
- 315: EC2’s New Shutdown Shortcut: Because Sometimes You Just Need to Pull the Plug
This episode of The Cloud Pod discusses EC2's new shutdown shortcut, AI news from the White House, and recent exploits targeting government agencies via SharePoint vulnerabilities. Updates from CloudWatch, CrowdStrike, and GKE are also fea…
- TCP-Talks: Focus on Value: How FinOps Transformed from Cost Cops to Business Enablers
The Cloud Pod features FinOps Foundation guests discussing FinOps
- 314: Vector? I Hardly Know Her! S3’s New AI Storage Play
In episode 314 of The Cloud Pod, hosts Matt and Ryan discuss AWS S3's new vector storage capabilities, undersea cables, and other tech news. They also touch on SoftBank and OpenAI's AI project funding struggles and Oracle's power commitmen…
- 313: The Gartner Guide to Breaking Things on Purpose
The Cloud Pod episode 313 discusses AI and Cloud news, featuring Gartner, acquisition news like Cognition acquiring Windsurf after Google poached its CEO, new tools, and an undersea cable.
- TCP Talks: The David vs. Goliath of Cloud Storage: Chris Opat from Backblaze on Challenging Hyperscalers
Chris Opat, SVP of Cloud Operations at Backblaze, joins The Cloud Pod to discuss how Backblaze challenges cloud storage hyperscalers. The conversation covers Backblaze's history, its B2 Cloud Storage offering with transparent pricing, and…
- 312: Azure Firewall Finally Learns to Spell (FQDN Edition)
In episode 312 of The Cloud Pod, hosts Matt, Ryan, and Justin discuss Azure Firewall improvements, AI security, PostgreSQL updates, Azure firewall, BlobNFS, and share Cloud Journey stories. Ryan details his experience securing AI workloads…
- 311: The Crawlers are Running the Asylum
In episode 311 of The Cloud Pod, hosts Matt and Ryan discuss Cloudflare
- 310: CI You Later, Manual Testing
Episode 310 of The Cloud Pod discusses recent cloud and AI news, including updates from re:Inforce, Manual Testing, GuardDuty, Government AI, Gemini 2.5, and a look back at the MS-DOS Editor.
- 309: Microsoft tries to give away cloud services for free, sadly, it’s only SQL
In episode 308 of The Cloud Pod, hosts Justin and Matt discuss Databricks, Lakebridge, Cedar Analysis, Amazon Q, Google's recent challenges, and updates to SQL services. The episode also touches on Microsoft's offering of free SQL cloud se…
- 308: SCC: Security Command Center or Super Cool Capabilities?
Episode 308 of The Cloud Pod discusses news from FinOps X and Snowflake Summit, including updates on Security Command Center, OpenAI, and a new AWS Region. Cloud providers are enhancing AI capabilities for cost optimization and application…
- 307: The AI Assistant That Finally Understands Your Kubernetes Cluster (We are Doomed)
Episode 307 of The Cloud Pod discusses an AI assistant that understands Kubernetes clusters. It also covers Salesforce's $8 billion acquisition of Informatica to build a data foundation for AI, and news regarding Azure making AWS more cost…
- 306: Batch Better Have MySQL: Azure’s Maintenance Makeover
Episode 306 of The Cloud Pod discusses Anthropic's new Claude 4 Opus and Sonnet models, highlighting Opus 4's 350 billion parameters and Sonnet 4's 10 billion parameters, along with their enhanced tool use and memory capabilities. The epis…
- 305: AWS Breaks Up with Unpopular Services – “It’s Not You, It’s Me”
This episode of The Cloud Pod discusses AWS service changes and covers Google's AI advancements, particularly the autonomous coding agent Jules, which can read, understand, and modify code independently. The news segment also touches on AI…