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345: Damn It… my excuse is now gone for Disaster Recovery Ryan is back on the pod talking cloud security. The Eagle’s loss is our gain, but let’s be real; the guitar skills and the Cedar policy language comprehension were probably about equal. #TheCloudPod #Episode345 #Cedar […]
345: Damn It… my excuse is now gone for Disaster Recovery Matt's reaction to AWS Transit Gateway attachment charges: "Go cry a little bit." Truly, this is a man who has SEEN some things. Grief = pricing calculator…and now we all need a drink. #Episode345 #TheCloudPod #TransitGateway #AWS […]
342: Eight Minutes to Midnight: When AI Helps Hackers Speed Run Your AWS Account Big Tech earnings recap: Spend more on AI - Miss expectations - Spend EVEN MORE on AI - Repeat until shareholders stop asking questions. Let’s chat about - this week on episode 342 of The Cloud Pod #TheCloudPod […]
342: Eight Minutes to Midnight: When AI Helps Hackers Speed Run Your AWS Account If your AWS account can be speed-run faster than a video game level… we should probably talk about security. AI is making hackers faster and sneakier, and even your S3 buckets are in danger. Up up down down left […]
338: T5Gemma Says “AI’ll be Back” Google Veo 3.1 now does vertical video, because Skynet finally figured out that nobody bothers to hold their phones in landscape mode to video things these days. #TheCloudPod #Google #Veo3.1 https://www.thecloudpod.net/?p=21524
338: T5Gemma Says “AI’ll be Back” Claude is officially my new Cowork-er. It’s doesn’t steal our lunch, but it HAS stolen some of the joys of making spreadsheets. Learn about the new launch from Anthropic, this week on The Cloud Pod. #anthropic #Cowork #TheCloudPod […]
337: AWS Discovers Prices Can Go Both Ways, Raises GPU Costs 15 Percent Google casually dropped Nobel Prize–winning AI, while the rest of us are still arguing with prompts. And they’re being REALLY subtle about it, too… #Google #AI #NobelPrize #seriousnamedropping #thecloudpod […]
AWS Makes Kubernetes Conversational All I want for Christmas is... Database Savings Plans! It looks like AWS actually read our letters to Santa this year. Justin, Ryan, and Matt break down the new plans - and the savings - under the re:Invent tree in Ep 334. #TheCloudPod #AWSre:Invent […]
AWS Makes Kubernetes Conversational AWS finally hit Ctrl-Z on the CodeCommit deprecation, thanks to user complaints. It's back to GA (with some caveats for 2026). We break down the new timeline and why AWS is finally letting you log in like a normal human. #thecloudpod #codecommit […]
332: 2025 Re:Invent Predictions Draft – May The Odds Be Ever In Your Favor Every year we predict AWS Re:Invent announcements. Every year we're mostly wrong. This year's tiebreaker: How many times will "AI" be said on stage? Guesses: 1, 99, 160, and 200. New episode live now! #TheCloudPod #AWS […]
332: 2025 Re:Invent Predictions Draft – May The Odds Be Ever In Your Favor Every year we predict AWS Re:Invent announcements. Every year we're mostly wrong. This year's tiebreaker: How many times will "AI" be said on stage? Guesses: 1, 99, 160, and 200. New episode live now! #TheCloudPod #AWS […]
330: AWS Proves the Internet Really Is a Series of Tubes Under the Ocean Microsoft: “We’ve improved reliability.” Also Microsoft: accidentally faceplants half the internet for 8 hours. It’s a bold strategy, Cotton… let’s see how that claim plays out. #episode330 #TheCloudPod […]
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
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) 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
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 […]
321: The Cloud Pod is in Tears Trying to Understand Azure Tiers www.thecloudpod.net?p=21235 #thecloudpod #azuretiers
321: The Cloud Pod is in Tears Trying to Understand Azure Tiers buff.ly/AJF9gC9 #thecloudpod #azuretiers
320: AWS Cost MCP: Your Billing Data Now Speaks Human buff.ly/XW8M0Ox #thecloudpod #awscostmcp
320: AWS Cost MCP: Your Billing Data Now Speaks Human buff.ly/XW8M0Ox #thecloudpod #awscostmcp
