The Cloud Pod

245: The CloudPod is the SBOM!


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Welcome to episode 245 of The CloudPod podcast, where the forecast is always cloudy! This week is a real SBOM of an episode. (See what I did there?) Justin and Matthew have braved Teams outages, floods, cold, and funny business names to bring you the latest in Cloud and AI news. This week, we’re talking about Roomba, OpenTofu, and Oracle deciding AI makes money, along with a host of other stories. Join us! 

Titles we almost went with this week:
  • Amazon Decides Roomba Sucks
  • AI Weapons: Will They Shift Cloud Supremacy
  • Oracle Realizes There is Money in Gen AI
  • A big thanks to this week’s sponsor:
    We’re sponsorless this week! Interested in sponsoring us and having access to a very specialized and targeted market? We’d love to talk to you. Send us an email or hit us up on our Slack Channel. 
    General News

    REMINDER: 2gather Sunnyvale: Cloud Optimization Summit

    On February 15, Justin will be onsite in Google’s #Sunnyvale office for the @C2C #2Gather Sunnyvale: #CloudOptimization Summit! Come heckle him, we mean JOIN him, to talk about all things #GenAI and #CloudOps. Consider this your invitation – he’d love to see you there! Sign up →  https://events.c2cglobal.com/e/m9pvbq/?utm_campaign=speaker-Justin-B&utm_source=SOCIAL_MEDIA&utm_medium=LinkedIn

    02:23 Amazon abandons $1.4 billion deal to buy Roomba maker iRobot 

    • Amazon is no longer buying iRobot for 1.4 billion, as there is no path to regulatory approval in the European Union.
    • We’re not surprised this is the end result.  
    • Of course, iRobot proceeded to lay off 350 employees, or around 31 percent of its workforce. 
    • In addition CEO Colin Angle, who co-founded the company, stepped down from his CEO position and his chair position. 
    • Amazon gets to pay 94 Million in a termination fee to iRobot, which will help pay off a loan iRobot took the year prior. 
    • 04:02 Terraform fork OpenTofu launches into general availability

      • OpenTofu has moved into General Availability
      • The milestone is after a four month development effort, with hundreds of contributors and over five dozen developers.  
      • Now that they have a stable version separated from the main Terraform product, they are promising a steady set of new features and enhancements. 
      • The GA version is OpenTofu 1.6, which includes hundreds of enhancements including bug fixes and performa
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