December 26, 2024

285: 6 years of cloud news… and we’re still talking about FPGAs and PowerPC

57 minutes

Welcome to episode 285 of the Explain it to me Like I’m 5 Podcast, formerly known as The Cloud Pod – where the forecast is always cloudy! We’ve got a lot of news this week, including the last of our coverage from re:Invent, ChatGTP Pro, FPGA, and even some major staffing turnovers.

Titles we almost went with this week:

Throw $200 dollars in a fire with ChatGPT Pro

Jeff Barr is wrapped up by Agentic AI

The Tribble with Trilliums

The Wind in the Quantum Willows

Rise of the dead instances FPGA and PowerPC

Jeff Barr is replaced by Nova

The Cloud Pod: Return of the dead instances types

After 6 year Jeff Barr hands over the reigns to the CloudPod

For our 6th birthday Jeff barr Retires

For our 6th birthday jeff barr delegates announcements to the cloud pod

6 years of meaningless PR drivel

6 years of cloud news and we still don’t know what Quantum computing is

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General News

HAPPY 6th BIRTHDAY!

2:00 HashiCorp at re:Invent 2024: Security Lifecycle Management with AWS

Hashi is a big sponsor of re:Invent, so of course they had some news of their own to release.

HCP Vault Secrets auto-rotation is now generally available.

Dynamic secrets are generally available via HCP Vault Secrets.

Secrets sync will help keep your secrets synced with AWS Secrets Manager. It still appears to be one direction, but you can now also view secrets in AWS Secrets Manager that are managed by vault.

HCP Vault Radar, now in beta, automates the detection and identification of unmanaged secrets in your code, including AWS infrastructure configurations

03:10 Matthew – “This qualifies under the category of things that I feel like we talked about so long ago, I just already assumed was GA. I’m surprised that it wasn’t.”

03:34 HashiCorp at re:Invent 2024: Infrastructure Lifecycle Management with AWS

Terraform AWS provider is now at 3 billion downloads.

The AWS Cloud Control Provider is also now generally available with the 1.0 release.

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By Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas and Matthew Kohn

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