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Welcome to episode 293 of The Cloud Pod – where the forecast is always cloudy! This week we’ve got a lot of new and, surprise, a new installment of Cloud Journey AND and aftershow – so make sure to stay tuned for that! We’ve got undersea cables, Go 1.24, Wasm, Anthropic and more.
Titles we almost went with this week:
A big thanks to this week’s sponsor:
We’re sponsorless! Want to get your brand, company, or service in front of a very enthusiastic group of cloud news seekers? You’ve come to the right place! Send us an email or hit us up on our slack channel for more info.
General News
01:30 Go 1.24 is released!
04:46 Unlocking global AI potential with next-generation subsea infrastructure
06:25 Ryan – “I was sort of surprised that this is where Meta is investing. I don’t think of them in that space, like I do internet providers and cloud hyperscalers.”
AI Is Going Great – Or How ML Makes All Its Money
07:50 Sam Altman lays out roadmap for OpenAI’s long-awaited GPT-5 model
08:54 Justin – “I’m definitely very interested in how, you know, like where does AGI come into their roadmap? Like I know they keep talking about it soon. Like, is that this year’s problem? Is that a problem next year? Is that a next decade problem? Like I don’t really know when AGI is going to be real on what their timeline looks like.”
09:31 Anthropic Strikes Back
10:31 Anthropic Projects Soaring Growth to $34.5 Billion in 2027 Revenue
11:08 Ryan – “I don’t recommend anyone take investment advice from The Cloud Pod…”
Cloud Tools
11:37 The Terraform plugin for the Dominos Pizza provider
12:55 Matthew – “There is a feature for hash card vault support for credit card data. And you know, another one which blocks the addition of pineapple as a topping.”
*Listener note: If anyone tries this, let us know how it goes!
AWS
14:30 AWS CloudTrail network activity events for VPC endpoints now generally available
15:21 Ryan – “Yeah, this is a neat feature. As someone who remembers, I guess remembers or dreads, can’t, I’m not sure what’s the right word, trying to troubleshoot connectivity to a private endpoint from a data center connectivity. There really is just no visibility or was until this feature was announced. So this is, I think, a fantastic addition and being able to log that information and act on that information for security purposes.”
20:03 Introducing the AWS Trust Center
20:45 Ryan – “I know that the artifacts was seemingly very hard for non-technical auditors to navigate. And I’ve had to spend a lot of time walking people through that. So anything that makes this easier. I haven’t looked at this landing page, but I’m hoping that it’s sort of geared towards that audience of compliance people who are building reports for very specific frameworks. And it sort of lays it all out in an easy to find manner.”
22:57 Amazon Inspector enhances the security engine for container images scanning
25:12 AWS Secrets and Configuration Provider now integrates with Pod Identity for Amazon EKS
25:29 Ryan – “This has been a, like a clear area where EKS was not the same offering as in Google or, you know, being able to sort of leverage these identities directly from your pod configuration and your secure, your namespace configuration and be able to tie that to sort of a distributed role identity. So this is something that’s pretty great in terms of being able to provide that. It’s at least one step closer to full workload identity.
26:21 AWS Re:inforce Dates announced
28:30 Exploring new subnet management capabilities of Network Load Balancer
GCP
31:17 Deep dive into AI with Google Cloud’s global generative AI roadshow
36:31 With MultiKueue, grab GPUs for your GKE cluster, wherever they may be
25:29 Matthew – “What I found interesting about this is that this is something that Amazon and Microsoft really can’t do because of the way Google is built at a global VNet level or VPC level, where each of the other ones have isolated regions. So this is something that because of the way Google is instructed with that global VPC, you have the ability to more easily burst into other regions, versus on AWS or Microsoft, you have to build a VPC or VNet and then launch your workloads in there and then connect it all back. So it’s actually an interesting win that, you know, win or loss, depending on how you want to view it, that Google has, and that they are able to say, just go use the access capacity here. Don’t really worry about data, you know, laws or anything else that you might have to worry about. But, you know, you have this ability to go grab these things in these other places that could be cheaper or more expensive depending on where your origin of everything is.”
41:27 Announcing Wasm support in Go 1.24
42:01 Justin – “…if you can just natively go into WebAssembly from Go, I think that’s a nice feature. Yeah, one more reason why I should learn more Go. Yeah, I keep working on Python, but I could also learn Go. Maybe I could get some more utility out of Go, I think.”
Azure
43:02 Securing DeepSeek and other AI systems with Microsoft Security
44:03 Ryan – “…the reaction to DeepSeek I find hilarious more than the tool itself, you know, because it is just sort of like, wait, China, no, we have to secure this stuff. And, you know, everyone knew about the security concerns of sending data to AI and sort of, you know, like, yeah, no, this is a thing to be aware of. then immediately forgot it. But the minute it was being sent to a Chinese company, was a different reaction in the industry. And so I definitely think that Azure is capitalizing on this for sure.”
46:39 Microsoft Cost Management updates—February 2025
47:27 Matthew – “The nudges are kind of useful and they’ve been adding copilot into the console. And then I have fun with it when it’s like, you know, internal server errors, why my instance didn’t scale up properly. And then I just say, copilot, tell me what’s wrong. And it goes, yo, open a support ticket or like try turning it back on and off again.”
49:45 Generally Available: Scheduled Load Tests in Azure Load Testing
51:27 GA: 6th Generation Intel-Based VMS – DV6-EV6
Cloud Journey Series
Yes – It’s back!
53:10 Should all developers learn Infrastructure as Code?
Aftershow
Yes, This is back too!
1:03:02 Man offers to buy city dump in last-ditch effort to recover $800M in bitcoins
Closing
And that is the week in the cloud! Visit our website, the home of the Cloud Pod where you can join our newsletter, slack team, send feedback or ask questions at theCloud Pod.net or tweet at us with hashtag #theCloudPod
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Welcome to episode 293 of The Cloud Pod – where the forecast is always cloudy! This week we’ve got a lot of new and, surprise, a new installment of Cloud Journey AND and aftershow – so make sure to stay tuned for that! We’ve got undersea cables, Go 1.24, Wasm, Anthropic and more.
Titles we almost went with this week:
A big thanks to this week’s sponsor:
We’re sponsorless! Want to get your brand, company, or service in front of a very enthusiastic group of cloud news seekers? You’ve come to the right place! Send us an email or hit us up on our slack channel for more info.
General News
01:30 Go 1.24 is released!
04:46 Unlocking global AI potential with next-generation subsea infrastructure
06:25 Ryan – “I was sort of surprised that this is where Meta is investing. I don’t think of them in that space, like I do internet providers and cloud hyperscalers.”
AI Is Going Great – Or How ML Makes All Its Money
07:50 Sam Altman lays out roadmap for OpenAI’s long-awaited GPT-5 model
08:54 Justin – “I’m definitely very interested in how, you know, like where does AGI come into their roadmap? Like I know they keep talking about it soon. Like, is that this year’s problem? Is that a problem next year? Is that a next decade problem? Like I don’t really know when AGI is going to be real on what their timeline looks like.”
09:31 Anthropic Strikes Back
10:31 Anthropic Projects Soaring Growth to $34.5 Billion in 2027 Revenue
11:08 Ryan – “I don’t recommend anyone take investment advice from The Cloud Pod…”
Cloud Tools
11:37 The Terraform plugin for the Dominos Pizza provider
12:55 Matthew – “There is a feature for hash card vault support for credit card data. And you know, another one which blocks the addition of pineapple as a topping.”
*Listener note: If anyone tries this, let us know how it goes!
AWS
14:30 AWS CloudTrail network activity events for VPC endpoints now generally available
15:21 Ryan – “Yeah, this is a neat feature. As someone who remembers, I guess remembers or dreads, can’t, I’m not sure what’s the right word, trying to troubleshoot connectivity to a private endpoint from a data center connectivity. There really is just no visibility or was until this feature was announced. So this is, I think, a fantastic addition and being able to log that information and act on that information for security purposes.”
20:03 Introducing the AWS Trust Center
20:45 Ryan – “I know that the artifacts was seemingly very hard for non-technical auditors to navigate. And I’ve had to spend a lot of time walking people through that. So anything that makes this easier. I haven’t looked at this landing page, but I’m hoping that it’s sort of geared towards that audience of compliance people who are building reports for very specific frameworks. And it sort of lays it all out in an easy to find manner.”
22:57 Amazon Inspector enhances the security engine for container images scanning
25:12 AWS Secrets and Configuration Provider now integrates with Pod Identity for Amazon EKS
25:29 Ryan – “This has been a, like a clear area where EKS was not the same offering as in Google or, you know, being able to sort of leverage these identities directly from your pod configuration and your secure, your namespace configuration and be able to tie that to sort of a distributed role identity. So this is something that’s pretty great in terms of being able to provide that. It’s at least one step closer to full workload identity.
26:21 AWS Re:inforce Dates announced
28:30 Exploring new subnet management capabilities of Network Load Balancer
GCP
31:17 Deep dive into AI with Google Cloud’s global generative AI roadshow
36:31 With MultiKueue, grab GPUs for your GKE cluster, wherever they may be
25:29 Matthew – “What I found interesting about this is that this is something that Amazon and Microsoft really can’t do because of the way Google is built at a global VNet level or VPC level, where each of the other ones have isolated regions. So this is something that because of the way Google is instructed with that global VPC, you have the ability to more easily burst into other regions, versus on AWS or Microsoft, you have to build a VPC or VNet and then launch your workloads in there and then connect it all back. So it’s actually an interesting win that, you know, win or loss, depending on how you want to view it, that Google has, and that they are able to say, just go use the access capacity here. Don’t really worry about data, you know, laws or anything else that you might have to worry about. But, you know, you have this ability to go grab these things in these other places that could be cheaper or more expensive depending on where your origin of everything is.”
41:27 Announcing Wasm support in Go 1.24
42:01 Justin – “…if you can just natively go into WebAssembly from Go, I think that’s a nice feature. Yeah, one more reason why I should learn more Go. Yeah, I keep working on Python, but I could also learn Go. Maybe I could get some more utility out of Go, I think.”
Azure
43:02 Securing DeepSeek and other AI systems with Microsoft Security
44:03 Ryan – “…the reaction to DeepSeek I find hilarious more than the tool itself, you know, because it is just sort of like, wait, China, no, we have to secure this stuff. And, you know, everyone knew about the security concerns of sending data to AI and sort of, you know, like, yeah, no, this is a thing to be aware of. then immediately forgot it. But the minute it was being sent to a Chinese company, was a different reaction in the industry. And so I definitely think that Azure is capitalizing on this for sure.”
46:39 Microsoft Cost Management updates—February 2025
47:27 Matthew – “The nudges are kind of useful and they’ve been adding copilot into the console. And then I have fun with it when it’s like, you know, internal server errors, why my instance didn’t scale up properly. And then I just say, copilot, tell me what’s wrong. And it goes, yo, open a support ticket or like try turning it back on and off again.”
49:45 Generally Available: Scheduled Load Tests in Azure Load Testing
51:27 GA: 6th Generation Intel-Based VMS – DV6-EV6
Cloud Journey Series
Yes – It’s back!
53:10 Should all developers learn Infrastructure as Code?
Aftershow
Yes, This is back too!
1:03:02 Man offers to buy city dump in last-ditch effort to recover $800M in bitcoins
Closing
And that is the week in the cloud! Visit our website, the home of the Cloud Pod where you can join our newsletter, slack team, send feedback or ask questions at theCloud Pod.net or tweet at us with hashtag #theCloudPod