July 24, 2025

313: The Gartner Guide to Breaking Things on Purpose

1 hour 20 minutes

Welcome to episode 313 of The Cloud Pod, where your hosts, Matt, Ryan, and Justin, are here to bring you all the latest in Cloud and AI news. This week we’ve got an installation of Cloud Journey featuring Gartner and chaos AND an aftershow! We’ve got acquisition news, new tools, an undersea cable, and even a little chaos, all right now in the cloud. Let’s get into it!

Titles we almost went with this week:

From Vibe Check to Production Spec

Node More Mr. Nice Guy: AWS Locks Down Access Until You Ask Nicely

Grok’s New Feature: Ask Elon First

The AI That Phones Home to Dad

Musk-See TV: When Your Chatbot Needs Parental Guidance

Oracle’s Federal Discount: 75% Off for Six Months (Terms and Conditions Apply)

GameDay: Not Just for Sports Anymore

Bob the Builder Center: Can We Fix AWS? Yes We Can!

Bucket List: Google Cloud Storage Finally Lets You Pack Up and Move

The Great Bucket Migration: No Forwarding Address Required

Compose Yourself: Cloud Run Gets Docker-mented

Survey Says: Your Team Needs a Performance Check-Up

From Florida With Love: Google’s New Cable Has a License to Transmit

Sol Train: Google Lays Track Across the Atlantic

Finding the Right Gradient for Your AI Journey

Google Cracks the Code on AWS’s Cloud Castle

Breaking Cloud: Google’s Data Analytics Cook Up Market Share

From Chat to Churn: The Great GPT Subscription Exodus

AWS Finally Filters Out the Pricing Noise

The Price is Right: AWS Edition Gets New Search Features

Four Filters and a Pricing API Walk Into a Cloud

Fee-fi-fo-fum who has a flash reasoning model

Follow Up

02:01 Cognition to buy AI startup Windsurf days after Google poached CEO

Cognition acquired Windsurf’s IP, product, and remaining talent after Google hired away the CEO and senior staff, highlighting the intense competition for AI coding expertise among major tech companies.

The deal follows a failed $3 billion acquisition attempt by OpenAI and Google’s $2.4 billion licensing and compensation package to secure Windsurf’s leadership, demonstrating the premium valuations for AI coding technology.

Both companies develop AI coding agents designed to accelerate software development, with Cognition’s Devin agent and Windsurf’s tools representing the growing market for AI-powered developer productivity solutions.

The acquisition ensures all Windsurf employees receive accelerated vesting and financial participation, addressing the disruption caused by the leadership exodus to Google.

This consolidation in the AI coding space suggests smaller startups may struggle to retain talent and remain independent as tech giants aggressively pursue AI engineering capabilities.

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