September 10, 2025

320: Azure gives your Finops person a heart attack

55 minutes

Welcome to episode 320 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Matt, and Ryan are coming to you from Justin’s echo chamber and bringing all the latest in AI and Cloud news, including updates to Google’s Anti-trust case, AWS Cost MCP, new regions, updates to EKS, Veo, and Claude, and more! Let’s get into it.

Titles we almost went with this week:

Breaking Bad Bottlenecks: AWS Cooks Up Faster Container Pulls

The Bucket List: Finding Your Lost Storage Dollars

State of Denial: Terraform Finally Stops Saving Your Passwords

Three Stages of Azure Grief: Development, Preview, and Launch

Ground Control to Major Cloud: Microsoft Launches Planetary Computer Pro

Veo Vidi Vici: Google Conquers Video Editing

Red Alert: AWS Makes Production Accounts Actually Look Dangerous

Amazon EKS Discovers the F5 Key

Chaos Theory Meets ChatGPT: When Your Reliability Data Gets an AI Therapist

Breaking Bad (Services): How AI Helps You Find What’s Already Broken

Breaking Up is Hard to Cloud: Gemini Moves Back In

Intel Inside Your Secrets: TDX Takes Over Google Cloud

Lord of the Regions: The Return of the Kiwi

All Blacks and All Stacks: AWS Goes Full Kiwi

Azure Forecast: 100% Chance of Budget Alert Storms

Google Keeps Its Cloud Together: A $2.5T Near Miss

Shell We Dance? AWS Makes CLI Scripting Less Painful

AWS Finally Admits Nobody Remembers All Those CLI Commands

Cache Me If You Claude

Your AWS Console gets its Colors, just don’t choose red shirts

Amazon Q walks into a bar, Tells MCP to order it a beer.. The Bartender sighs and mutters “at least chatgpt just hallucinates its beer”

Ryan’s shitty scripts now as a AWS CLI Library

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General News

00:57 Google Dodges A 2.5t Breakup

We have breaking news – and it’s good news for Google.

Google successfully avoided a potential $2.5 trillion breakup following antitrust proceedings, maintaining its current corporate structure despite regulatory pressure.

The decision represents a significant outcome for Big Tech antitrust cases, potentially setting a precedent for how regulators approach market dominance issues in the cloud and technology sectors.

Cloud customers and partners can expect business continuity with Google Cloud Platform services, avoiding potential disruptions that could have resulted from a corporate restructuring.

The ruling may influence how other major cloud providers structure their businesses and approach regulatory compliance, particularly around bundling services and market competition.

Enterprise customers relying on Google’s integrated ecosystem of cloud, advertising, and productivity tools can continue their current architectures without concerns about service separation.

You just KNOW Microsoft is super mad about this.

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