October 07, 2025

325: Db2 or Not Db2: That Is the Backup Question

1 hour 12 minutes

Welcome to episode 325 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin is on vacation this week, so it’s up to Ryan and Matthew to bring you all the latest news in cloud and AI, and they definitely deliver! This week we have an AWS invoice undo button, Sora 2, and quite a bit of news DigitalOcean – plus so much more. Let’s get started!

Titles we almost went with this week

AWS Shoots for the Cloud with NBA Partnership

Nothing But Net: AWS Scores Big with Basketball AI Deal

From Courtside to Cloud-side: AWS Dunks on Sports Analytics

PostgreSQL Gets a Gemini Twin for Natural Language Queries

Fuzzy Logic: When Your Database Finally Speaks Your Language

CLI and Let AI: Google’s Natural Language Database Assistant

Satya’s Org Chart Shuffle: Now with More AI Synergy

Microsoft Reorgs Again: This Time It’s Personal (and Commercial)

Ctrl+Alt+Delete: Microsoft Reboots Its Sales Machine

Sora 2: The Sequel Nobody Asked For But Everyone Will Use

OpenAI Puts the “You” in YouTube (AI Edition)

Sam Altman Stars in His Own AI-Generated Reality Show

Grok and Roll: Microsoft’s New AI Model Rocks Azure

To Grok or Not to Grok: That is the Question

Grok Around the Clock: Azure’s 24/7 Reasoning Machine

Spark Joy: Google Lights Up ML Inference for Data Pipelines

DigitalOcean’s Storage Trinity: Hot, Cold, and Backed Up

NFS: Not For Suckers (Network File Storage)

The Goldilocks Storage Strategy: Not Too Hot, Not Too Cold, Just Right

NAT Gonna Cost You: DigitalOcean’s Gateway to Savings

BYOIP: Bring Your Own IP (But Leave Your Billing Worries Behind)

The Great Invoice Escape: No More Support Tickets Required Ctrl+Z for Your AWS Bills: The Undo Button Finance Teams Needed

Image Builder Finally Learns When to Stop Trying

Pipeline Dreams: Now With Built-in Reality Checks

EC2 Image Builder Gets a Failure Intervention Feature

MCP: Model Context Protocol or Marvel Cinematic Protocol?

AI is Going Great – Or How ML Makes Money

00:45 OpenAI’s Sora 2 lets users insert themselves into AI videos with sound – Ars Technica

OpenAI’s Sora 2 introduces synchronized audio generation alongside video synthesis, matching Google’s Veo 3 and Alibaba’s Wan 2.5 capabilities.

This positions OpenAI competitively in the multimodal AI space with what they call their “GPT-3.5 moment for video.”

The new iOS social app feature allows users to insert themselves into AI-generated videos through “cameos,” suggesting potential applications for personalized content creation and social media integration at scale.

Sora 2 demonstrates improved physical accuracy and consistency across multiple shots, addressing previous limitations where objects would teleport or deform unrealistically.

The model can now simulate complex movements like gymnastics rout

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

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