December 02, 2025

333: The Cloud Pod Goes Nano Banana

1 hour 2 minutes

Welcome to episode 333 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Ryan, and Matt are taking a quick break from re:Invent festivities. They bring you the latest and greatest in Cloud and AI news. This week, we discuss Norad and Anthropic teaming up to bring you Christmas cheer. Wait, is that right? Huh. We also have undersea cables, some Turkish region delight, and a LOT of Opus 4.5 news. Let’s get into it!

Titles we almost went with this week

Boring Error Pages Not Found

Claude Goes Native in Snowflake: Finally, AI That Stays Where Your Data Lives

Cross-Cloud Romance: AWS and Google Make It Official with Interconnect

Google Gemini Puts OpenAI in Code Red: The Tables Have Turned

Azure NAT Gateway V2: Now With More Zones Than a Parking Lot

From ChatGPT to Chat-Uh-Oh: OpenAI Sounds the Alarm as Gemini Steals 200 Million Users

Scheduled Actions: Because Your VMs Need a Work-Life Balance Too

Finally, Your 500 Errors Can Look as Good as Your Homepage

Foundry Model Router: Because Choosing Between 47 AI Models is Nobody’s Idea of Fun

Google Takes the Scenic Route: New Cable Avoids the Sunda Strait Traffic Jam

Azure Application Gateway Gets Its TCP/IP Diploma

Google Cloud Gets Its Türkiye Dinner: 2 Billion Dollar Cloud Feast Coming Soon

Microsoft Foundry: Turning AI Chaos into Compliance Gold

AI Is Going Great, or How ML Makes Money

02:59 Nano Banana Pro available for enterprise

Google launches Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image) in general availability on Vertex AI and Google Workspace, with Gemini Enterprise support coming soon.

The model supports up to 14 reference images for style consistency and generates 4K resolution outputs with multilingual text rendering capabilities.

The model includes Google Search grounding for factual accuracy in generated infographics and diagrams, plus built-in SynthID watermarking for transparency. Copyright indemnification will be available at general availability under Google’s shared responsibility framework.

Enterprise integrations are live with Adobe Firefly, Photoshop, Canva, and Figma, enabling production-grade creative workflows. Major retailers, including Klarna, Shopify, and Wayfair, report using the model for product visualization and marketing asset generation at scale.

Developers can access Nano Banana Pro through Vertex AI with Provis

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

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