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

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April 07, 2021111: The Cloud Pod now available at 9600 bps, 8 bits and 1 stop bit
On The Cloud Pod this week, the team is feeling nostalgic and a little nerdy, as you can see from the show title — a throwback to Serial Console and its ability to add a ton of characters when you didn’t want it to.
A big thanks to this week’s sponsors:
Foghorn Consulting, which provides full-stack cloud solutions with a focus on strategy, planning and execution for enterprises seeking to take advantage of the transformative capabilities of AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure.
This week’s highlights
Amazon should be singing a different tune.
Google has astonished us all by actually sharing something interesting.
Azure is the strict school principal that just canceled lunch.
General News: Justin Said It First
VentureBeat predicts industry clouds could be the next big thing. Justin will take the royalties check anytime, VentureBeat.
Amazon Web Services: Please Don’t Keep It To Yourself
Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS is now generally available. Surprising because we don’t remember it going into beta.
AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry adds StatsD and Java support. We’re glad to see the continued investment in OpenTelemetry.
AWS DevOps Monitoring Dashboard solution is now generally available. The solutions library is a Rube Goldberg machine.
Amazon Lookout for Metrics is now generally available — perfect for Ryan, who has no machine learning experience.
Amazon Elasticsearch Service announces a new Auto-Tune feature for improved performance and application availability. We wish Amazon would open source this.
AWS SSO credential profile support is now available in the AWS Toolkit for VS Code. Thank you, Jesus.
Amazon is developing a chip to power the hardware switches that shuttle data around networks. Apparently Google and Apple are also doing this.
Troubleshoot boot and networking issues with new EC2 Serial Console. Must be useful for someone,
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March 31, 2021110: They didn’t even call The Cloud Pod about the AWS CEO role
Disappointed not to see Amazon take the opportunity to increase its executive diversity with its new CEO.
A big thanks to this week’s sponsors:
Foghorn Consulting, which provides full-stack cloud solutions with a focus on strategy, planning and execution for enterprises seeking to take advantage of the transformative capabilities of AWS, Google Cloud and Azure.
This week’s highlights
If Amazon was the royal family, this would be like Harry becoming King.
Google found slugs in its lettuce and is not happy about it.
Azure wants to shut The Cloud Pod up for good this time.
General News: Nothing Spicy
Sysdig is releasing unified cloud and container security with the launch of Unified Threat detection across AWS cloud and containers. Interesting that it uses Cloud Custodian.
Amazon Web Services: No Longer Hiring
Tableau CEO Adam Selipsky will return to Amazon Web Services as CEO. We did not see this coming.
Introducing Amazon S3 Object Lambda. They listened to us!
Google Cloud Platform: Slurm It Up
Google Cloud caps sales commissions as losses mount. This will remove the motivation to go after smaller deals.
Google announces a new method of obtaining Compute Engine instances for batch processing. We thought it was attacking our workloads but it actually wasn’t — our bad.
Google is announcing the preview of its Network Connectivity Center. No potatoes, thankfully.
Announcing the newest set of features for Slurm running on Google Cloud. Worst name ever.
Google announces A2 VMs are now generally available with the largest GPU cloud instances with NVIDIA A100 GPUs. Is this the computer version of scalping tickets?
Google announces high-bandwidth network configurations for General Purpose N2 and Compute Optimized C2 Compute Engine VM families. We’d love to know what the technology is behind this.
Azure: Not Happy With The Cloud Pod
Azure announces plans to expand the Azure Availability Zones to more regions. We’l
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March 25, 2021109: The Cloud Pod Hopes all Fault Injections are Simulated
On The Cloud Pod this week, the team debate the merits of daylight savings and how they could use it to break things in a spectacular fashion.
A big thanks to this week’s sponsors:
Foghorn Consulting, which provides full-stack cloud solutions with a focus on strategy, planning and execution for enterprises seeking to take advantage of the transformative capabilities of AWS, Google Cloud and Azure.
This week’s highlights
Amazon is injecting the fun back into the party.
Google is going mission-critical, spare a thought for its employees.
Azure has released a new storage defender to reduce the threat of storage exploitation.
General News: Back From The Dead
Docker CEO talks about their progress, product-led strategy, and coders as “kingmakers.” We’re not sure how solid that funding is but we’ll see how it goes when the renewals come around.
Amazon Web Services: So Many Faults
Amazon is launching the AWS Fault Injection Simulator (FIS) for controlled fault experiments on AWS workloads. We can’t wait for FIS to go wrong and start injecting faults where they don’t belong.
Amazon announces price reduction for S3 Glacier. We can hear the cash registers ringing in the background.
Amazon is celebrating 15 years of Amazon S3 with “Pi Week” livestream events. It’s not a sentient being!
Amazon gives customers an easy way to execute commands in a container running on ECS ec2 based instances or Fargate with ECS Exec. A little clunky to set up but it’s amazing!
Amazon announces end of life date for ECS-optimized Amazon Linux AMI. We’re predicting Amazon announces an extension announcement in January 2023!
Amazon is launching a new set of Graviton2 based instances for memory-intensive workloads. This sounds really good.
Amazon is adding policy validation to IAM Access Analyzer. Can’t argue with the price, it’s been so helpful.
Google Cloud Platform: Yell At Us
Google is releasing a new service called
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March 18, 2021108: The Cloud Pod moves forward without JEDI
On The Cloud Pod this week, Jonathan’s brain is a little scrambled and he can’t remember when he last went out for dinner even though it was with Justin on Tuesday.
A big thanks to this week’s sponsors:
Foghorn Consulting, which provides full-stack cloud solutions with a focus on strategy, planning and execution for enterprises seeking to take advantage of the transformative capabilities of AWS, Google Cloud and Azure.
This week’s highlights
The honey pot might be about to dry up for Microsoft’s lawyers.
If you need a headache to get out of dinner with the in-laws, read this.
Google has finally started listening to the sage advice from The Cloud Pod.
General News: Burn, Baby, Burn
Okta says it’s buying security rival Auth0 for $6.5 billion, sending its stock plunging. The company’s not telling us its plan so don’t panic just yet.
OVH data center burns down knocking major sites offline. Brutal.
JEDI: Things Are Not Going Well
With a $10 billion cloud-computing deal snarled in court, the Pentagon may move forward without it. We can’t wait to see what this has cost taxpayers.
Amazon Web Services: Bottom Of The Barrel
AWS Lambda has received four new trusted advisor checks. This is a real advantage!
AWS Secrets manager now lets you replicate secrets across multiple AWS regions. This makes our brains hurt.
Google Cloud Platform: Just Listen To The Cloud Pod
Introducing Apache Spark Structured Streaming connector for Pub/Sub Lite. Easy tools to make life easier!
Google’s Cloud Healthcare Consent Management API is now generally available. Could be a Trojan horse.
Save the date for Google Cloud Next ‘21: October 12–14, 2021. Thank you, Jesus, it’s not nine weeks long!
Managing cloud firewalls at scale with new Hierarchical Firewall Policies. This is a terrible name.
Azure: Hot Po
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March 09, 2021107: The Cloud Meshes with Microsoft
On The Cloud Pod this week, Peter is spending the next 12 hours in a rejuvenation chamber like a regular villain straight out of a James Bond film.
A big thanks to this week’s sponsors:
Foghorn Consulting, which provides full-stack cloud solutions with a focus on strategy, planning and execution for enterprises seeking to take advantage of the transformative capabilities of AWS, Google Cloud and Azure.
This week’s highlights
Amazon is on a mission to replace humans so we can go on holiday permanently.
Google is a bit early with the April Fools’ joke.
Azure is, much to our surprise, ahead of everyone else for once.
Amazon Web Services: Battle Bots
Amazon announces Alexa Conversations is now generally available for voice app development. We’re still a bit disappointed in her voice — it would be nice to hear something a bit more natural.
Amazon launches computer vision service to detect defects in manufactured products. Soon we’ll just be sitting around eating bon bons — we can’t wait!
AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) region now open to all, with three availability zones and more services. We think this is a reaction to the huge cloud growth in Japan.
AWS DeepRacer League’s 2021 season launches with new Open and Pro divisions. Apparently it’s gone virtual and is being dominated by experts.
Google Cloud Platform: A Bit Jealous
Google introduces GKE Autopilot, a revolutionary mode of operations for managed Kubernetes. Autopilot makes it sound like an Oracle product.
Google announces the Risk Protection Program to enhance trust in cloud ecosystems. Google wants you to pay insurance in case its cloud goes down…
Google extends BigQuery BI engine for faster insights across popular BI tools. Pretty cool!
New enhancements for Google Cloud Marketplace Private Catalog including Terraform support. This is pretty good for internal teams managing private catalogs.
Azure: Killing It
Microsoft has announced a trio of
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March 04, 2021Episode 106: The Cloud Pod disagrees with Gartner on Low-Code
On The Cloud Pod this week, Jonathan has returned and is sitting in his garage letting it get darker and darker before he turns a light on. Gartner says low-code is growing!! NOOOOOO!
A big thanks to this week’s sponsors:
Foghorn Consulting, which provides full-stack cloud solutions with a focus on strategy, planning and execution for enterprises seeking to take advantage of the transformative capabilities of AWS, Google Cloud and Azure.
This week’s highlights
AWS is teaming up with TV to make hockey more exciting.
Google is no longer stuck in the 90s.
Oracle thinks it’s ruggedly handsome — it is not.
Follow Up: Somebody’s In Trouble
SolarWinds hackers downloaded some Microsoft source code for Azure, Exchange and Intune. Intune is probably the most damaging — this is not good news for Microsoft.
General News: The Glowing Puck
Gartner is reporting that Low-Code development tool growth has grown 23% this year. Gartner, pay to play.
AWS provides the National Hockey League with cloud, AI and machine learning services. It’s great to see computer tech adding to viewer engagement.
Hashicorp announces the general availability of the Terraform Cloud Operator for Kubernetes. It’s an interesting solution to a very hard problem.
Amazon Web Services: Everyone’s On Vacation
Amazon EC2 Mac Instances now support macOS Big Sur. Completely stunned by this, aren’t you.
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now shows scaling history for deleted groups. This actually solves a small but annoying problem for Justin.
Google Cloud Platform: Jumping Back To 1994
Google introduces schedule-based autoscaling for Compute Engine. Finally catching up to Azure and AWS, both of which have had this for a few years now.
Google adds several new features to Google Cloud VMware Engines to support workloads moving from the cloud. We just want the VMware tools.
Google launches Cloud Domains to make it easy to register and use custom domains within its platform.
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February 25, 2021Episode 105: The Cloud Pod’s heart is a Flutter with Space Edge
On The Cloud Pod this week, Jonathan is getting his beauty sleep so you’ll have to make do with the comic stylings of Justin, Peter and Ryan.
A big thanks to this week’s sponsors:
Foghorn Consulting, which provides full-stack cloud solutions with a focus on strategy, planning and execution for enterprises seeking to take advantage of the transformative capabilities of AWS, Google Cloud and Azure.
This week’s highlights
Like The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Amazon is turning into a beautiful butterfly.
Google is helping to monetize Jonathan’s beauty sleep.
It’s the end of the world, we can Azure you.
Amazon Web Services: The Weird Kid in Class
AWS announces Amplify Flutter is now generally available. Get your flutter on in the cloud.
Amazon EKS now supports Kubernetes version 1.19. Weird use case, but OK.
AWS Direct Connect announces native 100 Gbps dedicated connections at select locations. No discount for more data — well done, Amazon.
Google Cloud Platform: Jonathan’s Money Maker
Easily build Kubernetes applications that span multiple clusters with Google’s new multi-cluster services (MCS). Now you can have your cake and eat it, too!
Google announces general availability of Service Directory. Now Jonathan makes money while he sleeps.
Google announces 9TB SSDs to bring ultimate IOPS per dollar to Compute Engine VMs. Still not that exciting.
Azure: Lost in Space
Azure announces Firewall Premium is now in preview. No more excuses for sticking with standard firewall protection.
Microsoft will establish its next U.S. datacenter region in Georgia’s Fulton and Douglas Counties. Not only did Georgia go blue, they went Azure blue.
Azure announces partnership with HPE and the upcoming launch of the Spaceborne Computer-2 (SBC-2). Also known as SkyNet.
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February 18, 2021Episode 104: The Cloud Pod gets Introspection Capabilities
On The Cloud Pod this week, The Team are on the brink and three more months of the pandemic will likely push the podcast over the edge into an abyss of garble that no one can understand.
A big thanks to this week’s sponsors:
Foghorn Consulting, which provides full-stack cloud solutions with a focus on strategy, planning and execution for enterprises seeking to take advantage of the transformative capabilities of AWS, Google Cloud and Azure.
Open Raven, the cloud native data protection platform that automates policy monitoring and enforcement. Auto-discover, classify, monitor and protect your sensitive data.
This week’s highlights
Amazon has a gender reveal party and introduces its latest bundle of joy.
Google is eating croissants for breakfast.
Azure is dangling a pair of juicy fruits in front of us.
Follow Up: The Mad Men Are Back
Amazon announces its “Other” business segment, which consists mostly of its advertising business, has surpassed its “subscription services” segment. There’s speculation that Andy Jassy might split Amazon’s advertising business out once he becomes CEO.
General News: Rolls Right Off The Tongue
Vantage, an AWS Console alternative, has acquired ec2instances.info. They better not mess it up!
Amazon Web Services: Undoing Your Hard Work
New Amazon Elastic Block Store Local Snapshots on AWS Outposts makes it easier to meet data residency and local backup requirements. It’s like playing a video game and building up your weapons, only to start from scratch when you move regions.
Amazon introduces CloudFront Security Savings Bundle. We appreciate the savings, but not sure about the bundle.
Google Cloud Platform: Our Buzzword Bingo Is On Point
Google launches improved troubleshooting with Cloud Spanner introspection capabilities. We love these types of tools, except if they’re on SQL Server.
Google launches Apigee X to help enterprises manage their digital transformation assets. What is it with X? What happened to 8 and 9?
Google introduces real-time data integration for BigQuery with Cloud Data Fusion. For
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February 13, 2021Episode 103: Bezos retires over Slack outage — Episode 103
It’s Peter’s washing night so please enjoy the soothing sounds of the odd spin cycle as we dive into the huge news coming out of Amazon on The Cloud Pod this week.
A big thanks to this week’s sponsors:
Foghorn Consulting, which provides full-stack cloud solutions with a focus on strategy, planning and execution for enterprises seeking to take advantage of the transformative capabilities of AWS, Google Cloud and Azure.
Open Raven, the cloud native data protection platform that automates policy monitoring and enforcement. Auto-discover, classify, monitor and protect your sensitive data.
This week’s highlights
America’s version of Queen Elizabeth has stepped down.
Google is a bit late to the party but brings the ice so we forgive its team.
Azure is trying to claim it came first but the chicken says otherwise.
Follow Up: A Bit Slack
Slack explains how the January 4th outage occurred. It was all Amazon’s fault.
FogOps for Linux is now available via the AWS Marketplace. Congratulations on getting FogOps on the marketplace, Peter!
General News: It’s Earnings Season!
Microsoft releases its earnings. This is nuts.
Alphabet also released its earnings. We hope all the money it’s investing in infrastructure and data centers pays off in the long run, because that’s a big loss.
Amazon announces financial results and CEO transition. That’s some crazy profit.
Outgoing Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos addresses employees. But who will head AWS now?
Amazon Web Services: Bon Voyage, Bezos
AWS launches multiple private marketplace catalogs for AWS organizations. Not a problem any of us have so not wowed by this.
AWS PrivateLink for Amazon S3 is now generally available. We like it but don’t like the pricing.
Amazon Macie announces a slew of new capabilities. Check out our sponsor OpenRaven, which is much better at solving the same issue and is much cheaper.
Google Cloud Platform: Stop Blaming Our Database
Google announces
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February 06, 2021Episode 102: The Cloud Pod is NOT OK
It’s a Wednesday so things could be better, but spare a thought for the team as they battle Mother Nature on The Cloud Pod this week.
A big thanks to this week’s sponsors:
Foghorn Consulting, which provides full-stack cloud solutions with a focus on strategy, planning and execution for enterprises seeking to take advantage of the transformative capabilities of AWS, Google Cloud and Azure.
Open Raven, the cloud native data protection platform that automates policy monitoring and enforcement. Auto-discover, classify, monitor and protect your sensitive data.
This week’s highlights
Amazon is forking people off big time.
Google wants to help you lose those pandemic lockdown pounds.
Azure didn’t overwhelm anyone with its “problem.”
General News: The Elastic Kerfuffle
Elastic blames Amazon for forcing it to change its licensing. One of the most ridiculous blog posts ever.
Logz.io looks to launch a true open-source distribution for Elasticsearch and Kibana. Everybody’s forking now.
AWS has also announced that it will also fork its project for a truly open source Elasticsearch. The beginning of the end for Elasticsearch.
Logz.io followed up its previous announcement by announcing it’s combining its efforts with Amazon. This is great news for the open-source community.
Amazon Web Services: Let’s Talk
AWS Lex has released a new console experience and new V2 APIs to make it easier to build, deploy and manage conversational experiences. We’ve played with it and it’s very nice.
Amazon CloudWatch Agent now supports OpenTelemetry APIs and Software Development Kits. Could be a sign it’s about to make a lot of investments in OpenTelemetry and is moving away from CloudWatch.
Amazon GuardDuty enhances security incident investigation workflows through new integration with Amazon Detective. Integrated security — we like it!
Amazon Chime SDKs for iOS and Android now support screen share. It’s great it has functionality that other apps have had from the start.
Amazon ECS Agent v1.50.0 allows customers to
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