The Cloud Pod

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

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July 30, 2025314: Vector? I Hardly Know Her! S3’s New AI Storage Play
Welcome to episode 314 of The Cloud Pod, where your hosts, Matt and Ryan, are holding down the fort in Justin’s absence and bringing what’s left of our audience (those of you still here after the last time they were left in charge) the latest and greatest in cloud and tech news. We’ve got undersea cables, vector storage, and even some hobos – but not the kind on trains. Plus, AWS S3 gets its Vector Victor. Let’s get started!
Titles we almost went with this week:
S3 Gets Direction: AWS Points to Vector Storage
Vector? I Hardly Know Her! S3’s New AI Storage Play
S3 Finds Its Magnitude and Direction
Claude Goes to Wall Street
Anthropic’s Bull Run Into Financial Services
AI Assistant Gets Its Series 7 License
Nova Scotia: AWS Brings Regional Flavor to AI Models
The Fine-Tuning of the Shrew: Teaching Nova Models New Tricks
Nova-caine: Numbing the Pain of Model Customization
AgentCore Blimey: AWS Gives AI Agents Their License to Scale
The Agent Infrastructure: Mission Deployable
From Zero to Agent Hero: AWS Tackles the Production Problem
SageMaker Gets Its Data Act Together
From Catalog to QuickSight: A Data Love Story
The Great Data Unification of 2024
AWS Free Tier Gets a $200 Makeover
EKS-treme Makeover: Cluster Edition
#⃣100K Nodes Walk Into a Cluster…
S3 Gets Direction: Amazon Points to Vector Storage
Amazon S3: Now with 90% Less Vector Bills and 100% More Dimensions
Follow Up
01:03 SoftBank and OpenAI’s $500 Billion AI Project Struggles to Get Off Ground
The $500 billion AI effort unveiled at the White House has struggled to get off the ground and has scaled back its near-term plans.
It’s been six months since the announcement, where they said they would spend $100B almost immediately, but now they have a more modest goal of building a small data center by the end of the year in Ohio.
Softbank committed to $30 billion earlier this year, and it is one of the largest ever startup investments by them, which led them to take on new debt and sell assets.
This investment was made alongside Stargate, giving them a role in the physical infrastructure needed for AI.
Altman, though, has been eager to secure computing power as quickly as possible and has proceeded without Softbank.
Publicly, they say it’s a great partnership, and they look forward to advancing projects in multiple states
Oracle was part of Stargate, but the recent 30B deal just signed with includes a commitment of 4.5 gigawatts of capacity, and would consume the equivalent power of more than two Hoover Dams, or about 4 million homes.
Oracle was also named part of the deal with UAE firm MGX as a partner, but Oracle CEO Safra Catz said that Stargate hadn’t been formed yet, as of last month.
02:31 Matthew – “…everyone’s like, how hard can it be to build a data center? But it’s c
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1h 31min
July 24, 2025313: The Gartner Guide to Breaking Things on Purpose
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.
AI Is Going Great – Or How ML Makes Money
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July 22, 2025 TCP Talks: The David vs. Goliath of Cloud Storage: Chris Opat from Backblaze on Challenging Hyperscalers
For this special edition of TCP Talks, Justin Brodley and Matthew Kohn are joined by Chris Opat, SVP of Cloud Operations at Backblaze, to discuss how the cloud storage innovator is reshaping the industry landscape. From their origins as a consumer backup company to becoming a major player in enterprise cloud storage, Chris shares insights on AI workloads, the true cost of egress fees, and why your data doesn’t have to live in a walled garden.
About Backblaze
Backblaze started in 2007 with a simple mission: make storage so affordable it’s almost free. The company gained early notoriety for their DIY approach to storage infrastructure, with founders literally bending metal in apartments and conducting “gorilla storage purchasing” raids at Bay Area Best Buys and Fry’s Electronics to build their custom red storage pods. This scrappy, cost-conscious DNA remains central to the company’s identity today.
In September 2015, Backblaze made their enterprise pivot with the launch of B2 Cloud Storage, entering the market at one-quarter the cost of Amazon S3. By December of that launch year, they had already attracted over 30,000 users. Today, Backblaze (NASDAQ: BLZE) manages approximately 4.7 exabytes of data across 310,000+ drives, serving over 500,000 customers in 175 countries.
What sets Backblaze apart isn’t just their pricing—it’s their philosophy. While hyperscalers have built complex storage tiers with Byzantine billing structures, Backblaze offers one tier of hot storage with transparent, predictable pricing. Their recent push into AI workloads with B2 Overdrive demonstrates their ability to evolve with market demands while maintaining their core value proposition.
About Chris Opat
Chris Opat joined Backblaze as SVP of Cloud Operations in 2023, bringing over 25 years of experience in building teams and technology at startup and scale-up companies. Before Backblaze, he served as SVP of Platform Engineering and Operations at StackPath, specializing in edge technology and content delivery.
His background includes extensive work with private equity portfolio companies, where he honed his skills in rapid transformation and growth. Chris describes himself as someone who thrives in “David vs. Goliath” scenarios, making Backblaze—with its mission to challenge the hyperscaler incumbents—a perfect fit. His passion for building exceptional technical teams and pushing technological boundaries aligns perfectly with Backblaze’s innovative culture.
Interview Highlights
The David vs. Goliath Mentality
3:15 Chris: “Nothing makes me happier than to watch a customer choose us over the incumbent competitors and have an exceptionally good experience. It’s easy to work for the incumbents and kind of win all the time. It feels so much better when you do it as the upstart that people don’t see coming.”
Chris emphasized how Backblaze offers a fundamentally different partner experience compared to hyperscalers. While AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud may provide excellent services, they often lack the personal touch and flexibility that smaller customers need. At Backblaze, customers can directly influence product strategy and speak with decision-makers who shape the company’s direction.
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July 17, 2025312: Azure Firewall Finally Learns to Spell (FQDN Edition)
Welcome to episode 312 of The Cloud Pod, where your hosts, Matt, Ryan, and Justin, are here to bring you all the latest in Cloud and AI news. We’ve got security news, updates from PostgreSQL, Azure firewall and BlobNFS, plus TWO Cloud Journey stories for you!
Thanks for joining us this week in the cloud!
Titles we almost went with this week:
Git Happens: Why Your Database Pipeline Keeps Breaking
PostgreSQL and Chill: Azure’s New Storage Options for Database Romance
NVMe, Myself, and PostgreSQL
Canvas and Effect: AWS Paints a New Picture for E-commerce
Oracle’s $30 Billion Stargate: The AI Infrastructure Wars Begin
Larry’s Last Laugh: Oracle Lands OpenAI’s Mega Deal
AI Will See You Now (Couch Not Included)
Purview and Present Danger: Microsoft’s AI Security SDK Goes Live
The Purview from Up Here: Microsoft’s Bird’s Eye View on AI Data Security
Building Bridges: Azure’s Two-Way Street to Active Directory
Domain Names: Not Just for Browsers Anymore
FUSE or Lose: Azure’s BlobNFS Gets a Speed Boost
When Larry Met Andy: An Exadata Love Story
Bing There, Done That: Azure’s New Research Assistant
The Search is Over: Azure AI Foundry Finds Its Research Groove
Memory Lane: Where AI Agents Go to Remember Things
Elephants Never Forget, and Now Neither Do Google’s Agents
Z3 or Not Z3: That is the Storage Question
Local SSD Hero: A New Hope for I/O Intensive Workloads
Azure’s Certificate of Insecurity
KeyVault’s Keys Left Under the Doormat
When Your Cloud Provider Accidentally CCs the Hackers
AI Is Going Great – Or How ML Makes Money
03:09 RYAN DOES A THING FOR SECURING AI WORKLOADS
Ryan was recently invited to Google’s Headquarters in San Francisco as part of a small group of security professionals where they spent time hands-on with Google security offerings, learning how to secure AI workloads.
AI – and how to secure it – is a hot topic right now, and being able to spend time working with the Google development team was really insightful, with how they work with various levels of protections in place in dummy applications.
Ryan was especially interested in the back-end logic that was executed in the applications.
05:32 Ryan – “I was impressed because there’s how we’re thinking about AI is still evolving, and how we’re protecting it’s gonna be changing rapidly, and having real-world examples really helped really flesh out how their AI services are, how they’re integrated into a security ecosystem. It was pretty impressive. And it’s something that’s near and dear. I’ve been working and trying to roll out Google agent spaces and different AI workloads and trying to get involved and make sure that we, just getting visibility into all the different ones. And that was, it was really helpful to sort of think about it in those contexts.”
10:13 OpenAI secures $30bn cloud deal with Oracle
OpenAI signed a $30 billion annual cloud computing agreement with Oracle for 4.5GW of capacity, making it one of the largest AI cloud deals to date, and nearly triple Oracle’s current $10.3 billion annual data center infrastructure revenue.
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1h 30min
July 10, 2025311: The Crawlers are Running the Asylum
Welcome to episode 311 of Two Old Men Yelling at Cloud – aka The Cloud Pod, featuring Matt and Ryan who absolutely, definitely did NOT record an aftershow.
This week, they’re talking about Cloudflare’s new Pay Per Crawler, a new open-source Terraform provider from mkdev, and lots of fabric news that Ryan doesn’t understand – plus so much more. Let’s get into it!
Titles we almost went with this week:
(Show Editor note: There are more show titles than emojis. I give up.)
FSx and the City: When File Systems Meet Object Storage
The Great Data Lake Escape: No Movement Required
OpenZFS Gets an S3 Degree Without Leaving Home
Kernel Sanders: Microsoft’s Recipe for Avoiding Another Fried System
Windows Gets a Restraining Order Against Overly Attached Security Software
Microsoft Builds a Fence Between Windows and Its Rowdy Security Neighbors
Windows Gets a Kernel of Truth After CrowdStrike Meltdown
Microsoft Kicks Security Vendors Out of the Kernel Clubhouse
The Great Kernel Divorce: When Windows Said “It’s Not You, It’s Your Access Level”
Google’s Environmental Report Card: A+ for Effort, C- for Supply Chain
The Cloud Pod Goes Green: Google’s 10th Annual Carbon Confession
Watts Up Doc? Google’s Energy Efficiency Bugs Bunny Would Approve
Terminal Velocity: Google’s AI Gets a Command Performance
Ctrl+Alt+Gemini: Google’s New CLI Companion
The Prompt and the Furious: Tokyo Terminal
AI See What You Did There: Google’s New Compliance Framework
Control Yourself: Google Cloud Gets Serious About AI Auditing
The Audit-omatic: Teaching Old Compliance New AI Tricks
Veo 3: Now Playing in a Cloud Near You
Google’s Video Dreams Come True (Audio Included)
Lights, Camera, API Action: Veo 3 Takes the Stage
Prometheus Unbound: Azure Finally Sees What It’s Been Missing
VS Code Gets Fabric-ated: Now With 100% More Workspace Management
Ctrl+S Your Sanity: Fabric Items Now Created Where You Code
The Extension Cord That Connects Your IDE to the Data Cloud
Logic Apps Gets Its Template of Doom (But in a Good Way)
Copy-Paste Engineering Just Got an Azure Upgrade
Microsoft Introduces the IKEA Model for Workflow Assembly
WAF’s Up Doc? Security Copilot Now Speaks Firewall
The Firewall Whisperer: When AI Meets Web Application Security
WAF and Peace: Microsoft’s Treaty Between Security Tools
Azure Goes Wild(card) with Certificate Management
Front Door Finally Gets Its Wild Side
Microsoft Deals Everyone a Wildcard
IP Freely: Azure Takes the Guesswork Out of Address Management
No More IP Envy: Azure Catches Up to AWS’s Address Game
Azure’s New Feature Has All the Right Addresses
Terraform and Chill: When Infrastructure Meets AI
DynamoDB Goes Global: Now with 100% Less Eventually
The Consistency Chronicles: Return of the Strong Read
Breaking: DynamoDB Achieves Peak Table Manners Across All Regions
Follow Up
00:47 Microsoft changes Windows in attempt to prevent next CrowdStrike-style catastrophe – Ars Technica
Microsoft is creating a new Windows endpoint security platform that allows antivirus vendors to operate outside the kernel, preventing cata
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1h 11min
July 03, 2025310: CI You Later, Manual Testing
Welcome to episode 310 of The Cloud Pod – where the forecast is always cloudy! Matt, Ryan and Justin are here to bring you all the latest and greatest in cloud and AI news.
Literally.
All of it.
This week we have announcements from re:Inforce, Manual Testing, GuardDuty, Government AI (what could go wrong?) Gemini 2.5 and, in a flash from the past, MS-DOS Editor. All this and more, this week in the cloud!
Titles we almost went with this week:
ACM Finally Lets Its Certificates Leave the Nest
Breaking Free: AWS Certificates Get Their Export Papers
Certificate Manager Learns to Share Its Private Keys
Skynet’s Origin Story: We Bullied It Into Existence
Claude and Present Danger: When AI Fights Back
Breaking Up is Hard to GPU
EKS Marks the Spot for GuardDuty’s New Detection Powers
Kubernetes Security: GuardDuty Connects the Dots
Hub, Hub, Hooray for Unified Security
Security Hub 2: Electric Boogaloo
All Your Security Findings Are Belong to One Dashboard
GuardDuty’s EKS-cellent Adventure in Attack Detection
Shield Me From My Own Bad Decisions
AWS Plays Network Security Whack-a-Mole
Your VPC Called – It Wants Better Security Groups
Permission Impossible: Your Express App Will Self-Authorize in 5 Minutes
Breaking the Glass: AWS Backup Gets a Multi-Party System
Gemini 2.5: Now With More Flash and Less Cash
AI Goes to Washington
GPT-4: Government Property Taxpayer-funded
DDoS and Don’ts: A 45-Second Horror Story
Google’s AI Models Get a Flash-y Upgrade (Lite on the Wallet)
Flash Gordon Called – He Wants His Speed Back
From Flash to Flash-Lite: Google’s AI Diet Plan
Looker’s Pipeline Dreams Come True
MS-DOS Editor: The Reboot Nobody Asked For But Everyone Needed
Control-Alt-Delete Your Expectations: Microsoft Brings DOS to Linux
Microsoft’s Text Editor Time Machine Now Runs on Your Toaster
Copilot Gets Its Agent License
Visual Studio’s AI Agent: Now Taking Orders
The Bridge Over Troubled Prompts
Azure’s Managed Compute Gets More Coherent
Bring Your Own GPU Party: Cohere Models Join the Azure Bash
Function Telemetry Gets Open Sourced (Kind Of)
Azure Functions: Now Speaking Everyone’s Language (Except Java)
Bucket List: AWS Makes S3 Policy Monitoring a Breeze
The Policy Police: Keeping Your S3 Buckets in Check
CDK Gets Its Own Town Hall (Infrastructure Not Included)
Breaking: AWS Discovers Zoom, Plans to Use It Twice Per Quarter
AWS and 1Password: A Secret Love Affair
Keeping Secrets Has Never Been This Public
Nano Nano: AWS Brings Alien-Level Time Precision to EC2
Time Flies When You’re Having Nanoseconds
WorkSpaces Core: Now With More Cores to Work With
Mount Compute-ier: AWS Builds AI Training Peak
Making it Rain(ier): AWS Showers Anthropic with 5x More Compute
Cache Me If You Can: Google’s Plugin Play
CSI: Cloud Services Investigation
General News
01:09 Defending the Internet: How Cloudflare blocked a monumental 7.3 Tbps DDoS attack
Cloudflare blocked a record-breaking 7.3 Tbps DDoS
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1h 52min
June 26, 2025309: Microsoft tries to give away cloud services for free, sadly, it’s only SQL
Welcome to episode 308 of The Cloud Pod – where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin and Matt are on hand and ready to bring you an action packed episode. Unfortunately, this one is also lullaby free. Apologies. This week we’re talking about Databricks and Lakebridge, Cedar Analysis, Amazon Q, Google’s little hiccup, and updates to SQL – plus so much more! Thanks for joining us.
Titles we almost went with this week:
KV Phone Home: When Your Key-Value Store Goes AWOL
When Your Coreless Service Finds Its Core Problem
Oracle’s Vanity Fair: Pretty URLs for Pretty Penny
From Warehouse to Lakehouse: Your Free Ticket to Cloud Town
1⃣Databricks Uno: Because One is the Loneliest Number
Free as in Beer, Smart as in Data Science
Cedar Analysis: Because Your Authorization Policies Wood Never Lie
Cedar Analysis: Teaching Old Policies New Proofs
Amazon Q Finally Learns to Talk to Other Apps
Tomorrow: Visual Studio’s Predictive Edit Revolution
The Ghost of Edits Future: AI Haunts Your Code Before You Write It
IAM What IAM: Google’s Identity Crisis Breaks the Internet
Permission Denied: The Day Google Forgot Who Everyone Was
403 Forbidden: When Google’s Bouncer Called in Sick
AWS Brings the Heat to Fusion Research
Larry’s Cloud Nine: Oracle Stock Soars on Forecast Raise
OCI You Later: Oracle Bets Big on Cloud Growth
Oracle’s Crystal Ball Shows 40% Cloud Growth Ahead
Meta Scales Up Its AI Ambitions with $14 Billion Investment
From FAIR to Scale: Meta’s $14 Billion AI Makeover
Congratulations Databricks one, you are now the new low code solution.
AWS burns power to figure out how power works
AI Is Going Great – Or How ML Makes Money
02:12 Zuckerberg makes Meta’s biggest bet on AI, $14 billion Scale AI deal
Meta is finalizing a $14 billion investment for a 49% stake in Scale AI, with CEO Alexandr Wang joining to lead a new AI research lab at Meta.
This follows similar moves by Google and Microsoft acquiring AI talent through investments rather than direct acquisitions to avoid regulatory scrutiny.
Scale AI specializes in data labeling and annotation services critical for training AI models, serving major clients including OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Meta.
The company’s expertise covers approximately 70% of all AI models being built, providing Meta with valuable intelligence on competitor approaches to model development.
The deal reflects Meta’s struggles with its Llama AI models, particularly the underwhelming reception of Llama 4 and delays in releasing the more powerful “Behemoth” model due to concerns about competitiveness with OpenAI and
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52min
June 18, 2025308: SCC: Security Command Center or Super Cool Capabilities?
Welcome to episode 308 of The Cloud Pod – where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Matt and Ryan are in the house today to tell us all about the latest and greatest from FinOps and SnowFlake conferences, plus updates from Security Command Center, OpenAI, and even a new AWS Region. All this and more, today in the cloud!
Titles we almost went with this week:
I Left My Wallet at FinOps X, But Found Savings at Snowflake Summit
Snowflake City Lights, FinOps by the Sea
The Two Summits: A Tale of FinOps and Snowflakes
Crunchy on the Outside, Snowflake on the Inside
AWS Taipei: Because Sometimes You Need Your Data Closer Than Your Night Market
AWS Plants Its Flag in Taipei: The 37th Time’s the Charm
AWS Slashes GPU Prices Faster Than a CUDA Kernel
Two Writers Walk Into a Database… And Both Succeed
AWS Network Firewall: Now With Windows!
The VPN Connection That Keeps Its Secrets
Transform and Roll Out: Pub/Sub’s New Single Message Feature
SAP Happens: Google’s New M4 VMs Handle It Better
Total Recall: Google’s 6TB Memory Machines
The M4trix Has You (And Your In-Memory Databases)
DeepSeek and You Shall Find… on Google Cloud
Four Score and Seven Vulnerabilities Ago – mk
The Fantastic Four Security Features
MCP: Model Context Protocol or Master Control Program from Tron?
No SQL? No Problem! AI Takes the Wheel
Injection Rejection: How Azure Keeps Your Prompts Clean
General News
05:09 FinOps X 2025 Cloud Announcements: AI Agents and Increased FOCUS Support
All major cloud providers announced expanded support for FOCUS (FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification) 1.0, with AWS already in general availability and Google Cloud launching a BigQuery export in private preview.
This signals an industry-wide standardization of cloud cost reporting formats.
AWS introduced AI-powered cost optimization through Amazon Q Developer integration with Cost Optimization Hub, enabling automated recommendations across millions of resources with detailed explanations and action plans for cost reduction.
Microsoft Azure launched AI agents for application modernization that can reduce migration efforts from months to hours by automating code assessment and remediation across thousands of files, while also introducing flexible PTU reservations that work across multiple AI models.
Google Cloud unveiled FinOps Hub 2.0 with Gemini-powered waste detection that identifies underutilized resources (like VMs at 5% usage) and provides AI-generated optimization recommendations for Kubernetes, Cloud Run, and Cloud SQL services.
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure added carbon emissio
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1h 47min
June 13, 2025307: The AI Assistant That Finally Understands Your Kubernetes Cluster (We are Doomed)
Welcome to episode 307 of The Cloud Pod – where the forecast is always cloudy! Who else is at a conference? Justin is coming to us this week from sunny San Diego where he’s attending FinOps – so we have that news to look forward to for next week. Matt and Ryan are also on hand today to share the latest news from Kubernetes, Salesforce acquisitions, and the strange case of Azure making AWS more cost effective.
Titles we almost went with this week:
The Great Redis Escape: One Year Later, Valkey is Living Its Best Life
Cache Me If You Can: How Valkey Outran Redis’s License Policies
Tier Today, Gone Tomorrow: AWS’s New Storage Class That Moves Your Data So
You Don’t
Hey AI, Deploy My App: AWS Makes It Actually Work
AWS Finally Calculates What You’ll Actually Pay
The Price is Right: AWS Edition
From List Price to Real Price: AWS Gets Transparent
Red Hat and AWS Sitting in a Tree, R-H-E-L-I-N-G
Dockerfile? More Like Dockefile-It-For-Me with Amazon’s New MCP Server
Elementary, My Dear Watson: Amazon Q Becomes Sherlock Holmes for AWS
CUD You Believe It? Red Hat Gets the Discount Treatment
Committed Relationship Status: It’s Complicated (But 20% Cheaper)
RHEL Yeah! Google Drops Prices on Enterprise Linux
Disk Today, Gone Tomorrow: Azure’s Vanishing OS Storage
ATL1: Where GPUs Meet Sweet Tea and Southern Hospitality
AWS Launches Operation Cloud Sovereignty
The Great Firewall of Europe: AWS Edition
Amazon Builds a GDPR Fortress in Germany
General News
01:46 What Salesforce’s $8B acquisition of Informatica means for enterprise data and AI | VentureBeat
Salesforce just dropped $8 billion to acquire Informatica.
This purchase was really about building the data foundation needed for agentic AI to actually work in enterprise environments – we’re talking about combining Informatica’s 30 years of data management expertise with Salesforce’s cloud platform to create what they’re calling a “unified architecture for agentic AI.”
This acquisition fills a massive gap in Salesforce’s data management capabilities, bringing in critical pieces like data cataloging, integration, governance, quality controls, and master data management – all the unsexy but absolutely essential plumbing that makes AI agents trustworthy and scalable in real enterprise deployments.
The timing here is fascinating, because Informatica literally just announced their own agentic AI offerings last week at Informatica World, so Salesforce is essentially buying a company that’s already pivoted hard into the AI space – rather than trying to build these capabilities from scratch.
There’s going to be some interesting overlap with MuleSoft, which Salesforce bought for $6.5 billion back in 2018, but analysts are s
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1h 12min
June 05, 2025306: Batch Better Have MySQL: Azure’s Maintenance Makeover
Welcome to episode 306 of The Cloud Pod – where the forecast is always cloudy!
This week, we have a bunch of announcements concerning the newest offering from Anthropic – Claude Sonnet 4 and Opus 4, plus container security, Azure MySQL Maintenance, Vertex AI, and Mistral AI. Plus, we’ve got a Cloud Journey installment AND an aftershow – so get comfy and get ready for a trip to the clouds!
Titles we almost went with this week:
ECS Failures Now Have 4x the Excuses
Nailing Down Your Container Security, One Patch at a Time
HashiCorp’s New Recipe: Terraform, AI, and a Pinch of MCP
Teaching an Old DNS New IPv6 Tricks
Dash-ing through the Klusters, in an AWS Console
Google’s Generative AI Playground Gets a Glow-Up
Vertex AI Studio: Now with 200% More Darkness! Like our souls
Claude Opus 4 Strikes a Chord on Google Cloud
Sovereign-teed to Please: Google Cloud’s Royal Treatment
Google’s Cloud Kingdom Expands its Borders
Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s AI? Anthropic Drops Sonne(t) 4 Knowledge on Vertex
Mistral AI Chats Up a Storm on Google Cloud
Google Cloud’s Vertex AI Gets a Dose of Mistral Magic
.NET Aspire on Azure: The App Service Strikes Back
Default Outbound Access Retires, Decides Florida Isn’t for Everyone
AI Is Going Great – or How ML Makes Money
01:52 Introducing Claude 4
Claude has launched the latest models in Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4, setting new standards for coding, advancing reasoning and AI agents. Maybe they’ll actually follow instructions when told to shut down? (Looking at you, ChatGPT.)
Claude Opus 4 is “the world’s best coding model” with sustained performance on complex, long-running tasks and agent workflows.
Opus 4 has 350 billion parameters, making it one of the largest publicly available language models.
It demonstrates strong performance on academic benchmarks, including research.
Sonnet 4 is a smaller 10 billion parameter model optimized for dialogue, making it well-suited for conversational AI applications.
Alongside the models, they are also announcing:
Extended thinking with tool use (beta): Both models can use tools – like web search – during extended thinking, allowing Claude to alternate between reasoning and tool use to improve its responses.
New Model Capabilities: Both models can use tools in parallel, follow instructions more precisely, and when given access to local files by developers — demonstrate significantly improved memory capabilities, extracting and saving key facts maintain continuity and build tacit knowledge over time
Claude code is now generally available: After receiving extensive positive feedback during our research preview, they are expanding how developers can collaborate with Claude. Claude code now supports background tasks via gith
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1h 35min

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