02:02 Detecting and stopping recursive loops in AWS Lambda functions

03:50 Matt- “I can definitely say I’ve caused an ‘in the hundreds of dollars’ very rapidly by this in the past in a dev account. So it’s definitely something that’s easy to do if you are doing recursion and you make an ‘if’ statement the wrong way.”

04:28 AWS Fargate Enables Faster Container Startup using Seekable OCI

00:47 Clickstream Analytics on AWS for Mobile and Web Applications

02:45 Justin- “I believe they have cloud cost optimization opportunities and solutions, but I would appreciate maybe some addition

01:21 IBM acquires hybrid cloud software company Apptio for $4.6B

2:30Ryan – “The last time I played with Apptio was very early in my cloud experience and Apptio was struggling to understand how to sort of port their methodologies into cloud. It worked really well in the data center and for IT shops, for tracking assets and managing visibility into cost and financials there, but it really struggled with stuff like dynamically changing instance groups and that sort of thing. It made sense when they bought Cloudability, and I haven’t played with it since.”

04:39 Justin goes to FinopsX!  

06:10Justin –  “I did have an opportunity to talk to some startups. they’re on the floor and they’re thinking about kind of the next generation and what that looks like and you’re really talking about bringing AI and LLM technology into FinOps and how do you get beyond the basics of it. I think we’re at this kind of cusp of the end of the Gen 1 era… I suspect that we’re in for a bunch of FinOps and capabilities coming out of these vendors as they try to figure out what their v2 is, and potentially new startups that are going to come in and be disruptive to the Gen 1 players, because I think it’s a commodity, which was my big takeaway from the conference in general. It was good. It was a nice time. I definitely recommend going if you’re in the FinOps space.”

08:07 Ryan – “I’m waiting for the first one of these players to really get the data enrichments, like AI generated data enrichment of your resour

01:27 Vault 1.14 brings ACME for PKI, AWS roles, and more improvements 

Overall, Vault 1.14 is a significant release with a number of new features and improvements. If you are using Vault, I recommend upgrading to the latest version.

03:36 Announcing the AWS Amplify UI Builder Figma Plugin 

No general news this week! Probably because no one wanted to talk to us. 

00:49 Amazon EC2 Instance Connect supports SSH and RDP connectivity without public IP address

01:31 Matt- “It’s nice to see Amazon still coming up with more solutions to not have things be public; and really try to get their customers to not use all the older-school technology.”

03:02 RDS Custom for SQL Server Lets you Bring Your Own Media 

00:57 Terraform AWS provider updates to V 5.0

04:11 Jonathan – “It’s kind of cool – it’s a neat hack as well as a way of AWS providing a really useful feature without having to do any work on the cloud platform itself. Just implement the tool that does the deploying rather than having a service which could do it for you.”

05:28 **NEW** AWS DMS Serverless 

06:36 Matt- “I was thinking about it at the end of the migration – we finally got it all replicated; now we’re gonna wait a month before we actually cut over. We need this very small change rate, vs. lets go replicate everything at the very beginning. It just kind of keeps it in sync. So in theory, it goes up and down

The Cloud Pod becomes the cloud docs

01:29 Alibaba to Exit Cloud Business After Beijing Undercuts Potential

04:30 Justin – “We’re basically entering a very Cold War period between the US and Chinese. And so that’s gonna be interesting to see how that continues to shake out. I saw some articles this week as well, like in the information about VC firms trying to exit their investments in China and just realizing that it’s not gonna be the growth engine they expect it to be. I mean, we talked about here on the show even some of the supply chain issues with China, with the cloud providers and how it’s impacted them. And now, I just saw this week, Apple just announced that they were making chips with Broadcom on US soil for some things. So, there’s definitely an undercurrent in our politics about China in general.”

 05:46 Matt – “On the flip side, I’m kind of curious to see how taking this business unit out of the general Alibaba is going to work, especially with everyone starting to yell that the

01:10 – Terraform is in the news! 

02:35 Ryan – “Yeah, I mean, the licensing for Terraform products for cloud and both enterprises always been rough, right? Like starting off per users for cloud makes sense. And at some point for enterprise, they had switched to per project, not users, because they figured out very quickly that what everyone did was just sort of link it together behind automation pane.”

04:48 ”Justin – the devil’s in the details of what they consider a resource, right? And it’s every single thing. I mean, 10 cents per EC2 instance, hmm. Like, yeah, I get 10 cents worth of value out of Terraform, not having to manually do that stuff. So, like, yeah, but then like you get into  S3 buckets and like, I’m definitely not gonna get 10 cents of value out of an S3 bucket every month.”

Welcome to the newest episode of The Cloud Pod podcast! Justin, Ryan, Jonathan, Matthew and Peter are your hosts this week as we discuss all things cloud and AI, 

00:40 – News this week starts out with TCP’s own news – Peter’s podcasting career is riding off into the sunset. He claims he’ll actually start listening, but we’ll see…we’re always happy for more listeners though, no matter how we get them. 

02:18 – FinOps Foundation debuts new specification to ease cloud cost management

04:18 New Storage-Optimized Amazon EC2 I4g Instances: Graviton Processors and AWS Nitro SSDs

Welcome to the newest episode of The Cloud Pod podcast! Justin, Ryan, Jonathan, and Matthew are all here this week to discuss the latest news and announcements in the world of cloud and AI – including New Relic Grok, Athena Provisioned Capacity from AWS, and updates to the Azure Virtual Desktop.

None! This week’s title was SO GOOD we didn’t bother with any alternates. Sometimes it’s just like that, you know? 

Foghorn Consulting, provides top-notch cloud and DevOps engineers to the world’s most innovative companies. Initiatives stalled because you have trouble hiring?  Foghorn can be burning down your DevOps and Cloud backlogs as soon as next week.

01:27 – Quick reminder – Finops X Foundation Conference is almost here! 

02:47 New Relic is back on the pod – and they’ve got something new