The Cloud Pod

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

Drowning in a sea of cloud innovations, AI breakthroughs, and shifting tooling ecosystems? The Cloud Pod is your lifeline! Join cloud veterans Justin, Jonathan, Ryan, and Matt as they decode the rapid... more

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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 catastrophic system-wi
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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 attack in May 2025, whi
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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 DeepSeek. Meta recently reorganized its GenAI u
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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 emissions reporting with hourly power-based calculations and
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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 saying Informatica’s data management capabilities
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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 github actions and native integrations with VS co
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1h 35min
May 28, 2025305: AWS Breaks Up with Unpopular Services – “It’s Not You, It’s Me”
Welcome to episode 305 of The Cloud Pod – where the forecast is always cloudy! How did you do on your Microsoft Build Predictions? As badly as us? Plus we’ve got news on AWS service changes, a lifecycle catch up page for all those services that bought the farm, tons of Gemini news (seriously, like a lot) and even some AI for .NET.
Welcome to the cloud pod- and thanks for joining us!
Titles we almost went with this week:
Google’s Jules: An AI Gem for Cloud Devs
Autonomous Agents of Code: Jules’ Excellent Adventure in the Google Cloud
Gemini 2.5 Shoots for the Stars with Cosmic-Sized AI Upgrades
Resistance is Futile: OpenAI Assimilates Your Codebase
AWS Transformers: Rise of the Agentic AI
Teaching an old .NET dog new Linux tricks
CodeBuild Puts Docker Builds in Hyperdrive
Inspector Gadget’s New Trick: Mapping Container Vulnerabilities
Yo Dawg, I Heard You Like Scanning Containers…
Google Cranks AI to 11 with New Ultra Plan
I, For One, Welcome Our New AI Ultra Overlords
The Inference Engine That Could: llm-d Chugs Ahead with Kubernetes-Native
Scaling
Scaling Inference to Infinity and Beyond with Google Cloud’s llm-d
Google Cloud and Spring AI: A Match Made in Java-n
The Fast and the Serverless: Cloud Run Drifts into AI Studio Territory
SQL Server 2025: A Vector Victor, Not a Scalar Failure
AI will solve my life problems of having money in my pocket
I used to scan all the containers but now I will just scan yours
AI Is Going Great – or How ML Makes Money
01:50 Jules: Google’s autonomous AI coding agent
Jules is an autonomous AI agent that can read code, understand intent, and make code changes on its own.
It goes beyond AI coding assistants to operate independently.
It clones code into a secure Google Cloud VM, allowing it to understand the full context of a project. This enables it to write tests, build features, fix bugs, and more.
Jules operates asynchronously in the background, presenting its plan and reasoning when complete. This allows developers to focus on other tasks while it works.
Integration with GitHub enables Jules to work directly in existing workflows without extra setup or context switching. Developers can steer and give feedback throughout the process.
For cloud developers, Jules demonstrates the rapid advancement of AI for coding moving from prototype to product. Its cloud-based parallel execution enables efficient handling of complex, multi-file changes.
While in public beta, Jules is free with some usage limits. This allows developers to experiment with this cutting-edge AI coding agent and understand its potential to accelerate development on Google Cloud.
02:56 Ryan – “More and more, as new tools get released, it’s just going to change the way anything gets written… it’s getting more and more capable.”
05:45 Introducing Flow: Google’s AI filmmaking tool designed for Veo
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1h 13min
May 21, 2025304: It’s Chile Up Here in The Cloud!
Welcome to episode 304 of The Cloud Pod – where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Ryan and Matt are in the house tonight to bring you all the latest and greatest in Cloud and AI news, including AWS new Chilean region, the ongoing tug of war between Open AI and Microsoft, and even some K8 updates – plus an aftershow. Let’s get started!
Titles we almost went with this week:
Open AI gets a COO delivered
Things get Chile with new regions
Observability and AI, I Q-uestion the logic
Cloud Pod tries to Microsoft Build predictions
K8 resizes pods on the fly
Microsoft strongly reinforces the AI Foundry
The Cloud Pod renegotiates the hosts’ contracts … we now have to pay the Cloud Pod to be on it
Follow Up
01:53 DOJ’s extreme proposals will hurt consumers and America’s tech leadership
We previously talked about the DOJ and Google Antitrust lawsuit – and now the DOJ has wrapped up their remedies hearing, and Google has *not* been quiet about it.
One of the claims is that the remedies would hurt browser choice, putting browsers like Firefox out of business completely.
Google also claimed that data disclosure mandates would threaten user’s privacy – it would be MUCH safer if they could just sell it to you via their marketplace.
We do agree that divesting Chrome would make things more complicated for people living in the Google Cloud.
Really, what comes down to is that Google claims DOJ’s solutions are the wrong solutions – although to us, Google’s solutions aren’t much better.
AI – Or How ML Makes Money
09:20 OpenAI Expands Leadership with Fidji Simo
OpenAI Hires Instacart CEO Simo For Major Leadership Role
OpenAI is hiring Fidji Simo as the CEO of applications, representing a major restructuring of leadership at the company.
She was the CEO at
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1h 17min
May 18, 2025303: Someday You Will Find Me, Caught Beneath the AI Landslide, in a Champagne Premier Nova in The Sky
Welcome to episode 303 of The Cloud Pod – where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Ryan and exhausted dad Matt are here (and mostly awake) ready to bring the latest in cloud news! This week we’ve got more news from Nova, updates to Claude, earnings news, and a mini funeral for Skype – plus a new helping of Cloud Journey!
Titles we almost went with this week:
Claude researches so Ryan can nap
The best AI for Nova Corps, Amazon Nova Premiere JB
If you can’t beat them, change the licensing terms and make them fork, and then
reverse course… and profit
Q has invaded your IDE!!
Skype bites the dust
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Follow Up
02:50 Sycophancy in GPT-4o: What happened and what we’re doing about it
OpenAI wrote up a blog post about their sycophantic Chat GPT 4o upgrade last week, and they wanted to set the record straight.
They made adjustments at improving the models default personality to make it feel more intuitive and effective across a variety of tasks.
When shaping model behavior, they start with a baseline principle and instructions outlined in their model spec.
They also teach their models how to apply these principles by incorporating user signals like thumbs up and thumbs down feedback on responses.
In this update, though, they focused too much on short-term feedback and did not fully account for how users’ interactions with ChatGPT evolve. This skewed the results towards responses that were overly supportive – but disingenuous.
Beyond rolling back the changes, they are taking steps to realign the model behavior, including refining core training techniques and system prompts to explicitly steer the model away from sycophancy.
They also plan to build more guardrails to increase honesty and transparency principles in the model spec.
Additionally, they plan to expand ways for users to test and give direct feedback before deployments.
Lastly, OpenAI continues to expand evaluations building on the model sync and our ongoing research.
04:43 Deep Research on Microsoft Hotpatching:
Yes, they’re grabbing money and screwing you. Basically.
07:06 Justin – “I’m not going to give them any credit on this one. I appreciate that they created hotpatching, but I don’t like what you want to charge me for it.”
General News
It’s Earnings time – cue the sound effects!
08:03 Alphabet’s Q1 earnings shattered analyst expectations, sending the stock soaring. GoogleR
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1h 25min

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