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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How many episodes does The Cloud Pod have?

The podcast currently has 410 episodes available.

The Cloud Pod episodes:

May 27, 2021119: Oracle announces something amazing, The Cloud Pod worldview shook
This week on The Cloud Pod, Ryan is stuck somewhere in a tent under a broken-down motorcycle but is apparently still having fun.
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 went back to school to become a detective.
Google was voted prom queen at the virtual homecoming.
Oracle shocks everyone with its new look.
General News: Great Partners
Hashicorp has partnered with AWS to launch support for predictive scaling policy in the Terraform AWS provider. This will be hugely popular for people new to the cloud.
Amazon Web Services: Dropping Stories For No Reason
AWS Lambda Extensions are now generally available with new performance improvements. This has pretty limited regional availability, though.
Amazon releases the AWS Shield threat landscape 2020 year in review. One of our favourite blogs.
AWS EKS Add-Ons now supports CoreDNS and kube-proxy. This is neat!
Introducing the AWS Application Cost Profiler — there have been a few complaints about this on Twitter.
AWS Compute Optimizer launches updates to its EC2 instance type recommendations. This is awesome.
AWS Outposts launches support for EC2 Capacity Reservations. Being able to use the same tool regardless of where you are is a good thing!
An AWS Region in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is in the works. Great!
Google Cloud Platform: Prom Queen 2021
Google VM Manager with OS configuration management is now in Preview. This is basically patch and agent management.
Forrester names Google Cloud a leader in
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May 21, 2021117: Justin is out, Peter’s distracted by his parents, Jonathan is just British and Ryan is probably tipsy…. But we had one job and we’re recording!
This week on The Cloud Pod, Justin is away so the rest of the team has taken the opportunity to throw him under the bus.
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 Pentagon has had enough of the kids fighting so no one gets the toy.
Amazon has given developers the happy ending they’ve always wanted.
Google is playing with fire and hopes no one gets burnt.
JEDI: Play Nice
Pentagon officials are considering pulling the plug on the star-crossed JEDI cloud-computing project. Reminds us of when we were kids and our parents took toys away when we couldn’t play nice together.
Amazon Web Services: We’ve Made All the Money
AWS announces a price reduction for Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus. That’s an awful lot of samples.
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) announces pricing change for VPC Peering. Just get rid of the ridiculous data transfer fees!
AWS Organizations launches a new console experience. We’re excited to try this out!
AWS announces IAM Access Control for Apache Kafka on Amazon MSK. This is great.
AWS Systems Manager now includes Incident Manager to resolve IT incidents faster. This might initially fall short of some of the other offerings on the market.
AWS Local Zones are now open in Boston, Miami and Houston. They’re continuing on the Oracle model of racks in random garages.
Amazon now lets you create Microsoft SQL Server Instances of Amazon RDS on AWS Outposts. A big hooray for people using Outposts.
Google Cloud Platform: Smells A Bit
Google announces Agent Assist for Chat is
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May 19, 2021118: The Cloud Pod talks LaMDA, which one?
This week on The Cloud Pod, the team discusses the fine art of writing the podcast show notes so there are bullet points for when Peter shows up without doing the homework.
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 catering to the unimaginative with its version of a vanilla milkshake.
Google now performs commitment ceremonies but they come at a cost.
Azure did an online pastry course and can now make croissants.
General News: La France Est Méconnaître Amazon (France Is Ignoring Amazon)
VMware picks longtime executive Raghuram as its new CEO. So many people were overlooked for this position.
France says Google and Microsoft Cloud Services are OK for storing sensitive data. Bit of a snub for Amazon.
Amazon Web Services: Busy Little Bees
AWS SaaS Boost released as open source. Sounds more like a product than it actually is.
AWS announces general availability of AWS Application Migration Service. If play is to lift and shift, with no thought of transformation at all, this is for you.
AWS CloudFormation Guard 2.0 is now generally available. It’s great that this supports more than just cloud transformation.
AWS Premium Support launches Support Automation Workflows (SAW). This will make the exchange of data so much easier.
Amazon Elasticsearch Service announces a new lower-cost storage tier. This is great news for everybody.
Amazon announces the release of EKS 1.20 — the raddest release ever.
AWS launches another way to run containers with App Runner. Just in case you don’t want to use one of the other billion container services.
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May 07, 2021115: The Cloud Pod gets to the root of it
Justin and Jonathan kick off this week’s episode of The Cloud Pod by themselves, Peter joins the party late because he’s been fighting dinosaurs and Ryan is unable to attend as he can’t move from under the weight of the kitten on his lap.
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 will find any excuse to use GIFs just like the rest of us.
Google has given Cardi B a headstart on a theme song for its new product.
Azure sent the wedding invites out late but still expects you to show up.
Amazon Web Services: Cheaper Than Healthcare
Amazon RDS on VMWare no longer requires the use of a VPN tunnel back to AWS. Still cheaper than paying for healthcare.
Amazon Elasticsearch Service announces support for Asynchronous Search. This is really cool!
Amazon EC2 now allows you to replace the root volume for a running instance. There are some great use cases for this.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux with High Availability is now available on Amazon EC2. Good to see IBM isn’t throwing up barriers.
AWS is releasing the new Amazon FSx File Gateway. Hopefully this is easy to implement.
AWS announces moving graphs for CloudWatch Dashboards. Also known as GIFs for CloudWatch.
Google Cloud Platform: Closet Fans of Cardi B
Google announces PHP, a general purpose programming language, is now on Cloud Functions. Visit thecloudpod.net to see a live example of PHP, also known as the WordPress platform we built our website on.
GCP is launching Web App and API Protection (WAAP), which provides comprehensive threat protection for web apps and APIs. Do not confuse this with the Cardi B song.
Google has made the Doc AI
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May 06, 2021116: The Cloud Pod is positively charged for AWS Proton
This week on The Cloud Pod, Yahoo is back and cheaper than ever. Just kidding, it’s Ryan who is back and the team is curious as to how he managed to extricate himself out from under that kitten.
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 has been doing yoga and the results are paying off.
Google bought a hard hat and is getting into the construction business.
If you need to get your kid to sleep, let them read this from Azure.
General News: Yahoo’s Renaissance
Verizon dumps Yahoo-AOL for rock-bottom price. But they’re not dead yet!
Amazon posts record profits as AWS hits $54B annual run rate. That’s pretty good!
Microsoft beats Q3 revenue expectations, spurred by strong cloud sales. Get on the bandwagon, Azure.
Alphabet announces first quarter results for 2021. It does include GCP and G-Suite revenue.
Cloud infrastructure spending grew 35% to $41.8B in Q1 2021. These numbers boggle our minds.
JEDI: Just Keeps Getting Better
Court snubs Microsoft and the U.S. government’s request to throw out Amazon’s complaint against JEDI cloud contract decision. We can’t wait to hear what Trump says under oath.
Amazon Web Services: Bring Your Own Talent
AWS is launching Amazon FinSpace, a data management and analytics solution. Step one, invent the universe.
AWS Proton introduces customer-managed environments. We had to look up what Proton actually is.
AWS Proton allows adding and removing instances from an existing service. We’re looking forward to some re:Invent sessions on this.
Amazon launches CloudFront Functions for
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April 21, 2021114: The Cloud Pod looks forward to rewriting Terraform code… again
On The Cloud Pod this week, the team admits to using the podcast as a way to figure out what day it is. Justin also relents and includes Azure news because he couldn’t handle any more Oracle mobile apps announcements.
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
Social media influencers can breathe a sigh of relief.
Amazon is dangling a carrot in front of one of its partners.
Azure is throwing a spanner in the works.
General News: Not Cool News
The FBI arrests a man for his plan to kill “70% of the internet” in an AWS bomb attack. 70% is quite a stretch but we’re sure it would have caused a crappy day for a lot of people.
Hashicorp has released its Boundary 0.2 release with several new features. We’re really excited about this.
Announcing HashiCorp Terraform 0.15 General Availability. If you believe it, this is really great news.
Amazon Web Services: Good At Compromising
AWS announces AQUA is now generally available. Justin should have gotten a prediction point for this one.
Amazon Managed Service for Grafana now offers more support. We’ll see if Grafana can actually make money out of its partnership with Amazon.
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now integrates with AWS Lambda. This is really cool!
Decrease machine learning costs with instance price reductions and savings plans for Amazon SageMaker. Some pretty significant savings here.
Google Cloud Platform: Colossal
Google takes a deep dive into its scalable storage solution, Colossus. Nothing new here.
Google announces tracking index backf
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April 16, 2021113: The Cloud Pod goes mobile
On The Cloud Pod this week, Ryan has given all his money to the Amazon press team to write really confusing headlines just to annoy Peter. Also, Jonathan is missing presumed cranky buns.
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
IBM is spinning off its infrastructure services business — the new public company will be called “Kyndryl.”
Teresa Carlson has left the AWS building. The AWS VP is headed to big-data analytics company Splunk Inc. as its new chief growth officer.
Google’s like the cool kids who know how to party.
General News: Eventual Degradation of Profits
IBM to name its infrastructure services business “Kyndryl”. We hope they didn’t spend a lot of money coming up with that name.
Top AWS executive Teresa Carlson joins Splunk as President and Chief Growth Officer. We thought she might have been a candidate to succeed Andy Jassy.
Amazon Web Services: 5G Not Included
AWS formally launches the OpenSearch project. Seems like it’s listened to the open source feedback.
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling introduces Warm Pools to accelerate scale-out while saving money. Please don’t let Andy name anything.
AWS and Verizon team up to provide 5G-powered edge computing infrastructure. Justin got his COVID-19 vaccination and was disappointed it didn’t come with 5G.
Amazon Redshift now supports data sharing when producer clusters are paused. We wonder what underlying tech made this possible?
Google Cloud Platform: Excel at No Code
Leaf Space enables next-gen satellites on Google Cloud. This fills a very obvious gap in the market and is pretty cool.
Google introduces a new blog series:
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April 08, 2021112: The Cloud Pod bots are in control
On The Cloud Pod this week, the team discusses the future of the podcast and how they’ll know they’ve made it when listeners use Twitter to bombard Ryan with hatred when he’s wrong.
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 gives Justin a long overdue birthday present.
Google wants to educate the people.
Azure has a new best friend but could they be a wolf in sheep’s clothing?
General News: Goodbye, Friend
The Apache foundation has decided to send Mesos to the attic. This makes us sad because we loved the concept.
Amazon Web Services: Happy Birthday, Justin
New AWS WAF Bot Control to reduce unwanted website traffic. This is great!
AWS is releasing the Amazon Route 53 Resolver DNS firewall to defend against DNS-level threats. Pricing is interesting on this one.
AWS launches CloudWatch Metric Streams. After years of complaints, they’re finally fixing this issue.
AWS Lambda@Edge changes duration billing granularity from 50ms down to 1ms. Nice price cut!
AWS Direct Connect announces MACsec encryption for dedicated 10Gbps and 100Gbps connections at select locations. AWS has fulfilled their promise to Justin — three years later.
Amazon announces new predictable pricing model up to 90% lower and Python Support moves to GA for CodeGuru Reviewer. If this goes down next week, blame Ryan.
Google Cloud Platform: So Pretty
Google is releasing an open-source set of JSON dashboards. This is super important.
Google announces free AI and machine learning
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April 01, 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
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March 24, 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
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