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Welcome to episode 272 of The Cloud Pod! This week, Matthew and Justin are bringing you all the latest in cloud and AI news, including new updates to the ongoing Crowdstrike drama, JSON schemas, AWS vaults, and IPv6 addresses – even some hacking opportunities! All this and more, this week in the cloud. Titles we almost went with this week: The cloud pod is now logically air-gapped The Cloud Pod has continuous snark The Cloud Pod points the finger at delta AI now with JSON SCHEMAS!!! A big thanks to this week’s sponsor: We’re sponsorless! Want to get your brand, company, or service in front of a very enthusiastic group of cloud news seekers? You’ve come to the right place! Send us an email or hit us up on our slack channel for more info. Follow Up 00:35 Crowdstrike RCA The final RCA is out from Crowdstrike, and as we talked during the preliminary report, this was an issue with a channel file that had 21 input parameters. No update previously had more than 20, and it was not caught in earlier testing. Crowdstrike has several findings, and mitigating actions that they are taking. They go into detail on each of them, and you can read through all of them at the linked document. 02:31 Justin – “…the one thing I would say is this would be a perfect RCA if it included a timeline, but it lacks, it lacks a timeline view.” 12:06 Justin – “…their mitigations don’t have any dates on them of when they’re going to be done or implemented, which, in addition to a timeline, it would be nice to see in this process.” 15:46 Microsoft joins CrowdStrike in pushing IT outage recovery responsibility back to Delta Microsoft has joined Crowdstrike in throwing Delta under the bus. Delta Airlines has been blaming Crowdstrike and MS for their recent IT woes, which the company claims cost them over $500 million. Microsoft says “Our preliminary review suggests that Delta, unlike its competitors, has not modernized its IT infrastructure, either for the benefit of its customers or for its pilots and flight attendants” Mark Cheffo from law firm Dechert representing MS. Gonna get ugly before this all gets settled. *Insert Michael Jackson eating popcorn gif here* 16:43 Justin – “The struggle with, you know, offering to send someone on site to help you is, you know, you, you can’t vet them that quickly. And so you also have an obligation to your shareholders. You have obligations to your security controls and your SOC and ISO and all the things that you’re doing, you know, to, to allow some strangers into your network and then give them access required to fix this issue, which in some cases required you to provide local encryption keys, and local administrato

Welcome to episode 271 of the Cloud Pod Podcast &#8211; where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Jonathan and Matthew are your hosts today as we discuss the latest news in cloud and AI, including earnings reports, Google’s legal trouble, and SQL updates. We even take a minute to give some side eye to AWS’s deprioritization techniques. Spoiler alert: 0 out of 5 stars for keeping customers informed. Titles we almost went with this week: No Google, you can’t own Park Place, Boardwalk, the railroads and the utilities Amazons Titan Image Generator is no titan of photography BigTable graduates to SQL support TikTok/Instagram, Azure Reliability and Temu bring down the big three clouds&#8217; earnings Span your Mind to Graphs &amp; Vectors DOJ rules The Cloud Pod should be your default news source The CloudPod &#8211; now with SQL support AWS Deprioritizes 7 Services, Cloud Pod Hosts Prioritize Therapy A big thanks to this week’s sponsor: We’re sponsorless! Want to get your brand, company, or service in front of a very enthusiastic group of cloud news seekers? You’ve come to the right place! Send us an email or hit us up on our slack channel for more info. Follow Up 00:45 Amazon decision to deprioritize 7 cloud services caught customers and even some salespeople by surprise Jeff Barr confirmed on Twitter (Yes will always call it Twitter) after recording last week&#8217;s episode that they had made the tough decision to deprioritize 7 cloud services. There is still no official blog post announcing this, beyond the confirmation from Jeff Barr. Amazon is discontinuing new access to a small number of services in the tweet &#8211; but would continue to run them in a secure environment. Jeff Bar confirmed the list of services to be S3 Select, CloudSearch, Cloud9, SimpleDB, Forecast, Data Pipeline and CodeCommit. An AWS Spokesperson claimed to Business Insider that the changes were communicated through multiple channels within and outside the company. But were they REALLY though? 01:33 Justin &#8211; “Yeah, they kind of took a leap out of the Hitchhiker&#8217;s Guide to the Galaxy book and put the planning commission in the filing cabinet downstairs with the broken light.” General News It’s Earnings Time! 07:35 Alphabet meets earnings expectations but misses on YouTube ad revenue Alphabet revenue was up 14% YOY, driven by search and cloud, GCP surpassed $10B in quarterly revenues and $1 Billion in operating profit for the first time. <li st

The Cloud Pod Puts a Hex-LLM on all these AI Announcements Welcome to episode 270 of the Cloud Pod Podcast &#8211; where the forecast is always cloudy! Jonathan, Ryan, Matt and Justin are your hosts today as we sort through all of the cloud and AI news of the week, including updates to the Crowdstrike BSOD event, more info on that proposed Wiz takeover (spoiler alert: it’s toast) and some updates to Bedrock. All this and more news, right now on the Cloud Pod! Titles we almost went with this week: The antivirus strikes back The return of the crowdstrike The cloud pod is worth more than 23B The cloud pod is rebranded to the AI podcast The cloud pod might need to move to another git provider Amazon finally gets normal naming for end user messaging Amazon still needs to work on it’s end user messaging The CloudPod goes into hibernation before the next crisis hits EC2 Now equipped with ARM rests A big thanks to this week’s sponsor: Follow Up 01:33 In what feels suspiciously like an SNL skit, CrowdStrike sent its partners $10 Uber Eats gift cards as an apology for mass IT outage As you can imagine, Twitter (or X) had thoughts. Turns out they were just for third party partners that were helping with implementation. 2024 Economics wants to know &#8211; what are you going to do with only $10 with Uber Eats? Crowdstrike: Preliminary Post Incident Review Moving on to the actual story &#8211; The Preliminary Post Incident Review (PIR) is now out for the BSOD Crowdstrike event we talked about last week. Crowdstrike reports that a Rapid Response Content Update for the Falcon sensor was published to Windows hosts running sensor version 7.11 and above. The update was to gather telemetry on new threat techniques that targeted named pipes in the kernel but instead triggered a BSOD on systems online from 4:09 &#8211; 5:27 UTC. Ultimately, the crash occurred due to undetected content during validation checks, which resulted in an out-of-bounds memory read. To avoid this, Crowdstrike plans to do a bunch of things: Improve rapid response content testing by using testing types such as Local developer, content update and rollback, stress, fuzzing, fault injection, stability and content interface testing. Introduce additional validation checks in the content validator to prevent similar issues. Strengthen error handling mechanisms in the Falcon sensor to ensure errors from problematic content are managed gracefully. Adopt staggered deployment strategies, starting with a canary deployment to a small subset of systems before further staged rollouts Enhanced sensor and system performance monitoring during the staggered content deployment to identify and mitigate issues promptly. Allowing a granular section of when and where these updates are deployed will give customers greater control over the deliver

Welcome to episode 269 of the Cloud Pod Podcast &#8211; where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Matthew and Ryan are your hosts this week as we talk about &#8211; you guessed it &#8211; the Crowdstrike update that broke, well, everything! We’re also looking at Databricks, Google potentially buying Wiz, NY Summit news, and more! Titles we almost went with this week: You can’t take Justin down; but a 23-hour flight to India (or Crowdstrike updates) can Google wants Wiz, and Crowdstrike Strikes all Crowdstrike, does anyone know the Graviton of this situation? We are called to this summit to talk AWS AI Supremacy Crowdstrike, Wiz and Chat GPT 4o Mini… oh my An Impatient Wiz builds his own data centers not impacted by Crowdstrike A big thanks to this week’s sponsor: We’re sponsorless! Want to reach a dedicated audience of cloud engineers? Send us an email or hit us up on our Slack Channel and let’s chat! General News 00:58 You Guessed It &#8211; Crowdstrike Microsoft, CrowdStrike outage disrupts travel and business worldwide Our Statement on Today’s Outage (listener note: paywall article) It&#8217;s not every day you get to experience one of the largest IT Outages in history, and it even impacted our recording of the show last week. Crowdstrike, a popular EDR solution caused major disruption to the worlds IT systems with an errant update to their software that caused servers to BSOD, disrupting travel (airplanes, trains, etc), governments, news organizations and more. Crowdstrike removed the errant file quickly, but still the damage was done with tons of systems requiring manual intervention to be recovered. The fix required booting into safe mode, and removing a file from the crowdstrike directory. This was all complicated by bitlocker and lack of local admin rights for many end user devices. Sometimes doing up to 15 reboots would bring the server back to life. Swinging the hard drives from one broken server to a working server manually removes the files and puts them back. The issue also caused a large-scale outage in the Azure Central region. In addition to services on AWS being impacted that run Windows (Amazon is a well-known large Crowdstrike customer) Crowdstrike CEO Goerge Kurtz (who happened to be the CTO at Mcafee during the 2010 Update Fiasco that impacted Mcafee clients globally) stated that he was deeply sorry and vowed to make sure every customer is fully recovered. By the time of this recording, most clients should be mostly fixed and recovered, and we are all anxiously waiting to hear how this could have happened. 04:50 Justin &#8211; “It&#8217;s really an Achilles heel of the cloud. I mean, to fix this, you need to be able to boot a server into safe mode or into recovery mode and then remove this file manually, which requires that you have console access, which, you know, Amazon just added a couple of years ago.” 07:45 Matthew &#8211; “It&#8217;s always fun when you&#8217;re like, okay, everyone sit down, no stupid

Welcome to episode 268 of the Cloud Pod Podcast &#8211; where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin says he’s in India, but we know he’s really been replaced by Skynet. Jonathan, Matthew, and Ryan are here in his stead to bring all the latest cloud news, including PGO for optimization, a Linux vulnerability, CloudFront’s new managed policies, and even a frank discussion about whether or not the AI Hype train has officially left the station. Sit back and enjoy! Titles we almost went with this week: OpenSSH sings “Oops I did it again” All aboard, the AI hype train is leaving the station Caching In on CloudFront&#8217;s New Managed Policies Get your Go Apps a personal trainer this summer with PGO Was Japan actually using floppy disks or were they 3.5 Azure is on summer break Singapore will soon just be datacenters A big thanks to this week’s sponsor: We’re sponsorless! Want to reach a dedicated audience of cloud engineers? Send us an email or hit us up on our Slack Channel and let’s chat! General News 00:56 Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of floppy disks Here&#8217;s a bit of tech nostalgia meets modernization for you! Japan&#8217;s government has finally phased out the use of floppy disks in all its systems. The Digital Agency has scrapped over 1,000 regulations related to their use, marking a significant step in their efforts to update government technology. Digital Minister Taro Kono, who&#8217;s been on a mission to modernize Japan&#8217;s government tech, announced this victory last week. It&#8217;s part of a larger push to digitize Japan&#8217;s notoriously paper-heavy bureaucracy, which became glaringly apparent during the COVID-19 pandemic. Japan&#8217;s digitization efforts have hit some bumps along the way, including issues with a contact-tracing app and slow adoption of their digital ID system. It&#8217;s a reminder that modernizing legacy systems isn&#8217;t just about replacing old hardware &#8211; it&#8217;s a complex process that involves changing long-standing processes and especially mindsets. 02:36 Jonathan &#8211; “Yeah, I remember a couple of years ago they started talking about this modernization they were doing and people started to panic because Japan&#8217;s the largest purchaser of floppy disks anymore, or three and a half inch disks anyway. And so I ended up buying some because I&#8217;ve still got a USB floppy drive and some machines that have floppy disks. And I wanted just to stock up on some for the future, just in case the price went through the roof if Japan finally cut them and they have.” 05:16 regreSSHion: Remote Unauthenticated Code Execution Vulnerability in OpenSSH server The Qualys Threat Research Unit just dropped a bombshell &#8211; they&#8217;ve discovered a remote code execution vulnerability in OpenSSH that affects millions of Linux systems. The vulnerability, dubbed &#8220;regreSSHion,&#8221; allows unauthenticated attackers to execute code as root on vulnerable systems. <li style="font-we

Welcome to episode 265 of the Cloud Pod Podcast &#8211; where the forecast is always cloudy! This week, Jonathan, Ryan, and Justin are trying to keep cool in new WorkSpaces Pools, avoiding the Heatwave with Oracle’s new LLM, taking a look at AWS Jamba (hold the straw) and taking a look at the ever elusive Cloud Maturity. All this news and more, this week on The Cloud Pod! Titles we almost went with this week: The Cloud Pod takes a dip in the Workspaces Pool The Cloud Pod Lineage view is suspect A Gitlab, A BitBucket, and a Blueprint build a Workspaces Pool AWS goes for a Jamba Juice Google Cloud Autokey does exactly what it sounds like Oracle LLM Heatwaves send us to the Amazon Workspace Pool Jonathan is unimpressed with this weeks show Highway to the DataZone A big thanks to this week’s sponsor: We’re sponsorless! Want to reach a dedicated audience of cloud engineers? Send us an email or hit us up on our Slack Channel and let’s chat! General News 01:03 HashiCorp State of Cloud Strategy Survey 2024: Cloud Maturity is Elusive but Valuable Hashicorp just released the results of its State of Cloud Survey, and guess what? Cloud maturity is pretty elusive. Weird… Hashicorp finds that 8% of organizations qualify as Highly Mature, this results that the biggest benefits are cloud is only going to a small group of truly mature organizations. Justin wonders if this is part of the cloud repatriation push? Are other listeners seeing some of this, especially on places like LinkedIn? We’d love to hear. Trailblazers are finding faster development speed, lower costs and reduced risks while others continue to struggle to create haves and have nots with enterprises getting different business outcomes. Hashicorp collected responses from almost 1,200 technology practitioners and decision makers at organizations with more than 1000 employees. 66% of respondents report that they have increased cloud spending in the last year, but 91% believe they are wasting money in the cloud, and 64% are experiencing a shortage of skilled staff. 45% of low maturity organizations are still waiting for their cloud strategy to pay off! One of the key takeaways from the survey is that the path to cloud maturity increasingly relies on platform teams to help automate and systemize cloud operations. However, only half the respondents 42% say they rely on centralized platform teams to standardize cloud operations throughout their organization. Platform teams help manage cloud, but also help address the skills shortage that has long plagued enterprise cloud adoption. If only they’d pay for training. 03:22 Jonathan &#8211; “The skill shortage thing really bugs me sometimes because there are plenty of skilled workers around and the reccs aren&#8217;t open for them. So I don&#8217;t think there aren&#8217;t qualified staff… yeah, it&#8217;s not a shortage because of the lack of people. It&#8

Welcome to episode 265 of the Cloud Pod Podcast &#8211; where the forecast is always cloudy! It’s a full house this week &#8211; Matthew, Jonathan, Ryan and Justin are all here to bring you the latest in cloud news &#8211; including FOCUS features in AWS Billing, Magic Quadrants, and AWS Metis. Plus, we have an Andoid vs. Apple showdown in the Aftershow, so be sure to stay tuned for that! Titles we almost went with this week: Tech reports show Gartner leads in the BS quadrant Oracle adds cloud and legal expenses to their FinOps hub AWS Metis: Great chatbot, or Greek tragedy waiting to happen? The cloud pod rocks Cargo Pants A sonnet is written for FOCUSing on spend A big thanks to this week’s sponsor: We’re sponsorless! Want to reach a dedicated audience of cloud engineers? Send us an email, or hit us up on our Slack Channel and let’s chat! General News 01:40 Finops X Recently Justin attended FinOps in beautiful and sunny San Diego &#8211; and if you weren’t there, you really should plan on attending next year. This year’s topics included: Focus 1.0 State of Vendors Conference size &#8211; they will most likely outgrow this particular conference center, seeing as how they’re either selling out or pretty close to it. Coolest thing about the conference &#8211; on stage all the biggies &#8211; TOGETHER. It’s great to see them all together talking about how they’re making Finops better, and introducing new things for Finops and not just saving them for their own conferences. Next Year &#8211; Is Oracle going to be on stage next year? 08:22 Justin &#8211; “The shift left of FinOps was a big topic. You know, how do we get visibility? How do we show people what things are going to cost? How do we make sure that, you know, people are aware of what they&#8217;re doing? And so I think, you know, it&#8217;s just a recognition that is important and just as important as security is your cost. And in some ways security is part of your cost story. Because if you bankrupt your company, that&#8217;s a pretty bad security situation.” 10:17 Introducing Managed OpenSearch: Gain Control of Your Cloud with Powerful Log Analysis Listen. We don’t really *care* about OpenSearch &#8211; but the reality is it’s taking over the world. Nobody is doing ElasticSearch anymore. Digital Ocean is launching Managed OpenSearch offering, a comprehensive solution designed for in depth log analysis, simplifying troubleshooting, and optimizing application performance. With Digital ocean you can Pinpoint and analyze log data with ease, customize log retention, enhance security and can scale with your business and receive forwarded logs from multiple sources including Digital Ocean droplets, managed databases, etc. Interested in pricing? You can find that here. Or, if you’d like to take a product tour, you can do that <a href="https://digitalocean.navattic.com/hy10ml7"

Welcome to episode 265 of the Cloud Pod Podcast &#8211; where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin and Matthew are with you this week, and even though it’s a light news week, you’re definitely going to want to stick around. We’re looking forward to FinOps, talking about updates to Consul, WIF coming to Vault 1.17, and giving an intro to Databricks LakeFlow. Because we needed another lake product. Be sure to stick around for this week’s Cloud Journey series too. Titles we almost went with this week: The CloudPod lets the DataLake flow Amazon attempts an international incident in Taiwan What’s your Vector Mysql? A big thanks to this week’s sponsor: We’re sponsorless! Want to reach a dedicated audience of cloud engineers? Send us an email, or hit us up on our Slack Channel and let’s chat! General News 01:40 Consul 1.19 improves Kubernetes workflows, snapshot support, and Nomad integration Consul 1.19 is now generally available, improving the user experience, providing flexibility and enhancing integration points. Consul 1.19 introduces a new registration custom resource definition (CRD) that simplifies the process of registering external services into the mesh. Consul service mesh already supports routing to services outside of the mesh through terminating gateways. However, there are advantages to using the new Registration CRD. Consul snapshots can now be stored in multiple destinations, previously, you could only snapshot to a local path or to a remote object store destination but not both. Now you can take a snapshot of NFS Mounts, San attached Storage, or Object storage. Consul API gateways can now be deployed on Nomad, combined with transparent proxy and enterprise features like admin partitions 01:37 Matthew- “What I was surprised about, which I did not know, was that console API gateway can now be deployed on Nomad. Was it not able to be deployed before? Just feels weird… you know, consoles should be able to be deployed on nomad compared to that. You know, it&#8217;s all the same company, but sometimes team A doesn&#8217;t always talk to team B.” 03:21 Vault 1.17 brings WIF, EST support for PKI, and more Vault 1.17 is now generally available with new secure workflows, better performance and improved secrets management scalability. Key new features: Workload Identify Federation (WIF) allows you to eliminate concerns around providing security credentials to vault plugins. Using the new support for WIF&lt; a trust relationship can be established between an external system and vault’s identity token provider to access the external s

Welcome to episode 264 of the Cloud Pod Podcast &#8211; where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Jonathan, Ryan (and eventually) Matthew are all on hand this week &#8211; and *announcement noise* this week it’s the return of the Cloud Journey Series! There’s also a lot of news from Re:inforce, a ground-breaking partnership between Oracle and Google Cloud, and updates to GKE. The guys also look ahead to Finops ‘24. Titles we almost went with this week: First, AI came for Writers/Artists, then it came for Developers, and now it comes for Security… What&#8217;s Next? Amazon Reinforces my Lack of Interest in Attending &#8211; JPB rl Object Storage Malware protection, everyone, please copy it! Amazon is the last man out in Oracle next-gen partnerships Dear Google, A partnership with Oracle is not Groundbreaking when Azure already did it AWS Announces some “We finally got around to it feature updates” Protect your S3 buckets from themselves with Amazon Guard Duty The CloudPod and AI play Guess Who? with IAM Access Analyzer. A big thanks to this week’s sponsor: We’re sponsorless! Want to reach a dedicated audience of cloud engineers? Send us an email, or hit us up on our Slack Channel and let’s chat! AWS 01:04 Simplify risk and compliance assessments with the new common control library in AWS Audit Manager AWS Audit Manager is introducing a common control library that provides common controls with predefined and pre-mapped AWS data sources. This makes it easy for the GRC teams to use the common control library to save time when mapping enterprise controls into Audit Manager for evidence collection, reducing their dependence on IT teams. You can view the compliance requirements for multiple frameworks such as PCI or HIPAA, associated with the same common control in one place, making it easier to understand your audit readiness across multiple frameworks simultaneously. Interested in pricing? You can find that info here. 01:37 Ryan &#8211; “It&#8217;s the dream! Automated evidence generation. And now with the context of known frameworks. Yeah; because that&#8217;s always the challenge, you know, are the last step of the translation &#8211; this is the control. Hey, we need all these controls to do this level of compliance.” 04:36 Centrally manage member account root email addresses across your AWS Organization 2017 Justin is really digging all these quality-of-life features coming out, and we like to think that AWS has just finally gotten to our pile of feature requests from back then. This week, it&#8217;s now easier for AWS Organizations customers to centrally manage the root email address of member accounts across their organization using the CLI, SDK and Organizations Console. <li style

Welcome to episode 263 of the Cloud Pod Podcast &#8211; where the forecast is always cloudy! This week we’re diving into the world of Snowflake, including announcements from their latest conference and details about their recent breach. Seriously &#8211; MFA is important! Plus we look at updates to Terraform, Claude 3, and OCI pushing the IOPS limits and much more. Join us! Titles we almost went with this week: Snowflake Announces State-of-the-Art way for hackers to Talk to your Data Ticketmaster gets a snow job &#8211; MFA matters! The CloudPod wouldn’t use Oracle even for a million IOPS Azure finally wakes up to hibernation support JJB No one ever called a Bastion Host Premium until Today &#8211; JPB MK I look forward to connecting Kinesis to Pub Sub to Event Hub in the most rube goldberg eventing architecture ever Hashicorp shows you the way 10 ways to say I want you Matt (I’m not bias with the name) Can we just hibernate ourselves on AI announcements Sus is how i feel about the new Susscanner from AWS OCI has enough power to run Oracle databases with 1 MIllion IOPS OCI wants 1 Million IOPS (dr evil voice) Monday, Tuesday, Hashidays… General News Terraform AWS Cloud Control API provider is now generally available The AWS Cloud Control Provider (AWSCC), built around the AWS Cloud Control API and designed to bring new services to Terraform faster, is now generally available. The 1.0 release represents a step in their effort to provide launch-day support of AWS services. This service was put into tech preview in 2021. Glad it&#8217;s finally here; although we thought this effort was abandoned, honestly. Interesting that you can mix HCL Terraform and AWSCC, but specify the different resource types in the configurations. 00:53 New Vault and Boundary offerings advance Security Lifecycle Management at HashiDays 2024 Hashicorp held their “Hashidays” event in London this last week, and announced improvements to their Security Lifecycle Management (SLM) products: Vault and Boundary Vault will be getting Workload Identify Federation, coming soon to Vault Enterprise which enables secretless configuration for vault plugins that integrate with external systems supporting WIF, such as AWS, Azure and Google Cloud. By enabling secretless configuration, organizations reduce security concerns that can come with using long-lived and highly privileged security credentials. With WIF, Vault no longer needs access to highly sensitive roo

Welcome to episode 262 of the Cloud Pod podcast &#8211; where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, and Ryan are your hosts this week, and there’s a ton of news to get through! We look at updates to .NET and Kubernetes, the future of email, new instances that promise to cause economic woes, and &#8211; hold onto your butts &#8211; a new deep sea cable! Let’s get started! Titles we almost went with this week: What is a vagrant when you move it into your cloud I only Aspire not to use/support .NET AI Is the Gateway drug to Cloudflare Let me tell you about the future with MAIL ROUTING AWS invents impressive ways to burn money with the U7i instances Google Only wishes they could delete our podcast with an expiring subscription AKS Automatic &#8212; impressive new attack weapon or an impressive way to make Ops Cry? A big thanks to this week’s sponsor: Big thanks to Sonrai Security for sponsoring today’s podcast! Check out Sonrai Securities&#8217; new Cloud Permission Firewall. Just for our listeners, enjoy a 14 day trial at https://sonrai.co/cloudpod General News 00:53 Vagrant Cloud is moving to HCP What sort of feels like a “if you care about it, get it moved into HCP before the IBM acquisition is done” Vagrant Cloud is being migrated to the Hashicorp Cloud Platform (HCP) under the new name of HCP Vagrant Registry. All existing users of Vagrant Cloud are now able to migrate their Vagrant Boxes to HCP. Vagrant isn’t changing; HCP provides a fully managed platform to make using Vagrant easier. An improved box search experience A refreshed Vagrant Cloud UI No Fee for private boxes Users who migrate can register for free with the same email address as their existing Vagrant cloud account. Want to review the migration guide? You can find it here. 01:53 Justin &#8211; “I really think Vagrant would be a key pillar of the IBM future strategy for HashiCorp? Nope, I sure did not. I mean, I figured they&#8217;d probably just keep it open source and people would keep developing on it, but I didn&#8217;t really expect much. So, you know, to at least get this and an improved search experience is kind of nice because the old Vagrant cloud website, it was definitely a little stale. So I can have improved search and a new UI is always nice.” AI Is Going Great (Or How ML Makes All It’s Money) 02:43 Snowflake Announces Agreement to Acquire TruEra AI Observability Platform to Bring LLM and ML Observability to the AI Data Cloud <li style="font-weight:

Welcome to episode 261 of the Cloud Pod podcast &#8211; where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Matthew, and Ryan are your hosts this week, and there’s a ton of news to cover, including a slew of Azure and Oracle stories! This week the guys cover some new cost management strategies from FinOps, some Kubernetes updates, MS Build, and even fancy schmancy CoPilot PCs! Titles we almost went with this week: Azure woke up and announced things AWS stops taking your IPv4 Money Well now everything has copilot A big thanks to this week’s sponsor: Big thanks to Sonrai Security for sponsoring today’s podcast! Check out Sonrai Securities&#8217; new Cloud Permission Firewall. Just for our listeners, enjoy a 14 day trial at https://sonrai.co/cloudpod AWS 00:57 AWS plans to invest €7.8B into the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, set to launch by the end of 2025 Amazon is sharing more details about the AWS European Sovereign Cloud roadmap so that customers and partners can start planning. The first AWS European Sovereign Cloud is planning to launch its first AWS Region in the state of Brandenburg, Germany by the end of 2025. Available to all AWS customers, this effort is backed by a 7.8B Euro investment in infrastructure, jobs and skills development. Customers will get the full power of the AWS architecture, expansive service portfolio and API’s that customers use today. Customers can start building applications in any existing Region and simply move them to AWS European Sovereign Cloud when the first region launches in 2025. And how exactly will they do that, you might be wondering? If you mean there will be an easy button that&#8217;s awesome… do it everywhere else. if you mean update Terraform and redeployed Screw you, Amazon. 03:23 Ryan &#8211; “Yeah. It just seems so anti what they&#8217;re trying to set up with the sovereign region to begin with, right? Like, I guess copying data is fine in, but not out. Like it&#8217;s sort of, it&#8217;s like GovCloud, right? It&#8217;s completely separate. So strange.” 05:06 Application Load Balancer launches IPv6-only support for Internet clients ALB’s now allow you to provision load balancers without IPV4 for clients that can connect using just IPv6. Woot. 05:25 Ryan &#8211; “So the trick is for internal, the reason why we&#8217;re starting to see this more and more is that because you can address these huge spaces in IPv6, they&#8217;re not doing the equivalent of RFC 1918 address space. So that&#8217;s why these things become super important because they&#8217;ll configure an internal sort of networking path that&#8217;s only IPv6, b

Welcome to episode 260 of the Cloud Pod podcast &#8211; where the forecast is always cloudy! This week your hosts Justin, Matthew, and Jonathan and Ryan are talking about changes in leadership over at Amazon, GPT-4.o and its image generating capabilities, and the new voice of Skynet, Amazon Polly! It’s an action packed episode &#8211; and make sure to stay tuned for this week’s after show. Titles we almost went with this week: Who eats pumpkin pie in May Bytes and Goodbyes: AWS CEO Logs Off AWS lets you know that you are burning money sooner than before High-Ho, High-Ho, It’s GPT-4-Ohhh The CloudPod pans for nuggets in the AI Gold rush A big thanks to this week’s sponsor: Big thanks to Sonrai Security for sponsoring today’s podcast! Check out Sonrai Securities&#8217; new Cloud Permission Firewall. Just for our listeners, enjoy a 14 day trial at https://sonrai.co/cloudpod General News 00:40 Terraform Enterprise adds Podman support and workflow enhancements The latest version of Terraform Enterprise now supports Podman with RHEL 8 and above. Originally, it only supported Docker Engine and Cloud Managed K8 services. With the upcoming EOL of RHEL 7 in June 2024, customers faced a lack of an end-to-end supported option for running a terraform enterprise on RHEL. Now, with support from Podman, this is rectified. 01:18 Ryan &#8211; “This is for the small amount of customers running the enterprise either on -prem or in their cloud environment. It&#8217;s a pretty good option. Makes sense.” 01:42 Justin &#8211; “You know, the thing I was most interested in at this actually is that Red Hat Linux 7 is now end of life, which this is my first time in my entire 20 some odd career that I&#8217;ve never had to support Red Hat Linux in production because we use Ubuntu for some weird reason, which I actually appreciate because I always like Ubuntu best for my home projects, but I didn&#8217;t actually know Red Hat 7 was going away.” AI Is Going Great (Or, How ML Makes All It’s Money) 03:58 Hello GPT-4o Open AI has launched their GPT-4o (o for Omni) model which can reason across audio, vision and text in real time. The new model can accept input combinations of text, audio and image and generates any combination as output. It can respond to audio inputs in as little as 232 milliseconds, with an average of 320 milliseconds, similar to human response time in conversation. It matches GPT-4 Turbo performance on text in English and OCDE, with significant improvements on text in non-english languages, while also being much faster and 50% cheaper in the API. <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level

Welcome to episode 259 of the Cloud Pod podcast &#8211; where the forecast is always cloudy! This week your hosts Justin, Matthew, and Jonathan and Ryan (yes, all 4!) are covering A LOT of information &#8211; you’re going to want to sit down for this one. This week’s agenda includes unnecessary Magic Quadrants, SecOps, Dataflux updates, CNAME chain struggles, and an intro into Phi-3 &#8211; plus so much more! Titles we almost went with this week: GKE Config Sync or the Auto Outage for K8 Feature If only all my disasters could be managed The Cloud Pod builds a Rag Doll Understanding Dataflux has given me reflux Oracle continuing the trend of adding AI to everything even databases A new way to burn your money on the cloud which isn’t even your fault Google Gets a Magic Quadrant Participation Trophy We’re All Winners to Magic Quadrant Don’t be a giant DNAME A big thanks to this week’s sponsor: Big thanks to Sonrai Security for sponsoring today’s podcast Check out Sonrai Securities&#8217; new Cloud Permission Firewall. Just for our listeners, enjoy a 14 day trial at https://sonrai.co/cloudpod General News 00:33 Dropbox dropped the ball on security, hemorrhaging customer and third-party info Dropbox has revealed a major attack on its systems that saw customers&#8217; personal information accessed by unknown and unauthorized entities. The attack, detailed in a regulatory filing, impacted Dropbox Sign, a service that supports e-signatures similar to Docusign. The threat actor had accessed data related to all users of Dropbox Sign, such as emails and usernames, in addition to general account settings. For a subset of users, the threat actor accessed phone numbers, hashed passwords and certain authentication information such as API keys, OAuth tokens and multi-factor authentication. To make things *extra* worse &#8211; if you never had an account but received a signed document your email and name has also been exposed. Good times. Want to read the official announcement? You can find it here. 03:06 Jonathan- “It&#8217;s unfortunate that it was compromised. It was their acquisition, wasn&#8217;t it &#8211; ‘HelloSign’ that actually had the defect, not their main product at least.” 05:44 VMware Cloud on AWS &#8211; here today, here tomorrow Last week at recording time Matt mentioned the VMWare Cloud on AWS rumors on twitter that Broadcom was terminating. Hock Tan, President and CEO of Broadcom wrote a blog post letting you know that VMWare Cloud on AWS is Here today, and here tomorrow. He says the reports have been false, and contends that the offering would be going away forcing unnecessary concern for their loyal customers who have used the service for years. He quotes Winston Churchill (which is

Welcome to episode 258 of the Cloud Pod podcast &#8211; where the forecast is always cloudy! This week your hosts Justin, Matthew, and Jonathan dig into all the latest earnings reports, talk about the 57 announcements made by AWS about Q, and discuss the IBM purchase of HashiCorp &#8211; plus even more news. Make sure to stay for the aftershow, where the guys break down an article warning about the loss of training data for LLM’s. Titles we almost went with this week: Terraform hugs to Big Blue (Bear) The CloudPod hosts again forgets to lower their headphone volume AWS fixes an issue that has made Matt swear many times Google gets mad at open-source Azure has crickets HashiCorp&#8217;s Nomadic Journey to the IBM Oasis It&#8217;s Gonna be Maaay! A big thanks to this week’s sponsor: Check out Sonrai Securities&#8217; new Cloud Permission Firewall. Just for our listeners, enjoy a 14 day trial at https://sonrai.co/cloudpod General News 01:48 It’s Earnings TIme! Alphabet (Google) Alphabet beat on earnings and revenue in the first quarter, with revenue increasing 15% from a year earlier, one of the fastest growth rates since 2022. They also announced its first dividend and a $70 billion dollar stock buyback. Using layoff money for something other than a buyback? IN THIS ECONOMY? Revenue was 80.54 Billion vs 78.59 expected, resulting in earnings per share of 1.89. Google Cloud Revenue was 9.57B vs 9.35 B expected. Net income jumped 57% to 23.66 B up from 15.05B a year ago. Operating income of the cloud business quadruped to 900M, showing that the company is finally generating substantial profits after pouring money into the business for years to keep up with AWS and Azure. 03:54 Justin &#8211; “Yeah, I mean, they&#8217;re doing pretty well… I think AI is helping them out tremendously in this regard. I believe it includes G Suite as well. But I mean, like I don&#8217;t know how much revenue that is comparatively, but your Google cloud is definitely the majority of it, I think at this point..” 04:20 Microsoft MSFT fiscal third quarter results exceeded on the top and bottom line, but revenue guidance came in weaker than expected. Consensus estimate said Q4 should be 64.5B but Microsoft CFO called for 64B. Revenue grew 17% year over year in the quarter, net coming was 21.94B up from 18.30 billion. Micosoft said that currently near term AI demand is higher than their available capacity, and is focusing on buying more Nvidia GPU units. Azure Revenue a

Welcome to episode 257 of the Cloud Pod podcast &#8211; where the forecast is always cloudy! This week your hosts Justin, Matthew, Ryan, and Jonathan are in the barnyard bringing you the latest news, which this week is really just Meta’s release of Llama 3. Seriously. That’s every announcement this week. Don&#8217;t say we didn’t warn you. Titles we almost went with this week: Meta Llama says no Drama No Meta Prob-llama Keep Calm and Llama on Redis did not embrace the Llama MK The bedrock of good AI is built on Llamas The CloudPod announces support for Llama3 since everyone else was doing it Llama3, better know as Llama Llama Llama The Cloud Pod now known as the LLMPod Cloud Pod is considering changing its name to LlamaPod Unlike WinAMP nothing whips the llamas ass A big thanks to this week’s sponsor: Check out Sonrai Securities&#8216; new Cloud Permission Firewall. Just for our listeners, enjoy a 14 day trial at www.sonrai.co/cloudpod Follow Up 01:27 Valkey is Rapidly Overtaking Redis Valkey has continued to rack up support from AWS, Ericsson, Google, Oracle and Verizon initially, to now being joined by Alibaba, Aiven, Heroku and Percona backing Valkey as well. Numerous blog posts have come out touting Valkey adoption. I’m not sure this whole thing is working out as well as Redis CEO Rowan Trollope had hoped. AI Is Going Great &#8211; Or How AI Makes All It’s Money 03:26 Introducing Meta Llama 3: The most capable openly available LLM to date Meta has launched Llama 3, the next generation of their state-of-the-art open source large language model. Llama 3 will be available on AWS, Databricks, GCP, Hugging Face, Kaggle, IBM WatsonX, Microsoft Azure, Nvidia NIM, and Snowflake with support from hardware platforms offered by AMD, AWS, Dell, Intel, Nvidia and Qualcomm Includes new trust and safety tools such as Llama Guard 2, Code Shield and Cybersec eval 2 They plan to introduce new capabilities, including longer context windows, additional model sizes and enhanced performance. The first two models from Meta Lama3 are the 8B and 70B parameter variants that can support a broad range of use cases. Meta shared some benchmarks against Gemma 7B and Mistral 7B vs the Lama 3 8B models and showed improvements across all major benchmarks. Including Math with Gemma 7b doing 12.2 vs 30 with Llama 3 It had highly comparable performance with the 70B model against Gemini Pro 1.5 and Claude 3 Sonnet scoring within a few points of most of the other scores. Jonathan recommends using LM Studio to get start playing around with LLMS, which you can find at https://lmstudio.ai/ 04:42 Jonathan &#8211; “Isn&#8217;t it funny how you go from an 8 billion parameter model to a 70 billion parameter model but nothing in between? Like you would have thought there would be some kind of like, some middle ground maybe? But, uh, but&#8230; No. But, um, I&#8217;ve been playing with the, u

Welcome to episode 256 of the Cloud Pod podcast &#8211; where the forecast is always cloudy! This week your hosts, Justin and Matthew are here this week to catch you up on all the news you may have missed while Google Next was going on. We’ve got all the latest news on the custom silicon hot war that’s developing, some secret sync, drama between HashiCorp and OpenTofu, and one more Google Next recap &#8211; plus much more in today’s episode. Welcome to the Cloud! Titles we almost went with this week: I have a Google Next sized hangover Claude’s Magnificent Opus now on AWS US-EAST-1 Gets called Reliable; how insulting The cloud pod flies on a g6 A big thanks to this week’s sponsor: Check out Sonrai Securities&#8217; new Cloud Permission Firewall. Just for our listeners, enjoy a 14 day trial at www.sonrai.co/cloudpod General News Today, we get caught up on the other Clouds from last week, and other news (besides Google, that is.) Buckle up. 04:11 OpenTofu Project Denies HashiCorp’s Allegations of Code Theft After our news cutoff before Google Next, Hashicorp issued a strongly worded Cease and Desist letter to the OpenTofu project, accusing that the project has “repeatedly taken code Hashi provided under the BSL and used it in a manner that violates those license terms and Hashi’s intellectual properties.” It notes that in some instances, OpenTofu has incorrectly re-labeled Hashicorp’s code to make it appear as if it was made available by Hashi, originally under a different license. Hashi gave them until April 10th to remove any allegedly copied code from the OpenTofu repo, threatening litigation if the project failed to do so. OpenTofu struck back &#8211; and they came with receipts! They deny that any BSL licensed code was incorporated into the OpenTofu repo, and that any code they copied came from the MPL-Licensed version of terraform. “The OpenTofu team vehemently disagrees with any suggestions that it misappropriated, mis-sourced or misused Hashi’s BSL code. All such statements have zero basis in facts” &#8212; Open Tofu Team OpenTofu showed how the code they accused was lifted from the BSL code, was actually in the MPL version, and then copied into the BSL version from an older version by a Hashi Engineer. Anticipating third party contributions might submit BSL terraform code unwittingly or otherwise, OpenTofu instituted a “taint team” to compare Terraform and Open Tofu Pull requests. If the PR is found to be in breach of intellectual property rights, the pull request is closed and the contributor is closed from working on that area of the code in the future. Matt Asay, (from Mongo) writing for Infoworld, dropped a hit piece when the C&amp;D was filed, but then<a href="https://twitter.com/mjasay/status/1778454498664690108" ta

Welcome to episode 255 of the Cloud Pod podcast &#8211; where the forecast is always cloudy! This week your hosts, Justin, Jonathan, Matthew and Ryan are here to tackle the aftermath of Google Next. Whether you were there or not, sit back, relax, and let the guys dissect each day’s keynote and the major announcements. Titles we almost went with this week: How About Some AI? “The New Way to Cloud” is a Terrible TagLine (and is what happens when you let AI do your copy) Welcome Google Cloud Next Where There is No Cloud, Just AI Ok Google, did your phone go off? For 100 dollars, guess how many AI stories Google Has This Week From Search to Skynet: Google Cloud Next’s Descent into AI Madness ‘Next’ Up from Google &#8211; AI! Have Some Conference with Your AI A big thanks to this week’s sponsor: We’ve got a new sponsor! Sonrai Security Check out Sonrai Securities&#8217; new Cloud Permission Firewall. Just for our listeners, enjoy a 14 day trial at sonrai.co/cloudpod GCP &#8211; Google Next 2024 We’re jumping right into GCP this week, so we can talk about all things Google Next. 01:44 FIrst impressions: Vegas &gt; Moscone, so take that Vegas. Both Ryan and Justin agree that Vegas is much better than the Mosconoe center in San Francisco for Google Next The Sessions were well organized, but Ryan is a little tired from walking back and forth between them. Exercise is tiring! \ Vegas infrastructure was well utilized, something Amazon didn’t do as well. Folks staying at area hotels that *weren&#8217;t* Mandalay Bay had some issues with trying to get onto / off property at the beginning and end of the day. Free coffee is still available. *If you can find it. Expo hall felt cramped 08:22 Thoughts on the Keynote Address Note: Not enough space in the arena for keynotes; the arena holds approx. 12k; numbers released by Google say there were 30k in attendance. Thomas Kurian kicked off the keynote, introduced their new tagline “The New Way to Cloud” Sundar: Months can feel like decades in the cloud… WORD. 36B revenue run rate Kurian did a rapid fire announcement of all the things coming &#8211; which required Justin to rewatch just to get them all. A3 Mega Nvidia H100 GPUs Nvidia GB200 NVL72 (in early 2025 TPU v5p GA Hyperdisk ML for Inference Cloud Storage Fuse Caching GA Parallel Store Caching AI Hypercomputer Dynamic Workload Scheduler Nvidia GPU Support for GDC Google Distributed Cloud GKE Enterprise for GDC AI Models on GDC Vector Search on GDC Vertex AI Solutions with GDC Secret and Top Secret Accredita

Welcome to episode 254 of the Cloud Pod podcast &#8211; where the forecast is always cloudy! This week we’re talking about trust issues with some security updates over at Azure, forking drama at Redis, and making all of our probably terrible predictions for Google Next. Going to be in Vegas? Find one of us and get a sticker for your favorite cloud podcast! Follow us on Slack and Twitter to get info on finding your favorite host IRL. (Unless Jonathan is your favorite. We won’t be giving directions to his hot tub.) Titles we almost went with this week: The Cloud Pod Hosts Fail To Do Their Homework The Cloud Pod Now Has a Deadline This Is Why I Love Curl … EC2 Shop Endpoint is Awesome AI &amp; Elasticsearch… AI &#8211; But Not Like That Preparing for Next Next Week A big thanks to this week’s sponsor: We’ve got a new sponsor! Sonrai Security Check out Sonrai Securities&#8217; new Cloud Permission Firewall. Just for our listeners, enjoy a 14 day trial at www.sonrai.co/cloudpod Follow Up 02:15 AWS, Google, Oracle back Redis fork “Valkey” under the Linux Foundation In no surprise, placeholderKV is now backed by AWS, Google and Oracle and has been rebranded to Valkey under the Linux Foundation. Interestingly, Ericsson and Snap Inc. also joined Valkey. 03:19 Redis vs. the trillion-dollar cabals Anytime an open source company changes their license, AWS and other cloud providers are blamed for not contributing enough upstream. Matt Asay, from Infoworld, weighs in this time. The fact that placeholder/Valkey was forked by several employees at AWS who were core contributors of Redis, does seem to imply that they&#8217;re doing more than nothing. I should point out that Matt Asay also happens to run Developer relations at MongoDB. Pot, meet kettle. 04:14 Ryan &#8211; “It&#8217;s funny because I always feel like the cloud contribution to these things is managed services around them, right? It&#8217;s not necessarily improvements to the core source code. It&#8217;s more management of that source code. Now there are definitely areas where they do make enhancements, but I&#8217;m not sure the vast majority makes sense to be included in an open source made for everyone product either.” General News 07:01 What we know about the xz Utils backdoor that almost infected the world The Open Source community was a bit shocked when a Microsoft Developer revealed a backdoor had been intentionally planted in xz Utils, an open source data compression utility available on almost all installations of Linux and Other Unix-Like OS. The person &#8211; or people &#8211; behind this project likely spent years working on it. <li style="font-wei

Welcome to episode 253 of the Cloud Pod podcast &#8211; where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Ryan, and Jonathan are your hosts this week as we discuss data centers, OCI coming in hot (and potentially underwater?) in Kenya, stateful containers, and Oracle’s new globally distributed database (Oracle Autonomous Database) of many dollars. Sit back and enjoy the show! Titles we almost went with this week: The Cloud Pod: Transitioning to SSPL &#8211; Sharply Satirical Podcast Laughs! The Data Centers of Loudoun County The Forks of Redis were Speedb AWS, I’d Like to Make a Return, Please See…Stateful Containers Are a Thing Azure Whispers Sweet Nothings to You I’m a Hip OG-DAD Legacy Vendor plus Legacy Vendor = Profit $$ Wine Vendors &gt;Legacy Vendors I’m Not a Regular Dad, I’m an OG Dad A big thanks to this week’s sponsor: We’re sponsorless this week! Interested in sponsoring us and having access to a specialized and targeted market? We’d love to talk to you. Send us an email or hit us up on our Slack Channel. Follow Up 02:25 Microsoft Agreed to Pay Inflection $650 Million While Hiring Its Staff Listener Note: Payway article Last week, we talked about Microsoft hiring the Inflection Co-Founder Mustafa Suleyman and their Chief scientist, as well as most of the 70-person staff. Inflection had previously raised 1.5B, and so this all seemed strange as part of their shift to an AI Studio or a company that helps others train AI models. Now, it has been revealed that Microsoft has agreed to pay a 620M dollar licensing fee, as well as 30M to waive any legal rights related to the mass hiring. As well as it renegotiated a $140M line of credit that aimed to help inflection finance its operations and pay for the MS services. 03:22 Justin &#8211; “&#8230;that explains the mystery that we talked about last week for those who were paying attention.” General News 05:17 Redis switches licenses, acquires Speedb to go beyond its core in-memory database Redis, one of the popular in-memory data stores, is switching away from its Open Source Three-Clause BSD license. Instead it is adopting a dual licensing model called the Redis Source Available License (RSALv2) and Server Side Public Licensing (SSPLv1). Under the new license, cloud service providers hosting Redis will need to enter into a commercial agreement with Redis. The first company to do so was Microsoft. Redis also announced the acquisition of Speedb (speedy-bee) to take it beyond the in memory space. This isn’t the first time that Redis has changed the licensing model. In 2018 and 2019, it changed the way it licensed Redis Models under the Redis Source Available License v1. Redis CEO Rowa

Welcome to episode 252 of The Cloud Pod podcast, where the forecast is always cloudy! This week Justin, Jonathan, Ryan, and Matthew are talking about InfluxDB, collabs between AWS and NVIDIA, some personnel changes over at Microsoft, Amazon Timestream, and so much more! Sit back and enjoy &#8211; and make sure to hang around for the aftershow, where Linux and DBOS are on the docket. You won’t want to miss it. Titles we almost went with this week: Light a fire under your Big Queries with Spark procedures All your NVIDIA GPU belong to AWS Thanks, EU for Free Data Transfer for all* Microsoft, Inflection, Mufasta, Scar… this is not the Lion King Sequel I expected The Cloud Pod sees Inflections in the Timestream The Cloud Pod is a palindrome The Cloudpod loves SQL so much we made a OS out of it Lets run SQL on Kubernetes on Top of DBOS. What could go wrong? The Cloud Pod is 5 7 5 long A big thanks to this week’s sponsor: We’re sponsorless this week! Interested in sponsoring us and having access to a specialized and targeted market? We’d love to talk to you. Send us an email or hit us up on our Slack Channel. Please. We’re not above begging. Ok. Maybe Ryan is. But the rest of us? Absolutely not. AI Is Going Great (Or, How ML Makes All Its Money) 1:00 PSYCH! We’re giving this segment a break this week. YOU’RE WELCOME. AWS 01:08 Anthropic’s Claude 3 Haiku model is now available on Amazon Bedrock Last week Claude 3 Sonnet was available on Bedrock, this week Claude 3 Haiku is available on Bedrock. The Haiku model is the fastest and most compact mode of the Claude 3 family, designed for near-instant responsiveness and seamless generative AI experiences that mimic human interaction. We assume, thanks to how much Amazon is stretching this out, that next week we’ll get Opus. Want to check it out for yourself? Head over to the Bedrock console. 02:02 Jonathan &#8211; “I haven&#8217;t tried Haiku, but I&#8217;ve played with Sonnet a lot for pre over the past week. It&#8217;s very good. It&#8217;s much better conversationally. I mean, I&#8217;m not talking about technical things. It&#8217;s like I ask all kinds of random philosophical questions or whatever, just to kind of explore what it can do, what it knows…If I was going to spend money on OpenAI or Anthropic, it would be on Anthropic right now.” 04:03 AWS Pi Day 2024: Use your data to power generative AI 3.14 just passed us by last week, and Amazon was back with a live steam on Twitch where they explored AWS storage from data lakes to High Performance Storage, and how to transform your data strategy to become the starting point for Generative AI. As always they announced several new storage features in honor of <a href="https://pages.awscloud.com/NAMER-event-OE-2024-Pi-Day-2024-interest/?trk=97292586-c7f7-48fb-8976-d800f9503730&amp;sc_icampaign=Pi-Day-2024&amp;

Welcome to episode 251 of The Cloud Pod podcast &#8211; where the forecast is always cloudy! This week we’re looking at the potential end of low impact code thanks to generative AI, how and why Kubernetes is still hanging on, and Cloudflare’s new defensive AI project. Plus we take on the death of Project Titan in our aftershow. Titles we almost went with this week: The Cloud Pod is Magic Why is the Cloud Pod Not on the Board of the Director for OpenAI The Cloud Pod wants Gen AI Money The Cloud Pod Thinks Magic Networks Are Less Fun Than Magic Mushrooms The Cloud Pod is Mission Critical so Give Us Your Money and Sponsor Us A big thanks to this week’s sponsor: We’re sponsorless this week! Interested in sponsoring us and having access to a specialized and targeted market? We’d love to talk to you. Send us an email or hit us up on our Slack Channel. Follow-Up 00:50 Kubernetes Predictions Were Wrong &#8212; Redux Last week Ryan and Justin talked about why Kubernetes hasn’t disappeared into the background during our after show, and now with Matt and Jonathan here I wanted to see if they had any additional thoughts. If you missed this two weeks ago, it&#8217;s probably because you don’t know that there are regular after shows after the final bumper of the show… typically about non-cloud things or things that generally interest our hosts. There is one today about the death of the Apple Car. To summarize the conversation, ChatGPT has provided us with a sort of CliffsNotes version. Ryan and Justin speculated on the reasons why Kubernetes (K8) persisted despite predictions of its decline: Global Pandemic Impact: They acknowledged the global pandemic that unfolded since 2020 and considered its potential influence on Kubernetes. The pandemic might have shifted priorities and accelerated digital transformation efforts, leading to increased reliance on Kubernetes for managing cloud-native applications and infrastructure. Organizations might have intensified their focus on scalable and resilient technologies like Kubernetes to adapt to remote work environments and changing market dynamics. Unforeseen Complexity: Despite expectations for a simpler alternative to emerge, Kubernetes has grown more complex over time. The ecosystem around Kubernetes has expanded significantly, with various platforms, services, and tools built on top of it. This complexity may have made it challenging for organizations to migrate away from Kubernetes, as they have heavily invested in its ecosystem and expertise. Critical Role in Scalability: Kubernetes remains a fundamental technology for platform engineering teams seeking to achieve scalability and standardization in their operations. Creating a standardized, opinionated path for Kubernetes within organizations enables them to streamline deployment processes, manage resources efficiently, and support the growing demands of modern applications. This critical role in scaling infrastructure and applications might have contributed to Kubernetes&#8217; enduring relevance. Absence of Clear Alternatives: Despite predictions, no single service or platform has emerged as a clear, universally adopted alternative to Kubernetes. While other solutions exist, such as Tanzu, OpenShift, and others mentioned, none have achieved the same level of adoption or provided a compelling reason for organizations

Welcome to episode 250 of the Cloud Pod podcast &#8211; where the forecast is always cloudy! Well, we’re not launching rockets this week, but we ARE discussing the AI arms race, AWS going nuclear, and all the latest drama between Elon and OpenAI. You won’t want to miss a minute of it! Titles we almost went with this week: The Paradox of AI choice Amazon just comes across super desperate on RACING to AI foundation model support Your new JR developer Test-LLM If you can’t beat OpenAI, sue them A big thanks to this week’s sponsor: We’re sponsorless this week! Interested in sponsoring us and having access to a specialized and targeted market? We’d love to talk to you. Send us an email or hit us up on our Slack Channel. General News 01:12 IT Infrastructure, Operations Management &amp; Cloud Strategies: Chicago (Rosemont/O’Hare), Illinois Want to meet cloud superstar Matthew Kohn in person? He’s going to be giving a talk in Chicago, if you’re going to be in the neighborhood. *Maybe* he’ll have some stickers. 11:30am – 12:30pm: Using Data and AI to Shine a Light on Your Dark IT Estate AI Is Going Great (Or, How ML Makes All Its Money) 03:42 Anthropic claims its new models beat GPT-4 AI Startup Anthropics, has announced their latest version of Claude. The company claims that it rivals OpenAI’s GPT-4 in terms of performance. Claude 3, and its family of models, includes Claude 3 Haiku, Sonnet and Opus, with Opus being the most powerful. All show “increased capabilities” in analysis and forecasting, Anthropic claims, as well enhanced performance on specific benchmarks versus models like GPT-4 (but not GPT-4 Turbo) and Googles Gemini 1.0 Ultra (but not Gemini 1.5 Pro) Claude 3 is Anthropics first multi-modal model. In a step better than rivals, Claude can analyze multiple images in a single request (up to 20). This allows it to do compare and contrast operations However, there are limits to its image capabilities. It&#8217;s not allowed to identify people. They admit it is also prone to mistakes on low-quality images under 200 pixels, and struggles with tasks involving spatial reasoning and object counting. 05:42 Justin &#8211; “Overall, this looks like not a bad model. I do see a little bit of chatter today actually. Some people say it&#8217;s not quite as good in some areas, but it&#8217;s pretty good in others. And it is not connected to the internet, this model. So it is dated only through August of 2023. So anything that happened after that, like the Israeli Hamas conflicts, it doesn&#8217;t know anything about those. So just be aware.” 06:08 Matthew &#8211; “You know, it&#8217;s actually interesting now. There&#8217;s so many models out there. You know, you have to start to look at what makes sense for your data and what you need, along with also price. You know, I look too closely at what the price is, but you might be able to get away with running this over GPT

Welcome to episode 249 of the CloudPod Podcast &#8211; where the forecast is always cloudy! This week, Justin and Ryan put on their scuba suits and dive into the latest cloud news, from Google Gemini&#8217;s “woke” woes, to Azure VMware Solution innovations, and some humorous takes on Reddit and Google&#8217;s unexpected collaboration. Join the conversation on AI, storage solutions, and more this week in the Cloud! Titles we almost went with this week: Gemini Has Gone Woke? Uhhh…ok. A big thanks to this week’s sponsor: We’re sponsorless this week! Interested in sponsoring us and having access to a specialized and targeted market? We’d love to talk to you. Send us an email or hit us up on our Slack Channel. General News 01:48 DigitalOcean beats expectations under the helm of new CEO Paddy Srinivasan Quick earnings chat. Digital Ocean, under their new CEO Paddy Srinivasan reported earnings of 44 centers per share, well ahead of Wall Street&#8217;s target of 37 cents per share. Revenue growth was a little sluggish at 11% more than a year earlier, but the companies 181 million in reported sales still beat analysts expectations. Full year revenue was 693M for the year. We&#8217;re really glad to see the business is still going, and instead of going back on-premise, we think it&#8217;s a viable option for many workloads so don’t sleep on them. 02:46 Ryan &#8211; “I like that, you know, while they are very focused on, you know, traditional compute workloads, you can still see them. Dip in their toes into managed services and, and, um, their interaction with the community and documentation of how to do things. I think it&#8217;s really impactful.” 03:34 VMware moves to quell concern over rapid series of recent license changes As we have reported multiple times on the VMWARE shellacking they are doing to the customers, Vmware has released a blog post trying to convince you that they&#8217;re **not** screwing you. Broadcom has realigned operations around VMWare Cloud Foundation private cloud portfolio and data center-focused VMWare Vsphere suite, and no longer sells discrete products such as vSphere hypervisor, vSAN virtual storage and NSX network storage virtualization software. They also are eliminating perpetual licensing in favor of subscription-only pricing, with VCF users getting vSAN, NSX and the Aria Management and orchestration components bundled whether you want them or not. Broadcom says this is about focusing on best-of-breed silos, and not disparate products without an integrated experience. They have also introduc

Welcome to episode 248 of the CloudPod Podcast &#8211; where the forecast is always cloudy! It’s the return of our Cloud Journey Series! Plus, today we’re talking shared VPCs and why you should avoid them, Amazon&#8217;s new data centers ( we think they forgot about the sustainability pledge,) new threats to and from AI, and a quick preview of Next ‘24 programs &#8211; plus much more! Titles we almost went with this week: The Cloud Pod Isn’t a Basic Bitch New AWS Data Solutions Framework &#8211; or &#8211; How You Accidentally Spent $100k’s A PSA on Shared VPCs in AWS Amazon Doesn’t Even Pay Attention to Climate When it&#8217;s on a Building Vector Search I Hardly Know Her Google Migs are Less Fun than Russian Migs AI Can Now Attack Us; Who Didn’t See That Coming Who is Surprised That AWS is Using More Power Than the Rest of the State of Oregon Spend all the Dinero in Spain A big thanks to this week’s sponsor: We’re sponsorless this week! Interested in sponsoring us and having access to a specialized and targeted market? We’d love to talk to you. Send us an email or hit us up on our Slack Channel. AI is Going Great (or how ML Makes all Its Money) 01:24 Disrupting malicious uses of AI by state-affiliated threat actors In this week&#8217;s chapter of AI nightmares, ChatGPT tells us how they are blocking the usage of AI by state-affiliated threat actors. Awesome; things went from bad to worse in one week. Cool. Cool cool cool. In partnership with Microsoft Threat Intelligence, they have disrupted five state-affiliated actors that sought to use their AI service in support of malicious cyber activities These actors generally sought to use OpenAI services for querying open-source information, translating, finding coding errors, and running basic coding tasks. Charcoal Typhoon (China affiliated) researched various companies and cybersecurity tools, debugged code and generated scripts, and created content likely for use in phishing campaigns. Salmon Typhoon (China affiliated) translated technical papers, retrieved publicly available information on multiple intelligence agencies and regional threat actors, assisted with coding, and researched common ways processes could be hidden on a system. Crimson Sandstorm (Iran affiliated) used OpenAI services for scripting support related to app and web development, generating content likely for spear-phishing campaigns, and researching common ways malware could evade detection. Emerald Sleet (North Korea affiliated) identified experts and organizations focused on defense issues in the Asia-Pacific region, to understand publicly available vulnerabilities, and used OpenAI services for help with basic scripting tasks, and drafting content that could be used in phishing campaigns. Forest Blizzard (Russia-affiliated) primarily for performing research on open-source data into satellite communication protocols and radar imaging technology, as well as for support with scripting tasks. OpenAI says the capabilities of the current models are limited, they believe it&#8217;s important to stay ahead of significant and evolving threats. To continue making sure their platform is used for good they have a multi-pronged approach: <li

Welcome to episode 247 of the CloudPod Podcast &#8211; where the forecast is always cloudy! Pepperidge Farm remembers &#8211; and now so does ChatGPT! Today on the pod we’re talking about the new “memory” function in ChatGPT, secrets over at OCI, and Firehose dropping Kinesis like its HOT. Plus plenty of other Cloud and AI news to get you through the week. Let’s get started! Titles we almost went with this week: I Don’t Think Anyone Wants to be “Good Enough” in AI Oracle Can Rotate All My Secrets Amazon Data Firehose &#8211; Not Without Kinesis A big thanks to this week’s sponsor: We’re sponsorless this week! Interested in sponsoring us and having access to a very specialized and targeted market? We’d love to talk to you. Send us an email or hit us up on our Slack Channel. Follow Up 00:57 C2C Event Recently Justin was down at a 2gather event Google’s Cloud headquarters near Moffett Field in Sunnyvale. So to those new listeners who heard Justin there and just couldn’t get enough, welcome! We’re happy to have you. Want to see what events are coming up, and hopefully near you? Check out the lineup here. General News 08:25 Why companies are leaving the cloud A recent study by Citrix, is saying that 25% of organizations in the UK have already moved half or more of their cloud-based workloads back to on-premises infrastructures. The survey questioned 350 IT leaders on their current approaches to cloud computing. 93% of them had been involved in a cloud repatriation project in the last three years. Surveyed said their reasons for moving from the Security Issues, High Project Expectations and unmet expectations, with most saying the cost was the biggest motivator, which definitely makes sense to us. In general this isn’t my experience when talking to listeners, or folks at the recent C2C event; there’s always a few companies that probably shouldn’t have moved to the cloud in the first place, but those numbers don’t pan out to us in who we’re talking to. We’re interested in listener feedback here &#8211; have any of you been involved in a repatriation project? 09:55 Ryan &#8211; “I think it&#8217;s kind of the same thing that happened in reverse a few years ago, where it&#8217;s like all the companies are moving to the cloud. The same reports were, you know, 50 % of companies are moving other entire workloads into the cloud. And now it&#8217;s sort of the pendulum swinging the other way.” AI is Going Great (or how ML Makes all Its Money) &#8211; ChatGPT gets Reveries 12:37 Memory and new controls for ChatGPT ChatGPT is adding a new “memory” feature; “remembering” allows you to ask the bot to remember things you have chatted about with ChatGPT in the past. So things like you love to travel, you have a daughter, etc. <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-leve

Welcome to episode 246 of The CloudPod podcast, where the forecast is always cloudy! This week we’re discussion localllm and just why they’ve saddled us all with that name, saying goodbye to Bard and hello to Gemini Pro, and discussing the pros and cons of helping skynet to eradicate us all. All that and more cloud and AI news, now available for your listening nightmares. Titles we almost went with this week: Oracle says hold my beer on Africa The Cloud Pod Thinks the LLM Maturity Model has More Maturing To Do There is a Finch Windows Canary in Fargate New LLM Nightmares The Cloud Pod Will Never Type localllm Correctly A big thanks to this week’s sponsor: We’re sponsorless this week! Interested in sponsoring us and having access to a very specialized and targeted market? We’d love to talk to you. Send us an email or hit us up on our Slack Channel. General News It’s Earnings Time! 01:42 Microsoft issues light guidance even as Azure growth drives earnings beat Microsoft shares were up after they reported earnings of 2.93 per share vs expectations of 2.73 per share. Revenue was 62.02 billion vs 61.12 billion. This represents a 17.6% year over year in the quarter. The intelligent cloud segment produced $25.88 billion in revenue, up 20% and above the $25.29 billion consensus among analysts surveyed by Streets Accounts. Revenue from Azure and other cloud services grew 30%, when analysts only expected 27.7%. Six points are tied to AI as Microsoft now has 53,000 Azure AI customers and 1/3rd are new in the past year (per Microsoft.) 02:46 Justin- “I don’t think the count the Open AI customers, do you? Because there’s way more people that have Open AI usage than 53,000. So I think this is legitimately Azure AI &#8211; which is Open AI under the hood &#8211; but specifically paying for that subscription.” 04:19 Alphabet shares slide on disappointing Google ad revenue Alphabet reported better-than-expected revenue and profit for the fourth quarter, but ad revenue trailed analysts projections. Earnings per share were 1.64 vs 1.59 expected. Revenue of 86.31 billion vs 85.33 billion expected Google Cloud was 9.19 Billion vs 8.94 billion expected, according to Street. That represents a 26% expansion in the fourth quarter. 04:51 Justin- “&#8230;which is interesting, because you would expect that they’d have similar growth being tied to Bard and Gemini to be close to what Microsoft is doing.” 12:02 Amazon reports better-than-expected results as revenue jumps 14% Amazon also exceeded analysis expectations. Earnings per share 1.00 vs 80 cents expected. Revenue of 170 billion vs 166.2 bi

Welcome to episode 245 of The CloudPod podcast, where the forecast is always cloudy! This week is a real SBOM of an episode. (See what I did there?) Justin and Matthew have braved Teams outages, floods, cold, and funny business names to bring you the latest in Cloud and AI news. This week, we’re talking about Roomba, OpenTofu, and Oracle deciding AI makes money, along with a host of other stories. Join us! Titles we almost went with this week: Amazon Decides Roomba Sucks AI Weapons: Will They Shift Cloud Supremacy Oracle Realizes There is Money in Gen AI A big thanks to this week’s sponsor: We’re sponsorless this week! Interested in sponsoring us and having access to a very specialized and targeted market? We’d love to talk to you. Send us an email or hit us up on our Slack Channel. General News REMINDER: 2gather Sunnyvale: Cloud Optimization Summit On February 15, Justin will be onsite in Google’s #Sunnyvale office for the @C2C #2Gather Sunnyvale: #CloudOptimization Summit! Come heckle him, we mean JOIN him, to talk about all things #GenAI and #CloudOps. Consider this your invitation &#8211; he’d love to see you there! Sign up → https://events.c2cglobal.com/e/m9pvbq/?utm_campaign=speaker-Justin-B&amp;utm_source=SOCIAL_MEDIA&amp;utm_medium=LinkedIn 02:23 Amazon abandons $1.4 billion deal to buy Roomba maker iRobot Amazon is no longer buying iRobot for 1.4 billion, as there is no path to regulatory approval in the European Union. We’re not surprised this is the end result. Of course, iRobot proceeded to lay off 350 employees, or around 31 percent of its workforce. In addition CEO Colin Angle, who co-founded the company, stepped down from his CEO position and his chair position. Amazon gets to pay 94 Million in a termination fee to iRobot, which will help pay off a loan iRobot took the year prior. 04:02 Terraform fork OpenTofu launches into general availability OpenTofu has moved into General Availability. The milestone is after a four month development effort, with hundreds of contributors and over five dozen developers. Now that they have a stable version separated from the main Terraform product, they are promising a steady set of new features and enhancements. The GA version is OpenTofu 1.6, which includes hundreds of enhancements including bug fixes and performa

Welcome to episode 244 of the Cloud Pod Podcast &#8211; where the forecast is always cloudy! We’ve got a ton of news for you this week, including a lot of AI updates, including new CoPilot Pro and updates to ChatGPT, including the addition of a GPT store. Plus, we discuss everyone&#8217;s favorite supernatural axis, MagicQuadrants.It’s a jam packed episode you won’t want to miss. Titles we almost went with this week: Switching from Google is Finally Easier Cheaper AI Doesn’t Mean Better AI Is the Cloud Pod Better Than Microsoft at Containers? AWS is the Leader in Containers &#8211; Because You Can Run Them in Cloudshell The Cloud Pod is Connecting to the World With Some Undersea Cables A big thanks to this week’s sponsor: We’re sponsorless this week! Interested in sponsoring us and having access to a very specialized and targeted market? We’d love to talk to you. Send us an email or hit us up on our Slack Channel. General News 2gather Sunnyvale: Cloud Optimization Summit On February 15, Justin will be onsite in Google’s #Sunnyvale office for the @C2C #2Gather Sunnyvale: #CloudOptimization Summit! Come heckle him, we mean JOIN him, to talk about all things #GenAI and #CloudOps. Consider this your invitation &#8211; he’d love to see you there! Sign up → https://events.c2cglobal.com/e/m9pvbq/?utm_campaign=speaker-Justin-B&amp;utm_source=SOCIAL_MEDIA&amp;utm_medium=LinkedIn AI is Going Great (or how ML Makes all Its Money) 01:20 Introducing ChatGPT Team ChatGPT has added a new self-serve plan called Chat GPT team. Chat GPT team offers access to their advanced models like GPT-4 and DALL-E 3 and tools like advanced data analysis. It additionally includes: A dedicated collaborative workspace for your team and admin tools for team management. Access to GPT-4 32K context window Tools like Dall-E 3, GPT-4 with Vision, Browsing, Advanced Data Analysis with higher message caps No training on your business data or conversations Secure workspace for your team Create and share custom GPTs with your workspace Admin console for workspace and team management Early access to new features and improvements. 03:00 Introducing the GPT Store ChatGPT has also launched their AI Marketplace, which will get you access to over 3 million custom versions of Chat GPT. Yes, 3 MILLION versions. Today, they’re starting to roll ou

Welcome to episode 243 of the Cloud Pod podcast &#8211; where the forecast is always cloudy! It’s a bit of a slow new week, but we’re not hitting the snooze button! This week Justin, Matthew and Ryan are discussing more changes over at Broadcom after VMware buyout last year, HPE buying out Juniper Networks, why all the venture capital money seems to be going into trying to take down Nvidia, and changes to WHOIS lookup over at AWS certificate manager. Plus we’ll find out exactly what that special something is that makes Justin the perfect executive. Titles we almost went with this week: New Years Happened and there is no Good New News The Cloud Pod Was Always Security Challenged Azure Shows the Health of Their Business by Springing into Discounts Network Gear Powers AI &#8211; Who Knew? A big thanks to this week’s sponsor: We’re sponsorless this week! Interested in sponsoring us and having access to a very niche market of cloud engineers? We’d love to talk to you. Send us an email or hit us up on our Slack Channel. Follow Up 01:48 More news from Broadcom &#8211; and this time they’re coming after the cloud. Broadcom ditches VMware Cloud Service Providers Remember in November when Broadcom bought VMware for $61 billion dollars? Well, the reorganization from that purchase is continuing. Broadcom is reportedly ditching the majority of their VMware Cloud Service Providers as part of the shakeup of the partner program. Notable companies in the CSP program include Oracle, Azure, Rackspace, and Google. These larger companies most likely won’t be impacted (yet.) It&#8217;s suspected that they will get moved over to a new partner program, but Broadcom is culling it down to only the largest partners to remain in the program. There are lots of smaller cloud players who are in the CSP who will likely be impacted and should keep an eye on this over the next few months. https://cloud.vmware.com/providers/search-result It’s a bad look for Broadcom, as they told the EU that acquiring VMware would increase competition in the cloud space &#8211; but cutting partners out of the program seems to be a consolidation to me. 03:29 Ryan &#8211; “I wonder if this is just going to be like new sales or something. Cause that seems very short notice if you&#8217;re on VMware as on one of these smaller cloud providers, that seems incredibly risky.” 03:45 Matthew &#8211; “I feel like they have to have something lined up. Or let me rephrase that. I would assume slash hope they have something lined up because otherwise they&#8217;re gonna really piss off a lot of people.” General News 04:40 Hewlett Packard Enterprise buying Juniper Networks in deal valued at about $14 billion HPE is buying Juniper Networks in an all cash deal valued at $14B, which will double the HPE networking business. HPE will be paying $40 per share, prior day close was 30.19. The transaction will strengthen HPE’s position at the nexus of accelerating macro-AI trends, expand their

Welcome to episode 242 of the The Cloud Pod podcast &#8211; where the forecast is always cloudy. This week your hosts Justin, Ryan, Matthew, and Jonathan are talking about DoH &#8211; or DNS over HTTPS, the Digital Ocean, CISO issues, and whether employee issues over at Amazon will impact user experience. It’s a quiet week, but some interesting conversations you’re not going to want to miss. Titles we almost went with this week: Tired of the Winter of Other Announcements, The Cloud Pod Hits the Digital Ocean Breaking Through the Chill: The CloudPod Dives into Digital Ocean&#8217;s Latest Fed Up with the Winter of Other Announcements? Dive into Digital Ocean with the CloudPod! The Cloud Pod Almost Didn&#8217;t Bother with an Episode This Week The Cloud Pod Starts the Year Off Slow The Cloud Pod is Silently Slacking Off Running DNS over https Does Not Mean You Can’t Blame DNS for Always Breaking DNS over HTTPS, One More Way DNS Will Break A big thanks to this week’s sponsor: 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. AI is Going Great &#8211; Or how ML Makes Money 7:20 OpenAI’s Annualized Revenue Tops $1.6 Billion as Customers Shrug Off CEO Drama Listener Note: paywall article, but worth reading. According to two people interviewed by the Information, Open AI’s revenue has grown to 1.6B from its ChatGPT product, up from 1.3b as of mid-October. That&#8217;s a 20% growth over two months. As this happened during the period of the leadership crisis, it seems to not have had much impact. This roughly means OpenAI is making $130M a month from the sales of subscriptions. And yes, that includes us. You’re welcome, OpenAI. 8:28 Justin &#8211; “I&#8217;m sure this is a ‘it made 1.3 billion or $1.6 million in revenue’ and they spent $25 billion. I&#8217;m pretty sure that&#8217;s the current scenario.” AWS 9:23 The AWS Canada West (Calgary) Region is now available Ca-west-1 has opened the thirty-third AWS region with 3 AZ’s. 70 services available at launch. According to the announcement, “This second Canadian Region allows you to architect multi-Region infrastructures that meet five nines of availability while keeping your data in the country.” We apologize for Justin’s terrible Canadian accent. 11:09 DNS over HTTPS is now available in Amazon Route 53 Resolver HTTPS continues to take over the world, coming for your Route 53 Resolver with suppo

Welcome to episode 241 of the Cloud Pod Podcast &#8211; where the forecast is always cloudy! Can you believe we’ve reached the end of 2023? Neither can we! Join us today for a look back at 2023 and all of the announcements that excited, befuddled, and confused us &#8211; as well as a slew of predictions for 2024. Make sure to share your own predictions (after listening, of course) with us on socials. Titles we almost went with this week: Wait, How is it 2024? Thank God 2023 is Over Thank God 2020 is Over… Finally? The Cloud Pod Breaks the Crystal Ball when Trying to Predict 2024 2023: A Snarky Saga of Disappointment 2023: A Snarky Saga of AI 2023… Was Anything Announced Besides AI How Cloudy Was It? A Whimsical Look Back at 2023 and Forecasting the Fluff in 2024 The 2023 Cloud Recap and 2024 Foggy Forecasts 2023&#8217;s Cloudiest Moments and 2024&#8217;s Forecasted Fun Cache &amp; Carry: Storing Up 2023&#8217;s Memories and Downloading 2024&#8217;s Dreams Even AI can’t help us find the best announcements of 2023 Even AI can’t help us predict the announcements of 2024 A big thanks to this week’s sponsor: 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. General Podcast News 00:23 Lot’s of changes around these here parts! As we reflect on 2023, we would love to hear your general thoughts on the podcast. 2023 was a big year of changes for us. Peter left as host, and we replaced him with Matt. We dropped the lightning round, and reduced the number of stories we covered; going for more depth and discussion. (I think we could still improve here.) We added the Cloud Journeys and did a segment on CCOE, Containers, Kubernetes, Cloud Platform, etc. We added the aftershow to talk about tech adjacent things that interest us as hosts. Absolutely do get on our Slack channel and let us know what you all would like to hear or your general thoughts on the show. 2023 Predictions Also known as “things we’re always wrong about.” Jonathan: Microsoft will release in preview of an Azure branded Chat GPT Justin: Data Sovereignty will drive single panes of glass against multi-cloud Totally missed on this on panes of glass, but OUT OF THE PARK when it comes to data sovereignty. That was a big deal this year. Ryan: An influx of all of the AI and No-Code solution convergence. We’re closer…but not quite there yet. Maybe another year or two. Peter: Recession will drive significant developer layoffs, and drive automation solutions for ops and deployment.. So, layoffs were a thing. But not because of recession, but because of corporate greed. So that’s fun. 06:50 Ryan &#8211; “I also think Microsoft will get there’s no matter which way it goes, right? Because they’re either gonna sell it directly, or their investment in Open AI will pay off through shareholder price of stocks.” 11:26

Welcome to episode 240! It’s a doozy this week! Justin, Ryan, Jonathan and Matthew are your hosts in this supersized episode. Today we talk about Google Gemini, the GCP sales force (you won&#8217;t believe the numbers) and Google feudalism. (There’s some lovely filth over here!) Plus we discuss the latest happenings over at HashiCorp, Broadcom, and the Code family of software. So put away your ugly sweaters and settle in for episode 240 of The Cloud Pod podcast &#8211; where the forecast is always cloudy! Titles we almost went with this week: Why run Kubernetes when you can have a fraction of the functionality from Nomad and Podman? The CloudPod hopes for a Microsoft buyout before we shut down The CloudPod looks forward to semantic versioning now Mitchell has left Hashicorp Amazon Fiefdoms, Microsoft Sovereignty&#8230; I look forward to Google Feudalism Sovereign Skies vs. Feudal Fiefdoms: Who Owns the Cloud&#8217;s Crown?* Cloud Fiefdoms, Feudal Futures: Battling for Data Sovereignty* Fiefdoms Fall, Sovereigns Rise: The Cloud&#8217;s Feudal Flaws* A big thanks to this week’s sponsor: 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. Follow Up 01:09 Broadcom is killing off VMware perpetual licenses and strong-arming users onto subscriptions Broadcom is wasting no time pissing off the VMware community after the closure of their purchase of Vmware. They moved quick! With absolutely no warning, Broadcom is killing VMWares on-premise perpetual licenses, and forcing you to move onto subscriptions. According to Broadcom, this is “simplifying” their lineup and licensing model. Sure. They are doing this by ending the sale of support and subscriptions effective immediately. This impacts the Vsphere family of products, Cloud Foundation, SRM and the Aria suite. You may continue to use your existing perpetual licenses until your current contract expires. They will most likely provide a one time incentive of some kind for the transition to subscription. Then, you get to pay FOREVER. Insert Mr. Burns laugh here. You will also be able to “bring your own subscription” for license portability to Vmware validated hybrid cloud endpoints running VMware Cloud foundation. They are also sweetening the deal by offering 50% off Vmware Cloud Foundation, and including higher support service levels including enhanced support for activating the product and lifecycle management. Competitors are rapidly raising their hand to fill the gap mainly led by Nutanix, who points out the entire business model for Broadcom is to maximize the acquired asset within 2 to 3 years and as a VMWare customer you will *feel* it. There are also other alternatives &#8211; including Ze

The Cloud Pod Sees the Irony of Using AI to Assist with Climate Change Welcome to episode 239 of The Cloud Pod podcast, where the forecast is always cloudy! Jonathan, Matthew and Ryan are your hosts this week as we talk about all things AI and Climate Change &#8211; and Google’s assertion that their AI is going to fix it all. Also on today’s agenda: updates to Google Next’s new dates, Azure’s chips, Defender, and all the shenanigans over at OpenAI. Join us! Titles we almost went with this week: Microsoft Ignites my dislike for their conferences Google keeps using that Sustainability word…. The gift of no cost learning The CloudPod has an advent calendar for AI A big thanks to this week’s sponsor: 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. General News 00:50 Broadcom announces successful acquisition of VMware Broadcom has completed its acquisition of VMware… and apparently it’s a new and exciting era! (Hopefully more exciting than Tanzu has been.) Broadcom is mostly known for networking communication chips, but has been diversifying their portfolio for a while now. Vmware joins companies such as: Rally Software CA Products Plex (not *that* plex) Appneta Clarity Symantec Siteminder 01:58 Matthew &#8211; “I feel like whenever you get acquired, a lot of the duplicated admin services and like HR, finance, some of those kind of naturally &#8211; like whenever a company gets acquired, I feel like there&#8217;s always layoffs within the first six months, and it&#8217;s really just a lot of those overlapping services now that the parent org has. But I know that they own Symantec. That was news to me.” 04:36 Ryan &#8211; “I think that the big value prop was for a lot of these things was, you know, being able to run that virtualized infrastructure and then the partnerships are, you know, to be able to run that with the same skill sets and the same people running both without having to get into the specifics of, you know, AWS or Azure cloud specifics. And so offering that as sort of a generalized compute… I think as cloud has become more prevalent and popular and there&#8217;s more people that know it, not enough, but still more. I think that value really goes down where you no longer need that sort of UI driven cloud management service that VMware provided for years.” AI is Going Great! 06:11 **See Aftershow** AWS 06:17 If you haven’t already, go listen to ep 238! That’s our AWS re:Invent recap show; there really isn&#8217;t any AWS news outside of that for this week. GCP 06:28 Early Registration Now Open for Google Cloud Next ’24 (April 9-11) in Las Vegas You may think Google Next just happened… and you would be right. But as part o

Welcome to episode 238 of the Cloud Pod Podcast &#8211; where the forecast is always cloudy! This week we’re bringing you a preview of Amazon re:Invent 2023. We’re talking all things AWS, Bedrock, Q, and frugal architecture, and &#8211; you guessed it &#8211; AI. Titles we almost went with this week: Amazon Builds on Bedrock with Q You Need to Be All Frugal Architects A big thanks to this week’s sponsor: 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. “Pre”:Invent Is it just us, or is a lot of the stuff released during pre-invent stuff that would have been main stage just a few years ago? 01:48 Major Items Introducing Amazon CloudFront KeyValueStore: A low-latency datastore for CloudFront Functions 03:43 Ryan &#8211; “I found this being announced pre-invent to be kind of shocking, because this is one of those announcements where you could re-architect your entire app for better performance using this type of solution, and it&#8217;s not even big enough for the main stage. But there&#8217;s huge potential in doing that edge transformation so that you can directly serve at the edge at much lower latency. So it&#8217;s awesome.” Announcing AWS Console-to-Code (Preview) to generate code for console actions *No Terraform yet, but hopefully that will come soon! 05:18 Jonathan &#8211; “I think it&#8217;s great for learning too, actually. I mean, I use this in the Google console all the time because I try and put together a command line to do something and it fails miserably. And so I go and do it in the console and it generates the command line coding thing. Ah, I missed that thing, which isn&#8217;t documented anywhere.” 07:23 Storage Optimize your storage costs for rarely-accessed files with Amazon EFS Archive FlexGroup Volume Management for Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP is now available New – Scale-out file systems for Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP Introducing shared VPC support for Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP Announcing on-demand data replication for Amazon FSx for OpenZFS New – Amazon EBS Snapshot Lock Automatic restore testing and validation now available in AWS Backup RL(Maybe?) 08:56 Ryan &#8211; “that&#8217;s the main reason why I flagged this is that I&#8217;ve just done so many tabletop exercises and so many, you know, compliance e

Welcome to episode 237 of The Cloud Pod Podcast &#8211; where the forecast is always cloudy! It’s the most wonderful time of the year &#8211; it’s almost time for re:Invent! That means it’s also time for our wishlist and predictions. Follow along, and see which ones you think have the greatest likelihood of coming to fruition. A big thanks to this week’s sponsor: 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. AWS Predictions Jonathan GPU Support for Lambda functions Chat Bot integration for the support portal that pulls from documentation New Baremetal Instance with more GPU’s for AI Training Justin Graviton AI Chip Capabilities Olympus with a bigger data set than Open AI and publicly available Major Improvements to Quicksight Ryan AppMesh will support serverless workloads Data Sovereignty on stage Just in time IAM Permissions powered by AI Matthew AI Chat feature in the AWS Console Carbon Emissions and Green Technology talked about during the keynote. Predictive typing thing integrated into AWS Shell (cloud 9). &nbsp; Tie Breaker: Number of times the word Artificial Intelligence and/or AI. Matt &#8211; 72 Ryan &#8211; 563 Justin &#8211; 142 Jonathan &#8211; 90 Honorable Mentions: Reinvent announcement of Clippy/Mascot (Jonathan) Chip Fab (Jonathan) Astro Bot upgrade (Ryan) Astrobot Robot Wars (Ryan) Extra effort/hardware on energy usage (Jonathan) IAM Permissions reducer (Matt) Security/Guardduty/SOC AI (Justin) DuckDB (Justin) AI for Opensearch (Justin) Werner masterclass on AI (Justin) Simulated worlds (Jonathan)

Welcome to episode 236 of the Cloud Pod Podcast, where the forecast is always cloudy! Are you wandering around every day wondering just who has the biggest one? Chips, we mean. Of course. Get your mind out of the gutter. Did you know Azure was winning that battle for like 8 whole minutes? Join us for episode 236 where we talk about chip size, LLM’s, updates to Bedrock, and Toxicity Detection &#8211; something you will never find applied to the podcast. Not on purpose, anyway. Happy Thanksgiving! Titles we almost went with this week: You Can Solve All Your AI Problems by Paying the Cloud Pod 10 million Dollars. Cloud Pods Interest in AI Like Enterprises is Also Shockingly Low Llama Lambda Llama Llama Lambda Lambda… or How I Went Crazy Comprehends Detects Toxicity with the Cloud Pod You Didn’t Need Comprehend for Me to Tell You I’m Toxic The Cloud is Toxic, Run! A big thanks to this week’s sponsor: 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. AI is Going Great! 00:39 OpenAI’s New Weapon in Talent War With Google: $10 Million Pay Packages for Researchers (listeners note: paywall article) The battle for AI talent is heating up between open AI and Google. With compensation packages but also promises of access to more hardware, better chips and more. Open AI depends on Microsoft for its cloud resources, whereas Google owns its cloud and is manufacturing their own AI chips. Salaries are crazy with stock compensation with Open AI saying their stock compensation could be worth as much as 5-10m. Of course assuming that recruits start before the company goes public or gets completely acquired by MS. So, bottom line? Money. Are you shocked? We’re shocked. 01:30 Jonathan &#8211; “I guess it&#8217;s quite a concern actually that since Google bought DeepMind they have pretty much two-thirds of the entire global AI talent at their own disposal. So I guess this is a desperate needs, call for desperate measures kind of thing.” 01:49 Nvidia Unveils New AI Chip, Upping Ante with AMD (listeners note: paywall article) Nvidia on Monday announced a new graphics processing unit, the H200, which next year could become the most advanced chip on the market for developing AI. The chip&#8217;s memory capacity has been significantly upgraded compared to the H100, which has been in high demand and boosting NVIDIA stock 240% since Jan 1. The increased memory allows LLM models powered by H200 chips to generate results nearly twice as fast as those running on H100s Cloud companies should have the new chips available in 2nd quarter 2024 and will put these in tight competition with AMD’s MI300X gpu’s slated for release later this year. 02:29 Matthew &#8211; “ I feel like we&#8217;re seeing the speed curve of processors and now we&#8217;re just watching the same things that happened in the 90s and 2000s happen with GPUs. It&#8217;s like, it will double every 18 months. That&#8217;s

Welcome to episode 235 of the Cloud Pod podcast &#8211; where the forecast is always cloudy! This week a full house is here for your listening pleasure! Justin, Jonathan, Matthew, and Ryan are talking about cyberattacks, attacks on vacations (aka Looker for mobile) and introducing a whole new segment just for AI. You’re welcome, SkyNet. Titles we almost went with this week: AI is worth investing in &#8211; says leading AI service provider, Microsoft Join The Cloud Pod for the &#8216;AI Worth Investing In&#8217; Eye-Roll Extravaganza The Cloud Pod: Breaking News &#8211; Microsoft Discovers Water is Wet, AI Worth Investing In Jonathan finally wins the point for predicting ARM instances in Google Cloud Looker for Mobile: Ruining vacations one notification at a time Microsoft helps bring cloud costs into FOCUS Focus only on the path forward… not the path behind you. GPT-4 Turbo… just be glad its not Ultra GPT-4 I can only flinch at the idea of Finch The Cloud Pod finally accepts AI is the future A big thanks to this week’s sponsor: 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. New Segment &#8211; AI is Going Great! 01:24 New study validates the business value and opportunity of AI You may be shocked to find out that there is value in AI for your business! To help you understand, Microsoft paid IDC to make a study that provides unique insights into how AI is being used to drive economic impact for organizations. 2000 business leaders and decision makers from around the world participated in the survey. 71% of respondents say their companies are already using AI, and 22% said within 12 months they would be using it. 92% of AI deployments take 12 months or less Organizations are realizing a return on their AI investment within 14 months For every $1 a company invests in AI, it is realize an average return of $3.5x 52% report that a lack of skilled workers is their biggest barrier to implement and scale AI. We assume that’s prompt engineering or model builders. IDC projects that generative AI will add nearly $10 trillion to global GDP over the next 10 years. Key areas where businesses are finding value: Enrich employee experiences Reinvent customer engagement Reshape business processes Bend the curve on innovation. 02:33 Ryan &#8211; “There were some questions that they didn’t ask that I wanted them to, like how many respondents are already using AI but wish they weren’t, or how many months do you think it wil

Welcome to episode 234 of The Cloud Pod podcast &#8211; where the forecast is always cloudy! This week your hosts Justin and Ryan are bringing you all the latest news from the cloud, including latest earnings news (you know you want it), a discussion about whether cloud is “bad” from one of repatriation’s biggest advocates, Oxide’s new cloud computer (it’s SO pretty) and a look at some of latest updates on the AWS European Sovereign Cloud. Titles we almost went with this week: The Cloud Pod is Sovereign We Avoid the Oxide Rust at TCP A big thanks to this week’s sponsor: 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. Pre-Show 01:00 Follow Up: Wait &#8211; Is Cloud Bad? We’ve talked previously on the show about DHH &#8211; David Heinemeier Hansson &#8211; who is the one big example of cloud repatriation. Well, maybe not the biggest but the most vocal for sure when it comes to advocating for a return to on-prem. Forrest Brazel wrote in his recent newsletter about the back and forth between pro-cloud people and those who support DHH’s move from AWS back to his DC. I think his rebuttal is the best one out there. He basically broke down the decision on cloud or datacenter to a 2&#215;2 box… Low IT Competence with Low Growth or High Growth, and High IT Competency with Low Growth or High Growth. He basically says Basecamp falls into High IT Competency with low growth, which makes datacenter more attractive. 03:43 Justin- “Kelsey Hightower pointed out rightfully the 15 years of cloud helped DHH even be able to do this, because being able to do a cloud exit of the size and the complexity of what he does have without cloud technologies that enabled some of those things, it would have been difficult for him to do this going back. Declarative infrastructure, containerization &#8211; all that stuff is big cloud advances that were brought to the world that he&#8217;s not benefiting from in his data center&#8230;” General News this Week: 06:30 Oxide Launches the World’s First Commercial Cloud Computer If you&#8217;re looking at the infrastructure you should run your repatriation on, we would like to suggest you take a look at Oxide Computers. Founded by Steve Tuck, Jessie Frazelle, and Bryan Cantrill, they have officially launched their first product, which has been in development for the last 4 years. While Major cloud providers have built their own cloud computing services, Oxide is the first company to be selling a commercial version of an out-of-the-box cloud computer for individual companies t

Welcome to The Cloud Pod &#8211; where the forecast is always cloudy! This week your hosts Justin, Matthew, and Ryan are here to fill you in on all the latest and greatest happenings in the cloud, including news about your SSL &amp; TLS certificates, MSK Replicator, and the Azure Incubations Team. Did you know about them? Neither did we! Titles we almost went with this week: The Cloud Pod Replicator… Replicating Snark to all the Kafkas Mirror Mirror on the wall, Which Events? We Want Them All. The Radius of my Patience for my Developer Portals is Shrinking Oracle Java Plugin for VSCode… it&#8217;s a trap! A big thanks to this week’s sponsor: 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. General News this Week: AWS 01:20 Rotate Your SSL/TLS Certificates Now – Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora Expire in 2024 If you want to have some “fun” you need to update the RDS SSL certificate for your db instances before they expire in 2024. This impacts really any DB created before 2020. You can choose CA certificates that expire in 40 years or 100 years. This was more complicated than we realized when we did this on a database instance recently, and this step-by-step guide would have been great when we did it a month or so ago. Step 1: Identify your impacted DB’s Step 2: Update your database client and apps… this was the trickiest part for us. Step 3: Test CA rotation on a non-production RDS instance Step 4: Rinse and Repeat on Production. 01:45 Justin- “I definitely went for the 100 years to fake because I never want to do this again… This is not for the faint of heart, if you&#8217;re not familiar with how your database apps work, and do proceed with caution.” 05:48 Justin- “Well, so the 40 year one is a 2048 bit RSA certificate. The 100 year one is an RSA 4096 or an ECC 384 compiled. So it&#8217;s pretty high level encryption on both of those CAs. And the fun thing about that is if you do choose the 100 year certificate and you have like a T3 class system, all of a sudden now you&#8217;re processing a lot of stuff to calculate the cipher. So you may have some use cases where you don&#8217;t want to use the 100 year certificate because it does require some more CPU to process.” 07:07 Introducing Amazon MSK Replicator – Fully Managed Replication across MSK Clusters in Same or Different AWS Regions Cross Cluster <a href="https://kafka.apache.org/" target="_blank" rel="noo

Welcome to The Cloud Pod &#8211; where the forecast is always cloudy! This week your hosts, Jonathan and Ryan, are talking all about EC2 instances, including changes to AWS Systems Manager and Elastic Disaster Recovery. And speaking of disasters, we’re also taking a dive into the ongoing Google DDOS attacks. Plus, we’ve even thrown a little earthquake warning into the podcast, just for effect. Titles we almost went with this week: A big thanks to this week’s sponsor: 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. General News this Week: 01:08 Why AMD’s Upcoming Chips Won’t Be the Savior AI Startups Are Hoping For A few weeks ago many got excited about the new AMD chips coming to help with AI workloads. The Instinct MI300A has often been touted as an alternative to Nvidia’s H100. But… it&#8217;s not as easy to use those chips. The startup that tweeted about using the new AMD chips has been working on it for multiple years, and most startups who would want to switch would have to throw out their code and start from scratch. We’re not super sure about that claim, but we shall see… Plus, Nvidia has a 20 year head start when it comes to Cuda and other development tools for AI. It’s not all bad news though &#8211; AMD does have some advantages that may make it worth it, including a chip that combines the GPU, which performs multiple computations simultaneously, and a CPU which executes more general instructions and manages the systems broader operations. (Nvidia plans to do the same with the Grace Hopper Superchip). The AMD chips also have more memory than the H100 at 128gb vs 80gb. 02:20 Ryan &#8211; “Yeah. I mean, it&#8217;s interesting how complex these have become, right? When it used to just be &#8211; sort of &#8211; you had optimized at the computer level and maybe at the OS level, but now the workloads are so specific because they&#8217;re so demanding, and then power is also very challenging. So that&#8217;s kind of neat. I&#8217;m kind of glad I don&#8217;t have to deal with it much.” 03:38 Report: Amazon will use Microsoft 365 cloud productivity tools in $1B ‘megadeal’ Amazon has reportedly committed 1B to license M365 cloud productivity software for 1 million of its corporate and frontline workers in a surprise megadeal. Amazon will upgrade from traditional MS office software to the cloud productivity suite, (Probably because MS stopped supporting it? But we digress) according to the report, which notes that Amazon had been reluctant to do so previously. 04:40 Jonthan &#8211; “I&#8217;m surprised they haven&#8217;t worked on their own office suite. They could have taken some open-source thing and made it their ow

Welcome to The Cloud Pod episode 231! This week Justin and Matthew are discussing updates to Terraform testing for code validation, some new tools from Docker, look into the now generally available AWS DataZone, and dig into the evolution of passkeys over at Google. Slide into the passenger seat and let&#8217;s check out this week’s cloud news. Titles we almost went with this week: The Cloud Pod wants to validate your code The Cloud Pod can now test in parallel A big thanks to this week’s sponsor: 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. General News this Week: 01:17 Terraform 1.6 adds a test framework for enhanced code validation At Hashiconf this week, they announced Terraform 1.6 is now available for download. The most exciting feature? We’re so glad you asked! The new terraform test framework that deprecates and replaces the previous experimental features added in 0.15. Terraform test allows authors to consistently validate the functionality of their configuration in a safe environment. Tests are written using familiar HCL syntax, so there is no need to learn a new language to get started. Config-Driven import introduced in Terraform 1.5 gets improvements to support variable driven ID attributes. Making it easier than ever to import existing items. Cli Improvements Several changes are coming to the S3 Backend remote state in this release to better align with the SDK and the official terraform AWS provider. It should still work but you may receive warnings about deprecated attributes. May the odds be ever in your favor. You can check out the Testing Terraform overview page here, or the Write Terraform tests tutorial here. 03:22 Justin &#8211; “ One of the interesting things that, you know, that wasn&#8217;t part of this particular announcement is that they&#8217;re also adding an ability to use AI to help you with your test cases. And so basically the model, they built an LLM model to specifically trained on HCL and the Terraform test framework to help model authors begin testing their code.” 04:55 Docker debuts new tools for developing container applications Docker has released two new offerings: Docker Build and Docker Debug These tools will help software teams develop containers faster. Docke

Welcome to The Cloud Pod episode 230, where the forecast is always cloudy! This week we’re sailing our pod across the data lake and talking about updates to managed delivery from Kafka. We also take a gander at Bedrock, some new security tools from our friends over at Google. We’re also back with our Cloud Journey Series talking security theater.Stay Tuned! Titles we almost went with this week: Security and Delivery Within an Hour… Sacrilegious! Unlock Global Innovation with Sovereign Cloud Microsoft… What in the World Are You Doing? If I ever own a sailboat, I will name it Kafka. And the Oscar for Security Theater goes to… A big thanks to this week’s sponsor: 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. General News this Week: 01:15 Microsoft fans… This isn’t going to be pretty. You were warned. Microsoft Warns of Cyber Attacks Attempting to Breach Cloud via SQL Server Instance Microsoft…The Truth Is Even Worse Than You Think Microsoft comes under blistering criticism for “grossly irresponsible” security In what has turned out to be a not so great week for Microsoft (and their customers) the software giant has released an urgent warning for SQL server instances running on Azure. **Insert meme of dog saying it’s fine surrounded by fire here** Microsoft has detailed a new campaign in which attackers unsuccessfully attempted to move laterally to a cloud environment through a SQL server instance. The attacker initially exploited a SQL injection vulnerability in an app, and then was able to gain access and elevated permission on MS SQL instance deployed in Azure VM. The threat actor than attempted to move horizontally by abusing the server’s cloud identity, which could possess elevated permissions (least privilege folks) MS says it found no evidence that the attacker successfully moved. Considering the recent criticism by Tenable CEO who threw them under the bus for not fixing a major vulnerability for over 90 days, this warning and confirmation seems like a step in the right direction. 04:37 Matthew- “I mean, also just the scale of these hypervisors, sometimes it just takes time. Like &#8211; you don&#8217;t want to quickly roll out a hotfix to something, realize you caused another problem, and now you&#8217;re playing whack-a-mole because you&#8217;re moving too fast and not taking a step back and fixing the root cause of it.” AWS &#8211; Kafka Managed Delivery 07:07 <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-bedrock-is

Welcome episode 228 of the Cloud Pod podcast &#8211; where the forecast is always cloudy! This week your hosts Justin, Jonathan, Matthew and Ryan are taking a look at Magic Quadrant, Gemini AI, and GraalOS &#8211; along with all the latest news from OCI, Google, AWS, and Azure. Titles we almost went with this week: The CloudPod wonders if Anthropic’s Santa Clause will bring us everything we want in an AI Bot. The Cloud Pod recommends protection to achieve Safer Google rides the gemini rocket to AI JPB The only Copilot I need Azure, is Booze GraalOS, or what we now call ‘the noise our CFO makes when he receives the Oracle audit bills’ The hosts of the Cloud pod would like to understand how to properly pronounce GraalOS Is Oracle even on the magic quadrant for cloud? RedHat Puts lipstick on the pig and calls it OpenStack A big thanks to this week’s sponsor: 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. General News this Week: 00:56 Red Hat rebrands OpenStack Platform for building and managing private clouds Red Hat is rebranding the Red Hat OpenStack Platform, which will now be known as Red Hat OpenStack services on OpenShift. You know, because let&#8217;s add containers. What could go wrong? We didn’t know anyone was still trying to openstack at this point &#8211; did you? “By integrating Kubernetes with OpenStack, organizations see improved resource management and scalability, greater flexibility across the hybrid cloud, simplified development and DevOps practices and more,” said Sean Cohen, director of product management in Red Hat’s Hybrid Platforms organizations. Per Holger, Mueller openstack has gotten a lot of popularity in the Telecommunications industry where they use it to build private clouds to run their networks… *adds to the list of don’t work there… telecommunications companies* 02:32 Justin &#8211; “I mean, OpenShift is just like Convox. It&#8217;s a platform on top of Kubernetes and a fancy developer portal. And so then you get, now you add to that OpenStack.” AWS 03:51 Expanding access to safer AI with Amazon Amazon is investing up to $4 billion in Anthropic. The agreement is part of a collaboration to develop the most reliable and high-performing foundation models in the industry. As part of the agreement, AWS will become Anthropic’s primary cloud provider for mission critical workloads, providing our team with access to leading compute infrastructure in the form of AWS Trainium and Inferentia chips,

Welcome episode 228 of the Cloud Pod podcast &#8211; where the forecast is always cloudy! This week your hosts are Justin, Jonathan, Matthew and Ryan &#8211; Titles we almost went with this week: The Cloud Pod gets scanned for a malware infection The Cloud Pod gives up on security The Cloud Pod burns cash on a new Mac instance Copilot&#8217;s Copyright Crusade &#8211; Microsoft&#8217;s Got Your Back in Copyright Battles The Cloud Pod loves it when the clouds come together The Cloud Pod doubts 90 day account expirations are a good idea Matt brings a bit of class to the Cloud Pod A big thanks to this week’s sponsor: 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. General News this Week: AWS 02:56 Amazon EC2 R7a Instances Powered By 4th Gen AMD EPYC Processors for Memory Optimized Workloads AND New Amazon EC2 R7iz Instances are Optimized for High CPU Performance, Memory-Intensive Workloads Amazon has a couple of new instances for us this week, including Amazon R7a, which is powered by the 4th generation AMD EPYC (Genoa) processors with a maximum frequency of 3.7ghz &#8211; this has 50 percent higher performance compared to the previous generation instances. The R7a supports the AVX-512, Vector Neural Network Instructions and Brain Float Point (bfloat16https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bfloat16_floating-point_format). It also supports Double Data rate 5 (DDR5) memory. From 1 vcpu and 8gb of ramp to 192 vcpu 1.5tb of memory Not excited for AMD? Would you rather pay more money for an Intel version? Well fear not! Also available is the new R7iz instances &#8211; which are the fastest 4th generation scalable-based (sapphire rapids) instances with 3.9ghz sustained all-core turbo frequency. The R7iz has four built in accelerators including the advanced matrix extensions (AMX), intel data streaming accelerator (DSA), intel in-memory analytics accelerator (IAA) and intel quickassist technology (QAT). Listeners take note: you may need to use a specific kernel version, driver or compiler to take advantage of these. You can get these in 2 vcpu /16gb configurations up to 128 vcpu/1024gb of memory. 04:39 Matthew &#8211; “I&#8217;m just more impressed it&#8217;s still DDR5. I feel like 20 years ago I built a computer with DDR3 or 4. So I really feel like…” 04:49 Justin &#8211; “DDR4 was very long in the tooth.DDR4 lasted a very long time. DDR5 is actually pretty new, I think. I don&#8217;t know when you can kind of mass populati

Welcome episode 227 of the Cloud Pod podcast &#8211; where the forecast is always cloudy! This week your hosts are Justin, Jonathan, Matthew and Ryan &#8211; and they&#8217;re REALLY excited to tell you all about the 161 one things announced at Google Next. Literally, all the things. We’re also saying farewell to EC2 Classic, Amazon SES, and Azure’s Explicit Proxy &#8211; which probably isn’t what you think it is. Titles we almost went with this week: Azure announced a what proxy? The Cloud Pod would like you to engage with our email. Oracle Rover to Base… Come In Rover A snarky look at 160 Google Next Announcements Google Next’s got 161 Announcements and AI ain’t one How high can you count, Google can count to 161 The cloud pod would like to get consensus on the definition of light weight A big thanks to this week’s sponsor: 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. General News this Week: AWS 00:36 Farewell EC2-Classic, it’s been swell Werner has a blog post talking about the end of Ec2-classic, with the final EC2-Classic instance being turned off on August 15th, 2 years after the announcement. He points out that the reason it was “classic” is because of the network architecture. All instances launched on a giant 10.0.0.0/8 flat network shared between all customers. The process for end users was simple, but it was highly complex for AWS at the time. The m1.small that launched was equivalent of 1 virtual CPU powered by a 1.7ghz Xeon processor with 1.75gb of ram, and 160gb of local disk, and 250mb/s of network bandwidth. For the low price of $0.10 per clocked hour. Werners blog even ran on the m1 small for 5+ years before he moved it to the Amazon S3 website feature. VPC’s introduced in 2013, allows AWS customers to have their own slice of the cloud.. But classic still lived for another decade. The EC2 team kept classic running until every instance was retired or migrated, providing the necessary documentation, tools and support from engineering and account management through the process. Werner shows that this is one of the best examples of delivering cloud for today&#8217;s workloads as well as tomorrow, and how AWS won’t pull the rug out from under you. 02:08 Ryan &#8211; “I think most people know who he was referring to there. But it is cool. I mean, the fact that they were able to actually retire a thing and not just turn it off on people is pretty amazing.” 03:38 Amazon SES now offers email delivery and engagement history for every email Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) has launched a new deliverability feature that helps customers troubleshoot individual email delivery problems, confirm delivery of critical message

Welcome episode 226 of the Cloud Pod podcast &#8211; where the forecast is always cloudy! This week Justin, Matt and Ryan chat about all the news and announcements from Google Next, including &#8211; surprise surprise &#8211; the hot topic of AI, GKE Enterprise, Duet, Co-Pilot, Code Whisperer and more! There’s even some non-Next news thrown into the episode. So whether you’re interested in BART or Bard, we’ve got the news from SF just for you. Titles we almost went with this week: The cloud pod sings a duet, guess who was singing You get AI, you get AI, Everyone Gets AI Does a Mandiant Hunt, Or does a Hunter mandiant? The Cloud Pod goes into ROM Mode Does a mandalorian Hunt, Or does a Hunter a mandalorian? A big thanks to this week’s sponsor: 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. General News this Week: 01:23 Introducing Code Llama, a state-of-the-art large language model for coding So you know Github Copilot, Duet AI, and Codewhisperer…. But do you know Code LLama? (Meta you better get good stickers on this) Meta has released the source code for the Llama 2 based Code Specialized LLM in three sizes 7B, 13B, and 35B parameters. Each model is trained with 500b tokens of code and code-related data. The 7B and 13b base and instructor models have also been trained with fill-in-the-middle capability allowing them to insert code into existing code. The 7B model can run on a single GPU, the 34B model however returns the best results and for the best for coding assistance… while the 7b and 13b are great for real-time code completions. Training recipes for Code Llama are available on the Github Repository. 04:08 Matthew &#8211; “It&#8217;s interesting; if you go deep into the article there, they start to digress into like ‘Hey, this 7 and the 13 billion are better for near real time response back’ and the 34 billion… is better for fine tuning for yourself. So they really go into a little bit more detail of how to do it. And, you know, I think they also put out some code snippets if you kind of dive into it a little bit more, which I thought was very nice.” 05:32 OpenTF Announces Fork of Terraform Remember when we talked about Open TF’s manifest begging HashiCorp to backtrack on adopting a BSL license? Well guess what? HashiCorp didn’t listen. Insert sad sound effect. In response, OpenTF has officially forked Terraform. They hope to have the repository available to you within the next 1-2 weeks, with their goal to have an OpenTF 1.6 release. Want to keep up with their progress? They’ve created a public repository where you can track their progress. Check that o

Google Next Eve! Welcome episode 225 of The CloudPod Podcast &#8211; where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Jonathan, and Ryan are your hosts this week as we discuss all things Google Next! We talk schedule offerings, make our predictions about announcements, and prepare to be generally wrong about everything. Also &#8211; do you like stickers? Everyone likes stickers! Be on the lookout for us, and maybe you can have one. Titles we almost went with this week: None! Google Next is the next big thing, so of course it’s the title. A big thanks to this week’s sponsor: 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. Pre-Show 01:23 Following up on some HashiCorp News: HashiCorp updates licensing FAQ based on community questions Hashicorp has responded in their FAQ to some of the concerns we brought up when we talked about them moving to the BSL license in our last show. Question: Can I host the HashiCorp products as a service internal to my organization? Answer: Yes. The terms of the BSL allow for all non-production and production usage, except for providing competitive offerings to third parties that embed or host our software. Hosting the products for your internal use of your organization is permitted. HashiCorp considers an organization as including all of its affiliates. This means one division can host a HashiCorp product for use by another internal division. Q: What is a “competitive offering” under the HashiCorp BSL license? A: A “competitive offering” is a product that is sold to third parties, including through paid support arrangements, that significantly overlaps the capabilities of a HashiCorp commercial product. For example, this definition would include hosting or embedding Terraform as part of a solution that is sold competitively against our commercial versions of Terraform. By contrast, products that are not sold or supported on a paid basis are always allowed under the HashiCorp BSL license because they are not considered competitive. Q: What does the term “embedded” mean under the HashiCorp BSL license? A: Under the HashiCorp BSL license, the term “embedded” means including the source code or object code, including executable binaries, from a HashiCorp product in a competitive product. “Embedded” also means packaging the competitive product in such a way that the HashiCorp product must be accessed or downloaded for the competitive product to operate. Q: What if HashiCorp releases a new product or feature in the future that makes my project competitive? A: If HashiCorp creates an offering in the future that is competitive with a product you are already offering in production, your continued use of the hosted or embedded HashiCorp product will not be considered a violation of the HashiCorp BSL license. 03:43 Ryan &#8211; “I think this is the right response, right? And I know that I&#8217;m probably in the minority of being sort of appeased by this in the community; because I think that the torches and pitchforks will not go away. But what this does is allow &#8211; if there&#8217;s any kind

Welcome to episode 224 of The CloudPod Podcast &#8211; where the forecast is always cloudy! This week, your hosts Justin, Jonathan, and Ryan discuss some major changes at Terraform, including switching from open source to a BSL License. Additionally, we cover updates to Amazon S3, goodies from Storage Day, and Google Gemini vs. Open AI. Titles we almost went with this week: None! This week’s title was chef’s kiss A big thanks to this week’s sponsor: 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. Pre-Show General News this Week: 00:41 AWS and HashiCorp announce Service Catalog support for Terraform Cloud AWS is catching up with GCP, with now native support for Terraform in Service Catalog. The new integration is expanding on the previous support for Open Source; they now support the Terraform Cloud service. This new feature is available in all AWS Regions where AWS Service Catalog is available. 02:07 HashiCorp adopts Business Source License Do you use tools like N0 or ScaleSet? Or perhaps some of the other Terraform-adjacent things? You **may** be in some trouble. Despite being ok with Amazon and GCP integrating their open source &#8211; and now Terraform cloud offering &#8211; Hashicorp is mad at companies adopting their technology and productizing it, forcing them to move to the new BSL (Business Source License) model. This covers all Hashicorp products, not just Terraform. HashiCorp points out that their approach has enabled them to partner closely with cloud providers to enable tight integrations for their joint users and customers, as well as hundreds of other technology partners. There are vendors who take advantage of pure OSS models, and the community work on OSS projects, for their own commercial goals, without providing material contributions back. (GASP!) Hashi doesn’t think this is “the spirit of open source.” As a result, they believe commercial open source models need to change, as Open Source has reduced the barrier to copying innovation and selling it through existing distribution channels. They point out they’re in good company; pointing to other OSS projects that have closed source or adopted similar BSL models. They are officially moving from the Mozilla Public License v2.0 to the BSL v1.1 on all future releases of HashiCorp products. The APIs, SDKs and almost all other libraries will remain MPL 2.0 <li style="font-weight: 400;" a

Welcome episode 223 of The CloudPod Podcast! It’s a full house &#8211; Justin, Matt, Ryan, and Jonathan are all here this week to discuss all the cloud news you need. This week, cost optimization is the big one, with a deep dive on the newest AWS blog. Additionally, we’ve got updates to BigQuery, Google’s Health Service, managed services for Prometheus, and more. Titles we almost went with this week: I swear to you Mr. Compliance Man, Mutator is not as bad as it sounds Oracle Cloud customer &#8211; or how we let Oracle Audit us internally at will We are all confused by the lack of AWS news The CloudPod copies other Podcast’s Features Get AWS spin on savings with Cost Optimization Flywheel A big thanks to this week’s sponsor: 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. General News this Week: AWS No AWS news &#8211; so that should tell you we’re DEFINITELY getting close to announcement season. GCP 01:35 Introducing new SQL functions to manipulate your JSON data in BigQuery Enterprises are generating data at an exponential rate, spanning traditional structured transactional data, semi-structured like JSON and unstructured data like images and audio. Beyond the scale, the divergent types present processing challenges for developers, sometimes requiring a separate processing flow for each. BigQuery supported semi structured JSON at launch eliminating the need for processing and providing schema flexibility, intuitive querying and the scalability benefits afforded to structured data. Google is now releasing new sql functions for Bigquery JSON, extending the power and flexibility of their core JSON support. These new functions make it easier to extract and construct JSON data and perform complex data analysis. Convert JSON values into primitive types (INT64, FLOAT64, BOOL and STRING) Is anyone else insulted that STRING is considered primitive? easier and more flexible way with new JSON LAX functions Easily update and modify existing JSON values in BigQuery with new JSON Mutator functions. Construct JSON objects and JSON arrays with SQL in BigQuery with new JSON Constructor functions. 03:58 Justin &#8211; “Well, you only know that a NoSQL solution makes it once it gets a SQL interface. That&#8217;s how you know it&#8217;s truly become web scale.” 06:25 Introducing Personalized Service Healt