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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

Welcome episode 222 of The Cloud Pod Podcast &#8211; where the forecast is always cloudy! This week we take an in depth look at the latest earnings reports from all the major players, changes to IPv4 costs (inflation), Healthscribe, and all the news (in cybersecurity) that’s fit to print. Titles we almost went with this week: The CloudPod can finally read the doctors notes with HealthScribe Amazon Healthscribe it&#8217;s like transcription, but for doctors who use big words You get an LLM, you get an LLM; apparently EVERYTHING at Amazon gets an LLM Should The Cloud Pod rename itself C? Musk Flips Twitter the Bird (just for Jonathan) 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 00:49 Follow up: Public Preview: Customer Managed Failover for ADLS Gen2 The guys didn’t talk about this when it came up, as it didn’t get a full blog post and we killed lightning round &#8211; but Matt has **thoughts!** Azure storage strives to give you an effective disaster recovery offering and are now supporting customer-managed failover for ADLS Gen 2 accounts. Whether you are performing testing or facing a true disaster your primary endpoint can now initiate a failover from our primary endpoint to your secondary endpoint. 01:40 Matt &#8211; “It&#8217;s just one of those features that I&#8217;m just dumbfounded that didn&#8217;t exist day one. You know, encryption, DR &#8211; these things should just be there. And the fact that it&#8217;s ADLS has been around for a decent amount of time.” General News this Week: 03:06 The big news this week is EARNINGS: MSFT &#8211; Microsoft’s stock falls as demand for cloud services cools Microsoft beat expectations, both for the last quarter and for when they were going to announce. It was early! Net income of 20.1 billion for Fiscal 4th quarter 2023; which is up 20% from a year earlier. Revenue rose to 56.19 Billion, ahead of Wall Street’s expectation of 55.47 billion Stock still dropped 3% in after hours trading and is basically down 5% since the announcement on July 25th. Despite all of this, the future doesn’t look super great per MS COF Amy Hood, who said that first quarter revenue is only going to be between 53.8 and 54.8 billion, implying growth of only about 8%. This is tied to revenue growth of less than 10% by three consecutive quarters. Microsoft Intelligent cloud was up 15% (Azure, Windows Server, SQL Server, Github, Nuance, Visual Studio and Enterprise services) overall was up 15%. Microsoft said Azure sp

Welcome episode 221 of The Cloud Pod podcast &#8211; where the forecast is always cloudy! This week your hosts, Justin, Jonathan, Ryan, and Matthew look at some of the announcements from AWS Summit, as well as try to predict the future &#8211; probably incorrectly &#8211; about what’s in store at Next 2023. Plus, we talk more about the storm attack, SFTP connectors (and no, that isn’t how you get to the Moscone Center for Next) Llama 2, Google Cloud Deploy and more! Titles we almost went with this week: Now You Too Can Get Ignored by Google Support via Mobile App The Tech Sector Apparently Believes Multi-Cloud is Great… We Hate You All. The cloud pod now wants all your HIPAA Data The Meta Llama is Spreading Everywhere The Cloud Pod Recursively Deploys Deploy 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. News this Week: 00:33 HashiCorp State of Cloud Strategy Survey 2023: The tech sector perspective We didn’t find anything in the survey particularly interesting, until they broke it down by respondents who are actively in the tech industry. Despite strong Macro pressure and recent earnings reports about slowness in growth, 48% of respondents increased their cloud spend in the last 12 months 94% of tech industry respondents indicated that multi-cloud works, citing that it has advanced or achieved their company’s business goals. Sure, Jan. 91% of tech companies rely on platform teams. 01:37 Justin &#8211; “The thing about that is, I could see the value for Saas vendors, right? Especially if you&#8217;re dealing with large data ingestion. I think we were talking to New Relic, for example, when they launched a New Relic on Azure.It saves their customers a bunch of money because they&#8217;re not doing egress charges out to the internet to AWS to basically get the New Relic data in. And they see that as a strategy that helps customers reduce money and also helps increase adoption as well as partnership opportunities.” AWS 05:11 AWS Summit New York just happened, and there were a lot of announcements (and protests.) We won’t spend a lot of time going over each of these in the show, but the link are available for you to peruse at your leisure. Introducing AWS HealthImaging — purpose-built for medical imaging at scale AWS is very excited to announce the general availability of AWS HealthImaging, a purpose-built service that helps builders develop cloud-native applications that store, analyze, and share medical imaging data at a petabyte scale. HealthImaging ingests data in the DICOM P10 format. It provides APIs for low-latency retrieval and purpose-built storage. <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/07/amazon-redshift-querying-

Welcome episode 220 of The Cloud Pod podcast &#8211; where the forecast is always cloudy! This week your hosts, Justin, Jonathan, Ryan, and Matthew discuss all things cloud, including virtual machines, an AI partnership between Microsoft and Meta for Llama 2, Lambda functions, Fargate, and lots of security updates including the Outlook breach and WORM protections. This and much more in our newest episode. Titles we almost went with this week: Too Many Bees died for Honeycode Microsoft announces that AI will only cost you 3 arms and a leg. The Cloud Pod also detects Recursive Loops in cloud news The cloud pod disables health checks bc who needs them 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. News this Week: AWS 02:02 Detecting and stopping recursive loops in AWS Lambda functions Do you utilize AWS Lambda? Here’s an update for you. AWS Lambda is introducing a recursion control to detect and stop lambda functions running in a recursive or infinite loop. This supports Lambda Integrations with SQS, SNS or directly via the Invoke API. Lambda defects functions that appear to be running in a recursive loop and drops the request after exceeding 16 invocations This can help reduce costs from an unexpected lambda invocation because of recursion. You’ll receive notification that this action was taken through the AWS Health Dashbboard, email or by configuring Amazon Cloudwatch Alarms. You can turn this off by reaching out to AWS support, if you have a valid use-case where recursion is intentional, or if you need to loop something through more than 16 times. This is also the trap &#8211; if you say turn it off and then cry about a ridiculous bill due to your runaway recursion &#8211; they will now force you to pay it. So, listeners beware. 03:50 Matt- “I can definitely say I’ve caused an ‘in the hundreds of dollars’ very rapidly by this in the past in a dev account. So it&#8217;s definitely something that&#8217;s easy to do if you are doing recursion and you make an ‘if’ statement the wrong way.” 04:28 AWS Fargate Enables Faster Container Startup using Seekable OCI Are you a Fargate user who has been jealous of all those folks using ECS who have been able to utilize the seekable OCI or Sochi capability of lazy loading of containers? Well pine away no more! This feature

Welcome episode 219 of The Cloud Pod podcast &#8211; where the forecast is always cloudy! Today your hosts are Justin and Jonathan, and they discuss all things cloud, including clickstream analytics, databricks, Microsoft Entra, virtual machines, Outlook threats, and some major changes over at the Google Cloud team. Titles we almost went with this week: TCP is not Entranced with Entra ID The Cave you Fear to Entra, Holds the Treasure you Seek Microsoft should rethink Entra rules for their Email 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. News this Week: AWS 00:47 Clickstream Analytics on AWS for Mobile and Web Applications Want some solutions? Don’t we all! Well, for clickstream analytics at least, Amazon has released an update that has pre built solutions using Amazon components. Covers iOS and Android You can now deploy an end-to-end solution to capture, ingest, store, analyze and visualize your customers&#8217; clickstreams inside your web and mobile applications. This solution is built using standard AWS services to allow you to keep your data in the security and compliance perimeter of your AWS account and customize the processing and analytics as you require, giving you the full flexibility to extract value for your business. The new solution leverages ECS+Kafka/Kineses/S3, EMR, Redshift and Quicksight You can use plugins to transform the data during processing via EMR&lt; AWS has provided you to build in ones for User Agent enrichment and IP address enrichment. You can also export your source server inventory list to a CSV file and download it to your local disk. You can always continue leveraging the previously launched import and export functionality to and from an S3 bucket if you&#8217;re so inclined. Additional Post launch actions, adds four predefined post launch actions. Configure Time Sync Validate Disk Space Verify HTTP(S) response Enable Amazon Inspector If only this had been written 9 months ago when everyone was trying to run away from Google analytics… 02:45 Justin- “I believe they have cloud cost optimization opportunities and solutions, but I would appreciate maybe some additional of those. More dashboards, more pretty pictures for

Welcome to episode 218 of The Cloud Pod podcast &#8211; where the forecast is always cloudy! Today your hosts Justin, Ryan, and Matt discuss all things cloud &#8211; including migration services, AppFabric, state machines, and security updates, as well as the idea of shifting left versus (or in addition to) shifting down. Titles we almost went with this week: The Cloud Pod Prefers to be Bought by Anyone but IBM What Does the F(in)O(ps)X say? The Cloud Pod Leverage appFabric for your SaaS Security 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. News this Week: 01:21 IBM acquires hybrid cloud software company Apptio for $4.6B IBM is acquiring software company Apptio Inc for 4.6B in cash. THe move comes five years after Vista Equity bought the firm for 1.94B Apptio was created in 2007, and was notable as the first company Andreeson Horowitz invested in. Apptio owns Cloudability, among other features. Apptio offers cloud-based technology and hybrid business management software for managing business in the IT field. IBM Chief Executive Arvind Krishna said in a statement “Technology is changing business at a rate and pace we’ve never seen before. To capitalize on these changes, it is essential to optimize investments which drive better business value, and Apptio does just that. Apptio’s offerings combined with IBM’s IT automation software and watsonx AI platform, gives clients the most comprehensive approach to optimize and manage all of their technology investments.” 2:30Ryan &#8211; “The last time I played with Apptio was very early in my cloud experience and Apptio was struggling to understand how to sort of port their methodologies into cloud. It worked really well in the data center and for IT shops, for tracking assets and managing visibility into cost and financials there, but it really struggled with stuff like dynamically changing instance groups and that sort of thing. It made sense when they bought Cloudability, and I haven’t played with it since.” 04:39 Justin goes to FinopsX! 06:10Justin &#8211; “I did have an opportunity to talk to some startups. they&#8217;re on the floor and they&#8217;re thinking about kind of the next generation and what that looks like and you&#8217;re really talking about bringing AI and LLM technology into FinOps and how do you get beyond the basics of it. I think we&#8217;re at this kind of cusp of the end of the Gen 1 era… I suspect that we&#8217;re in for a bunch of FinOps and capabilities coming out of these vendors as they try to figure out what their v2 is, and potentially new startups that are going to come in and be disruptive to the Gen 1 players, because I think it&#8217;s a commodity, which was my big takeaway from the conference in general. It was good. It was a nice time. I definitely recommend going if you&#8217;re in the FinOps space.” 08:07 Ryan &#8211; “I’m waiting for the first one of these players to really get the data enrichments, like AI generated data enrichment of your resources. The first person who c

Welcome to the newest episode of The Cloud Pod podcast &#8211; where the forecast is always cloudy! Today your hosts Justin, Jonathan, and Matt discuss all things cloud and AI, as well as some really interesting forays into quantum computing, changes to Google domains, Google accusing Microsoft of cloud monopoly shenanigans, and the fact that Azure wants all your industry secrets. Also, Finops and all the logs you could hope for. Are your secrets safe? Better tune in and find out! Titles we almost went with this week: The Cloud Pod Adds Domains to the Killed by Google list The Cloud Pod Whispers it’s Secrets to Azure OpenAI The Cloud Pod Accuses the Cloud of Being a Monopoly The Cloud Pod Does Not Pass Go and Does Not collect $200 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. News this Week: 01:27 Vault 1.14 brings ACME for PKI, AWS roles, and more improvements HashiCorp recently announced the general availability of ACME for PKI. Vault 1.14 focuses on Vault’s core secrets workflows as well as team workflows, integrations, and visibility. This allows you to use Vault to manage your TLS certificates, using the ACME protocol. This allows you to use Vault to manage your AWS IAM roles, making it easier to grant access to your applications. Vault has also been optimized for better performance, especially for large deployments. A number of bugs have been fixed, improving the stability and security of Vault. The Vaults Secrets Operator connects Vault secrets directly into native Kubernetes secrets. Overall, Vault 1.14 is a significant release with a number of new features and improvements. If you are using Vault, I recommend upgrading to the latest version. AWS 03:36 Announcing the AWS Amplify UI Builder Figma Plugin Finally! A plugin that makes Amplify work natively with Figma! (Any UI builders out there in our audience? Bueller? Bueller?) AWS Amplify now offers you the UI Builder Figma plugin This new plugin makes it easier to empower your design and development teams to seamlessly collaborate within a Figma file. With the Amplify UI kit, easily theme your components, upgrade to new UI Kit versions and generate and preview React co

Welcome to the newest episode of The Cloud Pod podcast &#8211; where the forecast is always cloudy! Today your hosts are Jonathan and Matt as we discuss all things cloud and AI, including Temporary Elevated Access Management (or TEAM, since we REALLY like acronyms today) FTP servers, SQL servers and all the other servers, as well as pipelines, whether or not the government should regulate AI (spoiler alert: the AI companies don’t think so) and some updates to security at Amazon and Google. Titles we almost went with this week: The Cloud Pod’s FTP server now with post-quantum keys support The CloudPod can now Team into your account, but only temporarily The CloudPod dusts off their old floppy drive The CloudPod dusts off their old SQL server disks The CloudPod is feeling temporarily elevated to do a podcast The CloudPod promise that AI will not take over the world The CloudPod duals with keys The CloudPod is feeling temporarily elevated. 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. News this Week: No general news this week! Probably because no one wanted to talk to us. AWS 00:49 Amazon EC2 Instance Connect supports SSH and RDP connectivity without public IP address You can now connect via SSH and RDP to EC2 instances without using public IP addresses. With EIC endpoints, customers have remote connectivity to their instances in private subnets, eliminating the need to use public IPv4 addresses for connectivity. Previously you would have needed to create bastion hosts to tunnel SSH/RDP connections to instances with private IP addresses, but that created its own set of problems because bastion hosts would have to be patched, managed and audited as well as incur additional costs. EIC endpoint combines AWS IAM-based access controls to restrict access to trusted principles with network-based controls such as security group rules. It provides an audit of all connections via AWS cloud trail, helping customers improve their security posture. 01:31 Matt- “It’s nice to see Amazon still coming up with more solutions to not have things be public; and really try to get their customers to not use all the older-school technology.” 03:02 RDS Custom for SQL Server Lets you Bring Your Own Media RDS Custom for SQL Server now allows customers to use their own SQL server installation media when creating an instance. By using BYOM, customers may leverage their existing SQL server licenses with Amazon RDS for SQL Server. Amazon RDS custom is a managed database service that allows customization of the underlying operating system and database environment. Managed features include Multi-AZ, point in time recovery, and more. Previously when using RDS custom for SQL Server, customers used a license that

Welcome to the newest episode of The Cloud Pod podcast &#8211; where the forecast is always cloudy! Ryan, Jonathan, and Matt are your hosts this week as we discuss all things cloud, including updates to Terraform, pricing updates in GCP SCC, AWS Blueprint, DMS Serverless, and Snowball &#8211; as well as all the discussion on Microsoft quantum safe computing and ethical AI you could possibly want! 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. News this Week: 00:57 Terraform AWS provider updates to V 5.0 Announced this week from Hashicorp, Terraform AWS provider updates to version 5.0 The updates include support that they say will help them “focus on improving the user experience.” Support &amp; improvements for general tags was added, which can now be set at the provider level &#8211; applying them across all resources. Thanks to new features in Terraform plugin SDK and the Terraform plugin framework issues related to inconsistent final plans, identical tags, and perpetual diffs are now solved. More information on the default tags can be found on the changelog. 04:11 Jonathan &#8211; “It’s kind of cool &#8211; it’s a neat hack as well as a way of AWS providing a really useful feature without having to do any work on the cloud platform itself. Just implement the tool that does the deploying rather than having a service which could do it for you.” AWS 05:28 **NEW** AWS DMS Serverless Recognizing that many organizations were migrating to cloud platforms due to huge amounts of data, AWS has launched their cloud Database Migration Service back in 2016. To make the migration even more seamless, AWS has now announced DMS Serverless. AWS DMS Serverless will automatically set up, scale, and manage migration resources &#8211; all to make your migrations easier and (hopefully) more cost effective. Supports a variety of databases and analytics services, including Amazon Aurora, RDS, S3, Redshift, and DynamoDB among others. 06:36 Matt- “I was thinking about it at the end of the migration &#8211; we finally got it all replicated; now we’re gonna wait a month before we actually cut over. We need this very small change rate, vs. lets go replicate everything at the very beginning. It just kind of keeps it in sync. So in theory, it goes up and down, and you’re not provisioning based on peak capacity.”

Welcome to the newest episode of The Cloud Pod podcast! Justin, Ryan, Jonathan, Matthew are your hosts this week as we discuss all things cloud and AI, as well as Amazon Detective, SageMaker, AWS Documentation, and Google Workstation. Titles we almost went with (and there’s a lot this week) The Cloud Pod becomes the cloud docs The Cloud Pod loves inspector gadget The Cloud Pod documents the documentation The Cloud Pod bangs its shin, since geospatial abilities are lacking The Cloud Pod bangs its shin, since we lack geospatial abilities The Cloud Pod bangs its shin, if only we had geospatial abilities Unlike the Cloud Pod, Alibaba Cloud exits the stage Retiring AWS Documents on Github… or how we laid off too many people in our document team and can’t support this albatross anymore Microsoft Builds AI tools at its Build Conference and Wants you to Build More 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. News this Week: 01:29 Alibaba to Exit Cloud Business After Beijing Undercuts Potential Alibaba is apparently planning to spin out its $12 Billion dollar cloud business. It’s unclear if Alibaba is bowing to market pressures or political pressures; in 2020 Beijing became increasingly suspicious of cloud services operated by private firms, and started cracking down on internet services. Alibaba Cloud drew regulatory ire in 2021 for discovering and sharing a flaw before informing authorities (there goes their citizenship score), and was investigated for its role in China’s largest cybersecurity leak. Analysts value it at 30B, and was a once thriving operation that harbored the potential to AWS level of market control in China. “This full spinoff plan involving AliCloud is both bold and puzzling, “Nomura Holdings Inc analysts Jialong Shi and Thomas Shen wrote in a note. &#8220;Their current valuation for the unit stands at about $31 billion. AliCloud is BABA’s organic business and is still deemed as one of the long-term drivers for the group even though its growth temporarily slowed down in recent quarters due to macro headwinds. That is why we find it puzzling that BABA has decided to fully spin off this business instead of retaining a minority stake at least. 04:30 Justin &#8211; “We&#8217;re basically entering a very Cold War period between the US and Chinese. And so that&#8217;s gonna be interesting to see how that continues to shake out. I saw some articles this week as well, like in the information about VC firms trying to exit their investments in China and just realizing that it&#8217;s not gonna be the growth engine they expect it to be. I mean, we talked about here on the show even some of the supply chain issues with China, with the cloud providers and how it&#8217;s impacted them. And now, I just saw this week, Apple just announced that they were making chips with Broadcom on US soil for some things. So, there&#8217;s definitely an undercurrent in our politics about China in general.” 05:46 Matt &#8211; “On the flip side, I&#8217;m kind of curious to see how taking this business unit out of the general Alibaba is going to work, especially with everyone starting to yell that the big tech

Welcome to the newest episode of The Cloud Pod podcast! Justin, Ryan, Jonathan, Matthew are your hosts this week. Join us as we discuss all things cloud, AI, the upcoming Google AI Conference, AWS Console, and Duet AI for Google cloud. Titles we almost went with this week: You can finally lock yourself out of the AWS Console! Google IO delivers the AI… hopefully soon to be renamed Google AI Conference Azure announces major MySQL upgrade! Azure can now update mysql without taking itself offline 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. News this Week: 01:10 &#8211; Terraform is in the news! Terraform Cloud updates plans with an enhanced Free tier and more flexibility A bunch of new updates are coming to Terraform Cloud These update will provide access to **premium** features, up to 500 resources in the free tier There are also new paid offerings for management capabilities, scaling currency, and enterprise support. Consistent billing metrics based on managed resources, scaling concurrency, and enterprise support area available across all tiers. But let’s be honest &#8211; who needs consistent billing metrics? Half the fun is in the guessing! New Features Include: Premium security features such as SSO and Policy as Code on all tiers (yes, even the free ones for the poors like us.) Make it “easy and frictionless” for smaller teams and organizations to get started with their first use cases. And -finally- updated paid tiers provide easy upgrade paths for organizations as their usage scales, and they have more advanced use cases. Consumer Advice Time! The updated pricing models include a “per resource” charge. That has the potential to get REAL messy over 500 devices. Of course, it’s an option to stay on the legacy models, but the “carrots” &#8211; like SSO and Sentinel/OPA support &#8211; are pretty good, so you really just need to do a cost benefit analysis for your particular situation. 02:35 Ryan &#8211; “Yeah, I mean, the licensing for Terraform products for cloud and both enterprises always been rough, right? Like starting off per users for cloud makes sense. And at some point for enterprise, they had switched to per project, not users, because they figured out very quickly that what everyone did was just sort of link it together behind automation pane.” 04:48 ”Justin &#8211; the devil&#8217;s in the details of what they consider a resource, right? And it&#8217;s every single thing. I mean, 10 cents per EC2 instance, hmm. Like, yeah, I get 10 cents worth of value out of Terraform, not having to manually do that stuff. So, like, yeah, but then like you get into S3 buckets and like, I&#8217;m definitely not gonna get 10 cents of value out of an S3 bucket every month.” Our onl

Welcome to the newest episode of The Cloud Pod podcast! Justin, Ryan, Jonathan, Matthew and Peter are your hosts this week as we discuss all things cloud and AI, Titles we almost went with this week: The Cloud Pod is better than Bob’s Used Books The Cloud Pod sets up AWS notifications for all The Cloud Pod is non-differential about privacy in BigQuery The Cloud Pod finds Windows Bob The Cloud Pod starts preparing for its Azure Emergency today 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. News this Week: 00:40 &#8211; News this week starts out with TCP’s own news &#8211; Peter’s podcasting career is riding off into the sunset. He claims he’ll actually start listening, but we’ll see…we’re always happy for more listeners though, no matter how we get them. 02:18 &#8211; FinOps Foundation debuts new specification to ease cloud cost management Have we mentioned the FinOps User Conference? I can’t remember if we’ve mentioned that at all… In any event, join the fun June 27th through the 30th in beautiful and sunny San Diego, and be immersed in all things FinOps. It’s a dream vacation opportunity! In the meantime, the Finops foundation has announced FOCUS, an open-source initiative designed to help companies more easily track their cloud costs, which will initially launch at the conference. The goal of the initiative is to develop a standard specification for organizing cloud spending and usage data. According to FinOps, FOCUS will also provide a number of related data management capabilities, MS and Google will join the steering committee tasked with managing the project. “FOCUS will solve problems that organizations maturing their cloud adoption now face,” said Udam Dewaraja, the chair of the FinOps Foundation’s FOCUS working group. “Today, there’s no clear way to unify cost and usage data sets across different vendors.” FOCUS introduces standardized terminology for describing cloud expenses and usage metrics, provides a standardized schema, or a data format in which financial information can be organized. A schema specifies technical details such as the maximum number of expenses that should be included in each database row. AWS 04:18 New Storage-Optimized Amazon EC2 I4g Instances: Graviton Processors and AWS Nitro SSDs AWS is launching the new I4g instances powered by Graviton2 processors &#8211; delivering up to 15% better performance than their storage-optimized instances. Whoo! Shapes come in 2 VCPU, 16gb Memory and 468gb of Storage up to 64 vcpu, 512gb of ram, and 15 tb of storage. <li style="font-weight: 400;" ar

Welcome to the newest episode of The Cloud Pod podcast! Justin, Ryan, Jonathan, and Matthew are all here this week to discuss the latest news and announcements in the world of cloud and AI &#8211; including New Relic Grok, Athena Provisioned Capacity from AWS, and updates to the Azure Virtual Desktop. Titles we almost went with this week: None! This week’s title was SO GOOD we didn’t bother with any alternates. Sometimes it’s just like that, you know? 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. News this Week: 01:27 &#8211; Quick reminder &#8211; Finops X Foundation Conference is almost here! This is the annual FinOps Foundation Annual User Conference, and it is taking place June 29th through the 31st in Beautiful San Diego, California. Hundreds of your fellow practitioners will be sharing their FinOps knowledge, collaborating in chalk talks and networking together. Why should you attend? Great question. Let me tell you. 1) There’s a party on an aircraft carrier. Need more? You got it. 2) You can learn best practices when it comes to FinOps and save your company lots of money &#8211; you’ll be a hero! (Look at the economy and current interest rates. Heroic is an understatement.) Need another reason? Look no further! Justin will be there! We know you’ve always wanted to chat with him in person. No? How about free stickers? Free stuff is good. Everyone loves stickers. 02:47 New Relic is back on the pod &#8211; and they’ve got something new New Relic just launched Grok, their new AI observability assistant If you remember a few weeks ago, we had someone from New Relic on the pod, and they told us **something** was coming, but weren’t quite ready to tell us what it was &#8211; and now, it’s here! New Relic is throwing their hat into the AI ring &#8211; Grok. Grok will allow engineers to use large language models to help utilize natural language when performing many of the routine tasks in New Relic, like setting up instrumentation, building reports, or managing accounts. Engineers can sift through the data more easily and come through their unified telemetry data without having to write complex queries. From New Relic: “Observability tools exist to serve the DevOps and DevSecOps movements. Engineers use observability tools to get the data they need to operate and secure the software they build,” said New Relic Chief Product Officer Manav Khurana. “The reality, howeve r, is that it’s hard for every engineer to translate a question they have into a data model, sift through their tools to find the right data, and then translate data back to an insight in natural language. That’s why DevSecOps practices are lagging behind all the innovation in Observability tooling. Now with Generative AI, there will be an explosion of new software developed in a completely different way, creating even more complexity to operate and secure softwa

Welcome to the newest episode of The Cloud Pod podcast! Justin, Ryan and Matthew are your hosts this week as we discuss all the latest news and announcements in the world of the cloud and AI &#8211; including what’s new with Google Deepmind, as well as goings on over at the Finops X Conference. Join us! Titles we almost went with this week: The Cloud Pod DeepMinds bring you the Cloud News The Cloud Sounds Better When Tuned Properly The Cloud Pod Delegates Itself to Multiple Organizations The Cloud is Flush with Cash but Still Raining on Employees. 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. News this Week: 00:43 &#8211; Finops X Foundation Conference is just around the corner This is a great opportunity to meet with other Finops users and share knowledge, collaborate on Chalk Talk, and network in beautiful San Diego, CA. There will even be an awards ceremony on an aircraft carrier, and you KNOW you want to be there for that. Do you like stickers? Of course you do. Everyone likes stickers! Be on the lookout for Justin &#8211; he’ll be there! And if you ask nicely (or even just sort of nicely) he’ll give you a TCP sticker, so that right there is a great reason to attend. The conference is June 29th &#8211; 31st, and registration can be found on the Finops Foundation website. See you there! 02:51 It’s earning season. Listener discretion is advised. Let’s start with Microsoft At their earnings report on Tuesday, Microsoft is reporting $52.9 billion revenue, up 7% from the previous year. Expectations were set at $51 billion. Much of this is driven by AI (because what isn’t driven by AI these days.) Overall profits were up 9% from last year, coming in at $18.3 billion. Microsoft Azure helped with these numbers by recording a 22% increase, vs. a 34% increase seen last year. 03:51 Ryan- I’m surprised with some of the numbers, just because I wasn’t expecting &#8211; after so many years of growth &#8211; that it would continue to rise despite the economic dip.” Moving on to Google Earnings… Google earnings were recorded at $69.79 billion, which was higher than analysts expected, thanks partly due to Google cloud revenue and an increase in Youtube advertising (all of it aimed at my kid, apparently.) Google cloud (GCI) revenue came in at $7.45 billion, which was slightly lower than expectations, but the good news is that Google finally recorded a profit in their cloud computing sector! This means everyone using GCI won’t be left in the dust, since we all know Google loves to kill off anything that isn’t profitable. 05:30 Ryan- “I imagine there’s a l

Welcome to the newest episode of The Cloud Pod podcast! Justin, Ryan and Jonathan are your hosts this week as we discuss all the latest news and announcements in the world of the cloud and AI &#8211; including Amazon’s new AI, Bedrock, as well as new AI tools from other developers. We also address the new updates to AWS’s CodeWhisperer, and return to our Cloud Journey Series where we discuss *insert dramatic music* &#8211; Kubernetes! Titles we almost went with this week: I’m always Whispering to My Code as an Individual Azure gets an AI, Google gets an AI… and Amazon finally gets an AI You can now creep out your copilot by whispering to your code AI fails to generate an interesting show title 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. News this Week: AWS News @01:36 &#8211; Codewhisperer is now generally available &#8211; and includes a free tier! -Besides just the availability, this new real-time AI coding companion also includes a FREE individual tier open to all developers. This is a (good!) surprise to us. -The free tier works with many popular IDEs, including VS Code and Intellij IDEA among others. -Codewhisperer can assist in productivity by creating code for repetitive or routine tasks &#8211; Cost wise, Codewhisperer is pretty much in line with other products like GitHub Copilot. &#8211; Python, Java, Javascript, Typescript, C#, Go, Rust, PHP, Ruby, Kotlin, C, C++, Shell Scripting, SQL and Scala -The downside: security is fairly limited (Python and Java, for instance) 02:50 Jonathan: “I’m super happy that they’ve launched with so many languages supported, and so much support for different IDE’s. It’s a great launch. It’s definitely a time saver, and I’d pay the $20 a month for the service even if there wasn’t a free tier.” (But maybe we don’t say that too loudly, or the free tier will disappear…) And speaking of that free tier &#8211; 04:49 Jonathan: “I expect the reason there’s a free tier is so that they get much more data from user experiences, and can retrain the model based on people’s feedback.” 05:24 Ryan: “It’s edging us closer to code writing code.” -One of the things that is important to point out from our discussion today is that you can get a bit more for your money from Copilot, which also has a free tier for individuals. @09:10 Amazon is excited to announce the Simple Database Archival Solution -SDAS is an open source solution, available under the Apache License, and can be deployed directly from your AWS account -Do you have a problem with being able to safely archive data from your databases? According to Amazon this is a wide ranging problem for many folks, and since storing data on-premises can be extremely costly, this may be a great alternative. -It automates a lot of the logistics of archiving data and leverages Step Functions, Glue, S3 and

Welcome to the newest episode of The Cloud Pod podcast! Justin, Ryan and Matthew are your hosts this week as we discuss all the latest news and announcements in the world of the cloud and AI. Do people really love Matt’s Azure know-how? Can Google make Bard fit into literally everything they make? What’s the latest with Azure AI and their space collaborations? Let’s find out! Titles we almost went with this week: Clouds in Space, Fictional Realms of Oracles, Oh My. The cloudpod streams lambda to the cloud 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. News this Week: General News @00:57 &#8211; Interesting article &#8211; What is Open AI doing that Google Isn’t (Besides making a usable product, obviously.) -Google AI lab is separate, meaning researchers are separate from the engineers, versus Open AI where they are one combined team, which &#8211; go figure &#8211; works out better. -The article goes on to question whether Google is “losing their edge” which, as the number 3 player in the AI industry, is pretty evident. The guys discuss the two services, as well as how Bard can be crammed into every product Google makes. 02:49 Ryan: “I find it kind of fascinating that Open AI, because they were first to market, gets to dictate what AI is.” @07:01 Are you an AI developer? Are you looking to build out your own models? -Good luck. Finding the hardware to do that continues to be an issue. The Information put out an article about a shortage of servers at all the major cloud companies, including AWS, Azure, GPC, and OCI. The biggest issue is a shortage of GPUs and GPU processors, which was one of the first and main resources to have supply chain issues. Desktop computer GPUs are having less issues with supply. Some of that is thanks to the bottom falling out of the Bitcoin market (no need for mining anymore.) 07:57 Ryan &#8211; “It’s a run on a limited resource, and GPU’s &#8211; they were the first to hit supply chain issue… it’s always been sort of a scarce resource. When I first heard of GPU’s being used for machine learning and those types of workloads, there weren’t enough of them, and it wasn’t really embedded in the type of hardware you need to run in a data center. 09:07Justin &#8211; “A lot of GPU returns and GPU availability in the desktop market, which those GPU’s are better suited for doing high computational work of 3D and things that are required for getting to bitcoin… so you could use desktop GPUs but your experience won’t go as far.” Unfortunately the smart British guy isn’t here to tell us all the ins and outs of the differences between types of GPUs, so do tune in for that next week! @10:37 FinOps slack channels had some chatter in regards to the Amazon spot market pricing increases. For the past couple weeks prices have continued to grow in US East 1, US AP Southeast 1A, and European servers (which are always more expensive anyway) among others. Justin discusses his ideas for why this is the case. Surprisingly (or not surprisingly at all) most of his theoretical reasons for these prices increases are pretty cynical &#8211; but they include capacity constraints in the supply chain, Amazon limiting additional buying because they’re going into earnings, and (most

AWS Puts Up a New VPC Lattice to Ease the Growth of Your Connectivity AKA Welcome to April (how is it April already?) This week, Justin, Jonathan, and Matt are your guides through all the latest and greatest in Cloud news; including VPC Lattice from AWS, the one and only time we’ll talk about Service Catalog, and an ultra premium DDoS experience. All this week on The Cloud Pod. This week’s alternate title(s): AWS Finally makes service catalogs good with Terraform Amazon continues to believe retailers with supply chain will give all their data to them Azure copies your data from S3… AWS copies your data from Azure Blobs… or how I set money on fire with data egress charges News this Week: AWS @00:56 &#8211; Lots from AWS – Terraform and Service Catalog, Supply Chain and its crazy pricing, and VPC Lattice &#8211;Self-service provisioning of Terraform open source configured with AWS Service Catalog. This means you can define your service catalog resources with either cloud formation *or* Terraform. And yes, Service Catalog inception is potentially a viable thing. Matt: “It’s useful when you want to give people who don’t know what they’re doing very specific things; if you’re in a large organization, really just defining exactly what people can do…but to me it really starts to remove a lot of the innovation… but if you really want your teams to leverage the cloud and innovate I feel like it does start to limit some of the different aspects of the cloud.” Justin: “Don’t drink the ITSM kool-aid on Service Catalog.” @ 04:32 &#8211; AWS Supply Chain is now generally available; and yes, this is the same Supply Chain that was introduced at re:Invent. AWS says it will help mitigate risks, lower costs, increase visibility and help give actual insights on the supply chain. -Honestly, we’re talking about Supply Chain because the pricing is all over the place. For example, the first 100,000 Supply Chain insights are .40/each; the next 900,000 are .13/each, and over 900,000 its .065/each. @ 09:26 &#8211; VPC Lattice is finally here! Also announced at re:Invent, this gives you the ability to connect, secure, &amp; monitor communications between services. It also gives the ability to refine policies for both traffic management and network access. -Since the announcement, a few new capabilities have been added, including the ability to use custom domains, deploy open source AWS gateway API controllers to use Lattice with a Kubernetes-native experience, as well as giving the ability to configure SSL/TLS certificates when using HTTPS that matches the custom domain. You can also: use the Kubernetes gateway API to connect services across multiple clusters use an ALB or an NLB as a target for service support IPv6 connectivity with IP address target type -be confused by pricing Justin: “Their examples of Lattice pricing hurts my brain just a little bit.” @ 13:36 &#8211; Guard Duty now supports Amazon EKS Runtime monitoring, which lets you detect Runtime threats from over 30 security findings via an EKS add on, which gives increased visibility on individual container Runtime activity. Guard Duty can tell you which potenti