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The Cloud Pod

Drowning in a sea of cloud innovations, AI breakthroughs, and shifting tooling ecosystems? The Cloud Pod is your lifeline! Join cloud veterans Justin, Jonathan, Ryan, and Matt as they decode the rapidly evolving world of public, hybrid, multi-cloud, and private cloud environments.
Every week, our expert hosts dissect the latest cloud-native architectures, emerging AI capabilities, and game-changing DevOps tooling that’s reshaping the industry. From Kubernetes deep dives to AI integration strategies, and from Infrastructure-as-Code toolchains to serverless frameworks – nothing escapes their expert analysis.
Whether you’re wrestling with container orchestration, exploring AI service meshes, or navigating the complex world of cloud governance tools, The Cloud Pod transforms overwhelming technical noise into clear, actionable intelligence.
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Latest Episodes:

108: The Cloud Pod moves forward without JEDI Mar 11, 2021

Show notes

On The Cloud Pod this week, Jonathan’s brain is a little scrambled and he can’t remember when he last went out for dinner even though it was with Justin on Tuesday.

A big thanks to this week’s sponsors:

Foghorn Consulting, which provides full-stack cloud solutions with a focus on strategy, planning and execution for enterprises seeking to take advantage of the transformative capabilities of AWS, Google Cloud and Azure.

This week’s highlights

The honey pot might be about to dry up for Microsoft’s lawyers.
If you need a headache to get out of dinner with the in-laws, read this.
Google has finally started listening to the sage advice from The Cloud Pod.

General News: Burn, Baby, Burn

Okta says it’s buying security rival Auth0 for $6.5 billion, sending its stock plunging. The company’s not telling us its plan so don’t panic just yet.
OVH data center burns down knocking major sites offline. Brutal.

JEDI: Things Are Not Going Well

With a $10 billion cloud-computing deal snarled in court, the Pentagon may move forward without it. We can’t wait to see what this has cost taxpayers.

Amazon Web Services: Bottom Of The Barrel

AWS Lambda has received four new trusted advisor checks. This is a real advantage!
AWS Secrets manager now lets you replicate secrets across multiple AWS regions. This makes our brains hurt.

Google Cloud Platform: Just Listen To The Cloud Pod

Introducing Apache Spark Structured Streaming connector for Pub/Sub Lite. Easy tools to make life easier!
Google’s Cloud Healthcare Consent Management API is now generally available. Could be a Trojan horse.
Save the date for Google Cloud Next ‘21: October 12–14, 2021. Thank you, Jesus, it’s not nine weeks long!
Managing cloud firewalls at scale with new Hierarchical Firewall Policies. This is a terrible name.

Azure: Hot Po

Episode 104: The Cloud Pod gets Introspection Capabilities Feb 12, 2021

Show notes

On The Cloud Pod this week, The Team are on the brink and three more months of the pandemic will likely push the podcast over the edge into an abyss of garble that no one can understand.

A big thanks to this week’s sponsors:

Foghorn Consulting, which provides full-stack cloud solutions with a focus on strategy, planning and execution for enterprises seeking to take advantage of the transformative capabilities of AWS, Google Cloud and Azure.

Open Raven, the cloud native data protection platform that automates policy monitoring and enforcement. Auto-discover, classify, monitor and protect your sensitive data.

This week’s highlights

Amazon has a gender reveal party and introduces its latest bundle of joy.
Google is eating croissants for breakfast.
Azure is dangling a pair of juicy fruits in front of us.

Follow Up: The Mad Men Are Back

Amazon announces its “Other” business segment, which consists mostly of its advertising business, has surpassed its “subscription services” segment. There’s speculation that Andy Jassy might split Amazon’s advertising business out once he becomes CEO.

General News: Rolls Right Off The Tongue

Vantage, an AWS Console alternative, has acquired ec2instances.info. They better not mess it up!

Amazon Web Services: Undoing Your Hard Work

New Amazon Elastic Block Store Local Snapshots on AWS Outposts makes it easier to meet data residency and local backup requirements. It’s like playing a video game and building up your weapons, only to start from scratch when you move regions.
Amazon introduces CloudFront Security Savings Bundle. We appreciate the savings, but not sure about the bundle.

Google Cloud Platform: Our Buzzword Bingo Is On Point

Google launches improved troubleshooting with Cloud Spanner introspection capabilities. We love these types of tools, except if they’re on SQL Server.
Google launches Apigee X to help enterprises manage their digital transformation assets. What is it with X? What happened to 8 and 9?
Google introduces real-time data integration for BigQuery with Cloud Data Fusion. For

Episode 94: The Cloud Pod No Code Required Nov 11, 2020

Show notes

This week on The Cloud Pod, the team is getting ready to share their predictions for re:Invent, and that may or may not involve greasing the palms of some Amazon employees.

A big thanks to this week’s sponsors:

Foghorn Consulting, which provides full-stack cloud solutions with a focus on strategy, planning and execution for enterprises seeking to take advantage of the transformative capabilities of AWS, Google Cloud and Azure.

Cloud Academy, which provides an intuitive and scalable training platform to meet teams wherever they are along the cloud maturity curve. Use the code THECLOUDPOD for 50% off its training platform.

This week’s highlights

Amazon is becoming a connoisseur of international cuisine with its new region.
Google is borderline nefarious in the scientific community.
Azure adds a long overdue feature.

Amazon Web Services: Spicing Things Up

AWS announces the new Hyderabad region in India will open in mid-2022. We’re surprised at how long this took to happen.
AWS launches managed messaging service Amazon MQ for Rabbit MQ. Only took three years of Justin whinging.
Amazon now allows customers to proactively manage the EC2 Spot instance lifecycle using the new capacity rebalancing feature. Not sure this needed a whole blog about it.
AWS announces AWS Gateway Load Balancing for easy deployment, scalability and high availability for Partner Appliances in the cloud. Thanks for helping us out, Amazon!
AWS makes it easier to export DynamoDB table data to S3 with no code writing required. At lots less Lamda spackle, we like it.
AWS announces a full set of features across the storage family as part of AWS Storage Day 2020. Buckets, buckets and more buckets.

Google Cloud Platform: Doing What It Does Best

Google Cloud SQL now supports Postgres 13. Next up, Google announces deprecation of Postgres 13… Just kidding.
GCP launches a unified console for document processing with Document AI platform. For anyone who hates data en

Episode 75: The Cloud Pod Deletes Everything (But Keeps Copies) Jun 10, 2020

Show notes

Your co-hosts announce parity with the leading cloud-computing podcast hosts on this week’s episode of The Cloud Pod.

A big thanks to this week’s sponsor:

Foghorn Consulting, which provides full-stack cloud solutions with a focus on strategy, planning and execution for enterprises seeking to take advantage of the transformative capabilities of AWS, Google Cloud and Azure.

This week’s highlights

Amazon is suing their former vice president of marketing.
AWS introduces new instances.
Google pulls the perfect hat-trick and celebrates parity with AWS three times.

General News: What? Amazon is Litigious? No…

Amazon is suing their former vice president of marketing Brian Hall over the breach of his non-compete agreement after taking a position with Google Cloud. We will see whether Amazon’s inconsistent enforcement of their non-compete agreements will give Hall a win in court.
Slack is partnering with AWS, integrating Slack Calls with Amazon Chime. For an interview with Chime GM Sid Rao, check out friend of the show Corey Quinn’s podcast Screaming in the Cloud.
Rackspace rebranded this week to “Rackspace Technology.” This shift mirrors their move from selling equipment to selling services.

AWS: Instant Hits

AWS launched new EC2 instances, this time bumping up to second generation AMD EPYC processors. Well, it’s cheaper than the Intel counterpart.
EC2 G4dn bare metal instances are now available with up to eight NVIDIA T4 GPUs. You’ve got to be working on some seriously cool machine learning projects to need something this expensive.
You can now find the machine-learning powered anomaly detection feature and interactive

TCP Talks with Ben Kehoe Serverless Hero – Episode 3 Mar 11, 2020

Show notes

One of the most exciting cloud computing technologies of the last few years is Serverless computing, whether it be via AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, GCP functions or technologies like K-Native. This week Jonathan and Justin talk to Ben Kehoe Chief Roboticist at iRobot and AWS Serverless hero. We ask Ben the burning questions about Serverless Computing, robotics, AWS and more! Listen today.

The Cloud Pod goes to Mars – Episode 59 Feb 12, 2020

Show notes

Peter’s returned from his trip to Asia and the band’s back together on this episode of The Cloud Pod.

A big thanks to this week’s sponsors:

Foghorn Consulting, which provides full-stack cloud solutions with a focus on strategy, planning and execution for enterprises seeking to take advantage of the transformative capabilities of AWS, Google Cloud and Azure.
Blue Medora, which offers pioneering IT monitoring integration as a service to address today’s IT challenges by easily connecting system health and performance data — no matter its source — with the world’s leading monitoring and analytics platforms.

This week’s highlights

Registration for Amazon Re:Mars 2020 is now open! Academics can use code ACAD20REMARS for a discount.
Google releases several new tools for building and managing data pipelines.
We tried out a new format for our lightning round!

Amazon Web Services: To Infinity and Beyond

Registration is open for the Amazon Re:Mars 2020 robotics and technology conference running June 16-19 in Las Vegas. Tickets cost $1,999, but astronauts get in free! Academics and students registering with a .edu email address can use the discount code ACAD20REMARS if a couple grand is too pricey.

AWS Sync Routes is available on the AWS Open Source blog to allow you to synchronize routes across tables. If you’ve got only a few VPCs, you might have the right use case for this.

AWS CodeDeploy’s blue/green deployments for Amazon ECS now include “linear and canary deployments.” Hidden in that announcement is the implication that they seem to have invented linear deployments.

You can now use a full-screen narrative editor with a preview mode thanks to enhancements to Amazon QuickSight. You can also add static and dynamic URLs within those narratives.

If you’re a Well-Architected Framework practitioner, the new Serverless Lens for AWS Well-Architected Tool may improve your architecture assessments.

If you (somehow) have a workload that can tolerate lost events, the Multi-Region Asynchronous Object Replication Solution may be for you. We’ll hope for a global bucket option to replace this down the line with something more elegant.

Azure’s S

The Cloud Pod Goes Quantum – Ep 39 Sep 10, 2019

Show notes

Episode 39: Recorded on September 10th, 2019. Show Title: The Cloud Pod goes Quantum

This week AWS releases the Quantum Ledger Database, Google gets shielded GKE nodes and Microsoft gets a new shiny datacenter in Germany

Sponsors:

Foghorn Consulting – fogops.io/thecloudpod

Follow Up

Slack stock plunges on bigger-than-expected loss forecast

Topics

AWS

Google

Azure

Episode 18: It’s a Google Next, Next Level Recap Apr 11, 2019

Show notes

Google Next has wrapped up in San Francisco and we break down the announcements, talk about Google’s enterprise play, and more. Special guest Ryan Lucas @ryron01 #googlenext19 #thecloudpod #gcp

Sponsors

Foghorn Consulting: fogops.io/thecloudpod Audible: audibletrial.com/thecloudpod

Episode 14: Elizabeth Warren votes to break up the cloud pod Mar 12, 2019

Show notes

This week Matt Adorjan (@mda590) joins us to talk about AWS’s open distro for ElasticSearch, Breaking up big tech, and F5 acquiring Nginx. Plus the lightning round and Cool Tools with Jonathan.

Thanks to our sponsors!

Foghorn Consulting: fogops.io/thecloudpod Audible: audibletrial.com/thecloudpod

Show Topics

How does your cloud storage grow? With a scalable plan and a price drop

Azure Premium Blob storage now in public preview

Simply Enterprise Threat Detection and Protection with Google Cloud Security Services

Elizabeth Warren bold plan to break up big tech

Azure Devops Server 2019 now available

AWS Announces Open Distro for Elastic Search

Adrian Cockcroft publishes blog on keeping open source open

Elastic.Co Response to open distros open source

F5 Acquires NGINX

Lightning Round

AWS Performance Insights is now GA for SQL Server

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/03/performance-insights-is-generally-available-for-sql-server/

AWS SSM on-Premise now handles large hybrid environments (Previously less than 1000 instances)

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/03/AWS_Systems_Manager_on-premises_instance_management_for_large_hybrid_environments/

AWS Coretto 11 is now available as a release candidate

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/03/amazon-corretto-11-is-now-available-as-a-release-candidate/

AWS Step functions adds tag based permissions

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/03/aws-step-functions-adds-tag-based-permissions/

New AWS Direct Connect Console

Episode 10: The podcast no longer requires credit cards Feb 12, 2019

Show notes

Episode 10

Peter returns from his vacation, Major Docker security vulnerability, Azure gets FHIR and the Warriors choose a public cloud partner. Plus the lightning round!

Sponsors

Foghorn Consulting: fogops.io/thecloudpod Audible: audibletrial.com/thecloudpod

Topics

CVE-2019-5736 Docker RunC vulnerability –

Vulnerability – https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2019/q1/119
AWS – https://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/AWS-2019-002/
Google – https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/security-bulletins
Azure – https://github.com/Azure/AKS/releases/tag/2019-02-12

Azure Account Failover now in Public preview – https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/account-failover-now-in-public-preview-for-azure-storage/

Google Cloud now provides bigquery sandbox without credit card – https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/query-without-a-credit-card-introducing-bigquery-sandbox

Azure API for FHIR – https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/lighting-up-healthcare-data-with-fhir-announcing-the-azure-api-for-fhir/

MSFT Healthcare Bot brings Conversational AI to healthcare – https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-healthcare-bot-brings-conversational-ai-to-healthcare/

Azure announcing updates and GA for 3 Azure Data Services – https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/individually-great-collectively-unmatched-announcing-updates-to-3-great-azure-data-services/

Golden State Warriors Chase Center names Google Cloud as their public cloud provider- http://www.sportspromedia.com/news/golden-state-warriors-chase-center-google-cloud

Build Containers faster with Cloud build with Kaniko – https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/application-development/build-containers-faster-with-cloud-build-with-kaniko

Jib 1.0 released by Google Compute to simplify Java Docker Containers – https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/application-development/jib-1-0-0-is-ga-building-java-docker-images-has-never-been-easier

Amazon acquires Eeero –

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