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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:

RSA: The Silence of the Clouds – Episode 61 Nov 19, 2025

Show notes

Your hosts talk about AWS Lambda, Azure’s Cybersecurity of Things and Google’s loquacious AI on this week’s 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

AWS Lambda sees savings and supports Dart.
Your kitchen appliances are safer with developments in the Internet of Things.
It’s the last week of our trial of the new Lightning Round format. Comedy’s hard.

TCP News

ICYMI, check out our second episode of TCP Talks: Finops in the cloud with Rob Martin. We learned some things about financial operations, and we’re sure you will too.

AWS Lambda Updates

AWS Compute Savings Plans now apply to your AWS Lambda workloads. That’s nice, but even a decent percentage of such a cheap service probably won’t impact your expenses all that much. In addition, those Lambda workloads now support Dart, an open-source programming language made by Google. If you’re making mobile apps, you’ll be happy to use this. If you’re not making mobile apps, you probably didn’t need to read this paragraph.

AWS Identity and Access Management now allows you to control access for requests made on your behalf by AWS services. It’s a great security feature. We’re looking forward to AWS taking this a step further at this year’s re:Inforce conference.

Amazon Elastic Container Service now supports previous Secrets Manager versions and can read keys directly from JSON objects. It’s going to be much more convenient now that you can use one key instead of, say, 10.

AWS Chief Evangelist Jeff Barr outlined a laundry list of updates to Amazon FSx for Lustre in this blog post. All these changes add up to SageMaker integration, to make SageMaker more attractive to customers.

Spherical Things

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This Episode is EPYC! Nov 19, 2025

Show notes

We follow continuing stories with the JEDI contract, GigaOM and our new Lightning Round format on this week’s 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

Amazon makes progress contesting the JEDI contract.
AWS and Azure introduce shared cloud block storage.
Google shows signs of shifting priorities.

Arrested Development

United States judge Patricia Campbell-Smith has granted Amazon’s request to temporarily halt work on the JEDI contract by Microsoft. She also ordered Amazon to post $42 million in the event the injunction was issued wrongfully.

AWS Not First to Share Blocks

CloudFormation StackSets users can now manage multiple AWS accounts. We recommend you get your organizational units structured properly now so you’re ready for when that must-have feature for your organization is added.

AWS customers running Linux on Ec2 can now attach provisioned IOPS (io1) EBS volumes to Multiple Ec2 instances. Be careful though: wielding fine control over your data means taking responsibility for your data losses, as well. This news comes a day after Azure announced their own Azure Shared Disks, which was, for those sweet brief hours before AWS’s announcement, the industry’s only shared cloud block storage.

What’s in the Box?

Azure released a new GigaOM study which backs up the findings from the GigaOM study we covered on episode 58. How incredible — Azure, which paid for the scientific (and unverifiable) study, was found to be the best at everything once again!

The Azure Backup service now offers a preview of the

TCP Talks: Finops in the cloud with Rob Martin – Bonus Ep 2 Nov 19, 2025

Show notes

The most terrifying part of moving to the cloud isn’t security, migration techniques or learning new infrastructure as code tools, it is managing that pesky cloud bill. To some CFO’s it might even be downright terrifying. Join Jonathan and Justin as they talk about all things FinOps with Rob Martin from Apptio (formerly Cloudability) where they discuss cost management techniques, getting help via the Finops Foundation and more.

A big thanks to TCP-Talks 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.

TCP Talks: Bring Order to your Monitoring with Mike Kelly – Bonus Ep1 Nov 19, 2025

Show notes

Justin Brodley and Jonathan Baker kick off our new TCP Talks bonus episodes with a chat with Mike Kelly, CTO at Blue Medora. Monitoring can be hard on-premises or in the cloud. As a result, it can be downright scary with multi-cloud strategies, hybrid cloud, and legacy tools. Bring order chaos, by centralizing the management of metrics and logs. From solving out of disk space alerts to building observability techniques, Stackdriver and Bindplane can help. Adopting these practices and principals will help your Observability and SRE teams in the cloud.

Episode 26: The Cloud Pod Goes Event Driven Nov 19, 2025

Show notes

Peter is back after a few weeks away from the show. Azure launches new Event Grid features, Palo Alto Networks picks up Twistlock and Puresec and Google has a really bad day. Plus the amazing lightning round with Peter.

Sponsors:

Foghorn Consulting – https://fogops.io/thecloudpod

Topics:

Lightning Round (Jonathan 6, Justin 9, Peter 1 and Guest 3):

Episode 5 – The Cloud Pod now 50% cheaper Nov 19, 2025

Show notes

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Lightning Round

Cool Tools

Sponsors

Foghorn Consulting – https://www.fogops.io/thecloudpod
Last week in AWS – https://www.lastweekinaws.com
Audible – http://www.audibletrial.com/thecloudpod

Episode 1 – What happens in las vegas makes my liver hurt Nov 19, 2025

Show notes

Enjoy our recap of AWS Re:Invent 2018

Topics:

Announcements Pre-Reinvent
Monday-Tuedsay - Recap
Andy Jassy - Recap
Werner Vogels - Recap

Sponsors:

Foghorn Consulting - www.fogops.io - Your leading AWS premier partner helping companies move to the cloudLastweek in AWS - www.lastweekinaws.com - Your weekly dose of AWS Snark and announcements.

124: The Cloud Pod now with millions of bugs Jul 01, 2021

Show notes

On The Cloud Pod this week, with the first half of the year full of less-than-ideal events, the team is looking forward to another next six months of less-than-ideal events. Also, everyone is excited to see how they can manipulate the AWS BugBust Challenge for a free ticket to re:Invent.

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.

JumpCloud, which offers a complete platform for identity, access, and device management — no matter where your users and devices are located.

This week’s highlights

AWS launches the BugBust Challenge in the hopes of finding and fixing 1 million bugs. The challenge aims to help developers improve code quality, eliminate bugs and boost application performance while saving millions of dollars in application resource costs.
Google has announced new features for Cloud Monitoring Grafana plugins. The new features include popular dashboard samples, more effective troubleshooting with deep links, better visualizations through precalculated metrics and more powerful analysis capabilities.
Azure VM Image Builder service is now generally available. Image Builder will make it easier to build custom Linux or Windows virtual machine images.

Amazon Web Services: Does Not Have Bugs

AWS announces the world’s first global competition to find and fix 1 million software bugs. We don’t think they’re referring to Amazon bugs, just software bugs in general.
AWS launches customized images for Amazon EMR on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service. If you’re looking to reduce the time it takes to build images, that’s a good thing: otherwise it’s a fully managed service, so we’re not sure that users will care.
Amazon announces new Java Detectors and CI/CD Integration with GitHub Actions for CodeGuru Reviewer. We’re amazed by how quickly GitHub Actions is being adopted.
AWS acquires communication technology company Wickr. We want to know why Amazon is buying this: maybe they’re trying to enhance their enterprise and public sector application suites.
AWS now supports container images to simplify

111: The Cloud Pod now available at 9600 bps, 8 bits and 1 stop bit Apr 01, 2021

Show notes

On The Cloud Pod this week, the team is feeling nostalgic and a little nerdy, as you can see from the show title — a throwback to Serial Console and its ability to add a ton of characters when you didn’t want it to.

A big thanks to this week’s sponsors:

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

This week’s highlights

Amazon should be singing a different tune.
Google has astonished us all by actually sharing something interesting.
Azure is the strict school principal that just canceled lunch.

General News: Justin Said It First

VentureBeat predicts industry clouds could be the next big thing. Justin will take the royalties check anytime, VentureBeat.

Amazon Web Services: Please Don’t Keep It To Yourself

Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS is now generally available. Surprising because we don’t remember it going into beta.
AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry adds StatsD and Java support. We’re glad to see the continued investment in OpenTelemetry.
AWS DevOps Monitoring Dashboard solution is now generally available. The solutions library is a Rube Goldberg machine.
Amazon Lookout for Metrics is now generally available — perfect for Ryan, who has no machine learning experience.
Amazon Elasticsearch Service announces a new Auto-Tune feature for improved performance and application availability. We wish Amazon would open source this.
AWS SSO credential profile support is now available in the AWS Toolkit for VS Code. Thank you, Jesus.
Amazon is developing a chip to power the hardware switches that shuttle data around networks. Apparently Google and Apple are also doing this.
Troubleshoot boot and networking issues with new EC2 Serial Console. Must be useful for someone,

Episode 12: Spotinst has yet to announce partnership with the cloud pod Mar 01, 2019

Show notes

Episode 12

This week we talk about Athena Workgroups, Spotinst AWS partnership, Spatial Anchors in Azure and Microsoft and Google handle several employee issues.

Sponsors:

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

Show Topics

Athena now supports Workgroups to segment/isolated data

Azure has GA’s several new features to create more reliable event driven applications in Azure

Spotinst Announces partnership with AWS

Google Rethinks Federated Identity with Continuous Access evaluation protocol

Next 19 Qwiklabs Challenge

Azure Announces Spatial anchors for collaboration and mixed reality apps

Microsoft Workers protest army contract

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says company will not walk away from contract

Google ends forced Arbitration for Employees –

Lightning Round

EFS now supports tag on create – https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/02/amazon-efs-now-supports-tag-on-create/

AWS Code commit now supports programmatic creations of commits – https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/02/aws-codecommit-supports-programmatic-creation-of-commits-contain/

Performance Insights now supports counter metrics for RDS Postgres, RDS Mysql and Aurora Mysql – https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/02/Performance-Insights-Counter-Metrics-MS-PG-AMS/

Amazon Ec2 Fleets now let you increase target capacity limits – https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/02/amazon-EC2-fleet-now-lets-you-increase-the-fleets-target-capacity-limits/

Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager adds support for shorter backup intervals –

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