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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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117: Justin is out, Peter’s distracted by his parents, Jonathan is just British and Ryan is probably tipsy…. But we had one job and we’re recording! Nov 19, 2025

Show notes

This week on The Cloud Pod, Justin is away so the rest of the team has taken the opportunity to throw him under the bus.

A big thanks to this week’s sponsors:

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

This week’s highlights

The Pentagon has had enough of the kids fighting so no one gets the toy.
Amazon has given developers the happy ending they’ve always wanted.
Google is playing with fire and hopes no one gets burnt.

JEDI: Play Nice

Pentagon officials are considering pulling the plug on the star-crossed JEDI cloud-computing project. Reminds us of when we were kids and our parents took toys away when we couldn’t play nice together.

Amazon Web Services: We’ve Made All the Money

AWS announces a price reduction for Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus. That’s an awful lot of samples.
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) announces pricing change for VPC Peering. Just get rid of the ridiculous data transfer fees!
AWS Organizations launches a new console experience. We’re excited to try this out!
AWS announces IAM Access Control for Apache Kafka on Amazon MSK. This is great.
AWS Systems Manager now includes Incident Manager to resolve IT incidents faster. This might initially fall short of some of the other offerings on the market.
AWS Local Zones are now open in Boston, Miami and Houston. They’re continuing on the Oracle model of racks in random garages.
Amazon now lets you create Microsoft SQL Server Instances of Amazon RDS on AWS Outposts. A big hooray for people using Outposts.

Google Cloud Platform: Smells A Bit

Google announces Agent Assist for Chat is now in Preview. Hopefully this is better than predictive

115: The Cloud Pod gets to the root of it Nov 19, 2025

Show notes

Justin and Jonathan kick off this week’s episode of The Cloud Pod by themselves, Peter joins the party late because he’s been fighting dinosaurs and Ryan is unable to attend as he can’t move from under the weight of the kitten on his lap.

A big thanks to this week’s sponsors:

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

This week’s highlights

Amazon will find any excuse to use GIFs just like the rest of us.
Google has given Cardi B a headstart on a theme song for its new product.
Azure sent the wedding invites out late but still expects you to show up.

Amazon Web Services: Cheaper Than Healthcare

Amazon RDS on VMWare no longer requires the use of a VPN tunnel back to AWS. Still cheaper than paying for healthcare.
Amazon Elasticsearch Service announces support for Asynchronous Search. This is really cool!
Amazon EC2 now allows you to replace the root volume for a running instance. There are some great use cases for this.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux with High Availability is now available on Amazon EC2. Good to see IBM isn’t throwing up barriers.
AWS is releasing the new Amazon FSx File Gateway. Hopefully this is easy to implement.
AWS announces moving graphs for CloudWatch Dashboards. Also known as GIFs for CloudWatch.

Google Cloud Platform: Closet Fans of Cardi B

Google announces PHP, a general purpose programming language, is now on Cloud Functions. Visit thecloudpod.net to see a live example of PHP, also known as the WordPress platform we built our website on.
GCP is launching Web App and API Protection (WAAP), which provides comprehensive threat protection for web apps and APIs. Do not confuse this with the Cardi B song.
Google has made the Doc AI

TCP Talks: Cloud Wisdom with Bart Castle Nov 19, 2025

Show notes

In this TCP Talks episode, Justin Brodley and Jonathan Baker talk with Bart Castle, an AWS and cloud computing trainer and media personality. Bart works with IT training company CBT Nuggets and also does cloud-migration consulting projects.

Bart shares the patterns he seems based on training demand and also advises how to decide which certification to go for next. He discusses the importance of solving business problems that will help achieve the business’ goals while retooling and transforming systems.

“At this point in my career, every technical conversation that I have is always paired up with a business value conversation,” he notes.

But how should a data team shift focus to better solve business problems? He suggests looking for patterns. Uncovering patterns can help determine actionable steps to maximize efficiency and enable new business opportunities.

Bart also discusses cloud computing trends, CloudFormation stacking, hybrid deployments, and containers.

Featured Guest

Name: Bart Castle
What he does: Bart is a cloud computing and AWS expert and technical trainer, as well as a consultant.
Key quote: “In the end, we’re still looking for those tools that will bridge gaps. This is why, for me, being an integrations professional and getting what integration means is skill number one across all different arenas. Everywhere you look, it’s an integration problem.”
Where to find him: LinkedIn | Twitter | YouTube

Key Takeaways

When thinking about all the different training options, Bart suggests pursuing the certification that would help you land a specific job or role. If you’re not sure what your next job might be, look at SysOps administration first since it is closest to traditional network help desk operations support roles.
Based on his training background, Bart sees a rising interest in network automation. Many teams are working with various vendors to address networking and connectivity and to make the transition from command line administration to Python automation.

“A lot of what I’m seeing here is the switch from real deep specialty to real broad generalization, and that can be an overwhelming bite to take when you look at how much information there is to consume,” says Bart.

Learning how the tools work is the easy part, but you have to dig deeper to make it work for your specific business use case. Bart recommends looking for white papers, as well as case studies and blog posts. Communities (like TCP!) can also point you in the right direction.

Bart says, “Once you get those examples of how a piece of input data with the right transformation with this pairing of reporting can solve this problem — now, you’re putting tools in your belt that are going beyond just using the tools, and how to actually solve business problems with them.”

Here’s what was mentioned in the episode

CBT Nuggets: provides in-demand training, primarily in IT, project management, and office productivity topics.

Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3): a cloud object storage service.

“What is DevOps?“: an AWS blog explaining the DevOps

Episode 77 – The Cloud Pod Enjoys a Snowcone Nov 19, 2025

Show notes

Your hosts see a new cloud on the horizon and anticipate a flood 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

HashiCorp enters the ring with HashiCorp Cloud Platform.
Microsoft offers free AI classes.
Bayer Crop Sciences pushes cluster size to new heights.

General News: A Challenger Approaches

HashiCorp has launched the HashiCorp Cloud Platform featuring managed Consul as the single initial service. HashiCorp is currently soliciting feedback on the alpha version of HashiCorp Cloud Platform and is planning on releasing Vault next.

AWS: Let it Snow

The AWS Snow family of devices is now joined by AWS Snowcone, a four-and-a-half pound eight terabyte data storage and transfer device, both the most storage and least weight yet. Don’t lose it though — this little guy runs around $2,000.
Aurora Global database now supports write request forwarding for low latency global data reads. This is fantastic news for lazy devs like us.
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Groups now support the Instance Refresh feature, eliminating the need for custom scripts and systems. This is a long-anticipated feature for TCP. We can’t believe it’s taken until 2020!
The new Lambda Powertools library within the Serverless Lens for the Well Architected Framework features Tracer, Logger and Metrics as its three core utilities. Using these tools to get yourself set up will save you a lot of strife down the line.

Azure: An ‘Udacious’ Plan

Azure and Udacity are partnering to launch a scholarship program and the free Azure Machine Learning course to address the growing demand for AI specialists. We’ve had good experiences with Udacity so this offering appeals directly to us.
Azure is catering to users new to ARM templates with new features including a template Quickstart gallery and Azure Resource Manager Tools in Visual Studio Code. How did we ever get by without this?

Google: Seeds and Nodes

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TCP-Talks: The unknown unknowns of cloud security with Josh Stella from Fugue.co Nov 19, 2025

Show notes

Josh Stella (twitter: @joshstella) joins us to talk about the state of cloud security. We discuss Fugue’s new report, the complexity and challenges of IAM, and the most common cloud misconfiguration aren’t always the ones you would expect.

Fugue ensures cloud infrastructure stays in continuous compliance with enterprise security policies. Our solution identifies cloud infrastructure security risks and compliance violations and ensures that they are never repeated. Fugue provides baseline drift detection and automated remediation to eliminate data breaches, and powerful visualization and reporting tools to easily demonstrate compliance.

TCP Talks: Knative in Action! with Jacques Chester – Ep4 Nov 19, 2025

Show notes

Jacques Chester author of Knative In Action and Principal engineer at Pivotal joins us to educate us on Knative. Knative is an open-source tool to run functions as a service on top of Kubernetes and is gaining popularity in Kubernetes deployments. Learn all about Knative, Kubernetes maturity, Googles involvement in Knative, and more.

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