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329: Azure Front Door: Please Use the Side Entrance Nov 04, 2025

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Welcome to episode 329 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Matt, Jonathan, and special guest Elise are in the studio to bring you all the latest in AI and cloud news, including – you guessed it – more outages, and more OpenAI team-ups. We’ve also got GPUs, K8 news, and Cursor updates. Let’s get started!

Titles we almost went with this week

Azure Front Door: Please Use the Side Entrance – el -jb
Azure and NVIDIA: A Match Made in GPU Heaven – mk
Azure Goes Down Under the Weight of Its Own Configuration – el
GitHub Turns Your Copilot Subscription Into an All-You-Can-Eat Agent Buffet – mk, el
Microsoft Goes Full Blackwell: No Regrets, Just GPUs
Jules Verne Would Be Proud: Google’s CLI Goes 20,000 Bugs Under the Codebase
RAG to Riches: AWS Makes Retrieval Augmented Generation Turnkey
Kubectl Gets a Gemini Twin: Google Teaches AI to Speak Kubernetes
I’m Not a Robot: Azure WAF Finally Learns to Ask the Important Questions
OpenAI Puts 38 Billion Eggs in Amazon’s Basket: Multi-Cloud Gets Complicated
The Root Cause They’ll Never Root Out: Why Attrition Stays Off the RCA
Google’s New Extension Lets You Deploy Kubernetes by Just Asking Nicely
Cursor 2.0: Now With More Agents Than a Hollywood Talent Agency

Follow Up

04:46 Massive Azure outage is over, but problems linger – here’s what happened | ZDNET

Azure experienced a global outage on October 29, affecting all regions simultaneously, unlike the recent AWS outage that was limited to a single region.
The incident lasted approximately eight hours from noon to 8 PM ET, impacting major services including Microsoft 365, Teams, Xbox Live, and critical infrastructure for Alaska Airlines, Vodafone UK, and Heathrow Airport, among others.
The root cause was an inadvertent tenant configuration change in Azure Front Door that bypassed safety validations due to a software defect. Microsoft’s protection mechanisms failed to catch the erroneous deployment, allowing invalid configurations to propagate across the global fleet and cause HTTP timeouts, server errors, and elevated packet loss at network edges.
Recovery required rolling back to the last known good configuration and gradually rebalancing traffic across nodes to prevent overload conditions.
Some customers experienced lingering issues even after the official recovery time, with Microsoft temporarily blocking configuration changes to Azure Front D

328: Shhh… It’s a Secret Region! Oct 28, 2025

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Welcome to episode 328 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Ryan, and Matt are on board today to bring you all the latest news in cloud and AI, including secret regions (this one has the aliens), ongoing discussions between Microsoft and OpenAI, and updates to Nova, SQL, and OneLake -and even the latest installment of Cloud Journeys. Let’s get started!

Titles we almost went with this week

CloudWatch’s New Feature: Because Nobody Likes Writing Incident Reports at 3 AM
DNS: Did Not Survive – The Great US-EAST-1 Outage of 2025
404 DevOps Not Found: The AWS Automation Adventure mk
When Your DevOps Team Gets Replaced by AI and Then Everything Crashes
Database Migrations Get the ChatGPT Treatment: Just Vibe Your Schema Changes
AWS DevOps Team Gets the AI Treatment: 40% Fewer Humans, 100% More Questions
Breaking Up is Hard to Compute: Microsoft and OpenAI Redefine Their Relationship
AWS Goes Full Scope: Now Tracking Your Cloud’s Carbon from Cradle to Gate
Platform Engineering: When Your Golden Path Leads to a Dead End
DynamoDB’s DNS Disaster: How a Race Condition Raced Through AWS
AI Takes Over AWS DevOps Jobs, Servers Take Unscheduled Vacation
PostgreSQL Scaling Gets a 30-Second Makeover While AWS Takes a Coffee Break
The Domino Effect: When DynamoDB Drops, Everything Drops
RAG to Riches: Amazon Nova Learns to Cite Its Sources
AWS Finally Tells You When Your EC2 Instance Can’t Keep Up With Your Storage Ambitions
AWS Nova Gets Grounded: No More Hallucinating About Reality
One API to Rule Them All: OneLake’s Storage Compatibility Play
OpenAI gets to pay Alimony
Database schema deployments are totally a vibe
AWS will tell you how not green you are today, now in 3 scopes

General News

02:00 DDoS in September | Fastly

Fastly‘s September DDoS report reveals a notable 15.5 million requests per second attack that lasted over an hour, demonstrating how modern application-layer attacks can sustain extreme throughput with real HTTP requests rather than simple pings or amplification techniques.
Attack volume in September dropped to 61% of August levels, with data suggesting a correlation between school schedules and attack frequency: lower volumes coincide with school breaks, while higher volumes occur when schools are in session.
Media & Entertainment companies faced the highest median attack sizes, followed by Education and High Technology sectors, with 71% of September’s peak attack day attributed to a single enterprise media company.
The sustained 15 million RPS attack originated from a single cloud-provider ASN, using sophisticated daemons that mimicked browser behavior, making detection more challenging than typical DDoS patterns.
Organizations should evaluate whether their incident response runbooks can handle hour-long attacks at 15+ million RPS, as these sustained high-throughput attacks require automated mitigation rather than manual intervention.
Listen, we’re not inviting a DDoS attack, but also…we’ll just turn off the website, so there’s that.

AI Is Going Great – Or How ML Makes Money

04:41 Google AI Studi

327: AWS Finally Admits Kubernetes is Hard, Makes Robots Do It Instead Oct 21, 2025

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Welcome to episode 327 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Matt, and Ryan are here to bring you all the latest news (and a few rants) in the worlds of Cloud and AI. I’m sure all our readers are aware of the AWS outage last week, as it was in all the news everywhere. But we’ve also got some new AI models (including Sora in case you’re low on really crappy videos the youths might like), plus EKS, Kubernetes, Vertex AI, and more. Let’s get started!

Titles we almost went with this week

Oracle and Azure Walk Into a Cloud Bar: Nobody Gets ETL’d
When DNS Goes Down, So Does Your Monday: AWS Takes Half the Internet on a Coffee Break
404 Cloud Not Found: AWS Proves Even the Internet’s Phone Book Can Get Lost
DNS: Definitely Not Staffed – How AWS Lost Its Way When It Lost Its People
When Larry Met Satya: A Cloud Love Story
Azure Finally Answers ‘Dude, Where’s My Data?’ with Storage Discovery
Breaking: Microsoft Discovers AI Training Uses More Power Than a Small Country
404 Engineers Not Found – AWS Learns the Hard Way That People Are Its Most Critical Infrastructure
Azure Storage Discovery: Finding Your Data Needles in the Cloud Haystack
EKS Auto Mode: Because Even Your Clusters Deserve Cruise Control
Azure Gets Reel: Microsoft Adds Video Generation to AI Foundry
The Great Token Heist: Vertex AI Steals 90% Off Your Gemini Bills
Cache Me If You Can: Vertex AI’s Token-Saving Feature
IaC Just Got a Manager – And It’s Not Your Boss
From Musk to Microsoft: Grok 4 Makes the Great Cloud Migration
No Harness.. You are not going to make IACM happen
Microsoft Drafts a Solution to Container Creation Chaos
PowerShell to the People: Azure Simplifies the Great Gateway Migration
IP There Yet? Azure’s Scripts Keep Your Address While You Upgrade

Follow Up

00:53 Glacier Deprecation Email

Standalone Amazon Glacier service (vault-based with separate APIs) will stop accepting new customers as of December 15, 2025.
S3 Glacier storage classes (Instant Retrieval, Flexible Retrieval, Deep Archive) are completely unaffected and continue normally
Existing Glacier customers can keep using it forever – no forced migration required.
AWS is essentially consolidating around S3 as the unified storage platform, rather than maintaining two separate archival services.
The standalone service will enter maintenance mode, meaning there will be no new features, but the service will remain operational.
Migration to S3 Glacier is optional but recommended for better integration, lower costs, and more features. (Justin assures us it is actually slightly cheaper, so there’s that.)

General News

02:24

326: Oracle Discovers the Dark Side (And Finally Has Cookies) Oct 14, 2025

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Welcome to episode 326 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin and Ryan are your guides to all things cloud and AI this week! We’ve got news from SonicWall (and it’s not great), a host of goodbyes to say over at AWS, Oracle (finally) joins the dark side, and even Slurm – and you don’t even need to ride on a creepy river to experience it. Let’s get started!

Titles we almost went with this week

SonicWall’s Cloud Backup Service: From 5% to Oh No, That’s Everyone
AWS Spring Cleaning: 19 Services Get the Boot
The Great AWS Service Purge of 2025
Maintenance Mode: Where Good Services Go to Die
GitHub Gets Assimilated: Resistance to Azure Migration is Futile
Salesforce to Ransomware Gang: You Can’t Always Get What You Want
Kansas City Gets the Need for Speed with 100G Direct Connect. Peter, what are you up too
Gemini Takes the Wheel: Google’s AI Learns to Click and Type
Oracle Discovers the Dark Side (Finally Has Cookies)
Azure Goes Full Blackwell: 4,600 Reasons to Upgrade Your GPU Game
DataStax to the Future: AWS Hires Database CEO for Security Role
The Clone Wars: EBS Strikes Back with Instant Volume Copies
Slurm Dunk: AWS Brings HPC Scheduling to Kubernetes
The Great Cluster Convergence: When Slurm Met EKS
Codex sent me a DM that I’ll ignore too on Slack

General News

01:24 SonicWall: Firewall configs stolen for all cloud backup customers

SonicWall confirmed that all customers using their cloud backup service had firewall configuration files exposed in a breach, expanding from their initial estimate of 5% to 100% of cloud backup users. That’s a big difference…
The exposed backup files contain AES-256-encrypted credentials and configuration data, which could include MFA seeds for TOTP authentication, potentially explaining recent Akira ransomware attacks that bypassed MFA.
SonicWall requires affected customers to reset all credentials, including local user passwords, TOTP codes, VPN shared secrets, API keys, and authentication tokens across their entire infrastructure.
This incident highlights a fundamental security risk of cloud-based configuration backups where sensitive credentials are stored centrally, making them attractive targets for attackers.
The breach demonstrates why WebAuthn/passkeys offer superior security architecture since they don’t rely on shared secrets that can be stolen from backups or servers.
Interested in checking out their detailed remediation guidance? Find that here.

02:36 Justin – “You know, providing your own encryption keys is also good; not allowing your SaaS vendor to have the encryption key is a positive thing to do. There’s all kinds of ways to protect your data in the cloud when you’re leveraging a SaaS service.”

04:43 Take this rob and shove it! Salesforce issues stern retort to ransomware extort

325: Db2 or Not Db2: That Is the Backup Question Oct 07, 2025

Show notes

Welcome to episode 325 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin is on vacation this week, so it’s up to Ryan and Matthew to bring you all the latest news in cloud and AI, and they definitely deliver! This week we have an AWS invoice undo button, Sora 2, and quite a bit of news DigitalOcean – plus so much more. Let’s get started!

Titles we almost went with this week

AWS Shoots for the Cloud with NBA Partnership
Nothing But Net: AWS Scores Big with Basketball AI Deal
From Courtside to Cloud-side: AWS Dunks on Sports Analytics
PostgreSQL Gets a Gemini Twin for Natural Language Queries
Fuzzy Logic: When Your Database Finally Speaks Your Language
CLI and Let AI: Google’s Natural Language Database Assistant
Satya’s Org Chart Shuffle: Now with More AI Synergy
Microsoft Reorgs Again: This Time It’s Personal (and Commercial)
Ctrl+Alt+Delete: Microsoft Reboots Its Sales Machine
Sora 2: The Sequel Nobody Asked For But Everyone Will Use
OpenAI Puts the “You” in YouTube (AI Edition)
Sam Altman Stars in His Own AI-Generated Reality Show
Grok and Roll: Microsoft’s New AI Model Rocks Azure
To Grok or Not to Grok: That is the Question
Grok Around the Clock: Azure’s 24/7 Reasoning Machine
Spark Joy: Google Lights Up ML Inference for Data Pipelines
DigitalOcean’s Storage Trinity: Hot, Cold, and Backed Up
NFS: Not For Suckers (Network File Storage)
The Goldilocks Storage Strategy: Not Too Hot, Not Too Cold, Just Right
NAT Gonna Cost You: DigitalOcean’s Gateway to Savings
BYOIP: Bring Your Own IP (But Leave Your Billing Worries Behind)
The Great Invoice Escape: No More Support Tickets Required Ctrl+Z for Your AWS Bills: The Undo Button Finance Teams Needed
Image Builder Finally Learns When to Stop Trying
Pipeline Dreams: Now With Built-in Reality Checks
EC2 Image Builder Gets a Failure Intervention Feature
MCP: Model Context Protocol or Marvel Cinematic Protocol?

AI is Going Great – Or How ML Makes Money

00:45 OpenAI’s Sora 2 lets users insert themselves into AI videos with sound – Ars Technica

OpenAI’s Sora 2 introduces synchronized audio generation alongside video synthesis, matching Google’s Veo 3 and Alibaba’s Wan 2.5 capabilities.
This positions OpenAI competitively in the multimodal AI space with what they call their “GPT-3.5 moment for video.”
The new iOS social app feature allows users to insert themselves into AI-generated videos through “cameos,” suggesting potential applications for personalized content creation and social media integration at scale.
Sora 2 demonstrates improved physical accuracy and consistency across multiple shots, addressing previous limitations where objects would teleport or deform unrealistically.
The model can now simulate complex movements like gymnastics rout

324: Clippy’s Revenge: The AI Assistant That Actually Works – Sort Of Sep 30, 2025

Show notes

Welcome to episode 324 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Ryan, and Jonathan are your hosts, bringing you all the latest news and announcements in Cloud and AI. This week we have some exec changes over at Oracle, a LOT of announcements about Sonnet 4.5, and even some marketplace updates over at Azure! Let’s get started.

Titles we almost went with this week

Oracle’s Executive Shuffle: Promoting from Within While Chasing from Behind
Copilot Takes the Wheel on Your Legacy Code Highway
Queue Up for GPUs: Google’s Take-a-Number Approach to AI Computing
License to Bill: Google’s 400% Markup Grievance
Autopilot Engages: GKE Goes Full Self-Driving Mode
SQL Server Finally Gets a Lake House Instead of a Server Room
Microsoft Gives Office Apps Their Own AI Interns
Claude and Present Danger: The AI That Codes for 30 Hours Straight
The Claude Father Part 4.5: An Offer Your Code Can’t Refuse
CUD You Believe It? Google Makes Discounts Actually Flexible
ECS Goes Full IPv6: No IPv4s Given
Breaking News: AWS Finally Lets You Hit the Emergency Stop Button
One Marketplace to Rule Them All
BigQuery Gets a Crystal Ball and a Chatty Friend
Azure’s September to Remember: When Certificates and Allocators Attack
Shall I Compare Thee to a Sonnet? 4.5 Ways Anthropic Just Leveled Up
AWS provides a big red button

Follow Up

01:26 The global harms of restrictive cloud licensing, one year later | Google Cloud Blog

Google Cloud filed a formal complaint with the European Commission one year ago about Microsoft’s anti-competitive cloud licensing practices, specifically the 400% price markup Microsoft imposes on customers who move Windows Server workloads to non-Azure clouds.
The UK Competition and Markets Authority found that restrictive licensing costs UK cloud customers £500 million annually due to lack of competition, while US government agencies overspend by $750 million yearly because of Microsoft’s licensing tactics.
Microsoft recently disclosed that forcing software customers to use Azure is one of three pillars driving its growth and is implementing new licensing changes preventing managed service providers from hosting certain workloads on Azure competitors.
Multiple regulators globally including South Africa and the US FTC are now investigating Microsoft’s cloud licensing practices, with the CMA finding that Azure has gained customers at 2-3x the rate of competitors since implementing restrictive terms.
A European Centre for Inter

322: Did OpenAI and Microsoft Break Up? It’s Complicated… Sep 24, 2025

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Welcome to episode 322 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! We have BIG NEWS – Jonathan is back! He’s joined in the studio by Justin and Ryan to bring you all the latest in cloud and AI news, including ongoing drama in the Microsoft/OpenAI drama, saying goodbye to data transfer fees (in the EU), M4 Power, and more. Let’s get started!

Titles we almost went with this week

EU Later, Egress Fees: Google’s Brexit from Data Transfer Charges
The Keys to the Cosmos: Azure Unlocks Customer Control
Breaking Up is Hard to Do: Google Splits LLM Inference for Better Performance
OpenAI and Microsoft: From Exclusive to It’s Complicated
Google’s New Model Has Trust Issues (And That’s a Good Thing)
Mac to the Future: AWS Brings M4 Power to the Cloud
Oracle’s Cloud Nine: Stock Soars on Half-Trillion Dollar Dreams
ChatGPT: From Chat Bot to Hat Bot (Everyone’s Wearing Different Professional Hats)
Five Billion Reasons to Love British AI
NVMe Gonna Give You Up: AWS Delivers the Storage Metrics You’ve Been Missing
Tea and AI: OpenAI Crosses the Pond
The Norway Bug Strikes Back: A New YAML Hope

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AI Is Going Great – Or How ML Makes Money

01:33 Microsoft and OpenAI make a deal: Reading between the lines of their secretive new agreement – GeekWire

Microsoft and OpenAI have signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding that will restructure their partnership, with OpenAI’s nonprofit entity receiving an equity stake exceeding $100 billion in a new public benefit corporation where Microsoft will play a major role.
The deal addresses the AGI clause that previously allowed OpenAI to unilaterally dissolve the partnership upon achieving artificial general intelligence, which had been a significant risk for Microsoft’s multi-billion-dollar investment.
Both companies are diversifying their partnerships – Microsoft is now using Anthropic’s technology for some Office 365 AI features, while OpenAI has signed a $300 billion computing contract with Oracle over five years.
Microsoft’s exclusivity on OpenAI cloud workloads has been replaced with a right of first refusal, enabling OpenAI to participate in the $500 billion Stargate AI project with Oracle and other partners.
The restructuring allows OpenAI to raise capital for its mission while ensuring the nonprofit’s resources grow proportionally, with plans to use funds for community impact, includin

323: Databricks One: Because Seven Eight Nine Sep 23, 2025

Show notes

Welcome to episode 323 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Matt and Ryan are in the studio tonight to bring you all the latest in cloud and AI news! This week we have a close call from Entra, some DeepSeek news, Firestore, and even an acquisition! Make sure to stay tuned for the aftershow – and Matt obviously falling asleep on the job. Let’s get started!

Titles we almost went with this week

When One Key Opens Every Door: Microsoft’s Close Call with Cloud Catastrophe
Bedrock Goes Qwen-tum: Alibaba’s Models Join the AWS Party
DeepSeek and You Shall Find V3.1 in Bedrock
GPUs of Unusual Size? I Don’t Think They Exist (Narrator: They Do)
Kubernetes Without the Kubernightmares
Firestore and Forget: AI Takes the Wheel SCPs Get Their Full License: IAM Language Edition
Do What I Meant, Not What I Prompted
Atlassian Pays a Billion to DX the Developer Experience
Entra at Your Own Risk: The Azure Identity Crisis That Almost Was
Oracle Intelligence: The AI Nobody Asked For
Wisconsin Gets Cheesy with AI: Microsoft’s Dairy State Datacenter
Azure Opens the Data Floodgates (But Only in Europe)
PostgreSQL Gets a Security Blanket and Won’t Share Its TEEs
Microsoft’s New Cooling System Has Veins Like a Leaf and Runs Hotter Than Your Gaming PC
Azure Gets Cold Feet About Hot Chips, Decides to Go With the Flow

AI Is Going Great – Or How ML Makes Money

00:58 Google and Kaggle launch AI Agents Intensive course

Google and Kaggle are launching a 5-day intensive course on AI agents from November 10-14.
This follows their GenAI course that attracted 280,000 learners, with curriculum covering agent architectures, tools, memory systems, and production deployment.
The course focuses on building autonomous AI agents and multi-agent systems, which represents a shift from traditional single-model AI to systems that can independently perform tasks, make decisions, and interact with tools and APIs.
This development signals growing enterprise interest in AI agents for cloud environments, where autonomous systems can manage infrastructure, optimize resources, and handle complex workflows without constant human intervention.
The hands-on approach includes codelabs and a capstone project, indicating Google’s push to democratize agent development skills as businesses increasingly need engineers who can build production-ready autonomous systems.
The timing aligns with major cloud providers racing to offer agent-based services, as AI agents become essential for automating cloud operations, customer service, and business processes at scale.
Interested in registering? You can do that here.

Cloud Tools

03:21 Atlassian acquires DX, a developer productivity platform, for $1B

114: The Cloud Pod looks forward to rewriting Terraform code… again Apr 21, 2021

Show notes

On The Cloud Pod this week, the team admits to using the podcast as a way to figure out what day it is. Justin also relents and includes Azure news because he couldn’t handle any more Oracle mobile apps announcements.

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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

Social media influencers can breathe a sigh of relief.
Amazon is dangling a carrot in front of one of its partners.
Azure is throwing a spanner in the works.

General News: Not Cool News

The FBI arrests a man for his plan to kill “70% of the internet” in an AWS bomb attack. 70% is quite a stretch but we’re sure it would have caused a crappy day for a lot of people.
Hashicorp has released its Boundary 0.2 release with several new features. We’re really excited about this.
Announcing HashiCorp Terraform 0.15 General Availability. If you believe it, this is really great news.

Amazon Web Services: Good At Compromising

AWS announces AQUA is now generally available. Justin should have gotten a prediction point for this one.
Amazon Managed Service for Grafana now offers more support. We’ll see if Grafana can actually make money out of its partnership with Amazon.
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now integrates with AWS Lambda. This is really cool!
Decrease machine learning costs with instance price reductions and savings plans for Amazon SageMaker. Some pretty significant savings here.

Google Cloud Platform: Colossal

Google takes a deep dive into its scalable storage solution, Colossus. Nothing new here.
Google announces tracking index backfill operation

Episode 24: Happy 5th Birthday to Kubernetes from The Cloud Pod May 21, 2019

Show notes

Kubecon is happening in Barcelona, Spain, VMWare purchases bitnami, Apptio buys Cloudability and a ton of Kubernetes announcements out of KubeCon this week on The Cloud Pod.