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  • 333: The Cloud Pod Goes Nano Banana

    333: The Cloud Pod Goes Nano Banana
    2025/12/10

    Welcome to episode 333 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Ryan, and Matt are taking a quick break from re:Invent festivities. They bring you the latest and greatest in Cloud and AI news. This week, we discuss Norad and Anthropic teaming up to bring you Christmas cheer. Wait, is that right? Huh. We also have undersea cables, some Turkish region delight, and a LOT of Opus 4.5 news. Let’s get into it!

    Titles we almost went with this week
    • Boring Error Pages Not Found
    • Claude Goes Native in Snowflake: Finally, AI That Stays Where Your Data Lives
    • Cross-Cloud Romance: AWS and Google Make It Official with Interconnect
    • Google Gemini Puts OpenAI in Code Red: The Tables Have Turned
    • Azure NAT Gateway V2: Now With More Zones Than a Parking Lot
    • From ChatGPT to Chat-Uh-Oh: OpenAI Sounds the Alarm as Gemini Steals 200 Million
    • Users **Anthropic
    • Scheduled Actions: Because Your VMs Need a Work-Life Balance Too
    • Finally, Your 500 Errors Can Look as Good as Your Homepage
    • Foundry Model Router: Because Choosing Between 47 AI Models is Nobody’s Idea of Fun
    • Google Takes the Scenic Route: New Cable Avoids the Sunda Strait Traffic Jam
    • Azure Application Gateway Gets Its TCP/IP Diploma
    • Google Cloud Gets Its Türkiye Dinner: 2 Billion Dollar Cloud Feast Coming Soon
    • Microsoft Foundry: Turning AI Chaos into Compliance Gold
    AI Is Going Great, or How ML Makes Money

    02:59 Nano Banana Pro available for enterprise

    • Google launches Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image) in general availability on Vertex AI and Google Workspace, with Gemini Enterprise support coming soon.
    • The model supports up to 14 reference images for style consistency and generates 4K resolution outputs with multilingual text rendering capabilities.
    • The model includes Google Search grounding for factual accuracy in generated infographics and diagrams, plus built-in SynthID watermarking for transparency. Copyright indemnification will be available at general availability under Google’s shared responsibility framework.
    • Enterprise integrations are live with Adobe Firefly, Photoshop, Canva, and Figma, enabling production-grade creative workflows. Major retailers, including Klarna, Shopify, and Wayfair, report using the model for product visualization and marketing asset generation at scale.
    • Developers can access Nano Banana Pro through Vertex AI with Provisioned Throughput and Pay As You Go pricing options, plus advanced safety filters. Business users get access through Google Workspace apps, including Slides, Vids, and
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  • 332: 2025 Re:Invent Predictions Draft – May The Odds Be Ever In Your Favor

    332: 2025 Re:Invent Predictions Draft – May The Odds Be Ever In Your Favor
    2025/11/28
    Welcome to episode 332 of The Cloud Pod – where the forecast is always cloudy! It’s Thanksgiving week, which can only mean one thing: AWS Re:Invent predictions! In this special episode, Justin, Jonathan, Ryan, and Matt engage in the annual tradition of drafting their best guesses for what AWS will announce at the biggest cloud conference of the year. Justin is the reigning champion (probably because he actually reads the show notes), but with a reverse snake draft order determined by dice roll, anything could happen. Will Werner announce his retirement? Is Cognito finally getting a much-needed overhaul? And just how many times will “AI” be uttered on stage? Grab your turkey and let’s get predicting! Titles we almost went with this week: Roll For Initiative: The Re:Invent Prediction Draft Justin’s Winning Streak: A Study in Actually Doing Your Homework Serverless GPUs and Broken Dreams: Our Re:Invent Wishlist Shooting in the Dark: AWS Predictions Edition We’re Never Good at This, But Here We Go Again Vegas Odds: What Happens at Re:Invent, Gets Predicted Wrong AWS Re:Invent Predictions 2025 The annual prediction draft is here! Draft order was determined by dice roll: Jonathan first, followed by Ryan, Justin, and Matt in last position. As always, it’s a reverse order format, with points awarded for each correct prediction announced during the Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday keynotes. Jonathan’s Predictions Serverless GPU Support – An extension to Lambda or a different service that provides on-demand serverless GPU/inference capability. Likely with requirements for pre-warmed provisioned instances.Agentic Platform for Continuous AI Agents – A service that allows agents to run continuously with goals or instructions, performing actions periodically or on-demand in the real world. Think: running agents on a schedule that can check conditions and take automated actions.Werner Vogels Retirement Announcement – Werner will announce that this is his last Re:Invent keynote and that he is retiring. Ryan’s Predictions New Trainium 3 Chips, Inferentia, and Graviton Chips – New generation of AWS custom silicon across training, inference, and general compute.Expanded Model Availability in Bedrock – AWS will significantly expand the number of models available in Bedrock, potentially via partnerships or integrations with additional providers.Major Refresh to AWS Organizations – UI-based or functionality refresh providing better visibility into SCPs, OU mappings, and stack sets across organizations. Chapters (00:00:02) - Episode 332: Reinvent Predictions For(00:01:26) - Reinvent: The Contest(00:03:35) - How to Predict the AI Announcement(00:04:23) - Serverless GPUs: First Step(00:05:58) - SageMaker vs. Amazon: The Fight(00:09:56) - What is the Future of AI Agents?(00:11:03) - Facebook is an Agent Platform, but...(00:11:38) - AWS: Bedrock Expansion & OpenAI Partnership(00:15:09) - Top Tech Speakers: ML, AI and the Warner Key(00:16:15) - Third and Final Prediction(00:17:15) - WSJDLive: Future of AWS IT refresh(00:18:18) - 3 of the Best Security Hub Features(00:19:22) - AWS: Cognito 2.0 or Agentic Identities?(00:21:27) - Tiebreaker: How Many Times Will AI Be Said?(00:23:28) - What to Do to Reinvent Yourself at Reinvent 2012(00:24:00) - Amazon's AI Wish List(00:29:50) - A Taste of Re Invent 2018
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  • 331: Claude Gets a $30 Billion Azure Wardrobe and Two New Best Friends

    331: Claude Gets a $30 Billion Azure Wardrobe and Two New Best Friends
    2025/11/27
    Welcome to episode 331 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Jonathan, Ryan, Matt, and Justin (for a little bit, anyway) are in the studio today to bring you all the latest in cloud and AI news. This week, we’re looking at our Ignite predictions (that side gig as internet psychics isn’t looking too good) undersea cables (our fave!), plus datacenters and more. Plus Claude and Azure make a 30 billion dollar deal! Take a break from turkey and avoiding politics, and let’s take a trip into the clouds! Titles we almost went with this week GPT-5.1 Gets a Shell Tool Because Apparently We Haven’t Learned Anything From Sci-Fi Movies The Great Ingress Egress: NGINX Controller Waves Goodbye After Years of Volunteer Burnout Queue the Applause: Lambda SQS Mapping Gets a Serious Speed Boost SELECT * FROM future WHERE SQL meets AI without the prompt drama MFA or GTFO: Microsoft’s 99.6% Phishing-Resistant Authentication Achievement JWT Another Thing ALB Can Do: OAuth Validation Moves to the Load Balancer Google’s Emerging Threats Center: Because Manually Checking 12 Months of Logs Sounds Terrible EventBridge Gets a Drag-and-Drop Makeover: No More Schema Drama Permission Denied: How Granting Access Took Down the Internet Follow Up 00:51 Ignite Predictions – The Results Matt (Who is in charge of sound effects, so be aware) ACM Competitor – True SSL competitive productAI announcement in Security AI Agent (Copilot for Sentinel) – sort of (½) Azure DevOps Announcement Justin New Cobalt and Mai Gen 2 or similar – CheckPrice Reduction on OpenAI & Significant Prompt Caching Microsoft Foundational LLM to compete with OpenAI – Jonathan The general availability of new, smaller, and more power-efficient Azure Local hardware form factorsDeclarative AI on Fabric: This represents a move towards a declarative model, where users state the desired outcome, and the AI agent system determines the steps needed to achieve it within the Fabric ecosystem.Advanced Cost Management: Granular dashboards to track the token and compute consumption per agent or per transaction, enabling businesses to forecast costs and set budgets for their agent workforce. How many times will they say Copilot: The word “Copilot” is mentioned 46 to 71 times in the video. Jonathan 45 Justin: 35 Matt: 40 General News 05:13 Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 Cloudflare experienced its worst outage since 2019 on November 18, 2025, lasting approximately three hours and affecting core traffic routing across its entire network. The incident was triggered by a database permissions change that caused a Bot Management feature file to double in size, exceeding hardcoded limits in their proxy software and causing system panics that resulted in 5xx errors for customers.The root cause reveals a cascading failure pattern, where a ClickHouse database query began returning duplicate column metadata after permission changes. This resulted in a significant i... Chapters (00:00:00) - The Cloud Pod(00:01:04) - Matchbox: Microsoft's AI Announcement(00:05:04) - Cloudflare's Worst Outage Since 2019(00:07:32) - GPT 5.1 Release(00:11:21) - ChatGPT Launches Group Chat(00:14:53) - Microsoft Teams: Working in Teams with Copilot(00:16:16) - Gemini 3.0 Pro Launch at Google AI Conference(00:18:51) - Microsoft, Nvidia to Develop Cloud Models for Anthropic(00:22:45) - Ingress NGINX Controller to Be Retired(00:25:05) - Cloudflare Expands AI into the Edge with a Replicate(00:29:31) - AWS Lambda: Provisioned Mode for SQS(00:32:31) - Amazon EventBridge Expands Schema Aware with New Rule Builder(00:34:37) - Application Load Balancers support JWT Token Verification(00:37:51) - How Protective Reroute Improves Network Resilience(00:40:26) - Google Security Operations Launches Emerging Threat Center(00:46:48) - Google to Invest $7 Million in Subsea Cable Networks(00:50:17) - Microsoft's Azure AI SuperFactory(00:53:43) - Azure DB for Postgres Announces Private Preview(00:57:04) - Microsoft Defender for Cloud Integrates with GitHub Advanced Security(01:00:09) - Azure introduces Smart Tiering for Blob Storage(01:06:29) - How to lay a fiber cable in your house(01:10:02) - Microsoft's AI Agent Development Announcement(01:16:21) - How to Manage Ideas in the AI World(01:22:18) - The Project Narrative in the Machine Learning Code(01:23:38) - Week in Cloud: The Cloud Pod
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  • 330: AWS Proves the Internet Really Is a Series of Tubes Under the Ocean

    330: AWS Proves the Internet Really Is a Series of Tubes Under the Ocean
    2025/11/21
    Welcome to episode 329 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy (and if you’re in California, rainy too!) Justin and Matt have taken a break from Ark building activities to bring you this week’s episode, packed with all the latest in cloud and AI news, including undersea cables (our favorite!) FinOps, Ignite predictions, and so much more! Grab your umbrellas and let’s get started! Titles we almost went with this week
    • Fastnet and Furious: AWS Lays 320 Terabits of Cable Across the Atlantic
    • No More kubectl apply –pray: AWS Backup Takes the Stress Out of EKS Recovery
    • AWS Gets Swift with Lambda: No Taylor Version Required
    • Breaking Up Is Hard to Do: Microsoft Splits Teams from Office
    • FinOps and Behold: Google Automates Your Cloud Budget Nightmares
    • AMD Turin Around GCP’s Price-Performance with N4D VMs
    • Azure Gets Territorial: Your Data Stays Put Whether It Likes It or Not
    • AWS Finally Answers “Is It Available in My Region?” Before You Build It
    • Getting to the Bare Metal of Things: Google’s Axion Goes Commando
    • Azure Ultra Disk Gets Ultra Serious About Latency
    • Container Size Matters: Azure Expands ACI to 240 GB Memory
    • Google Containerises Chaos: Agent Sandbox Keeps Your AI from Going Rogue
    • AWS Prints Money While Amazon Prints Pink Slips: Q3 Earnings Beat
    Follow Up

    02:08 Microsoft sidesteps hefty EU fine with Teams unbundling deal

    • Microsoft avoids a potentially substantial EU antitrust fine by agreeing to unbundle Teams from the Office 365 and Microsoft 365 suites for a period of seven years.
    • The settlement follows a 2023 complaint from Salesforce-owned Slack alleging anticompetitive bundling practices that harmed rival collaboration tools.
    • The commitments require Microsoft to offer Office and
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  • 329: Azure Front Door: Please Use the Side Entrance

    329: Azure Front Door: Please Use the Side Entrance
    2025/11/12
    Welcome to episode 329 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, 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 Door while completing the restoration process.
    • The incident highlights concentration risk in cloud infrastructure, as this marks the second major cloud provider outage in October 2025.
    • Despite Azure revenue growing 40 percent in the latest quarterly report, Microsoft’s stock declined in after-hours trading as the company acknowledged capaci...
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  • 328: Shhh… It’s a Secret Region!

    328: Shhh… It’s a Secret Region!
    2025/11/05
    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 Studio updates: More control, less friction Google AI Studio introduces “vibe coding” – a new AI-powered develo... Chapters (00:00:00) - AWS vs. Azure: When Will Both Companies Have Outages(00:02:07) - DDoS Attacks Rise in September(00:04:43) - Google AI Studio Introduces Vibe Coding(00:09:20) - OpenAI's Company Knowledge for Chat GPT(00:13:59) - Microsoft and OpenAI Strike a New Deal(00:17:19) - Amazon Nova: General Availability of WebGrounding(00:18:58) - Athena Health Reporting's AI-Powered Database Migration Author(00:20:56) - Amazon Reportedly Replaces 40% of DevOps Staff With AI(00:23:58) - Amazon's DynamoDB Outage(00:28:11) - CloudWatch: Automated Incident Reporting with Scope 3(00:33:24) - Amazon's Secret West Region(00:39:31) - EC2: EBS IOPS exceeded and Volume level(00:42:52) - Google Cloud Parameter Manager(00:46:37) - Azure Key Vault vs AWS SSM: Feature Flag Management(00:48:32) - Citadel Cross-Site Interconnect with Google Cloud Platform(00:51:52) - BigTable Storage: Limited-Access Storage in Preview(00:54:38) - Google Cloud: 4x Max Nvidia NVL70 Instance(00:56:58) - Nvidia GB300 Envel 72 Instances(00:58:35) - Azure databases for PostgreSQL now with High Availability ( HA)(01:00:11) - OneLake + Fabric: What Could Go Wrong?(01:01:40) - 8 Platform Engineering Anti-Patterns(01:05:01) - The Second Anti-Pattern: Lack of Product Mindset(01:08:02) - 2. Give the team some ownership of the platform(01:11:56) - Building a Successful Platform: Tracking the Wrong Metrics(01:13:34) - Don't Copy the Kubernetes Platform(01:16:08) - 7 Pitfalls of Over Engineering on Day 1(01:19:14) - Platform Engineering: The Product Management Process(01:20:59) - This Week in the Cloud: Platform Engineering(01:21:41) - Next Week In The Cloud: Trip to the Bay
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  • 327: AWS Finally Admits Kubernetes is Hard, Makes Robots Do It Instead

    327: AWS Finally Admits Kubernetes is Hard, Makes Robots Do It Instead
    2025/10/30
    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 ControlAzure 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 normallyExisting 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 Chapters (00:00:00) - Azure vs. GCP(00:00:59) - Amazon's Glacier Storage Deprecation, and More(00:02:33) - Big IP Software Breach: Worrisome(00:04:56) - Claude Code Gets a Web Version(00:11:45) - Infrastructure as Code Management: Annoying Sales Pitch(00:14:26) - AWS: US East 1 Outage Causes Chaos(00:23:17) - EC2 Capacity Manager(00:25:39) - EC2 Auto-Mode for Kubernetes 1.29(00:28:44) - Amazon. EC2: CPU Optimization for License Included Instances(00:30:55) - AWS Systems Manager Patch Manager: Improved Security Protection(00:35:14) - Amazon ECS CLI Agent Orchestrator(00:40:37) - Google Cloud: BigQuery Update, New GPUs(00:46:11) - Google Cloud: Management of Suences in Vertex & AI SDK(00:47:58) - Gemini Code Assist on GitHub Enterprise(00:52:09) - Vertex AI Context Caching(00:54:25) - Cloud Armor Announces New Features(00:57:05) - Microsoft Firewall: New Capacity Metric(00:59:55) - Microsoft's Azure API Management introduces carbon aware features(01:04:14) - Azure Storage Discovery(01:07:45) - Two new AI models available in Azure AI Foundry(01:08:54) - Azure: Application Gateway V1 to V2 Migration Scripts(01:12:43) - Oracle's AI Agent Studio Expands(01:14:05) - Week in the Cloud
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  • 326: Oracle Discovers the Dark Side (And Finally Has Cookies)

    326: Oracle Discovers the Dark Side (And Finally Has Cookies)
    2025/10/23
    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 Salesforce is refusing to pay ransomware demands from criminals claiming to have stolen nearly 1 billion customer records, stating they will not engage, negotiate with, or pay any extortion dema... Chapters (00:00:00) - Cloud Pod: Oracle Explains The Dark Side(00:01:31) - Cloud Security: Sonicwall Hacking(00:04:44) - Salesforce Rejects Ransomware Demand(00:07:04) - OpenAI's AI Agent Kit and More(00:10:10) - Google's Gemini 2.5 for UIs(00:12:20) - Amazon Is Moving 19 AWS Services to Maintenance Mode(00:16:30) - AWS Direct Connect now offers 100 Gigabytes dedicated connections with Mac(00:17:37) - AWS Identity Center now supports customer-managed KMS Keys(00:18:56) - Amazon QuickSuite M8A New Instance Launch(00:22:31) - Amazon Hires Former Data Stack CEO as VP of Security Services and(00:26:43) - Amazon Bedrock Agent Core(00:28:35) - AWS Transports AI Inference to Custom Chips(00:30:07) - Amazon EBS Volume Clones(00:31:45) - Amazon EKS Adds Slurm to Kubernetes(00:32:48) - GCP Introduces Gemini Enterprise as a Unified AI Platform(00:35:44) - Google's LLM Eval Kit for Prompt Engineering(00:37:57) - Google Cloud : NetApp Files for Enterprise Storage(00:40:43) - GitHub to Move All Its Software to Azure(00:45:17) - Microsoft Deploys First Production Cluster with Nvidia GB300 GPUs(00:48:31) - Oracle's Dark Mode in Oci
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